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Re:Why I Mine Bitcoin on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @08:55PM (#7776137)
You need to go through an exchange. Or if you use Mycelium on Android they have a service for finding local sellers.
Re:FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the more neut... on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:46AM (#7453511)
Are you the one who called them out in the issue on C+= to which they responded with character attacks instead of a sensible argument? Thanks for doing that!
Re:FSF wants to replace "the" pronoun in Linux Kernel by the more neut... on Sunday March 23, 2014 @10:40AM (#7453486)
Title made me think Stallman did this. FSF = Free Software Foundation not these people. Are xhe and xhem even real words? They make absolutely no sense
Re:Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the R... on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @07:03PM (#7350891)
I love it! One comment I do have though is that the space alloted to the video on the page is quite large. Larger than the default zoom in Firefox at least. While it isn't a huge deal to not be able to see the whole picture and there is a full screen button, it might be helpful to some to make the video smaller on the page.
Re:Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the R... on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @07:01PM (#7350883)
Do authors have the option of providing a book preview for free online rather than the entire thing? Or does that feature only allow for the entire book to be made free online?
Re:Ask HN: What are the best Linux-based laptops? on Sunday March 02, 2014 @12:23PM (#7329847)
Same here. It's been solid so far for me!
Re:Hum on Sunday March 02, 2014 @02:15AM (#7328095)
This didn't address the question of how Hum will be different than any other chat program
Re:Kerckhoffs's principle on Wednesday December 18, 2013 @10:49PM (#6932745)
So why is this being posted? Kerckhoffs' principle is common knowledge, I thought
Re:Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application? on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:15PM (#6775891)
Awesome thanks. I might use that in my own applications in the future, but our app uses Angular and Node. Unfortunately I couldn't convince the group to use Django
Re:Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application? on Thursday November 21, 2013 @08:44AM (#6774582)
Both of these is just signing in with an account from some different site. We want to provide that option, but we want our own option as well for users who don't want to use social media to login

Ask HN: Best way to do user authentication for web application?

Posted by thaweatherman on Thursday November 21, 2013 @12:05AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A team of developers and myself are designing a web application and I am in charge of user authentication. I want to provide options such as Facebook Connect and OpenID via Google, Yahoo, etc., but we also need our own authentication method if no one wants to use either of those options. I really really want to avoid password authentication, but if I have to I will do it. Do you think SRP would...

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Re:Google Coder: a simple way to make web stuff on Raspberry Pi on Monday November 18, 2013 @12:04AM (#6752664)
So you can install other stuff on there right? If I want to use some cool framework can I? Or am I just restricted in what the browser IDE provides?
Re:Tox: secure messaging for everyone on Monday July 29, 2013 @04:41PM (#6123755)
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Re:Tox: secure messaging for everyone on Monday July 29, 2013 @04:41PM (#6123750)
Another app that is the same as good existing solutions and is an outgrowth of spying revelations. Easy secure messaging, calling, etc apps already exist and are freely available. Once Whisper Systems apps are out for iOS at the end of the summer the bases will be covered.
Re:Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app on Friday July 12, 2013 @02:34PM (#6034262)
Not free though. Most people prefer free apps.
Re:Crowd steps up to fund 'NSA-proof' app on Friday July 12, 2013 @12:38AM (#6030941)
Time out on chatsecure is a draw back of iOS. It forces app to close after 10 minutes of inactivity. Very annoying.

I'm with moxie. There are already plenty of good encryption apps out there. That 100,000 could have gone to existing apps that do what they say they do rather than an app that might not turn out as promised.