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Ysxon “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”

I'll negate this by taking the opposite position, and similarly having no facts or references.

Ysxon Microsoft says 40 percent of all VMs in Azure now are running Linux

Versus open source AWS? Google Cloud?

Ysxon AWS Training and Certification Portal

Did you have an opinion on this post?

Ysxon A Simple Pattern for Jobs and Crons on AWS

> [...] I can't find a Python library for validating the signature. Not even AWS's flagship API client (boto3) has the functionality.

I wrote validatesns [1] for this, give it a try!

(Not sure why there's an official PHP validator but not Python...)

[1] https://github.com/nathforge/validatesns

Ysxon Honest status reporting and AWS service status “truth” in a post-truth world

Frustration is understandable, though reliance on a single AZ is a known and well-documented failure mode. You have to share the blame.

http://d0.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/architecture/AWS_Well-Ar...

"Best practices: Multi-AZ / Region. Distribute application load across multiple Availability Zones / Regions"

Ysxon Show HN: Your precise age updated live

Have tried similar, and included a widget on my phone's home screen. Moved too slowly to be motivating/demotivating, though could be interesting longer-term.

Ysxon Elastic PyPI: your own Python Package Index on AWS Lambda

Binary uploads are a new APIG feature[1] awaiting Serverless support[2].

Surprised WWW-Authenticate headers aren't passed through. May be possible with custom authorizers[3], though it's extra complexity.

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[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/binary-support-for-api-...

[2] https://github.com/serverless/serverless/issues/2797

[3] http://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/...

Ysxon Pushing your website to Android without an app

It's a quiet notification - no sounds or buzzing, only visible if you pull down the top bar. It's intended for contextual use, ideally you'd pair it with a physical call-to-action.

Google are sensitive about the spam potential, to the point where they proxy beacon URL resolution through their servers.

Ysxon Tell HN: I think you're downplaying the PHP community

I have a differing opinion, and similarly have no way to back it up.

Ysxon Nintendo Soars as Super Mario Mobile Game Comes to the iPhone

First endless runner anywhere! Invented the genre.

Ysxon Overview of all Amazon AWS APIs

Good spot - see Direct Connect in the archived copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150910211935/https://www.exped...

Ysxon API Documentation and the Communication Illusion

Unless you have an infinite number of monkeys, there's likely some design to your API. This doesn't need to be documentation, but it can be.

Ysxon Linux Sysadmin/DevOps Interview Questions

> > A careless sysadmin executes the following command: chmod 444 /bin/chmod - what do you do to fix this?

> My favourite way of fixing it is by running /bin/chmod. It blows minds of most smart-asses who ask this question.

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Not sure what I'm missing here?

    $ docker run -it ubuntu
    # chmod 444 /bin/chmod
    # /bin/chmod
    bash: /bin/chmod: Permission denied

Ysxon Ask HN: What books do you wish your manager would read?

Flat Army summary: https://www.ebscohost.com/uploads/corpLearn/pdf/Flat-Army.pd...

Ysxon Computer Store Manager Predicts Future (1979) [video]

This is a 37 year-old video. Hindsight is a lovely thing.

Ysxon MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit

> they absolutely are not interested in programming if everything has to line up right

Ysxon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)

Been there, done that, no response.

Ysxon PCRE Heap Overflow in Regex Processing Lets Users Execute Arbitrary Code

The apt equivalent seems to be `apt-cache rdepends libpcre3`

Ysxon Sans Bullshit Sans

Criticism.

Ysxon Gigo: Pip for Go

I wouldn't say pip's the worst, but NPM outshines it in my opinion.

Some useful features include:

* `npm --save $PACKAGE` - installs a package, adds it to your dependencies list. Python's equivalent is `pip install`, `pip freeze` to get the installed version, and a manual edit of the requirements file.

* Production dependencies & development dependencies. Python either has to use multiple files, or `setup.py`, which is vastly more complex.

* Installation of modules within the source directory - no need of a virtualenv. This isn't always good news, but it's generally pretty useful.

* Recursive dependencies. There's no global version of a module - your dependencies can in turn require different versions of other packages, without clobbering each other.

Ysxon GitLab Annex: Large Binaries with Git

Your condescension must be an unending source of rich and gratifying relationships.

Ysxon How to get actionable leads from Twitter in real time

What problem? It's a 4 day-old open source project.

Ysxon [dead]

Isn't '£' unicode?

Ysxon Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

My next anything won't be a Samsung, now.

Ysxon The Scientific 7-Minute Workout

This is also why I smoke, I'd rather lose the shitty years at the end.

That's how it works, right?

Ysxon Show HN: Glance.wtf

What's the thinking behind the red highlight? Style choice, or does it serve another purpose?

Ysxon I was asked to crack a program in a job interview

If it's no relevance to the job, you're only testing that they share your interests.

Ysxon Fun With iBeacon

iBeacon is an Apple-defined BLE protocol - there's no reason you can't use it on Android, and we build apps that do exactly that.

Ysxon Show HN: Codebrag – No More Late Friday Fixes

I like the look of it - unfortunately I'm not a Java developer, and gave up after 30 minutes trying to get the 1.7 JDK running on Ubuntu 12.04.

Ysxon Writing Idiomatic Python Book

And if you're not going to leak an AttributeError from any code in your method, else hasattr will return False.