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by ravipratapm 10y ago
WiFire auto-generates WiFi passwords for each user so that they're always random and not tied to actual user passwords from a critical service.
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Show HN: WiFire – Easy WiFi Sharing for smartphones and laptops(youtube.com)
3 points by ravipratapm 10y ago|1 comments
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by ravipratapm 10y ago
WiFire uses the new iOS 9 NEHotspotHelper APIs so it's a very slick experience right from the Wi-Fi settings screen on iOS.
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by ravipratapm 11y ago
I think this is a very positive development. In the end, Internet.org and Airtel Zero are not very different in their scant regard for net neutrality. It's also indicative of just how huge the public debate has become. Indian companies
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by ravipratapm 12y ago
Hardware manufacturers generally offer SDKs that allow you to gather specific data from the beacon's sensors that are not part of the iBeacon spec (and therefore not captured by iOS CoreLocation, for e.g.) The iBeacon spec requires the
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by ravipratapm 12y ago
This is cool! Thanks for sharing. Considering I'm new to Postgres (been on MySQL for too many years), this is definitely making my life easier because of the autocomplete :) But a question for you: how does this help someone who's
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by ravipratapm 12y ago
Glad you like it! From what we're seeing, there's very clear interest in beacons across a wide variety of verticals - hotels, events, museums, etc. Retail is definitely one of the significant verticals but not the only one. That&#
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Uber in Trouble: Driver in India Accused of Rape(nextbigwhat.com)
2 points by ravipratapm 12y ago|0 comments
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by ravipratapm 13y ago
HTML5stac provides the complete backend, including the models and REST APIs to go with it. And it's full-stack JavaScript too, both on the client and server. The demo app does in fact using Backbone+Bootstrap. What HTML5stac makes dead
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by ravipratapm 13y ago
Do you mind elaborating why JavaScript should have nothing to do with it? IMO responsiveness is a broad approach, and it doesn't necessarily imply only a pure CSS3 approach using media queries. If using JavaScript can make the web app
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by ravipratapm 13y ago
We are pulling a RSS feed of "mobile news" from a website called intomobile.com (this is one of the features of HTML5stac)
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by ravipratapm 13y ago
Apologies, we ran into rate limits that we had applied on our server so the experience was very poor when you hit it (we really didn't expect HN to pick it up!) You're right that there are too many requests being made. We're