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ronbeltranon Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

I have Zoom installed on my Ubuntu 16.04 and its also vulnerable.

https://jlleitschuh.org/zoom_vulnerability_poc/zoompwn_ifram...

ronbeltranon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Location: Manila, Philippines

Remote: Preferably

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: (Web Development) Python, Django, DRF, Postgres, Nginx, Gunicorn, Ubuntu, Heroku, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JygA7BeURmGs9UCHJiKYck3gs4B...

Email: rbbeltran[dot]09[at]gmail.com

Looking for short-term or long-term opportunities with python projects.

Linkedin : https://ph.linkedin.com/in/ronbeltran

Github : https://github.com/ronbeltran

ronbeltranon Ask HN: What is your side project for 2018?

I have been developing https://useragentinfo.co/ as a side project. It's a simple device, browser and OS detection. Currently it's running in a single server setup over linode. By Jan2018 I'll be migrating it to AWS Elastic Beanstalk for stability. This will be my weekend timesink.

ronbeltranon Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

Last year around November(2016) I finally had the time to build my first mobile app. My goals are: to learn React Native and build a mobile app and publish it to Google Play. At my previous work I'm pretty much knowledgeable in integrating CRMs (ie.Salesforce, SugarCRM and Highrise.) into Gmail via chrome extension so building API backend wont be a problem. I noticed at that time that only Highrise CRM has no official Anroid/Ios app offering so I decided to implement it myself. Initially I implemented highrise tasks feature and figure out later what the users need via feedback. I completed the app within a month uploaded it to Google Play[0] and built a simple website[1] for it. Being a Highrise user who opt in for their new products announcement, one moring around December (2016) I got an email from Highrise announcing their official mobile apps for android and iOS. So that was it. I had no chance of competing with the official apps. I got around 5 install on Google Play which already had uninstalled my app.

Expenses:

$10 for the domain

$25 for Google Play Developer Fee

around $20 for few months api backend hosting (Digital Ocean $5/month) then I migrated the code and hosted to free Heroku plan to save cost.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.taskongo

[1] http://www.taskongo.com/

[2] https://help.highrisehq.com/mobile/

ronbeltranon Server Retired After 18 Years Running on FreeBSD 2.2.1 and a Pentium 200MHZ

A picture of the $uptime command would have been great!

ronbeltranon Python bug: Can assign [] = (), but not () = []

I can also do this, which is harmful.

    >>> True = False
    >>> False = True

ronbeltranon Static Site Generators

It would be more useful if we can filter the list by Stars, License, Language, Created, Updated.

ronbeltranon Hands-on With App Engine’s New Runtime

That seems closer

ronbeltranon Hands-on With App Engine’s New Runtime

Might be Ruby?

ronbeltranon Paths to $5M for a startup founder

What advice can you give to potential founders who will be pitching on events like StartupWeekend,etc.? For us who attended, after someone pitched, random people approached him/her and wants to be on the group. Is it right to just say sorry that you're not accepting potential co-founders with random people?

ronbeltranon What’s the best thumbnail for this page?

Anyone is interested?

ronbeltranon How I built my blog in one day

I also built mine with same version of jekyll that github is using since I want to host my site in github pages however the build is broken when I commit a post that has {% raw %} tag. So I cant write a post with that tag anymore.

ronbeltranon Responsive.is

http://responsive.is/lessframework.com

ronbeltranon Linux From Scratch 7.1 Published - 3.2.6 Kernel + GCC 4.6.2

I built my first LFS inside Virtualbox, it was slow. Fun starts at Beyond LFS (BLFS). Never finished it, installed Ubuntu instead and be productive.

ronbeltranon Yandex, Google’s Russian Rival, Is Twitter’s New Real-Time Search Partner

Nice to see that a web.py site will be Twitter's search partner. Looking forward on how they will scale it. webpy.org

ronbeltranon Microsoft’s Visual Studio gets badges, achievements and leaderboard

I couldn't find the badge for "negative code". They should give it the highest point.

ronbeltranon Mint.com turns 404 ad page into date ad for developer

Is there any mint.com girl developer who wants a date? I only see Justin on 404, or maybe they dont have girl developers.

ronbeltranon Why I Don't Use The JVM

But JVM is here to stay.

ronbeltranon Tech recruitment: how not to do it

This is also our problem in our local python users group http://groups.google.com/group/pinoy-python-users/browse_thr... , situation is like this:we have a conversations to help someone with their errors and the next thread reply/post is all about job posts! So I built them a simple job portal.

ronbeltranon Show HN: Simple User Icons

http://www.parti.cl/purge_memcache did i just cleared your memcached?

ronbeltranon Show HN: Simple User Icons

Oh you're running your site in Google Appengine.

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I've already request for removal of cache, but I don't think that it would be removed instantly.

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I'm very sorry but I decided to remove the post since I believe my article will put me in danger. The article was written in good faith, and I don't meant any harm that It might cause to other parties.

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Thanks God my officemates don't read HN news.

ronbeltranon What should I do with my life?

I hope steve blank's commencement speech gives you direction, like you he never finished high school.