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by Nickste 1y ago
Mike is doing an incredible job of finding ways to make it harder for attackers to abuse PyPI (see the PyPI quarantine project). At Safety (previously PyUp) we've been tracking a significant increase in malicious packages that compromi
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by Nickste 1y ago
Safety (previously PyUp) - https://getsafety.com - software supply chain security. Offices in Vancouver but team is all over Canada. Raised a large seed round from First Round and others.
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Payment processor publishes official NPM package that leaks credit card data(getsafety.com)
13 points by Nickste 1y ago|0 comments
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by Nickste 3y ago
[I’m a PM on EventBridge] This is correct. Tim Bray, who built CloudWatch Events (which later became Amazon EventBridge) participated in the early CloudEvents spec, but as Erik said, CloudWatch Events launched before CloudEvents spec was fi
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by Nickste 6y ago
Check out Vonage Video: https://www.vonage.com/communications-apis/video/ Their tech is based on a company they acquired, Tokbox. I used Tokbox’s services for large-scale real-time streaming; but their pricing is
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Amazon EventBridge schema registry and discovery(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by Nickste 7y ago|0 comments
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by Nickste 7y ago
Which is why I said gross margin. And isn’t the point that traditional manufacturers like BMW are also going to have to invest in similar levels of R&D, superchargers, and sales cost? Except they’re 10 years behind.
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by Nickste 7y ago
The model 3 is estimated to have a 30% gross margin [1]. So it seems incorrect to say that the traditional manufacturers are waiting for battery prices to fall, as it’s clearly possible to build a high margin EV today. [1] https:/&#x2
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Event Sourcing made Simple(kickstarter.engineering)
8 points by Nickste 8y ago|0 comments
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by Nickste 11y ago
Adam Savage (of Mythbusters) did a hilarious fake TED Talk at the Amanda Palmer ninjaTED show the other day: https://huzza.io/amandapalmer/live-stream/amanda-palmer-ninj... "What if we could use data, to bui
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by Nickste 13y ago
Agree with you about enterprise being a more exciting space. I think the appeal for me comes from the fact that enterprise clients are a lot more likely to pay for something useful than consumers. The company I work for is currently buildin
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by Nickste 13y ago
I find that Flipkart does a pretty good job of managing your expectations in terms of delivery, even though you're buying from a 3rd party supplier. They update you when the seller accepts the order, packs it, when it is collected from
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Suffering From Depression? Don't Do That Start-up(jacquesmattheij.com)
77 points by Nickste 14y ago|93 comments
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by Nickste 14y ago
Great post! Really enjoyed how Justin explores a future that is so difficult to comprehend/envision right now.
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by Nickste 14y ago
As HN places significant value on innovation and entrepreneurship, I suspect that there will be a number of comments on this post calling out Rocket as a parasitic clone machine who steal good ideas from hard working startups and throw mass
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by Nickste 14y ago
I tried to register with a .co.za (South Africa) domain name and it caused the following error: not a valid email address? Looking forward to seeing the product!
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by Nickste 14y ago
Thanks for this - will definitely get in touch with them.
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by Nickste 14y ago
Good point - New York City! I've edited the primary submission to reflect. Thanks for the headsup!
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Ask HN: Can I visit your tech business in NY City?
84 points by Nickste 14y ago|32 comments
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by Nickste 15y ago
I think the Google Search, plus Your World explanatory video has some pretty concrete examples on how social can improve search: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8... I especially like the example of Chikoo - a t
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Book Cases - I'll never own them(nicksmit.co.za)
5 points by Nickste 15y ago|0 comments
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by Nickste 15y ago
I was wondering whether I was the only person who firebugged the background to #FFFFFF before reading?
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by Nickste 15y ago
Glad the author used the Bloomberg stock finder input as an example. I've been teaching my father in law how to use the Bloomberg app on his iPad and this was one of his biggest stumbling blocks - he just couldnt work out why the keyboard w
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How the moon got me 15k visitors in 4 days(nicksmit.co.za)
3 points by Nickste 15y ago|0 comments
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by Nickste 15y ago
Doh - it seems to crash safari when I go to it on my iPad? iOS 4.3.5
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by Nickste 15y ago
I really like the idea of being able to centralise all of my information and be able to control who has access to certain sections of it all from one dashboard. Facebook has gone some of the way to doing this, with me being able to remove a
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by Nickste 15y ago
This post came at a pretty good time for me - I had been considering 99designs for the next redesign of one of my company's micro-sites. What alternatives would HN recommend over 99designs? We've got our own coders, so need nothing more tha
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by Nickste 16y ago
Checkout http://www.billboxit.com/ I've got a buddy who has been using it with his roommates and says it's pretty good!