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by chrisacky 8y ago
I'm not sure if you remember a month or so ago, a HN commenter mentioned how infuriating the experience of browsing Cloudflare sites on Tor is, because he get's the "Not a Robot" captcha every-single-time, I assume this
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by chrisacky 8y ago
What is the motive behind this? Is it just to harden the stance that Cloudflare puts privacy first? I'm not trying to be at all cynical, just don't understand the energy invested by Cloudflare to launch this?
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by chrisacky 8y ago
This is a little familiar with the rocket failure at Dhahran[1] of 1991 resulting in 28 deaths. The Patriot missile battery at Dhahran had been in operation for 100 hours, by which time the system's internal clock had drifted by one-th
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by chrisacky 8y ago
At what point is the Delaware Block House[1] still the original building[2]? You can see the roof was replaced recently, and presumably the rendering[3].. [1]: Delaware, the Block House https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blo
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by chrisacky 8y ago
I'm curious, why?
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by chrisacky 8y ago
https://monzo.com/ is UK, but you can't create virtual cards. It's not really an equivalent product.
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by chrisacky 8y ago
What was registration fees back then? Why wouldn't people just squat on a bunch of two/three letter domains? Was it prohibitively difficult to register..
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A privacy flaw in Comcast's automated telephone system(reddit.com)
66 points by chrisacky 9y ago|31 comments
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I booted up my computer and saw this shiny new page: https://microsoftedgewelcome.microsoft.com/en-us/speed/rs3 Looking into the methodology, I can't even get close to replicating. In all my tests, Chrome and
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Are Microsoft's Edge benchmarks falsified?(microsoftedge.github.io)
3 points by chrisacky 9y ago|1 comments
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I'm a new father of two boys and couldn't imagine the torment I'd go through if something tragic would happen to them, pain like that cannot be "made right" by a simple settlement, however large. What irks me though
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(New) Font Awesome Website(fontawesome.com)
25 points by chrisacky 9y ago|15 comments
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Apple Plans to Pay $38B in Repatriation Taxes(wsj.com)
27 points by chrisacky 9y ago|10 comments
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I'm British, so bare with me with these questions.. Do people have any time between the 43 days of availability to pick their planned coverage plan? That sounds fair? ------ Political Comments: I've tried to keep up to speed with
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I can't imagine the motives anyone would want to try and volunteer information about vulnerabilities to the UK gov. Maybe I'm naive, but there's so much hostility towards whitehat researchers that I'd assume Zemnmez is n
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by chrisacky 9y ago
My recommendation would be to email jbarr[at]amazon.com directly. He will probably naturally see this thread over the course of the day though if it get's popular anyway....
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I've actually been avoiding using Algolia after I used IndexTank and then they were acquired by LinkedIn. (I always said grats diego + team at IndexTank) but it was a frustrating experience to need to role up everything and pack up sh
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by chrisacky 9y ago
Technically, how would something like this architecturally be structured? Curious how they would sandbox the user data and still provide a SQL like interface. I wrote something for Doctrine last year where I let my users query their own dat
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by chrisacky 9y ago
I was on a internal Slack call with team the other day, I ended up having to restart to Windows to do a screenshare and switch to Skype. I ended up having to delay my working day by about 45 minutes while Windows decided to do a mandatory u
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by chrisacky 9y ago
Rentivo | Software Engineers | Exeter, Devon | ONSITE and REMOTE | Fulltime | http://www.rentivo.com ( join@rentivo.com ) Rentivo is a forward thinking web-based software company specialising in holiday rentals. We are looking f
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Ask HN: How do you provision new developer environments?
2 points by chrisacky 10y ago|6 comments
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by chrisacky 10y ago
Do you have any idea what happens if the smart contract isn't ever fulfilled? For example, could the reporter create a expiration? Otherwise the Smartcontract is tied up ad infinitum, and perhaps might never be fulfiled, hence locking
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by chrisacky 10y ago
I was browsing Upwork the other week and I got trapped. I couldn't load any more jobs, or view any more workers. I had to inspect the Network tab in Chrome, open the API request and then click a "I am not a bot" on their API
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by chrisacky 10y ago
I bought a HyperFido but it just doesn't work on Ubuntu... Was expecting to be able to use it to log in to Google using their 2FA key.. but only works on Windows from what I can see... Anyone know anything about this?
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by chrisacky 10y ago
Rentivo | https://www.rentivo.com | REMOTE (Europe/East-europe prefered due to time zones) We are a small UK based tech team looking to hire a remote full stack developer with strengths which focus on fronted development to
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Ask HN: What tools exist for (Ubuntu) screensharing to my remote dev team?
2 points by chrisacky 10y ago|3 comments
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by chrisacky 10y ago
Can anyone recommend a device whihc has Wifi and supports MONITOR mode? I can't find any information on this device, but essentially I'm looking for something which: - Supports WIFI to connect the device to a network - Supports WI
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by chrisacky 10y ago
Can someone clarify where this money will eventually end up (assuming it's paid)? The article says that it will be paid back to Ireland, yet it looks like Ireland was somewhat complicit in allowing this fraud to continue for so long? &
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by chrisacky 10y ago
When did this suposeddly happen? I bought two TP-Link extenders about 3-6 months ago. Whenever I visited the addresses in the documentation shipped with the extenders my browser window received dozens of pop unders and redirect loops. I onl
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by chrisacky 11y ago
It says they ship to 20 countries. Any ideas what that list is? "This item does not ship to XXXXXX, United Kingdom. Please check other sellers who may ship internationally. "

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