News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

beokop

Re:Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web on Sunday November 17, 2019 @08:11AM (#21557771)
Pythonista is a full(-ish) offline Python IDE and has been on the App Store for years.
Re:GitHub Archive Program on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:06PM (#21528863)
There’s no reason to believe they won’t have an online copy of the 2020 snapshot too. Isn’t that kind of the point? For future generations to be able to use it?
Re:GitHub Archive Program on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:43PM (#21528586)
That’s probably what I’ll end up doing for most repos. Unfortunately.
Re:GitHub Archive Program on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:40PM (#21528545)
Then why have the option to delete public repos at all? Public tweets? If we had the means, should the web as a whole be append-only?

There’s a big difference between “public” and “stored in a glacier forever”.

Re:GitHub Archive Program on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @02:15PM (#21528234)
Is there a way to opt out of this? I’m not sure I want my code to be stored forever in a glacier with no way of deleting it.
All problems are small with perspective!
There’s only about 10 million people in Sweden and we’ve produced Saab, Ericsson, Volvo, IKEA, H&M, Spotify, Skype, MySQL to name a few.

I don’t think it’s that uncommon.

Re:Driverless cars are stuck in a jam on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @01:37PM (#21389856)
It’s pretty clear that the author isn’t using the technical definition of big O but rather is using it in a descriptive way. It’s not ambiguous in any way so what’s the harm?
Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:00AM (#21344212)
I’m getting an Internal Server Error at the Tor site, I guess this means it’s more popular than they expected?
Re:WeWork is Desperately Squeezing Cash Out of Meetup.com on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:00PM (#21261581)
> ... Meetup is also adding a new $2 fee every time a person RSVPs for a meetup. Every. Single. Time.

I'm generally in favour of paid products but $2 per RSVP is just... insane.

Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:13AM (#21247015)
Thanks for the tip. I’ve tried that before, without success, but someone else reading this might have better luck.

For what it’s worth this happens both with a 15” and a 13” MBP from different years.

Re:Apple of 2019 is the Linux of 2000 on Monday October 14, 2019 @07:01AM (#21246901)
I haven’t thought of it this way before but I think you’re right. External monitor support does break randomly and hardware support through dongles is extremely flakey.

A small excerpt from my personal list of woes:

- Using a USB-c <-> DVI cable gives the monitor a purple hue. An HDMI cable does not. Also, this isn’t an issue in bootcamp.

- Can’t use the serial debugger of a Particle Photon because it can’t use the dongle’s USB-A interface directly.

- Sometimes the Touch Bar goes completely unresponsive for ~10s. Sometimes, after a reboot or after waking from sleep, it just doesn’t start at all.

- At one point the speakers started blasting white noise at the loudest volume for no apparent reason. Closed the lid, opened it, same thing. Rebooted the machine and never encountered that problem again.

- If a certain kind of network error occurs when setting up Time Machine then System Preferences will hang completely for ~5 minutes.

In many ways the experience is what I would expect if I could run Linux on this machine: Hardware kind of works with lots of random bugs.

Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2019 on Friday October 11, 2019 @12:03PM (#21225647)
This might be true, however, I’m of the opinion that the prize should go to people that are making hard choices to de-escalate actual armed conflicts.
Sure but the military... works.
Re:Why I Write Games in C (yes, C) on Sunday September 22, 2019 @07:16AM (#21040777)
By that logic, you can’t program interrupts with C because “int” is a reserved word.
Re:ICFP Programming Contest 2019 on Friday June 21, 2019 @06:10PM (#20246684)
Holidays are precisely the best time to spend quality time with your kids, too.
While you’re at it, why not sue for emotional distress? Or lost income for the time reading this instead of billing clients?

I’m all for GoDaddy being held responsible but advocating this kind of copyright abuse is as ridiculous as it is scary. Are we going to start suing CDN’s for setting custom HTTP headers now?

No. With 10^12 possible account numbers and a hash rate of ~10^10 H/s using off the shelf hardware [1] it would only take 100*(10^12/10^10) = 10000 seconds to deanonymise the token.

[1] https://gist.github.com/epixoip/a83d38f412b4737e99bbef804a27...

Re:Mickey Mouse and Batman will soon be public domain on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @03:39PM (#18802199)
That’s not how this works. The actual books/movies/cartoons that Batman appears in will eventually be public domain — you’ll be legally allowed to copy, edit and distribute these without restrictions. However, “Batman” (the idea, the concept) is still protected by trademark laws making it illegal to produce new (non-derivative) Batman books/movies/cartoons without the trademark holder’s consent.
Re:Please do not attempt to simplify this code on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:09PM (#18773065)
Nothing to do with ratio but I’ve found that the quality of the comments often reflect the quality of the code.
Re:Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization? on Thursday December 27, 2018 @05:02PM (#18773009)
Persistent access via an authentication token is a hell of a lot more reliable than relying on the user not navigating from/refreshing a specific page where XSS is present.
Re:I Got Banned from Photographing Arch Enemy on Thursday December 27, 2018 @01:48PM (#18771512)
So is programming. Should clients be able to just take your code without paying for it?
Re:Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization? on Thursday December 27, 2018 @07:11AM (#18769030)
Also, people make a big stink when authentication cookies aren’t marked as HTTPONLY. Storing tokens in localstorage (even sessionstorage) is just as bad but for some reason more accepted.
Re:Ask HN: What do you use for authentication and authorization? on Thursday December 27, 2018 @03:09AM (#18768212)
This sounds an awful lot like JWT.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @06:50PM (#18765927)
The cure to racism isn’t isolation.
Re:Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt on Wednesday December 26, 2018 @05:27PM (#18765457)
Racism is pretty common across the world. Sure, we could just decide to not talk to anyone that posts racist thoughts, but would the world really be better off?
Re:Ask HN: Can I download my HN data? on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:26PM (#18720434)
It does apply to all EU users and they risk fines if they don’t comply.
Re:Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @05:18PM (#18720341)
I do like the article but it sounds like they’re in over their heads, this whole (very risky) project could have been avoided if they just brought in someone that knew what they were doing.

> Clocks are important – don’t lock down your VPC so much that NTP stops working.

> Automatically generating database indexes on application startup is probably a bad idea.

> Database management is important and hard – and we’d rather not be doing it ourselves.

This is true of any database infrastructure with redundancy/scalability requirements.

What they did was take a technical problem and solve it by buying an off the shelf solution. Which is fine, of course, but I’m a bit surprised by the reaction here on HN.

Re:Ask HN: Can I download my HN data? on Wednesday December 19, 2018 @04:20PM (#18719763)
If you’re in the EU you can refer to the GDPR and request all the data they have on you.
Re:Debt Worldwide Hits Record $86k per Person on Friday December 14, 2018 @04:30PM (#18684987)
This reads like a person with Stockholm syndrome, captured by the crypto hype train. The entire point of money/currency is to have a standard unit of transferable debt!

Older »