malcolmhere

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by malcolmhere 2y ago
You can get Markdown nowadays too, at least using this Python wrapper: https://aws-samples.github.io/amazon-textract-textractor/not... It's very consistent, though pricey.
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by malcolmhere 6y ago
Many shelters in the US are run be religious organizations and discriminate against gay people, too. This is particularly a problem because LGBTQ make up a sizeable chunk of homeless youth (think: kids getting kicked out by parents).
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by malcolmhere 6y ago
People who have never faced consequences for their actions rarely consider the possible consequences of their actions
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by malcolmhere 7y ago
I've written similar code for investment banks, to extract financial reporting data from PDFs. It's shocking to think how much of the financial world runs on this kind of tin-cans-on-a-piece-of-string solution.
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by malcolmhere 7y ago
If you're in Oakland, you can get haircuts for $15 at Lee's Barbershop in Chinatown: https://www.yelp.com/biz/lees-barber-shop-oakland Probably not the point, but there's generally no wait, little small-
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by malcolmhere 7y ago
This is a recurring problem in the animal feed industry. Easiest explanation for the phenomena: the small particles fall through the gaps gaps between the large particles.
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by malcolmhere 7y ago
Anyone who complains wind-turbines being unsightly should be forced to live next to an oil-refinery :-(
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by malcolmhere 7y ago
This is such garbage. If you clickthrough on this guy's "research", you'll find that he objects to Google's "Go Vote Today" reminder is unfair politically because: - It increases voter turnout across the b
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by malcolmhere 10y ago
I worked on a product like this for a long while, so I can appreciate how hard the problem is you are trying to solve. Some things I realized along the way: * Price capture needs to happen in a headless browser (e.g. PhantomJS), rather than
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by malcolmhere 10y ago
- We don't have the breadth of Safelight's material (early days I guess), but the areas we cover, we do a much better job. It was our frustration with this kind of training material that inspired us to make Hacksplaining in the fi
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by malcolmhere 10y ago
This was the post that got to the front page: https://www.reddit.com/r/InternetIsBeautiful/comments/4a4ol6... The warmest feedback tended to come through PMs and email.
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Apply HN: Hacksplaining – what every web developer needs to know about security
27 points by malcolmhere 10y ago|8 comments
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
Well spotted - I kind of mangled that explanation. The risk being mitigated is if somebody gets a dump of your old emails. Short-lived reset tokens don't help if they have full access to you email account.
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
Interesting site, never seen that before. It's kind of hard to get a feel for what the product does, though, without any screenshots.
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
Oh wow. Would love to know you did that. :-o
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
My bad, I've removed the reference to outdated password schemes. :-o
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
Give it a try, it's free! We don't cover mobile specifically, but if you are building APIs, much of the advise is useful. And thinks like password management are useful for every developer to know. :-)
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by malcolmhere 11y ago
Author here! I put this together because I was bit frustrated with the quality of teaching resources for my development team. (And I find the OWASP wiki a bit of a mess.) Not sure about the business model yet, though it's peaked some i
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Show HN: Security Training for Developers(hacksplaining.com)
128 points by malcolmhere 11y ago|35 comments
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Learn SQL injection by hacking a website(hacksplaining.com)
2 points by malcolmhere 11y ago|0 comments