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atulagarwalon Google Bug Hunter University

They probably put this as a joke, but someone should try sending a report in Klingon ;)

atulagarwalon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2014)

AdPushup Inc. is hiring for JS Experts @ New Delhi, India office. Full time

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We're a disruptive AdTech company[1]. We're closing an angel round[2]. We're really cool[3].

We're on a hunt for extreme JavaScript Engineers for whom prototypes, closures, promises, MV* are the way of life. This position requires one to work on our unique (soon to be patent-pending) ad delivery and placement engine.

Check out the following link to know more: http://adpu.sh/jsguy-hn

[1] - Who isn't? :) Seriously though, we are actually changing how ad placement & optimization works.

[2] - Not made public yet, but the above link has some of the investors mentioned.

[3] - Well, nothing to back this up. But we're cool. Trust me!

atulagarwalon Samsung Galaxy Back-door

In my understanding, it needs operator level access to control the modem, or is it also possible to control the model using a MITM like scenario (off the air interception). If the latter is possible, it can become all the worrisome! Any ideas?

atulagarwalon Seamlessly Buy with Bitcoin using Zinc

I think it's a pretty solid way of establishing "delivery". But Credit Card company supporting BitCoins, that doesn't sound too probable, since easy availability of BTCs could be a threat to Credit Cards.

atulagarwalon Taking a second look at free fonts

On a quick read, the article doesn't talk about the licensing for the free fonts. Several free fonts I've liked are free for personal projects or websites, but are chargeable for commercial projects - and one should be careful about selecting them.

Secondly, fonts are very easy to pirate. The commerical fonts (eg. TypeKit fonts) can be copied and reused with a bit of HTML+CSS knowledge. Anyone know of a way to enforce the font licenses?

atulagarwalon SketchDeck Turns Terrible Slide Decks Into Beautiful Presentations In Just A Day

Interesting service. I'm thinking about the privacy/security concerns. Many PPTs contain proprietary material that cannot/should not be shared to third parties. NDAs exist, but they're difficult to enforce or sometimes maybe an overkill. How are the founders looking at addressing this problem?

Or something automated with minimal (or none) human intervention is desirable?

atulagarwalon Seamlessly Buy with Bitcoin using Zinc

I'm still looking for an exchange where I can buy Bitcoins simply with a Credit/Debit Card. I hurriedly read the title as:

Seamlessly Buy Bitcoin using Zinc

Missed the "with"! Anyone else wanting this? Or if it already exists, can someone point me there?

atulagarwalon Show HN: I've been making one HTML5 game per week. Here's my 10th game

I loved the games. They aren't simply demo projects, but real, interesting & challenging games! Good game play, actually enjoyed them! :)

atulagarwalon Google Publisher Plugin for Wordpress

Hi Ned,

Thanks for the note, just sent you an email!

atulagarwalon Google Publisher Plugin for Wordpress

Damn you Google! :)

It's just days ahead of our product beta launch - AdPushup.com - which lets you optimize your Adsense earnings. Our MVP is focused on WordPress, and one of the components is the Visual Editor through which multiple ads (locations, designs, size etc.) can be placed on the WordPress website. I feel our editor is more flexible in terms of ad placement and settings, but this news is definitely a threat, or a validation in disguise.

Note to team: launch the beta even faster!

atulagarwalon I challenged hackers to investigate me and what they found out is chilling

Do you mean something like file.jpg.exe?

Agreed, emailing .jar is kind of lame. They should have tried with some office/PDF exploits first!

atulagarwalon Things that suck in AngularJS

AngularJS explicitly [1] states that its suited best for standard CRUD apps. If you need to do something which requires touching the DOM or some low level manipulation, better stay off it. We decided against it while building our GUI Editor ( adpushup.com), and decided on Backbone (w/ Backbone relational). Backbone is a library (as opposed to being a framework) and plays really nice with jQuery and vanilla JS.

However, there'll be projects/components for which AngularJS (or EmberJS) would be better suited, and we'll surely love to give it a try.

[1] : http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/overview

atulagarwalon Facts about Banner and Display Advertising

I agree about the impressions point. High CTR or not, the Ad is indeed shown to the user, and to look it form a totally different PoV, the low CTR ads mean relatively low CPMs (i.e. eCPM, assuming CPC to be low). If looked from a pure branding or impression perspective, this might be desirable (although I'm not saying low CTR is good for the publisher OR the advertiser).

atulagarwalon How to know when someone is in trouble in the water

Well, I had almost drowned once. I had a personal flotation device and I knew swimming! We were out rafting, and I had swayed away from the raft swimming in light rapids (the instructor said its very safe - which it wasn't). When I realized that the rapids were overwhelming me, I tried to stay afloat (a flotation device and know-how of floating works - but I guess I was panicked!), but did not help too much. It took me sometime to realize I was drowning, and in the meantime I had told another raft that had approached to help - that I was fine (overconfidence?). When the reality hit, it was bad, and I could not even scream. I did wave my hands, on to which my friends on the raft threw a rope, and I survived.

Even swimmers (I consider myself below average) can drown. "Panic" is to blame here. The following article explains a similar case quite here (search for "scuba-diving"):

http://www.gladwell.com/2000/2000_08_21_a_choking.html