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The_Sponge··on Juicero Is Shutting Down
They are though, Juicero being a scam or not (it's not, they shipped at straight forward pricepoints).

Even "traditional" pressed juice companies are starting to see a crunch, as their evangelical customers ("health nuts") are realizing that eating an apple is healthier than pressing 4 of them.

The_Sponge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com

Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 70 million US members and are a true mission-oriented business, a rare case where our incentives are aligned with our users - we succeed by helping our members attain financial progress. We're growing very rapidly right now, and have tons of opportunities for people to solve hard problems while helping people grow their financial progress.

https://www.creditkarma.com/careers

The_Sponge··on Google cancels domain registration for Daily Stormer
This isn't an issue of freedom of speech. You're allowed to say something, and I'm allowed to respond.
The_Sponge··on Dick's Sporting Goods produces a list of 938 banned words; “dick” is outlawed
These are words that they think could cause offense to their customers. Fat can be insulting and unflattering.
The_Sponge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com

Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 70 million US members and are a true mission-oriented business, a rare case where our incentives are aligned with our users - we succeed by helping our members attain financial progress. We're growing very rapidly right now, and have tons of opportunities for people to solve hard problems while helping people grow their financial progress.

https://www.creditkarma.com/careers

The_Sponge··on Ask HN: Share Your Raspberry Pi Project
I'm currently prototyping an alternate approach - using an nrf52 to send readings beacons, and then gathering those beacons with a raspberry pi

This has the added benefits of being able to be powered with a solar panel.

The_Sponge··on Google and a nuclear fusion company have developed a new algorithm
>Google entered the self driving cars research, and we have yet to see them driven around.

You see their working prototypes flying around mountain view all the time. And, they've been transparent with their progress.

People have been working on this since the 80s.

The_Sponge··on Crack WPA/WPA2 Wi-Fi Routers with Aircrack-Ng and Hashcat
It's not for the faint of heart or faint of technical skill - different drivers have different behaviors and ways to enter the various capture and raw packet modes needed to do this.

Personally, as long as I stick to supported chipsets, I've almost never had an issue.

The_Sponge··on UK to bring in drone registration
Well then, ban drones.
The_Sponge··on HP Elite Slice
This implies that the bios can be corrupted - the bios shouldn't accept unsigned updates (without an in bios flag being switched first), even from a root-level user on the OS.
The_Sponge··on Stop writing PHP like it's 2009
Between PHP7, PSR4, and generally good development strategies, the only thing hack/hhvm offers in the near future is being tied to the hip with a single large company that both consumes and produces it.

Hack/hhvm were great visions of the future and definitely motivated the PHP7 WG to move at a more brisk pace, but tying yourself to something like that is not a great idea, imo.

The_Sponge··on Hire a former SoundClouder
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com/careers

If you're a scala engineer in sf who knows finagle, we're hiring. Plus, pretty much everything else.

The_Sponge··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)
Credit Karma | San Francisco, Charlotte, LA | Full Time, ONSITE | https://creditkarma.com

Credit Karma's mission is to make financial progress possible for everyone. We have over 70 million US members and are a true mission-oriented business, a rare case where our incentives are aligned with our users - we succeed by helping our members attain financial progress.

We're growing very rapidly right now, and have tons of opportunities for people to solve hard problems while helping people grow their financial progress. Let's unpack that:

Opportunities: On the backend, we're transitioning to a microservice based environment based on Scala/JVM, using Twitter-born libraries such as Finagle. We're also unifying our data model into GraphQL to help bring separate but related services and verticals together. On the frontend, we're rebuilding our various components in React using modern web technologies while still keeping an emphasis on stability. We also have data teams using BigQuery and Kafka to injest and understand. We're also hiring security engineering, test engineering, machine learning engineering and basically any other position you might expect to find at an optimistically growing company. All of that combined means that whatever your technical passion, we probably have a spot for you to contribute!

Financial Progress: Honestly, this is the best part. I know working at every company has its ups and downs, but at the end of the day, being able to say "My work helps people. When they thrive, so do we." is fantastic. When our users grow financially, they start migrating to better financial products to suit their new needs, and we want to be there the whole way to guide them.

We have a lot to do, and a lot to solve, and we'd like help! https://www.creditkarma.com/careers

The_Sponge··on 48 hours inside Hawaii's startup ecosystem
I checked on twitter, but there were no tweets.
The_Sponge··on PS4 hack: Fail0verflow demonstrate Linux and Steam running on Firmware 4.05
USB HDD: a cost saving measure: they already have a usb bus, why add sata on as well? we're talking a platform that's going to last for a decade possibly...

arm soc southbridge also not a surprise, xbox one has something similar. enables the console's rest mode to be "smart"

The_Sponge··on Free social media management? Register now folks
This is well in line with the IndieWeb movement[1]. You'd do well to check out one of their members' brid.gy as well.

[1] http://indiewebcamp.com/

The_Sponge··on The New Moto G
GSM arena claims hsdpa. Considering it's the same chipset as the 1st gen means it's probably whatever the 1st gen was, ie no lte
The_Sponge··on Show HN: Password Protect Your Webcam
So you're ShowHNing something that you bought...
The_Sponge··on Show HN: Password Protect Your Webcam
"Completely prevents the NSA or hackers from monitoring" That is an insane claim.
The_Sponge··on Show HN: Password Protect Your Webcam
Yeah, when you have a rootkit that's active, there are signals you can look at to claim from a range of "there is most certainly a rootkit" to "there is a small possibility that there is a rootkit".
The_Sponge··on Show HN: Password Protect Your Webcam
I don't believe that. If you're administrator, then by design you have access to pretty much "everything", unless your code is running as SYSTEM, or something crazy like that.

iana windows user but this is not passing the smell test.

Also, how does it handle rootkits?

The_Sponge··on How the Napa Earthquake Affected Bay Area Sleepers
Hey fellow belmont buddy! Just curious, about how old is the building that you were in when the earthquake hit?
The_Sponge··on Macintel: The End Is Nigh
ARM doesn't mean "no fan". I can't wait for laptop fans to go away but currently the only fanless laptops you can buy are atom based and all of them outperform their ARM equivalents.

When you start getting into "laptop level" power (ie comparable to pentium), even at the ARM level, you start seeing fans. For example, the first generation nvidia shield.

The_Sponge··on 4K for $649: Asus' PB287Q monitor reviewed
I'm bothered by the usage of "whore of babylon". I feel like that sort of language doesn't belong in a review like this.
The_Sponge··on MtGox.com is offline
Well you said "I" so that's what I assumed you meant. For the effect on you.
The_Sponge··on MtGox.com is offline
Wouldn't a better analogy be "my bank got robbed, and now I'm broke"?
The_Sponge··on Betas (TV Series 2013– )
I think it's more an Amazon naming thing. Their other big made-by-amazon show is called Alphas.
The_Sponge··on Sound Sensor Failure
Is visiting a doctor an option?
The_Sponge··on Yahoo Starts Scanning Emails
I think the difference here is use. They're using your personal data for their own gain versus a virus scanner which in theory serves to protect and work for only you.
The_Sponge··on The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine
I would like to know more about his head mounted display, but Google isn't being helpful (or maybe I'm asking it the wrong questions). Anyone have any links?
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