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Re: Show HN: Bananalert

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I would find an avocado alert more useful but sub-second accuracy for short time before they are over ripe might prove difficult to implement.

I thought the same thing. I love avacodos, but I've given up purchasing them because I'm so bad at finding the millisecond they are ready to eat before they turn to mush.

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post #46

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If you're studying security and you think TOR will work to get you past corporate firewalls... good luck out there. Keep studying.

Tor with a bridge on port 443 (or even 80) will get past anything that only blocks non-standard ports.

Tor also has a clever thing called "pluggable transport" that was made to solve exactly this problem.

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I've started buying them when they're very hard (Costco sells them by the bag) and then waiting for them to ripen at home. This keeps them from getting bruised by other shoppers. So far, I've had good luck with them being ripe and good for about 3 days.

Yes, this is absolutely the secret to awesome avocados. Buy the unripe ones--the ones shoppers aren't squeezing to death--and let them ripen over a few days. Then, a few days before you run out, go grab the next batch.

Adding more agreement to this, grab them hard and green then store in a dark (room temp) place. 4-5 days and should be good to go

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post #13

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Yeah I don't get these corporate firewalls, as a cyber security student I've yet to see a single occasion where blocking a port has helped block an attack rather than annoy powerusers (or normal users also, occasionally). So that's why I use https://torproject.org/download the whole day and never have any trouble with blocked sites (e.g. Pastebin; Slideshare) or blocked ports (e.g. :8080 was used today by some random…

If you're studying security and you think TOR will work to get you past corporate firewalls... good luck out there. Keep studying.

Thanks for the snarky remark, but I posted that post via Tor from inside the corporate firewall. In fact I mentioned that I use it the whole day. If that doesn't prove it works, I don't know what should.

The whole point of the Tor network is that anyone can access the Internet through it uncensored, regardless of countries' or corporate firewalls.

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post #49

Nice! I went bananas when I saw the page. Started to monkey around with the settings. And I went baboom when I saw that it would text me. /* Engage HN filter / How do you plan to monetize this? This is clearly ripe for disrupting the fuits/supermarket economy. Like an Uber but for fruits. I think you should email, tweet, instagram, like, share, deck and meet Paul Graham in order to get into Y combinator. This will be…

This could be of so much help when MarsOne guys stranded on Mars will need to know if they can eat their bananas! For once there will be some science in their project.
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