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A product called "Linkedin Intro" that was killed within 6 months due to backlash and significant security flaws. It was somehow creating a reverse imap proxy to intercept your email traffic, and "decorate" emails with someone's linkedin profile.

It was ~12 years ago, so there's not much left around, but here is an engineering blog post from Linkedin talking about how they architected it https://engineering.linkedin.com/mobile/linkedin-intro-doing...

openmosixon Microsoft hits $2T market value

http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html

openmosixon DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

Nope https://twitter.com/SecurityGuyPhil/status/14020799720601313...

openmosixon DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

Nope https://twitter.com/SecurityGuyPhil/status/14020799720601313...

openmosixon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2020)

Coinbase (YC S12) | https://coinbase.com/ | Software Engineers and Product Managers | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

What we are looking for:

Senior Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity, Payments, and all our products). You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/2054994

Product Managers - Backend (several teams for Identity and products) - You will be leading the product development of all our shared services to bridge the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1963985

Engineering Managers - (several teams) - Help us building and scaling our organization! We are growing rapidly - See some manager roles here: https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/2094075

All roles require 3-5 years of professional experience (at minimum). Feel free to apply through any of the links, email me at luca.bonmassar(at)coinbase.com or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabonmassar/

openmosixon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2020)

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

What we are looking for:

Senior Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity, Payments, and products). You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/765130 or https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1631556

Product Managers - Backend (several teams for Identity and products) - You will be leading the product development of all our shared services to bridge the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1963985

(Android) Mobile Engineers - You will be building consumer applications for the mobile crypto experience! See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1746745 Principal Engineers, Frontend Engineers and many more at https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions

All roles require 3-5 years of professional experience (minimum). Feel free to apply through any of the links, email me at luca.bonmassar(at)coinbase.com or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabonmassar/

openmosixon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

What we are looking for:

Senior Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity, Payments, and products). You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/765130 or https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1631556

Product Managers - Backend (several teams for Identity and products) - You will be leading the product development of all our shared services to bridge the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1963985

(Android) Mobile Engineers - You will be building consumer applications for the mobile crypto experience! See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1746745 Principal Engineers, Frontend Engineers and many more at https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions

All roles require 3-5 years of professional experience (minimum). Feel free to apply through any of the links, email me at luca.bonmassar(at)coinbase.com or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabonmassar/

openmosixon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)

Coinbase (YC S12) | https://coinbase.com/ | Software Engineers and Product Managers | San Francisco | Full-time | Onsite Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

What we are looking for: Senior Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity, Payments, and products) - You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/765130 or https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1631556

Product Managers - Backend (several teams for Identity and products) - You will be leading the product development of all our shared services to bridge the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1963985

(Android) Mobile Engineers - You will be building consumer applications for the mobile crypto experience! See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1746745 Principal Engineers, Frontend Engineers and many more at https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions

All roles require 3-5 years of professional experience (minimum). Feel free to apply through any of the links, email me at luca.bonmassar(at)coinbase.com or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabonmassar/

openmosixon Average product lifespan of Google products before it kills them

As an owner of a $1,500 Google Glass - which now is pretty much a brick, as the companion app doesn't work anymore - knowing there is a new version in the market isn't very helpful.

openmosixon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)

Coinbase is a secure online platform for buying, selling, transferring, and storing digital currency. Our mission is to create an open financial system for the world and to be the leading global brand for helping people convert digital currency into and out of their local currency.

What we are looking for:

Senior Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity, Payments, and products) - You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/765130 or https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1631556

Software Engineers - Backend (several teams for Identity and products) - You will be building and scaling the bridge between the crypto and the physical economy. See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1680190

(Android) Mobile Engineers - You will be building consumer applications for the mobile crypto experience! See https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions/1746745

Principal Engineers, Frontend Engineers and many more at https://www.coinbase.com/careers/positions

Feel free to apply through any of the links, email me at luca.bonmassar(at)coinbase.com or connect with me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucabonmassar/

openmosixon WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

Why "SV" hype? WeWork was founded and HQd in New York.

openmosixon Google announces a new $999 Glass augmented reality headset

Yup, same here. Got early in the beta, spent $1,500 on the device, worked hard in building apps and demos, integrations, feedback, etc... evangelized others on how amazing this will be and... sorry, Glass is discontinued, your device is now useless (not counting that the prism started falling apart within a year of usage). No more, thanks.

openmosixon Criminals Are Tapping into the Phone Network Backbone to Empty Bank Accounts

What carrier was that? I keep hearing stories that, for some reasons, only involve T-Mobile - so I was wondering which one was that.

openmosixon Elon Musk Admits Everyone Was Right About Tesla

http://archive.is/iKoKE

openmosixon SEC Sues Musk and Seeks Ban for His Tweets on Go-Private Deal

Not sure though. SpaceX is a federal contractor. And to be at the helm of a company with federal access, you might need a clean record. When Musk was smoking pot on radio, the AirForce had to look into it to see if there was any actions they needed to take.

openmosixon Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open

Said every acquisition ever.

openmosixon Is ‘culture fit’ merely a code word for unethical discrimination?

