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11y ago
> I have done a search on Lycos for your papers... Now there's a blast from the past!
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11y ago
Given that they said "But I can't give up my hobby" (zoning out to TV instead means giving up that hobby) and the fact that the solution they found largely solves the problem without the use of meds, why would they bother giv
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11y ago
It's missing the one key thing every language site (particularly for upcoming languages) should have: a sample program right on the home page. Even if you click over to About, there's a YouTube video followed by what I gather is s
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11y ago
> ... the actions taken by these men to hide their > identities aren’t shining examples of the art. I look forward to Torrent Freak's follow-up article, detailing the shining examples of pirates we all should aspire to
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11y ago
The article discusses "why" they created the app, but other than the fact that they're mostly self-taught, there's nothing on the "how". Information on their tech stack or how they're aggregating informati
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Naked Unicorns in Subprime Valley
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biot
11y ago
Is there a video of his run? EDIT: Well that's embarrassing... I didn't see the video the first time I checked on my phone, but looking again there are a few videos in plain sight. Mea culpa.
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11y ago
That's the point I'm making, only I didn't bother to quote that exact paragraph myself. What you've quoted states only that their policy is against it; Juniper makes no claims that they've never violated their polic
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11y ago
While you may have a point for patent trolls fishing for royalties on obvious "inventions", this hardly applies to Ericsson: http://www.ericsson.com/ourportfolio/products
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11y ago
Interesting that Juniper merely claims that putting in a backdoor or working with others to do the same is against their policy. They seem to be avoiding saying a very simple, clear statement: "We never have and never will intentionall
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11y ago
As it comes up for every WSJ article, scroll to the top of this page and click the "web" link. It's there to allow you to bypass the paywall for sources which allow Google search traffic.
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11y ago
Bezos is taking a hands-on role at The Washington Post.
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11y ago
Next service: an automated means to cancel Trim.
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11y ago
This is what the "web" link at the top of every story is for.
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biot
11y ago
Netscape did a similar thing to this in 1994 with their Fishcam, converting frames from a video capture and served up as new frames of a GIF image. It was eventually shut down in 2007 and the original developer[0] setup a dedicated site for
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biot
11y ago
The article already states: > This password allows an attacker to bypass authentication > through SSH and Telnet, as long as they know a valid > username. If you want to test this issue by hand, telnet or > ssh to a Ne
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biot
11y ago
Same here. Its potential for both cleaning up waste and as an antibiotic is impressive! For those who want to watch in better quality than 240p: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_ca...
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biot
11y ago
And selling tap water as pure spring water is false advertising.
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biot
11y ago
So a startup that sells artisanal crafted bottled water, produced from recombining pure hydrogen and pure oxygen gas, and sold for $15/litre... you wouldn't see any problem if they actually used filtered sewer water? Caveat emptor
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11y ago
See "Unfortunately, we have renewed our ICANN Accreditation": http://blog.easydns.org/2015/05/20/unfortunately-we-have-ren... for an interesting perspective on the Whois Accuracy Program.
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11y ago
With regards to malloc, what is the benefit of "random (delayed) free"?
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biot
11y ago
Many electric skillets are fully submersible and dishwasher safe. They pretty much all have removable plugs that has the thermostat control and what's left is a sealed unit. As for heating up, that's a function of your skillet vs.
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11y ago
Just buy an electric skillet for a fraction of the cost and then use one of the many cooking apps out there which already prompt you with times, etc. An electric skillet has the benefit that it will keep precise temperature without any acti
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11y ago
Summarizing what I've seen here in analogy form: Researcher: "I found a way to unlock your door" Facebook: "Thanks, here's $2500. We've now fixed the problem." Researcher: "Oh, BTW when I un
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11y ago
Yes, that would be a possible evolution of permissions. If an app lets you choose a picture from your photo library, iOS swaps you to your camera roll where you select the image and then click "Share this image with app". You then
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11y ago
5 figures per day as in $10K+ every day? Impressive! How many of those tools require constant automation? Something like a CSS converter or JS beautifier should only need updating to fix bugs or due to updates of underlying libraries.
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11y ago
This is why I don't use Android. On iOS, you install the app and at some point you see a prompt "This app would like access to your camera. Allow?" and you can click "Don't Allow" and keep using everything else
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11y ago
Despite hanyoon being an HN user for ~5 years, it's apparently the first time they've noticed that all text submissions are displayed as low contrast, similar to a downvoted comment. Even the ever-popular "Who's Hiring?&
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11y ago
> a startup idea based on emoji passwords that encodes/decodes > emojis into their hex/binary equivalent. Is "startup" now synonymous with "thing that I built in 2 hours and have no ability to moneti
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11y ago
I think it's the inclusion of the word "who" that throws me, making it sound like the act of obsession was directly effected by the artist.
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