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by symkat 11y ago
You just captured my early teens -- I lived up and down Beach Blvd in the La Habra to Anaheim area from the time I was 5-6 until my mid-teens, and then spent a lot of time in Huntington Beach. I never really thought of it as the suburbs at
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by symkat 12y ago
If you're running a vulnerable version, (especially world-accessible,) you should upgrade and firewall off ES as soon as possible. I found about 10 different local privilege escalation exploits sitting in /tmp and a handful of rev
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CVE-2015-1427 Remote Code Execution in Elasticsearch(cve.mitre.org)
3 points by symkat 12y ago|1 comments
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by symkat 12y ago
Thank you, this decision was a great read, and I now have a better understanding how the school and legal systems in New York will challenge religious exemption to a level California seemingly does not. I think I found the judicial vernacul
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by symkat 12y ago
It seems to me like New York's current law is the same as California. From the article you linked: The state law provides two exemptions from the mandate, ... the second for "children whose parent, parents, or guardian hold genu
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Ask HN: What to do before charging customers?
3 points by symkat 12y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why have an administration domain?
4 points by symkat 12y ago|2 comments
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by symkat 12y ago
Choosing a language for a project rarely comes down to researching the languages that may best deal with the problem. More often than not from my experience, it’s what the first engineer(s) on the project thought would be fun (annoyingly o
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by symkat 14y ago
https://github.com/languages As primarily a Perl programer, I'd say there is a fairly even split between times I'm maintaining older code and writing new code in work environments. I've played with Ruby and Python a bit (by no means exte
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by symkat 14y ago
I'll try that. =) I changed the primary hero button to a "See How It Works" that links to the about page.
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by symkat 14y ago
Those are some great points: The service is free and all functionality that's currently in it will remain free. I plan to subsidize it through affiliate advertising. Currently the links to the Aria scale are aff links that give me 12% of
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by symkat 14y ago
http://www.weightgrapher.com/about Shows an example of the graphs and explanation of the site. Things not shown: side bar of that page displays your weight, weight this day last week, last month, and a prediction of where you will be one
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by symkat 14y ago
Not at the moment. I did open source the FitBit API I wrote for it: https://github.com/symkat/WebService-FitBit however it's incomplete (I only have API definitions for the calls I actually use). So, while it's open-sourced, it's not of
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Show HN: Project To Help Me Lose Weight
18 points by symkat 14y ago|14 comments
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by symkat 14y ago
I do this in terminals: cat > /dev/null Type whatever you want, then control-D to end.
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Ask HN: Presentation Software?
2 points by symkat 14y ago|1 comments
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by symkat 14y ago
One problem I've found with banning: the rare troll on things like IRC who will take the act of banning as an act of agression and engagement in a war of "how many of my IPs can you ban while I harass your channel." Those same people, ignor
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Of abusive behavior in programming communities(rjbs.manxome.org)
156 points by symkat 14y ago|73 comments
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200K WordPress sites hit with code injection(thehostingnews.com)
2 points by symkat 15y ago|0 comments
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by symkat 15y ago
I believe you can use http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll
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Show HN: I made a GitHub Flavored Markdown API
12 points by symkat 15y ago|4 comments
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by symkat 15y ago
Clickable: Linus Torvalds: http://i.imgur.com/SIE8o.png Paul Irish: http://i.imgur.com/z5Orl.png Ryan Dahl: http://i.imgur.com/1ooTY.png
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GitHire - All Ratings Change On Capitalization
3 points by symkat 15y ago|1 comments
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by symkat 15y ago
It seems like this will change anyone's rating to 50%: Linus Torvalds: http://i.imgur.com/SIE8o.png Paul Irish: http://i.imgur.com/z5Orl.png Ryan Dahl: http://i.imgur.com/1ooTY.png
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by symkat 15y ago
Some more (Transferring whole directories, multiplexing etc) http://www.symkat.com/ssh-tips-and-tricks-you-need
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by symkat 15y ago
MediaTemple's (ve) product line is pretty good, I host my blog there ( http://mediatemple.net/webhosting/ve/ ) and I use Linode for some stuff too.
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by symkat 15y ago
I made something similar last week ( http://image-roulette.com/ ), but it just uses imgur itself, instead of the reddit-curated images. I think your approach was better.
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by symkat 15y ago
I for one don't like default actions being taken away from me. I use ^N ^T and ^W constantly, and a page taking them away from me would be extremely annoying.
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by symkat 15y ago
I'd add that one of the best features of XHR Poster is that it uses your cookies and any authentication you've already performed in Chrome when sending the requests. I had to build an API that lived inside a system with entirely too many au
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by symkat 15y ago
This was a fun little project that started from a co-worker wanting to see random imgur files. I've just started playing with jQuery and JavaScript and this is the result so far. Imgur uses 5 chars alphanumerical ids as the image names, an

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