Hacker News: edcrfv

New comment by edcrfv in "Muse Spark 1.1"

edcrfv — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:18:37 +0000

How do you find the time to “preview” so many models? It’s been a crazy time recently with the model releases. Does it ever feel like a chore?

New comment by edcrfv in "Security researcher hacks Tesla via Bluetooth LE keyless entry vulnerability"

edcrfv — Sun, 29 Nov 2020 07:58:23 +0000

That site is pure cancer. I opened the article in the same tab and then pressed back to come back to news.ycombinator.com, but it just showed me a bunch of blog spam from taboola which seemed to have hijacked the back button :-/

New comment by edcrfv in "How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model"

edcrfv — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 00:35:02 +0000

What's your site?

New comment by edcrfv in "Is this Paypal experience customary?"

edcrfv — Fri, 05 Jul 2019 10:13:06 +0000

This is standard PayPal. They don’t give a crap about their merchants and it’s been widely documented in the past. See https://www.google.com/search?q=paypal+horror+stories

New comment by edcrfv in "Ask HN: What IDE do you use?"

edcrfv — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 06:40:33 +0000

WebStorm

New comment by edcrfv in "Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in Elixir and Ember.js"

edcrfv — Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:29:46 +0000

Worth noting that SingAlong (the OP), is also a contributor to Kandan - mentioned in their README

New comment by edcrfv in "Ask HN: Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?"

edcrfv — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 19:03:30 +0000

All our recent posts on social media (facebook, twitter) via buffer seem to have been automatically deleted. That's a lot of engaging posts, gone in a poof!

Indian telephony startup Exotel launches developer SDK for app developers

edcrfv — Mon, 27 May 2013 08:19:57 +0000

Article URL: http://thenextweb.com/in/2013/05/27/smart-telephony-begins-to-take-shape-in-india-as-exotel-launches-developer-api-in-beta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773885

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Create badges for your event

edcrfv — Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:47:34 +0000

Article URL: http://makkarlabs.in/badgeit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4432499

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by edcrfv in "Google Apps Loophole, Let You Access Other’s Domain Login Details"

edcrfv — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:11:45 +0000

There was a similar and recent vulnerability in google webmaster tools as well.

Very scary. But what stellar alternatives exist for startups?

New comment by edcrfv in "Matt Cutts Responds on Google's Paid Link Campaign"

edcrfv — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:45:22 +0000

I'm curious as to whether this was misused by malicious website owners buying links for competitors and then reporting the competitor to the Webmaster team to get them lose their top ranking?

What steps does Google take to ensure this does not happen? A poster below asked the same question and someone else responded saying there are no documented cases of this happening, but let's just assume it's a hypothetical situation for now. What will Google do when something like this happens? How will they verify who was wronged?

New comment by edcrfv in "The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exchange"

edcrfv — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:44:42 +0000

I don't think the Panda update got it right with respect to the duplicate content problem though. I still see a bunch of StackOverflow content scrapers rank as high as StackOverflow and basically link back to StackOverflow. To the same post that is ranked number 1 for that particular query. Don't have examples right away - checking my history for those instances

One site I can remember is bigresource.com which is an aggregator of sorts, it seems

The larger problem being, sites with duplicate content still rank as high as the original.

New comment by edcrfv in "Pre-orders are scams according to Paypal"

edcrfv — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:01:47 +0000

I think you mean https://stripe.com/ ?

New comment by edcrfv in "GitHub Hits 1,000,000 users"

edcrfv — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:34:24 +0000

Gitolite is a better tool, with more options. It's easier to manage who gets access to what as well with gitolite.

New comment by edcrfv in "Ask HN: How can I do something meaningful?"

edcrfv — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:56:40 +0000

Start by doing something small. Do it well. Do it again and again and again. Until you think you can scale it up and it doesn't interfere with any of your personal commitments or dreams.

I was really impressed with this video by Derek Sivers about how startups don't need funding to start. Though in a different context, it puts the point across. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KLnXjqKL5g) If you want to make a big difference, start by doing smaller things and scale up.

New comment by edcrfv in "Poll: What do you think of Google+?"

edcrfv — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:06:00 +0000

It throws up a bunch of content out there when I choose a spark. I don't know how they rank the content or how relevant it is to my spark. For example, I tried "Soccer" and it threw up a bunch of results - one them was a link to http://kelviniransomes.blogspot.com/2011/06/eastern-district....

I'd imagined that when you add a spark, you get a bunch of stuff grouped under various categories and various types of information like News, Companies, Products, Blogs, etc. And in case of Soccer, I'd have wanted to see scores, league standings, etc. Basically be intelligent about the topic.

New comment by edcrfv in "Why Naming Your Company Sucks"

edcrfv — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 05:44:01 +0000

http://wordoid.com is a fun name generator if you want pronounceable words.

New comment by edcrfv in "$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs"

edcrfv — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:39:53 +0000

Yes I did mean that. I didn't mean to insult the intelligence of HNers though. Just thought it wouldn't be prudent to mention here!

New comment by edcrfv in "$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs"

edcrfv — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:48:36 +0000

Spammers are the ones who use it extensively and that's why such a service was born. The percentage of people using it for other purposes would be infinitesimally small.

You can't directly attach value to the money they spend on this. They create accounts on many services like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc for email spamming and they need to use these services for the tools that they purchased to work. These tools basically automate everything except the captcha solving part.

New comment by edcrfv in "$1.39 for 1000 decoded CAPTCHAs"

edcrfv — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:44:52 +0000

Ok I stand corrected, the economics of paying for forum spamming does not make sense and the software you mentioned (I don't want to name it here) does solve many captchas automatically (It is even rumored to solve Google's captchas)

But for other stuff that I mentioned in my previous comment, it does make sense for them economically and they do use it.