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by mrduncan 16y ago
most websites will at least require you to re-enter your password (over SSL) to change your key profile attributes or password While that is the case for most sites, HN doesn't require you to enter your current password when changing your
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The character distribution of the encoded message for the example ("THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG"): 8: " " (note that the original also has 8 spaces) 4: "O" 3: "E" 2: "H", "R", "T", "U" 1: "Z", "B", "Y",
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Given that sample (see blog comments), it is a little trickier than a simple substitution. Edit: I stand corrected on the original statement about lengths - wasn't paying attention and was performing integer division.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
This has to be great news for Pinboard - I'm not sure how much they raise the price with each purchase, but less than 30 minutes later and the current price is already $6.92. Edit: 7 minutes later it's now $6.94
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Twitter: Finding Tweets about Places(dev.twitter.com)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What do you wish your team chat had?
2 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
The signup links are redirecting to the coming soon page. Example: https://www.appointmentreminder.org/coming-soon?plan=small-b...
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by mrduncan 16y ago
"Failure is Not an Option" by Gene Kranz An awesome look back at the space program in the 1960s. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FC0O7M
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Not to mention missing Basecamp, which spawned Rails in the first place.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Because most users could care less. Notice that you logged into HN by sending a plaintext password. Edit: I totally agree with your sentiment though.
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What would you do if you were CEO of Google?(mattcutts.com)
48 points by mrduncan 16y ago|73 comments
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Pennies From Heaven(newsweek.com)
29 points by mrduncan 16y ago|2 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
You may be able to get away with scraping a portion of the site, but I still would find it very hard to believe you'd be able to scrape even 50%. Let's do some math, these are all based on numbers from this past June which have likely only
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I disagree. Twitter is pushing upwards of 3000 tweets per second [1], it'd be nearly impossible to scrape at that rate and go without notice, regardless of how many IPs you've got at your disposal. [1] http://mashable.com/2010/06/25/tps-r
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by mrduncan 16y ago
It looks like ycombinator.com is hosted by SliceHost ( http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ycombinator.com ).
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by mrduncan 16y ago
This is actually a well known phenomenon ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect ). It's why, in a crisis, you should always single people out to do tasks instead of saying "someone do this". Otherwise everyone will just assume th
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by mrduncan 16y ago
As of 2 years ago, it was hosted on a "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" - it's certainly not a shared machine. ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516122 ) rtm is the sysadmin for HN (yes, that rtm: http://en.wikiped
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Kayak has an api (limited to 1000 searches / day): http://www.kayak.com/labs/api/search/ I believe that Orbitz will require you talk to someone in order to get access to their api.
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Freaks, Geeks, and Economists(slate.com)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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CIJOE, can you please watch my windows?(blog.plataformatec.com.br)
2 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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Jay Adelson joins SimpleGeo as CEO(blog.simplegeo.com)
12 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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Iterations, a new internal app for managing what we work on next (37signals.com)
32 points by mrduncan 16y ago|6 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I assume this was a serious comment - HN is merely a small part of YCombinator. See: http://ycombinator.com/
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by mrduncan 16y ago
If possible, launch first, then start looking for investors. It'll be much easier to get noticed by investors when you have actual users.
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Congrats all around!
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WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project (20th anniversary)(w3.org)
1 points by mrduncan 16y ago|0 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
I'm sure that person (again, assuming that there was only one) wasn't the only one to know about the money. It's probably more likely that a manager, someone in HR, etc leaked the info.
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I read a piece from Forrester the other day that...(bryce.vc)
6 points by mrduncan 16y ago|2 comments
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Wired's cover browser goes back to 1993: http://www.wired.com/wired/coverbrowser/
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by mrduncan 16y ago
Things were looking up a couple months ago when you published that great article on Caterina Fake of Flickr and Hunch fame. That could have been a cover… Instead you went with Will Ferrell… Like it or not, a magazine with Caterina Fake on

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