kniwor

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by kniwor 17y ago
I am surprised no one's mentioned http://www.thesixtyone.com/ yet...
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by kniwor 17y ago
They might be not from the US?
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by kniwor 17y ago
Firefox history shows only page titles and I am always glad for the "Hacker News |". Though I wouldn't mind it being shortened to "HN|". But then again, page titles are prominently picked up by google and the ilk, so I suppose that will h
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by kniwor 17y ago
For a web app, what is the least painful way to achieve internationalization? What language/framework would you use if you were writing a fresh one from scratch? I had tried to convert a php web-app to handle utf8 correctly through and thro
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by kniwor 17y ago
I did the same, except it's been a month and I am still waiting for the documents to arrive. Director registration took a week and then name verification itself took another couple of weeks. :(
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by kniwor 17y ago
Duck. Rubber duck actually... ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging )
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by kniwor 17y ago
Fair enough. I guess I will just have to learn to take HN articles on science with much much bigger grains of salt.
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by kniwor 17y ago
This got posted to slashdot and from the discussion there, it appears likely that this is not true. http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1401739&cid=... http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1401739&cid=... We had a
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by kniwor 17y ago
Oh I know and use a lot of their open source software but what has that got to do with fb connect? "FB connect" is a session management and authentication product from facebook. I find it obnoxious. It is pretty much literally the antithe
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by kniwor 17y ago
Yea... That page is next to useless. Had heard of them a while ago and thought they would have more write up then that on their home page. Anyway, this is very simple to do. You first create a server that can authenticate you just for itse
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by kniwor 17y ago
Also facebook to the best of my knowledge is not an openid provider.
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by kniwor 17y ago
https://www.myopenid.com/tutorial Is that good enough?
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by kniwor 17y ago
This can be easily done using openid. Openid providers are free to authenticate you any which way including exotic means like those. Here's an implementation in private beta: http://pgpopenid.com/
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by kniwor 17y ago
Good openid providers like wordpress train their users not to expect a login page on anything a authenticating website redirects them to.
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by kniwor 17y ago
Your initial concerns are addressed by openid "personas". myopenid.com has them implemented and is free (or you could set up your own server to achieve it). https://www.myopenid.com/help#personas Your later concerns are solved by openid
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by kniwor 17y ago
OAuth and openid solve totally different problems. Openid is federated login and oauth is about authorizing access.
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by kniwor 17y ago
In fact, FB connect is pretty much the antithesis of openid. Openid is open, federated and gives user control. FB connect is closed, centralized and basically allows FB to play big brother.
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by kniwor 17y ago
In case you really want to just replicate your old workflow, look up personas and openid delegation. Together they should resolve all your problems. https://www.myopenid.com/help#personas https://www.myopenid.com/help#own_domain
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by kniwor 17y ago
I hope this helps. I think the problem with writing simple introductions to openid is that it just offers too many options and it is difficult to decide how to approach. Here is an equivalent but by no means equal workflow[a]. Pre0. Choose
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by kniwor 17y ago
New login. There is a new login on your profile page. That will allow you to associate an alternate openid. You can swap alternate and primary openid on the profile page and every new login overwrites your primary openid.
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by kniwor 17y ago
> I would explain further, but since you don't seem to bother to read carefully, I won't take the time. That's not fair. I discarded 2 long drafts of the reply above and went with the most succinct one I could find. This is exactly w
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by kniwor 17y ago
I haven't come across a scenario where openid did not work. Care to elaborate? I think of openid as the git of the login systems. Elegant in it's simplicity but comes with a minor learning curve and the benefits of climbing the learning c
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by kniwor 17y ago
So, to summarize, inertia. Nothing wrong with that but that just says you are a late adopter as far as this technology is concerned. My stackoverflow is not inextricably linked to anything. My identity is my own home page (which by itself i
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by kniwor 17y ago
> [OT]the taj mahal in the logo might not have been the best idea. historically, taj mahal represents the muslim occupation of india -- a dark period for the nation From HN guidelines: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics
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by kniwor 17y ago
This might be way out there but have you investigated what the cost of going to another country and getting treatment there would be? You already have a correct diagnosis. You sort of know what needs to be done and only need docs qualified
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by kniwor 17y ago
You are not passing the current shell state though. So you could start 3 new shell processes with enough data to set the state right and then start the individual processes but that is both inelegant and inefficient. Instead if we fork thr
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by kniwor 17y ago
Here is a use case... We have a shell that must execute $ cmd_a | cmd_b | cmd_c The simplest way for the shell to accomplish this request is to fork itself multiple times. Doing so without fork would be difficult. I figure since m
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by kniwor 17y ago
I think you hit the nail on it's head in the later part of your comment. I think what is killing reddit is that funny attracts 10x votes when insightful attracts x and lately that is exactly what is happening here. But I don't think this
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by kniwor 17y ago
In fact I will go as far as to say that the ideal interface would be one that let me specify what the ideal score of every comment should be and my vote should be counted as an upvote if its below that value and a downvote if its above that
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by kniwor 17y ago
But now I cant quickly skim off information from a thread. There are 87 comments in this thread at this moment. I am not interested in reading 87 comments about this experiment. I am however very much interested in seeing what the top fe

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