alainmeier

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by alainmeier 4mo ago
I've been going very deep on device-based identity (I previously co-founded YC S14 Cognito that was acquired by Plaid) and am going to start sharing some of the things I've been learning. The core takeaway: every AI agent browser
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Ranking the most undetectable AI agents(usefoil.com)
3 points by alainmeier 4mo ago|1 comments
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New features in ruby 2.3(blog.blockscore.com)
4 points by alainmeier 11y ago|0 comments
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BlockScore (YC S14) Hiring Senior Software Engineers in South Bay(blockscore.com)
1 points by alainmeier 11y ago
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How to write better code using mutation testing(blog.blockscore.com)
5 points by alainmeier 11y ago|0 comments
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Why we publicly version control our contracts(blog.blockscore.com)
12 points by alainmeier 11y ago|0 comments
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BlockScore (YC S14) Is Hiring a Senior Back-End Engineer(jobs.lever.co)
1 points by alainmeier 11y ago
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by alainmeier 11y ago
BlockScore (YCS14) - Intelligent ID verification ( https://blockscore.com ) We build APIs and products that help companies fight fraud and automate cumbersome compliance requirements. https://jobs.lever.co/blocksco
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Incident Report – DDoS Attack(blog.dnsimple.com)
146 points by alainmeier 12y ago|38 comments
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by alainmeier 12y ago
If you make the black overlay container position fixed and the window itself normal, you can have the modal scroll within the context of the black overlay. Facebook uses this same method and it's significantly nicer!
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by alainmeier 12y ago
Cool idea! I think there are a few things on the usability side that you could do to make it even better: * Lock the body when you open the modal by setting overflow: hidden. That will prevent people from scrolling around accidentally while
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by alainmeier 12y ago
We are looking for Rails people, hit us up! https://blockscore.com/jobs
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by alainmeier 12y ago
This reminds me of Enigmo http://www.pangeasoft.net/enigmo/
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by alainmeier 12y ago
Jumio is actually a complementary service to ours. Jumio pulls information off of identification, but the information is not verified. You can use us to verify and authenticate that information.
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by alainmeier 12y ago
Account recovery is a great use case. Any mission critical applications for businesses should require more than security questions or a phone call in order to gain access to accounts. We agree that front-loading is not always the best solut
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by alainmeier 13y ago
> Silicon Valley ideologues are proposing secession I believe no one ever said this; it has been misreported by Gawker and others. If you're curious, the original talk is here with no mention of secession: www.youtube.com/watch
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by alainmeier 13y ago
Here's a very thoughtful response from Rob, the creator of Soylent answering your very question: http://discourse.soylent.me/t/comparing-soylent-to-existing-... tldr; There's room in the market for more than
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by alainmeier 13y ago
The main lecturer co-founded one of the biggest personal genomics companies in the US, so I'm quite certain that he realizes the difference between the two. The course emphasizes using CS-related skills in any startup for product devel
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by alainmeier 13y ago
I took it in the winter at Stanford. It was an amazing class - the material was very strong and there's an emphasis on working on ideas that matter. Read: not social startup #5024. Every Thursday we had hackathons that went til 6am whe
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by alainmeier 13y ago
Indeed, that one is listed in the known vulnerabilities section of the repo. Thank you for trying it out
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by alainmeier 13y ago
I experimented with that too, but the character limitation was what made me go server-side. Cool project though, works really well
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by alainmeier 13y ago
There are a lot of single view self destruct sites, but I wanted to make a new one because I wanted to let people host their own instead of relying on the site provider.
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by alainmeier 13y ago
I didn't know about those, they look very cool. Thanks for the link.
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by alainmeier 13y ago
Hm, yes, added a warning message, good idea. As for your other thoughts, I completely agree. It's a work-in-progress and I figured the best way to figure out what's wrong is to learn from others. Edit: Also added a link to that di
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by alainmeier 13y ago
I was just getting this out as soon as possible. There's nothing hard about it, I just wanted to put it out there and keep working on it.
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by alainmeier 13y ago
Thanks, and that is absolutely true. That's why it's open source: I want people to host their own version if they don't trust me https://github.com/alainmeier/cryptonote
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by alainmeier 13y ago
Good catch, I'll take that out right now thanks. Edit: fixed. If anybody thinks of anything else, please let me know. This is as much of a learning exercise as anything for me.
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Show HN: CryptoNote is an open source, encrypted, one time view message app(cryptonote.org)
55 points by alainmeier 13y ago|41 comments