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by talklittle 9y ago
> You can try an Ajax request or loading a picture over SSL and then redirect with JS if it doesn't fail. Neat idea, but wouldn't this still be exposed to ISP-level attacks? Since the user is still loading the page initially in
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by talklittle 9y ago
For one, GitHub and DigitalOcean both had Series A investments led by the same partner at Andreessen Horowitz. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean/investo... https://www.crunchbase.com&
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by talklittle 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_stainless_steel > There is no formal definition on what constitutes a "surgical stainless steel", so product manufacturers and distributors apply the term to refer to
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An update on the state of the Reddit repositories(reddit.com)
98 points by talklittle 9y ago|45 comments
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by talklittle 9y ago
A bit misleading. The maintainers have been working on large experimental features like a self-hosted "signaling server" which helps sync notes without storing any note data on it, and without relying on third-party hosting like D
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by talklittle 9y ago
How is expiration of files achieved with IPFS? I thought files stored on IPFS were available forever. If my impression was correct, then Firefox Send supports different use cases than IPFS.
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by talklittle 9y ago
Not really. "Introduced a bug" is fairly common (just do a Google search and see), and clearly does not suggest intention.
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by talklittle 9y ago
The work vs. business question is simpler than that. Business = working in US for a foreign company. Work = working in US for a US company. Presumably Basecamp has set up business entities abroad. https://travel.stackexchange.com
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by talklittle 9y ago
Sounds like dehydration. Do you always drink enough water before and after exercise sessions?
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by talklittle 9y ago
Firefox Test Pilot [1] is a more recent approach to testing new UI in Firefox. It's entirely extension based. I think this is a smart approach because it lets Mozilla quickly test new UI features without building it into the core brows
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by talklittle 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder how many self-driving car researchers incorporate car crash videos into their AI (anti-)learning datasets?
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by talklittle 10y ago
IMO the simple reality is they need to diversify their income sources to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket, and they decided Pocket makes sense. I'm still a huge Mozilla fan, the whole Pocket episode is not a big deal to me.
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by talklittle 10y ago
That much is unclear. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/05/mozilla-has-a-revenue-share...
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by talklittle 10y ago
> by visiting one of the vulnerable sites repeatedly I mean, how could CloudFlare, or anyone, possibly differentiate this from normal scraping/polling/ manual F5 refresh behavior? This sounds like a PhD thesis. I guess you ar
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by talklittle 10y ago
> 2. I agree $60,000 is a very low minimum. But how is $130,000 reasonable? Even in this industry that's a significant salary. The current administration is businesspeople. They know $130k sounds too high, it's anchoring for
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by talklittle 10y ago
You're misinterpreting cjensen's comments. This is Hacker News, where people like to use an engineering mindset to find smaller faults in arguments, even when they may agree with the overall argument. I believe cjensen's purp
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by talklittle 10y ago
Come on, HN. How can nobody be mentioning some of the much cooler stuff available on Google Cloud? https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/ It's a mistake to just compare Google with AWS, thinking
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by talklittle 10y ago
> There is also one sure-fire way to increase telomere length : get cancer. This badly needs a source. This article from 2013 [1] says the opposite, that shorter telomeres are associated with cancer: In recent years, shorter telomeres
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by talklittle 10y ago
archive.org's first scrape of the article was January 14, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.deloitte.com/glob...
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by talklittle 10y ago
Apache-2.0 They've added https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/c26cae7ee956c399...
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Introducing Public Status Pages(blog.uptimerobot.com)
1 points by talklittle 10y ago|0 comments
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How Bad Are K-Cups for the Environment? (2015)(theatlantic.com)
1 points by talklittle 10y ago|0 comments
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FlyWeb – Pure Web Cross-Device Interaction(hacks.mozilla.org)
9 points by talklittle 10y ago|0 comments
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by talklittle 10y ago
Yes, lazy loading is a good use case. Echo.js ( https://github.com/toddmotto/echo ) is another small no-dependency library (1.89 KB minified), which detects elements appearing on screen, and goes a step further to swap t
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by talklittle 12y ago
Relevant discussion about YC-funded "InstallMonetizer" from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711
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by talklittle 12y ago
Not sure if this is news. The lead author of OAuth 2 resigned from the OAuth working group 2 years ago, citing all the security flaws inherent in the OAuth 2 spec. http://www.cnet.com/news/oauth-2-0-leader-resigns-says-
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by talklittle 12y ago
YeahKIA: You appear to be hellbanned, FYI. YeahKIA's comment: Plugins is an interesting approach. But I wonder how friendly it is to non expert users. Same with the writing your own part.
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by talklittle 12y ago
Where's this entitlement coming from? From the sound of it, your account was serving zero ads at the beginning of 2014. You were clearly not a "customer" of theirs. There's no reason for them to offer you a free 100 mill
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by talklittle 12y ago
Ok, but what about Lubuntu 14.04 compared to Lubuntu 12.04? Your comment is only comparing LXDE with other desktop managers, instead of comparing different versions of Lubuntu. EDIT: It occurs to me you may have mistaken "LTS" for
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by talklittle 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7483729

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