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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Thanks! I was responding to the comment by saying that banning all cash wouldn't be necessarily good...but yeah the article does make it sound like all cash would be banned...
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
But what happens when there is a major disaster? How will people pay if there is no internet/electricity etc.? At least with cash you can plan ahead...also what are the poor people to do?
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Right...definitely possible, but this would have to be extremely well coordinated. Chances are each state/city has different machines/hardware/software, different order of candidates on the ballots, etc...so for a random hac
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I don't know much about the election machines, but is there any reason for them to be connected to the WWW? If they're not connected to the WWW, then only someone with physical access to the machines could hack them...right? What
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I'm not a Trump supporter, but all the YC shaming is terrible. You're advocating for dictatorship where only one political view matters. Wikipedia: "A dictatorship is a type of authoritarianism, in which politicians regulate
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
For a quick prototype, I think it's ok to have both in same server/database, but beyond a prototype you should think about security and scaling. Redesigning later can be a nightmare and most people end up not doing it instead jus
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
OAuth2 is the way to go for REST services especially if you plan to let users give other apps/developers access without giving out their passwords. For better security, you want to decouple the authentication server from your web appl
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
The on demand platforms fail because these startups can not predict demand like Uber can. Uber has public data like concerts, sport events, rush hour, nightlife which are all pre-planned. Uber can then direct its drivers where the demand
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
There's been a lot of discussions on Mockists vs Classicists. See Martin Fowler's article: http://martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html . In my experience, projects that use mocks extensively usually
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I've thought the same as well...it's an opportunity for someone to invest in early stage startups. It's not just YC that's changed. Pretty much all the accelerators have decreased their risks.
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Minor typo...the link says the deadline to apply to YC is October 4 2017...should be 2016...could throw some people off...
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I'm actually working on a startup to provide medical/mental health benefit for startups, but I think we might be too early to apply to YC...we're doing a private beta right now...interesting to see this come up.
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Google probably has excess capacity. There is nothing more to be paid if the server is sitting there doing nothing. It's actually good for Google because they get to analyze a huge amount of traffic which they can use to protect pay
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
The underlying technology isn't that difficult to understand...there is a web application firewall that sits in front of the web server serving the real content. There is also a load balancer to distribute the requests. You can block
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Very funny...I wrote an article about how someone could beat youtube's ads machine a few days ago... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/beating-youtubes-ads-machine-...
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
What does YC have to lose by telling people the actual numbers? You created the misconceptions in the first place. It's also reinforced by the number of 'Common misconceptions' articles...
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Beating YouTube's Ads Machine(linkedin.com)
1 points by jaypaulynice 10y ago|0 comments
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Does this change mean YCombinator is going to invest in primarily mature startups? It feels like the research and mooc will boost early stage startups to eventually apply to the YC core program. Is that the goal?
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Ask HN: What's broken in healthcare and how would you fix it?
3 points by jaypaulynice 10y ago|4 comments
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
Have you heard about cache busting? Someone just needs to request a page that's not cached and the request will always hit your web servers.
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by jaypaulynice 10y ago
I work at a CDN/Security engineering company, but this is just my view. First off you need to determine where the attack is coming from. You could redirect based on IP/request headers in a .htaccess file or apache rules. Your nex