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lachenmayer··on Ōryōki Web Browser
Talking about Electron-based browser experiments, there's also Paul Frazee's beaker: https://github.com/pfraze/beaker

It has integrations for lots of mad science distributed tech such as IPFS & dat and a permission-based filesystem API based on node's fs API.

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer (full-stack) | full time, ONSITE

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# Description

Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

You’ll be an essential part of our product team currently consisting of 3 developers and 2 designers. You should have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2016, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming - interest and/or expertise in that area would definitely be a strong plus.

You'll be working in our river-side office in Wapping, East London, and you’ll of course be able to go to and invite your friends to the exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site.

# Stack/Keywords

React, Redux, ImmutableJS, CSS Modules, WordPress, Docker microservices, RethinkDB

# Technical requirements

- Strong understanding of modern JavaScript (ES6/7)

- Up-to-date knowledge of current & upcoming web technologies, especially relating to streaming audio & video content

- Working understanding of / willingness to learn PHP & WordPress

# Nice to have

- Interest in functional & functional reactive programming concepts (eg. Elm, Haskell)

- Familiarity with Event Sourcing / CQRS concepts

- Passion for underground music culture

# Get in touch!

Email me at harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv with links to your GitHub and/or your CV :)

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2016)
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer (full-stack) | full time, ONSITE

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Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

We are currently in the process of building the next generation of the web app powering Boiler Room. We have upwards of a million views on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion. We want to create a completely unique web experience that lives up to the quality of our live shows. To do that we need someone who knows their way around the wonderful mess that is web development, and truly cares about the experience that music lovers will have while using our web app on all kinds of devices.

You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 3 developers and 2 designers. You ideally have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2016, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming - interest and/or expertise in that area would definitely be a strong plus.

(...on top of that you’ll of course be able to go to & invite your friends to our exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site!)

If this sounds like your kind of jam, give me a shout on harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv!

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2016)
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer (full-stack) | full time, ONSITE

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Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

We are currently in the process of building the next generation of the web app powering Boiler Room. We have upwards of a million views on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion. We want to create a completely unique web experience that lives up to the quality of our live shows. To do that we need someone who knows their way around the wonderful mess that is web development, and truly cares about the experience that music lovers will have while using our web app on all kinds of devices.

You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 3 developers and 2 designers. You ideally have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2016, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming - interest and/or expertise in that area would definitely be a strong plus.

(...on top of that you’ll of course be able to go to & invite your friends to our exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site!)

If this sounds like your kind of jam, give me a shout on harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv!

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer (full-stack) | full time, ONSITE

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Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

We are currently in the process of building the next generation of the web app powering Boiler Room. We have upwards of a million views on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion. We want to create a completely unique web experience that lives up to the quality of our live shows. To do that we need someone who knows their way around the wonderful mess that is web development, and truly cares about the experience that music lovers will have while using our web app on all kinds of devices.

You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 3 developers and 2 designers. You ideally have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2016, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming - interest and/or expertise in that area would definitely be a strong plus.

(...on top of that you’ll of course be able to go to & invite your friends to our exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site!)

If this sounds like your kind of jam, give me a shout on harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv!

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016)
Do you want to join us? :)
lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2015)
London, UK | ONSITE | Full time | Frontend web dev

Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cities to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years Boiler Room has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

We are currently in the process of building the next generation of the web app powering Boiler Room. We have upwards of a million views on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion. We want to create a completely unique web experience that lives up to the quality of our live shows. To do that we need someone who knows their way around the wonderful mess that is frontend web development, and truly cares about the experience that music lovers will have while using our web app on all kinds of devices.

You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 2 developers and 2 designers. You should have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2015, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences. You'll be working in our river-side office in Wapping, East London, and you’ll of course be able to go to and invite your friends to the exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site.

Our frontend stack: React, Redux, ImmutableJS, Gulp, Webpack, Babel, CSSNext

If this sounds like your kind of jam, email harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv

lachenmayer··on Brainstorm – Deep Learning library, successor to PyBrain
http://www.metacademy.org/ is a fantastic resource.
lachenmayer··on Notion – Document Reimagined
This is the Mother All Demos... Congrats to the team, this is amazingly done!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

lachenmayer··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
Boiler Room | London | Web Developer | full time, ONSITE

Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets from underground music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and many others to music lovers all over the world. It started as a webcam taped to a warehouse wall in East London - in five years it has grown to become the online home of underground music, and also a complex broadcasting and editorial platform in its own right.

Our website hasn’t caught up with this huge expansion - it currently runs on WordPress and is in sore need of a complete overhaul. We’re in the process of totally redesigning it, giving us the opportunity to choose the perfect tech stack. You’ll be an essential part of a dev team currently consisting of 2 developers and 2 designers. You ideally have strong opinions about how web development should be done in 2015, and you should be able to come up with and implement new ideas for consuming & sharing online music experiences.

Going forward, we have some really exciting ideas around peer-to-peer audio and video streaming. We have upwards of a million pageviews on our site a month, and that’s not including the hundreds of millions of views that our videos have accumulated on YouTube and Dailymotion.

