xirium

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Sun 2 Nov 2008: 20th Anniversary of the Morris worm(twitter.com)
2 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts Version 1.7
7 points by xirium 18y ago|2 comments
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts Version 1.7 To Be Released In 3 Hours
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Users Version 1.6 - 10,000 Posters
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by xirium 18y ago
Some telcos seem quite intent on charging more for bandwidth than the cost of a film in a bargain bin. If telcos continue to strangle bandwidth then physical media will remain viable for a longer period.
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by xirium 18y ago
It may be that each search term in a full-text index is held in a separate but hidden table and therefore large chunks of text create a large number of rows. This would explain why inserts would be slower and why quotas are more likely to b
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by xirium 18y ago
The dataset is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=218782 and a tag cloud is available via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227932
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Biofuel use 'increasing poverty'(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Symbian - the battle for your mobile(bbc.co.uk)
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EU acts to cut mobile phone costs(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Google faces human rights votes(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Police look to digital switchover(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Digital switchover is 'a mystery'(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Trade agreement could hit privacy(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Virgin territory for ISPs(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Yahoo goes back to its roots(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Behind the scenes of Firefox 3.0(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Visa taps into Facebook following(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Facebook website outage resolved(news.bbc.co.uk)
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[Nokia] morphs itself from within(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Getting more from Moore's Law(news.bbc.co.uk)
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Dubai plans 'moving' [skyscraper](news.bbc.co.uk)
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Crude Oil at a fresh high of $140(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by xirium 18y ago
Why are you not performing a one way hash on passwords?
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by xirium 18y ago
Sending passwords via plain text forms and plain text emails are both bad practices. However, plain text email is distinctly worse because the data can linger for months or years in less secure systems. A credit card number sent over unencr
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by xirium 18y ago
Well, you'll be much less likely to loose a remore control.
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by xirium 18y ago
> I started a group for people with the same last name as me This is blatant discrimination against people with common names and common surnames! They obviously wouldn't like the Lloyd Woods' Newsletter: http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Pers
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by xirium 18y ago
> nor do I want constant emails or notices Is Facebook unaware of Nagle's algorithm? It is trivial to reduce bandwidth by batching notices. You could even set the maximum frequency yourself. Or is this not implemented because it would m
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by xirium 18y ago
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ is a good primer.
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Superencryptalisticexpialidocious(thedailywtf.com)
1 points by xirium 18y ago|0 comments

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