Hacker News: holdenc

New comment by holdenc in "Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative"

holdenc — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 14:51:55 +0000

Quite ironic they suggest we use "demanding or entitled White woman" instead of "Karen". Isn't a Karen actually a "a female of European descent struggling with mental conditions of entitlement?"

New comment by holdenc in "A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem"

holdenc — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 16:42:48 +0000

Today its glasses of water by the sink, tomorrow it's "you have to sanitize the car steering wheel after you drive," and eventually it's "don't get close to me if you walked by the bus stop." I feel sorry for anyone who has to endure this.

New comment by holdenc in "Ask HN: How do I secure the domain for my business?"

holdenc — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 13:37:07 +0000

You have not really given us enough information to suggest the best solution. For example, is this because you host many websites for other people who all use your custom nameservers? Either way, if you are hosting many sites with custom nameservers, look at what AWS does for its nameservers for route53. Theirs are set-up like so:

ns-1271.awsdns-11.co.uk

ns-522.awsdns-02.net

ns-433.awsdns-03.com

ns-1870.awsdns-03.org

In your case, you'd likely want to each domain used in your custom nameserver configuration to be registered at a different company. In this way, you no longer have a single point of failure.

New comment by holdenc in "I think US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears"

holdenc — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:16:03 +0000

While I agree that 200K in debt for a BA in English is not a wise choice, there's a whole class of families that can afford the 200K out of pocket, and will happily pay it for a top school. I have a child, and will do it for the following reasons:

- You only get one chance to be 18 - 22 years old. College is a great way to improve your appreciation of culture, society, and build social skills, prior to taking a full time job.

- I know many youngsters here will likely have a problem with this -- but the average 18 year old has some intellectual and emotional maturing to do. This can happen via the social and academic challenges of college. In fact, the best colleges will sell this over any practical skills.

Work life can be a grind, even for someone with their dream job. When was the last time you had a chance to try your hand at literary criticism, or game theory, or learning a new language? How did it go the first time you had to ask for help with an intellectual problem? (Probably a distant thought in the minds of the average senior developer). How about the last time you had to cooperate with several people you dislike? College is a good place to get started with these things.

New comment by holdenc in "Running Out of Money When Building Side Projects Helps You Succeed"

holdenc — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:43:42 +0000

Getting from zero to paying one's living expenses is probably the most difficult growth phase of any start-up. In my personal experience, this phase is best funded by technical debt. I suspect this is an unpopular opinion because cleaning up technical debt is no fun. None-the-less, I've seen it over and over -- a quasi-technical founder knows someone willing pay for XYZ, then that person makes it just well enough to work. A company is born, the rent gets paid, and perhaps an acquiring company cleans-up the tech stack.

New comment by holdenc in "Ask HN: How do you deal with getting old and feeling lost?"

holdenc — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 12:30:50 +0000

My friend, you are not lost -- you are free. From what I can tell, you have your health, your youth (35 is still young) and you have some savings. If you don't have a mortgage, kids, a spouse, and a job you cannot leave, then you are free. The next step is to see the world. Get a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai and try to stay as long as possible. Learn the language, get a scooter, and talk to people. Live close to the earth, and when you eventually miss home, you will return a different person. Certain places are easier to reboot yourself than others. Pick some place warm and friendly.

New comment by holdenc in "Interview with Charlie Munger on Controversial UCSB Dorm"

holdenc — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 15:03:36 +0000

The building has all the charm of a temperature-controlled storage facility, which sadly, is what it seems to be.

New comment by holdenc in "Tokyo’s 7-Elevens and convenience stores"

holdenc — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 09:22:56 +0000

Nice, but Taiwan has the best 7-11's. Take a look:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/%E6%9A%97%E9%BB%91%E5%B0%8...

New comment by holdenc in "The vital art of talking to strangers"

holdenc — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:24:38 +0000

Brilliant story. This is the NYC that I remember.

New comment by holdenc in "8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories"

holdenc — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:02:27 +0000

This humble letter follows some good rules for short persuasive prose:

- Don't generalize or pontificate

- Draw from specific facts or experiences

- Qualify your thesis statement as a suggestion or polite request

New comment by holdenc in "I got rich on the other hand (2019)"

holdenc — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 16:24:48 +0000

That first feeling for true financial independence is different for everyone, I guess. For me it's having enough to pay for unexpected medical bills and children.

New comment by holdenc in "Subdomain hack associated with a removed S3 bucket"

holdenc — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 12:06:19 +0000

Yeah, apparently it's a known vector: https://hackerone.com/reports/121461

Subdomain hack associated with a removed S3 bucket

holdenc — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 07:31:34 +0000

tldr; If you delete an S3 bucket with a subdomain name, you need to delete the DNS record that points to it, or the missing bucket may be recreated by someone else, and used to host bad content at your subdomain.

Timeline:

- Received a message from Google Search Console that a new user has been verified for to-be-hacked.my-company.com.

- Looked in Google Search Console, but no new users exist. However, a new site map was submitted for: to-be-hacked.my-company.com/sitemap.xml This is filled with spam pages. The hacker apparently recreated the missing S3 bucket in their own account, and used this to verify the domain ownership with Google Search Console and then host the sitemap.xml filled with spam content. The spam content is also hosted in the bucket at to-be-hacked.my-company.com.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24068858

Points: 14

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New comment by holdenc in "TSMC Announces Intention to Build and Operate Advanced Semiconductor Fab in U.S."

holdenc — Fri, 15 May 2020 13:48:00 +0000

It does not require an invasion unfortunately. It only requires a naval blockade, which would effectively starve the island until they concede to defeat.

New comment by holdenc in "State of Oklahoma's New Brand Identity / Logo"

holdenc — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 17:31:59 +0000

The logo and typesetting is quite ok. But the "Our Photostyle" idea is just plain bad/confusing.

New comment by holdenc in "U.S. alcohol-related deaths have doubled, study says"

holdenc — Sat, 11 Jan 2020 12:33:06 +0000

Since we are sharing stories... I moved to East Asia, which can be an adult daycare for Western alcoholics, and realized not only could I drink every night of the week and still have a job, healthcare, significant other, and lots of friends -- this was becoming my life. I quit cold turkey about 8 years ago. Still in Asia, with a lot fewer friends, but getting deep sleep at night, and am able to focus and relax my mind almost on-demand, which was impossible before.

New comment by holdenc in "Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition"

holdenc — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:34:23 +0000

You are correct. I suppose it could be an unreviewed NPM dependency causing this ;)

New comment by holdenc in "Always Review Your Dependencies, AGPL Edition"

holdenc — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 08:45:48 +0000

This is what happens when you dynamically insert your CSS tag in the head after the DOM loads.

New comment by holdenc in "Help me ask why you didn't just"

holdenc — Tue, 03 Dec 2019 12:30:49 +0000

To better remove the criticism, add some honesty and objectivity...

"One of the first things I would think of, when trying to solve a problem like this, would be sshd. But, I may not understand the full scope of your problem."

New comment by holdenc in "Early Retirement May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Study"

holdenc — Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:07:31 +0000

More anecdotal...my mother-in-law is mid-70s. Retired for the last 20 years. Plays mahjong all day. Sharp as a tack, along with her mahjong friends.