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lfx··on Famous Russian hacker Kris Kaspersky passed away
RIP.
lfx··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Skype/Lync
What about Amazon Chime? Does anybody have real experience yet?
lfx··on Ask HN: What tools do you use for creating diagrams?
https://www.draw.io works great for general charts. It has set of UML elements as well, tho haven't used it.
lfx··on Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
There are penetration testing classes, but doubt that they are bundled together with classical CS, thought never know what some uni or courses may add. And there are project like those for practicing, few pointers:

- https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/

- https://github.com/ethicalhack3r/DVWA

- https://www.vulnhub.com/

If you go this direction you will find much more applications prepared for Capture The Flag competitions. Some people are even posting walk-throughs how to hack and fix them. It is very interesting & hard.

lfx··on Ask HN: Cheap living and fast internet and cold climate?
Tallinn, Estonia. Fits all, if you even want colder Nordic countries are there, though the cost of living increases a lot.
lfx··on Ask HN: How do you choose TLD?
.eu - for internal tools/apps. Short, cheep, easy to pronounce.

.global,.design, .[other new fancy] - for cool sounding domain and tld pair.

lfx··on Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017
Interesting question.

I would say - Password only ssh logins; Old / Vuln libs; non tests covered code; XSS and SQL Injection from all the code. - But this is really boring.

AI witch threatens to take over developers occupation - this is more interesting idea for future consideration.

But really I just want to see one thing to be destroyed - idea that creating new tools will solve all the issues (looking at you JS world) instead of improving existing ones or even real deep thinking about the problem beforehand. And then dropping it (new tool) after something new more shiner comes up.

lfx··on Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
Nice job! A feature request: Filter or note showing if laptop has numeric keypad. I can't stand those, no idea why manufacturers add those to every single bigger laptop.
lfx··on Show HN: LaptopHits.com – see what laptops people are talking about online
Very nice page! Thanks for sharing!
lfx··on MH17 missile 'brought in from Russia'
It is me or title looks very ambiguous? It sounds that missile was launched from Russian grounds. What a scary way to begin a morning.
lfx··on Reshaping web defenses with strict Content Security Policy
Agree with you, thought majority of the people will not pronounce this url ever.
lfx··on UnGoogled Chromium: Chromium with enhanced privacy, control and transparency
Is this browser expecting me to use TOR? Welcome and extensions pages on new tab pages wants me to go to http://www.9oo91e.qjz9zk/ domain.

I'm not finding anything about that in repo readme page. This looks odd and suspicious. Because it's even blocks requests there -> http://imgur.com/a/UnMu8

lfx··on KrebsOnSecurity being taken down due to persistent DDoS
They are from the same category as people who put 5 start of five on their resume. What does it mean? 5/5 for MS Office? Clicking, double clicking, getting, sending emails?

However I wound't blame IoT for all of it. What about uncountable number of vulnerable routers at home and small offices? As far as I know they may send legitimate (from ISP PoV) low traffic all day to some endpoints on internet.

lfx··on Ask HN: Which podcasts do you listen to regularly?
Also this one if interested in more analysis http://www.defensivesecurity.org/
lfx··on Linux debugging tools you'll love
Actually there is "real" font made from xkcd https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9302740
lfx··on Linux debugging tools you'll love
Just wondering if she draw/wrote everything by hand or there is font like that?
lfx··on Lessons from a 45-year Study of Super-Smart Children
And 10k hours rule is just catchy name. Almost only purpose is just to be catchy! This[1] episode of freakonomics explains it well.

[1] http://freakonomics.com/podcast/peak/

lfx··on First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles
Thanks kevinstubbs!
lfx··on First Tesla Taxi in America after 100k miles
This is double blade sword. You may look into taxi drives cars and think - this is good, reliable car, with low maintenance cost if taxi drives, who drives those all day is using. I know in poorer countries this research for new car happens a lot.
lfx··on Ask HN: Anonymous person sent proof of SSH access to our production server
It really depends, common stack don't mean that much. Depend what app is doing, how much dependencies it has, with what external services it talks, etc. Also 5k, 10k - this would price per day. And then you hire guy/company for day. It depends from app, but it might take some time.

Security is not cheap.

Disclaimer: worked for such company.

lfx··on Ask HN: Which language for writing a fast, distributable command-line tool?
Is it possible to distribute Rust `app` as easy as Go? I mean can you write one code and run on all platforms with zero dependencies?

P.S. I'm not proGo, just have near to zero knowledge about Rust.

lfx··on New GNU Emacs website
Ctrl + F4.
lfx··on A webpack boilerplate for a production-ready marketing website
Do you have any paying customers?
lfx··on We only hire the trendiest
How would you translate this sentence in English? Sounds like mantra.
lfx··on Ask HN: What are the podcasts you guys listen to?
If you like riskybiz, you can also try http://www.defensivesecurity.org/ It is more rough analysis of some events during the week.
lfx··on Git 2.8.0 released
Care to elaborate?
lfx··on We only hire the trendiest
poker face - is super cultural thing, I work with several Asians, most of them (not all!) sits _with_ poker face whole day. It is kind of hard to read people and understand if they got it when I'm explaining something. They are not even nod or smile. I'm European and sometimes it is super frustrating to not receive any body lang feedback. But when we close office doors they starts to chat, nod, laugh and what not.

On other hand there are two Japanese who acts like Europeans all the time - nods, talks, etc even though they left Japan ~2-3y ago. I thought initially that they already adapted to this Western style.

I've talked with them all about this and they just said that they just do what they did in their countries.

lfx··on Tell HN: If you use Google Inbox and hit your quota you stop getting email
It is easy if one don't delete it emails and receives&sends lots of images.
lfx··on Show HN: Podcat – Imdb for podcasts
Neat site! I was looking for something similar for a while.

Feature Request: Episode date in search listing.

lfx··on Follow hashtags
Hey, please filter NSFW posts. I just quickly scroll over few porn imgs.
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