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lightwinon I Lost My $50k Twitter Username (2014)

Have you considered Cloudflare? They also provide domain registration services [1] in addition to DNS hosting.

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/en-ca/products/registrar/

lightwinon After 6 months of working fine, Tesla software update drives at barriers again

>> Another reason pacemakers are not comparable is that pacemakers do not present anything like the potential threat to third parties that self-driving cars do.

Unless the person wearing pacemaker is driving a non-self-driving car.

lightwinon Bring Your Custom Image to DigitalOcean

Its their own blog. I think its ok to be writing about every feature they build on the blog even if its a simple feature.

lightwinon Surviving the App Store

calibre [1] is also a pretty good open source tool, however there is a bit of work involved to convert html pages into epub.

[1] https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/faq.html#how-do-i-convert-a...

lightwinon Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’

Apple does not sell to us, we buy from Apple :)

lightwinon Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

We undervalue ourselves most of the time.

We overestimate our fears most of the time.

An idea is nothing. Execution is everything.

lightwinon Ask HN: What has the past 12 months taught you?

Can you elaborate a bit please?

lightwinon Geolocating requests with Google Load Balancer for free

AWS added geolocation to cloudfront in 2014.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2014/06/26/amazon...

lightwinon Geolocating requests with Google Load Balancer for free

Just realized that Cloudflare also provides IP Geolocation, even for free plan.[1] However it only provides ISO country code of the visitors.

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200168236-W...

lightwinon Amazon's Fake Review Problem

So looks like this product is now marked #1 New Release by Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077N5LCP3/

F rating on fakespot, and 1500 visibly fake 5-star reviews. Innocent customers have already started falling in trap and you can notice that from recently created 1 star reviews. How many customers will be burned before the overall rating will go down due to real reviews?

lightwinon Amazon's Fake Review Problem

If Fakespot is able to spot the fake reviews, Amazon could have also utilized the similar tech. What stops them?

lightwinon Amazon's Fake Review Problem

Just today I was trying to find some earphones on amazon and came across following seller page.

https://www.amazon.ca/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dap...

Almost all of their products have 500-600 reviews and all are 5 star, not even a single one is less than 5 stars. Moreover, most of reviews are created in November 2017 and each reviewer has left couple of 5-star reviews only for same seller's product within a week.

These fake reviews could have been detected by even a basic detection system. Not sure why Amazon has not already detected and removed them.