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by japaw 10y ago
I am working on a website where GitHub users can see how they rank compared to other users. The site analyses GitHub profiles and commit history to make a more extensive summery then GitHub does. I made it mostly to learn more about ranking
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Using InfiniBand for Cheap and Fast Point-To-Point Networking(louwrentius.com)
2 points by japaw 10y ago|0 comments
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How Google Took on Mirai, KrebsOnSecurity(krebsonsecurity.com)
5 points by japaw 10y ago|1 comments
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by japaw 10y ago
For some backround: This is the "Security gun rule". Under this regulation, the Social Security Administration will submit information on recipients of disability insurance to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
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by japaw 10y ago
> The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how. > On page 19 in the The Methbot Operation report they state that ‘White Ops detection technology was able to use a JavaScript
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by japaw 10y ago
As I understand it is currently unknown where the author got the data. If WeWorks published this in a publicly available API it is of course reasonable to chart it, but if the author somehow misuses the access he got as a tenant there, this
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by japaw 10y ago
To be fear, they did not just publish a negative blog post about WeWork as the title may suggest, but somehow obtained proprietary data WeWork probably sees as a trade secret. Many companies will revoke your access then.
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Skype now hides your internet address(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by japaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
Found one source that indicates that the payment may be substantial: "Financial Times reports that one digital media company (which asked not to be named) was told that it would cost 30 percent of its advertising revenue to be whiteli
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Adblock Plus blocked from attending online ad industry’s big annual conference(arstechnica.co.uk)
131 points by japaw 11y ago|59 comments
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Hyatt Card Breach Hit 250 Hotels in 50 Nations(krebsonsecurity.com)
1 points by japaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
This is going to be a hurdle for me that need a search feed that can be parsed server side. There alternative YPA (Yahoo Partner Ads) is client side only. Will most people migrate to Microsoft Bing? The results are the same anyway, but the
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Yahoo to close it search api BOSS on 31 March(developer.yahoo.com)
3 points by japaw 11y ago|1 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
Are there any large publicly available archives of usenet one can download? I need it for an information retrieval research project. I am aware of gmane.org, but do not think they allow bulk download.
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Ransomware a Threat to Cloud Services, Too(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by japaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
Probobly. Hopefully so have they learned from the fallout from the AOL search log case ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak ). That case was certainly a big mess.
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Why I do use ZFS as a file system for my NAS(louwrentius.com)
1 points by japaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
Besides China, there are other sources North Korea can have used to aquiver this technology. Both North Korea, Libya, Iran and China did get help developing nuclear technology from a network set up by Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear
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by japaw 11y ago
No they probably do not have the users Facebook password, but they do not need it for scraping, because they can just use their own use for that. I have looked around on Facebook and it looks like one can see other users friend list, even i
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by japaw 11y ago
Maybe web scraping then? It would not be so hard to make a focused scraper that scrapes the friends of anyone using the app. Edit: I did a quick test and at looks like I can see the friend list of many users that is not in my immediate netw
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Flash Player Patch Fixes 0-Day, 18 Other Flaws(krebsonsecurity.com)
2 points by japaw 11y ago|0 comments
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by japaw 11y ago
However the tools are getting better also. You now "stand on the shoulders of giants". With modern computer based math tools you can, for some problems, be lot more productive then working out everything on paper. You can also jus
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by japaw 11y ago
The world is getting more complex. Here where I live we have a system with a basic 8-10 years of education from years ~6-16, then apprenticeship school or university. My grandfather had a good standard of income with only apprenticeship (3
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by japaw 11y ago
"2015 was the beginning of the end for SSDs in the data center." is quit a bold statement especial when not discussing any alternative. I do not see us going back to magnetic disk, and most new storage technology are some kind of