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Ask HN: Anyone in security or gamedev up for coffee in the Seattle/Redmond area?
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by Feld0 9y ago
OVH monitors customers' servers and investigates if they stop responding to pings, unless you opt out of this. I'm guessing they were looking at this system to make sure all their customers' machines came online again after t
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by Feld0 9y ago
In Canada, we have a debit card network called Interac and can use it to send an "e-Transfer" to anyone else with a Canadian bank account using nothing more than their email address or phone number + a shared secret to claim the p
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by Feld0 9y ago
What would a spam-resistant successor to today's email protocols look like? Is such a thing in the works by someone?
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by Feld0 9y ago
Not all hosts are US-based, though; some hosts in other countries prefer to get a court order in their own jurisdiction before taking action against a customer.
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by Feld0 9y ago
I highly recommend Seafile for this purpose. It was far more performant and reliable than ownCloud when I tried it, and more self-contained.
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by Feld0 10y ago
The terms "nonprofit" and "not-for-profit" are unfortunate misnomers. Like any other company, nonprofits can offer gainful employment and will eventually bankrupt if they never turn a profit.
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by Feld0 10y ago
AFAIK, Mozilla has the structure they do because the IRS frowns upon charities (which is shorthand for "tax-exempt corporation") engaging in business-like activities but is fine with charities owning for-profit companies as a sour
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by Feld0 10y ago
That's exactly what a nonprofit is. Nonprofits are corporations like any other, with a few key differences: - Instead of shareholders, nonprofits have members. Members don't own the corporation (no one does) but control it insofar
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by Feld0 10y ago
I'm in the same boat. My self-taught experience inspired me to pursue a CS degree. The degree did put me in a serendipitous position that led to a number of great industry opportunities but personal growth was my main reason for starti
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by Feld0 10y ago
I see federal incorporation as a "sane default" but this is what I know that favours provincial incorporation: - The bureaucratic details differ between the various provincial jurisdictions and the federal one (like the one I ment
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by Feld0 10y ago
American bank accounts are the only way to get USD out of a PayPal account; PayPal will refuse to send anything but CAD to a Canadian bank account, regardless of what currency the account holds. Since my organization mainly operates with US
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by Feld0 10y ago
> obligatory "IANAL" note There's no equivalent to LLC's in Canada so you'll need to create a corporation up here. You can incorporate in the federal jurisdiction or a provincial one; you'll want to read the
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by Feld0 10y ago
I'll vouch for OVH as a great choice - I've been a customer there for several years. Their phone support is awesome and you get a ton of hardware and bandwidth for your dollar.
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by Feld0 10y ago
Nope - it is a fee for money that travels between PayPal users in different countries. It's about 1% for Canadian accounts, depending on the payment's source or destination [1]. [1] https://www.paypal.com/ca/w
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by Feld0 10y ago
+1 for "running your own". I have a cPanel license on a personal server and it handles a lot of the rigamarole. Once you have DKIM and SPF set up, it practically runs itself. The network your IP is in makes a difference. My mail s
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by Feld0 10y ago
OVH specializes in dedicated servers ( https://www.ovh.com/ca/en/dedicated-servers/ ) but they offer an API for ordering them and can deliver many of them within a couple of minutes. They have a number of &quot
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by Feld0 10y ago
I empathize and find your weekend activities relatable. Answer a question about your weekends with that and you might just find someone else who spends their free time "being productive". :-)
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by Feld0 11y ago
If you like the idea of self-hosting your transactional email server, check out Cuttlefish[1][2] - it's a slick open-source solution for this. We spun it up with a dedicated IP and gradually warmed it up to ~13k emails/day over se