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This is in light of this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2485098 And this comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486093 The answer(s) to this question may be a f…

If you insist on using fast hashes, a double salt double hash sandwich is what I use. sha1($Salt . sha1($Food . $Salt)) Something like this should be used at a minimum - maybe even…

What in the world are you people downloading all the time to be using that much bandwidth?

AWESOME article. His daughter's gonna do something big one day. If you’re not careful, I scold, you will become indoctrinated in the implicit assumptions of a scientific community,…

On a similar note... Man I can hardly wait for the day bureaucratic processes are mostly automated with human input at a minimum, only as required. Everything will become so much m…

No. From what I understand, hashify does no intensive server side processing beyond providing the functions that allow the visitor to process the encoded string on its end; i.e., a…

I agree. You shouldn't be getting downvoted either. Conscious manipulation of people (especially those close to you) is unethical. And if they figure out you're doing it... you can…

I know these kinds of comments are typically frowned upon... but I can't help it. THIS IS FREAKING AWESOME! As a professional musician (and computer engineer) I can pretty much imm…

What if I just add a place for visitors to donate and in return for donations I offer an arbitrarily small percentage of the company that just so happens to be proportional to the …

Is stock exchange not automated for the most part? People can buy and sell their stocks with pretty much just the click of a button. That's essentially what I'm looking for.

Suppose I want to set up an area on my startup's homepage for pretty much anyone to invest in my company - whether it's $5 or $5,000,000 - and in return they of course get a percen…

Great comment... but am I the only one who is slightly bothered by the inconsistent capitalization? :|

Yeah what's up with that?! I think in this day and age people are more than capable of being both highly creative and logical.

Upvoted solely for "keep 'em coming!" This article was truly awesome. I'm kicking myself for having not thought of it before because it seems like such a simple concept! Makes me w…

I've never played StarCraft but I would totally play that. That actually looked like a lot of fun. Make it happen Blizzard!

There's gotta be quite a few auto submission bots going on here... cough TechCrunch cough ...not that I have any problem with it. I'm just amazed at how quickly TechCrunch (and sim…