kogir

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   by kogir 12y ago

   Because we made a mistake that is now fixed? It was definitely not intentional.
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   by kogir 12y ago

   Make sure never to commit to a public git repo either. (Edit) In all seriousness though, we're really bummed this happened and wish it hadn't. We do code reviews and try our best to prevent this kind of thing from happening. That
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   by kogir 12y ago

   Had it happened in all cases, I'd have noticed it (I hope!) before pushing it to the live site. This was a case of rare error handling having unintended side effects. The profiles were only published in one very unlikely case.
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   Tell HN: Hacker News Profile Leak (Fixed)

   170 points by kogir 12y ago|62 comments
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   by kogir 12y ago

   HN runs on SoftLayer and I've been happy with them so far.
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   by kogir 12y ago

   The dark fiber probably isn't near you. If it is, you can usually lease it and trench to your house. Most people don't do this because even after the one time trench fee, leasing the line and connecting at an exchange are just exp
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   by kogir 12y ago

   This seems to happen with CloudFlare pretty regularly. Has it resolved itself? I'll follow up with them.
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   by kogir 12y ago

   The API returns JSON values per RFC 4627 and RFC 7159. null is a valid value. This allows clients to request only what they want: Entire item: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/8422599.json Just one prope
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   by kogir 12y ago

   I set things up so I could actually run their whole JS SDK and talk to it from C#.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    If you use the Firebase iOS library they handle it all and use an efficient bidirectional streaming protocol.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    I guess you don't use HN very often. We fixed that in nearly all cases a few months ago :)
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    by kogir 12y ago

    It's not going to be soon :(
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Just pushed the ability to subscribe to all changes and new items: https://github.com/HackerNews/API/blob/master/README.md#live...
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Also, while they don't have a Windows Phone API I previously wrote a COM Windows Scripting API to use it via Chackra from an ASP.Net app. I think it's even easier now that JS is a supported app language.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Yes. While with HTTP pipelining you can request them all over a single TCP connection using a single SSL session, you will need to make an HTTP request for each item you want. If you're on a supported platform, the Firebase SDKs handle
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Trust me, their rate limit will be much higher than anything we'd easily be able to provide.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    We decided email would be better until we got a feel for things. Updated. Examples are coming soon, but we didn't want to make people wait.
18. 318.▲
    by kogir 12y ago

    Oops. Thanks for letting me know!
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    by kogir 12y ago

    The current Model S only has one motor.
20. 320.▲
    by kogir 12y ago

    This is a well known problem with early, cheap, or non TRIM-enabled SSDs. Why do you ask?
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    by kogir 12y ago

    I like open-ear headphones like the Sennheiser HD650 because I don't have to take them off to talk to people, and at reasonable volumes they don't leak enough sound to annoy anyone nearby.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    geli, FileVault, BitLocker To Go - depends quite a bit on what OS needs to read it. TrueCrypt was (and perhaps still is) the best cross-platform option.
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    Racket mode for GNU Emacs(github.com)

    99 points by kogir 12y ago|11 comments
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    by kogir 12y ago

    The current plan is to refresh SUS applications just like we have YC applications. Much will be different.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Anyone who applied multiple times will get an email for each account with a valid email address. We should have checked for that both to prevent mixups and gaming the system. Next time.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    You should operate under the assumption you could lose your computer at any point, for a variety of reasons. It's far more likely you'll drop it, spill something, lose it, or have it stolen. I keep everything important elsewhere.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    What makes you think that because it's inside the CS department it's limited to engineering students? At Stanford any student can register for nearly any class.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    I was Loopt's CTO and would use Microsoft's stack again, especially now. Not everything was perfect, but C#, F# and SQL Server are great, updates rarely broke anything, and security updates came regularly and promptly.
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    by kogir 12y ago

    Amazon's Route 53 now supports registration and has an API. http://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/reg...
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    by kogir 12y ago

    I regularly boot to Windows 8.1 and use Visual Studio 2013 Update 3. It's great at native resolution, but also looks fine at 125% or 150% scaling.