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by ianhawes 11y ago
I've always maintained that this was not an accident at all. This was an attempt by the Soviet Union of psyops against NORAD. I would imagine they uncovered the number through other means and created the ad as a way to launch a "d
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by ianhawes 11y ago
I'd like to see a service where a company's source code/database/confidential info is placed in escrow pending the payout from a bug bounty. Or, perhaps more likely, some sort of 3rd-party arbitration.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Thats what my bet is on. LE agencies have contractors that procure bulk quantities of prepaid phones, prepaid credit cards, etc.. for undercover investigations. I suppose its possible they traced the BTC from a funded wallet they knew was g
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by ianhawes 11y ago
10 years ago, maybe, but nowadays federal-level LE runs extremely high opsec. Theres no way they would've run something like this from a government IP, let alone a non-virtualized machine.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
It depends on whats being hosted. If you're dealing with legacy apps that were built in the PHP 5.2 or even PHP 4 days, be afraid. Be very afraid. If you're dealing with more mainstream PHP apps like WordPress or Magento, its impo
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by ianhawes 11y ago
You'll have all the rights of a Visa cardholder, such as the ability to file a chargeback.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
The jQuery event "pasted" seems to work well. And it was used in our fraud scores, so it didn't necessarily block the tx, just score it.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
The only important innovation here on the part of the carders is the use of automated ordering programs. In the same way that cartels use hundreds of drug mules to smuggle drugs across the border knowing that a certain percentage will be ca
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by ianhawes 11y ago
I also found it curious that there was not even a inkling of insight into a possible Arab Spring with regard to Iran.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
My experience with Empire Flippers: A marketplace with huge asking prices entirely dependent on the greater fool theory.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
I imagine the approval for posting this article went something like, "Sure you can do it, just uh, don't use any real numbers."
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Slightly off topic, but are the documents created by YC for YC companies open source? Specifically, the agreements beyond just the Articles of Incorporation?
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Delaware. "Alphabet, Inc" was created on July 23rd, 2015.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
I own a 2015 Jeep Cherokee and have poked around with Uconnect and the API services it exposes. Theres a whole new world of exploitation (and eventually modding) that is coming.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Not confirmed, but the rumor was because she was based in NYC and Pao demanded that all employees move to SF. There was additional speculation that it was the result of the (failed) Jesse Jackson AMA, but I'm doubtful of that.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Possibly related: wsj.com is also down.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
I remember one of the LiveJournal outages (IIRC) was caused by a dude in the datacenter thinking that the emergency power off button opened one of the doors.
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by ianhawes 11y ago
Stripe hardly qualifies as "Cheap credit card processing".
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by ianhawes 12y ago
Let me help you out here. These were not protestors. These were rioters. HuffPo's coverage of the riots has been abhorrent at best. The gathering of people in the video consisted of teenagers organizing after school yesterday to cause
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by ianhawes 12y ago
There is a way to transfer money into Stripe, however the percentage is not capped at $5 like Balanced does. Very disappointing.
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by ianhawes 12y ago
As a former customer of WePay, I'd like to warn everyone considering using WePay that their compliance department will shut you down multiple times, decline to specify why, then freeze all funds within your account. WePay is completely
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by ianhawes 12y ago
Having watched Laravel 5 throughout development, I'm personally unhappy with the fact that most of the nice features of Laravel have been removed. For example, the default version of Laravel 4.x shipped with the "Whoops" PHP
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by ianhawes 12y ago
Why would North Korea demand a ransom and then demand the movie not be shown? I think its more to embarrass Sony than anything.
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by ianhawes 12y ago
TMZ is reporting [1] that studio executives are convinced this was an inside job based on layoffs at Sony that included IT employees. Before you write them off, they've broken several big stories this year, and their sources at movie s
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by ianhawes 12y ago
glaring example of Uber compromising safety of their passengers. Had they taken timely action... The suspect in question was implicated in 2 other rape cases and on bail for multiple other criminal charges. At what point is the Indian gov
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by ianhawes 12y ago
I would say the only item you've brought up that even comes close to "morally bankrupt" is #3. While Uber has definitely used some dirty tricks to go after Lyft, my understanding is they've teamed up with them in going a
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by ianhawes 12y ago
I initially got a weird vibe that this Uber crusade, started by PandoDaily, reeked of similar SV faux-dramas originally pioneered by Michael Arrington and TechCrunch. Which is why I'm not surprised to see former TechCrunch tech-drama b
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Ask HN: Open-source equivalent to Ink File Picker?
2 points by ianhawes 12y ago|2 comments
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by ianhawes 12y ago
Balanced Payments' implementation[0] recently went into private beta. Interesting to note that between Stripe and Balanced, their fees are typically the same, however an important difference here is that Balanced is charging $1.00 vers
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by ianhawes 12y ago
Completely agree, especially when it comes to commission. The best salespeople will quickly sniff out the optimal commission/bonus structure, and I'd wager that they'd perform better under a commission versus a bonus.

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