You might have read in HN, in many threads, comments from people saying "I would NEVER work in a company that would do such things like X, Y, Z". The other day, the comments were about a company tracking the activity of every employee. Another day was about a company whose business model was invasive ads. Another thread was about a company forbidding work-from-home and expecting everyone to checkin at 8 am sharp. Another was about companies forbidding engineers to work on opensource on their spare time. The list goes on. These are all examples of "culture" in my mind. As one might say "I'll never work there, ever" - there are plenty of people that would and they do indeed. The difference is the "I would fit there". If I know that the company "requires" to work long hours, or doesn't want work from home, or expects you to be on call at any given time, or expect people to be brutally honest with each other - as interviewer, I would be mindful of someone who will not fit these criterias. And many of these criterias are not good or bad - see the being brutally honest vs we are respectful of everyone feeling: it's just that the "wrong fit" would be run over by the organization within weeks and would likely result in the employee to be dismissed. Everyone would lose.

openmosixon Social influence platform Klout to shut down on May 25

May 25 - is it connected with GDPR coming into full effect?

openmosixon Growing a Time Tracking Software to $316,000/Month

Instacart seems a customer (from their landing page). I'm wondering it they track their devs this way.

openmosixon Teenager facing prison for downloading unsecured files from government website

When somebody uses the "leave the window unlocked" comparison, I try to rephrase it as "imagine you have your satellite TV with thousands of channels. You browse through channels and realize that, on channel #12985 if you press the A button on your remote, the channel will broadcast you videos that were supposed to be private". This is probably a closer analogy as you are not physically trespassing, you are "committing the crime" from your couch, you are not "stealing private property" (as, the docs are still on the owner's servers) and it's mostly on the broadcaster side to transmit sensitive information on a channel that is for everyone to see.

openmosixon Backpage.com Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking in Texas

It is not a made up thing, there is plenty of literature on the subject - http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2014/11/20/why-innocent-peop...

openmosixon Backpage.com Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking in Texas

Honest question: does it mean they were really guilty of it, or simply they have been offered a better deal than going through the trial? I guess if somebody accuses me of 93 indictments, which potentially leads to a life sentence vs plead guilty and you'll only make 5 years, I'll plead guilty. I'm asking because there is an implication. If I run a website which does not facilitate human trafficking - but I can get accused and risk 25 years - I'll also plead guilty, even if my website is a fantasy football website.

openmosixon Theranos Lays Off Most of Its Remaining Workforce

1-Page.com also had a very similar, although not as well known story. 1-page managed to be a "public startup" without having a product or (real) customers. Very much into the "fake it till you make it". Very fascinating story: https://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2017/05/18/rise-and-fal...

openmosixon Instagram deprecates majority of their API

It seems like - the deprecation has been announced as part of the overall effort of locking users' data - https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/restricting-data-access...

openmosixon Blockchain is a useless technology

"instantaneous" => it is faster for me to send a payment via venmo, than waiting 24h on a congested bitcoin network. "currency" => I thought Bitcoin at this point is done as a currency. Merchants have dropped it, payment processors (Stripe) have let it go. The next best use case is "store of value", but even there, with a volatility of +/- 50% in 60 days, I doubt that.

openmosixon Ask HN: Does your Amazon Echo talk to you without being asked?

It happened to me a couple of times (not during the night) but when the room was totally silent.

openmosixon This is Hackathon Harassment

When joining an opensource project, there is a license and you - as contributor - are transferring the IP ownership from you to the project through the license agreement. Following that, you can kick off anyone at any time from a project. However, that someone can fork the project and continue on his own. Even in for-profit projects, this happen: see the Arduino's drama as an example.

If you and I have started a project together, and I haven't signed an IP ownership transfer (to you, the project, the company) - I am entitled to the full ownership of the intellectual rights of my work. Regardless if I get paid or not (even when I get paid, every company will ask you to sign a separate agreement where you transfer ownership of produced IP). So if I get "fired" - and I haven't signed any agreement - you are in trouble. Because from now on, /your/ project IP will always have the legal liability that at some point I can come back and claim it's mine. See Facebook and many other cases, where they worked on a project without clear initial paperwork - it's a very expensive mistake.

openmosixon This is Hackathon Harassment

The analogy with a company is misleading. Is Mark a cofounder or an employee of this company?

* If a cofounder, he's probably entitled to shares. As a cofounder, talking to the board or investors would fit the character (he /was/ a cofounder)

* If an employee, as employee was getting paid or equity. Upon termination, he would receive severance. I think the discussion about how many tickets, what percentage of the booth, etc isn't very different from a company firing an employee and discussing how much severance. For a company with no money, how to split the assets.

In general, as investor/board member, I would be shocked to know that an employee - who hasn't signed an IP license agreement - is walking away, without signing an IP license agreement, making the entire IP asset of the company a potential legal liability. As board member, I'd have advised the CEO to QUICKLY settle this IP dispute, to give in on everything requested (booth, tickets, etc) - BUT - to receive a signed paper claiming full ownership of the project. Booth and tickets can easily be replaced. A startup whose IP ownership is unclear will be a dealbreaker for any investments during ANY due diligence process.

openmosixon This is Hackathon Harassment

I'm not sure it has nothing to do with IP ownership. I "volunteer" to a million of opensource projects. However, I am not giving up IP ownership - they get transferred as part of the license associated with my work.

In the absence of a license, I still retain 100% ownership of everything I have produced. There is a reason why every employment agreement requires to sign a special document where the employee transfer IP ownership to the company. In an "informal" setting, Mark is fully entitled to the intellectual ownership of his work (unless he signed a license or a IP transfer). In the current situation - from a pure legal standpoint - Mark could claim ownership of the project.