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whitef0x

168 karma · joined February 3, 2014

Founder at infertrail.com. Investigating why people buy and sell gray market inference.
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whitef0x··on Show HN: My Book, ADHD Pro – Happy Productivity for People with ADHD
What’s the main draw on your book vs others?
whitef0x··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
How bad is it there for sexual/gender minorities (aka gay/trans people). Is it livable if you are visibly transgender?
whitef0x··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
How bad is the crime? I've talked to a few who've lived there but they always tell me the crime forced them to move out. Do hijackings at robots still happen often?
whitef0x··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
From what I've seen, Chile is a relatively safe and intellectually free place to live. They aren't as progressive on LGBTQIA tolerance as say the west coast of the US, but they are slowly getting there.

It isn't dirt cheap though. A house in a nice part of Santiago will cost you around 300-500k (USD).

whitef0x··on Tell HN: So suddenly HN is fixed size and way too small?
(Browser) zoom works for me. What browser are you using?
whitef0x··on Show HN: CryptSend.io – Share encrypted files with randomly generated links
Hello HN!

Cryptsend was created as a result of my company having to share large amounts of medical data with our clients. We couldn't find an easy and secure solution, so we sat down and created cryptsend. Our codebase is currently in alpha stages so any audits/improvements/security vulns you find would be really appreciated!

whitef0x··on Ask HN: How can I improve and make my CV more effective?
If you want to work at FAANG or Uber/Dropbox/etc then yes you don't want certs. For lower tier companies/smaller ones then it might make a difference.
whitef0x··on Ask HN: How can I improve and make my CV more effective?
Remove your certs. They are a negative signal for most companies in tech unless you are in infosec (which you aren't judging from your resume)
whitef0x··on Simplified and community-driven man pages
I find that what helps me the most are the '--help' commands, especially if it has multilevel support, like seen with the docker cli tool.

The problem with just providing examples is it doesn't always tell me what each argument does, especially if I have multiple arguments, making it seem like the tool works by having a 'magical' combination of arguments, instead of explaining what each argument does.

whitef0x··on Ask HN: We have a great team and capital but can't find a good idea
My friend made exactly this (https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2016/5/soundvisio...) but it ended up not being marketable so they abandoned it and sadly never opensourced the code.
whitef0x··on Show HN: Baby Buddy
You could build your own like this http://www.simpleiothings.com/build-a-10-wifi-smart-button/
whitef0x··on Wozniak and Copps: Ending net neutrality will end the Internet as we know it
While this isn't the exact same setup, might want to read this for more context on mesh network ISPs https://www.wired.com/2016/07/forget-comcast-heres-the-diy-a....
whitef0x··on PocketBeagle – A $25 open-source USB-key-fob computer
There's the pinebook which is the laptop version of what you are describing https://www.pine64.org/?page_id=3707
whitef0x··on Stack Overflow Salary Calculator
Ruby, Golang, Serverside JS (aka NodeJS) or Python would be a start
whitef0x··on Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
I agree with this. My girlfriend has unfortunately had to deal with racist name calling as an Asian (I can't imagine what it must be like for those that are even more targeted by the alt-right) in San Francisco, a "liberal" city in the eyes of Americans.
whitef0x··on Hunting for a Canadian Legend: The Avro Arrow Jet Fighter
S(he) may be white or may well not me. Best not to assume things about strangers online.
whitef0x··on I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
Just filled out ddg's suggestion form to add this as a bang. I'll let you know if it goes live.
whitef0x··on Hey Startups, It’s Your Duty to Fight for Net Neutrality
Why should it be the duty of startups to fight for net neutrality when it's the gatekeepers who control the flow of information and have the resources to actually keep the net open and free.
whitef0x··on Grabbed by Humboldt Squids for Science (1991)
Accompanying video can be found here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Fkl312lldQ
whitef0x··on Show HN: Get Instant Feedback on Your Coverletter with AI
Hey HN,

I just built this as a sideproject with inspiration from http://textio.com after getting frustrated with the lack of feedback and haphazard advice for coverletters on a multitude of blogs. I built it using Flask, SpaCy, Textacy and NLTK with a bunch of heuristics that I took from writing blogs and form talking to experienced manager.

This is just an MVP so it isn't super fast and is missing a few nice-to-have features like HTTP.

whitef0x··on Ask HN: How do you make money from your side projects?
Your "Pro" version http://getjsonip.com isn't working fyi. Just shows me a blank page.
whitef0x··on Why Reddit Enhancement Suite may cease support for Safari
Same. Safari has gone downhill in quality ever since Edge was released.
whitef0x··on FindBugs project in its current form is dead
The article I think you are talking about is this one https://medium.com/@nayafia/how-i-stumbled-upon-the-internet... by Nadia Eghbal.

She never ended up finding a solution to the problem and instead ended up joining GitHub as a opensource developer advocate (or something similar to that).

whitef0x··on Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
TellForm (https://tellform.com)

TellForm is the first design-focused opensource form/survey builder. We are used by small and large businesses who need self hosting and by developers who want a hackable form builder.

> What do you hope to build this month? We are looking at moving our beta branch into our master and adding logic jump and an API to the stable release candidate. We are also looking at redesigning the admin panel.

We're in need of contributors who are good at design as well as developers who are comfortable on the MEAN (Mongoose, ExpressJS, AngularJS, Node) stack. We are still using Angular 1.x do you should be comfortable with that.

To contribute check out our contributing guide here https://github.com/whitef0x0/tellform/blob/master/README.md

TellForm is an opensource project run under the MIT license

whitef0x··on Show HN: Tellform – An Open-Source Form Builder
Hey. I just fixed this. Ended up being due to a bug in a dependency.
whitef0x··on Show HN: Tellform – An Open-Source Form Builder
I'll set this up shortly
whitef0x··on Poll: Do you have your own company?
Sadly though, for us Canadians there is no LegalZoom or RocketLawyer (although I might be totally wrong on this one!)

So its either like a few thousand to setup an INC (LLC's don't exist here) or go the cheap but high liability route with a sole proprietorship.

whitef0x··on Poll: Do you work at a startup?
I contract to a startup as a developer, but I'm not sure if that makes me 'in a startup' or not, so I put other.
whitef0x··on [dead]
My favourite quote is from Winston Churchill during some fo the bleakest days for Britain in WWII. I find it especially relevant to startups and entrepreneurs, much like the audience of HN itself.

"If you're going through hell, keep going"

You can read more about the history behind it and the context here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffloftus/2012/05/09/if-youre-...

whitef0x··on Inspire Me: Point-and-Click adventure [Kickstarting]
Maybe not a good idea to make a HN account just to spam your kickstarter campaign.

Doesn't look like a very professional PR move imo.

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