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Hilton stores your whole credit card number in your HHonors account

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www.noteblur.com 11y ago

Show HN: Noteblur – Recurring meeting tracking made easy

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

New York City is building 10,000 Internet pylons for free public Wi-Fi

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: How should I handle an equity dispute?

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themindunleashed.org 12y ago

Physicists Launch Campaign To Rebuild Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower

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www.vice.com 12y ago

We Need To Get Better At Coding

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Freelancers/Contractors – what software do you use for accounting

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dealbook.nytimes.com 12y ago

Maker of Candy Crush Game Seeks Valuation Near $7.6 Billion in I.P.O.

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www.newrepublic.com 12y ago

How instant message and the open office made everyone's job impossible

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www.hanselman.com 12y ago

Introducing Windows Azure WebJobs

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www.vice.com 12y ago

How To Burglarize The FBI

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www.cnn.com 12y ago

Can airships revolutionize transportation in world's harshest environments?

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weaselzippers.us 12y ago

US Government spent $634,320,919 to build Healthcare.gov

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medium.com 12y ago

EBay  —  The World’s Worst Marketplace

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america.aljazeera.com 12y ago

Manning lawyers filed a request for a pardon from President Barack Obama

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Facebook employees reveal the worst things about working for the social network

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Samsung’s New 6.3-Inch ‘Mega’ Phone Pushes the Limits

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washingtonexaminer.com 12y ago

Feds give millions in contracts to firms owned by fictitious people

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Following deadly accidents, Apple offers $10 iPhone chargers on trade

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www.bloomberg.com 12y ago

The Biggest Company No One Has Ever Heard Of

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www.slate.com 12y ago

Edward Snowden's First Day as a Free Man in Russia Involved Offers of Jobs

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You Can't Write Proper English Under Pressure

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junkee.com 13y ago

"Magic" Hydrophobic Coating Finally Launched

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Snowden's Dad Gives First Interview

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www.facebook.com 13y ago

July 4th: Spam the NSA with posts containing "targeted keywords"

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medium.com 13y ago

Write Drunk, Edit Sober

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techcrunch.com 13y ago

State Department Demands 3-D Gun Blueprints Be Removed

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www.courier-journal.com 13y ago

University of South Carolina professor hacks online poll, protests online voting

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www.nypost.com 13y ago

App kid ridiculed: Silicon Valley disses teen’s Yahoo deal

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www.wltx.com 13y ago

Hackers steal 3.4 million SSNs, 387k Credit Cards from SC Dept of Revenue

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Kinopio 4 years ago

spatial chat concept is great, love what you've done with it.

REMOTE | Contract to hire/full time East Coast work hours - Mid level to senior Integration Engineer

Wirewheel provides data privacy SaaS platform to clients to stay in compliance with CCPA, GDPR and the evolving privacy laws.

I'm looking for an Mid-level or senior engineer that has experience integrating with systems like salesforce, M365, Google drive, and can be creative on integrating with the dozens of other systems our clients as for to automate their data privacy workflows. Tech stack is nodeJS/aws lambda/serverless

you can email me at kevin@wirewheel.io with your resume directly

REEL | Multiple positions | Santa Monica, CA | Onsite We're a small but fast growing fintech startup looking for the following positions: * Junior Front-end dev (react/redux, vue, angular experience is nice) * Lead Fullstack developer (node/react/AWS knowledge) * UI/UX expert to help us evolve our product's UX. * Product Manager to look for ways to identify features customers would like and the like (should have worked on a successful product in the past)

On the tech side we user serverless to deploy lambda functions to AWS, all microservices are in node, some are typescript, others ES6 - looking to standardise this. We lean pretty heavily on AWS from a devops perspective. Since we're a team of 8 so far, there are lots of opportunities to work with ML/BI data analysis (Periscope), product enhancements, pretty much we're a very open company to all ideas.

Email me at kevin@joinreel.com if interested, remember this is on-site in santa monica, california only full time.

MYJAR | Multiple | Tallinn, Estonia | on-site | full-time

We're looking for talented node devs, angular 2 devs/lead, general devops (ansible, AWS, etc... several positions here)

We're a financial company looking to augment our IT staff as we, in tandem, innovate our backend and frontend tech stacks using angular2 and a microservices architecture on AWS (elastic beanstalk, lambda, rabbitmq).

