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by benmanns 14y ago
I see open source licenses in both repositories. [0][1] [0] https://github.com/liuliu/ccv/blob/unstable/COPYING [1] https://github.com/auduno/headtrackr/#license
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by benmanns 14y ago
I know of a method in which you give each respondent a coin and ask them to flip it in secret. If the coin lands heads, answer "Yes," if not, answer honestly. Then, if you ask a question like "Have you sexted?" or "Do you use drugs?", you m
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You can buy an hour with two Tesla GPUs for $2.10 on EC2.
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by benmanns 14y ago
You'll likely get similar performance as long as your comparison is between Jekyll + S3 + CDN and Rails + Caching + CDN. Otherwise, the worldwide caching in CDNs will outperform the Rails app in a single region.
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But don't applications have to explicitly install this gem? If not, then I am incorrect.
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The current title is "Rubygems.org compromised." Isn't this just a gem that exploits the YAML bug, not an exploit on RubyGems.org? I believe this submission needs a title change. Edit: I am incorrect. It seems that this uploaded gem was use
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Security Vulnerability Found in Heroku and Rails form_tag(benmanns.com)
3 points by benmanns 14y ago|0 comments
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by benmanns 14y ago
Even if you don't use credit cards often, they still build credit. Likewise, + or - 1% in cash back won't set you forward or backwards too much, especially for the few merchants who will charge fees, to really justify changing habits. Pay 9
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I suppose that you could tie the authenticity token per form, but you would end up maintaining a list of every token per user per form. You could use something like HMAC(form id:session id:secret) to validate forms, but then you run into pr
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by benmanns 14y ago
Yes, at @benmanns.
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Security Vulnerability Found in Heroku and Rails form_tag(benmanns.com)
5 points by benmanns 14y ago|4 comments
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Nginx uses the ssl_ciphers directive to select ciphers.[0] ssl_ciphers ALL:!ADH:!EXP:!LOW:!RC2:!3DES:!SEED:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM; KeepAlive is enabled by default, but you can configure it for different durations or numbers of reque
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This is pretty cool for finding local talent: https://github.com/search?l=Ruby&p=1&q=location%3A%2...
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If they lose the case, then the IP/patent is likely worthless.
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> The new additions bring more than 4.5 million articles from nearly 800 scholarly > societies, university presses, and academic publishers into the Register & Read > offerings. It looks like we only need to regi
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I think the process was that a user was sent a 'forgot password' link. When they clicked the link, they were redirected to `wmPassupdate.html` with the cookie `referer={base64(email)}` set. Then, when users submit the password update form,
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by benmanns 14y ago
What would you suggest?
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by benmanns 14y ago
I don't know if it's this package or just Python in general, but I'm having a really hard time getting things up and running with the Kaggle insults example. To get going I ran pip install numpy pip install pandas pip install scikit
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by benmanns 14y ago
Run in your JavaScript console: document.cookie = 'optimizelyBuckets=' + escape('{"145285685":"145865258"}') + '; domain=.23andme.com'; document.location.reload(true); The other values I found: 69 -> escape('{"145285685":"145
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by benmanns 14y ago
I made a mockup for a certain news website on which users submit links and 'upvote' the others' submissions that they like [1]. I wonder if there would be any way to base64 encode the mockup data so that it could be passed in a 'Share' URL
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by benmanns 14y ago
Sometimes you have to allow some user input, like <b>, <font>, or <i> tags in those WYSIWYG editors. This is a reference for what you should remove from your whitelist or add to your blacklist.
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by benmanns 14y ago
This is pretty cool. I tried messing up some of the JavaScript variables (increasing acceleration, turning speed), and it looks like they do some sort of server-side validation on your race results. The Ajax POST request includes your score
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by benmanns 14y ago
So you're an employee of a company, and the company goes bankrupt in part because you're not doing your job properly (and the lawyers were probably doing their job properly - they just incorrectly predicted the outcome of the case, or an ex
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by benmanns 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Central Virginia) Expert Ruby on Rails developer, experienced with full stack development, including HTML/CSS/JS, Ruby on Rails development, and database optimization. I've contributed to several open source
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There used to be a DOM attribute specifically for changing the window status text, which was the same area used to display a hovered link URL.[0] [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.status
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Middle-clicking doesn't execute the `onclick` event in some browsers. Likewise, right-clicking and hitting open link in new tab opened Google, but middle clicking executed the `onclick` event.
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Note the light green line under the blue growth rate line. The Size of Wikipedia article[0] says that this was the modeled growth rate as of 2010, which it only held to until 2011. This shows the danger of modeling existing data and extrapo
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by benmanns 14y ago
Here is the data on a linear, rather than logarithmic scale[0]. Y axis is number of articles and X axis is "years since 2001". I copied the data as best I could from the chart given by the author of this article. Wikipedia has a page itself
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by benmanns 14y ago
Why is the spread so high on the buy/sell orders? Mt.Gox currently has Ask: $9.99 Bid: $9.92 while Coinbase has Ask: $11.27 Bid: $10.05. This is an effective 12% fee on purchases in addition to the 1% fee you already charge.
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by benmanns 14y ago
Cool! I shortened the link to http://bit.ly/hnkindle because I won't remember the full URL on my Kindle.

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