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pmh··on Patent Law Shouldn’t Block the Sale of Used Tech Products
It will expire in late October this year if the Librarian of Congress/US Copyright Office does not renew the exemption.
pmh··on Most Internet anonymity software leaks users’ details
> I think that given that data, it's not unreasonable...especially when that is explicitly claimed elsewhere (in OP).

Both the OP and the first link use data from the same source: http://www.globalwebindex.net/.

pmh··on Researchers Find Missing Link Between the Brain and Immune System
This reminds me of an NPR story[1] I heard a little while ago about Empathy Cards. Specifically http://emilymcdowell.com/products/treatment-on-the-internet-...

[1] http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/05/07/40497653...

pmh··on Intel Kernel Guard Technology
Amusingly enough, they grab the source tarball over http:

    servername=01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/intel-kernel-guard-technology
    ...
    wget http://${servername}/ikgt1.0-0amd64deb.tar.gz
pmh··on Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
Couchsurfing hosts generally don't give up their entire place to their guest(s), which is how the short-term rental market operates. According to the article, they explicitly legalized the situation where you're sharing a unit, but you have to pay taxes.
pmh··on Curl User Poll
What situation were you running into that required "-s -S"? I'm able to pipe the output of curl to something else (or just consume it via IO redirection) just fine without either switch. The status bar is output on stderr.
pmh··on Tea with strangers
He's saying that the Github link on http://making.teawithstrangers.com/ is broken. It currently points to http://making.teawithstrangers.com/github
pmh··on Chord progressions of 25,000 songs
Someone asked this on reddit[1]. The answer the author gave was: "the "start" is whatever the api gave for each song, which in turn is the first chord that was entered by the user that uploaded that song, which is of course, not standardized. So it's for sure not the start of songs, or the bridge or whatever... it's this and that."

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/32ol86/cho...

pmh··on Ten Commandments of Sushi
I really liked Jiro and would also recommend Tampopo[1] if you like "foodie" films and/or enjoyed the characters/subject matter of Jiro.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092048/

pmh··on Dell XPS 13 Review
He's talking about the Ars review: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/review-the-dell-xps-1...
pmh··on Lenovo Caught Installing Adware on New Computers
>An all-new reason to use Content-Security-Policy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think any amount of CSP will help you in this situation. They're MITMing traffic and thus can modify the CSP headers.

pmh··on With Porches and Parks, a Texas Community Aims for Urban Utopia
It looks like there's an elementary public school within walking distance, but the middle and high schools are a bit farther (2.5-3mi). Everything else exists within walking distance. Their FAQ[0] covers your questions and a bit more.

[0]http://www.muelleraustin.com/about/faqs/

pmh··on Signing in to websites with SSH
That's not a secure option without DNSSEC. Given that we're unlikely to see significant DNSSEC adoption, serving the fingerprint over HTTPS (or another option altogether) would be preferable.
pmh··on BPA alternative disrupts normal brain-cell growth, study says
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141022143628.ht... is the fixed link.
pmh··on C4 – C in 4 functions
It would appear so. https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycode/comments/2la785/c4_a_c_com... is the post from /r/tinycode and its OP[0] is the same as the github user[1] for c4.

[0]https://www.reddit.com/user/rswier

[1]https://github.com/rswier

pmh··on Please remove mitsuhiko/*
I think so, yes. See Iceweasel[0], the custom Debian build of Firefox. I'm not sure that you'd be successful in using trademark law in this particular scenario though.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_re...

pmh··on PPA Impounds UberX Vehicles in Undercover Sting Operation
First Keystone Risk Retention Group Inc. It's in grandparent's reference link (emphasis mine):

"The taxi owners contend their existing insurance continues to provide coverage for 30 days, despite the insolvency of First Keystone Risk Retention Group Inc. ... The insurance company was ordered liquidated Tuesday by a South Carolina judge at the request of the state insurance director"

pmh··on Universal SSL
Sorry, I deleted my comment since I thought the issue was better explained/covered downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8382419

As for spoofing the DNS record, I was under the impression that you switched your domain's nameservers to point at Cloudflare and that's what's used to verify that you control the domain.

pmh··on AT&T’s fascinating third-way proposal on net neutrality
>smaller isps will treat you better. they do exist.

That really depends on where you live. Some people have the choice between a single telco and a single cable provider, e.g. ATT & TWC or Verizon & Comcast. Some are limited to a single choice, usually because they live too far from a DSLAM and fiber is unavailable.

pmh··on Why You Shouldn't Ask Us to Sign Your NDA
Reminded me of http://blog.jpl-consulting.com/2012/04/why-i-wont-sign-your-... with previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3844893
pmh··on Some Dark Patterns Now Illegal in UK
FWIW, I recall the latter being included in the nightly rate when I was searching for places. It does switch to an itemized list of expenses when you actually view a property though.
pmh··on All Children Should Be Delinquents
Not to mention that when you do make a mistake, if it's publicized at all it will follow you for a good while by being Googleable.
pmh··on Songza is Joining Google
EQ won't help if you can't actually power the cans and in nearly all cases, won't help with noise or distortion due to the source.

For many mobile sources, you'll really want one for 250 Ohms. The HD558s by comparison are really low impedance.

An EQ can certainly help make your headphones sound more "interesting" or "better" though.

pmh··on A Comparison of Popular Ruby Application Servers
If Unicorn gets you most of the way, e.g. you have mostly fast requests but a handful of long running requests, you might consider using Rainbows[1] in tandem with Unicorn (or even on its own).

[1]http://rainbows.bogomips.org/

pmh··on Learn Git in the Browser
phaker is correct, that's just an escape sequence that the JS terminal didn't handle (or handled incorrectly). Using --no-color you get:

    diff --git a/octocat.txt b/octocat.txt
    index 7d8d808..e725ef6 100644
    --- a/octocat.txt
    +++ b/octocat.txt
    @@ -1 +1 @@
    -A Tale of Two Octocats
    +A Tale of Two Octocats and an Octodog
pmh··on Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack
At least in the early days of EC2, there were more than a few higher profile AMIs with password logins enabled, e.g. some of Oracle's AMIs used a trivial default password.

As far as I know, you can still create/publish AMIs where password auth is enabled, but all of Amazon's stock images only allow ssh-key auth.

pmh··on Rails 3.2.18, 4.0.5 and 4.1.1 have been released
The original CVE has been amended[1] since having *action in the route is not the only attack vector.

[1]https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-security...

pmh··on Fishing for Hackers: Analysis of a Linux Server Attack
Since you hadn't heard of sysdig before, you might also be interested in this article posted[1] a couple of weeks ago: http://bencane.com/2014/04/18/using-sysdig-to-troubleshoot-l...

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7622121

pmh··on SSH Kung Fu
I don't know of any, but one thing you can do is split up your config into multiple files and then use `cat` to combine them after making a change. There's also https://github.com/markhellewell/sshconfigfs
pmh··on My Quest to Build the Ultimate Music Player
I just use foobar via Wine.

Some hopefully helpful links:

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=7726...

https://github.com/xeoron/foobar2000-mac

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