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What Your Cell Phone Can't Tell the Police(newyorker.com)
75 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|31 comments
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Has the average web page actually gotten smaller?(webperformancetoday.com)
37 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|6 comments
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
Yes, most Android devices don't have that feature as far as I know. And it is possibly a bad time to introduce it, because by now users may have already learned that tapping the status bar (on recent Android versions at least) shows th
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
They can be used for putting URLs in print materials such as newspapers - they are much easier to type by hand than long URLs. The email shortener thing adds light protection against bots harvesting emails. The Bitcoin address shortening fe
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
This has been a side-project of mine over the last couple of years. Recently I have given some more attention to it, addressing problems and adding more features. I know the need for URL shorteners nowadays is reduced, and that's why t
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Show HN: tny.im – the full-featured shortener for URLs and more(tny.im)
1 points by gbl08ma 12y ago|3 comments
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by gbl08ma 12y ago
500+ hours of similar video content, most clearly computer-generated, with junk titles (from mkfile), and a new video being uploaded every 20 seconds. No "normal" videos other than the one behind a paywall and the one of the Eiffe
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Things add up, you know... $20 for a cert, plus $10 for a domain, and not even taking into account the server, it's $30. Now imagine you have five or six side-projects, you may not be willing to spend $150 per year to maintain them, es
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
I'm worried that StartSSL free certs will stop being trusted. I run a service (tny.im) where HTTPS is not essential, but I like to provide it, to secure logins if not for anything else. However, I make little to no money from that webs
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Make has covered it before: http://makezine.com/2012/12/10/raspberry-pi-as-an-fm-transmi... Note that the news here is only the Make project on it, as this has been known and working for well over a year. The
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
HTML5 YouTube plays just fine on my newish (2 years old) laptop, which has a discreet Nvidia GPU, with Chrome (no matter if I'm on Windows or Linux). However, the temperature of the GPU increases noticeably while watching videos (i.e.
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
I have known for a long time that they were in Canonical's Carrier Advisory Group, and I can only wonder what use they have for Ubuntu phones. I think they didn't have much success in selling Windows Phone handsets on-contract, so
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
I was going on pretty well, really enjoying the game and taking advantage of the fact that I have two mouse buttons (external + laptop's) to avoid breaking a single mouse (or my finger) with so many furious clicks. At some point the X
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
I use MS Office 2010 under Wine. There are tutorials on the Internet that make it really easy to set up. It needs a specific version of Wine to work (some 1.5.x release), so I'm using it on a PlayOnLinux virtual drive (that way I can e
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Blogger is shown on that page as not having been down, but I (and other HN users) saw it down with an intermittent 503 error, for some minutes.
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
That all makes sense if they were only determining the OS version for internal purposes, in order to filter the content as you said (still, it's great to let users know about it, otherwise people may get confused as to why they see dif
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Very simple explanation: Microsoft is using a group of if/else if conditions, or some switch/select case structure, and it checks the user agent for every version of Windows except 8.1... 8.1 is the "default" (catch all)
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The Rapid Packing Container(youtube.com)
4 points by gbl08ma 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
My main problem with it is the lack of enough fields to store all contact information. If you have, for example, a person's home phone number and mobile phone number, you end up using two entries instead of one, because last time I che
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Winamp may not be killed by AOL today, after all(tech2.in.com)
1 points by gbl08ma 13y ago|0 comments
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Score: 30 for 40 I did not cheat, and many of the names could be real (I swear I saw some that were actually titles of real articles, but in fact were bot-generated) - I'm not sure what makes me tell a real title out of a fake one in t
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
This has nothing to do with what browser is used. The user is being redirected to the login page to accept some new ToS, instead of being automatically logged in. This would happen with any browser that supports redirects and cookies, and i
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
The tumblr stuff is because the website is hosted on tumblr (as can be seen by the feed at the bottom of the post).
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
If I put normal headphones in my phone's 3.5 mm jack, it recognizes that they don't have a mic and doesn't mute the built-in mic. So there are definitely some devices where this won't work.
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
If one takes into account the fact that most smartphones have video coprocessors that speed up video decoding a lot (while reducing the battery usage), but which aren't quite appropriate to display that kind of "image puzzle"
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Not all smartphones are able to continuously display parts of pictures at 60 fps (at least, not at a constant 60 fps), and in any smartphone that would result in very increased battery drain (and increased heat) when displaying pictures. As
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
> This is incorrect. I didn't say that was correct, I was just saying that's what the article (incorrectly, in my opinion) appears to say. I'm not sure who's misunderstanding who... > If sha256 is broken so badly t
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
I submitted this because I wanted to see it discussed in this light. I think the author makes some good points but others are just plain wrong. For example, when it is said that Litecoin and other Scrypt-based coins were created just as a w
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The Problem with Altcoins(themisescircle.org)
70 points by gbl08ma 13y ago|53 comments
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by gbl08ma 13y ago
Found the DroidBooster benchmark application APK after searching around a bit (it has been pulled from Google Play). If the benchmark isn't just for the show off and is actually benchmarking something, then the results are impressive -

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