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by jakewins 9y ago
> A bizarre and unexpected failure of the market. The consumers are, partially, buying a product they can't see: The security operations of the vendor. Given the consumer has imperfect information, it is exceptionally profitable for
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This is incorrect; the problem is that htmlspecialchars() doesn't know to escape {{ }}, and that that then allows user input to get interpreted as Vue template expressions. If you have a sanitizer that cleans up ' and ", that
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by jakewins 9y ago
The video had 200,000+ views on youtube, 100,000+ shares on Facebook. The tools we in the technology industry have built are undoing a millenia of societal progress towards structured and factual debate. Utter panic wins the day, Googles to
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Top trending YouTube video yesterday claims Florida students are crisis actors(cnbc.com)
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You're right I'm making the same point several times, I'm sorry if it gets repetitive. I do it to try to highlight the point from several angles and to reduce ambiguity. That said, I didn't intend my 6 paragraphs to mean
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by jakewins 9y ago
> "The 2270 people who signed the petition are not qualified architects. Qualified architects do not claim it was a controlled demolition (let alone obviously one.)" No, this isn't what he is saying. What he is saying is &
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Fire safety in wooden structures is interesting. A friend who does research in the area explained that, in some ways, wooden beams are simpler to engineer than steel beams when dealing with fire. The goal, engineering wise, is to put a numb
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Yep, I removed the CONCURRENCY constant from the neo4j description.js, so the numbers above are for Neo running without that async.eachLimit call, just like the rest of the databases. A single session object is backed by a single connection
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Agree, I keep forgetting that those don't turn into monospace on HN. Changing that.
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Haha, I almost spit out my coffee when I saw how poorly we performed here! Reading the code, it's kind of incredible that Neo4j even competes - all the databases benchmarked are running with 25 concurrent database connections: https:&
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> "assault rifle" doesn't mean much in terms of operating characteristics In my experience, what reasonable gun control advocates mean when they talk about ARs are rifles equipped with gas powered repeating actions. There
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The documentation says this adheres to the `math/big` API in some respects - can someone speak to what differentiates this from `math/big`?
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We've been looking at reducing water use this spring; someone else might find these products useful: OAS(1) showers cap water at 5-10L per use, no matter how long you shower. Getting this installed also means we can swap our water heat
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Heh, one step closer to a real self-replicating rep-rap :) Now to implement a PID controller..
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Maybe this is too niche, but I've wanted to try this since I realized the Heisenbug nature of allocation analysis on the JVM - if you instrument allocation points, the JVM stops optimizing them, and your results are dominated by alloca
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Show HN: Actionable JVM memory analysis(github.com)
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Partially, I think "they presumably like it" is an invalid assumption, as evidenced by the many youtube videos with more downvotes than upvotes. More importantly, the argument made by campaigners looking to stop ads on objectionab
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by jakewins 9y ago
Yeah, the tool doesn't help much past this, it'll just tell you where the raw bytes are. Basically, what is at that offset is (remnants of) a Berkeley DB file; you'll need manually do the forensic work to get the key out of i
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by jakewins 9y ago
If you have Go installed as per https://golang.org/doc/install you can build/install this project like this: > go install github.com/jakewins/findbtc I'll update the readme! If that's giving
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by jakewins 9y ago
Someone else might find this tool I wrote useful, it finds BTC wallets by scanning raw block devices: https://github.com/jakewins/findbtc I deleted 26BTC a while back when reinstalling a laptop, because they were effec
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I'm curious - in both of those articles Joel uses the expression "software doesn't rust ", to make fun of Netscape.. is that where the name for the Rust language came from?
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Epilepsy and bipolar disorder share genetic cause(bcm.edu)
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A lot of replies in here seem to think the article is arguing that the data be disregarded. My reading is that the author is saying that because of the data, the conclusion that the cause is purely psychological must be disregarded. The
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> If the poor of the world can understand the social mobility that crypto currency affords them Can you expand on how crypto currencies relate to positive social mobility? Off-handedly it seems to me it would be the opposite, although I&
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Sure, the US isn't even in the agreement currently, it hasn't been ratified by the Senate. Independent of which, international treatises are treated by US law as part of regular domestic legislation, meaning any treaty the US ente
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I don't know that it's fair to say that Oracle has survived the test of time; their core business has been on a steady decline for years; now they are playing catch-up in cloud and are talking about second derivative growth like t
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by jakewins 9y ago
For anyone interested, as someone that currently works 75%: At my last career change, I applied for a full time position, but asked if the employer would consider hiring me at 75%, with a matching reduction in salary. I work full time days,
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> This style farm would give more control over the humidity and temp to the farmer I'm not following; any modern greenhouse has automated humidity and temperature control (and, more important than humidity, artificially increased an
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But the same idea applies there; why would I grow marijuana indoors? I genuinely don't understand the benefit; to my knowledge, outside of them being higher CO2 output, higher real estate cost, and substantially higher energy usage,
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> It seems technically feasible for medium density urban areas to produce a large percentage of edible food locally in the near future I absolutely agree with this - but I don't understand what the selling point is. You can't u

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