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by biot 7y ago
Third paragraph: > It’s officially out of beta today and available for all paid plans.
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by biot 7y ago
Are those stars? The “iduy37thq” image [0], for example, has various star-like points of light on top of the planet itself in addition to appearing in the background. [0] http://hst.esac.esa.int/ehst-sl-server/servlet&#
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by biot 7y ago
A detailed security audit of their systems should have uncovered areas where their security was lacking and they should have undertaken steps to remedy the defects. It’s something you should do during an acquisition anyways. If their softwa
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by biot 8y ago
A successful transaction is when one party pays and the other party delivers the good/service. If one party delivers but the other fails to hold up their end, blockchain technology doesn’t help and the solution is to seek recourse via
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by biot 8y ago
What are you trading the 1 bitcoin for? Given that the typical use case is to purchase some product or service (rather than just transferring bitcoin for fun), how do you secure that aspect of the transaction?
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by biot 8y ago
Rather than admit that the red, undocumented third parameter was a mistake they seemed to make all sorts of rationalizations for why it’s wrong (“It’s new”, “I thought it was fixed”, etc.) rather than just saying “You’re right, that’s a bug
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by biot 8y ago
How does the immune system distinguish between native tissue and foreign tissue?
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by biot 8y ago
HN really needs to add a note next to the email field: “Only you and HN admins can see this.” Put any info you want publicly visible into the about field.
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by biot 8y ago
I think you’re missing my point. While you can assume well behaved clients will reduce unwanted traffic, a malicious client will spoof everything it can. Thus, there is definitely something you can do: you should never trust the client and
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by biot 8y ago
It’s secure in a “trust the client” manner. Any server code not still doing its own authentication is in for a rude awakening.
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by biot 8y ago
Those who recall Web Hosting Talk might remember that the term “unlimited” was banned from postings. The correct term is “unmetered” as unlimited data is a physical impossibility (“Infinite bytes, please!”). But it’s possible to have a shar
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by biot 8y ago
What is the amount of money transferred per TW/h for each system?
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by biot 8y ago
A Western-style date refers to a date based on the Gregorian calendar, regardless of how one orders the individual components of a date.
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by biot 8y ago
Just saw this and finished reading... thanks for linking it. Great story!
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by biot 8y ago
I often think of that scene in Contact where they are trying to decrypt the alien message: https://youtu.be/HgPSUer1ujM Multiple genetic materials operating on multiple levels...
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by biot 8y ago
Isn’t the same true of GitHub itself? I can’t simply clone GitHub’s code and run a fully equivalent competing product with all functionality (eg: GitHub Enterprise) included. So despite GitHub being friendly to open source, they’re far from
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by biot 8y ago
YAGNI. You can get to a 90% solution today at 10% of the cost and effort. If, later, you want to extend the system you’ll not only have learned a lot about the operations and failure modes of the current system, but hardware purchased later
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by biot 9y ago
At a glance, it appears there’s a limitation where the service runs only one test at a time. As your product and thus your testing requirements grow, this becomes infeasible. Additionally, the FAQ states that you may not get results back fo
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by biot 9y ago
And to prove that they are unable to do so, would they need to get audited?
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by biot 9y ago
”Voyager 2 is also on course to enter interstellar space, likely within the next few years.” Is the lack of precision on the date because they don’t know precisely where the boundary of interstellar space is?
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by biot 9y ago
It’s plain old steganography that can often manipulate media, especially note text.
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by biot 9y ago
More along the lines of pitching their startup to someone at the Wall Street Journal who signs up for a demo account but are thoroughly unimpressed and never login again. But in their pitch deck to investors they proudly claim that the Wall
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by biot 9y ago
Given that the CEO is a muppet, you don't think this is meant to be fun?
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by biot 9y ago
One part I'm not sure how to read: "I would probably use the fact of the call and concierge onboarding to tell everyone that of course you charge for your services, just like they charge for their services, but that as a limited
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by biot 9y ago
Slack does this via their Fair Billing Policy [0] and it’s completely automatic. You only pay for active users, so those who go inactive are free. [0] https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/218915077-Fair-Bi
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by biot 9y ago
The very next sentence: “However, after environmental parameters readjust, the clock begins operating again.” This suggests a lack of manual intervention.
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by biot 9y ago
From the article: > Was there a way to take a pedometer (to measure > stroke rate) and a miniature bathroom scale (to > measure force) and fuse them to a curling broom? > > “So Andrew looks at me like I’m an idiot
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by biot 9y ago
Conway chained arrow notation [0] is really mind blowing. The simple notation of “3 -> 3 -> 3 -> 3” results in a number that is larger than Graham’s number. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway_chained_arro
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by biot 9y ago
> Mersennes are beautiful and have some surprising applications. Unfortunately that page doesn’t elaborate on what these surprising applications are, which is itself surprising on a page that purports to answer “why”.
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by biot 9y ago
Creation of bitcoin aside, what risk is involved in an early adopter letting their computer crunch numbers for a few weeks? If you were the third person ever to mine bitcoin, about the only risk I can think of is a bit of time & effort

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