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$50,000 Twitter Account Theft: GoDaddy Accepts Blame(thenextweb.com)
6 points by nmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by nmc 13y ago
Excellent article. Continuation is probably the most mind-blowing piece of programming theory I was ever taught. However, this is a complex article. I feel like I was only able to grasp the substance because I already know a bit about conti
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by nmc 13y ago
> They [...] don't touch investment banking at all Disagree all you want, but please get your facts right. Yes, La Banque Postale is technically forbidden from directly speculating on the open market. However: - they can buy and o
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by nmc 13y ago
Same thing happened to the French postal service in 2006, with high hopes for "a bank with the ethics of public service" , but it quickly became exactly like any other bank: profit, profit, profit.
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by nmc 13y ago
In most cases, the PIN is not directly related to the card: the link only exists in the bank database. So it should be technically possible to change it. Some banks allow it in some countries, and may even recommend you regularly change yo
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by nmc 13y ago
Facebook does the same [1]. May help you decide. BTW pics or didnt happen. [1] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/1...
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> There's no way for any parties involved to prove the efficacy of their methods, nor to disprove the efficacy of their competitors' methods. To be fair, there is no valid way. However, a lot of them engage in hilarious deb
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Funny initiative, but was I the only one who had never heard about this "tau" movement?
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by nmc 13y ago
Good point: Mandarin is clearly more spoken, and further from English, than Portuguese. About Hindi: keep in mind that English is still an official Indian language, especially since the English Language Amendment Bill. About Arabic: there a
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by nmc 13y ago
Saddening story. I had the chance of visiting Bletchley Park and the Museum about a year ago, and the rebuild of the Colossus [1] is definitely a highlight of the exhibit — especially. All the volunteers I met seemed fully dedicated to thei
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A Cross-Platform Java Bot for DDoS(securelist.com)
1 points by nmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by nmc 13y ago
The poorly-redacted document is there: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-smartphones-analysis.pdf
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by nmc 13y ago
This is already twice on the front page right now. Please find another way to boost your karma.
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by nmc 13y ago
Welcome on HN The new section holds every item posted, regardless of wether it is a "Ask HN" or not. The new section is sorted according to the time of the post — most recent first. The ask section holds every item that is n
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A shame that took two weeks and four deaths.
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"not preprocessing itself [...] just someone writing things badly" I agree with that, but I think that is precisely the point of the quoted post: CSS preprocessors, not unlike compile-to-JS languages, try to make you write less,
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Nice tutorial, I just disagree on two small points. First, there are very sound arguments for not using CSS preprocessors [1]. Second, for a website that you own, using ".htaccess" is discouraged for performances reasons. The Apac
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by nmc 13y ago
Technique was already covered in a student paper last year: https://www.os3.nl/_media/2012-2013/courses/rp1/p22_report.p...
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Not in China now, but this nice website seems to prove you right: http://www.blockedinchina.net/?siteurl=news.ycombinator.com
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Thanks for the advice, I added a disclaimer. I understand the Wikipedian urge to render everything credible by referencing authoritative material, I just did not take the time to do it here. I am confident my advice remains helpful nonethel
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Funny like this is posted while GitHub is under DDoS attack.
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[Disclaimer] I am not a lawyer, this is only from professional experience and personal culture, and may not apply if you are from another planet. Feel free to insert enough "maybe" for your own convenience. [TL;DR] This is onl
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Frenchman here, I have lived in various French cities, and currently live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. * * * Amsterdam, NL I strongly recommend Amsterdam, and most reasons presumably also apply to other Dutch cities: - People are very f
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XKCD: Cold(xkcd.com)
9 points by nmc 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: I hate startups, I love HN — am I weird?
16 points by nmc 13y ago|18 comments
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The Joke-Publication of the Paxos Algorithm(research.microsoft.com)
31 points by nmc 13y ago|11 comments
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From an agnostic point of view, there is something worth noting: the whole world heard about the story. That really does not seem "spy-ish" to me: spying is a game, the goal is information. In that mindset, since the whole world g
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Out of curiosity (and regardless of the meaning of your comment), are you completely unrelated to the author of the comment you are linking to? Except the "3" at the end, their pseudonym is identical to yours. Here on HN people do
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You should not feel trapped. Programming, more than most sectors, grants you the liberty to choose your next job very freely, and to ease your mind about quitting your previous job. Because: if you are good, people will fight to work with
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Hack turns Chrome into advanced bugging device(arstechnica.com)
3 points by nmc 13y ago|0 comments

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