Hacker News: mochizuki

New comment by mochizuki in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

mochizuki — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:03:22 +0000

It's as easy as throwing a red banner on your website that explains the situation briefly and recommends that users change their passwords, if you take this more seriously you can force a password reset for all users. Depends on how sensitive the information that your users trust your site to hold is.

New comment by mochizuki in "Tweetping, Twitter traffic in real time"

mochizuki — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:42:52 +0000

There's so much potential information there, and some very neat things you can do with it. But for me at least, their new API policies completely turned me off of making cool things with it. Not that the API isn't still powerful.

New comment by mochizuki in "Show HN: Send SMS to your number for free from shell"

mochizuki — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 17:20:49 +0000

Hope this doesn't lead to text bombs

New comment by mochizuki in "Mark Zuckerberg donates $500 million"

mochizuki — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:20:19 +0000

I don't entirely understand why he donated shares of Facebook instead of dollars, can they sell the shares all at once and use the money or is there a catch to that? Did it cost him less money to donate shares in the long run? It's probably my lack of understanding of stocks and economics but it seems like it would be easier for everyone to just donate money.

New comment by mochizuki in "The Oatmeal sued over trademark by ‘Oatmeal Studios’"

mochizuki — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:27:55 +0000

I guess the most civil way this could end is The Oatmeal just decides to sell the cards under a different name but is allowed to keep the webcomic/online stuff under 'The Oatmeal'.

New comment by mochizuki in "PPA for Netflix Desktop App"

mochizuki — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:32:26 +0000

Now this is cool. I wasn't particularly impressed with the article that went around about using Netflix with Firefox in WINE but now that someone took that and applied it like this is something I can get behind.

New comment by mochizuki in "Spammers started to hit GitHub?"

mochizuki — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 14:12:48 +0000

Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

New comment by mochizuki in "Dole/Kemp '96 Online Campaign"

mochizuki — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:19:06 +0000

"Bill Clinton Wants to Put 'Big Brother' in Your Computer"

Haha!

http://www.dolekemp96.org/agenda/issues/internet.htm

New comment by mochizuki in "Show HN: a tiny Instagram projector"

mochizuki — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:13:38 +0000

Not for me, but it seems like it would do well on one of those take-my-money sites like ThinkGeek. I'd market it to one of those big ones, they're always investing in products and have the means to make it.

New comment by mochizuki in "Show HN: a tiny Instagram projector"

mochizuki — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:10:20 +0000

"And the coffee table book has legs that fold out! So the book becomes a coffee table in it's own!"

I agree. The mixing old technology with the new thing was played out after the hundredth "turns your iPhone into an analog phone!".

New comment by mochizuki in "Kim Dotcom’s Mega goes online at Mega.co.nz"

mochizuki — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 12:10:46 +0000

Beautiful design. But I'm getting an error when I try to sign up to be an API partner. Anyone else?

New comment by mochizuki in "The Ultimate Mobile Computer: Connecting an Asus Transformer and a Raspberry Pi"

mochizuki — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:03:35 +0000

Writing, compiling, and executing Java and Haskell code can't be done (easily, at least) on the Transformer Prime, so he's just exploiting the batter life (along with it's inexpensiveness, and effortless syncing) of the Transformer and using it as a mobile access point to his pi where he can code.

New comment by mochizuki in "Python Libraries you should know about"

mochizuki — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:43:14 +0000

I have a few scripts that could benefit from PyQuery, didn't know about that one. Also path.py looks like it will save me some time to. Thanks!

New comment by mochizuki in "A billion dollar software tech company is founded every three months in the U.S."

mochizuki — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:33:26 +0000

Looking at this and thinking about how many companies created each year that are worth even a million dollars that aren't close to being on this, that must be an optimistic number.

With a more intricate list this could provide some neat data. Most successful time of year to start your company, synchronous business tactics used by those companies, I'm sure there's more.

New comment by mochizuki in "It is Now Illegal to Break DRM on E-Books in Canada"

mochizuki — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 07:30:28 +0000

>"A specific exemption to the digital lock rule is also given for those who have a ‘perceptual disability’ and need to make the file readable. If you have reading glasses prescribed by a doctor, as I do, and your preferred reader has font options which help you read, this exemption could arguably apply."

That seems like a pretty big loop hole.

Looks like this only passed because of the stated American lobbyists. I'll be watching closely the first time this is enforced, if it is at all.

New comment by mochizuki in "Tweetro Slams into Twitter 100K Token Limit"

mochizuki — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 06:32:16 +0000

Theoretically nothing, but who wants to break up their product like that? The number of different versions would scare away users and they probably wouldn't reach 100k in the first place. How would they identify versions that have reached a token limit?

New comment by mochizuki in "‘Creepy Cameraman’ pushes limits of public surveillance"

mochizuki — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 10:35:47 +0000

This is very interesting. Though I think everything is defunct because of the presentation of the whole thing. If he made the slightest change, i.e was holding a microphone, people would not only stop what they were doing and allow themselves to be recorded, but they'd let him ask them questions. I think there's enough evidence of this in other YouTube videos where one person calls a random person, puts on their best over zealous voice, tells them they're from a radio station and asks them embarrassing questions that the call-ey couldn't be happier to answer. As outlined in many books it's just a very basic principle of social engineering. People want to give their information out, it's just a matter of asking for it politely. If he had gone into one of those classes and asked to sit in and record it for 2 minutes, even without a purpose, I'm sure they would have been much more open to the idea. A surveillance camera is on the opposite side but the same in many ways, it's not asking anything from you and it's far enough away that people don't feel threatened by it. There is fault in both the creepy camera mans and the people he's recording's logic. The cameraman thinks that they have a problem being filmed at all, and the people think that they're less safe because they can see that they're being filmed. You can bring to their attention the fact that they're being filmed every day all you want but that doesn't change anything because it's so out of site and out of mind that they don't (and won't) see it as a threat.

New comment by mochizuki in "How many plants would you need to generate oxygen for yourself in an airlock?"

mochizuki — Sun, 28 Oct 2012 22:22:01 +0000

I wonder if you can scale this down to be scientifically accurate for Sandy from Spongebob, one tree per squirrel seems like it would be alright.

New comment by mochizuki in "How Do Tech Corporations See You?"

mochizuki — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:44:50 +0000

Hah, I hope RIM can get there stuff together and pull through, I'm not really a fan of any of there products but they're one of the last bastions of the Canadian tech sector and I definitely want that to grow so that I don't have to move to the states. It wouldn't be horrible but I like it here.

New comment by mochizuki in "Raspberry Pi runs XBMC; reliably decodes 1080p (January)"

mochizuki — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:41:47 +0000

Why are all these old shitty stories making the front page the last couple days?