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t0··on Amazon.com and its app are currently broken
Jeff would fix this by sending out a couple of emails containing only a single character: ?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/why-amazon-executives-dr...

t0··on Ask HN: What are fun entertaining YouTube channels/videos you watch in free time?
Louis Rossmann

https://youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w

t0··on Atlassian sold $320M worth of software with no sales staff
https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/head-of-sales-operatio...
t0··on Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
The accuracy of GOCR is very high and it doesn't require any learning.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/dapper/man1/gocr.1.html

t0··on Investigating fraud on Amazon
> the company offers a protective case with the completion of a review

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZIC24LFDBD1D/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> comes with a FREE case if i write a review!

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1JNOKKTR5XM7B/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> there is a slip that comes with the item offering a case free giveaway all you do is review your purchase and rated then copy the review and send it in email with your order number n in seven days u will get your case I did it n nothing so far only a email asking for screenshot did it n still nothing anyone else is having the same issue

http://www.amazon.com/review/RI65M4YHQAC8N/ref=cm_srch_res_r...

t0··on Trading a Real Market: What the Swiss National Bank Taught Retail Traders
When you have 50x or 100x leverage, you will either get rich quick or go to zero quick.
t0··on Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston Interview [video]
Hoverboards or some sort of motorized shoes
t0··on Ask HN: What do you use to buy and sell stocks?
Interactivebrokers is the cheapest at about $1/trade. Thinkorswim has the best software.
t0··on A briefcase-size radio weapon could wreak havoc in our networked world
Part of a Defcon talk a few years ago included something similar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU8hg4FTm0g&t=38m43s

t0··on USBCondom
It's the device, not the power source. I have an old iPod shuffle that won't charge at all with of those USB wall chargers - it requires a computer.
t0··on Ask HN: Which screen for programming?
I actually just received this one. It was listed for about $150 by Amazon with supposedly damaged packaging but everything is perfect and I love it! Thank you.
t0··on Ask HN: Which screen for programming?
Would you recommend this? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00B1IAL7W
t0··on Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR
Would this work with ads? Organic, free traffic from HN and blogs is nice, but it seems more like a low probability gamble than something you could count on. Your growth is going to be random and you really can't do any projections.

The lifetime value of each subscriber is really high, so it seems to make sense that you could spend $XX in customer acquisition costs.

I've wanted to do something similar for a while, but this is really my only sticking point.

t0··on Royalty statements of a Grammy-nominated artist
But companies like Pandora and Spotify aren't profitable even at these numbers. If this artist made 10x as much, he'd still be upset at only making $40 for 14,227 music plays and these streaming companies wouldn't be able to function. This is also a barrier to entry for new startups that want to offer music streaming.

There doesn't seem to be a number that artists would be happy getting and that music streaming companies could actually offer them.

t0··on [dead]
Local Soylent distribution.

http://discourse.soylent.me/t/any-ideas-on-when-we-will-be-a...

t0··on Show HN: SoundCloud Instant
This is great. It would be nice to see the next couple of songs that are going to play and maybe a delete button next to them. A Youtube version would also be useful.
t0··on Hum
It's like IM/texting with the exact layout of Twitter. Are we at a point where it's almost impossible to innovate anymore? Is anything created in this space going to be only slightly different than _______?
t0··on [dead]
This was portrayed in the film Antiviral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral_(film)
t0··on Ask HN: Given the price and the MtGox news, is now a good time to buy bitcoins?
We've recovered from the last few crashes. http://i.imgur.com/wFA9x8k.png
t0··on Ask HN. Why the $150+ Bitcoin exchange spreads?
Mtgox and Bitstamp suspended withdrawals due to a vulnerability. People have to sell in order to withdraw funds.
t0··on Bitcoin Price Touches $1,000 Again as Overstock Sales Hit $130,000
The press must know by now Mtgox is an inflated price, but they still continue to reference it as the price of bitcoin.
t0··on Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage?
Were they not using raid or performing multiple database writes? A mechanical hard drive failure is pretty common and can be mitigated fairly easily.
t0··on Iranian Scientist Claims to Have Built "Time Machine"
This looks like simple probability based predicting. For example, if you're in college you likely have a decent job in the future. In tree form, the next branch would say based on that, you probably have a family and children.

The film the Adjustment Bureau explores this concept on a large scale. If you miss your morning bus, you would never have sat next to your future wife and the tree branches out in a completely different direction. It would take more than a supercomputer to figure out every possible direction your life could take.

t0··on Skype blog hacked
You're right. It was probably a brute force since they don't have maximum login attempts. http://blogs.skype.com/wp-admin
t0··on Skype blog hacked
More than likely a guessed admin password.
t0··on Ask HN: cheap reliable host for Wordpress blog
AWS (or similar) so you can switch to a bigger instance when you have a traffic spike.

Or just use Cloudflare.

t0··on Ask HN: Who is working on/knows of WebRTC based projects
This webcam library has a nice flash fallback for IE and uses webRTC for everyone else. https://github.com/addyosmani/getUserMedia.js
t0··on Ask HN: How did you launch your product?
Make growth hacking a main priority. If you can get every user to invite one other user, you'll have a huge site in no time.
t0··on Ask HN: Why is Target storing PIN numbers?
I think it was a man-in-the-middle attack, so everything during the transaction was stolen.
t0··on Web Domain White Elephant Exchange has concluded
I'm in the same boat. smellmybacon.com. Let's do this.
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