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andlarryon Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

  From:  [CEO Name] <team@angel.co>
  Reply-To: [CEO Name] <ceo's email address>

They're not forging the from address, it was SPF/DKIM signed.

andlarryon Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

I did too!

I can understand why they do it, but it seems like a very hill-climby optimization.

This was basically my first interaction with them and it engendered a lack of trust in their product.

I filled out the minimum amount of info in my account and don't intend to use them much going forward, mainly given how creepy I found this interaction.

edit: phrasing

andlarryon Tell HN: AngelList told my employer that I'd updated my profile

When our CEO added me to our angel list account, I recieved this email from them:

  Hi [My Name],

  I'm building an AngelList profile for [our company] and need your help.

  Can you do me a favor and confirm that you're a team member by clicking here:

  https://angel.co/l/[shortlink]
  To prove that you're the real [My Name] you will be asked to create an account if you don't already have one.

  This is important to us; confirming that you're a team member will help us build our profile.

  Thanks,
  [CEO's Name]

  P.S. If you would like to visit our profile first, go here: https://angel.co/[our company]

They're really aggressive about impersonating folks, my CEO didn't write that and was very suprised by the content of the email.

andlarryon Postgres features and tips

I recommend and use sqlworkbench, which is great as long as you don't work for one of the govts disallowed by the license (which is apache otherwise) http://www.sql-workbench.net/

andlarryon California has about one year of water left

Most of the water is used by agriculture. You can take all the 2 minute showers you want, changing how the megafarms use all that water would have the most impact.

Of course, there's this idea that the farms are the historical yeoman-type, so it's rare to see solutions involving agriculture dicussed.

http://californiawaterblog.com/2011/05/05/water%E2%80%94who-...

> When you examine water use within the interconnected network of California that feeds farms and cities, use is roughly 52 percent agricultural, 14 percent urban and 33 percent environmental.

andlarryon Show HN: Call to Speakers – Find, track and apply to speak at tech conferences

Hi, really neat idea (didn't see it last time). Just browsing the homepage, LDAPCon has the wrong country in summary view.

andlarryon Engineering ethics

Why is it a good idea to have a software engineering test?

How does a test make you ethical? Norms keep folks ethical.

I see these tests as mostly a protection against new people entering a field.

It's also standard to lock folks into working under "qualified engineers" for a number of years, which seems unnecessarily burdensum and counterproductive for an expanding field.

That said, I put the term "Software Engineering" right up there with "Computer Science" in terms of descriptive value.

I prefer "Software Developer" myself.

andlarryon As Office Space Shrinks, So Does Privacy for Workers

But it's probably a submarine article planted by the architecture firm anyway.

Yup, see a very similar one from 2012 [1] (I knew this sounded familiar), same firm, NBBJ.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/business/new-office-design...

andlarryon Tim O'Reilly on big data, social networks and the future of print

I was just introduced to the article "The Meme Hustler" about Tim O'Reilly [1], where Evgeny Morozov discusses, among other things, how O'Reilly spins social movements (Free Software) into depoliticized economic arguments (Open Source).

Seems odd that Linux Voice would lead with "Meet Free Software, internet and publishing visionary, Tim O’Reilly" when he was so active in advocating the term "Open Source" instead of "Free Software".

[1] http://www.thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

andlarryon Slack for Linux – Help Hack on This

I've found the XMPP gateway doesn't display edited messages, so I stopped using it. Now I just keep a Chromium window open.

andlarryon The Percy Jackson Problem

This has happened before, in the late 1800s/early 1900s. From [1] (see the transcript).

"Well, the unique thing about this period– the late 1800s and the early 1900s– was this was a time when books written for children as the main audience were largely and often read by adults and appeared on adult bestseller lists. You take a look at the bestseller lists during this period, and you see like Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Pollyanna, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and maybe like War and Peace. But the great authors of the time were writing for children."

[1] http://backstoryradio.org/shows/little-feet-2/

andlarryon Microsoft CEO says women need not ask for raise, should trust system

> Why were they there? Because they were invited! The only rational response is to turn down such an invitation in the future.

The Ada Initiative recommends[1] responding thusly:

* Respond saying that you'd be honored, but the panel seems awfully heavy on the men, and can they find a qualified woman to join the panel? Here are some suggestions.

* Respond saying that you have taken a pledge not to participate in all-male panels from now on, but you'd be happy to join if a qualified woman is added.

* If you can't accept, suggest a qualified woman to take your place.

[1] http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Allies_training#Scenario:...

andlarryon Lennart Poettering on the state of open source communities

Which Jack? Jack1 or Jack2? [1]

My experience with JACK seems very similar to everyone else's early experience with PulseAudio, really buggy, lots of audio pops (small buffers) or latency (big buffers).

One of my most technically adept friends has spent a long time trying to setup a basic debian install with JACK working reliably (done) only it's very fragile, upgrades to random packages broke it so often we now do our audio work without a general purpose computer in the hotpath.

[1] http://trac.jackaudio.org/wiki/Q_differenc_jack1_jack2

andlarryon What Does It Really Cost to Live in San Francisco?

Seems like your best bet is Outer Mission/Excelsior, at least according to the median rental prices from our dataset in January [1].

[1] http://blog.zumper.com/2014/02/here-are-your-january-2014-me...

andlarryon Amazon’s Scorpion Problem

> AWS is unbelievably lousy at support.

Compared to whom? Google? How many times have you seen tickets like [1] for Android, Gapps, etc? Additionally, the google cloud platform onboarding was so bad, I almost gave up a $500 credit in frustration.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/HTX9cLb...

andlarryon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2014)

I'm reposting this from the June "Who is hiring?" thread:

Zumper - Soma, San Francisco, CA - https://www.zumper.com

Lead Front-End Web Developer

Zumper is a next generation apartment rental platform that recently raised a $6.5 million Series A led by Kleiner Perkins.

We’re growing very quickly (numbers are 4x three months ago) and we're looking for a lead front-end engineer to help accelerate this growth in our traction and product.

Who We’re Hiring

An experienced Javascript-focused frontend developer with a strong portfolio and experience using client-side MVC frameworks. You’ll work across Zumper’s Tenant and Professional web apps, so you should be self-motivated and excited about taking on a big challenge.

Desired Skills & Experience

> Deep experience with development of Javascript-based dynamic web apps

> Exposure to client-side MVC frameworks (AngularJS experience a plus!)

> Strong HTML and CSS skills

> Passionate about great design and user experience

> Independent and a fast learner

> Able to communicate openly within a close-knit team

Apply - please email your resume or GH profile to jobs@zumper.com - we’re excited to hear from you!