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by aasarava 13y ago
I'd like to see projects like this work, particularly because I haven't always been pleased with the recommendations from Goodreads. That said, your site's going to need more information about why it's any better before
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Dove distributes fake Photoshop plugin to spread body image message(youtube.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
the students pursuing education majors are already the poorest performing of any other college major You'd better supply a source for a claim like that.
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by aasarava 13y ago
The election is in Nov, right? Even though I agree with your premise that public schools need to change the rules that have allowed so many ineffective teachers to stay in the system, I have to say that if I were in Jersey City, I would not
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by aasarava 13y ago
Indeed. It took me a moment to figure out and then verify that the concept is centered on donating blood. There are certainly several clues about it, but it seems like (just intuitively) the site would increase its chances of signups if the
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by aasarava 13y ago
I love the concept. I love that it's smart enough to use a regex to figure out the card type. As others have said, some minor instructional text would help people get started. Also, making the name and expiration fields more obvious fr
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by aasarava 13y ago
I share your pet peeve and I can only assume that the "meh, no big surprise here" response stems from two things: wanting to sound just as knowledgeable as the person who brings up the topic (despite not having any new information
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by aasarava 13y ago
Regarding smashing computers with sledgehammers, keep in mind that in doing so you are quite likely to release lead dust and other toxics. You shouldn't be breathing this in and you shouldn't let it get washed down the gutter and
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by aasarava 13y ago
So are you just syncing entire truecrypt .tc files to Dropbox? Does that work incrementally or does the entire .tc file have to get resent every time you modify a file within?
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Why are testicles kept in a vulnerable dangling sac?(slate.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
Haitians in the US were discriminated against on the belief that they were bringing AIDS into the country. But medical anthropologist Paul Farmer has done a good job of showing that Haitians were only more "susceptible" to the vir
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Clapper apologizes for "erroneous" testimony about surveillance(usatoday.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
The real check on this sort of stupidity is actual journalist doing actual journalism.
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by aasarava 13y ago
So why does it matter that his wedding sounds like an extravagant affair to you? There are plenty of people who want to spend a lot of money on their weddings or other events and have a vision of it that pleases them. I think we should all
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by aasarava 13y ago
In case you're interested in learning more, or just having a quick lorem ipsum generator: http://lipsum.com
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by aasarava 13y ago
The search does have auto-complete and shows function names. Try reloading?
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by aasarava 13y ago
" Shamrock covered decades-old secret agreements with the nation's large telegraph companies under which NSA and its predecessor agencies automatically received copies of international telegrams. " At the peak of the operati
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FAA To Consider Relaxed Rules for Devices on Planes(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
Also, O'Brien is the agent in 1984.
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by aasarava 13y ago
Fair point. XSS likely wouldn't be a problem in the case of a desktop email client. But in the case of a Gmail or Outlook.com frontend, I can see how you would be concerned about something in the js served up by Google or MS capturing
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by aasarava 13y ago
Client-side, with a passphrase. A backup could be stored on the server or in your dropbox or wherever you'd like. It would be important, as part of the onboarding process, to communicate the need to keep the key safe and what happens t
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by aasarava 13y ago
From the article: "And while most types of software get more user-friendly over time, user-friendly cryptography seems to be intrinsically difficult. Experts are not much closer to solving the problem today than they were two decades
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Ensisheim (meteorite) - 1492(en.wikipedia.org)
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Washington Post Updates, Hedges on Initial PRISM Report(forbes.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
Except that, in the cases I've seen, the "why are you surprised" people aren't limiting their trace-ability. Again, these are not people who are in the same tech world as you and me. Their attitude comes from a cynicis
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Librarians Challenge National Security Letter (2006)(aclu.org)
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Ask HN: How to Explain Why NSA Situation is Important?
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by aasarava 13y ago
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comment. But even if the scope of this program were somehow limited in perpetuity to large-scale terrorism, the massive, centralized storage of every online citizen's Internet history should be fright
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Encrypt Facebook Chrome Extension(spacenext.com)
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by aasarava 13y ago
So can we freak out now? :: http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...

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