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kanzure
13y ago
> But theres always that chance he didnt Check the logs yourself. He was extremely careful about using tor. http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/ More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5733582
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kanzure
13y ago
Hiring is entirely broken. I don't think anyone is listening to developers. I took some data about this (tracking pixel in a Developer Auction profile), but someone did an even better job than me and posted in these comments: https://news.
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kanzure
13y ago
> no-one stepped forward and it was ultimately removed from the project Here's the source code, if you are interested: https://github.com/kanzure/pyphantomjs
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kanzure
13y ago
Actually, you don't even need xvfb these days (and I have no idea why anyone is telling people that they do). You could use something like xserver-xorg-video-dummy. Of course, as you have pointed out, PhantomJS doesn't require an X server (
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kanzure
13y ago
Don't give up on 10x too quickly. > You're experience went a little further than mine, I got no offers. Friend of mine (more experience than me, less than you, well known on Hacker News) was in their first round and also got zero offers
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kanzure
13y ago
Thank you, your analysis is really compelling and matches what I've seen. It's good to have some realistic numbers about what Developer Auction is offering for talent. What really boggles me is that Developer Auction has an entirely separat
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kanzure
13y ago
Well, no. The file "datetimes.yaml" contains a list of serialized ISO 8601 timestamps because that's how you represent timestamps in yaml. These timestamps represent the different timestamps that bitcointalk.org gives to the posts made by t
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13y ago
Here are some emails and headers that you might be interested in: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/ phrases: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/irc/bitcoin-satoshi/phrases.txt He might be one of these people: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/ir
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Hacking Developer Auction
(developerauctionhacker.pen.io)
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kanzure
13y ago
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kanzure
13y ago
> Some random names, I remember Dr Ian, FoxDie, SubDrag, Krusha Hey wait, I know these names.. > Except it wasn't. Turned out some other hackers had found the codes at the same time and they had their name in my favourite magazine.
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kanzure
13y ago
GameShark is how I first stumbled on to the internet. I was looking up "the codes". I was really upset when GameShark's UBB instance went dark. Years later, I returned to look at some favorites and found that I could easily use all these pr
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kanzure
13y ago
> You are "paying" by allowing yourself to be exposed to advertisements No, many of us are literally paying. You know, with dollars. For (really tiny amounts of) storage space. And other things.
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kanzure
13y ago
Well, mitmproxy isn't really just a Burp replacement. I've used both Burp and libmproxy for app sec reasons, but when I had strange reasons to write my own caching server for my crawler infrastructure, I dropped libmproxy in, wrote out some
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kanzure
13y ago
Academic phishing is real and often overlooked. Here are the articles in question: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/05/05/omics-publishing-launches-... http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/01/25/omics-predatory-meetings/ http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/
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kanzure
13y ago
> With the freelancing idea you may eventually have to explain where you are getting your contracts Ah, I thought you meant the otherway around. Hire a freelancer, tell them what to do, pay them with dirty money, sell their bits for cle
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13y ago
> The house always wins, so slowly but surely that dark money will become your legitimate income. That's not helpful, because the transaction is really obvious. If your casino is unpopular, it's even more obvious that it might just be y
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13y ago
> Where "[whatever]" is something relatively unverifiable. Programming Yep. And that may sound inefficient, but it's actually really great at decreasing information about the source of money. For example, you might have a legitimate sof
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kanzure
13y ago
That's only 20,000 documents. A good start, I guess. But there's a tremendous amount missing from that collection..
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kanzure
13y ago
> We need an off-planet backup of all data contained on the internet in anticipation of an apocalyptic event Well, that's cool and all.. but screw apocalyptic versions of myself. What about just downloading papers for immediate use,
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kanzure
13y ago
> Any alternatives for Mendeley http://zotero.org/ recent comments about mendelsevier vs. zotero: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5525111
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13y ago
> I wish it was scalable because I think going to a website,posting a request How about these: https://reddit.com/r/scholar https://facebook.com/groups/freepapers https://groups.google.com/group/getarticles https://groups.google.
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13y ago
You could use http://deepdyve.com/ or http://readcube.com/access but it is still very expensive to read a healthy amount. Still, they have talked with the arms dealers and made prior arrangements, and apparently got better results than
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13y ago
I am a little upset that all of our "space enthusiasts" (including me) didn't have backups of the content from NTRS (NASA Technical Reports Server). NTRS is now back online after going down due to political pressures weeks ago, except 85%
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kanzure
13y ago
> What do paywalls possible have to do with the reproducibility > of results? Anyone who has access to a lab Actually, there's no institution subscribed to every journal. There are, in fact, many papers inaccessible to
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13y ago
> When science became so big that it first needed then eventually was run by "managers" I bet it lost much of its effectiveness. You can just do projects on your own, you know. There's nothing about science that absolutely requires an i
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kanzure
13y ago
That page is lying, it's not "Closed": http://appsleak.com/app/how_it_works/
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13y ago
> Where do you get this data? I think they are making estimates about downloads for popular apps based on the change in downloads on less-downloaded apps for a given keyword.
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13y ago
Oh definitely, they pump out lots of confusing/wrong marketing all the time. I can see how they would get into that sort of list. Edit: you have a phd in pirate science?
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13y ago
How is "Genome Compiler" an open tool? I hate those guys, it's not even an actual compiler. or open. If they wanted to do something useful, then yeah I would shoot for that package management concept.
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13y ago
yo david, long time no talk.. did you ever get a chance to make use of this data set? ftp://anonymous@ftp.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pub/tjucikas/wormdatabase/results-12-06-08/Laura%20Grundy It's a few thousand hours of videos of the worms under dif
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