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by idupree 13y ago
According to the article, a paltry 2% of your net revenue goes to uncompensated care (that's the California average). "Though hospitals’ nonprofit status allows them to reap tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in tax benefits,
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by idupree 13y ago
I prepay for many services that are still able to list prices in real currency: https://www.fastmail.fm/ https://www.tarsnap.com/ https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ The latter two do keep tr
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by idupree 13y ago
For me, the trivial C program appears to run faster than the empty file: $ touch empty $ chmod +x empty $ time ./empty real 0m0.002s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.000s $ echo "int main(){return 0;
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by idupree 13y ago
I can get a good USB2 enclosure for $10-15. My 6.5 year old laptop hard drive is 120GB (and couldn't read/write data via SATA much faster than it can via USB2 anyway). A 128GB flash drive costs around 5 times as much as that encl
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by idupree 13y ago
Yay! You should have have a section on installing from source too. This is part of doing open-source well.
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by idupree 13y ago
The Arch Linux instructions are still wrong; they say that aufs3 is required but it isn't anymore. http://docs.docker.io/en/master/installation/archlinux/ Is the warning "This is a community co
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by idupree 13y ago
My point applies in the same way to a laptop you buy, use, then incinerate. Even after you incinerate it, you are still bound by the terms you agreed to (to the debatable extent to which [1] is enforcable at all, anyway). [1] The download
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by idupree 13y ago
So, I decided to take a look. It used to be that Flash's terms forbade you from ever working on a competing Flash implementation. English is on page 87: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam&#x
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by idupree 13y ago
I imagine it's sketchy enough to be illegal, but what specific laws were they accused of violating? I read the consent judgment to find out: "3. Defendants' conduct constitutes deceptive and unconscionable commercial practic
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by idupree 13y ago
That works for technical reasons but not legal reasons. You can't "virtually" agree to the terms&conditions and then delete your agree-ment along with the VM. (Unless the terms or the law let you do so. Sometimes they
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by idupree 13y ago
I use FastMail. They seem competent. (This is a high compliment.)
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by idupree 13y ago
Thankfully, "A JSON-LD document is always a valid JSON document.". Section 2, http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/PR-json-ld-20131105/
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by idupree 13y ago
Similarly (but freer), http://www.citybik.es/ is an API for bike sharing systems around the world.
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API for Bike Sharing Networks around the world(citybik.es)
2 points by idupree 13y ago|1 comments
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by idupree 13y ago
Wikipedia's citation in that section[1] says that Swedes are more likely to report crimes, but have a similar actual amount of crimes. "Sweden stands out within the entire area of crimes against the person in particular, because t
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by idupree 13y ago
Well, maybe people will clean their own toilets and empty their own trash then. I do those at home (as do my housemates) because I like having a moderately clean home. If nobody else was cleaning the office I worked in, I'd clean it
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by idupree 13y ago
If "moving" includes "rotating": We can tell the Earth is rotating because its shape approximates an oblate spheroid, not a sphere.
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by idupree 13y ago
No, because you can't access that hash from https://sourceforge.net/ ( https://sourceforge.net/ is just a redirect to http). It's slightly more of a nuisance for the attacker to modify the hash as
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by idupree 13y ago
It's hard to download from Sourceforge using HTTPS. (Or even to use HTTPS to get the SHA hash of a download.) Can you tell me how to do it, so I can download from Sourceforge without risk of a man-in-the-middle modifying the download
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by idupree 13y ago
IANAL. Their letter isn't very good writing. Their only stated claim is that the word "ManyFish" infringes their trademarks on "PLENTYOFFISH", "PLENTY OF FISH" or "PLENTY OF". They say they can
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by idupree 13y ago
Sadly, Intel's integrated-GPU OpenCL still doesn't support Linux, and only just started supporting OS X in 10.9 Mavericks[1]. Usually Intel's Linux GPU support is great; I don't know why this is different. (Intel do hav
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by idupree 13y ago
Compose key, currently. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key )
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by idupree 13y ago
I typed in https://news.ycombinator.com/ and it removed the https:// from my query. http and https are not the same URL, and in particular may have different "blocked" statuses! Also FYI: it gave an e
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by idupree 13y ago
Every one of those websites has a horizontal scroll bar in my current browser window, so I can't really recommend them. I voted for "fluid" hoping for websites that are more fluid than those. (My current browser window is 8
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by idupree 13y ago
I'm not worried about NSA here: they can track my packets even if I use secure VPN software. I'm worried about the coffee-shop-WiFi variety of attacks. You're right that PPTP is fine for your purpose.
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by idupree 13y ago
In case you don't know: Don't rely on the integrity or security of PPTP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PPTP#Security
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by idupree 13y ago
The paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1310.1137v1.pdf Its thesis: "We introduce GOTCHAs (Generating panOptic Turing Tests to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) as a way of preventing automated offline dictionary attacks a
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Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers(briansmith.org)
2 points by idupree 13y ago|0 comments
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by idupree 13y ago
Google is smart enough to write an equation that says what usage patterns are too much to be fair usage of their network for $70/month. Then they could (in theory) publish it as part of their Terms and Conditions rather than have a &q
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by idupree 13y ago
Historical note: Launchd might have caught on if Apple had open-sourced it sooner. The author of the Upstart init system, Scott James Remnant, wrote in 2006, "How does [Upstart] differ from launchd? launchd is the replacement init syst

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