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eadz

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Hey fellow HN reader!

I’m a generalist builder of software and tiny houses.

New Zealand based.

Superlinear:

https://www.superlinear.nz/

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eadz··on Kim Dotcom Spying Operation Was Illegal, NZ High Court Rules
Sounds like everyone is all in agreement then. Let's just hope the courts are just in this matter.

I listened to the whole live streamed appeal trial, ( over 50 hours of arguments ).

There is a clear miscarriage of justice, and protecting the justice system's integrity should come above pleasing Hollywood.

eadz··on Ask HN: How do you start looking for a new job?
1. Be clear about exactly what you want to do in your next role

2. Put your self in the shoes of a hiring manager for that role

3. Edit your CV to emphasise the skills and experience that makes you a good match.

For tech roles, recruiters are everywhere, and uploading your CV to job sites will get your phone buzzing if you have the right keywords.

For professional roles a vast majority of recruiters use LinkedIn, and the site has a setting for "looking for work" which will boost your profile to hiring managers and recruiters.

I'm currently in the process of moving cities* so going through this process myself, and this approach has worked for me.

*Melbourne here I come!

eadz··on “This project violates the MIT license of Gemstash”
This appears to be a wrapper around gemstash, not a fork and relicense.

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/google-cloud-gemserve...

eadz··on The Interface font family
I wondered if I was the only one to feel dizzy. Maybe it was the colors.
eadz··on Show HN: One hostname to rule them all
You can do this with AWS cloudfront
eadz··on ProtonMail Now Supports Bitcoin Payments
https://protonmail.com/careers#technical-support-specialist
eadz··on Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer
It is a real shame not to be able to trust "science" anymore. We'll have to come up with a new word for what we used to call science because I don't think corporations and media set on manipulating public opinion and laws will give it back.
eadz··on LinkedIn: It’s illegal to scrape our website without permission
That is an interesting fact.. LinkedIn broke the ruling against scraping they are relying on to prevent scraping.
eadz··on Why the feds took down one of Bitcoin’s largest exchanges
These domain name seizures from non US-resident entities keep coming.

But more worryingly, "The language in the indictment about BTC-e’s “criminal design” mimics the indictment against Liberty Reserve".

This also mimics the Kim DotCom / MegaUpload take down, along with a likely "FBI" operation in a foreign country.

It seems there is now a policy of taking down things that are "criminal in design" - waiting for the next raid on "criminal in design" encryption software...

eadz··on Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest
I've been developing rails for over 10 years, and I somewhat have seen this focus shift - but partly it's due to the complexity of frontend interfaces these days.

I myself would often spin up a rails api + react frontend.

With rails 5.1 and especially webpacker_react I've seen a possible new direction which combines the best of both worlds.

I think we could see something pretty exciting in this space soon if the integration of rails+react can tighten up a bit.

eadz··on Local Rails Development with Docker and Docker Compose
Agreed. If you're using webpack, dev-in-docker won't work well at if at all. For an API-only rails app, it does seem to be fast enough.
eadz··on Ask HN: When will cryptocurrencies be currency?
Worth can be assigned by people. There is nothing "backing" gold, we have simply decided that it is worth something.
eadz··on Ask HN: Ex-blockchain engineers, why did you get out?
... and bitcoin of course.
eadz··on Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone
Combined with Face2Face[1] live video impersonation, it is truly time to be very careful verifying videos or even live streams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk

eadz··on NZ court rules Kim Dotcom can be extradited to U.S. for alleged fraud
Kim DotCom claims a victory here. He was arrested for criminal copyright infringement, judge ruled that is not a crime in NZ ( it's a civil offence not a criminal one ). Now his original arrest warrant which mentioned this non-crime faces validity issues. Case continues...
eadz··on Air pollution may lead to dementia in older women
Did some maths;

In London, the PM 2.5 per ug/m3 was 17.3 in October ( it was a high month )

According to the study, with those numbers we're talking about a 30 cubic centimeter reduction.

eadz··on Dear Matt Mullenweg: An Open Letter from Wix.com’s CEO Avishai Abrahami
Not even lawyers, just raise it as an issue and try to work something out before yelling "Stealing Code" all over the internet.

There are so many packages, libraries & dependencies out there that missing a GPL requirement doesn't imply it was done on purpose.

eadz··on Ask HN: Is Dell XPS Developer Edition a Good Replacement of Macbook Pro?
In a similar boat. The closest machine to the Macbook Pro is the razer blade stealth.

