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jspauron Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today

Yes (assuming the fund buys/holds all positions and hasn't taken an optimization strategy)

This has some interesting side effects to things such as the S&P 500 (http://www.forbes.com/sites/investor/2014/04/02/google-moves...)

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

Considering a lot of them are there during school hours and you'll see the same ones there sleeping with tarps at night - I think its safe to say homeless. Probably better to say 'young adults' though - Seattle YouthCare (http://www.youthcare.org/) does a great job with the younger groups.

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

Not looking for a scapegoat, only a solution. And I lived here before the recession/GFC. I'd completely agree that the "social/medical/mental safety net in this country" is a major problem.

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

Crime is down nationally since the 80s. So for things to be the same, or only a little better says a lot.

I completely agree that SPD is petrified. I've live/worked in downtown Seattle for a while - and while I think some of the 'scaryness' is overblown, it's hard not to see a change in the trend over the past few years.

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

Comcast services only select locations too. A good number of apartments around the city don't even offer Comcast (and instead the aforementioned and other services such as 'Wave'). The building I live in (granted, yes, an upscale condo), had several offerings.

Full on competition? No. But better than a wide majority of cities? Yes. (Try living in Florida...ugh)

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

I'm assuming he means the Pike/Pine alley and Pioneer square, sadly famous for aggressive panhandling, unruly 'youth', and shootings. I live in and work in downtown (haven't driven in months) and it's def. getting a little more 'rough' by the month. Especially Westlake area.

(http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2021614421_downtowncr...)

jspauron Comcast is donating to defeat mayor who is bringing gigabit fiber to Seattle

Comcast has other serious challengers here in Seattle as well between CascadeLink (terrible website, but top notch service) and CondoInternet, if you can get either of those, you'll never look at Comcast again (between $30-60/month for 30/100mbit)

jspauron Lob (YC S13) Debuts a Cloud Printing and Shipping Service for Developers

thanks :) we love working with our users!

jspauron Microsoft’s shares sink by more than 10%

What you're talking is yield and volatility. When you're running a fund, you need to manage to benchmarks, and MSFT is a great position for exposure. IV is on the low end, there is plenty of liquidity should you need to raise cash, and with a dividend of right around 3% you have a nice predictable return, which is a big deal with institutional investing.

Additionally securities like MSFT, you can comfortably get 'aggressive' through call writing, and juice returns a little more without your risk metrics being outside your targets.

jspauron How secure is Linux's random number generator?

And even Linus talks about the NSA in that same thread a little lower: https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/30/116

jspauron Netflix ditches Silverlight with support for HTML5 video in IE11

To be fair, he mentioned Youtube, which even in Chrome uses Flash by default.

jspauron T-Shirt Printing API

For credit repair, you'll need to do certified mail for certain requests. This is something we're getting ready to launch :-) Feel free to reach out (info in profile), if we can help.

jspauron T-Shirt Printing API

Hi there, Founder of TryPaper.com here, we handle some of the core printing & mailing processes all via API :)

jspauron Skip the Post Office, Use Shyp

I think more coincidence. EasyPost and TryPaper both started around the same time (Q3 2013). Nothing specific on the USPS side has happened.

That being said, one thing we've seen, is as companies have invested more and more in digital delivery, they've 'de-invested' in their physical print & mail production, so it makes a lot of off load it to a S(oftware)+S(ervices) model.

jspauron Show HN: Send snail mail from the web

At the risk of hijacking the thread, we've been doing this for about 7 months now (out of beta for 4+) @ https://www.trypaper.com, we wish you guys the best of luck!

edit: the big differentiator here is that we print and mail documents ourselves in one of our two print facilities (Seattle WA and Jacksonville FL)

jspauron Nintendo NES console in CSS

worked in IE10 as well (still can't log in to HN using chrome...odd)

jspauron How Strong is Your Password?

it does not. it simply looks at the number of uppercase, lowercase, digit, and special characters (no spaces, etc.) fairly naïve.

jspauron How Strong is Your Password?

http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/apps/passw...

interesting toppasswords string. wasn't there a post a few weeks ago about how someone owns a patent on telling you your password is common?

edit: indeed there was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5543393

jspauron Introducing Braintree.js

Frankly about time. We evaluated Braintree and just couldn't get over the amount of information requested to get started as compared to Stripe. Secondarily, we reached out to a member of the sales team and got a fairly curt response about their 1,000 startup initiative. Mix it with disjointed API docs (that appears to be better than it was 3 months ago, but not by much), and it wasn't even a decision. (And this is coming from someone who had opened a merchant account in 2003 over the phone with a previous startup)

It's all really a bummer because we'd love to see some serious competition in this space, but at the moment no one appears to be up to the task.

jspauron Preventing Unsubscribes in Forwarded Emails

They do in a way, the 'List-Unsubscribe' header: https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...

Appears to work with Outlook.com/Hotmail, and Gmail. Not sure about Yahoo, but those two alone cover a pretty big group.

jspauron ForgeJS launches first full stack JavaScript development school in Seattle

If you're from the area I could see that. I'm pretty confident the Hub Seattle is part of a larger network: http://www.the-hub.net/

jspauron ForgeJS launches first full stack JavaScript development school in Seattle

Good to see this sort of thing picking up in Seattle. The Hub is a great space (of which we're members). To anyone going to these, ping me (contact info in profile), and your first beer is on TryPaper (we have nothing to do with this event but love meeting fellow hackers!)

jspauron Stackify Launches Free CertAlert.me Service to Monitor SSL Certificates

hah, i did the same thing this weekend :) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5281794

care to merge these?

jspauron Show HN: I built a SSL expiration notifier

shoot me a message (info in my profile) and I'll double check for you.

jspauron Show HN: I built a SSL expiration notifier

Right now I check every two weeks, with checking every day inside of 90 days. I'm thinking about increasing this to be every 3-4 days though. Thoughts?

jspauron Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?

Ouch, we saw a similar thing in the South when things went sideways late last year. We've taken a similar approach to Sql Azure, use DataSync to replicate to offsite warm instances.

jspauron Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?

We do have a failure plan (and ironically enough were actively working on improving storage resiliency, this just hit us before we were able to deploy it)

That being said, there unfortunately is always a level 'sitting on hands' in events like this. If you're in dev you rely on your operations people (and vicea versa). You put your best people on it and continue to go on the best you can.

All that being said, a fired rill just for the sake of doing something may cause more harm than good. If a rollover plan takes 2 hours (switch DNS, migrate data, test, stabilize, etc.) a) often times that'll take longer than the original issue requires to be resolved and b) you'll run into new issues in your new location (maybe environmental, maybe not)

jspauron Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?

We use Azure pretty seriously and overall, we really like it. We went with the MSFT stack due to some of our low level code to deal with printing. That being said, it's had it's share of outages, but honestly no less than if we were racking and stacking our own machines. The most frustrating thing though (with any cloud provider really) is that if it goes down all you can do is sit and wait...atleast if its our fault we feel like we're in control.

jspauron Windows Azure Storage certificate expired?

Any info on Sql Azure being down a whole day? We didn't see anything. This issue on the other hand, a real bummer.