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wizard_2on Ask HN: Anyone needing help with their project?

I got two projects (one open and one closed) I could use some help on both. python/django. Email me and we can chat.

update added email to about section of profile.

wizard_2on Amazon CloudFront Adds Default Root Object Capability

Only cloudfront, not regular S3.

wizard_2on Ask HN: Where do you host your webapp?

Do you mind sharing about how you got hacked?

Can you remove a logfile on linux/unix while something is using it? Of course you can but the open file will stay around in limbo. It wont free up space, the program that holds it open will write to the deleted file, etc. Most linux programs will let you send it a nohup and it will close and reopen the logfile, that's something I haven't a clue about on windows.

I still pipe logs to a separate process that checks if the logfile is deleted and reopens/creates the logfile, its just easier.

wizard_2on Multi-core HTTP Server with Node.js

Thats specious, you really have to know what you're proxying, and squid and varnish supposedly get much less throughput. (Google around http://deserialized.com/reverse-proxy-performance-varnish-vs... ) "Moving bits" in memory is not a measure of anything.

wizard_2on The pros and cons of 'fuck you' money.

Meet some more people. I've saved 20+% for about 5 years now, I have over a year of FU money, and probably closer to 3 or 4 if I actually payed closer attention to my spending and cut back. I'm not rich, I just save before I spend and prolong the time before I give any of my money away (purchases, bills etc - its my money!)

It hasn't affected me much, I still work, I'm still kind to strangers and waitresses. You're rule is good, but something tells me those people you know would be the same in any situation.

wizard_2on Mongrel2

The sqlite database might get stored as a blob, but a json, xml, or sql dump of the database would be just as plain text as anything else.

wizard_2on Google's getting B(l)ing

I disagree, every new server or desktop I setup has bing as the default search engine, before switching them to google, I'll sometimes try my search in bing and be horribly dissatisfied. I may have learned how to search on google (in a way to get better google results) but I can't figure out how to get Bing to give me what I'm looking for.

wizard_2on 500MB download? Why didn't Wired Magazine use HTML5 for their iPad app?

The crazy layouts wired is somewhat famous for hardly translate to plain text with a few graphics. I don't know what they use to layout their magazine (or what they used 10 years ago!) but it's not html5. Translating, migrating, converting, or adapting their content to anything other then an image (except maybe PDF!?) would be extremely non trivial.

wizard_2on Sony’s new, super-thin OLED display wraps around a pencil

Is sony making this themselves or do they use some other company they own? I'm curious who the big players are in the OLED space, it seems like it's finally getting interesting.

wizard_2on How Richard Stallman Browses the Internet

I turned noprocrast on, on a lark. I was obsessively distracting myself from a project that was too important to me to start and I figured it couldn't hurt. (Can't do poorly if you don't do at all.) Its been on for about 2 weeks now and I love it, most of the time I had taken to reading HN when I wanted to be doing other stuff. Now I read HN when I want to read HN (chrome's privacy mode is an easy work around) instead of when I'm avoiding other stuff.

wizard_2on Oil reaches Louisiana shores

Easy, nuclear.

We put more radiation into the air with coal ash then we have ever released with nuclear power.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is... (first article I found - there are plenty)

wizard_2on Making Django and NoSQL Play Nice

There is if you're interested in the future development of the django framework. I am, and I found it interesting. Alex is one of the core leads of the django project and does a lot of good work with django and python.

There's obviously isn't high interest for most people here so they're not upvoting or commenting. If you're not interested skip over the slides.

wizard_2on The latest version of the LittleDog robot

Or even better, attack dogs of the future. When I got home last night the first thing my roommate did was show me that video and then remind me of the "rat things" in Snow Crash.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Rat_Things

wizard_2on Facebook caught sharing secret data with advertisers

Many browsers can, but few do. Firefox, chrome and IE don't by default.

wizard_2on Play PacMan at google.com Now.

booo! why wont it load on the droid?

wizard_2on Play PacMan at google.com Now.

