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d0ugie

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d0ugie··on Brilliant Jerks Cost More Than They Are Worth
"Brilliant jerk," hmm, the term I always had in mind for our CSO was a brilliant sadistic sociopath. I couldn't help but admire him, but man, he loved to ruin my weekends.
d0ugie··on Hacker Dumps iOS Cracking Tools Allegedly Stolen from Cellebrite
This is the Israeli company the FBI hired to crack the San Bernadino iPhone, right?

Though that company may have been working on such things already, and though Israel is an ally, American law enforcement using a foreign company of a nation that, for example, exports technology to China, to hack the iPhone in a manner that Cook and many others (even myself) would make its way to the public ... argh.

d0ugie··on Miles Deep – Open Source Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Deep Learning
To play devil's advocate, there may be applications of this that are not prurient.
d0ugie··on Pornhub Bypasses Ad Blockers with WebSockets
They call this native advertising, where you think you're reading a piece of journalism, you're a few paragraphs in and suddenly it hits you that the article was written to conceal an advertisement, and you feel intellectually violated.

From http://adage.com/article/media/york-times-debuts-native-ad-u...

> Times staff pitched story ideas to Dell. One of Dell's first paid posts delves into the topic of millennials in the workplace. The author is a freelancer that the Times contracted, according to Ms. Losee. The millennial generation is among four topics Dell customers are interested in learning more about, she said. A Times editor -- not from its newsroom, but instead part of an internal "content studio" -- pitched ideas to Dell around these topics that weren't related to Dell products. Dell approved the story ideas, which the Times farmed out to freelancers.

d0ugie··on Cloth or Something
Weekends DBANning company hard drives when all I needed was one wipe of this autographed BleachBit cloth?!
d0ugie··on Chinese Yuan Becomes Official Currency in Zimbabwe
Documentary from 2011 on the topic, Empire of Dust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0C4_88ub_M
d0ugie··on Ask HN: Why is everything in JavaScript changing so fast?
Why didn't the Dart VM make it into Chrome?
d0ugie··on Why Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden
For those wondering if a president can pardon someone who hasn't been convicted of anything, according to the Supreme Court, yes.

From Ex parte Garland, 1866:

> The power thus conferred is unlimited, with the exception stated. It extends to every offence known to the law, and may be exercised at any time after its commission, either before legal proceedings are taken, or during their pendency, or after conviction and judgment. This power of the President is not subject to legislative control. Congress can neither limit the effect of his pardon, nor exclude from its exercise any class of offenders. The benign prerogative of mercy reposed in him cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/71/333.html

d0ugie··on A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral
Why the need to comment on perceived downvoting injustice? Is it that big a deal? Is there a downvoted support group somewhere? :P

Anyway, here's the scanner feed of Kennedy Space Center Communicationshttp://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/705

d0ugie··on Mozilla apparently implementing WebP support for Firefox
Looking at the final string of comments on the previous thread, I suspect they are doing it because WebP has finally reached enough critical mass, in particular with some CDNs and mod_pagespeed (plus some user agent or accept header confusion if I recall), for continuing not to implement WebP simply making too little sense. Better late than never...
d0ugie··on MASSCAN: Mass IP port scanner
Why the need every time this comes up to compare it to looking at doors from the sidewalk while walking our dogs? We're geeks, we understand what portscanning is well enough to form our own conclusions as to whether it is more right than wrong.

Conversely, we don't need a pedestrian ethicist to conceptualize looking at doors by asking us to think about walking around and observing houses innocently as being somehow congruent to portscanning. Analogies offer similarities, not equations.

d0ugie··on A Street Map of New York City in the 1800s
Whatever, I'm still impressed. OP meant "Street View" in the figurative sense.
d0ugie··on Analyzing top four flaws in HTTP/2.0 [pdf]
Surprised worse performance over poor, flaky connections than http isn't in the top four things worth trying to mitigate.
d0ugie··on Chrome removes Backspace to go back
Well, someone figured it out for Linux: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/backspace-as-backf...
d0ugie··on Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
To mitigate security loss (Piwik is complex), run Piwik and serve its gif on another machine.
d0ugie··on WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
Did they roll this out to their Mainland Chinese users?
d0ugie··on Simple anomaly detection for metrics with a weekly pattern
I'm looking to use machine learning somehow to get a baseline of weekly listener activity of the scanner feeds on broadcastify in order to spot anomalies of potential newsworthy events. This is motivation that what I have in mind is doable.
d0ugie··on DigitalOcean lost our server
Where's that internet permanence when you need it?
d0ugie··on Tell HN: Don't post if you're not actually hiring
This practice is so prevalent from what I've seen that you'd be better off with a whitelist. Sigh.
d0ugie··on Why use www?
Wow. Thanks for teaching me that. Yeah, yours is better, I'll lay it on github with a thank you and maybe "embrace and extend" it.

Or learn python and port it to python, I could swing it that way.. Cheers.

d0ugie··on Why use www?
Using the curl'ing tips up this branch of comments I programmed a highly sophisticated script and dropped it on github. :)

https://github.com/dougsimmons/301debate

d0ugie··on Show HN: Search Google, GitHub, Stack Overflow, other sites from the terminal
Reminiscent of autojump, https://github.com/wting/autojump
d0ugie··on Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?
Nice. Can you do the same trick for us, but for NGINX?
d0ugie··on Why isn't HTTPS everywhere yet?
one man's irony is another man's satire...
d0ugie··on Tor Anonymity: Things Not to Do
That you are on Tor and that you are not using javascript are two unusual things that compound each other in making you uniquely identifiable.

One reason that it is still relevant even though you are already using Tor is that there are many ways to slip up and expose yourself. And when you do, you've paired this additional one in a hundred identifier to yourself. Might as well just use lynx.

d0ugie··on HTTP/2 is here. Goodbye SPDY? Not quite yet
For me, 505 and 1947 respectively. I guess my audience is hipper than yours. :)
d0ugie··on Gmail Will Soon Warn Users When Emails Arrive Over Unencrypted Connections
Looking forward to seeing Chrome marking HTTP as not secure.. https://plus.google.com/+FrancoisBeaufort/posts/TaTACsJSnjN
d0ugie··on A Guide to Fast Page Loads
For those interested, the unstable (alpha) HTTP/2 element of NGINX is this patch for the 1.9.x mainline versions: http://nginx.org/patches/http2/README.txt
d0ugie··on How to view-source a Chrome extension
Perhaps another reason that developers may want to use Google's Closure Compiler which in addition to minifying/compressing analyzes code, removes unused code and other mod_pagespeed-like best practice implementation magic: http://closure-compiler.appspot.com/

Good thread including other tools and general arguments about obfuscation: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194397/how-can-i-obfuscat...

d0ugie··on How the Soviets bugged typewriters in the US Embassy from 1976 through 1984
One of these days make it big here, one of these days :)

Thanks for the discussion link.

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