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apayan

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Currently building Zood (https://www.zood.xyz) and freelancing. Previously at Playground Theory Previously-previously at Line2

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I'm a developer for a major food delivery app

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electrek.co 1y ago

Tesla Robotaxi launch is a dangerous game of smoke and mirrors

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www.washingtonpost.com 3y ago

The tech CEO spending millions to stop Elon Musk

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www.washingtonpost.com 4y ago

First she documented the alt-right. Now she’s coming for crypto

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fortune.com 4y ago

Russia sets plan to steal $10B worth of foreign planes held in the country

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Arkansas Tries a New Strategy to Lure Tech Workers: Free Bitcoin

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android-developers.googleblog.com 5y ago

Boosting developer success on Google Play

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www.zood.xyz 5y ago

Show HN: End-to-end encrypted location sharing service like Google Latitude

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arstechnica.com 5y ago

A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber

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ubuntu.com 6y ago

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Arrives

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arstechnica.com 6y ago

Attackers can use Zoom to steal users’ Windows credentials with no warning

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Fighting the Good Fight Against Online Child Sexual Abuse

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medium.freecodecamp.org 7y ago

A Million WebSockets and Go

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aws.amazon.com 7y ago

Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with LTS

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www.effectgames.com 10y ago

Old School Color Cycling with HTML5

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www.youtube.com 10y ago

Lawrence Lessig, 'The Failed Branch: Is There Any Way to Fix Congress?'

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xiph.org 10y ago

Digital Show and Tell: Digital Audio Signals [video]

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arstechnica.com 10y ago

Library's Tor relay now restored

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arstechnica.com 12y ago

NSA should stop undermining encryption standards, Obama panel says

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prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com 13y ago

T-Mobile to acquire MetroPCS

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www.alertdebugging.com 13y ago

Patents and Juries

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I just pulled the DirectConnect prices from the AWS API, and I think there is still a per/GB charge. Here's a description of a random direct connect point in Amsterdam (Equinix AM3). https://gist.github.com/arashpayan/a91c46c3787ac610e7884b77b...

If I'm reading the description correctly, egress from there is 2 cents/GB, while the regular price for egress (less than 10 TB) from eu-south-1 is 9 cents/GB.

I agree that GOG needs to port their client to Linux for all the reasons you stated, but as a workaround you can use Lutris which lets you log into your GOG account and download+install games (Windows games too).

It's not as pain free as Steam, because you sometimes still have to apply wine fixes, but it works well with the most popular games.

generate directions like "turn left after the green building"

I don't know about the rest of the world, but in the Los Angeles metro area, Google Maps already gives directions like this. "Turn left after the Carl's Jr.", "Turn right after the Starbucks". I notice it's usually done in areas where street signs are hard to see, but there is a clear landmark for the driver e.g. the golden arches of a McDonald's.

The implementation of footnotes on the right side of the screen is really cool, and not something I've seen before. Such a cool idea. I think it would be interesting for news publications to try that out in articles as well. It could allow for brevity in the main article text, but still allow those who want to know the source of a statement/fact or more detail the option to obtain it.

New Year, New CEO 5 years ago

Thank you to Moxie and the entire team at Signal for building this incredible software and releasing it out in the world! I've been using it since the TextSecure and RedPhone days and moving more and more of friends and family to it ever since.

To the HN crowd, please become a sustainer (monthly donations) of Signal through the app. You get a badge that way, which is an opportunity for those you communicate with to learn about becoming a sustainer too.

HashiCorp – S1 5 years ago

Try out Interactive Brokers. They seem to serve a lot of non-USA customers. Disclosure: A happy USA user.

Congrats on launching. This is a product category that I've been wanting to tackle for quite some time, and it looks like you've done a pretty good job. I also notice that many of the comments are raising the point about how to trust you and the catch-22 of having to provide PII to protect PII. I get it. I was going to launch a product like this as a second or third product of my company so there would be enough trust and good will built up to reduce everyone's apprehension. It's tough. :-/

I see in another comment you want to add support for opting out of zoominfo. Great idea. If I may humbly share some other suggestions:

* A family plan so I can monitor/remove my wife and children's data as well. Even a way to help my parents would be great.

* Opt out of junk snail mail.

* I don't know if this can be automated, but a way to get the credit card companies to stop selling our transaction data. I can't even count how many times Chase has sent us a letter telling us that they've updated their privacy policy, and if we want to opt out of their latest data selling scheme, we need to write a letter and mail it off to some mysterious address and pray that they actually do what they say they will do.

If you like the convenience of transferring a file temporarily into the cloud to download it elsewhere (great for getting stuff out of a rancher environment), check out patchbay[0]. It uses what it calls 'HTTP channels' so if you start a POST request to a patchbay URL, it will block until a corresponding GET is made to the same endpoint which will receive the data from your POST. The operation can be done in reverse as well, with the GET blocking until the POST begins.

[0] https://patchbay.pub/

I don't know of any legal way to guarantee that a company won't be acquired, and start exploiting it's user base, but I think there are some signs you can look for to see if it's the kind of company that you want to patronize. In the case of Moves, it wasn't open source and didn't offer end-to-end encryption. Privacy and consideration for its users was never in its DNA.

If Zood offers Moves-like location history in the future, it will also provide a method for exporting the location data to CSV or similar (data portability).

Hi wasmitnetzen. I don't want to discourage you from self-hosting OwnTracks, but I would like to clarify one thing about Zood Location. The server doesn't store any location data in plaintext. Your location is encrypted before it leaves your phone in such a wat that only the intended recipient can decrypt it (Zood can't view it). That encrypted payload is placed in a drop box on the server for the recipient to pick up later. Newer payloads of encrypted location info will then overwrite the old data in the same drop box.

A case could be made that hosting an instance of OwnTrack with your location data in the clear on a VPS somebody else controls is less safe than storing it encrypted on someone else's server.