Hacker News: Perixoog

New comment by Perixoog in "The open-office trend is destroying the workplace (2014)"

Perixoog — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 20:31:57 +0000

Desks with wheels (like valve).

New comment by Perixoog in "Foolproof HTML"

Perixoog — Sun, 05 Feb 2017 00:01:53 +0000

    Code ??? WYSIWYG
    Could there be something unexplored in the middle?

WYSIWYM - What You See Is What You Mean.

Most famously used by the LaTeX powered document processor, LyX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYM

New comment by Perixoog in "Worried About the Privacy of Your Messages? Download Signal"

Perixoog — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:49:08 +0000

If you speak to a large group of people anonymously it's not private.

If it's not private, what you say, how you say it and when you say it can be analyzed to identify you.

It's a people problem not a technical one.

New comment by Perixoog in "Things I will tell my kids if they become entrepreneurs [slides]"

Perixoog — Mon, 31 Oct 2016 16:47:21 +0000

where does timing fit in?

New comment by Perixoog in "HN comments are underrated"

Perixoog — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:13:36 +0000

The game of life meets the Dunning Kruger effect.

New comment by Perixoog in "5900 online stores found skimming"

Perixoog — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:27:48 +0000

The FBI.

New comment by Perixoog in "CIA ‘Siren Servers’ can predict social uprisings 3-5 days in advance"

Perixoog — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:49:22 +0000

The protesters didn't have cell phones? Just correlating their locations would tell you something was up.

New comment by Perixoog in "Just shut up and let your devs concentrate, advises Joel Spolsky"

Perixoog — Sat, 08 Oct 2016 11:39:34 +0000

It's not about what companies financial incentives are, but what type of behavior they reward their staff for.

"Noone ever got fired for buying IBM"

New comment by Perixoog in "Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD"

Perixoog — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 22:48:18 +0000

Yes, and yes.

The pam module requires you to forward a remote connection to your ssh agent - when you connect to a compromised server your attacker can authenticate to other machines as you.

An ssh key for root is simpler and safer.

New comment by Perixoog in "Vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD"

Perixoog — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 20:06:53 +0000

Alternatively - pam_ssh_agent_auth

New comment by Perixoog in "Bringing Pokémon GO to life on Google Cloud"

Perixoog — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:32:57 +0000

>... Google Cloud customer...

That's pretty misleading - I believe Google's parent company still own part of Niantic. So other customers shouldn't expect the (implied) same access to Google resources.

New comment by Perixoog in "How YouTube recommendations work [pdf]"

Perixoog — Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:32:20 +0000

https://youtube.adblockplus.me/

New comment by Perixoog in "I tried to fly to London on a fake passport [video]"

Perixoog — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:05:30 +0000

He's an English teacher.

New comment by Perixoog in "Why You Should Try tmux Instead of screen"

Perixoog — Sun, 03 Jul 2016 10:44:26 +0000

>When several clients are attached to the same session, each client can watch a different window. When clients are watching different windows, every client uses the full terminal size.

Nice.

New comment by Perixoog in "Berners-Lee: WWW is spy net"

Perixoog — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 15:16:26 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Messaging

New comment by Perixoog in "DeepOSM: Detect roads and features in imagery with neural nets using OpenStreetMap"

Perixoog — Tue, 31 May 2016 19:55:50 +0000

Broadly the people who contribute, contribute because they want the data to be useful. The people who don't care about the data being useful aren't contributing.

Which leads to things like: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Quality_assurance

New comment by Perixoog in "Open Whisper Systems Partners with Google on End-To-end Encryption for Allo"

Perixoog — Thu, 19 May 2016 19:04:34 +0000

Making someone else's crypto not suck is not the same as endorsing their product.

New comment by Perixoog in "Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector"

Perixoog — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:58:32 +0000

A camera flash also gets the message across.

New comment by Perixoog in "Raspberry Pi Car Speed Detector"

Perixoog — Tue, 17 May 2016 19:52:48 +0000

You could just use licence plate recognition x2 and measure average speeds instead.

New comment by Perixoog in "OxyContin's 12-hour problem"

Perixoog — Sat, 07 May 2016 13:41:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_%28politics%29