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Answer: evolution. The ones who tried this don't exist any more. Amazon is an outlier. If another company did this, but it's stock price didn't keep rising , corporate "raiders" wi…

I have a static IP at home. I use my Pi to enforce IP-based access restrictions on most sites that allow it. I use ssh's built-on socks proxy (-D on command line or DynamicForward …

I'm very curious what aspect of Twitter's TLS code makes hard to intercept whereas other websites can be easily intercepted? I'm also very curious about how they intercepted Whatsa…

You can get close. Check out Photosmith ( http://www.photosmithapp.com/ ). Btw, Lightroom has a scripting interface using which I'm pretty sure you can roll what this guy wants.

I was hoping for Yubikey support. But I'll take this for now. I'll have to see if the Google Authenticator app shows up on all of my iDevices linked to my Apple account and whether…

Really good article on the pitfalls of a weak random number generator. I think it's been on HN before: http://www.cigital.com/papers/download/developer_gambling.ph... For me, this …

I personally like semicolons. It's similar in spirit to the period of English. Even languages which didn't traditionally have the period have adopted it in the last couple of centu…

At the risk of starting a flamewar :), what are some advantages of Flask over Bottle and vice versa? [I started on bottle and never switched]

Try Adobe Lightroom [yes, our favorite whipping boy Adobe :)]. It's really really awesome as a photo management tool. IMHO. If you find it slow, try throwing in an SSD. Don't run i…

Given your last point re: kids, how is it "insane" that people want to buy houses? Most people have/want to have kids. Btw, I don't agree with your last point. It's pretty much pos…

Can anybody explain if SSDs would have worked for this case?

Serious question: why do you want it to be free? I paid $10 for an SSL cert. Isn't that low enough?

Based on 10 seconds of thinking, maybe they want to prevent you from installing a suid binary in your home directory when in developer mode and then somehow running it in the regul…

I do something similar. You will need a powered USB hub to attach the external HDD (built-in USB can't supply the full 500 mW that a USB port is supposed to supply). Checkout out P…

Thanks. Yes, I meant panes. I also did the thing to get rid of the tmux prefix for pane switching. But since I don't use the function keys, I mapped keys F1 through F9 to various t…

Anybody know if it's possible to move between terminal windows (panes in tmux lingo) "clockwise" and "anti-clockwise"?

You probably knew this, but you can write and distribute Chrome extensions without having to upload them to the chrome app^Wweb store. Second, I've tried to work twice with Doing-I…

Interesting. It would nice if Chrome separated 'DOM write' permissions from 'DOM read' permissions. AFAIK, today extensions can't request only 'read' permissions. Yes, I understand…

Since the Sift guys are responding: from where do you get the raw data about fraudulent transactions? I'm assuming you have streams of fraudulent and valid transactions, otherwise …