Hacker News: lordlarm

New comment by lordlarm in "I Want an Honest Office"

lordlarm — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 18:17:42 +0000

Well, I don't think the article argues for employees sitting on needles during their working hours, but rather a push back on the very real and opposite trend where excessively fancy and comfortable offices makes employees detached from the actual finances of the business.

Desperation-Induced Focus

lordlarm — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 21:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://rkg.blog/desperation-induced-focus.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30353085

Points: 10

# Comments: 3

Amazon manipulates consumers to keep them subscribed to Amazon Prime [pdf]

lordlarm — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 06:59:53 +0000

Article URL: https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/2021-01-14-you-can-log-out-but-you-can-never-leave-final.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25773083

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordlarm in "Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles"

lordlarm — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:28:59 +0000

This is awesome!

As many others are sharing feedback, I thought I’d might add some myself: I would like to have better support for changing roles internally within the same company (ie promotions etc) and in this regard having the month available at least as an option would be great. LinkedIn uses the company as a higher level grouping, then the years/months spent in a certain position.

For me to use this regularly I would have some reason to check in; and I guess either building up “company profiles” where I could see people who work in a certain company or indeed an interesting way to find companies and open positions would be great.

I love the “features” section and the focus on adding people you’ve worked closely with.

As you are - it seems - involved in Quip too, I’m cheeky enough to add some feedback in that product: fix notifications (!) - managing and keeping track of them is close to impossible, make it easier to actually discuss higher level on a particular document (not per line, and the comments in the sidebar disappears quickly) and lastly please add support for collapsing certain sections of a document :-)

Retentioneering: Python framework for processing and analyzing clickstreams

lordlarm — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 16:26:07 +0000

Article URL: https://retentioneering.github.io/retentioneering-tools/_build/html/what_is_rete.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25431741

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Against Scale: Provocations and Resistances to Scale Thinking [pdf]

lordlarm — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 12:40:57 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08850

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24878835

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Shape up: Reviving the pre-project

lordlarm — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:57:17 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/kolonial-no-product-tech/reviving-the-pre-project-c06b9fbd6805

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22892336

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Codemodding Python: unittest asserts to Python asserts

lordlarm — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 14:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/kolonial-no-product-tech/codemodding-python-unittest-asserts-to-python-asserts-dbf4d1da8c0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22054303

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

APT10 Targeted Norwegian MSP and US Companies in Sustained Campaign

lordlarm — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 12:44:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.recordedfuture.com/apt10-cyberespionage-campaign/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19094649

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lordlarm in "What is the ‘legitimate interests’ basis?"

lordlarm — Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:28:51 +0000

Without any precedent on concrete examples of what is legitimate and what is not, this clause in the GDPR is its biggest weakness.

If a company sells something online they only really need your address & name for delivery + credit card details. Then you could argue it is legitimate to use an email to create an account, fair enough. But without precedent it's so easy to just say 'in order to increase revenue (legitimate intrest) we're going to use all emails to send a newsletter, boosting sales'. And then you could use the 'Right to object' in the GDPR as a fallback for your actions.

I know of multiple companies where they prior to GDPR asked for explicit concent during signup for being allowed to send newsletters, but who post-GDPR dropped the concent and use 'Legitimate intrests' to justify it. Basically leaving the individual worse off.

New comment by lordlarm in "Google and Facebook accused of breaking GDPR laws"

lordlarm — Fri, 25 May 2018 11:58:48 +0000

The 'loophole' here would be the definition of 'legitimate intrests', where businesses can defend not giving users a choice in many of these matters due to the activity being critical for the service to work or the business to survive.

I.e. Facebook _could_ argue that users would have to have their data collected and analysed, as this would enable them to sell ads which in turn is their core interest.

Another example could be automatic enrollment into newsletters or data collection/analyzation with the option to opt-out by going to settings. You don't _have_ to give users the explicit consent checkbox during signup if you can defend the activity by it being in your legitimate interests.

This article goes into more detail: https://medium.com/mydata/five-loopholes-in-the-gdpr-367443c...

New comment by lordlarm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)"

lordlarm — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 17:44:14 +0000

Kolonial.no | Software Engineer; Dev Ops; Data Scientist; iOS developer | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/

Kolonial.no are one of the fastest growing startups in Norway recently valued at ~$180 million after just 3 years of operations. We're enabling users to buy their groceries online and have already thousands of daily customers.

We're unique in that we've built a complete warehouse, logistics, and procurement platform with millions of daily transactions and lots of interesting challenges as automation becomes a more important. This has allowed us to scale and adapt quickly to market and business demands.

Our technology stack is primarily Python, Django, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Salt, Elastic Search, Celery, SCSS and Javascript + React.js where suitable. You can read more about our stack here: https://kolonial.no/om/teknologi/.

Non-exhaustive list of benefits: a competitive salary; autonomy; warm lunch made by our office chef; new offices in central Oslo; and whatever equipment you would like to develop on. Norwegian is not a requirement, but it is preferred if at least you'd like to learn.

New comment by lordlarm in "Show HN: Logo Crunch – Multi-resolution logo maker"

lordlarm — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:00:57 +0000

Can't get it to work on Firefox due to it trying to load jQuery from code.jquery.com where the CORS-policy disallows it. Specifically:

> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).

New comment by lordlarm in "Software to capture votes in upcoming German national election is insecure"

lordlarm — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 10:37:12 +0000

Norway recently decided [0] it would manually count the votes in the upcoming election (11th of Sep) after it was revealed that the machines responsible for automatic counting were connected to the Internet and full of potential security exploits [1].

Some details on the software (ReadSoft FORMS) and the process (EVA Scanning): https://valg.no/om-valg/om-valg2/maskinell-opptelling-av-val...

Sources (Norwegian only):

[0]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/krever-manuell-stemmetelling-i-alle...

[1]: https://www.nrk.no/norge/teller-opp-stemmer-i-valget-pa-data...

New comment by lordlarm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)"

lordlarm — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 16:06:54 +0000

Kolonial.no | Software Engineer; Dev Ops; Data Scientist; iOS developer | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/

New comment by lordlarm in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)"

lordlarm — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:40:19 +0000

Kolonial.no | Software Engineer; Dev Ops; Data Scientist; iOS developer | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE http://jobb.kolonial.no/

Our technology stack is primarily Python, Django, PostgreSQL, HAProxy, Salt, SCSS and Javascript + React.js where suitable. You can read more about our technology stack here: https://kolonial.no/om/teknologi/ (Norwegian only)