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buren··on Tell HN: Aaron Swartz's website is offline
> [...] Nameservers responsible for archive.is (ben.archive.is, anna.archive.is) are returning answers tailored to the IP address of the requestor [...]

From this thread https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-is-error-1001/182...

buren··on My home lab setup for highly-available Internet
weird... that link is blocked for me in the UK (redireting to contentcontrol.vodafone.co.uk). Wonder what thats is about since its basically the network topology of a, albeit crazy, home network..
buren··on Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
I must say I really appreciate your hard work FooBarWidget. It seems, to me, that anytime something like this gets brought up, you've already addressed/fixed the problem or never even had it in the first place.

I've deployed a few large apps using Phusion Passenger, that years later are still running with incredible stability. Thank you!

buren··on Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend
Couldn't agree more. Sandi Metz has an excellent talk touching on this topic. Developers exaggerated willingness to keep things DRY and elaborates a bit on why: it's one of the easiest things for a not-so-experienced developer to identify and one of the easiest things to teach.

Edit: One of the best quotes from that talk is (paraphrased): "The wrong abstraction is a lot more expensive than duplicated code". https://youtu.be/OMPfEXIlTVE

buren··on Facebook to examine your social network on behalf of lenders
"In a fourth embodiment of the invention, the service provider is a lender. When an individual applies for a loan, the lender examines the credit ratings of members of the individual's social network who are connected to the individual through authorized nodes. If the average credit rating of these members is at least a minimum credit score, the lender continues to process the loan application. Otherwise, the loan application is rejected. "
buren··on Ruby on Guix
I certainly will :)
buren··on Ruby on Guix
Looks pretty cool, though it is a pretty daunting task to convince all gem developers to test/make their gems compatible.

Perhaps this could make http://devblog.avdi.org/2015/08/11/what-its-like-to-come-bac... easier ;)

buren··on Bringing Windows Server to Google Cloud Platform
AWS supports Windows too :) http://aws.amazon.com/windows/
buren··on Ask HN: Why don't transistors in microchips fail?
Cool! The author of the post you linked, also linked to this paper https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/memerr.pdf. From the paper: "..experimental study showing that soft memory errors can lead to serious security vulnerabilities in Java and .NET virtual machines"
buren··on Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
They've changed get their display name to just that: https://mobile.twitter.com/hackingteam
buren··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2015)
Company: Trialbee Location: Malmö, Sweden Role: Full Stack Engineer / developer PM:@buren
buren··on Rails 4.2.3 and 4.1.12 have been released
I really like that the Rails team is pretty good at doing regular releases. One noticeable thing though is that ActiveRecord, almost, always has more fixes than the other Action* gems combined, understandable since its the most complicated piece, but I can't help to think of Ernie Millers ActiveRecord talk a few years back. https://youtu.be/yuh9COzp5voA (A few of the things that he talks about are since then fixed..)
buren··on Google Ends Page Speed Service
I've used CloudFlare in a number of projects, usually with great results. Though occasionally they have problems, but that's usually a local issue with one of their data centers.

One thing that would be awesome is if you could add a Google Analytics tracking code, so you could track how often their error page is shown.

buren··on Show HN: Vivaldi programming language
Is there any build/install instructions? Want to play around :)

EDIT:

  git clone git@github.com:jeorgun/Vivaldi.git
  cd Vivaldi
  # if you don't have boost then run 
  brew install boost
  mkdir build
  cd build
  cmake .. && make # cmake version 3 or greater is required
buren··on Show HN: Timeline.com
Great idea! Congrats
buren··on Even with 2FA, Google accounts can be hacked with just a phone number
Immediately called my mobile carrier and asked them to disabled the ability to add/change call forwarding.
buren··on Wayback Machine Hits 400,000,000,000
If you're using AWS S3 check your resource policy
buren··on Renault will remotely lock down electric cars
Anything a company _can_ control they _will_ control.
buren··on Can anyone tell me what these services do?
There is a difference between knowing what the software does and _how_ it actually achieves it.
buren··on Ask HN: What are your favorite time management tools?
I'm using toggl.com to track spent time on various projects in school/work (you can structure your time tracking by project and client). Really simple and easy, while it gives you a really nice overview for how you've "performed". For me, it was enough seeing where time was spent...
buren··on Perry Fellwock
This shows how far NSA is willing to go and there is no reason to believe that their morale has changed since then either
buren··on Why Netflix is producing original content
The main issue is, in my point of view, fragmentation. If you'd like to watch both HBO and Netflix series, then you'd have to subscribe to two services.
buren··on Font Awesome 3.2 Released – 58 new icons, SCSS support, many new brand icons
Thanks for an awesome libary
buren··on Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine
Really great work! Thanks for open-sourcing the project, already love playing with it
buren··on Facebook is impersonating users without their consent
It's true that Facebook doesn't post anything that you haven't previously liked, however, I believe, in many cases people do think that somebody have explicitly liked that particular sponsored post rather than the page behind it.
buren··on Show HN: BigVideo.js
nice work! running great on chrome 21/win7