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danielpal

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Founder of @authy.

[my public key: https://keybase.io/danielpalacio; my proof: https://keybase.io/danielpalacio/sigs/6IbP9zIgcfG4IGS8esOH0FIkDLR6jmPyA5h2Kyxib4w ]

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danielpal··on Did PayPal Just Clone Stripe’s API Documentation?
Isnt this the default stylesheet of rocco? http://rtomayko.github.com/rocco/

Rocco is open-source.

danielpal··on Today's Outage Post Mortem
What is the alternative? Are you saying you can run a service without a DNS provider? You can always have multiple DNS service providers and CloudFlare is probably one of the best ones.
danielpal··on The Story of Bageshwori, Watsi's First Patient
With Watsi's 100% of funds going to patients and the fact that they make it so easy to donate, I decided last month to start donating 2% of my monthly income through Watsi. Basically at the start of each month I choose 2 campaigns and donate $50 on each. Is very easy, you should try it.

Whats I find even more interesting is that by end of year I'll donate $1,200. Which turns out to be roughly the amount of 1 life saving surgery in Nepal. So basically I'll save 1 life by the end of the year.

danielpal··on Business in a Box
"Open wirelessly from your iPad when paired with a receipt printer, as included in the Printing package."
danielpal··on Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
Slate is amazing, been using it for a few months. Biggest issue is it takes a bit of config to get it just right.

Here's my config file.

# Configs config defaultToCurrentScreen true config checkDefaultsOnLoad true config windowHintsShowIcons true config windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows false #config windowHintsDuration 5 config windowHintsSpread true #config windowHintsOrder persist config windowHintsFontColor 0;0;0;1.0 config windowHintsFontName Futura config windowHintsFontSize 70

bind e:cmd hint ASDFGHJKLQWERTYUIOPCVBN # use whatever keys you want

# Abstract positions alias full move screenOriginX;screenOriginY screenSizeX;screenSizeY alias lefthalf move screenOriginX;screenOriginY screenSizeX/2;screenSizeY alias righthalf move screenOriginX+screenSizeX/2;screenOriginY screenSizeX/2;screenSizeY alias topright corner top-right resize:screenSizeX/2;screenSizeY/4 alias bottomright corner bottom-right resize:screenSizeX/2;screenSizeY/4*3

bind down:ctrl ${bottomright} bind left:ctrl ${lefthalf} bind up:ctrl ${full} bind right:ctrl ${righthalf} bind ;:ctrl ${topright}

# Resize Bindings bind right:alt resize +8% +0 bind left:alt resize -8% +0 bind up:alt resize +0 -8% bind down:alt resize +0 +8% bind right:ctrl;alt resize -8% +0 bottom-right bind left:ctrl;alt resize +8% +0 bottom-right bind up:ctrl;alt resize +0 +8% bottom-right bind down:ctrl;alt resize +0 -8% bottom-right

danielpal··on Rap Genius responds to Heroku's apology
Not sure if this is called for. Heroku has a performance issue and their documentation had a mistake. They accepted everything, apologized and are working to resolve it. What am I missing here?
danielpal··on Virool (YC S12) Raises $6.62 Million “Seed” Round To Help Make Videos Go Viral
It's probably a seed round and not an A round from the terms the round was raised. Typically an A round comes with different terms like boards seats, lead investors, pro-rata right etc. Also A rounds are always priced rounds with stock issued. Seeds are normally not priced and instead debt (convertible note) is issued.
danielpal··on The Street Kids of San Francisco
Thanks Rohin! Your blog is one of my favorite things to read. Quite a change from the normal hacker news articles.
danielpal··on Bill Gates' AMA
Great! THANKS!
danielpal··on Bill Gates' AMA
Did you generate this automatically or did manually?. I've always wanted a better way to read AMA afterwards.
danielpal··on The Best Entrepreneurs Are Older, Have Less Ego
I am not sure if this study is accurate. It seems like 675+ companies is a good sample size, but I have yet to see a very successful Founder Institute Company, maybe Udemy?.

If this test is so accurate why aren't there bigger successes in Founder Institute?

