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user9182031··on Ask HN: Have you sent kids to (or attended) a coding camp?
Reminds me of this: http://richardhartersworld.com/cri/2007/compcamp.html
user9182031··on Matrix.org hacked
I enjoyed the shout out for EFnet.
user9182031··on PagerDuty pops nearly 60% in debut as tech IPO market heats up
Calling in from the 20s crowd. It's been years since anyone I know cared about snap. If it's not on Instagram, it didn't happen.
user9182031··on Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
After a bit of Googling, it looks a company has complied and packged rsync for Windows at a cost of $19 per license @ https://www.itefix.net/cwrsync

I found a Github repo with an older (2017) version of cwRsync that may be from before it went behind a paywall @ https://github.com/billyc/cwrsync-installer

user9182031··on Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
This is even heavier. It's a full blown Ubuntu install.
user9182031··on Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
Cygwin just feels "heavy" when all I want is rsync. Without any package management (that I'm aware of) I can't just install rsync and whatever other dependencies it has, I have to put hunderds? more binaries on my system.
user9182031··on New iPad Air and iPad Mini
"alive and well" might be a stretch. I don't know a soul who plugs their devices into their computers. Using VLC to watch media is also a blast from the past. Grandpa, is that you?
user9182031··on How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 Not So Easy Steps
It looks like $300 is enough to buy the IMEI data.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-29/seems-you...

user9182031··on Show HN: Simple tool to upload and paste URL's to screenshots and files
Hello, I appreciate the reply but I was looking to replace my OpenVPN solution which allows me to visit websites that aren't publicly accessible. Going the htpass route would require opening up each individual service to the Internet and then mapping the internal ports to a unique external port (as they all listen on port 80)
user9182031··on Show HN: Simple tool to upload and paste URL's to screenshots and files
Oh this is great. Thank you!
user9182031··on Show HN: Simple tool to upload and paste URL's to screenshots and files
This might be a silly question but I've honestly tried to Google it without any success. Is there an easy way to put something like this behind a web based "portal". Like, I'd love to have an external facing login site that would allow me to access internal resources like this. I currently use OpenVPN but it'd be neat if this could be done via a web based portal without the need for a heavy VPN solution. Anyone have any suggestions?
user9182031··on Square Terminal
..and then be forced add the new card to every service you have set to auto-pay like Amazon, Steam, Audible, Verizon, etc.
user9182031··on Former Googlers on how they knew it was time to quit
businessinsider.com requires disabling AdBlocking to view the article. No Thanks.
user9182031··on MAC address age tracking
This seems like a really complex way to solve a simple problem. Have an intern spend a day creating Visio diagrams of each room capturing model numbers. Trying to do this from a network perspective just seems like an easy way to miss half the systems or whatever percentage isn't powered on or connected.
user9182031··on Valve new-employee handbook (2012) [pdf]
I was with you up until the part about cloud computing and indie developers. I don't see the connection. Steam on the other hand provides a great platform for indie developers to release their games and get some attention.
user9182031··on NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection
I live in the West Village and have ONE choice... Spectrum :(
user9182031··on Why Static Websites Need HTTPS
Trusted certification authorities are not issuing DV SSL certificates (with domain verification) for IP-addresses; because it creates certain security threats .
user9182031··on Periodic fasting starves cisplatin‐resistant cancers to death
It seems like every day somebody has figured out how to beat type 2 diabetes. I just read Proteinaholic by Dr. Garth Davis who advocates a vegan lifestyle (while telling you that carbs are not the enemy) to cure diabetes.
user9182031··on SMS over IRC
Is there somewhere in the world that still charges per SMS?
user9182031··on Growing a Golf Simulator Business to $50k/month
280k is only around $150/hour which isn't unreasonable at all, if anything maybe even a bit low. I know 1099 contractors that bill higher and do less..
user9182031··on Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Wins Chicago Airport High-Speed Train Bid
From Wikipedia.. "It is often asserted among enthusiasts' groups that the primary cause of the failure of the leather flap was rats, attracted to the tallow, gnawing at it. Although rats are said to have been drawn into the traction pipe in the early days, there was no reference to this at the crisis meeting described above."
user9182031··on I Write Letters to CEOs
You were trading stocks in the 4th grade?
user9182031··on Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions
My credit card gets stolen yearly. Sure, they can reverse the charges but changing the number everywhere is annoying..
user9182031··on The Cold Case of the Max Headroom Signal Intrusion
While I enjoy the story, I find it hard to believe a second could provide any useful advantage.
user9182031··on What Airbnb Did to New York City
I pay $4000/month for a crummy apartment on the lower west side..
user9182031··on A small town that kept Walmart out now faces Amazon
I've found Linux usually works great on low end desktops with limited use (such as web browsing) but I've had many problems with modern GPUs and multiple displays. I upgraded to a 4k monitor and wanted to use my old monitor as a secondary and it required manual editing of configurations to support a setup with two monitors and two different resolutions. This is stuff that has worked on Windows or Mac for decades that Linux still hasn't figured out.
user9182031··on ISP Spying
Once you use PF, you can't really go back to iptables. The fact that you still can't create anchors or anything equivalent in iptables blows my mind. I can look at any of my older configurations from PF and understand what I was doing very quickly compared to iptables which is much harder to read and much less intuitive.
user9182031··on Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
Could you share why you think it would impact the price of Bitcoin? With a market cap of 186 billion dollars, and a daily volume of 10 billion I couldn't see how it'd have that much of an impact.
user9182031··on Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”
Wow, this looks super neat. How does it work in practice?