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* Past: Founder of an enterprise software startup acquired for $50M+ without VC funding

* Current: Project 2020 (2020.io) whose mission is to become the decade's most impactful new tech platform

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/2020_io; my proof: https://keybase.io/2020_io/sigs/H4FaQBSoNZDyVTbGYsMV_lYse6jP8qHMSJ3gx7xKrfE ]

  1. Scribd Puts My Old Uploads Behind a Paywall and Goes Onto My Shitlist (blog.ericgoldman.org)
    294 points 110
  2. Ask HN: How do you send mails from Amazon EC2?

    I'm using Amazon EC2 to host a web server, but Amazon EC2's IP address space is blocked by Trend Micro MAPS DUL (http://securecloud.com/help/en/about_the_dul.html). Given that sending emails from a web server is often…

    8 points 9
  3. Using temporary IPs in the cloud considered harmful

    Here's an amusing hobby: 1. Start Amazon EC2 instances (or any other cloud service) 2. Use something like honeyd to listen on all ports 3. Wait for random activity associated with the previous owner of the EC2 instance…

    32 points 22