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by jyap 13y ago
Actually buying Bitcoin on Coinbase takes 3-4 business days for the bank transaction to clear and for you to have the Bitcoins to spend. Unless you have Bitcoins already most people won't be able to participate in Bitcoin Black Friday
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by jyap 13y ago
Google to Pay $8.5 Million in Buzz Privacy Class Action Settlement http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2050437/Google-to-Pay-8...
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by jyap 13y ago
I started looking into it for iOS and making a test app to see what it looked like. Then I read in the integration instructions: You will also need to add the SystemConfiguration and CoreTelephony frameworks, and libz.dylib library... From:
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by jyap 13y ago
On a related note, Apple also sent a DMCA take down notice to a site which did something similar for iPhone 5S availability: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6680716 Site in question: http://www.apple-tracker
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by jyap 13y ago
The thing is, Linkedin bought Rapportive for $15 million. Link: http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/07/linkedin-picks-up-rapportiv... So most of the preconceived uses for their technology were already hashed out an
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by jyap 13y ago
Let me ask. Is it also a "cool hack" when hotels inject ads into free WiFi? ... Because it is basically the same concept but worse because you just gave up the privacy of your inbox to be data mined and sold. All for some minor c
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by jyap 13y ago
The same reason anyone hides trade secrets. For competitive advantage, etc... Perhaps also for legal reasons. For example larger companies use shell companies for purposes of reduced liability.
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by jyap 13y ago
Yes it is common. eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I A shipping container is a standardized container. It's like designing a PC case. Standard sizes makes things very convenient. It's like Legos and
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by jyap 13y ago
He's not the CTO. Specific title: Senior Director-Chief Technology Office Via: http://www.joesdata.com/executive/Joel_Liu_421313008.html
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by jyap 13y ago
I quite like it. Note that the font is not free. From the fine print: Use by more than 25 Users, or equivalent Website Visitors, is a breach of this Free Licence Agreement, and instead requires a commercial licence.
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by jyap 13y ago
Uh, quite false in your statements and assumptions. Do you know that Chris Lattner has worked for Apple since 2005? Chris Lattner being the "primary author of the LLVM project".
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by jyap 13y ago
Wow, the negativity. > Yahoo looks like a big company, don't they have some CEO-ing to do? When you decide you want to make a career out of pushing papers and borderline lying to investors, stick to it. Do you purposely have you hea
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by jyap 13y ago
Subtracting the top 2 and bottom 2 language data points and you have a range of $94,031.19 to $103,179.39. With a range that small, IMHO nothing significant can be derived. It's not like the range is $50k to $150k.
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by jyap 13y ago
It is consistent across different editors. Deterministic layout view. Tabs are non deterministic as it depends on user settings.
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by jyap 13y ago
That's an analytics tracker.
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by jyap 13y ago
It was at one time a good example but Andreessen Horowitz invested $100 million into Github one year ago. http://peter.a16z.com/2012/07/09/software-eats-software-deve...
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by jyap 13y ago
When he left Hong Kong he was accompanied by Sarah Harrison from Wikileaks. She is sitting next to him in the video. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Harrison_(journalist)
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by jyap 13y ago
Yeah, I can answer that. Here in Hawaii they showed interviews with his neighbours (since he worked here). Here, quick Google search found this: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/nsa-leaker-edward-s... and
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by jyap 13y ago
"Today I buy every damn song I listen to, thousands of dollars worth" Why do you do this? You know that most of the money for an album doesn't go to the artist? Do you buy the physical CD or do you buy the song on iTunes? T
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by jyap 13y ago
You don't just throw money at things. You take a calculated risk. So before this spending on paid installs happens you need to have metrics on the Customer Life Time Value (CLTV). Now since you are buying users this calculation could be of
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by jyap 13y ago
Watch an average user browse the web and use Google to make a search. They will click on the top ad result returned if it is vaguely relevant and not bat an eyelid. Average users do not even know those yellow sections or the right hand sect
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by jyap 13y ago
Those libraries are clearly versioned from the page. That means they are immutable if you choose to use them. An equivalent would be linking to a HEAD version of a library.
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by jyap 13y ago
"Ruby on Rails is the platform upon which LivingSocial runs." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LivingSocial I'm just speculating but the first thing that ran through my head is 'this must be a Rails breach'. I'm also guessing that a very l
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by jyap 13y ago
A form handling library Flask-WTF had CSRF handling enabled by default. http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-WTF/ This page outlines some further security considerations: http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/security/
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by jyap 13y ago
The media coopted the term hacking to mean cracking or breaching the security of software or a system. The good news is that the original meaning of the term hacking/hacker/to hack seems to have regained popularity in recent years. You prob
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by jyap 13y ago
Yeah. You can use 'pip uninstall'.
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by jyap 14y ago
Remember when the Linode customer service portal was compromised which exposed everyone's VPS?: http://julianyap.com/2012/03/01/compromised-linode-vps.html In that case, specific Bitcoin users were targeted. It's pretty much why I don't t
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by jyap 14y ago
Your comment adds nothing to the discussion. You could replace Facebook with any company. Apple / Google / Microsoft / Twitter, etc... Your comment is nothing more than trolling. Please refrain from trolling. Thank you.
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by jyap 14y ago
On iOS the onus is on the developer.
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by jyap 14y ago
"Build a fake checkout" Are you serious? That's a criminal act called fraud. Please don't follow this advice. Just do something legal like having users sign up for a mailing list.

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