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)!