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Ask HN: Thoughts on Cloudflare?
7 points by anondon 10y ago|2 comments
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by anondon 10y ago
Apart from his argument that Python 3 is not turing complete, which has been torn apart in the comments, can someone evaluate the other arguments. Are the other criticisms valid? If not, why?
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by anondon 10y ago
A censored [favorite service] with state surveillance is better than no [favorite service] is the new normal. Really? It's kind of depressing to see where the world is going,, where the world bends to the will of state actors eventuall
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by anondon 10y ago
The free plan or a paid plan? If you are using the free plan, note that you aren't really getting DDoS protection. They offer "I'm under attack" mode which can be bypassed easily and it does not protect against l3 and l4
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by anondon 10y ago
Creating noise on HN, reddit is a sure way of getting their attention, but there has to be a better way to deal with issues when everything is automated. Does Google have a single point of contact for such issues?
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by anondon 10y ago
>> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's
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by anondon 10y ago
Consider reading the HN guidelines, unless you are actively trying to get hell banned. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by anondon 10y ago
I was configuring a 15 inch Gazelle: i7 6700HQ + 32GB RAM + 250GB SSD comes to around $1300. Good value. Anyone have experience with System76 laptops recently? How is the build quality, battery life, service? There are not many reviews abou
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by anondon 10y ago
> The key detail for me is that if you delete the call from the log on any device, the next sync will delete it in iCloud. I highly doubt that it is a hard deletion of data. My guess is that it would be a soft delete, so your call log wo
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by anondon 10y ago
One thing I noticed about installing multiple desktop environment on Ubuntu: they all have different default apps that are always installed. So when you have two desktop environments, you end up with 2 different terminals, 2 different file
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by anondon 10y ago
What is the easiest way to explain to the average citizen that the "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument is not a good reason to let the Government keep tabs on your online activities? Most people don't give any thought
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by anondon 10y ago
Is there any way to mimic Zcash's z-addresses in Bitcoin? I like the ideas behind Zcash and it solves important privacy issues, but I don't like the idea of a for profit company being the heavyweight behind Zcash. From what I gath
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by anondon 10y ago
* Elon Musk * Paul Graham, haven't heard from him lately * Pieter Thiel (ideally a long interview about Trump, Palantir, seastanding, Libertarianism) * Sam Altman (sneak peek into the upcoming MOOC, things he's working on, OpenAI)
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by anondon 10y ago
> Please make it stop Ignore posts that don't interest you, but don't discourage people from starting side projects. You never know what these side projects morph into.
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by anondon 10y ago
> if there's a hardware issue that requires the device to be taken "out back", then there should be a means of diagnosing faults on a locked device. A dangerous suggestion. A better policy might be for Apple to require i
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Primitive Technology: Forge Blower [video](youtube.com)
4 points by anondon 10y ago|0 comments
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by anondon 10y ago
Thanks for sending me down a rabbit hole with Primitive Technology.
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by anondon 10y ago
How will the users remember complex passwords? By using password managers. So you should probably be asking, why isn't everyone using password managers. Maybe it's because of inconvenience, laziness, not caring or any combination
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Ask HN: Is social networking a done and dusted business?
2 points by anondon 10y ago|2 comments
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by anondon 10y ago
Does anyone know if there is any special effort to construct buildings that can withstand reasonable earthquakes in New Zealand? Christchurch seems particularly prone to quakes in New Zealand. I hope the people of New Zealand are safe.
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by anondon 10y ago
It looks like these exploits require either shell access or installing an app that contains the exploit code. Apart from the Flash vulnerability, did any of the exploits use Chrome to gain all permissions on the Pixel? That would be scary,
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by anondon 10y ago
Nice interview! The guy behind indiehackers.com, csallen, is doing an incredible job with the site. Interesting interviews tailor made for hackers, the forum is an interesting place and it's been fascinating to follow his journey which
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by anondon 10y ago
His stand on climate change scares me. What can the public do to prevent him from opening energy reserves and backing out of climate change agreements? Are there efforts going on to prevent this? Building a wall along the Mexican border...I
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by anondon 10y ago
This is from 2004. The title should be updated to reflect that.
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by anondon 10y ago
> if you search for "headless chrome" you should get a working link in the page above the search results after a few seconds. Is the link still appearing? (I can't login to my google account now to check)
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by anondon 10y ago
> We've been thrown back many times in the past Any specific examples of when this has happened?
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by anondon 10y ago
From the title to the tone of the article, I felt like they were going to drop a bombshell, something like "Luke was fired" or "Luke hates how YC is being run". Very poor journalism, Bloomberg.
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Ask HN: How much traffic does your tech blog get?
9 points by anondon 10y ago|6 comments
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by anondon 10y ago
The software is there, but what about the hardware to go with it? The only laptops comparable to Macbook Pro hardware quality and battery life are the Dell XPS series and the Thinkpad X1. I feel there is a serious shortage of good laptops w
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by anondon 10y ago
> share what you make with this and other communities Just curious, apart from some programming related subreddits, where else would one share something like this?

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