We can offer relocation and visas for qualified candidates. The office is in Tallinn, Estonia. Fun work atmosphere, stocked fridge, massage therapist and many other little perks.

shoot me a message (details in profile) if you're interested.

REMOTE - ASP.net Developer we're looking for one (maybe two) asp.net developers to join our remote team. C# / Azure / web api / etc

email me at ktavera@topofmind.com if you're interested

Top of Mind - REMOTE We're a rapidly growing CRM company adding...

3 UI Engineers (heavy angular, javascript, highcharts, sass, gulp, bootstrap, etc), decent design skills, demonstrable examples of UI/UX we can see.

3 ASP.net Engineers (Web API 2, C#, azure workers, queuing), knowledge of Entity Framework 6 code first or other ORM's is key, service/repository patterns, all the other basic stuff you'd expect. We're 100% utilizing Azure services in every way that makes sense for us. the more we use them the more impressed we are with the offering.

We're only 4 months into development of this greenfield dev project so as a member of our engineering team you'd have the ability to drive technical direction across the API or UI, whichever you prefer. Junior or senior level, doesn't matter, we just want smart people that want to be a long-term team member.

Also looking for two test engineers, one on the JS side (protractor/karma) and one on the .net (nUnit) to help us build out solid e2e test test automation for our code-base and expand on our unit test coverage.

Remember these are full-time positions, no contractors looking for a couple weeks of work until their next gig comes around. Your location is irrelevant, just as long as you get your work done. Good salary, bonuses, random perks.

Fun small engineering team with a stable company. We all work remote and communicate primarily on slack/screenhero (when screenhero isn't flaking out). We do occasional company sponsored meetups, just got back from a conference in vegas last week. lot of fun.

Email me at ktavera@topofmind.com (i'm in charge of the engineering team) if you want to talk about joining the team!

Top of Mind : REMOTE OKAY Positions: Frontend Angular engineer Xamarin Mobile developer Backend C# engineer

We're looking to ramp up our team of .net and javascript engineers for building out the next version of our CRM platform. Work on exciting latest and greatest technologies with a team of 10 other awesome developers!

Email me directly if you're interested at ktavera@topofmind DOT com

Thanks everyone -- I knew engaging a lawyer was the next step after the CEO was non-responsive but having other tech professionals and entrepreneurs chime in with some insight was very valuable. Thank you all for your interest and advice.

Because the contract stated that upon employment there would be a grant of 5000 shares that would vest annually or in a liquidity event would vest immediately, with no mention of forfeiture. Valuation is hard to determine since the former CEO is non-responsive, all I know is others with the same equity position received significant payouts.

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Looking at the site and knowing a lot custom website development - I cannot see why this site would cost $500k other than the obvious answer, that it is state government willing to pay $500k for a $50k website.

I make the same remote as I did as an in-house senior developer. But I will note that when I was interviewing for remote opportunities I came across a lot of cases where the salary was different for remote and on-site employees. Even signing bonuses of $10k or so to come in and work from the office.

Licensing costs are not really an issue when you're on Azure. If your app ran fine under the BizSpark program subsidy of $150/month of azure credit then when you're out of the program you'd just have to pick up the $150/month hosting cost, not suddenly have to pay $15k+ for a MSSQL or Windows Server license.

I don't think you can compare MBS ratings with municipal bond ratings. Mortgage backed securities were a derivative of a pool of bundled bad loans, meaning the underlying asset was toxic.

Municipal bonds are not really derivatives, there is no underlying asset that backs it except for the repayment history from the borrowing entity. If I buy a muni bond slated for an affluent county in New Hampshire to build a new high school then my risk is considerably lower than buying a security where you are dependent on a group of individuals with unknown repayment ability actually completing the terms of their loan (MBS). They are completely different animals

As far as municipal defaults, sure it happens. But very infrequently. Even with piling up liabilities municipal entities generally are able to pay on their bonds even if it means issuing more bonds because if they default, all their liquidity dries up.

AA+ rated municipal bonds can have great rates of return, low risk and usually the capital gains are tax-exempt. You can purchase bonds through online brokers (I use TD Ameritrade). There of course are other bonds; corporate, treasury and CD's you can set up in bond ladders to generate income and reinvest after maturity into another bond but those are generally subject to standard tax rates.