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by mustpax 15y ago
I usually set up my SSH autocompletes to read from known_hosts. The problem is that on some systems, like say Debian, the hostnames are hashed for security reasons. So you have to add the following line to your .ssh/config to get the hostna
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by mustpax 15y ago
Whatever gave you the idea that 7000+ karma entitles you to anything on HN?
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by mustpax 15y ago
Neutrality does not require passivity and inaction. In fact, it requires that you actively distance yourself from politicized parties so that your neutrality is not called into question. GoDaddy has, of their own accord, become a politicize
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by mustpax 15y ago
In the US, felony criminal proceedings are initiated by a grand jury at the recommendation of the District Attorney. Megaupload can file a criminal complaint, but the DA has a lot of freedom in deciding to put the case in front of a grand j
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by mustpax 15y ago
Bertrand Russell wrote an essay to the same effect in 1935. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Idleness_and_Other... The idea that we no longer need as much labor to sustain ourselves is nothing new. But it appears that we're compl
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by mustpax 15y ago
"Copies never, ever achieve the success of the thing they copied." Windows blatantly copied the Macintosh but in pure financial terms was a much greater success. Still, you need to bring some insight into the market besides "leveraging" you
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by mustpax 15y ago
Like any cryptosystem, Bitcoin has a fixed shelf life. As algorithms and attacks evolve, the cryptographic hash function that forms its core will eventually become obsolete will need to be replaced. We know this. The question is, can we bui
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by mustpax 15y ago
Yes, I did miss it. But you'll notice I did not use the word deletionism once in my comment so that's kinda besides the point. The more important issue is that bureaucracy is making Wikipedia unusable for casual users (philwelch also says a
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by mustpax 15y ago
You missed the part where the author provided several citations of publications mentioning the unnotable person and books published by the said person. He also goes on to state, if the goal of Wikipedia is to encourage subject matter expert
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by mustpax 15y ago
As a foreigner it is absolutely fascinating to me how sound the basic tenets of the American justice system are and yet the system itself manages to be flawed and bizarrely vindictive. These arson convictions sure take a very interesting vi
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by mustpax 15y ago
That's actually a good question. The lack of buffer overflow vulnerabilities does make interpreted languages safer to a point. Still anything that listens on an open port shouldn't run as root, there are still plenty of vulnerabilities besi
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by mustpax 15y ago
No. It's about time we stop letting the financial industry get away with incompetence. Every other software vendor would be raked over coals for not having a publicly available security disclosure email address and utterly failing to proper
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by mustpax 15y ago
Yahoo owns a roughly 39% stake in Alibaba which is by far the most valuable asset on Yahoo's books. Alibaba has been wanting to repurchase this stake for a while now. With Yahoo so cheap, buying the whole company might be the easiest way to
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by mustpax 15y ago
By terminate I mean Amazon's doing the SSL certificate verification on AWS and reestablishes a new connection (with SPDY) that they themselves sign. In this case, Amazon will be free to read and modify all data in flight, defeating the whol
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by mustpax 15y ago
To be fair, blocking the whole AWS/EC2 ip range is not being a very good web citizen. Surely there are better ways of detecting and throttling bots?
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by mustpax 15y ago
When intercepting a regular HTTP session Silk is no more of a MITM attack than any ISP out there. I trust Amazon more than I trust AT&T or Verizon. What disturbs me is that Amazon Silk will terminate SSL on their end by default. * This
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Netflix, Qwikster and the impending introduction premium pricing(paksoy.net)
1 points by mustpax 15y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 15y ago
This is a great article but your headline distracts from it. I know using "HackerNews #1" in your title might increase click-throughs, but what does "HackerNews #1 Groove on branding" even mean?
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by mustpax 15y ago
Thanks for that reference, turns out OP absolutely wrong: Subsequently, regulation SOR-89-253 (published in the 4 February 1989 issue of the Canada Gazette, pages 498-502) eliminated licence requirements for all radio and TV receivers, eli
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by mustpax 15y ago
Some folks here are posting 'but doesn't the radio infringe?' and the answer is no, since they have an agreement with the radio and radio manufacturers. Oh, I didn't know you needed a license to manufacture radio receivers, care to provid
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Show HN: Simple staging on Heroku(paksoy.net)
4 points by mustpax 15y ago|0 comments
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by mustpax 15y ago
The part about the WebSocket connection close handshake is pretty valid. The spec should clarify the expected behavior when the underlying TCP connection is terminated prematurely. You probably want to restart the connection automatically s
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by mustpax 15y ago
Well written article but this password scheme is neither convenient nor feasible for lay persons. You have to remember 5 different passwords and also remember which websites belong each category. If you're an active enough internet user tha
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by mustpax 15y ago
I don't think the proper way to thank This American Life is to pester them about a data format that less than 1% of their audience can use. Idealism needs to be tempered with practicality and radicals like RMS make all patent reformists l
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by mustpax 15y ago
HP employees, sure, but how does this give webOS developers any idea or confidence about the platform's future? It's all sterile, non-committal corporate speak. Yes, they are going to keep building it, but I'll be damned if I can figure out
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by mustpax 15y ago
This interview makes HP look depressingly uninspiring. Hundreds of words just talking about how Palm/webOS GBU (Global Business Unit?) fits into HP and who's got the most synergy mojo. Who wants to hear this much about internal hand-wringin
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by mustpax 15y ago
Rdio.com works in Canada, though you do occasionally run into artists/albums that are not "available in your region."
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by mustpax 15y ago
So glad that Michael Krigsman of ZDNet has finally spoken on this issue. Enterprise software pundits are truly a gleaming beacon of wisdom and insight in this dark world of technology.
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by mustpax 15y ago
This isn't quite about gifting because a gift is given only expecting goodwill in return. This is more like an "on-demand personal assistant", which is a cool idea but would be even better with a name that conveys its true purpose.
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by mustpax 15y ago
Three words: distributed hash table. Erlang has numerous well worn libraries and packages that provide this functionality. The fact that you are even thinking about creating a single process to handle all lookups means you don't understand

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