(...on top of that you’ll of course be able to go to & invite your friends to our exclusive parties being live-streamed on the site!)

If this sounds like your kind of jam, give me a shout on harry.l+hn@boilerroom.tv!

lachenmayer··on Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship
Thanks, we just found out! This definitely worked for several weeks previously, ha. We're looking into it right now.
lachenmayer··on Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship
Hey Marek, I see you've been accepted at UCL, would you like to check out what London is like?

We at HackCampus http://hackcampus.io/ could offer you a 10-week internship at some amazing startups (GoCardless, SwiftKey, Kano and more) in London this summer. It's well-paid, and we'll give you free accommodation over the summer with a batch of other awesome student hackers like yourself.

http://hackcampus.io/internship/

I can give you more details over email, harry at hackcampus.io :)

lachenmayer··on Show HN: JavaScript Acid Techno Machine
Really interesting what happens to the sound when you switch tabs (in Chrome at least): The sounds still play, but slowed down about 10x.
lachenmayer··on Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku
Related: proquints (PRO-nouncable QUIN-tuplets) http://arxiv.org/html/0901.4016

    127.0.0.1       lusab-babad
    63.84.220.193   gutih-tugad
    63.118.7.35     gutuk-bisog
    140.98.193.141  mudof-sakat
    64.255.6.200    haguz-biram
lachenmayer··on The Music Suite
There's an easy solution if you prefer to use those:

    melody = scat
    chord = pcat
I think the rationale is that you'd most often want `melody` to refer to the melody of the whole song rather than some sequence of notes within your melody.
lachenmayer··on Apple using moving letters as captcha
They don't really have to be tuned for motion, you can just consider each frame individually.
lachenmayer··on Favorite Unix Commands
Or even 'ag' (the silver searcher). Like ack, but "better". https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
lachenmayer··on Surprise: People hate being forced to use Facebook
I'd say most people have one username/password combination they use for every service. On mobile devices, having to sign up with an email and password is a bit of a hassle, and Facebook/Twitter login makes more sense.
lachenmayer··on Show HN: Most Wikipedia articles lead to the same loop
Surely most of those are just abandoned games?
lachenmayer··on In Week Two, Marissa Mayer Googifies Yahoo
This is how I see the Yahoo! logo: http://cl.ly/image/0s1D0j13212C The main logo is in Flash, and I block all plugins in Chrome, so all I see is a gray rectangle...
lachenmayer··on The Facebook Offering: How It Compares
> Microsoft and Apple both went public before the Internet and managed to do quite well without it.

That's because Apple's and Microsoft's products don't (or didn't at the time the companies went public) rely solely on the internet. A big reason why Facebook has such a massive valuation is precisely because the population of the internet has increased so strongly.

lachenmayer··on To boldly go where Node man has gone before
What do you mean by "no callbacks"?
lachenmayer··on What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
As you have mentioned 1984, I have to add Brave New World to the list. It provides a view of the future which in many aspects is a lot closer to our current culture than 1984. In terms of "ethics for technologists", this should definitely be required reading.
lachenmayer··on JQuery Mobile 1.0
Well, seeing as most (I'm guessing >90%?) mobile browsers currently used are based on WebKit, it makes sense to only include the -webkit-prefixed selectors
lachenmayer··on Winamp for Mac
What do you mean about micromanaging your music library? The only "managing" I do with iTunes is dragging a new music file onto the icon, and maybe adjusting the tags slightly.
lachenmayer··on A reboot of PHP: keep the philosophy, improve the syntax with the jvm
I hope the "less ';' like javascript" isn't implemented in the same way it is in JavaScript...
lachenmayer··on Possible Governmental Backdoor Found ("case R2D2")
The main gripe the authors of the paper have is not that this trojan exists - there are indeed German laws that allow for such a trojan - but that it has been so insecurely implemented, and also collects information that cannot be identified as "communication" (which is a requirement for this German law).

Any data received from the command and control server is sent unencrypted and unchecked. Additionally, the trojan contains a "backdoor within a backdoor", which allows any code to be attached to the trojan and executed unchecked!

Moral issues of computer surveillance aside, this trojan is a shocking example of the German government's (if indeed this is a government effort) incompetence regarding the internet.

lachenmayer··on Do lengthy articles make you bored?
If that average time is a mean time, then that would mean that you do have a significant number of people reading the entire article.

I would assume that people who are skimming the content, or just leaving straight away would only spend a couple of seconds, a minute max on the site.

Also, it is very interesting that the average time for people from Facebook is so much higher than all the others!

lachenmayer··on You Love Your iPhone. Literally.
I had exactly the same thought. Also, the "separation anxiety" he speaks of is hardly due to "love" for the iPhone, but rather to the fact that people would rely on us to carry the phone around with us to be available at all times.
lachenmayer··on Google buys Zagat
...which is exactly what they're doing, right? By having let's say a Yelp competitor, they have an entire market that can be described as "anyone who eats" out at their fingertips...
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