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joshuamcginnison Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

> So what do you propose?

I'd do what we do with every advancement that challenges are existing paradigms: study it, debate it, and seek out creative and equitable ways to deter the negative externalities. That may involve banning, restricting or regulating services.

> What do you do when the information cannot be removed, and the service is critical infrastructure? What happens when the content is in a decentralized internet that everyone uses, and that everyone receives automatically?

Even in this scenario, there is still going to be a common denominator that can be regulated to control illegal content (ISPs for example).

joshuamcginnison Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

Like information, guns may cause harm. It sounds like you're looking for an absolute definition of illegal. I don't believe that exists given the evolving nature of law and society. Bottom line: information, content, or whatever you want to call it can be illegal, regardless of the elements that make up its physical form. Who is liable in the chain of creation and distribution of the content may be debated.

joshuamcginnison Show HN: 4chan on the Ethereum blockchain

> How can you forbid a set of ones and zeroes?

This is like asking, "How can you forbid a set of iron atoms?" in reference to guns.

joshuamcginnison Dropbox Professional

Aside from iCloud, are there any other comparable alternatives to Dropbox?

joshuamcginnison Show HN: Cockpit – create tmux panes and windows with ease

Neat. I personally use https://github.com/tmuxinator/tmuxinator for this.

joshuamcginnison Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO

Like Redfin, they're taking a tech-driven approach to disrupting real estate. They're valued at $1B, raised over $200M, have a stellar executive team, and are building an impressive suite of analytics tools to give their agents a competitive edge.

joshuamcginnison Redfin shares surge more than 30% in $138.5M real estate tech IPO

I would keep a close eye on Compass https://www.compass.com/ in this space.

joshuamcginnison Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O

Lookup "Zinus Memory Foam 12 Inch Green Tea Mattress" on Amazon. It's an incredible mail-order memory foam mattress for under $200. 7000+ 4+ reviews.

joshuamcginnison Casper, Mattress Maker, Raises $170M and Plans I.P.O

I got a sour taste in my mouth for Casper when I learned of their Federal lawsuits against affiliate bloggers who reviewed their product. I personally felt like Sleepopolis's review of Casper was as fair and observational as one could get with such a thing.

Lawsuit Details: https://sleepopolis.com/blog/casper-sues-sleepopolis-with-fe...

Casper Mattress Review: https://sleepopolis.com/mattress-reviews/casper-mattress-rev...

joshuamcginnison Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?

  * "Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night; all day!"
  * StarTalk Radio Show by Neil deGrasse Tyson
  * Adam & Dr. Drew Show
  * NPR Up First
  * How Stuff Works
  * Darn Carlin's Hardcore History
  * Michael Blanks' Apartment Investing Podcast
  * Reasonable Doubt with Mark Garagos and Adam Carolla
  * Weekly Infusion

joshuamcginnison Pi-hole – A black hole for Internet advertisements

Someone should whip up a little community-driven service that would serve all known ad network hosts.

joshuamcginnison Ask HN: Do you get stressed/bummed when your code review contain bugs?

Are you concerned about the bugs or the style used to communicate there was a bug? Those are two different things and I find that most folks don't actually have a problem with the former.

The issues I've seen re: code reviews are often due to a lack of emotional intelligence amongst developers who use reviews to promote their own ego or lack the experience to know how to craft their feedback in a cordial manner.

joshuamcginnison Request for Startups: Water

Why isn't there more support for nuclear-powered desalination?

http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-n...

joshuamcginnison My year with Elixir

We've been able to hire and leverage our existing Ruby developers to support our Elixir apps with success. It usually takes a couple of weeks of getting aquatinted when starting from scratch, but after that, execution increases linearly until it levels off at the developers' baseline.

joshuamcginnison Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

Have you seen https://simplyrets.com/? I haven't used it but it looks like a great start.

This problem is hard to solve at the root because each MLS is independently owned and heavily influenced by the National Association of Realtors and local governments. As an active RE investor myself, I'd love to work on a problem in this space.

joshuamcginnison Putting Sugary Soda Out of Reach

I would never tell someone to give up their individual liberty so that we can save a buck in an system that has far greater issues contributing towards cost inflation. Our freedoms and our liberties are fundamental to our being a free society; they should be treasured and not bartered.

joshuamcginnison Putting Sugary Soda Out of Reach

So long as what you do does not affect me directly, you should be allowed the liberty to do as you may, even if it puts your life (and only yours) at risk.

joshuamcginnison Open MCT – Open-Source Mission Control Software

https://github.com/nasa/openmct (under section: New API)

joshuamcginnison Can You Behave Randomly? (1998)

> kjergkjh129rgbcbmeert8848ygDGQ#%$^#$^YIUREGDSFdaw3-

I just punched in the str above. I did it because of the article (not random), but are is the string random? I could argue to the nth degree how and why those seemingly random keys were influenced by outside influences (length of fingers, my typing habits, proximity to some keys vs others).

Philosophically, is there such a thing as "random" if the very essence of matter is always under the influence of some other force?

joshuamcginnison Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering

I mean even more high level than this. If I open a binary, can I just write the new machine code to it directly and not be concerned with recompiling?

joshuamcginnison Panopticon: A libre, cross platform disassembler for reverse engineering

Let's assume you have reversed engineered some kind of boolean check and you now want to patch it to always return true or false. What does that process look like at a high level?

joshuamcginnison Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2014)

AssetAvenue | Los Angeles, CA 90034 | https://www.assetavenue.com/ | Sr. Software Engineer

We're looking for a couple of in-house full-time senior software devs to join our growing team and help build our Peer-to-peer real estate crowdfunding platform.

We're fully funded and gearing up to close a healthy Series A. We have a great culture and are poised for a lot of growth in the coming year.

As a member on your team, you'll participate in daily stand-ups, be a significant contributor to architectural-design decisions, advocate for developer best practices to your team, and most importantly, write a great deal of quality software that is used by thousands of people across the world.

We're all Rails & PostgreSQL hosted in Amazon. We work hard but also know how to have a lot fun.

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Here are the areas of responsibility:

-Architect and implement testable, performant back-end software to support investor and borrower workflows

-Deliver features with high quality that are repeatable and predictable

-Interface with multiple third-party API's that do everything from fraud-protection to the handling of millions of investor dollars

-Develop the backend to support all client-facing website interactions

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What we're looking for:

-BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience

-5+ years of software development using one or more of Ruby, Python, Java, C++

-Demonstrated mastery of the Ruby on Rails framework

-Strong understanding of SQL

For all of open positions and more details, check out our careers page: https://www.assetavenue.com/

Feel free to email me directly with any additional questions: joshua@assetavenue.com