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Re:Amazon.com and its app are currently broken on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:54AM (#27807487)
Jeff would fix this by sending out a couple of emails containing only a single character: ?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...

Re:Ask HN: Open source OCR library? on Thursday June 25, 2015 @12:03AM (#9775859)
The accuracy of GOCR is very high and it doesn't require any learning.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man1/gocr.1.html

Re:Investigating fraud on Amazon on Tuesday March 03, 2015 @04:59AM (#9136943)
> the company offers a protective case with the completion of a review

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZIC24LFDBD1D/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> comes with a FREE case if i write a review!

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1JNOKKTR5XM7B/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> there is a slip that comes with the item offering a case free giveaway all you do is review your purchase and rated then copy the review and send it in email with your order number n in seven days u will get your case I did it n nothing so far only a email asking for screenshot did it n still nothing anyone else is having the same issue

http://www.amazon.com/review/RI65M4YHQAC8N/ref=cm_srch_res_r...

When you have 50x or 100x leverage, you will either get rich quick or go to zero quick.
Re:Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video] on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:18AM (#8436486)
Hoverboards or some sort of motorized shoes
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to buy and sell stocks? on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @12:42AM (#8288775)
Interactivebrokers is the cheapest at about $1/trade. Thinkorswim has the best software.
Part of a Defcon talk a few years ago included something similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g&t=38m43s

Re:USBCondom on Saturday August 23, 2014 @06:41AM (#8215456)
It's the device, not the power source. I have an old iPod shuffle that won't charge at all with of those USB wall chargers - it requires a computer.
Re:Ask HN: Which screen for programming? on Thursday July 31, 2014 @09:37PM (#8118009)
I actually just received this one. It was listed for about $150 by Amazon with supposedly damaged packaging but everything is perfect and I love it! Thank you.
Re:Ask HN: Which screen for programming? on Sunday July 27, 2014 @03:32PM (#8093711)
Re:Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR on Sunday June 29, 2014 @09:17AM (#7961095)
Would this work with ads? Organic, free traffic from HN and blogs is nice, but it seems more like a low probability gamble than something you could count on. Your growth is going to be random and you really can't do any projections.

The lifetime value of each subscriber is really high, so it seems to make sense that you could spend $XX in customer acquisition costs.

I've wanted to do something similar for a while, but this is really my only sticking point.

Re:Royalty statements of a Grammy-nominated artist on Saturday May 10, 2014 @11:54AM (#7725821)
But companies like Pandora and Spotify aren't profitable even at these numbers. If this artist made 10x as much, he'd still be upset at only making $40 for 14,227 music plays and these streaming companies wouldn't be able to function. This is also a barrier to entry for new startups that want to offer music streaming.

There doesn't seem to be a number that artists would be happy getting and that music streaming companies could actually offer them.

Re:Ask HN: Idea Sunday on Sunday April 20, 2014 @05:00AM (#7616291)
Re:Show HN: SoundCloud Instant on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:43AM (#7602148)
This is great. It would be nice to see the next couple of songs that are going to play and maybe a delete button next to them. A Youtube version would also be useful.
Re:Hum on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:48AM (#7327887)
It's like IM/texting with the exact layout of Twitter. Are we at a point where it's almost impossible to innovate anymore? Is anything created in this space going to be only slightly different than _______?
Re:BiteLabs on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @06:21PM (#7301462)
This was portrayed in the film Antiviral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)
We've recovered from the last few crashes. http://i.imgur.com/wFA9x8k.png
Re:Ask HN. Why the $150+ Bitcoin exchange spreads? on Thursday February 13, 2014 @10:18PM (#7236656)
Mtgox and Bitstamp suspended withdrawals due to a vulnerability. People have to sell in order to withdraw funds.
The press must know by now Mtgox is an inflated price, but they still continue to reference it as the price of bitcoin.
Re:Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage? on Monday January 06, 2014 @10:26PM (#7015178)
Were they not using raid or performing multiple database writes? A mechanical hard drive failure is pretty common and can be mitigated fairly easily.
Re:Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Built "Time Machine" on Saturday January 04, 2014 @09:56PM (#7014282)
This looks like simple probability based predicting. For example, if you're in college you likely have a decent job in the future. In tree form, the next branch would say based on that, you probably have a family and children.

The film the Adjustment Bureau explores this concept on a large scale. If you miss your morning bus, you would never have sat next to your future wife and the tree branches out in a completely different direction. It would take more than a supercomputer to figure out every possible direction your life could take.

Re:Skype blog hacked on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @04:03PM (#6996642)
You're right. It was probably a brute force since they don't have maximum login attempts. http://blogs.skype.com/wp-admin
Re:Skype blog hacked on Wednesday January 01, 2014 @03:59PM (#6996613)
More than likely a guessed admin password.
Re:Ask HN: cheap reliable host for Wordpress blog on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @03:56PM (#6992793)
AWS (or similar) so you can switch to a bigger instance when you have a traffic spike.

Or just use Cloudflare.

Re:Ask HN: Who is working on/knows of WebRTC based projects on Monday December 30, 2013 @09:58AM (#6984829)
This webcam library has a nice flash fallback for IE and uses webRTC for everyone else. https://github.com/addyosmani/getUserMedia.js
Re:Ask HN: How did you launch your product? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @01:30PM (#6980592)
Make growth hacking a main priority. If you can get every user to invite one other user, you'll have a huge site in no time.
Re:Ask HN: Why is Target storing PIN numbers? on Sunday December 29, 2013 @10:27AM (#6979808)
I think it was a man-in-the-middle attack, so everything during the transaction was stolen.

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