I just played a level with my boss. I'm disappointed it doesn't load up on the droid.

wizard_2on Google Storage for Developers

I'll echo the sentiment except from the windows side. I had the mozy pro deployed on 5 users laptops that were frequently connected to 100mbit internet connections. I never was able to get all 5 machines to continue to backup on their own. I constantly had to force the backups, add more resources (even though it should have auto purchased more storage), and deal with users complaining their computers were much slower.

The worst part was the outlook archives, large multigigbyte files it would try to compress and encrypt without splitting.

We use jungle disk now, nobody notices it and it works.

wizard_2on Google To Launch Amazon S3 Competitor ‘Google Storage’ At I/O

A hacker I know (who has I team I believe - the debuggable.com guys - both successful bloggers and core teamembers of the cakephp community) has been working on transload.it for a while, it's a pretty good service despite still being in beta, but I haven't put it through its paces like I'm sure you would. (I was working on a wordpress plugin.) It sits on ec2 and will save right into your s3.

http://transloadit.com

I don't know their plans for the full release, but they could be a way to break out of your lock in with encoding.com.

wizard_2on Ask HN: Is Google cataloging my girlfriends?

The wonder wheel search is useless for my name... maybe it doesn't have a full index.

You might have overlooked that your ex could have posed information about you online. Google probably figured out that you were related to her in some way and it's why she shows up as a "personable" (and similar way you're linked to your current gf) link to you.

wizard_2on The Pirate Bay up again - bandwidth provided by Swedish Pirate Party

From google translate.

We got tired of Hollywood's cat and mouse game with the Pirate Bay and ordered us to offer the bandwidth side, says Rick Falk Vinge, leader of the Pirate Party. It is time to take the bull by the horns and stand up for what we believe is a legitimate activity.

wizard_2on Write Down Your Password

Simple and elegant, that really sells it for me. I user SuperGenPass which is great as long as you can run javascript when you need your password. The latest trouble I've been having is on my android device when logging into applications. It's enough to make me want to learn how to write an input method for android/supergenpass.

wizard_2on Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation

Their open letter on the other hand is relevant to the entire credit card industry.

wizard_2on Iron Man 2's Secret Sauce: 3-D Printing

Its a reference to his old dug habits that he was pretty famous for. I agree it didn't need to be mentioned.

wizard_2on I just launched my bootstrapped startup. Pray for me.

Not only does gmail have a limit but you're violated the TOS. Look into http://sendgrid.com/ and check out your ip's to see if you're on any blacklists. It looks like you're using ec2, so there's a good chance that email coming from your webservers will be blocked.

wizard_2on China drops Dropbox

Dropbox uses https for all of its communication, which makes it a non monitored form of communication. A lot of people use dropbox for sharing files and folders for organizing events. You could also share videos and documents about banned information.

wizard_2on China drops Dropbox

The relays still work, the mechanisms to share the relay addresses have changed a bit and continue to do so. Tor's traffic looks like regular https traffic so it's very difficult to block. The tor project makes China one of it's priorities and continually play an escalation war with China's government.

So if it does get blocked its not for long.

I wish I could help you with more specific information off the top of my head, but I fortunately don't have to use relays. I am willing to do some research and share the results here if you like.

wizard_2on Have an online store? What you need to do by July 1.

I take issue with Requirement 5, why on earth would my web server need an antivirus? Other then that everything else is pretty much a no brainier. Where my real issues lie are in the certification's of PCI compliance. Companies charge a lot of money to do "scans" of your website and claim that you're required to be "scanned" for compliance. According to https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org that doesn't seem to be the case.

wizard_2on Why I went without hot water for a year

I would stand there giving myself little pep-talks out loud, convincing myself to follow through. “Do this. It won’t kill you. It’ll be over soon.” And when I got out of that shower clean and covered in goosebumps I felt stronger and more substantial than when I’d gone in. My resolve had been tested and affirmed.

I wonder what things I do to test my resolve that I'm not currently aware of. It took him a year to figure it out for himself.