I think someone should change the title to indicate that it is a PHP library. "Grafika is an image processing library for PHP"

Aha, so that's why it made it to the front page. Had it had PHP in the title from the beginning HN would have ignored it completely (sadly).

Here is the author's motivation: "It felt wrong installing half of npm even for basic utilities, so I made JUST, a family of dependency-free modules" [1]

1: https://twitter.com/angustweets/status/754375515159441408

Something i can relate to. It just feels wrong to do a npm install for something very basic and see half a linux installation happening in the console...

It does nothing to address the underlying issue of people relying on NPM packages where there is little-to-no developer maturity to do with stable APIs and ongoing support.

I'll never criticise anyone for releasing OSS but ultimately he just becomes the things that half of NPM relies on and the vicious cycle continues.

Also, is it possible to install a non-trivial npm package without deprecated warnings?

Related: https://twitter.com/jdalton/status/754474672977096704.

And here is the video showing mysam in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxFtSsCM_bo

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In the 18th. slide we have this sentence:

Vulnerabilities: - We buy our servers from an Iranian on eBay

I've got two questions for the creator of these slides (Bruce Potter):

1) When was the last time you found an Iranian selling servers on eBay?

2) Where do people come up with this kind of generalization for any country?

I'm an Iranian Hacker, I don't need to watch news to know what is going on in my country. Apart from a gross generalization, Let me tell you why the statement in the slide can not be true. because of sanctions imposed by US to Iran, no Iranian can be selling anything on eBay at the first place.

..and why did the US impose sanctions on Iran? Do we need to go through a history lesson?

I personally know Iranians that use eBay. They aren't in Iran and haven't been for a while but still.

What pc bullshit?

Also may be related article, "Unicorns vs. Horses Why I want to be In-N-Out Burger, not McDonalds": https://medium.com/@awilkinson/unicorns-vs-horses-f81d8dd61f...

"Death is reason for the beauty of butterfly"

Who said that? I could not agree less. Butterflies are beautiful for their color, not their death.

It's from "Sohrap Sepehri" [1] an Iranian poet and painter. and I think the replies to your comments answer you question.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sohrab_Sepehri

Whoever said that, probably meant selection pressure.

Potentially also that if every butterfly that ever existed were still alive, we wouldn't be very fond of them.

From the article:

“It looks like the patch does not fix every case of environment variables being used to pass on executable code. We are still testing the patch, and hope to have more information on it soon,” Boileau said.

A number of other security experts highlighted the incomplete nature of the fix on the Red Hat Bugzilla page. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141597#c23

on the homepage bottom-right it says: The course costs just $200. If, during the course, you feel you're not getting value for money, we'll give you a refund.

You'll get a lesson a week for 10 weeks. The lessons are text-format, combining a balance of challenges with instruction.

The post is all about the people not the government. I was the organizer of the event then. I think the moral of the story is, people in Iran and what they are trying to achieve worth watching and the world should take them seriously. Despite the main stream media people here are trying to change the world to a better place to live.

I have posted this story to HN because I think people will be more interested to visit Iran and event start investing in the people. As Jonny mention in his article Iran is not a perfect place to live but people are doing their best here.

May they wanted to use that for creating traction in the first days of the launch... then again everyone can just signup and this doesn't make sense...