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Founder at Umami Collective, a remote software development team.

http://umamicollective.com

My name is Juan. My email address is my name at my company's domain.

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How I work as a digital nomad 12 years ago

I am familiar with PTs and I have been traveling since 2007.

It might be perfectly legal for Russian nationals. Since I am not Russian, I do not know with certainty, which is why I ask if you had checked with an expert.

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Show HN: Automatic VPN Generator – Protect Yourself at Sochi and Starbucks 12 years ago

Is anyone else getting their DigitalOcean IPs banned from certain sites? I use it as a personal VPN sometimes and lately any application hosted on Google App Engine is inaccessible. Sometimes Gmail, Google Analytics and Google Drive are also inaccessible.

The strange part is that the server I am using should not be sending email or doing much really except hosting some git repos and a basic website.

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Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport 13 years ago

Reading the link supplied by patio11 above (recommended), I wonder if using a hidden volume would constitute an obstruction of customs investigation.

"Don’t Obstruct an Agent’s Investigation

Once it’s clear that a border agent is going to search your device or other possessions, don’t take any steps to destroy data or otherwise obstruct that process. Like lying, knowingly interfering with a border agent’s investigation is a serious crime."

https://www.eff.org/wp/defending-privacy-us-border-guide-tra...

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Backpacker stripped of tech gear at Auckland Airport 13 years ago

My understanding is that if you do not supply the key they can confiscate and destroy the media, though it will obviously vary from country to country.

The idea behind the hidden volume is that you can provide a key that works for the volume (and hopefully satisfies whoever is inspecting your data) while keeping your information private.

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Show HN: A very simple way to share your location 13 years ago

I like how practical it is. I normally use WhatsApp or LINE for this, but even on my laptop the geolocation is fairly accurate.

Bug report:

I get an offset between what I see when I generate a location to what it shows using the URL on an incognito window. Correct one on the left, wrong one on the right:

http://f.cl.ly/items/2D261R141A082F3G2V2w/cafe.png

http://mapme.in/5298

(Yes, I just shared my location publicly on the internet. I'll be fine.)

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How to Buy Bitcoin 13 years ago

There is a ~24% gap between the price you pay in ARS for credit card purchases in USD and what the USD sells for in the black market. This opens up all sorts of arbitrage opportunities that the government struggles to plug.

If you have USD in cash, you can sell them for close to 10 ARS and then buy BTC at about 7.34 exchange rate.

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American Airlines earned an enemy 13 years ago

I have recently researched this field out of a personal need and there is a few companies that do fast, inexpensive and insured luggage transport. They even do it door to door, picking up at your home and delivering at your hotel (before you arrive if you send the bags early). They might just need to do more advertising.

In the end I did not try any of them but was pleasantly surprised that there are people working on fixing this.

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American Airlines earned an enemy 13 years ago

I have been considering giving LuggageForward[1] a try. They seem to handle the customs aspect in a way that works the same as if you carried the bag with you. Their rates are quite attractive as well.

[1] http://www.luggageforward.com/

Disclaimer: no affiliation at all with them. In the end I never tried them because I now travel with carry-on only.

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Uptime Robot 13 years ago

I really like the design and I am trying it with a couple of tests, but it seems to be reporting the opposite of reality. Shows one of my sites as down though it says Keyword Found and it shows the response time, while another one which is really down is shown as up:

http://cl.ly/image/1Y1U3b0z2U0U

http://cl.ly/image/3c0e38312a2W

edit: If it is of any use for debugging, these sites' IDs are: 775909552 (up) and 775909549 (down).

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Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs 13 years ago

In my experience all HTTP requests made from Google Docs functions and scripts are cached for at least a few minutes. There are workarounds to that but I would guess they do throttling at an IP and domain level as well (being that they know a thing or two about crawling the web).

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Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2013) 13 years ago

SEEKING WORK remote preferred, unless you want to fly me to your office.

I am a senior LAMP stack developer. My strength is backend and API integrations but I can take on frontend work easily. I have lots of experience helping advertising and marketing agencies getting complex projects out in a short time with reduced budgets. Due to confidentiality can not publicly post much work but can share in private. Have worked with some of the largest brands globally, mainly in the New Zealand and Mexican markets.

More info and contact: http://umamicollective.com/

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