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by brey 12y ago
restaurant / hotel sponsorship has potential - could be worth throwing in a free ride to get someone to your expensive restaurant. although somewhat easy to game the system.
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by brey 12y ago
Huh. That is interesting - used to be 180 degree opposite to that, the InMails with replies to used to cost, the ignored ones got refunded. Changed last month. Does make more sense this way round, spam people and it costs you, make an engag
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by brey 12y ago
so instead of being a tool which Google has already removed support for, it's in the bucket of tools which - at least to me - should be treated as liable to be cut at any time and don't rely on it. sorry, Google lost any credibili
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by brey 12y ago
very neat. it's bothered me just how many GWh we've collectively poured into bitcoins. is this of any practical use (cryptography?), or is it for pure mathematical interest? (not saying the latter is inferior ...)
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by brey 12y ago
ah, no, I was wrong - the median only stays the same if only people in the lower half beforehand gave less, and only people in the upper half gave more. if people cross the old median, this is perfectly possible. although initially counter-
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by brey 12y ago
Looking at repeat donations prompted us to ask: do people donate more or less their second time? On average, the answer is roughly 50% more. While first donations had a mean of $88 and a median of *$30*, repeat donations had a me
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by brey 12y ago
mongodb recommends that your working set lives in memory, not your entire database - it's generally much cheaper to add more RAM than code in any case. a few seeks aren't terrible for small/medium applications, but when you&#
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by brey 12y ago
once you start page faulting and hitting spinning disk it's game over for any database's performance, postgres included.
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by brey 12y ago
It sounds from the language used ("he did not want his vital functions supported any further but should be allowed to cease functioning and promptly be cryopreserved") that he didn't regard this moment as death at all - merel
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by brey 12y ago
This almost exists already, in a slightly different form - it's the same principle as the unsolicited goods laws codified in eg. the UK's Consumer Protection Regulations[1]; if I send stuff to someone without it being asked for, t
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by brey 12y ago
oh no ... I am unable to change my (perfectly secure) password for ten minutes because an attacker is attempting to brute force my password reset. I'd regard that as a feature, not a bug. you don't need to lock out the entire acco
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by brey 12y ago
You could use that argument to say 4-digit bank card PINs are really bad security - and you'd be right, except that they're always locked out after N attempts. Why not the same approach here? if you try to brute force a password r
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by brey 12y ago
Agreed. Related to this, there's a school of thought which says the ability for us to break laws which don't yet reflect updated social mores is key to preventing society stagnating, to force change in those laws. Let's suppo
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by brey 12y ago
the moon orbits around the earth for an (effectively) infinite amount of time - that doesn't mean that how fast it goes isn't interesting.
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by brey 12y ago
very nice. I'm curious - is there some kind of international standard for these glyphs, or just an emerged convention of what eg. 'cloud plus rain' looks like?
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by brey 12y ago
nice idea, but unfortunately that then doesn't work in the patent trolling case. the troll has a clear incentive to minimise their own costs (filing hundreds of carbon-copy suits must have huge economies of scale, each one has to be ch
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by brey 12y ago
not really that they lack good judgement, more that it's risky exposing them to a non-representative sample.
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by brey 12y ago
I'd add a caveat - I've seen this done before, but with unintended consequences. exposing a CEO directly to your users is a great idea for all the reasons given, but it can be distracting if they seize on a randomly chosen user&#x
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by brey 13y ago
Nest has stopped selling its smart smoke alarms after it discovered a flaw which could prevent the timely detection of fire. the company is not aware of any customers who have experienced it this is disingenuous. you would exp
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by brey 13y ago
I think it's reasonable to assume that the 'sergey@google.com' mailbox already has something to filter out the crazy.
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by brey 13y ago
not sure I agree - a non-continuous projection such the Dymaxion / Fuller projection could indicate the same timezone errors without size distortion. the Miller used here gives the impression that an utterly huge physical area - as wit
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by brey 13y ago
the distance between the western and eastern tip of Greenland (which is one time zone) appears to be the same width as the continental US, but it's far, far smaller.
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by brey 13y ago
ok, it's not Mercator, but it has the same high-latitude distortions any projection where Greenland is the same size as South America is IMO the wrong choice :)
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by brey 13y ago
brilliant concept ... ... but this could probably be the poster child of where not to use the Mercator projection. yeah, Greenland overlaps five time zones. but they're tiny at that latitude! this makes it seem like places as far apart
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by brey 13y ago
if you can see or submit data using the website, it means the website does have some kind of API ... For example, if you do a search in Yahoo, you can see the search page sent to Yahoo’s servers has the following url ... https:
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by brey 13y ago
I don't think it's as simple as that - there's a lot more damage you can do by copy-pasting arbitrary code obtained via a social engineering vector into the dev console, than right-clicking to save an asset. I'd consid
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by brey 13y ago
molly-guard is an good way to prevent this - forces you to type in the hostname of the machine you are trying to halt / restart etc. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/molly-guard....
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by brey 13y ago
Pingjam was a monetization solution for Android app developers ... Google Play kicked out over 1,000 apps that worked with us from their app store this whole article paints Google in the usual HN-friendly light of 'big bad
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by brey 13y ago
well guess what, every tactic that can be used to create good SEO can be used in the wrong hands for 'bad' SEO I would suggest that if you're coming up with 'tactics' for SEO you're already on the roa
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by brey 13y ago
that's only correct if you assume everyone starts afresh every time they move - eg start with a 25 year mortgage, move after 5 years, take out a new 25 year mortgage. why wouldn't the next mortgage be a 20 year term? that's a

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