compbio

6 ms·

1.
by compbio 11y ago
No need to apologize for giving your opinion. I have strong feelings on accessibility and security, perhaps a bit too strong. Others may rank design or "a fast development pipeline" higher than me. I expect content websites to fun
2.
by compbio 11y ago
Visit http://1.2.3.50 to disable this image compression for your device. Add "Cache-Control: no-transform" to your headers to disable image compression for all your site's visitors. Web devs should make sites that
3.
by compbio 11y ago
Interesting. The "new terrorist tool used in the Paris attacks, encryption" is far from new, and that story has revolved around the Playstation network (which the media told us was used by the Paris terrorists, despite the origina
4.
by compbio 11y ago
I think this kind of research is rather unethical and farcical. Like the previous research, where they came to the conclusion that Putin was an autist, based solely on Youtube video's. http://www.theguardian.com/science
5.
by compbio 11y ago
Absolute and utter FUD article, with zero basis in science and all the markings of another self-fulfilling social research trick. Of to Google "Are all The New York Times articles shitty journalism?" Our research shows that in the
6.
by compbio 11y ago
Do note that this is the most basic of SEO: Actually having the search engine access your content, so it can index it. It is, and has been, a far cry from actual optimization: Giving your content the best possible ranking it deserves. Want
7.
by compbio 11y ago
Not serious, or maybe ha-ha-only-serious. See: http://philip.greenspun.com/humor/ai.text The AI field has been a prolific source of hokey new terminology ... AI is about the same age as the rest of computing.
8.
by compbio 11y ago
> citing unidentified “European officials” That was the Belgium minister. > It was not clear whether the encryption was part of widely used communications tools, like WhatsApp, which the authorities have a hard time monitoring, or som
9.
by compbio 11y ago
Without any proof for or against, it is interesting to view this attack as a state-sponsored PSYOP.
10.
by compbio 11y ago
I am sorry for all posts in this thread (including this one). Imagine being PG and reading 200+ negative replies to a blog post you did. I could have reasoned in line with Graham and learned a lot more than when resisting and attacking a vi
11.
by compbio 11y ago
If feel the addition: "C" the applicants you're looking at have roughly equal distribution of ability. makes the reasoning more tautological/weak. If we take two dart boards (one for female -, one for male
12.
by compbio 11y ago
PG: Assumption: There is no fundamental difference between a female and a male founder for achieving start-up success (average rates and variance/distribution of rates is the same) Observation: VC funded start-ups with female founders
13.
by compbio 11y ago
Ok, that's solved. Now let's speculate on the current cultural weapons, that the Russians can't keep up with, but that the Americans use to keep cultural dominance: - The entire entertainment industry. - The LGBT-movement &#x
14.
by compbio 11y ago
I think you got downvoted not so much because HN believes in conspiracy theories, but because the lizard people remark was a bit of a rude put-down. I very much like Microsoft too, but I also get the hate. Even this move of nagging you to u
15.
by compbio 11y ago
You may be interested in this older documentary: https://youtu.be/DfsK6DuNhnc?t=2208 about the psychology of conspiracy theorists. The psychologists claim that they can predict who will believe in conspiracy theories, and t
16.
by compbio 11y ago
Most users will (rightly so) view this as an OS upgrade, not as an update. You already gave MS permission to provide you with security updates. You did not give MS permission to upgrade your OS. I feel the difference is of importance as upd
17.
by compbio 11y ago
This would run afoul of the European 'cookie law' (the name is a bit of a misnomer as it applies to more than just cookies). In short: Microsoft needs express permission to store/modify files on my computer. It will probabl
18.
by compbio 11y ago
That is a major difference between these two languages. Python: There should be one, and only one, preferable way to do things. Though this may not be obvious at first. R: Every author has a different style of doing things, reflecting in th
19.
by compbio 11y ago
As this is framed more as the results of a policy change, there are some things to consider when banning weed: - Street sales to tourists and foreigners exploded. Small-time dealers reported weekly income of 2k Euros during the prohibition.
20.
by compbio 11y ago
It's a game of numbers. Even if the response rate to spam email is like 0.00001%, it is still economically viable to send out 10 million spam emails. Scammer groups that have survived for this long got to hone their skills of manipulat
21.
by compbio 11y ago
It is not racism. Racism is the attitude/belief that one race is superior to another race. Also military veteran is not a race. It is discrimination. Discrimination is having applicants use 23andMe to prove that they are more black tha
22.
by compbio 11y ago
I think a US asset could have been targeted by their software. Or Hacking Team sold to a country with a bad standing in Israel. Then the software becomes a direct threat to their agents/allies overseas and it needed to be neutralized.
23.
by compbio 11y ago
Web design and development is also an art. Good artists look beyond business value. You actually should bend over backwards to cater to as many users as possible, especially if you are getting paid to build websites for users. Some countrie
24.
by compbio 11y ago
Progressive enhancement for JavaScript is not only a accessibility and usability issue, it has become a security issue. Tor enabled JavaScript by default, because the web would break without JavaScript support, and that hampered adoption ra
25.
As We May Think (1945)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by compbio 11y ago|0 comments
26.
by compbio 11y ago
I understand the meme: "Never ever roll your own encryption", but I am stubborn enough to ask: "Why?". Why use bcrypt over scrypt over pbkdf2? Because crypto experts told you? How could you know it is correct, if you are
27.
by compbio 11y ago
There are many links, but no conclusive proof: The long-term effects are unknown, research without commercial funding is slow, and you can not test on humans directly. Herbicide residues are found in the main foods of the Western diet. Atra
28.
by compbio 11y ago
Thanks Jacques. I first read about you almost 15 years ago. I think you did an interview about the creation of webcams and starting the first webcam community. What struck me was the typical Dutch resentment for success and those that dare
29.
by compbio 11y ago
Yes. Check out adaptive design. Instead of responsive, start talking in a way that specific user wants. No one-for-all design, which has to cater to both the power user and grandma, but a design that adapts itself to your (or similar) behav
30.
by compbio 11y ago
I used this new logo and turned (rotated) it into a new Google Scholar logo: http://i.imgur.com/j7L0goJ.png

More ›