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adambkaplan

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adambkaplan··on Dropbox Amendment to Form S-1
Wall St. hasn't punished most tech stock prices for this practice (yet). Seems to be an unspoken rule that when it comes to tech companies, the founders know more than the street analysts.
adambkaplan··on Scientists observe a new quantum particle with properties of ball lightning
I personally am not a fan of phys.org for that exact reason - headlines are overhyped to the point of clickbait.
adambkaplan··on Scientists observe a new quantum particle with properties of ball lightning
True, not a particle like the Higgs boson, and not new in the sense that we've seen skyrmions in thin films. But this is the first time the phenomena has been observed in a free 3D object (Bose-Einstein condensate), with a 3D knotted magnetic field.
adambkaplan··on Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
Key quote here is

> Do the simplest thing that will work:

For many a long, a randomized bearer token will do. Depending on the type of data you expose via the API (example - financial data, PII) this may not be sufficient for your security team or auditors.