Posts Tagged with ‘Hacker-News’

Someone on Hacker News was kind enough to post a link to a patent application filed under Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's name. The application, filed with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) in February, has a fairly generic description, "Systems and methods for dynamically generating a privacy summary" with the abstract not giving a whole lot more detail:
"A system and method for dynamically generating a privacy summary is provided. The present invention provides a system and method [...]

Oldgregg from Hacker News reported that a friend found a gaping security hole in Tumblr. He and the friend dutifully reported it to Tumblr, then posted it as either news or a warning to other developers that you should always check, double-check, and re-double-check your app's security.
The hole is a pretty big one. By logging into your own Tumblr account, and then manually appending /admin to your URL, you could access the admin panel for the application. Looking up user [...]

Meet Emad Ibrahim. He's a software architect. He quit his job last month to start his own company.
I found his blog via Hacker News, and started following, mainly because I am fascinated by anyone quitting a job to start a company. I personally can't imagine having the money to live on, much less the courage, to do it.
I figured maybe this time next year there would be an announcement of a demo of something. Possibly an invite-only alpha I could [...]

This post really should have a subtitle of “What should you be doing when it comes to customer service?” because it's one of the most crucial ways that a company can screw it up. Mistakes happen, and it's often overwhelming dealing with unhappy or unsatisfied customers. But meeting at least a bare minimum expectation can go a long way toward increasing a user base, and going the extra mile goes even farther.
I can think of several instances where companies have [...]

Tired of the news you are finding on Digg and Slashdot? Convinced that you are smarter than the combined user base of those two and Fark? Numbrosia thinks they have the solution: merit-based news submissions.
With Numbrosia, gone are the “everyone votes” models of Digg and Fark, as well as the editorial control of Slashdot. Instead, your submission gets floated or sunk based on merit. Users earn merit points based on their daily score earned completing the logic puzzles on the [...]