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by soult 3y ago
It's interesting that the author picked the home depot delivery as an example, because I don't think it was caused by software bugs at all. The delivery notifications right at the end of the delivery slot happened because the driv
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by soult 5y ago
NuvoAir | Senior Backend Engineers | Onsite or Remote (EU/US) NuvoAir focuses on complex patients, initially targeting respiratory conditions such as COPD and asthma. The relationship-based clinical service delivers continuous, proacti
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by soult 5y ago
Glovo | Senior (Software Engineers, Data Scientists, Engineering Managers) | Barcelona & Madrid, ES | Warsaw, PL | Onsite after Covid | VISA Glovo is not just another food delivery app - we also bring your groceries, medicine, and parce
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by soult 5y ago
Glovo | Senior Software Engineers | Data Scientists | Engineering Managers | Barcelona & Madrid, ES | Warsaw, PL | Onsite after Covid | VISA Glovo is not just another food delivery app - we also bring your groceries, medicine, and parce
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by soult 6y ago
The German postal service is still paying for a couple of flights during the night to make sure it can guarantee E+1 delivery. They use regular passenger planes with a special set of seat covers: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by soult 7y ago
If you want to catch a glimpse into the lives of some of those workers, kolostories.com[1] "interviews" the workers of their captcha solving microworking site. It's macabre yet fascinating. 1: https://kolostories.c
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by soult 8y ago
The items from the Cuil collection were "made dark" (i.e. you can not directly view/download them). I do not know the specifics, but as far as I know most web crawl data on the Internet Archive is not directly downloadable, b
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by soult 8y ago
It may have been this article: The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain - Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/antonio-damasio-tells-... https://news.ycomb
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by soult 9y ago
At the 26C3 congress in 2009 there was a talk[1] about just that happening: companies that were looking for abandoned ASNs/IPv4 allocations and then using shady tricks (creating similarly-named companies, ...) to get them in their poss
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by soult 9y ago
The log tab says error, but it still displays a PDF. Actually, it displays the last PDF that was rendered on the server, even if that PDF was created by a different user.
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by soult 9y ago
I wrote a Django app that uses LaTeX to create invoices and some other stuff. It allows me to create nice-looking invoices and reports without manually specifying the (x, y)-position of each line of text, which some PDF generating libraries
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by soult 12y ago
I don't know what exactly you want to do with the pen input, but you could use native messaging[0] to get the data into chrome. Basically a small, native program that (bidirectionally) communicates with a Chrome extension via JSON. I u
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by soult 12y ago
Actually they have improved on this a lot. If you lose access to your account and your configured mail address, there are various actions (like sending bank statements, government ID, secret question/answer pair, ...) you can take to g
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by soult 13y ago
On the German DHL package tracking page, you have to enter the recipient ZIP code before being shown recipient details like name and signature. The tracking code itself is 20 decimal characters, although it is not randomly generated.
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by soult 13y ago
Does null voting leave the seats in parliament empty? Or do the other parties just get a bigger share?
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by soult 13y ago
When they get an abuse mail for your server, all they do is forward it to you. You then have 24 hours to fill out a form detailing what you did to stop whatever caused the abuse message. If you ignore the 24 hour limit, it will just escalat
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by soult 13y ago
See also: "The Cool Cam"[1] on The Daily WTF. 1: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Classic-WTF-The-Cool-Cam.asp...
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by soult 13y ago
Hacker News features many programming and technology related articles as well.
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by soult 13y ago
In Germany there is a "swapping" service[1] for SIM cards where you can send your prepaid SIM and will get a random SIM that another person sent in. And in Austria you can purchase both phones and (prepaid) SIMs without any ID or form to fi
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by soult 13y ago
So a gaping security hole that compromises all data is less important than using a deprecated interface?
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by soult 13y ago
There are many people with different interests on HN. Startup people, web developers, and even some hardcore cryptographers. While the former will find you article interesting and probably don't already know too much about encryption, the l
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by soult 13y ago
Even a captcha that can separate humans from machines with 100% accuracy does not defend against cheap labour ($1-5 / 1000 captchas) in developing countries like India.
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by soult 14y ago
From UpCloud's AUP: Intentional or careless use of the Services in excess of a typically expected server load, such as continuosly high CPU or I/O use rate. Does this mean that uses cases like ZenCoder (video encoding "in the cloud") would
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by soult 14y ago
While it is probably not relevant for must users, there is a subtle difference between "There exists no A record for x.example.com" and "There is no x.example.com".
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by soult 14y ago
Starting and running a company costs significantly more money than buying a domain, and a trademark has to be used, not just registered like a domain. Squatting a domain on the other hand requires minimal effort and money, and there is no d
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by soult 14y ago
Although one might guess so from the domain, this is not an official statement by Dropbox. On a side note, I do now understand why Google is pushing user-geneated content to googleusercontent.com.
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by soult 14y ago
Check out urlte.am, it is a bit similar to what you have described. (Disclaimer: I am a member of that team). The history option sounds very interesting. For example, the owners of "ethical" URL shortener is.gd do just change shorturls if t
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by soult 14y ago
Extracing such a list from the generated index only takes a small script and a few hours to download the 200+ GB index file. Which is a lot less than the slightly bigger script and the months/years to download and process 80+ TB of arc file
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by soult 14y ago
No, usually you can download them without sending any aws-id if they are on the Public Datasets S3 bucket, e.g. wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/aws-publicdatasets/common-crawl/crawl-001/2008/06/19/0/1213886083018_0.arc.gz
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by soult 14y ago
Is it just me or is the data file not available for free despite being in the Amazon Public Dataset S3 bucket? *Edit: The problem seems to be fixed now.

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