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by abentspoon 2y ago
I like the slider puzzle Mercury built into their 404 page: https://mercury.com/404 My high score today is 33.
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by abentspoon 4y ago
> is having me click on an email going to make it more secure? We implemented this at Mercury recently to stop phishing attacks, and I believe Coinbase implemented it for the same reason [1]. TOTP authenticators are super ineffective at
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by abentspoon 7y ago
FWIW this is configurable. Edit `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` in about:config
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by abentspoon 8y ago
I've been using DDG for around six months now, largely because I love their keyboard shortcuts. Weirdly there doesn't seem to be a shortcut to help insert bang commands. I've been using this greasemonkey script[1] as a workar
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by abentspoon 9y ago
In a related move, Facebook disabled embedded videos from youtube/vimeo/etc last month. https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:291071 https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/19635357972580
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by abentspoon 12y ago
This has come up a few times, but I liked ribbonfarm's take on the same topic. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/09/how-to-take-a-walk/ hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by abentspoon 12y ago
> Update: On a more detailed examination of those two states, I’m convinced the contrast here is due to differences in the sizes of the blocks. North Dakota’s blocks are more consistently small (StDev of 3.3) while South Dakota’s are mor
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by abentspoon 13y ago
Mine has phrase-length, plus some highlighting to help keep your place in the text. http://qwerjk.com/force-feed
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by abentspoon 13y ago
First, it looks like this scheme is broken due to cpu constraints. However... It had looked more like the encrypted bloom filter was intended to prevent the client from obtaining the list of registered users. With (1) + (2), the server only
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by abentspoon 13y ago
Good point. Now I understand why they were suggesting bucketing. I came up with this method for maintaining privacy while retrieving installed apps (to give app recommendations). Sounds like it might not translate across so well.
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by abentspoon 13y ago
What about this? 1) Client uploads a bloom filter with all contacts on phone 2) Server responds with a bloom filter with all registered contacts that match the client's bloom filter 3) Client displays contacts that match server's
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by abentspoon 13y ago
First, yes, this is really cool. However, it's even worse than you think. It's making a lot of references to minified/obfuscated names. Things like $('.nH.hx'). When I was working on a gmail script[1] a year or two
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by abentspoon 13y ago
It's not enough to find 33 independent questions that evenly split the world's population. An optimal, though inelegant solution to that goal might look something like this: "Is the {1..33}th bit of sha1(name : location : dat
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by abentspoon 13y ago
Interesting. I was going to complain, as I thought "probably" meant the probability of occurrence was greater than 50%.. That doesn't seem to be the case. Probably: almost certainly; as far as one knows or can tell I
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by abentspoon 13y ago
Sorry I don't have anything more constructive to say, but you have Europe and Asia reversed. 5:00 PT is midnight UTC, so Europe is more likely to have just gone to bed.
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Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox(qwerjk.com)
179 points by abentspoon 13y ago|148 comments
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by abentspoon 13y ago
I don't know if intrinsic value is the right term, but I've been thinking along the same line. A Bitcoin is essentially a tradable hashcash, which has direct value in spam filtering. "Isn't it enough that I ruined a pony, making a gift for
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by abentspoon 13y ago
It's not just about confidence. If the price is being driven by new speculative investment (ie, a bubble), the price should stagnate as fewer speculators join the pool. If the price stagnates, there will be little incentive for purely specu
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Surfacing Interesting Content(stdout.heyzap.com)
74 points by abentspoon 13y ago|6 comments
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by abentspoon 13y ago
Thanks to $elemMatch and automatic parameter parsing, this vulnerability is easier to exploit than it would seem. In rails, both of these are usually considered safe: MysqlCollection.create(:name => params[:name]) MysqlCollect
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by abentspoon 14y ago
If you've had good luck with RSVP on your phone, I built a RSVP bookmarklette[1] a while back for reading articles on the web. I never had much luck reading with it, but it might be useful if RSVP works for you. [1] http://qwerjk.com/force
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by abentspoon 14y ago
"...indeed, we were capable of inducing a complete compound eye on an antenna, on a wing, or on a leg... We actually showed, later, that the fruit flies can see with these eyes." Wow, that really is fascinating.
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by abentspoon 14y ago
Someone should release a tool to scrape craigslist and post to padlister. Wouldn't craigslist have to counter-scrape and file a DMCA takedown notice for each listing?
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How to revert the Gmail redesign(qwerjk.com)
4 points by abentspoon 14y ago|1 comments
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by abentspoon 14y ago
You can actually still use the old interface for a little while longer, even if you've been forced over to the redesign. http://qwerjk.com/revert-gmail
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by abentspoon 15y ago
Another favorite of mine: Learning to be Me - Greg Egan http://qwerjk.com/force-feed#learning-to-be-me
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by abentspoon 15y ago
Better still, increment hotness by 2^(dt/λ) where dt is the time since the site was launched (epoch), and λ the halflife of an upvote. No worker process needed. Doubles will go to infinity after a few years, but you can either reset the epo
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by abentspoon 15y ago
Thanks! I've added a unicode charset, but it's pretty sparse.
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My weekend project: All 1e280 possible tweets on one page(qwerjk.com)
19 points by abentspoon 15y ago|7 comments
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by abentspoon 16y ago
I didn't see anyone mounting or dismounting the unicycle in the video. If it's awkward to stop and start, it's going to look much more dorky than the Segway.

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