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by pak 13y ago
If the email server was provided by his workplace, then it was likely secured and HIPAA compliant. Most hospital email services are. Once the file is on his hard drive, most hospitals will require that the user uses some kind of encryptio
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by pak 13y ago
Most sunglasses are intended to reflect or absorb UV. As you can see in the OP, gold is only good at absorbing IR, which the atmosphere (and clouds and trees) do a decent job of absorbing when we are at ground-level. The gold would be mor
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by pak 13y ago
A very similar-looking product for phone applications, called QuickFuse, is here: http://quickfuseapps.com/ I think the diagram-as-programming concept has some legs for certain high-business-value, low-complexity applicatio
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Riding the New Silk Road(nytimes.com)
486 points by pak 13y ago|153 comments
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by pak 13y ago
> One lesson I learned (after burning my fingers to the metal spring of one of the batteries) is that lithium cells can generate high currents when shorted out. Because the enclosure covers part of the battery holder, it's much har
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by pak 13y ago
Problem: Surveillance of all internet activity by a third party is bad! Solution: Inject third party JavaScript into as many websites as possible!
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by pak 13y ago
The capacitive technology that powers multitouch screens requires (or works much better with) glass, I believe. Also, LCD technology itself requires glass. The less and thinner the layers, the closer it feels like your finger gets to the
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by pak 13y ago
You are the man for doing this. If only others, including myself, were so brave for every web project that they attempt.
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by pak 13y ago
Ruby's syntax is beautiful once you've realized two things: 1. How blocks work, and how their minimalist syntax is beautiful. You see absolute value bars but believe me, getting used to that barebones function syntax is a gift.
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by pak 13y ago
Best part about hosting on a headless laptop: built-in UPS in case you have a power dip or somebody knocks the power strip out. I've wondered: if computer makers sold laptops with lights-out-management and detachable displays, would pe
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by pak 13y ago
I disagree. You give a situation which is suggestive of the person learning they have cancer, and is a perfect example of how mass tracking can expose personal but information about our lives that we would rather keep private (particularly
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by pak 13y ago
The CFAA is probably a good place to start, since its concept of a "protected computer" essentially covers every computer on the internet, and its definition of authorized/unauthorized access is quite vague, and so left open
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by pak 13y ago
Can't TPM be used for this? It could verify your /boot with keys external to the disk itself. I'm not sure if somebody has actually built a solution that uses it yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module
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City in a building: 220-story prefab being constructed in China(treehugger.com)
1 points by pak 13y ago|0 comments
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by pak 13y ago
If we eventually decide that all of this ridiculously fast bid/offer blitzing by our HFT overlords is a destabilization risk to the economy [1], couldn't we start taxing these transactions, or the bids/offers themselves? This level of high
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by pak 13y ago
Oh my god, there actually is an Apache HttpClient library [1]. I was going to say "this would be as confusing as if somebody made a HTTP client library named Apache," but it's already been done, and of course it's a Java library. RoflFact
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by pak 13y ago
Yeah, I did consider optipng/pngcrush. In the end it was a tradeoff between running time and space. I could afford the space but not the time. When I added in pngcrush, because it brute forces a whole bunch of compression routines on eac
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by pak 13y ago
Could they have possibly picked a more confusing name? 1. Unicorn for Ruby: http://unicorn.bogomips.org/ 2. Green Unicorn for Python: http://gunicorn.org/ The fact that this is an HTTP request library, as opposed to a server, is what
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by pak 13y ago
FFI is also dead simple in Ruby. https://github.com/ffi/ffi It's pretty much `gem install ffi` and off you go. I've used a Ruby gem [1] that talks to a hashtable storage library via FFI and found it perfectly stable. [1] https://github.
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by pak 13y ago
> it is very reasonable to code that part in some fast language while delegating the bigger (and often more complex) part in a higher level language such as Ruby. Agreed. Contrary to what lbrandy said, I've tried it, and it works very w
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by pak 14y ago
That does look pretty and awesome for business data, but do you know of anything similar that is more plugged into personal and social data sources like the OP? I wouldn't be so eager to e.g. recode a weather API that pushes specifically t
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by pak 14y ago
Is there any app like this already out for desktop Macs? I have an old iMac that I would love to repurpose for a status board. I was considering throwing together a one-off webpage with a bunch of favorite sites in frames that refresh, but
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by pak 14y ago
One quick plug: the Hacker News Sidebar under Chrome WebStore hasn't been updated since 2011 and doesn't work any more. My fork of it is more up to date: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-sideba... It's useful if you
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by pak 14y ago
> * This URL is relative, which means it will never actually reach its intended target (instead filling your web logs with this request) It likely doesn't matter that the URL is relative. It contains a GUID to be unlikely to resemble a
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by pak 14y ago
I normally expect the Next and Previous buttons on sites like Cracked.com that want me to generate more ad revenue with more page loads, but why five clicks for a simple article with no ads, Nature? Why can't you let me just scroll through
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by pak 14y ago
It's easy enough to sort by create_ts; updated again! The most recent thread for google.com is still pretty old. I'm kind of surprised that these multiple threads don't get automerged when the second and following people try to resubmit.
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by pak 14y ago
The author states the problem himself: Wordpress is a blogging platform that people are trying to turn into a full blown CMS. Stop trying to do that. If you want a "real" CMS with serious content types and a more thought-out plugin system,
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by pak 14y ago
I'd love to do this, but it would be particularly hacky because I need to access HN via XHR--I can't just frame it because HN sends the X-Frame-Options: DENY header (see the bottom of the blog post for details). However, I might be able to
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by pak 14y ago
Looks like it doesn't detect that page because it got submitted without the trailing slash, and the page forcefully redirects to the slashed URL. However, that's easy to correct for, and I've updated the extension to check for both ver
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Show HN: Hacker News Sidebar - an extension for Google Chrome(tedpak.com)
2 points by pak 14y ago|9 comments

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