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swandive

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  1. story
    Ask HN: Best practices for alerting foreign authorities of credit card fraud

    We've caught someone in Vietnam using a stolen credit card to make a couple of purchases on our site. The genius used his work email. We contacted his employer, they confronted him…

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    Comment #9089343

    My idea is nothing like a call center. Each worker is their own boss. They decide when to work, and how hard they will work. The revenue they earn would be directly related to thei…

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    Comment #9089326

    So you'd SMS ODesk or Elance looking for a pizza?

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    Comment #9089188

    Idea to scale: As a non-coder, I love reading the responses of programers here. "Automate this!" "There is no way to scale." "This needs AI." As an outsider looking in, my idea to …

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    Comment #9024959

    He's now decided that the subdomain idea is a bad one, and that we'll run the site on Craft, stick the Laravel portion in a folder "browse" and use the .htaccess file to manipulate…

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    Comment #9012374

    Thanks again for all of your help.

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    Comment #9011405

    He told us that it wouldn't be possible to have Craft running as you mentioned though, and that we'd need to set up subdomains and have two instances of Craft running. One for blog…

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    Comment #9011390

    Thank you for your feedback!

  11. story
    Ask HN: Should we take our dev's advice?

    I am not a coder, and I would like to get HN’s advice. Our website is a marketplace for digital downloads. The entire system is built on Laravel, and we’re currently looking into o…

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    Comment #8848823

    It was.... https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=hover&src=typd

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    Comment #8848809

    .... and completely silent on Twitter. Argh.

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    Comment #8567495

    Not gonna lie, pretty lame of you to copy Soundkit's marketing efforts. Here and Product Hunt too? Too soon.

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    Comment #8528469

    Good job on these!

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    Ask HN: Why a surge in direct traffic after running a FB ad?

    Any ideas why we'd start receiving abnormal direct traffic to our site after testing out a Facebook ad for one day? Our traffic isn't huge, but on a typical day we receive around 3…

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    Comment #7573515

    No... CF sent the IP directly to LeaseWeb. Not me. They refuse to send it to me, but LeaseWeb refuses to take any manual action with it.

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    Comment #7572481

    Us too... Cloud Flare and LeaseWeb are not playing nice. LeaseWeb is asking Cloud Flare to give me the IP so that I can enter it into LeaseWeb's automated system, but Cloud Flare r…

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    Comment #7572466

    Because ummm... people are posting pirated files maybe? We've been fighting this battle for a month now.

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    Comment #7313398

    We did contact the site owner with all 15 DMCA's and never got a response. He's based in Turkey. Not sure if that helps to shelter him or not.

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    Comment #7313204

    Ugh. We're a very small company, and we don't exactly have tons of money to spend on a lawyer at this point.

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    Comment #7313128

    We did email LeaseWeb with CloudFlare's response, and we never heard back.

  24. story
    Ask HN: What to do when web hosts ignore DMCA's?

    It was brought to our attention that our files were being illegally posted on www.gfxtra.com. After researching the domain, we sent out 15 DMCA's for each file to both Cloud Flare …