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bdibs··on Ask HN: Personal Database Tool?
Check out Bookstack https://www.bookstackapp.com
bdibs··on Apple's WebKit team proposes a way ads can be measured while maintaining privacy
Does that mean people shouldn’t try to stop it?
bdibs··on Notifying administrators about unhashed password storage
It’s sort of implied when they explained they do the same hashing and ensure the hashes match though.
bdibs··on The unprofitable SaaS business model trap (2013)
This is why I prefer bootstrapping, your focus is entirely on sustainable growth and profitability, with the added bonus of not being beholden to VC's or a bank.

There are obvious exceptions to this like the biotech sector, but for 99% of SaaS companies I think it's the way to go.

bdibs··on Getting Hacker News’d Twice – Lessons Learned for Entrepreneurs
Just a heads up on iOS with Safari your two GA images are wider than the rest of the page.
bdibs··on Amazon Hit by Extensive Fraud with Hackers Siphoning Merchant Funds
Amazon's in the perfect position to give loans to their sellers. They have all the data in the world about how a seller is doing on the platform, so why not make some (relatively) safe money off interest and boosted sales?
bdibs··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
This also happened to me. They shut down the account with no warning, and ended up holding the balance (a little over $10k) for 180 days.

Switched to Stripe and I haven’t been happier.

bdibs··on Security flaws in 100 Jenkins plugins put enterprise networks at risk
Jenkins should be behind a perimeter regardless of active exploits, leaving it open to the public internet is just asking for trouble.
bdibs··on PayPal starts charging 2.9% for refunded sales
Good, more people leaving PayPal for a more seller friendly payment processor is great for everyone.

They’ve been nickel and diming sellers forever, and it seems it’s finally catching up to them.

bdibs··on Cost of serving billions of images per month
I’m stunned that a business of this size would still be using Heroku.

Heroku’s sweet spot (to me at least) is for anyone with less than 3-4 servers. After that, it just becomes so expensive there’s no rationalization in the world that makes sense.

bdibs··on Azure is experiencing DNS issues in all regions
Could this be causing Slack’s downtime?
bdibs··on Diesel is not better for the environment than electric
I don’t know if that many people today actually think their electric car is far better than traditional ICE vehicles, but that doesn’t matter.

These intermediate steps are required to setup the logistics and economies of scale for a future when our primary energy source is a cleaner alternative.

bdibs··on Hackers went undetected in Citrix’s internal network for six months
Proper audit logs that are regularly checked.
bdibs··on Some voters are sick of companies like Amazon paying no corporate tax
Voters are sick of it because of a general misunderstanding of corporate taxes, and sensationalized headlines are just making it worse.
bdibs··on How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)
That’s definitely an issue, but again can be easily mitigated with a simple firewall that doesn’t allow every port to be open to the world.
bdibs··on How And Why We Switched from Erlang to Python (2011)
This is an issue that’s overblown, simply have a firewall that exposes used ports and you’re fine.

There’s also an option within the release tool distillery to limit it to the local network.

Not to mention even if an attacker found your unsecured setup, they’d also need to know your “cookie”/key to do anything. It’s no different than leaving SSH login with password enabled on any server.

bdibs··on UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
The odds of someone harming the police and my spouse becoming an alien are the same?
bdibs··on UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
Of course not, but does that happen a lot?

There is no perfect solution, so I think it's better to go with the one that most often protects lives.

I don't have the numbers, but I'd assume wearing body armor and having proper equipment protects more lives than it causes harm (via "freaking out").

bdibs··on UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
Police being killed due to a lack of equipment is the bigger issue in my opinion.
bdibs··on UBiome Offices Searched by FBI
Better to have it and not need it.
bdibs··on Samsung Forces iFixit to Remove Galaxy Fold Teardown
The title is very clickbait-y, iFixit themselves said they only took it down out of respect for their partner that let them use the review phone.

Samsung had no right (legal or otherwise) to ask to remove the post.

bdibs··on New version of Stripe Checkout
The preview is using a test key, so it's likely they show everything just for testing reasons.
bdibs··on Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
That really depends on what you're building.
bdibs··on Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo
If you're interested in the Phoenix Framework you should check out "Programming Phoenix: Productive |> Reliable |> Fast".

It's written by the creator of Phoenix (Chris McCord) and the creator of Elixir (José Valim), and it's a fantastic intro to Phoenix.

bdibs··on Ask HN: How do you protect sensitive data?
I’m not an expert, but just a few personal guidelines off the top of my head:

1) Only store what you absolutely need, you can’t lose what you don’t have

2) When logging, redact passwords and PII

3) Ensure proper user rights using a whitelist (not a blacklist)

4) Use a proper IDS to detect anomalies early

bdibs··on Ask HN: What's the black bar at the top of HN?
Ah, that makes sense.

I appreciate it!

bdibs··on Matrix.org hacked
Eventually :)
bdibs··on Implementing API Billing with Stripe
Just create a stub with the possible responses.
bdibs··on What Does It Mean That Elizabeth Holmes Doesn’t Blink?
Risking patients' lives and defrauding investors/doctors doesn't warrant prosecution?
bdibs··on Ask HN: Seemingly unable to recover from burnout. Please advise
Try finding a hobby that you enjoy that isn't related to tech. I personally find woodworking and knife making to be a fantastic escape from staring at a screen all day.
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