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by lftl 11y ago
Not as far as I know. It's basically a compromise after sites began implementing paywalls, but then complaining when Google would stop listing the paywalled content. As long as a user coming from Google got to read the full text of the
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by lftl 11y ago
Datatau is a HN clone focused on data science.
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by lftl 11y ago
This article made me think about my usage of dropdowns on mobile, and presented a few alternatives that I'll probably reach for more often now. As far as people being so called experts I'm not sure you're going to find someon
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by lftl 11y ago
From a development standpoint there are a lot of things I prefer from the old Post Redirect Get workflow. The biggest thing I don't miss is modeling complex data in a form. SPAs let me sidestep this because it's JSON, which is muc
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by lftl 12y ago
Absolutely. I think the disconnect is when some people compare native vs. web, they mean a web app that closely mimics a native app. That's absolutely hard to do, and often not worth the effort. But building a responsive website that s
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by lftl 12y ago
Yep, I've used Zbar for barcode detection in photographs before. It wasn't particularly fast for my usage, but a lot of the photos I was scanning weren't particularly well cropped around the bar code. I'd be interested i
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by lftl 12y ago
They do CPR certification, and choking treatment dovetails with those courses.
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by lftl 12y ago
It's somewhat trivial, but I remember one change that precipitated Mozilla's complaint was a patch that stopped GIF animation when hitting the escape key. This was years ago though, so I don't know offhand what functionality
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by lftl 12y ago
Mint also at least initially partnered with Yodlee, and didn't actually doing any of the storing of your passwords themselves.
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by lftl 12y ago
I just made the commit to the gh-pages branch. Here's the commit, not that it's much of anything: https://github.com/lftl/rgb_of_life/commit/6be88caab5a8956ff...
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by lftl 12y ago
The pencil is inverted, but other than that this should do it. http://lftl.github.io/rgb_of_life/public/
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by lftl 12y ago
Throw in some license plate recognition and they could track individual car locations with a pretty wide breadth.
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by lftl 12y ago
To be fair he only got married this month, so the jury is still out on where his productivity goes from here ;)
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by lftl 13y ago
I know it's not strictly NameCheap's fault, but I moved all my DNS off of their servers after the recent DDOS had them down for hours.
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by lftl 13y ago
I really want a nice envelope budgeting debit card, but for my purposes Simple wasn't it. Most notably, if you mark a transaction as coming from a specific goal, and the amount of the transaction is more than the goal, the goal gets se
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by lftl 13y ago
While I haven't had any time to play with ClojureScript, Om, React, etc. I've been keeping a pretty watchful eye, because the stack looks very appealing. One bit that doesn't look appealing to me in Om, or Cloact is the tree-
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by lftl 13y ago
Minimum income
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by lftl 13y ago
COBRA is available immediately once you're unemployed (left voluntarily or most of the time if you're fired), and it will still be the only short-term option for someone in Molly's position under the ACA. If you become unempl
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by lftl 13y ago
Not in any huge way that I see. She was on employer provided insurance, which won't undergo any huge changes that would change her situation. After the FMLA time period (where her employer could keep her on their insurance without her
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by lftl 13y ago
Doxing that apparently got everything wrong according to the updates. I rarely wish for HN to be more like reddit, but their clear ban on doxing is useful, and in this case I don't see any reason this post belongs on the front page of
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by lftl 13y ago
Ahh, too bad. Tab casting is really the killer feature to me. I thought I had finally found a reason to use the old Revue again :)
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by lftl 13y ago
Is it explicitly stated somewhere that you can't cast from a linux box with Chrome installed? It let me install the Chrome extension on Linux at least.
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by lftl 13y ago
So you can use the tab casting feature in Chrome to cast to your Revue? I dusted my Revue off, forced it to update, and now I can control it from the Youtube app on my Android phone, but in Chrome it says "No cast devices found"
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by lftl 13y ago
The chart and reasoning for the headline are horribly explained, but here's the line of reasoning: ESPN currently makes $6/sub a month, and there are 100m subscribers, which leads to the $7.2 billion in revenue for ESPN from subsc
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by lftl 13y ago
Additionally as far as I know there is no credit rating penalty for repeated attempted charges above your limit. That sort of information isn't even on any report I've ever seen. The increased balance may impact your credit score,
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by lftl 13y ago
In addition, when I see the phrase "climate models", I think of the global simulations that scientists use to try to predict the future effect of climate change. This article seems to instead be about an historical reconstruction
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by lftl 13y ago
Definitely not all. Here's support list for two of the features: Download Attribute - http://caniuse.com/download Datalist - http://caniuse.com/datalist
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by lftl 13y ago
I'm not quite sure how I got to it, but go to user's stream and then tack on a ?details=1 to the end of the URL. I have no idea if that's an intentionally preserved view or not, but it's more like you're looking for.
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by lftl 13y ago
I don't think he advocated or clearly condemned the action in the article mentioned (and I haven't been reading Krugman long enough to recall any other posts on the issue). I think he's merely analyzing the actors involved, their motivation
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by lftl 14y ago
If a hacker manages to get into your online bank account and transfer everything out, you're still out of luck unless the bank decides to cover it for you. As far as I know, unless the bank catches it before a transfer is made (which they

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