evilswan
Re:Descriptive Camera: A camera that prints a description, not an image
on Wednesday April 25, 2012 @11:14AM (#3889436)
Just had a go: it's great!
Every Super Mario Bros level condensed onto one screen each
Re:Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @12:02PM (#3884559)
Good point. Meh. Assume it's also root pass for SSH on that box?
Re:Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @11:26AM (#3884340)
Or, change the FTP password and email that to the ISP abuse team. Spammer is locked out.
Re:Pwning a Spammer's Keylogger
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @10:50AM (#3884168)
Great post, really enjoyed following the trail along with the author. The sad part is, knowing how useless a lot of ISP's abuse@ emails are, the FTP might never be taken down this way.
Re:€1,400 b-strapped prod that’s disrupting the market, 250 customers ...
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @08:44AM (#3883655)
Hard to imagine how they arrived at the total cost of €1,400 - what about the hours of work that went into the web app and iPhone app, and all the visual design? Are they calculating their hourly rate as insignificant?
Product looks good, but this €1,400 figure is meaningless.
Poddle: simple video podcasting is seeking crowdfunding
Re:I have no idea what I'm doing
on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @04:39AM (#3883025)
So true. I have never, ever taken a job I knew how to do (fully). I blagged it, and learned it all on the job.
Re:ZX Spectrum: 30 years old, and still one of the cheapest computers ...
on Monday April 23, 2012 @10:08AM (#3878850)
Just total nonsense which makes no mention of either general inflation or the price-deflation of consumer electronics. My parents saved up to buy my Spectrum when I was a kid. Now, a parent could get a laptop off eBay for $50 and install Linux. Computers are WAY cheaper now than they were then. sigh
Re:Free beautiful UI elements for developers
on Sunday April 22, 2012 @04:33AM (#3874352)
I'm not seeing how. This stuff is free, and a torrent would make it easier for users and reduce server load for the site.
Rackspace migration was because of a security fix, extra ? char in the ticket...
Re:Free beautiful UI elements for developers
on Thursday April 19, 2012 @05:04AM (#3862038)
Anyone care to leech them all and make a torrent?
My corporate firewall won't allow it, or I'd be doing it now. :(
Re:HackerIdeas- A place to store all our startup ideas, submit and get...
on Monday April 16, 2012 @08:07AM (#3846994)
Printing ads on toilet paper could still be a tech business needing many hackers.
Enrolment, ad bidding, printing, logistics, crm, etc etc
Re:HackerIdeas- A place to store all our startup ideas, submit and get...
on Monday April 16, 2012 @08:05AM (#3846982)
I refuse to use Facebook.
Re:HackerIdeas- A place to store all our startup ideas, submit and get...
on Monday April 16, 2012 @03:30AM (#3846349)
Disqus?
Brendan Eich of Mozilla gave $1000 to support gay marriage ban
Re:Ask HN: How do I ensure that a real iOS client is using an API
on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @08:54PM (#3592656)
Had a hunch this was the case, just needed someone smarter than I to confirm.
How do banks ensure nobody makes a phishing version of their apps?
Re:Ask HN: How do I ensure that a real iOS client is using an API
on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @03:17PM (#3591622)
That is interesting, but surely the client-side cert could just be copied and used in a dummy app?
Ask HN: How do I ensure that a real iOS client is using an API
Hello HN! Hoping I can tap the colossal power of the HN hive-mind.Working on a project where an iOS client hits an API. How do I ensure that only my 'real' client is allowed to use it?I could bake a secret token into the app, but surely it will just be sniffed (HTTPS only, but a MITM proxy?) or the app decompiled and the token extracted (Like the Sony PS3 master key).Is there any reliable way...
Idea Dump 5
Order a 3D-printed snowman based on your Twitter data
Re:Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
on Saturday October 15, 2011 @04:48AM (#3114464)
Mike this is great, thank you. Good angle for me to think on.
Re:Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
on Saturday October 15, 2011 @04:47AM (#3114463)
Thanks Mathias, great advice.
Re:18TB hard drives made possible using table salt
on Friday October 14, 2011 @12:17PM (#3111751)
My first HDD was on a Commodore Amiga and was a mighty 60Mb.
Re:Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)
on Friday October 14, 2011 @12:15PM (#3111737)
Maybe you could help me with an iOS API build question?
Re:Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
on Friday October 14, 2011 @11:37AM (#3111572)
Good info, thanks.
MySQL it is then. :)
Re:Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
on Friday October 14, 2011 @11:16AM (#3111480)
I had thought about MongoDB, but bit worried about its global write lock! Surely that can't be a good idea!?
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/How+does+concurrency+wor...
Or does that only apply if "safe mode" is on, rather than fire-and-forget unverified writes?
Re:Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
on Friday October 14, 2011 @09:33AM (#3111080)
I/O Bound - very little other than db write/read operations.
Going to hit the backend every transaction as its very stateful so minimal caching can be possible.
Unknown on growth! Hope for the best, I want to take 1000 r/sec on an EC2 instance.
Ask HN: What should I build an iOS API in?
The system will be a CRUD back end for an iOS app, later offering a web app, then otehr clients, etc. I'm outsourcing it, so the choice of language/appserver will be up to the lucky (!) programmer.Will be RESTful with JSON data exchange. Linux on EC2.Other than that - what would you say would be the best route for:- Low system overhead - Fast performance - Low resource usage - Scalability to...