Y
HN Search
Hacker News Search
new
|
comments
|
top
|
jobs
mjs
searching PlanetScale…
1.
▲
2.
▲
3.
▲
4.
▲
5.
▲
6.
▲
11 ms
·
61.
▲
by
mjs
10y ago
A small amount of video from the test event: http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/78468512/Weaponis... The umpire carries a shield and a hand axe! There's also a few other videos on a YouTube chann
62.
▲
by
mjs
10y ago
github.com's security-related headers (content-security-policy, strict-transport-security, public-key-pins) add up to 1383 bytes. That will compress, but it's starting to add up…
63.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Is there any reasonable way to verify that end-to-end encryption is actually being used, and used correctly? From a user's point of view the app looks and works exactly the same as before, except for the addition of a QR code which cou
64.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
That's a reasonable position, but that's not what the argument for cancelling the conference was. The argument was that the speaker's presence would threaten the "physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speake
65.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Amazingly there's things even the Chuck Norris of programming doesn't know: http://stackoverflow.com/users/22656/jon-skeet?tab=questions He's only asked 39 questions (about one for every 1000 answer
66.
▲
Fixing a bearer token vulnerability
(blog.npmjs.org)
3 points
by
mjs
11y ago
|
0 comments
67.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
I suppose something that's unlikely to ever 404, and on a CDN that's "fast" for folks everywhere in the world would be best, so upload.wikimedia.org is a good choice.
68.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
The speedtest http://webkay.robinlinus.com/scripts/speedtest.js downloads a 5mb file from http://www.kenrockwell.com/contax/images/g2/examples/3112003... . You might want to change t
69.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
That post also suggests two things that Tor could do to improve the situation for their users: * Support a stronger hashing algorithm to make it possible for CloudFlare to make .onion versions of all of their customers' sites. * Implem
70.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
On update, can you send email to the purported author, telling them they've updated the package? (Similar to those "you have logged into some site from a new computer" emails.) An easy way to undo a publish would also be usef
71.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
> The program committee feel that we cannot possibly organize a workshop under the umbrella of a conference that values the free expression of racist and fascist views over the physical and emotional safety of its attendees and speakers…
72.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
"If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even thoug
73.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
He's found quite a few different bugs: https://hackerone.com/anand786 https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks (listed 2015, 2014, 2013)
74.
▲
Maths in Science – an interview with Don Knuth (2015)
(authenticinquirymaths.blogspot.com)
96 points
by
mjs
11y ago
|
12 comments
75.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
If you connect your card to Apple Pay you get an immediate notification every time your card is charged (might depend on the bank), which is useful for detecting this sort of thing. Actually I'm not sure why Apple Pay should be necessa
76.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Fisherman has a lovely website and even docs, but what does it actually do? The list of plugins is not very impressive, many of which seem to be placeholders that don't do anything at all (see the "plugins" with numeric names
77.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
You're still secure if you use https. If neither your computer nor the host you're connecting to has been tampered with, then you're safe irrespective of what's happening between.
78.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
I'm puzzled by the name too. How was the Credit Union funded? I'm assuming no archive.org money went into it--?
79.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
I once read a story (I think in the Washington Post) about two people meeting up in similar circumstances sometime in the 60s or 70s, and then, when parting, promising to meet again at a specific location and time far into future. And so af
80.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
> I got the impression that Homebrew wanted to own /usr/local rather than sharing it with other software This is still accurate. Homebrew creates/manages /usr/local/.git. /usr/local/.gitignore
81.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Is this also related to why you can't rename /usr/local to /usr/local.old? (To do a fresh install of homebrew into /usr/local.) $ sudo mv local local.old mv: rename local to local.old: Operation not
82.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
The upgrade changes the permissions of all files within /usr/local to root:wheel.
83.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
In another comment femto113 points out that provided there's enough credit card fares drivers can keep all of the cash they receive, with Uber taking their cut via the credit card transactions. (However, it looks like Uber's cut i
84.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Wait, so how does the driver pay Uber their cut? They have to deliver the cash to the Uber depot? And what happens if they get robbed on the way? (Or say they did?)
85.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Any image showing the diff between this and Source Code Pro? (The "preview" in the README doesn't actually work.)
86.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
Is this using the "beta" italic that Adobe have been working on, or something else? https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro/issues/6
87.
▲
JavaScript: Why does 00.0 cause a syntax error?
(stackoverflow.com)
7 points
by
mjs
11y ago
|
0 comments
88.
▲
Delegation Is the Cornerstone of Civilization: Sharing in Sandstorm.io
(blog.sandstorm.io)
70 points
by
mjs
11y ago
|
12 comments
89.
▲
by
mjs
11y ago
It can be password protected, though.
90.
▲
by
mjs
12y ago
Note that GitHub itself does create useful diffs of images: https://github.com/cameronmcefee/Image-Diff-View-Modes/commi... More: https://github.com/blog/817-behold-image-view-modes
More ›