damaru

I was talking to this tech person today who was telling me about his unbreakable crypto technology. He was wondering how to market the idea as it didn't get any tracktion in the market.

I was wondering if a social network type of approach where you offer an incentive (1000$) to break a technology, yet you have to pay 10$ to enter which get added to the amount offered. Is that something that could interest people to try to hack your crypto? Is that too cheap? Like bounty hunter on a bug?

Are there contest and other avenues to prove your working concept?

I just did a password reset my password with Skrill and got an email that my account got accessed from a computer in Indonesia! This is really freaky - how can I trust Skrill now if it get access from other computer. I have just put a new 16+ digit/letters password which is unique to this account.

Although I could change again my password, I don't have any trust in Skrill anymore because of this incident. Anyone else have experience weird security problem with them?

I started reselling rackspace email service a few months ago, and just now I got a bomb dropped in my email:

As of November 1, 2017, your account will now have a $150.00 per month minimum commitment. This means that if the dollar value of the Cloud Office products that you are using is greater than your $150.00 per month minimum commitment, then there will be no change to the amount that you are invoiced unless you add more products to your account. Otherwise, if the total value of products on your account falls below the minimum monthly commitment, you will be invoiced $150.00.

So minimum price of a service could change like that without notification? It seems quite harsh - as when I joined this is not what I signed up for. Now I have a month to transfer everything I have somewhere else or pay the extra fee. I offer email hosting for my client who host a website with me, so it's not that easy to grow my email client base that fast!

I'm surely not an expert coder, but I've work with the web since setting up BBS in the 90s. I've dabbled in react a few time only to find myself annoyed by it's complexity. I have a deep feeling that this type of framework is only a trend. It is changing the way we think about the web, and will surely inspire better way to code the web, but I feel the fad greatly surpass the usefulness of this new paradigm. I wonder how HN feels about it?

There is a lot of huge framework for big web projects, but there seems to be a need or a place for medium project. I've used Angular on some projects but it seems quite big complex and actually not needed for smaller sites. Ember.js is actually interesting even for smaller site, but still the complexity is a tad daunting.

I've used a mix of handlesbar.js and json for the content, but often feel limited and looking for some sort of small router, adding to that something like bootstrap, although heavy, creates a interesting minimal mix.

Is there something the wild that answer that need for smaller (few pages, gallery, contact form, maybe a minimal blog) type of site (and no not wordpress, lets keep it static)!

The time right after the Heartbleed bug is probably the best time to harvest a slew of password from everyone. I haven't seen it in the wild yet.

Hi there, I am learning the hard way how to manage client. I am in the end of a contract, well without any contract, with a client. I quote way under because I wasn't clear on the work that needed to be done. I am really late on delevery of the contract - client is pissed and angry. And I only received part of a security deposit. I probably should have step away from the contract months ago, but I stayed with the process in the feeling that the project was just about to be done.

One major problem that arose, is that the brief for the project wasn't complete. It was in the form of, 'We want that part like it was, but make these change' 'This part leave it as it was working on the site' 'This part you can remove'. So I had to learn the site itself without knowing really what I was doing. Now that site was half broken on it's way out, and now it's not working anymore, so I cannot have the bigger picture.

Now the client wants the site done. I am not sure when it will be done since I don't have a clear image. They don't want to pay until the site is done, I need food so I work on other project at the same time, which makes me a lot slower on delivering on that first project. I invested hundreds of hours on that project, so I feel like walking away would be a huge loss, but the time I spend on this project I cannot spend it on paying project...

That seems the typical, I just started to freelance and getting the learning experience in! What would HN do with that project? The remaining payment is around 10 000$, which is quite substantial for me.

I've been receiving more and more complains from my client that their mail is being block by apple, microsoft and google. It seems to become a trend to block shared hosting mail server from these big guys and why not? The more they block shared mail server the more people will sign up with microsoft mail, gmail and apple - so it's a win win situation for them.

I would prefer no to move to a public free service - but I understand that shared hosting doesn't provide the best mail server. Going all the way to run your own vps with your own mailserver seems probably a nice way to go about it, yet adds a lot of work and I am not sure I could charge for such a service to my client. It's not really in the culture to pay for mailserver service. What are people using here on HN? Are there reliable mail server service that make sure not to end up on spam listing, by monitoring the usage before it hits a spam cop site?