Hacker News: ivanbrussik

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Uber adds $1 “Safe Rides Fee” to UberX rides for background checks, insurance"

ivanbrussik — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 20:50:55 +0000

Jumping in on this without knowing anything about the business model, but why not just ask all of the drivers to pay $35 (for example) one time to do a bg check / insurance check?

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Show HN: User-owned image sharing"

ivanbrussik — Sat, 15 Mar 2014 22:55:33 +0000

I think you have a really good idea. I also agree that a lot of users would use an image sharing site if they know potentially they could make some money instead of none.

There are some really good points brought up in this thread, that I think you are going to have to battle against. Maybe not as severe as Popcorn just faced but these are issue.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:08:15 +0000

I actually think it was 4.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Google brings Chrome apps to Android and iOS"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 07:04:37 +0000

just found this in the Windows version:

Internet Explorer 9 or newer is required.

Couldn't help but laugh.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:26:33 +0000

story archived here in case it did/does go down:

http://pastebin.com/g7R6Ren2

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:23:35 +0000

It is a long shot, and would take ton of money in fees mainly for a very skilled private investigator but you are absolutely correct this is one route to go.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How I Lost My $50,000 Twitter Username"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:13:59 +0000

I value any company's committment to security however there are ways that Twitter can prove who the owner of the account was, if they really wanted to.

Let's see if this story hits real news headlines and affects Twitters stock before closing bell tomorrow and action will happen.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "The Great Code Club"

ivanbrussik — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:48:47 +0000

This seems like a nifty idea. I have definitely been plagued with coders block in the past.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Google Glass Now Works With Actual Glasses"

ivanbrussik — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 07:46:34 +0000

that's what is bothering me. could never figure it out from a UX perspective, but that is definitely it.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Show HN: Random Street View"

ivanbrussik — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:39:36 +0000

I don't see North Korea?

New comment by ivanbrussik in "The U.S. Crackdown on Hackers Is Our New War on Drugs"

ivanbrussik — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 00:00:07 +0000

not even nearly close from a fiscal standpoint.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How Quora Onboards New Users"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 23:16:50 +0000

thanks for doing this, I love your site in general and have seen it before in the past. particularly the Tumblr post!

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How Quora Onboards New Users"

ivanbrussik — Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:30:36 +0000

As a user, I find Quora to be weird and confusing. The sign up process was like a labyrinth, and trying to figure out how to use it is quite cumbersome.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "The decay and fall of guest blogging for SEO"

ivanbrussik — Tue, 21 Jan 2014 04:16:43 +0000

I think a lot of companies are scared of how good hackers are these days. No one wants to guarantee protection because a hacker of a more elite variety will come along and take that as a challenge, by hacking into the sites that X company has created.

I definitely agree with you that it is somewhat of an under tapped market, but definitely think it needs to be head up by the right individual(s).

New comment by ivanbrussik in "What's Inside This House On Wade Avenue?"

ivanbrussik — Sat, 18 Jan 2014 09:46:30 +0000

We had this in the town I grew up in, only it was a house with the "mechanical room" for our water tower. People broke in all the time.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Anonymous hacks MIT website on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide"

ivanbrussik — Sat, 11 Jan 2014 08:14:11 +0000

almost seems as though they (or maybe some of them) are somewhat ok with the message.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "We stopped advertising on Facebook"

ivanbrussik — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:47:58 +0000

I agree with a lot of this, and sure no one goes out looking for a plumber on Facebook but Faceboook advertising really does work. Tons of case studies show that it is extremely effective especially with CPCs < $.10 and such.

New comment by ivanbrussik in "We stopped advertising on Facebook"

ivanbrussik — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:46:13 +0000

facebook also ditching sponsored stories as of apr 9

https://developers.facebook.com/roadmap/

New comment by ivanbrussik in "Fake bloggers and SEO scammers"

ivanbrussik — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 04:07:23 +0000

i smell self submissions

New comment by ivanbrussik in "How Expedia Buys Its Way To The Top Of Google"

ivanbrussik — Sun, 29 Dec 2013 02:29:17 +0000

how bout we look into nenad who looks like they are really active on a "blackhat SEO forum" and gets tons of links from there. seems legit.