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/razer-blade-stealth-2016

It's basically a rip-off of the (2015) macbook machined aluminium body design. It has the 7th gen processors rather than than the 6th of the new macbook, and a similar price.

Not sure about linux support, from what I've read there may be an issue with the webcam.

eadz··on Washington Post Is First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source
This is an important article and adds some real context to Washington Post's editorial. This quote sums it up.

  But still, if the Post editorial page editors now want to
  denounce these revelations, and even call for the 
  imprisonment of their paper’s own source on this ground,
  then they should at least have the courage to acknowledge
  that it was The Washington Post — not Edward Snowden — who
  made the editorial and institutional choice to expose those
  programs to the public.
The Washington Post's editors decided these stories were in the public interest and should be published, not Snowden.
eadz··on Startup School Livestream
Youtube also allows going back in time if you missed the first part, it's buffered. so much better.
eadz··on Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
I think if google (verified with ssl cert etc) is asking for my password, there was a certain expectation there, but you're right, I should be less trusting ;)

Here is the demonstration url from the report https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?service=mail&contin...

My point isn't about 'open redirects' not being a security issue, it's that the report should be valid because it's a whitelist bypass.

continue=yahoo.com is blocked but continue=https://www.google.com/amp/yahoo.com is not blocked.

both do the same thing as far as the end user is concerned.

eadz··on Google's login page accepts a vulnerable GET parameter
I disagree. The linked google page ( https://sites.google.com/site/bughunteruniversity/nonvuln/op... ) makes the argument about the mouse hover tooltip, as if that is the only risk of an open redirect.

This is much worse, this is a redirect after login. You just logged into google, you entered your 2FA code, and then the next site you arrive at you damn well expect to be google.

Additionally, the OP is correct in that there is a whitelist bypass happening here. Why bother to whitelist *.google.com/ if you can bypass it with a redirect.

eadz··on Kim Dotcom permitted to livestream his appeal against extradition on Youtube
Clarification: Live Now!
eadz··on Kim Dotcom permitted to livestream his appeal against extradition on Youtube
Apart from the character at the center, this has to be one of the most interesting court cases in recent times, most definitely the most interesting in New Zealand. Just a few of the things that have happened:

* military style raid in New Zealand ( that turned out to be illegal )

* Illegal spying ( and then winning the right to sue the NZ five eyes spy agency )

* copyright infringement is generally not extraditable so extra charges to make the offence extraditable, e.g. conspiracy

* attempts to stop legal defence through seizure of assets, some of which were eventually were won back

Wikipedia article about the case for more info & references : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megaupload_legal_case

eadz··on Google Intrusion Detection Problems
How does one reach someone at google in an emergency when you have no access* to any google services?

* locked out of your account

eadz··on Google Intrusion Detection Problems
Spotify will have a phone number of someone they can call.

I've had this issue with google too. They'll shut down your account, your whole account - google apps email and all - if an automated system detects something dodgy. In my case an automated system at ebay accused my site of phishing which it wasn't.

There is a paid support option, but when your account is shut down you are unable to access the required code.

I don't think you can appreciate how inaccessible Google is until they decide you're a bad actor.

eadz··on Ask HN: Out of ideas, what to do?
Don't look for ideas, look for problems to solve.
eadz··on React-Boilerplate v3: The “JS Fatigue Antivenin” Edition
You're right, this could be a CLI tool. But the difference is only how you start - clone a boilerplate or run a command to generate one - a pretty small difference compared to the actual framework you end up with, which I think is an important milestone.

I see Redux+React as becoming the next Ruby on Rails due to the set of conventions it promotes. These conventions will have the same benefit to companies and developers switching between projects/developers and getting up to speed very quickly due to the same structures ( actions / reducers / etc ) being used by multiple projects.

eadz··on New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
The huge piece of machinery will come with a huge warning telling you it will cut you to shreds.

When you're well informed about the risks you can take precautions or change your behaviour.

Monsanto has taken California to court to prevent such warnings on Roundup.

eadz··on New Evidence About the Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup
This is missing the point. The choice you pose can only be made if we're all well informed and make that risk assessment, but we haven't been, so can't. Unless you can tell me how many people have died as a result of exposure to Roundup ( no one knows ), then I don't think your argument has any weight. As an aside, the farmers using these chemicals are the ones most at risk.

Companies claiming their products are safe, when they are not is the real story here, and how even when scientists were warning of dangers in 2001, those warnings were not heeded by regulators in a serious enough manner that it's taken this long to "prove" that the chemicals are unsafe.

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