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cominatchu··on China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies
I see almost all comments on this article are sympathetic to China. I have not dug deeper but I wonder if the accounts making these comments are all real, or could they be part of China’s propaganda apparatus?
cominatchu··on Ragic – Editable forms with relational data
AirTable.com is a really great tool in this space - simple and works well
cominatchu··on Google Cloud Platform
I tried both Google Container Engine and Amazon EC2 Container Service recently for a docker deployment. Google was the clear winner: they have support for private registries (Amazon requires you to use a third party or set it all up yourself), Google gives you a preconfigured, Debian-based base image so you don't have to do any setup or maintenance (with keys already exchanged that allow login with the gcloud command, no work required), and Kubernetes itself (which Google Container Engine uses for orchestration) is really nice. Also Google cloud logging (currently free) just works out of the box with their container engine and streams your container's stdout to their logs. Kubernetes itself is open source so you always have the option to move on your own metal if your deployment grows to that size. Would highly recommend Google Container Engine.
cominatchu··on Ask HN: What is the best drone for hackers?
The DJI Phantom & DJI Phantom 2 vision are both awesome. The Phantom 1 is probably better if you want to put your own board in the air, as it has more payload space. But out of the box the Phantom 2 is unbelievable with its iPhone FPV & telemetry integration

If you have lots of time on your hands, though, you could build your own with ardupilot: http://ardupilot.com

cominatchu··on Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
Yes thanks, so if the articles just authorize the issuance of common stock one needs to amend them before using a SAFE?
cominatchu··on Announcing the Safe, a Replacement for Convertible Notes
I have a question about using this. In the SAFE Primer it states:

"The table below sets forth a comparison between the Standard Preferred and the SAFE Preferred, as each would be described in the company’s certificate of incorporation:"

Reading the SAFE it mentions "SAFE Preferred Stock" and seems to partially define it. Does this mean you must have "SAFE Preferred stock" defined in your articles of incorporation to use a SAFE, or can the SAFE stand alone?

cominatchu··on Warning: Google Authenticator upgrade loses all accounts
I recommend using the Authy app instead, it's much better
cominatchu··on Unvalidated Redirect in Google (or How Google Sent Me To Bing)
We check for these types of vulnerabilities, and it's free to sign up: https://armorhub.com
cominatchu··on Notch trying jsFiddle
well done, thank you
cominatchu··on A Warning for Airbnb Hosts
The law here clearly needs to evolve, and probably should have evolved by now. AirBnb wants to keep people safe, as it's in the best interest of their business. Some purposes of the law are also to keep people safe, but we need to revisit protectionist laws that restrict renting out parts of your home to others solely to protect hotels, and the fact that Airbnb has made it much safer to rent out your home (you can see people's reputations online, their social networks and who they know, Airbnb provides insurance, etc) means that some of the old laws aren't needed.

What is clear to me is that this sort of spot enforcement is a waste of taxpayer money and doesn't serve to help anyone. I hope we can work towards real legal reform as companies like Airbnb and Uber drive innovation in our cities.

cominatchu··on ArmorHub’s Web Security Service Scans For Vulnerabilities and Malware
hey Brad, I responded on TC but we built the scanner to rate limit our requests significantly if it starts to slow down your site. I'm going to investigate this and apologize for any trouble it caused if your site slowed down and we didn't rate limit
cominatchu··on Introducing a new data structure, streams, in Javascript
This comment thread reminds me a bit of "The Emperor's new clothes". I think the code for sieve (even though I understood what it did) is way too unnecessarily confusing and I would not want to see it in a project I'm on.

However, I do appreciate the usefulness of lazy evaluation. Still, I think this documentation could benefit by not making outlandish claims ("it will change the way you think") and just saying the author has implemented lazy evaluation in javascript (and maybe link to the wikipedia article on lazy evaluation and this stack overflow to explain why it's useful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2151226/what-are-the-adva...)

cominatchu··on Why jQuery.proxy rocks my world
If underscore is already loaded into the browser cache for other pages then you should be able to use it for free here then and not need jquery.proxy
cominatchu··on EmailOracle (YC W10) Tracks Your Emails and Confirms They've Been Opened
I'm sorry you feel this way. You can opt-out of emails sent to you from free EmailOracle accounts. Maybe we should add to our website the ability to automatically opt-out of all future tracking?
cominatchu··on EmailOracle (YC W10) Tracks Your Emails and Confirms They've Been Opened
EmailOracle does build this feature right into Gmail :)

It adds a link in the left panel of Gmail (under "Contacts") that lets you open up a new pane (just like the "Tasks" pane) that contains all of your emails needing follow-up.

cominatchu··on EmailOracle (YC W10) Tracks Your Emails and Confirms They've Been Opened
To help alleviate this concern there is opt-out for emails received from free EmailOracle accounts (there is a link at the bottom of the email that says "Metrics by EmailOracle, click here to opt-out").
cominatchu··on Etacts (YC W10) launches Gmail Contextual Gadget
We also allow you to quickly set reminders on individuals with whom you'd like to stay in touch.
cominatchu··on Etacts (YC W10) launches Gmail Contextual Gadget
Thanks for the feedback, we do have an Android app planned.
cominatchu··on Etacts (YC W10) launches Gmail Contextual Gadget
That is good feedback and we should make that more clear. To answer your question, the domain admin (when he installs the gadget for the domain) gives us access to each email header as you open the email. To install Etacts, the user clicks through an openid+oauth login screen that details which services we use (gmail and google contacts).
cominatchu··on Who is accessing your Gmail account?
This was Etacts. We responded to Antonio's support email this morning within a few minutes of its arrival to let him know the IP address in question belongs to us. We are talking about ways now to prevent this type of confusion from happening in the future.
cominatchu··on Ask HN: Are you happy, well-rounded? (dealing w/ depression/lack of motivation)
I highly recommend The Art of Happiness by Cutler.
cominatchu··on Crocodoc (YC W10) Sets Its Sights On Adobe Acrobat With New Update
This kind of evolution to the cloud is inevitable, I'm glad to see a team making it happen for a piece of software that is so essential to business.
cominatchu··on Etacts Adds Contact Info, Social Networking, and Handy Statistics to Gmail
should be quick again, sorry for the blip
cominatchu··on Etacts (YC W10) releases first implementation of Gmail OAuth for IMAP
HN -- just want to let you know that we listened to your collective feedback on our Etacts launch post last week
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
yes, this is something we are considering. it depends on the demand for something like that.
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
this is a good idea, we'll talk to our users and see if this is a wanted feature.
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
we will fix this asap
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
good feedback, we will take care of this.
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
we do keep your gmail password, but you have the ability at any time to delete your gmail password or your entire etacts account. We will try to make this more clear, thank you for the feedback.
cominatchu··on ETacts (YC W10) will help you manage your relationships
I'm a co-founder of eTacts. This is a legitimate concern and we do everything we can to address this issue: http://etacts.com/security/
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