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I was very interested in something like this few years back. But, my quick research showed me that

(a) A company called Orbiscom (acquired by MasterCard) had patents in this space [1], and they are the ones behind Bank of America's ShopSafe and a few other such services offered by various banks.

(b) Almost all of those services (except for ShopSafe) are now discontinued. Which indicates that either users don't care about something like this, or that banks don't like offering something like this for some reason. Maybe that explains why nobody knows about MaskMe [2] etc.

I would be curious how Final guys are overcoming those issues.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_payment_number

[2] https://www.abine.com/maskme/features/cards/

Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links? I know we can find a cached version or search on Google or whatever, but it's still frustrating!

I am not asking for a work-around to access WSJ articles. I'm asking HN to consider blocking domains that force users to pay money to access their content.

I have wanted to use Mixpanel for a while. But your product is very very expensive for a Startup. When we're trying to be frugal, there's no way we can justify spending $150 per month on collecting data on just 5,000 users (where 98% of them will be free-users). Your product becomes interesting to a Startup only if they won't have to worry about paying for analytics till they're really successful. That means many millions of data-points. Not 25,000 or even 500,000.

The only Startups that can afford your service at this point are the ones that have only paying users.

Surely WF's needs with YUI-fork (or any other similar library) will be limited enough that they'll need to hire just one or two developers. I don't see how they'll need to spend hundreds (or even tens) of millions of dollars to build a solid library. I don't think even Yahoo has spent that much on YUI in total.

IFTTT is at a great spot to bring simple programming & logic to non-programmers who just want to customize how they interact with technology just a little bit. Looks like Yahoo Pipes missed a big opportunity there.

However, the IFTTT homepage and WTF page are still too complicated for a casual visitor. The WTF page throws all these terms like Channels, Triggers, Actions, Ingredients, Recipes, etc instead of focusing on telling the visitor what they can do with IFTTT. The name (If This Then That) is amazing for explaining what IFTTT is. But, beyond that, they seem to be making things look more complicated than they need to be.

I've been using Dropbox with EncFS, and I feel foolish about not thinking of the fact that Dropbox has ongoing access to the encrypted files.

Would you recommend something other than Dropbox + EncFS as the best compromise for a file-sync solution that has reasonable security, a non-buggy client, supports block-level sync, is reasonably priced and "just works"? BitTorrent Sync + EncFS?

Thank you!

Can we please have a rule against posting paywall links? I know we can find a cached version or search on Google or whatever, but it's still frustrating! We're not talking about work-arounds.

Imagine what our reaction will be if someone posts a link to their own blog which doesn't allow visitor to read the content without paying $1. Even if they have a work-around like you can inspect element and hide the paywall popup.

Definitely appreciate this a lot. I am sure he gets it reviewed by a few people who are closer to the metal.

This is a great way for him to be on top of all the technology that goes in his extremely technical company. Moreover, him understanding the details from the engineers, then writing a blog post about it, and then getting it reviewed by the engineers ensures that the blog post will be understandable for the customers, who are likely to be at (or slightly below) his level of understanding of this technology, not the engineers who actually implemented the thing.

This may be a good place to ask this: Does anyone have experience using Flurry Analytics and Google Mobile App Analytics in production? We're comparing the two, and would love to get opinion from people, who have used them in production, about the not-so-obvious pros and cons.

I tried that (sent them an email), and got an automatic reply that they delete all emails sent in non-work hours. :)

I'll send them an email again tomorrow.

The SSL certificate of website of the Italian Consulate General in San Francisco for the online visa appointments has been expired for almost a month. If you had to apply for visa appointment, would you do so anyway?

The yellow line in the 3 to 5 seconds mark in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtxoYaMebF0

Can we run multiple organizations from the same client of Slack? That and an ability to refer to a specific comment/message (like Flowdock's threaded messages) are two things that can make me switch from Hipchat.

He's not saying cars, in absolute terms, have smaller bad effect than bombs. He's saying that the positives vs negatives ratio for cars is more favorable than one for bombs. Considering the entire world economy will essentially stand still if all cars vanish tomorrow, I'd agree with him.

I (barely) evaluated some cloud IDEs few weeks back and I felt Cloud9 and Nitrous.IO were far superior to Codio or other IDEs. So, I'm wondering, what makes you say Codio is the most powerful? In any case, I still don't see enough value in cloud based IDEs to give up the speed that I get from developing locally.

