3into10power5's comments

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: AWS continues to charge me even though a hacker uses my account

There is a shitty think called "Card refresh". Big companies can have deals with Credit card companies, because, at the end of the day, both of them need your money.

Lets say, you gave your card automatic monthly billing to company 'X'. You would normally expect that when card expires, it won't be billed anymore and they will ask you for new card details. The reality is company 'X' goes to credit card company and tells them "We have these card details with us. Everything except expiry date is same. So you can conclude that we legitimately obtained the card details. Can you give us the new card details. We will update the account accordingly. It is even useful to the customer as he will be (cough cough) inconvenienced."

I think something similar happened in your case. Source: I implemented this in a big e-commerce company(Not AMZN).

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Cash Back Credit Card Comparison

Thanks very much floatingatoll

This is way better than reading endless blogspots and searching on google. How much time did you invest into making this?

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the US to India, what's your experience?

No pay cut really. He went at director level in a fortune 500 company.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the US to India, what's your experience?

Had a friend who went back recently. Life outside work is good. Closer to family, all daily chores are taken care of by maids and servants. But w.r.t work, you don't get enough number of quality people. They still need hand holding or "push". Most people are smart but do not know how to deliver end to end.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do I build email server like AWS Ses

Dovecot email server may be a good starting point?

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Chinese TechCrunch Rival 36Kr Is Said to Plan Overseas IPO

But its still owned by Verizon through Verizon Media aka (Ex-Yahoo+AOL)

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 1

World has changed in last five years.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 1

Asked the same question above also. How would this be different from whatsapp group?

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s W19 Demo Day 1

How would this be different from whatsapp group?

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are CS topics covered in school, that aren't learned in the wild?

Scaling a webservice. Understanding graphs.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Launch HN: Bottomless (YC W19) – Coffee Restocked with a Smart Scale

This question gets asked for every company. The way it works is that Amazon and Instacart. may copy. But walmart and target will be slow to respond. At some point, Amazon will be ahead in the game and Walmart is in a hurry to bring something similar to buy. Then they will acquire Bottomless

Another way, even if Amazon introduces it, they have to make $x billion from it to be viable. If Bottomless makes $100M per year from this funtionality, they are a good business. Meanwhile they can also rake up a few patents thus making forcing Amazon to pay some fees

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

Religious BS

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Farewell from Waffle

Instructive when using SAAS. >>In the summer of 2014, we accidentally deleted everyone’s “In Progress” column from their board. And not just the ones in English either…. After 2 feverish hours of scripting, MongoDB ninjary, and Google Translating, the columns were back and we decided we should not attempt to ship anything else that day.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Show HN: Chalkscore – Glassdoor for Education

Dang,how in the world do you read so many comments and also maintain HN? Any tips/your workflow will be appreciated.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: “HackerNoon is leaving Medium, but also trying to take rights for people's work”

I think we can be sure they won't do it because of GDPR.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Lesser-Known Search Engines That Are Worth Checking Out

I asked this the other day. But I am asking again as I didn't get an answer. Suppose I want to make a small niche improvement on top of existing search engines. I want to them to provide first level results and then I will provide additional filters on top. For example, I would get the results from Bing for example, and then remove all websites which are ad supported.

How should I go forward with this plan? Are there any APIs available? Or should I put on a biz dev hat and talk to Bing guys?

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams

Grandparent asked about outage. Not about going out of business.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Launch HN: GoLinks (YC W19) – Internal short links for teams

Congrats. I used this funtionality in a couple of companies I worked and its neat. Never thought someone could make a business out of it. Especially, since ever tech company's favourite question is "Design a URL shortener"!!

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Treat Medicines Like Netflix Treats Shows

Well big ailments I would mind too. But small ones like fever or flu, I am ok particularly because its much less time consuming and much cheaper.

3into10power5 | 7 years ago | on: Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight

Not true. I recently tried booking a flight on Cathay Pacific. Their price was $50 more than Kayak/Orbitz. I asked how come? They said, Kayak/Orbitz buy in bulk from Cathay Pacific so, they offer some discounts sometimes. For cathay pacific, they guaranteed income, whether or not tickets are sold.