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by samsnelling 12y ago
While my research was specific to OSU, I do know that this is a larger issue than just my alma mater. I collected student IDs from other colleges, but did not publish them as I didn't want to get into hot water. The thing is though, a
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by samsnelling 12y ago
@greyc Even though I made a blank card, it was still encoded with my student ID number. That was the only reason it was allowed. The point of trying it was to prove that the name or discretionary data did not affect the card working. While
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by samsnelling 12y ago
We had pretty strict guidelines to follow to be apart of the InfoSec class. We basically signed a waiver at the beginning saying that if we did exploit something, we would be subject to expulsion. It was a "theory" based class and
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I appreciate it. The University definitely took it seriously at the time (the project became a neat recruiting story for the InfoSec class), however outside of taking down the website to check for ID validity, I do not believe there was any
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Well I'll be honest, didn't expect this post to make it up HN. Happy to answer questions or field comments.
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Hacking Oklahoma State University's Student ID(snelling.io)
162 points by samsnelling 12y ago|49 comments
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Lenovo Pre-Instaling Adware/spam – Superfish – Powerd by VisualSearch(forums.lenovo.com)
26 points by samsnelling 12y ago|5 comments
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I grew up playing a huge amount of basketball, and therefore have a completely different frame of reference here. In sports, you watch a lot of film and study your competition. You then take the best parts of your competition, and prepare t
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by samsnelling 12y ago
The real gold here is how Embedly tracks content engagement all the way through the video, and how that information can correlate to content success. Regardless of how casual the connection may be. Disclosure - I run a competitor to Embedly
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Holy smokes, definitely try the demo if you haven't already (midway down the page). The amount of time this could potentially save me is pretty wild. Well done!
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Including suicides seems unfair. > The U.S. Department of Justice reports that approximately 60% of all adult firearm deaths are by suicide, 61% more than deaths by homicide. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_v
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I launched my first "real" SaaS this year, https://embedkit.com - and got just 1 enterprise customer to net 1k revenue a month.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
We're a direct competitor to Embed.ly. In my unofficial testing, we perform better at the embed level, but still have some work to do on the extract level. Our plans are priced 50-75% less (even more for enterprise plans).
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by samsnelling 12y ago
There is both an universal oEmbed API and we also have Extraction API. The extraction API is super useful when you need to know more about what the page's meta information is.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Yep, I will add their endpoint :)
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Show HN: A Unified Embed API(embedkit.com)
11 points by samsnelling 12y ago|6 comments
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by samsnelling 12y ago
One of the downsides to doing stuff like this is many devs turning away from node / io altogether.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I 1000% endorse Cloudways. It allows you to spin up a managed high performance Wordpress Stack in minutes on DigitalOcean or AWS. For most small businesses, I'd say a 1GB or 2GB server should be fine, so $15 or $30 per month. I only
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I do not. I only have a regular account I guess since I don't pay them any additional fees. Some country code TLD's have made me fill out extra registration forms however.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I use gandi.net and am very happy. The only con is that they are based in France, so if you are in the United States, and use a credit card, you could get declined transactions due to fraud protection.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
If you're asking the question, probably not. If social media drives a good portion of your business, and it will save you time, $120 a year could be nothing to your bottom line. In my trial and error, I like Buffer the most. SproutSoci
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Without getting a response, it still is in violation of the license, correct? http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/license I bet Gruber still won't be happy, but I consider this issue squashed.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I understand your sentiment, but I know weheartit has been around for a long time at this point (circa 2008). It always reminded me of a Pinterest alternative.
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Oklahoma City, Remote or OKC, Contract to Full Time Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, HTML, CSS (SASS|LESS), Database (MySQL\Maria), Deployment (Git|Nginx|Apache), Design (Illustrator|Photoshop) Resume: http://snelling.io/res
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Sorry I thought since I had "email" filled in people could reach me. I just updated it!
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by samsnelling 12y ago
I own hire.hn and hirehn.com -- More than willing to collaborate with OP or someone else on a project with them!
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by samsnelling 12y ago
Oklahoma City, Remote or OKC, Full Time Stack: JavaScript, Node.js, PHP, HTML, CSS (SASS|LESS), Database (MySQL\Maria), Deployment (Git|Nginx|Apache), Design (Illustrator|Photoshop) Resume: http://snelling.io/resume Contact
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by samsnelling 13y ago
I'm torn between this. On one hand I think you're absolutely right about the possibilities of ATM's and other vendors running a custom tailored OS. On the other, I know first hand how big companies screw up security on very b
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Counter point -- I usually read the comments before the articles themselves (personal preference). The tl;dr above made me go read the article. It is indeed great.
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by samsnelling 13y ago
Looks like he licensed it under the Apache license. This is great work! http://clarkduvall.com/js/jsterm.js Edit - Looks pretty extensible as well! - http://clarkduvall.com/commands/com1.js Edit e

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