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by jwise0 13y ago
(expanding on my response on Twitter...) I generally don't find /etc/hosts to be a sustainable answer against DNS hijacking, at least on hostile networks. For one thing, one-off hosts entries can cause you quite a lot of gri
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The clickbait title is pretty obnoxious. I know that it is the current craze to style that way, but I can't help but imagine that a more helpful title would be something like: "Ruby 2 breaks existing projects by adding Accept-Enc
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I had a similar situation happen at my alma mater; we had a set of interactive login farms available (one sit-down computer cluster designed for interactive desktop use, and one shell cluster designed for remote login). Periodically, users
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You probably stand a pretty good chance, depending on your in-school performance. But, here are some things to consider (from a CMU alum) -- You probably were the most "with it" person at your high school. When you arrive at CMU
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FWIW, the original article has nothing to say at all about Google. The data are interesting, but it is not at all framed the way the HN title suggests. (Should the title get edited, it was originally: 'Quit putting down Google: "
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Other interesting things to try -- you can create something to call into to synthesize motion with something like: function domove(x,y,a) { moveFlag(me.flag, x, y); setRotate(me.flag, a); emit('motion', {x: x, y: y, id: me.id,
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Can you quantify how slow? This is a common refrain against some of these sorts of things (and, indeed, the modern web in general): "adding this thing makes your site slow". But I rarely see quantified results...
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The Next Page (Cyanogen, Inc. closes series B)(cyanogenmod.org)
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> The strongest force, it seems, that keeps academia in Latex is that it is required, literally, by the publisher, as the scientist's end result. I think that's false. The author's claim is that "inertia is why we st
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Vax | Gamifying Epidemic Prevention(vax.herokuapp.com)
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Interactive fiction has become an incredibly interesting medium, I think catalyzed by Twine (an IF authoring tool that seems to be part of what's backing this story). With more technologies available to add 'spice' to classi
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The sentence -- "First, we have rolled out an over-the-air update to the air suspension that will result in greater ground clearance at highway speeds." -- for some reason deeply amuses me. I thought that it was scary to push out
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(reposting my comment from the dupe) The exceptionally cool follow-on to this is David Chaum's work on using visual cryptography for voting -- http://www.constitution2.org/wiki/files/2004_chaum_secret_ba... P
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The exceptionally cool follow-on to this is David Chaum's work on using visual cryptography for voting -- http://www.constitution2.org/wiki/files/2004_chaum_secret_ballot_receipts.pdf People have since b
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> Don't worry about tax details or bank approvals. The only thing you need is a PayPal email address! That is an incredibly bad idea to phrase things that way. In general, unless you're a tax attorney, you should not ever te
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That's not always the case. For instance, on Galaxy Nexus (CDMA), the radio is split from the AP, and are in fact manufactured by two completely different folks (the AP is TI OMAP, and the radio is VIA Telecom). I'd imagine the
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http://stayinyourprime.com/img/screens/primeLaunch.png is a particularly hilarious example of what's wrong with that concept that health is social. I can fairly confidently say that I have never thought -- an
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Very neat. You may want to do something more to the edges (mirror, for instance?) to avoid high-frequency ringing artifacts there. Remember that the Fourier transform describes a repeating signal, so the borders (out into space) appear as
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Importantly, facts are not copyrightable (/Feist v. Rural/ was the Supreme Court decision that cemented this into the case law), so not only is this not a DMCA notice, the DMCA -- as best I understand -- couldn't possibly app
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Dragos's original writing is, in fact, mostly incoherent, and highly suspect. However, this article seems to be almost as far out. For instance, the author of this story claims that UEFI binaries are not compatible with each other. T
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You can write the tools you describe on top of any existing tool stack -- you'll just have to use the hardware description language as an IL. (Indeed, many tools already do this.) You could write your own synthesis front-end and place
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As far as I can tell, the AArch64-ness of these parts is only half of the (very exciting!) story ... the really interesting thing is that these are being manufactured on Intel's 14nm FinFET process. To date, I didn't think anyo
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Galaxy Nexus will not receive Android 4.4(support.google.com)
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There are a lot of pretty unpleasant things that Verizon are doing that one could make a compelling argument for being violations of the upper C-block agreement. But, this really isn't one of them. For instance, selling phones with fe
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The author touches on this, when he says: "To write Verilog that will produce correct hardware, you have to first picture the hardware you want to produce." I think that's the crux of the issue. Most digital designers do h
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Sigh. Although some of this is Intel's own doing, "i3" is not a meaningful descriptor, especially when compared to "Cortex-A15" or "Cortex-A9". "Core i3" can refer to many, many generations of
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(disclosure: I work at NVIDIA, but not directly on Shield.) One of the things that I find most exciting about Shield is that it's a platform designed for innovation. Build blobs, a manifest.xml, and recovery images were released on da
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One of the interesting things to notice is the title. HN usually has a fairly strict policy: the title of the link is what it is from the original post, without much modification (unless needed to make it clear). A post should stand on it
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Having to sign up to begin experimenting is pretty painful, and a leading way to lose conversions in a hurry. Automatically generating an ephemeral project is lots less painful to people (like me) who want to see what it's all about
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Michael Hastings' Chilling Final Story(pjmedia.com)
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