chbrown

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by chbrown 10y ago
iTerm2 3.0's tmux integrations take a little bit of work to set up locally, but you only have to do that once, and as long as your remote servers have a reasonably recent version of tmux (1.8, I believe), just replace filippo's `m
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by chbrown 11y ago
After frustratedly fixing an unsolvable Rubik's cube over Christmas break (my dad thought it'd be funny to "solve" it by peeling off the labels and putting them back on, but got tired halfway through and left it in an un
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by chbrown 11y ago
Every time there's a minor version update I have to remind myself the sequence of upgrade incantations. It's pretty simple, but here's a gist that might help anyone upgrading from 9.4 to 9.5 with Homebrew: https://
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by chbrown 11y ago
Another paywall workaround is to use/spoof Google search as your referrer. In Chrome, for example, install the "Referer Control" extension and add an entry for "ft.com", select the "Custom" referer setting
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by chbrown 11y ago
Interesting proposition though; can Google's search algorithm's ranking be construed as libel or something legal like that? Has anyone ever sued Google for lost business, and won?
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by chbrown 11y ago
I'm sure they did a lot of user testing and decided that their Javascript-powered scrolling mechanism was a better user experience than the default browser behavior of just moving up and down proportionally to your mouse wheel.
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by chbrown 11y ago
You can also request that the Web Archive fetch a URL from their homepage: https://archive.org/web/ ("Save Page Now" in the bottom right). I triggered the 7:09 copy this way; whether or not the other four fet
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by chbrown 11y ago
It said that before, too — I was paraphrasing. "humb.ly" is a more trustable name than, say, "Megaupload", but they can say whatever they want. What I want is some assurance like "The EFF has complete read-access to
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by chbrown 11y ago
Okay, but then the receiver has to know how to decrypt. Kind of narrows down who I can realistically send files to.
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by chbrown 11y ago
tl;dr from the FAQ: Q: "Why should I trust you?" A: "Because you should! We're good people! Honest!" I'd love to trust a service like this, but there's no credible effort to actually establish that trust.
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by chbrown 11y ago
Maybe they are really short. 30 seconds * 20 => 10 minutes, which seems reasonable.
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by chbrown 11y ago
I'm kind of surprised that Linus uses Gmail. It's likely that he'll actually catch a Googler's attention, but for many of us, user feedback is not an option. @jacquesm's http://jacquesmattheij.com/ha
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Amazon Mechanical Turk fees soon to double or even quadruple(requester.mturk.com)
4 points by chbrown 11y ago|3 comments
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by chbrown 11y ago
I guess this means that regular expressions are Turing complete, at least until a patch arrives?
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by chbrown 12y ago
Also on github: https://github.com/ivan-tkatchev/yalz77
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by chbrown 12y ago
Is it ironic that this guy bought a domain name specifically for this? or does he just know his audience.
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by chbrown 12y ago
I do. I block Flash in Firefox (v33.1), and it works in Firefox. Chrome (v38.0...) might have some Flash on it somewhere, but it's mostly HTML.
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by chbrown 12y ago
My institution subscribes to Nature, and using my library's proxy to access the Nature website, I can use the "Share/bookmark" menu to generate links like http://rdcu.be/bKk4 , http://rdcu.be&#
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Summer School on Hashing (videos and slides)(diku.dk)
1 points by chbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by chbrown 12y ago
It makes me sad that asking Google to fix their problem is the best solution Goldman Sachs can come up with. A few other options off the top of my head: * DDoS the gmail account in question with spam, particularly spam that looks like it co
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by chbrown 12y ago
I've heard that before. * Library of Congress: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archi... * Twitter Data grants: https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-twitte
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by chbrown 12y ago
Could be part of the game. Bughouse = chess + chess, inb.tw = chess + XSS.
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Modern cheap or free static hosting providers(alignedleft.com)
3 points by chbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by chbrown 12y ago
Very cool. @dfkoz, did you do any pre-processing to remove script boilerplate (e.g., I'm looking at Zero Dark Thirty and there's a lot of CUT TO ... CUT TO ... CUT TO) or try to extract dialogue vs. stage direction?
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by chbrown 13y ago
I wasn't there for the WWDC 2008 presentation, but in the article's linked snippet Altman's collars are definitely not popped. Google images has plenty of reference images for properly popped collars, reassuringly framed as m
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One Dot Per Person(demographics.coopercenter.org)
1 points by chbrown 13y ago|0 comments
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by chbrown 13y ago
He promised double-blind trials, but then ran a single-blind trial, and only reluctantly single-blind. And he didn't report preferences, but only that his sample could distinguish between Kit Kats. Science, man! Where's the love
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by chbrown 13y ago
About 8 miles less accurate than MaxMind -- 11 miles wrong vs. Maxmind's 3. I'm always curious: what is the provenance of services like this one / MaxMind — my ISP? Some past inadvertant GPS-enabled requests that leak out?
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by chbrown 13y ago
In related news, HN front page filled with open source FlappyBird clones.
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by chbrown 13y ago
Besides the GCHQ aspect, doesn't seem terribly different from other less catchy news stories: "Immunologist gets the flu", "Physical therapist fractures shin", etc.

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