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by biot 10y ago
Instagram does this. They let anybody sign up for an account using any email address, and the account is immediately live. While they send a verification email, you don't have to click on it to still use the account. And most likely if
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by biot 10y ago
Is the video format documented somewhere, or are you keeping that proprietary?
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by biot 10y ago
Are you saying a can of Pringles costs nothing?
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by biot 10y ago
Pushpin: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9005724
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by biot 10y ago
Isn't the likelihood of brute forcing the private key the same as it would be for an SSL certificate? At 2048 bits, brute forcing the private key is effectively impossible. Which leaves the avenues of attack the same for any private ke
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by biot 10y ago
The upper bound is the age of the universe.
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by biot 10y ago
It's basically Webvan 3.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webvan
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by biot 10y ago
Tip: if you're reading this on your phone, switch to landscape orientation to reveal a bunch of detail that's otherwise hidden. Then switch to a tablet/desktop to see even more detail. It's a shame the responsive design
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by biot 10y ago
Some days, HN is like a Twitter rehash: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/700314634939543552?lan...
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by biot 10y ago
Email and username are transposed compared to the site check function signatures. I'm sure someone will send a pull request to fix that and make it slightly less un-evil. To be more specific: def _check_twitter(username, email, pw)
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by biot 10y ago
This is fun. It actually feels like I'm taking turns with someone else on the other end of the screen who takes what I play and sends back a riff on the notes. The trick is (as the little intro shows) to only play for a few seconds, do
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by biot 10y ago
Yes, if you want real-time signalling you're generally going to need a persistent connection, long polling, or at minimum near-continuous regular polling depending on how "real-time" you want to get. For example, if your phon
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by biot 10y ago
From Soh (Linode) in the comments [0]: "We’ve deliberated and brought the floor for all plans to have 1000Mbps. Thanks for your feedback!" So it appears that 75Mbps was the initial speed but after some internal deliberation (possi
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by biot 10y ago
There is an API method to query plans: https://www.linode.com/api/utility/avail.linodeplans Presumably you can select the relevant ID based on plan properties (cores, RAM, etc.) rather than hardcoding IDs. Though
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by biot 10y ago
You may benefit from something like this if you do an analysis of your DB usage/growth patterns and determine that server/cluster scalability is going to be a non-trivial concern in the near future. Volume of data doesn't mat
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by biot 10y ago
I'd word it something along the lines of: "Communicate securely with your team, confident that we've taken care of your online security via [list of reasons]". Yes, confidence is a feeling but for me it sounds better thi
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by biot 10y ago
"With Amazon Chime, you can feel confident you’re communicating securely." This wording has always struck me as being awful. People felt confident investing with Bernie Madoff as well. I'd rather have confidence from proven
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by biot 10y ago
A good start, but needs a lot of work. If it's targeting a Windows Support scam, why not tailor the audio to that? Mention one of various viruses. If the "tech" asks you to do something, say your Windows just bluescreened and
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by biot 10y ago
Because a field of wheat isn't uniform. The goal is to make all the wheat perfect, but nature foils that by spoiling some of the wheat with mold/fungi; other parts of the field may grow over soil that has a higher heavy metal cont
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by biot 10y ago
App.net tried this, though it was $50/year. Unfortunately they couldn't make a go of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13387723
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by biot 10y ago
We have a few orders of magnitude more energy from sunlight hitting the earth than our global requirements. Why go through the effort of hauling all that into space when we can meet all our needs on the ground?
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by biot 10y ago
Does this support multi-tenant apps? Most BaaS products I've seen assume that your account is hosting a single application and every user has visibility into almost everything. Versus an account that is supporting n clients, and each
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by biot 10y ago
> a died in the wool Mac user What an appropriate typo. Normally it should be "dyed in the wool".
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by biot 10y ago
If you look at the chart again, it shows only 24% don't support a Muslim ban. 76% either strongly or somewhat support it.
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by biot 10y ago
Your philosophy is that, as a society, we shouldn't enforce laws if the person/entity being affected by illegal behavior is unpopular?
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by biot 10y ago
Probably this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag
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by biot 10y ago
Sometimes you don't have that luxury. What if your company requires an influx of new capital to be able to maintain your current staffing levels and one requirement of the funding is delivering a set of features in a week? Adopting the
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by biot 10y ago
Since when does a divide by zero error push too many items onto the stack?
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by biot 10y ago
You're right. I missed the fact that it was a live site, not just a domain name. After reviewing the site content, the automation aspect is clear.
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Perhaps online resources for trademark law with information on defending against claims of infringement in court?

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