As far as I know, AWS doesn't allow running a hypervisor inside another hypervisor.

I don't know french, but based on some comments that I see on Guardian and other websites, looks like this report is false. This is not a law, but a union agreement, and it talks about 11 hours rest per day for executive and highly skilled staff. And it talks about "allowing" people to switch off their phones and not respond in non-working hours. This way employees cannot be blamed for not responding in those hours. Doesn't sound as exciting as what Guardian is reporting, obviously.

I just switched from AT&T U-verse to Comcast 30Mbps because my newly purchased house can't get U-verse. However, almost everything (streaming, gaming, downloads, etc) has been poor since I switched. Usually at the 1Mbps mark. Major internet speed tests show my speed as 30Mbps, but unpopular ones show my speed as 1Mbps. As if Comcast is throttling everything else, and giving very high priority to major speed test servers. I've talked to their customer service multiple times, but no luck.

Oh, and this is after spending at least a total of 5 hours (I had to call them 7 times. Yes, I was counting!) with their customer service over the past few months trying to get them to mark my newly purchased modem from Amazon as my own modem, and stop charging me a modem lease fee.

If there was even a single competitor that could provide me even decent internet service, I'd switch to them today!

Yes, we need to share and celebrate this kind of news a lot more. Link to the UNICEF site for those who can't read the WSJ article - http://www.unicef.org/india/health_3729.htm

What are the other options to convert CPU/GPU processing to money?

I was thinking the same thing. However, if this company had infected those thousands of machines, and was presumably mining continuously, and it still was able to make only few thousand dollars, then I guess you'll not be able to get any meaningful revenue by only mining while the game was active.

But I think if you offer a game for free to users with the understanding that their computer will be used to mine bitcoins continuously (but never exceeding, say, 5% CPU), a lot of users will still take you up on the offer. The power of free! I'm not sure if even that revenue will be meaningful, though.

How do you use Asana for bug-tracking? We're considering doing so too (We already use Asana for task management, etc), and would love some pointers from someone who's already done so.

I thought they'll add KeyChain integration in iOS more deeply. Something like, "If you tap-hold on a password field in an iOS app, the OS will ask you if you want to paste the password from your KeyChain." That's where it becomes much more useful than LastPass.

I was also looking at Zimbra some time back. But threads like this made me stay with Gmail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=662348

Is the underlying OS Windows 8? I think Microsoft can give its Windows 8 apps platform a big boost by giving them presence in the next Xbox.

EDIT: Looks like they use Windows 8, but the Windows 8 apps will need to be modified to work on Xbox. From Engadget:

In terms of whether apps will be cross-compatible between the regular Windows Store and the storefront accessed by the new console, we're told they won't. Developers will have to do a bit of work to make a Windows app suitable for the Xbox, not least in terms of tuning their UI for Kinect or the wireless controller. But Microsoft's engineers told us that the underlying similarity between Windows 8/RT and Windows for the Xbox should make this a pretty easy feat for coders. [ Ref: http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-runs-three-opera... ]

I don't know about the accuracy of those numbers, but I'd think that comparing the cost of building ONE rocket to the cost of building or expanding a plant to build cars at scale is not apples to apples.

I worked with Andrew for a while, and I can confidently say that he's a good and smart product guy. He had a good vision for the future of Groupon. Things obviously didn't work out, but it will be ignorant to put all the blame on him.

This one time, a business school professor interviewing him in front of a lot of MBAs asked, "So, what suggestions do you have for a student who has a tech startup idea, and they need help finding developers to build the first version?" I'm sure she was expecting him to talk about finding contractors, interns or free CS students . His response: "Learn to code." Since then, I've always felt he was one of us.

Many of us would have done exactly what he did (or maybe worse) if we were in his shoes (inexperienced entrepreneur running the fastest growing company ever, where everyone around him had a lot more weight).

When it comes to my (virtual) infrastructure, I want to go with a platform that's stable (including in terms of price), well-tested by others who have similar needs as me, and has a lot of documentation / articles / questions online. And I would never go with a platform that doesn't have all other services that I may need (as you mentioned). Why wait for google replacing SES when you can just go with AWS? MHO, obviously!

This is massive for Jetbrains! We don't know whether some money exchanged hands at this moment, but Jetbrains is going to get a lot of value from the primary Android development platform being based on their product.