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jdangu··on Lifecycle emails with KissMetrics
And we're back. Sorry for the issue, got caught by site44's late warning.
jdangu··on Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome
Did you try Ctrl-tab?
jdangu··on [dead]
Any announcement?
jdangu··on A word on cryptography
They haven't found any concrete flaws though.

Several XSS flaws were fixed quickly:

http://reflets.info/le-retour-du-mega-merdier-de-kim/

(french)

jdangu··on Hello, PushBullet - push anything to your Android phone from your browser
Care to explain the difference with Chrome To Phone?
jdangu··on New Freebox update censors ads by default for 5.5M users
The flip side of net neutrality issues.

Don't tamper with my Internet please.

jdangu··on Antivirus Makers Struggle to Adapt
Traditional A/V are broken for the web.

With dynamic languages like JS and ActionScript, their approach is to fingerprint 10 different strains of the same threat. Then the 11th strain can be generated in a few seconds with new obfuscation.

So the A/V only starts working if/when eventually a native code payload reaches the target.

jdangu··on Google blocks Twitpic over alleged malware
Looks like yet another "malvertising" situation.

The Google Safebrowsing report [1] appears fairly ambiguous though:

"Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer (...)"

"Of the 12029 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2012-12-30, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days."

[1] http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnost...

jdangu··on Freicoin: a P2P digital currency delivering freedom from usury
I have the feeling this is in reaction to the capped total value of the bitcoin monetary system which generates deflation over time and incentivizes sparing currency instead of using it.

By adding a component of inflation, you increase exchanges.

Let's just get rid of the cap and keep things simple.

edit: Of course from a micro-economic perspective this doesn't make sense unless it was forced onto us by a government as a de facto standard.

jdangu··on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
I think you always win in that cat and mouse game. Add some fake entries to the list of plugins, to the list of fonts, ...
jdangu··on You’re not anonymous. I know your name, email, and company.
A good workaround for panopticlick would be to append a random string to the useragent for example, effectively making your fingerprint unique all the time.
jdangu··on Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?
Was pleased to see a reference to Fravia in RMS's article.

For the sake of comparison, here's a 1998 essay about what Microsoft was specifically doing in Win95:

http://71.6.196.237/fravia/mmstory.htm

jdangu··on Bitcoin-Central.net is now licensed to operate as a bank in Europe
Thanks for clarifying
jdangu··on Bitcoin-Central.net is now licensed to operate as a bank in Europe
This is significant, because Bitcoin exchanges are illegal in Europe, unless they get a payment processor license.

- Converting to/from BTC will become easier

- Accepting Bitcoins as a merchant will be easier

jdangu··on PayMill, Stripe clone, rolls out silently across Europe
The activity of a Payment Service Provider is heavily regulated in EU, a license is required - But no mention of this on the site.
jdangu··on Show HN: an alternative to AdSense
Test it, measure your revenue per 1000 and dump it if doesn't work for you. There's plenty of competition in this space.
jdangu··on Dwolla launches MassPay - Free Bulk Payments
FWIW, CSV upload for ACH payment is a typical feature of online banking for business accounts in the US.
jdangu··on Pirate Bay Moves to The Cloud, Becomes Raid-Proof
Check out NameCoin http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
jdangu··on French Entrepreneurs Revolt
> the new Socialist administration proposed to tax an entrepreneur’s capital gains as ordinary income

Actually, they plan to tax all capital gains as ordinary income, most of that comes from stock/financial investments. The article doesn't mention that this was not meant to impact entrepreneurs but is merely a side effect. As I understand it, there will most likely be an exemption for this case.

jdangu··on How to price: Lessons learned from our first attempt
Your Free plan says: "5,000 files/month $0.005 per file over"

Looks more like $25 then, what's the catch? :)

jdangu··on Diffbot launches a web page classifier API: analyzes a day of Twitter
I see some potential in ad tech.

How does caching works? Is there any focus on security? Multiple geolocations?

I liked the TOS :) ---- Diffbot.com is made available for personal, non-commercial, and commercial purposes. Services are provided as-is, and we do not make any guarantees on the quality or performance.

jdangu··on Plivo makes it to 50 countries in 30 days, outstrips competition
The business of adding a friendly web service on top of these SMS and IVR aggregators is already commoditized: Most aggregators will give you 10s of countries in a single integration.

Then it's a question of volume to reach higher tiers / lower costs, and/or getting enough funding to sustain low margins at launch.

Twilio has both the volume and the funding. Hopefully Plivo can differentiate through innovation.

jdangu··on uTorrent Becomes Ad-Supported to Rake in Millions
Massive alienation of users through invasive ads is the beginning of the end.
jdangu··on Income inequality, as seen from space
Check out Haiti vs. Dominican Republic too: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a002600/a002640/
jdangu··on Show HN: Eligible API for 700+ Health Insurance Companies
Software is priced on perceived value, not reasonable calculations.

You seem to imply that setting high prices is a dishonest practice. If you don't find enough value to justify the high cost, just move on, that might not be true for others.

jdangu··on Released footage of the police raid on the Kim Dotcom mansion
and Julian Assange too.
jdangu··on An Anti-Reverse Engineering Guide
Nowadays, those techniques are mostly used by malware/viruses. Downloadable try-before-you-buy is dead.
jdangu··on Work at a Startup 2012
http://nycstartupjobfair.com/
jdangu··on Enyo Framework Cross Platform and Cross Browser UI Widgets
I'm interested in this for web apps. FWIW, I tested on IE7 (broken) and IE8 (some quirks but ok)
jdangu··on Introducing Collusion: Discover who’s tracking you online
Publishers are lacking control over who tracks what on their site. My full time project http://www.clarityad.com monitors third-party ad tags and reports pixels dropped.
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