I am not pro or against age. I actually believe it's probably not a very good indicator of success or lack of it. Age is probably a very weak indicator.

danielpal··on Meet Kirsty Nathoo, Y Combinator’s Secret Financial And Operational Weapon
People often underestimate how important the "back office" things are and how much help you get from an incubator. Apart from Kirsty, we've gotten a great amount of help from Jon Levy (YC lawyer) on legal stuff and of course Kirsty who's always sending us e-mail reminding us of taxes etc.
danielpal··on Announcing MoSQL
At no-point. Stripe is doing it right. They are using the right tool for each job. Mongo for storage speed etc and then postgres to analyze query etc.

This kind of comment shows how little knowledge you have about NoSQL and SQL. Is not a SQL vs NoSQL, it's about using the right technology for the job.

danielpal··on YouCompleteMe, a Fast, As-You-Type, Fuzzy-Search Code Completion Engine for Vim
Tried installing for 10 minutes. Awful documentation. Couldn't get it to work. Looks cool though.
danielpal··on Authy Brings Two-Factor Authentication To WordPress Sites
We'll reach out to them.
danielpal··on Authy Brings Two-Factor Authentication To WordPress Sites
Daniel from Authy here. Were a API company, but wanted to allow non-technical folks to also benefit from Two-Factor Authentication, thats why we built this plugin.

Ask me anything.

danielpal··on Twice
Also remember the Stock has gone more than tripled. SO $80 in cash and $80 in stock that would be really worth about 200M today. Now they bought the same team again with 7M of todays priced.
danielpal··on Squash
Looks good, I just wished it integrated with Github instead of having it's own UI. Github already has all the functionality the squash UI webserver has.
danielpal··on Causes Acquires Votizen To Democratize Democracy
Everything I read from the article makes it sound like you guys are a non-profit or at least run it as such?

Do you guys have plans or expect this company to ever monetize?

danielpal··on Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away
bundle update activesupport
danielpal··on Metasploit Rails 3 Remote Code Execution Hours Away
This is not going to be an SQL injection its going to be a remote code execution of anything you want.

Also expect that all network inspectors based on rules are going to miss it. You can serialize so many objects using YAML (Symbols, Objects, REGEXES, Structs, extend Kernel::HASH, etc..and I've only looked for a few hours), that there are going to be just too many attack vectors.

danielpal··on Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps
Here you can download the original trailer in 48FPS. Watch it at 2X Speed on VLC to see what 48FPS looks like.

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|931p5|868604620|The_Hobbit...

danielpal··on VCs Think My Boobs Need An Algorithm
You seem to imply that it is obvious that woman have to try bra's to buy them. But it's not, proof is that even woman ask this question:

https://www.google.com/search?oq=can+you+try+bras+at+store&#...

danielpal··on VCs Think My Boobs Need An Algorithm
I am not sure you can try out bra's in a store (I am a guy). I am just glad I know you can't try out boxers!
danielpal··on VCs Think My Boobs Need An Algorithm
What happens to the bra's that are returned? Unlike Warby Parker, I wouldn't mind trying a used pair of glasses but I doubt woman will be OK with used underwear(bra's).
danielpal··on How $100 Million Really Gets Donated, Mark Zuckerberg Style
What a terrible guy Zuckerberg is. He donates 100M to charity. Then he makes a lot of effort trying to get a platform to incentivate others to donate. Finally he convinces other millionaires to donate money and worst of all he tries to push them into donating more. What an awful guy..
danielpal··on Security Vulnerabilities in Heroku
WOW this was critical bug, you could basically change anyone password without authenticating and then authenticate as them.

I wish heroku would disclose this issues.

danielpal··on Why the "Series A Crunch" Might Be Good For Unsexy Seattle Startups
Why do you point this to referly instead of the actual article in: http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/28/the-series-a-crunch-is-hitt...

This is the second time I was pretty confused about the article. Last time same thing happened. It seemes you are pointing to a collection of articles and the top header has the title of the first article. I am still pretty confused as what this is.

danielpal··on FamilyLeaf (YC W12), The Social Network For You And Your Kin, Adds 4 Advisors
Been using FamilyLeaf for a couple of months and it's been great. All the family loves it and it's very "private" something we missed from Facebook.
danielpal··on Patio11 Wrote A Book On Conversion Optimization For Software Companies
I met patio11 at TwilioCon, and just chatting less that 20 minutes with him I learned a ton.

Needless to say, I just bought the book.

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