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siong1987 | 8 years ago | on: Why Toys?

This is a really good post but it is disappointing that nowhere in the post it mentions Chris Dixon's post on this: http://cdixon.org/2010/01/03/the-next-big-thing-will-start-o...

siong1987 | 8 years ago | on: Byzantium Hard Fork Announcement

This isn't something that is forced. All of these are planned from the beginning. Frontier -> Homestead -> Metropolis -> Serenity.

siong1987 | 8 years ago | on: Filecoin Suspends ICO After Raising $186M in One Hour

This isn't correct, you can actually fund the Filecoin ICO with cash(USD), BTC, and also ETH[1] as long as you are an accredited investor.

1. https://coinlist.co/static/media/How-to-Invest.0a9f70b4.pdf

siong1987 | 8 years ago | on: SoundCloud cuts jobs, closes SF and London offices

Hi Aaron, sorry to hear that :(

Prefer(https://prefer.com) is looking at hiring both frontend engineer and product designer in both NY and SF. We are a Benchmark-backed company working on rebuilding the service professional marketplace.

Feel free to reach out, my email is siong [at] prefer [dot] com.

siong1987 | 9 years ago | on: Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastructure

Where do you get that 10% from?

From the article...

"Google doesn’t break out revenues from its cloud infrastructure, choosing to lump it in with other non-advertising businesses like hardware and Google Play sales. But that segment totaled $3.4 billion in sales in the most recent quarter."

Assuming that all $3.4 billion is for cloud revenue last quarter, that is still less than 10% for last quarter ($400m/4 = $100m).

siong1987 | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2016?

isn't that funded?

siong1987 | 9 years ago | on: Japanese writing system basics

you are right: http://dictionary.hantrainerpro.com/chinese-english/translat...

siong1987 | 10 years ago | on: Firebase expands to become a unified app platform

For Authentication, it will be cool to have something like Twitter Digits(https://get.digits.com/) or Facebook Account Kit(https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit), which is basically SMS authentication without password.

siong1987 | 10 years ago | on: Introducing DGit

http://githubengineering.com/counting-objects/

Under "Your own fork of Rails", you will see how it actually works. The answer to your question is "no, they don't store 3 copies of the same repo".

siong1987 | 10 years ago | on: Venmo Five Years Ago

Yes, Square Cash is beautiful but I don't agree with you that the app is elegant and effortless.

3 annoying parts about the app:

- lack of built-in calculator, the Venmo's bulit-in calculator makes it really easy to calculate the split between friends.

- constant prompt for security code in order to pay someone.

- expired requests, there should be a way for me to see all the requests instead of going to each friend page to see the request.

siong1987 | 10 years ago | on: YC Research

How liquid YC equity is?

I assume that by getting google stock, someone can sell them easily in the public market. But how does it work with YC equity?

siong1987 | 11 years ago | on: Google Fiber Austin

MonkeyBrains is currently offering Gigabit wireless in SF[1] on Indiegogo, $2500 setup fees and $30 monthly. estimated delivery date is early February next year.

1: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/gigabit-wireless-to-the-h...

siong1987 | 11 years ago | on: The New GitHub Issues

just one quick feedback - it will be awesome if the whole bar is clickable instead of just the title of the issue.

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: Y Combinator Reaches Farther Beyond Silicon Valley

YC will try to help on this as much as possible. We have a YC-International mailing list for international founders who have to deal with visa problem. In most cases, one or more founders who were from the previous batches will be able to help because they were in the same situation before.

There isn't a one-size-fits-all solution for this. Once you are accepted, it helps to reach out to the mailing list(or other sources) to figure this out as soon as possible.

I was in the summer 09 batch, thing may have changed since then.

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: How to make fake data look meaningful

You didn't actually clean up the data that you have tho.

Another flaw of your analysis is that you didn't look at where the founders went to school for their undergraduate/graduate(this probably doesn't matter).

I opened up the CSV and searched for "Urbana"(UIUC, where I went to school for) and counted 28 founders. In fact, some "University of Illinois" should match to UIUC too but I ignored those (for example, ZocDoc CTO).

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: HN Notify

I created HNMention (http://www.hnmention.com/) a while back.

It will notify you when someone mentions you in comment like how mention works on Twitter (@username).

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: Cloudup acquired by Automattic

It took a while. CloudUp was a pivot from LearnBoost which was a product that they had been running for years.

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: Webhooks Are Magic

There isn't a standard way of authenticating the incoming notification yet. I like how Mailgun is doing it, to verify the webhook is originating from Mailgun you need to:

  * Concatenate timestamp and token values.
  * Encode the resulting string with the HMAC algorithm (using your API Key as a key and SHA256 digest mode).
  * Compare the resulting hexdigest to the signature.
  * Optionally, you can check if the timestamp is not too far from the current time.

So, you essentially get 3 extra parameters from your webhook, `timestamp`, `token` and `signature`. Obviously, the API key is the shared secret here between your app and Mailgun.

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: Formance.js – Library for formatting and validating form fields

There is the jQuery Plugin Registry (http://plugins.jquery.com/). There aren't many people using it tho.

There is also a really simple guideline to publish your plugin there: http://plugins.jquery.com/docs/publish/

Currently, there is no way to review which plugin is better. But at least it shows the number of watchers for each plugin, which can be an okay indicator whether a plugin is good or bad.

siong1987 | 12 years ago | on: English has been my pain for 15 years

Not just Italian, same applies to Mandarin too.

Mandarin speakers from different regions (Hong Kong, Taiwan, different parts of China, Malaysia, Singapore) speak in different accents but we usually don't have problem understanding each other (yeah, sometimes we make fun of the different accents).