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Ask HN: iCloud forces usage of phone number for 2 factor authentication?
5 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|2 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Basecamp recently started paying all employees SF salaries : https://m.signalvnoise.com/basecamp-doesnt-employ-anyone-in-... They are a class act, I'm not aware of any other company that does this.
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Anecdotal, but the mods have always replied to my emails and usually within a few hours. Suggesting they take weeks to reply or deem some users "unworthy" of a reply is more conspiracy theory than reality. If you had specific inst
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
> Since our app server runs on a single core Wow. Couple of questions : * where is the server hosted and do you have a db server and maybe a cache server as well? What are the specs of the server? * how much traffic does HN receive? Dail
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
It's not really meant to replace or even compete with IRC, I want to build a community where people talk about tech and startups. Towards that goal, I plan to build a forum and have an option to publish blog posts on the site. A chatro
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Registration is disabled for now because of 4chan trolls. Someone posted the chatroom link to 4chan and trolls started spamming thousands of messages to the chatroom. Lots of inappropriate content. If you want an invite, send me an email wh
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Working on a redesign, so will incorporate your suggestion.
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Show HN: Bored Hackers – A public chatroom for hackers(boredhackers.com)
14 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|5 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
> Started as a side project in January, and I had no idea it would take off like this Would be interested in learning about the backstory. Did you blog about it somewhere?
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Hosted Comments https://www.hostedcomments.com/ , a Disqus alternative with a focus on privacy. The learning experience of building Hosted Comments was great : using iframes to embed comments in websites, building a comment
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
It's not possible to disable ME completely. See : https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/939058475933544448
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Is Secretive Virtual Reality Startup Magic Leap Dreaming Up the Future of Music?(pitchfork.com)
1 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
There's a standard for that called Webmention, but it's not widely used : https://indieweb.org/Webmention You can see it in action on this page : https://aaronparecki.com/oauth-2-simplified/
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
IIRC it does, but only briefly. He bought advertising space on TPB and it became a controversy. The TPB guys were falsely accused of being right wing extremists for doing business with Carl Lundström.
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
If you're interested in learning more about The Pirate Bay, the founders and the trial, watch the documentary called TPB AFK (The Pirate Bay : Away From Keyboard) : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOKXCEwo_8 One of th
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How Email open tracking quietly took over the web(wired.com)
30 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|13 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Worth noting that the MDN docs are not yet updated for Django 2.0. The url syntax has been changed in Django 2.0, but other than that the current MDN tutorial is fine as a resource to get started with Django. Django 2.0 release notes : htt
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
> its origins in the gaming community Anyone know how they gained traction in the gaming community? Their wikipedia entry [0] says they had a game development studio which developed games that were not successful, then they start develop
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
https://archive.fo/B98Ft
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Are there any posts that analyse how the economics of offering $10/month streaming plans work out? Since they are hosted on AWS, data transfer is expensive, and coupled with the licensing of the content they serve, how to they manage t
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
An acquisition was pretty much an expected outcome since there was no way a company with $10.5 million in VC funding over 10 years could go public. IMO the comments as a service space is a terrible fit for the VC model. It's easy to ge
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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud (2012)(static.pinboard.in)
1 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Can you give a gist of your findings? I'll take a guess : customers are given unique whois protected email addresses allowing you to find all the domains owned by the person. Eg- If I own abc.com and xyz.com, both have the same public
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
> AFAIK not anyone can signup for Atlas, you have to be selected. Contact HN user patio11 for an invite. I think his email is patio11 at stripe.com. > Any recommendations for a professional? There aren't any that know the US land
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Stripe Atlas lets you open a bank account and incorporate in Delaware as a C Corp : https://stripe.com/atlas Don't bother asking for tax advice here, talk to a professional.
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
You mentioned that the hosted recursive resolver is free to use along with api access in exchange for a backlink, and I checked out the parent project which is Tenta browser and it's currently in beta for Android, so how do make money?
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
There's a page about transparent DNS proxies [0] on the same site. They also have a page about how to fix dns leaks when using OpenVPN [1]. One way to ensure that DNS responses have not been tampered with is to use DNSCrypt [2]. Can so
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Mobile and web browser credential management: Security implications [pdf](nccgroup.trust)
2 points by ploggingdev 9y ago|0 comments
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. So they want to teach Ajit Pai about some of the potential consequences of killing net neutrality? I'm pretty sure he fully understands the consequences and he's most likely a puppet for the powerfu
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by ploggingdev 9y ago
One of the interesting aspects about the recent Firefox Quantum launch, apart from the amazing product itself, is the marketing. It's been incredible to read the well written blog posts that appeal to a variety of audiences. Though mo

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