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by narsil 13y ago
Based on the spec ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/document-metadata.html#the-link-e... ) requiring a valid URL ( http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/infrastructure.html#valid-url ) it would interpret it as a relative link to a path "fonts.googleapi
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by narsil 13y ago
I would assume that if your internal network is "trusted", then the risk of a MitM is low enough that you wouldn't have to check the signature. I agree that an extra layer of validation is always a nice thing to have, but everyone has diffe
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by narsil 13y ago
For anyone wondering: ARPU: Average Revenue Per User ARPPU: Average Revenue Per Paying User MAU: Monthly Active Users DAU: Daily Active Users MUU: Monthly Unique Users
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by narsil 13y ago
From the Q&A at the end ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaYdCdwiWU&feature=youtu... ), Grug has this to say on TOR: "Against [Law Enforcement Officials], it's fine. Against a nation-state, the TOR network has insufficient resour
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by narsil 13y ago
Nice. I'm happy this loophole exists, if only for the chance to be surrounded by the latter group.
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by narsil 13y ago
Its not that important.
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by narsil 14y ago
Bookmarked! I always forget to remove an element from the DOM right before performing several transformations on it [0]. This is a handy list to have. (A nav bar that didn't obscure text on narrower windows would also be nice) [0] https://
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by narsil 14y ago
Sometimes the extra cruft goes too far: head to http://www.forbes.com/home_usa/ and you'll notice a video in the right column automatically starts playing with the audio on (assuming you don't have AdBlock blocking it).
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by narsil 14y ago
Apparently it was a crawler: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5254877
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by narsil 14y ago
The lack of VPC support and inability to configure custom security groups would prevent me from using it for right now. It seems like a good alternative to PaaS out there though, and I'm sure it will be rounded out with more features in the
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by narsil 14y ago
The article states they used a dark navy blue dye. See the sidebar "Five nearly-true ninja myths": "Ninja clothing was made to be light and hard to see in the dark - but jet-black would cause the form to stand out in moonlight, so a dark na
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The kilogram has gained weight(livescience.com)
2 points by narsil 14y ago|0 comments
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by narsil 14y ago
I've been executing long-running scripts that handle map-reduce jobs in production and ruby's garbage collector is by far the worst I've had to deal with. Other python and java processes running similar operations handle this much better. I
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by narsil 14y ago
These are still used frequently in high schools across the world. For example, Indian high schools following the CBSE system do not allow calculators, but log tables are permitted for some courses.
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by narsil 14y ago
The methodology states that 60% of the rank is based on research and citations. There just isn't as much research and papers being published in universities such as IIT as there are in other universities in the world. Few universities in In
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by narsil 14y ago
That isn't necessarily true. He recently responded to another currently popular Paypal thread here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4485627
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by narsil 14y ago
This made things much clearer for me. I just read the blog post for the first time and wasn't confused.
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by narsil 14y ago
You could try adding objects with the date in their names to a 'backup' bucket rather than create separate buckets for each backup. S3 also supports object expiration, so you can set your daily backups to expire after 7 days and weekly back
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Cigarette smoking: an underused tool in high-performance endurance training(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
5 points by narsil 14y ago|2 comments
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by narsil 14y ago
Request for Startups. See http://ycombinator.com/rfs.html
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by narsil 14y ago
That's how I feel about most hackathons. There isn't enough work done on existing projects, but quick hacks the demonstrate concepts are the norm. It would be great to see a hackathon where the primary purpose was to contribute to an existi
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Crash-only Design(lwn.net)
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Everyday GIT With 20 Commands Or So(jk.gs)
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by narsil 15y ago
This command doesn't include the files in the parent directory. An easier way to accomplish the original command uses globbing (like in bash): tar czf backup1.tar */
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AgLocal: For when you really want to know where your meat comes from(gigaom.com)
2 points by narsil 15y ago|0 comments
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ICANN had no idea IANA rejection was coming(news.dot-nxt.com)
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by narsil 15y ago
What I would like to know is if this is permanent or just till github completes their security audit. It doesn't seem like homakov intended or caused any real harm, although it was a bit immature to draw attention to the vulnerability that
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by narsil 15y ago
If the average consumer thinks the problem bitcasa is solving is a strong enough pain point and use bitcasa's product anyway, then I can see SpiderOak moving into this area regardless of the security issues it brings up. Unfortunately, the
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by narsil 15y ago
While that may be true, text search over documents has certain requirements that differ from the use cases being mentioned for homomorphic encryption over the past two years (since Craig Gentry's paper on fully homomorphic encryption). Alth
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LastPass Asks Users To Change Password After Probable Breach(threatpost.com)
3 points by narsil 15y ago|0 comments

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