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Re:My resume harvested by oncontracting.com very suspecious operation on Thursday April 21, 2016 @11:55PM (#11546966)
I just re-read the headline I posted, I over did it.

I got an answer few hours later from their Twitter account saying they'll fix it.

Security wise I noticed my pdf had a naming format first_last.pdf stored in certain directory path under php_uploads.

Thanks for looking up the contact info I finally found the founder of the site on Angel.co & LinkedIn.

My resume harvested by oncontracting.com very suspecious operation

Posted by mid0 on Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:43PM
from the self-post dept.

Doesn't look like a startup or a legit business. I sent an email to info @ oncontracting and no response.Quick search on google shows a bunch of pdf files in a php directory...https://www.google.com/webhp?#q=pdf+site:oncontracting.comI seriously doubt their site is secure and can't help but think, how easy it is to harvest data but forget about the security basics.

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Any idea on how Twitter's new sort algorithm works?

Posted by mid0 on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @08:59PM
from the self-post dept.

Aside from twitters' explanation of how the best tweets feature works https://support.twitter.com/articles/164083I wanted to try to see what kind of signals used.Here are my top 3 observations: 1- Most Klout scores of those are re/tweeting are in the 70+ I've seen much less in 40's and a couple at 29.2- Noticed a 2 tweets were identical (tweeted almost exactly the sametime) the tweet that was...

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Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:08PM (#10936029)
focus on channels u r familiar with and gradually learn about other channels/build rep and help others.
Re:Ask HN: I've got one user. What's the best way to get more? on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @11:03PM (#10936011)
. u already started by asking for help

- invite folks you know on an "sure to open your email/answer ur slack/im/sms" message and

-- invite folks you know little bit outside of that circle

--- invite folks in forums your' involved with (give/take)

--- invite folks on ur mostly active social media account

---- you can submit to betalist.com if it's beta private only

---- you can submit to producthunt.com if it's live and ready to be used