<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: beachstartup</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=beachstartup</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:07:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=beachstartup" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "How Ikea's Billy bookcase took over the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>seems like the way ikea classifies their furniture is merely a suggestion.  for example i've always used their dining tables as desks, as their "desks" are too small and flimsy and relatively expensive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2017 13:15:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743913</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13743913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Brazil’s Love Affair with Uber Has Been Ruined by Kidnapping, Robbery and Murder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a lot of rich people in brazil drive cheap/lower end cars because carjacking and literal highway robberies are a huge problem.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736921</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736921</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Ask HN: How do you deal with loss of motivation?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's supposed to be negative.  it's shit talk on the internet.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736641</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736641</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13736641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Buffett Assails Money-Manager Fees as Berkshire Reports Profit Rise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>> why people agree to those terms is beyond me.</i><p>rich people are susceptible to the same herd/exclusivity psychology the rest of us are.<p>to those who don't know, fund management firms have plenty of sales people, except they're not called sales people, they're called VPs, managing directors, partners, etc.  but their job is to sell their services and bring new assets (MONEY) under management.  they do this through social interaction and posturing.  a lot of these people don't even actually manage the money, they just outsource it to hedge funds and banks with high end management services.  they're constantly being wined and dined by bankers and traders, people they claim to hate yet they keep shoveling money in their direction.  hmm.<p>why else do you think they have "minimum" asset requirements?  there's no logical reason to have one -- once your client's money is in your pocket you can shift it around from a single pool of capital no matter how big or small the transaction.  which is basically what an ETF is.  there's software to keep track of all the individual deposits and returns.  the truth is they market that exclusivity and they sure as hell don't want to talk with anyone who doesn't have millions of dollars.  i can't say i blame them.<p>one thing they all have in common is they all look down their noses at "retail" financial services.  it's just a big social game played by very smart people, like venture capital.</p>
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<p>the promise of future (or one-time "special") dividends or buyout or merger or some other action resulting in a swap for stock that does pay.<p>it's pretty tenuous, but real nonetheless.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 17:36:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725714</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13725714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "List of Sites Affected by Cloudflare's HTTPS Traffic Leak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>this is another data point that supports my personal, hare-brained theory that the expectation of privacy on the internet is simply naive, a fool's errand.  it never existed, and never will.<p>this is despite (or maybe because) of my best efforts to secure systems as a major part of my job.</p>
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<p>it seems to me you'd have to know at a minimum:<p>1. every tag pattern that triggers the bug(s)<p>2. which broken pages with that pattern were requested at an abnormally high frequency or had an unusually short TTL (or some other useful heuristic)<p>3. on which servers, and at what time, in order to tell<p>4. who's data lived on the same servers at the same time as those broken pages<p>to even begin to estimate the scope of the leak.  and that doesn't even help you find who planted the bad seeds.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2017 00:51:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719701</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719701</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13719701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>requesting a page with a specific combination of broken tags, when done through cloudflare, will cause neighboring memory to be dumped into the response.  op suspects this is due to a bounds checking bug on a read or copy.  one can imagine this can be potentially kilobytes of data in one go.<p>since anyone can put a broken page behind cloudflare, all you need  to do is request your own broken page through cloudflare, and start collecting the random "secure" data that comes back.</p>
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<p>david chang agrees with you:<p><a href="https://youtu.be/ikr5wVxzpjk?t=95" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/ikr5wVxzpjk?t=95</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2017 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713477</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713477</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13713477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i'll say it again, just in case you didn't get it the first time:<p>illegal aliens are different than legal immigrants, and should be treated differently under the law, and in society.<p>frankly, i don't care what the republicans or steve bannon think about it, that's apparently a major concern of yours, but isn't one of mine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 22:06:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13709650</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13709650</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13709650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i'm saying that legal and illegal immigration are two different things.  the fact that steve bannon dislikes both types and probably (almost certainly) dislikes non-white people has nothing to do with my point.<p>let's say all your worst fears are true, and bannon secretly is literally hitler.  does that change the fact that legal vs. illegal immigrants are different, and should be treated differently, with a different set of laws and social acceptance?  because i would say that even if he is literally hitler and mussolini combined, that would still hold true.<p>i mean, what is your actual point here?  that you don't like steve bannon?  okay, great.</p>
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<p>wow, i must suck at writing because you just made the same point i did.<p>namely: legal and illegal immigration are completely different things and anyone who says otherwise is disregarding law and social norms.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 18:31:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707826</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13707826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "How Peter Thiel’s Palantir helped expand the NSA’s global spy network"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>they deliberately conflate legal (skilled) immigrants and illegal aliens.  to them, there is no difference.<p>it is a hyper-egalitarian interpretation of the word 'immigrant' with no basis in law or social norms.</p>
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<p>with putty i would be surprised if most didn't run it straight from the desktop.  i would be a dirty liar if i said i haven't, countless times.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:14:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701592</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701592</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13701592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Why I Don’t Talk to Google Recruiters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that's absurd.  you should name the price you expect, and not go below your minimum.<p>would you hire a plumber that refuses to name his rate, and then when pushed, tells you a number 5 times higher than normal?  why do you think any other employment negotiation is any different?<p>if you "never name a number", the person on the other end is going to know you're inexperienced and operating on cargo cult mythology, and will simply take advantage of you.</p>
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<p>refusing to tell your prospective employer how much you want to get paid is a 'negotiation tactic'?</p>
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<p>in commercial production it can be cured in an autoclave.<p>i believe there are also thicker sheets that can be vacuum-bagged onto a surface, so you don't need to layer it.</p>
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<p>i survived my road warrior years thanks to redbox and the whole foods salad bar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 07:19:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13685135</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13685135</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13685135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>put an ssd in it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2017 05:28:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684535</link><dc:creator>beachstartup</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13684535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by beachstartup in "Street Life in London"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>i recently started brushing/flossing/shaving/etc in my kitchen, which has a better view, and is larger, and usually pretty damn clean.<p>my tiny bathroom is now for showering and eliminating only.<p>should have done it years ago.  it makes way more sense in an apartment.  did you notice nice/large houses usually have the toilet separated from the sinks?!</p>
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