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by pak 15y ago
Handily, the functionality to make them disappear is available in many browser extensions, like Disconnect ( http://disconnect.me/ ).
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by pak 15y ago
Well publish it then and post it here! Just change the byline to "I'm glad Arrington resigned..." and all the same arguments follow. A lot of the stories that frontpage on HN seem to be opinionated follow-ups to recent news events.
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by pak 15y ago
It might have also been > is their any real analysis driving some of the downvotes (I did not vote myself).
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When two datasets collide, seismic events may occur(maps.google.com)
1 points by pak 15y ago|0 comments
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by pak 15y ago
You wouldn't need to change the color palette. Freeze the gameplay and animate the world "flipping over" as a big 3D surface, like in Paper Mario. Continuity is established, problem solved.
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by pak 15y ago
> Provide both then, because typing a URL is a pain on most mobiles, especially urls more than 5 characters. If people are already running up against 5000 SMS/month limits on their phones, I'd wager that they can spend 20 keypresses typ
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by pak 15y ago
Here I'll give you a "real world hyperlink": print the damn URL in English so that I can remember it if I don't have my phone handy. If you're running a print ad you can afford a short snappy URL. Bonus, I can even use it on my laptop tha
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by pak 15y ago
This whole article is predicated on "social search" being better than pagerank-scored search, which is only sometimes the case. Sometimes I care what my friends think about a search query, e.g., "sushi restaurants near foo." It might help
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by pak 15y ago
tldr version, minus the usual stackoverflow backandforth: Named elements are made into properties of the "window" object in Chrome, IE, and Opera. That would include any element with an "id" attribute and most elements with a "name" attrib
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A Patent on Making Toast [2000](google.com)
2 points by pak 15y ago|0 comments
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by pak 15y ago
Yep, here was the previous article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2847675
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by pak 15y ago
"I'll show a second example which does pass data along with the URL" ... never happens. Also, when replying to people directly, try to thread your reply onto theirs or that person might never see it.
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by pak 15y ago
Anyone upvoting this, can you please explain why? This article has numerous issues that would make me hesitate to recommend it to anybody else. I'm not going to list them all, but here's a start. - gives the Google AJAX-ified query string
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by pak 15y ago
Luckily, throwaway phone numbers are as easy to get as throwaway email accounts these days: http://voice.google.com
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by pak 15y ago
Yep, and that's assuming 8 random bytes from extended ASCII. The other point of the article was that nobody actually makes a password from random characters because words are easier to remember. And I think it's disingenuous to suppose pe
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by pak 15y ago
Aha, indexing the characters out of "false" and "true"... clever.
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by pak 15y ago
Why would I "kick send"? Wouldn't I press send, or touch send, or maybe kick to send, or send a kick (violent)... is kicksend supposed to be a new verb? I can't get past the name. It sounds like a mispronounced "quicksand", a meaningless
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by pak 15y ago
How do cars defrost the rear windshield? Embedded heating elements in the glass. That's pretty proven, and easy to manufacture. The exact same thing could be used here.
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by pak 15y ago
I'm not really a fan of the padding on these "new looks". Also, I liked the little headers that said earlier this week, earlier this month, etc.; why did those have to go?
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by pak 15y ago
I don't believe that any DNA virus would replicate via a dsRNA intermediate, since that would be an unnecessary step and therefore anti-selective. You are correct that ssRNA viruses create a dsRNA template while replicating but I would thi
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by pak 15y ago
I am not convinced, especially when the company is hyping it to kill "virtually all" viruses. Far from the majority of viruses contain dsRNA. For example, the Ebola virus and rhinoviruses, which cause the common cold, all contain an ssRNA
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by pak 15y ago
Chrome runs a separate process for each tab, and that process includes the layout engine and the JS engine (V8) running in tandem. V8 has to be able to block the layout engine from rendering, otherwise it will draw invalid page states. Th
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by pak 15y ago
It was broken from the start, since it was introduced in conjunction with Win95 and at that point it was designed to trigger the Start menu with a single press.
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by pak 15y ago
How would JavaScript be able to override default event handlers if it weren't tied to the UI thread? Synchronous XHR will tie up every other browser too--because it's a blocking call, hence the "synchronous"... A rare example of appropriate
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by pak 15y ago
Try hooking your computer up through a hub or something and use WireShark on your traffic. You never know on a Windows box. I've had deeply rootkitted machines that didn't get picked up by any scans. In any case, I'd recommend against cha
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by pak 15y ago
I... don't know about you, but if I were a blackhat hanging on to a XSS or CSRF bug in Facebook, I'd expect it to be worth a lot more than $500 on the open market. If it could quietly expose arbitrary user data, it could be worth tens of t
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by pak 15y ago
Yeah, it can, but perhaps you develop a habit for it whenever creating variable names, so there is some visual harmony between klass, old_klass, klass_dismissed, etc. when reading the code.
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by pak 15y ago
Pretty slick--have to say I enjoyed the big mouse cursor coming up and editing the top paragraph, that was rather clever. In trying the demos, it behaved rather unobtrusively and flexibly, and despite looking a little like Word's contextual
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by pak 15y ago
The flash crash was not precipitated by a "fat finger" event but rather an intentional, albeit aggressive, move by one mutual fund, and according to regulators it was exacerbated by HFT's, not "corrected" [1][2][3][4]. Do your research--li
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by pak 15y ago
Oh, just because it hasn't happened yet, we should pretend it isn't possible? You remember the flash crash. That took out the market for a day. People waved their hands and said it was an innocent mistake. Nothing changed. When scads of

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