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by pak 15y ago
Whoa there. People, especially children, die every day because they can't afford food, clean water, or vital medical care [1]. So, are all of those suddenly communal property in your world? Who gets to decide how much of each of those res
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by pak 15y ago
FTFA: Hameroff, senior author on the study, said "...We MAY have a GLIMPSE of the brain's biomolecular code for memory." I know Hacker News prefers the original headline, but there has to be an exception for ScienceDaily, PhysOrg, and any o
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by pak 15y ago
Some people try to pool local commits into larger, less frequent pushes and pulls so the number of push/pulls is perhaps less relevant than their cumulative size. But pushes/pulls will never correspond well with user involvement because pe
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by pak 15y ago
As an interesting side effect, they will have pretty exact stats on how many active users they have; might help them sunset old accounts or move them to the slowest servers. (Because of the offline nature of most git actions and different h
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by pak 15y ago
Is this to juke the stats to make a video seem more popular than it is? If you divide that out it's about $0.05 per 20 views. I think you could ask somebody on Mechanical Turk to open 20 browser tabs and let them sit for 2 minutes with bi
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by pak 15y ago
So, Forbes is republishing Quora answers now? This must be part of that new strategy where they try to gain more traffic ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe... ) with other people's content ( http://www.nytimes.c
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TED conferences and the "babble bubble"(nymag.com)
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by pak 15y ago
I thought you were kidding, but the LED idea is already a real product. http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.obe...
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by pak 15y ago
>The bulk of today's web devs are coming from Rails Ahem, you're exaggerating there just a little bit. There are probably around a dozen web frameworks that are competing for the spotlight right now. With Zend, CI, Django, Symfony, St
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by pak 15y ago
I'm interested in how > a person has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the totality of their movements, even if those movements are in public. translates to actions on the public internet. This has potentially huge ramifications i
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by pak 15y ago
I love pandoc too, and there are three things that would make me absolutely giddy if they were added: 1) Proper reference support. In LaTeX you can use things like \ref{fig:foo} to insert autonumbers for things like Figure X and Table Y.
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by pak 15y ago
Surprisingly, NTFS does allow for transactions [1] and this feature is implemented since Vista, while as far as I know, HFS+ on Macs has no comparable feature. Therefore what you say may in fact be true. I'm curious if cutting the power on
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by pak 15y ago
I just found these two little jewels and have been using them to provide fast access to a haystack of images (GB to TB size, each image about ~1KB). I am curious to hear what others think about moving from Tokyo to Kyoto--the website says
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by pak 15y ago
And once Google and Facebook find a workaround for that setting, they can add a fifth option: really really block all third-party cookies. Seriously, the answer here is that if a browser wants to block third-party cookies by default, it sho
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by pak 15y ago
The problem is, blacklists need to be maintained, create a single point of failure (in terms of both access and trust), and rapidly grow out of control. See virus scanners, spam filtering, CRL checking for SSL, MSIE Phishing Filter, etc. a
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by pak 15y ago
Wouldn't they have to, to support browsers without pushState? And even if they used terrible JavaScript hackery to get around that (serve same content for every URL, have clients AJAX in content based on location.href) how would they suppo
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by pak 15y ago
Right, proposed in October 2010. It would have been unfair of me to pick on IE6 for not supporting it. The IE6 era is when I most vividly remember javascriptsource.com and friends touting things like onclick="alert('Not allowed!'); return
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by pak 15y ago
Hindsight is always 20/20 and norms change quickly on the internet; we could say equally critical things about Telnet and FTP. I agree that P3P clearly needs some rethinking to stay relevant. Especially now that the cat's out of the bag on
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by pak 15y ago
This is not a reply to your comment! See http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=qV5bkCjG for more info.
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by pak 15y ago
This would have been the ultimate trump card back in the days when websites tried to prevent people from stealing their JavaScript and images by disabling things like right click and using twiddly bits of obfuscation. View source, eh? The
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Rate limiting HTTP proxy for JSON services with HMAC signed keys(github.com)
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by pak 15y ago
"Out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people. ... You're just dead people that didn't die yet." It's a bit from a Louis CK routine, and the numbers appear to back him up.
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by pak 15y ago
Why is a single repo required for everybody to see all the code? Tools like gerrit and github can handle multiple repos and provide commit access for multiple repos among a large group of people. If it were my company, I would keep separa
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by pak 15y ago
Minecraft does have terminal velocity, though (it's obvious from the very first shot showing the pole while falling), therefore it does have some implementation of air resistance. So as soon as the video says "assuming air resistance to be
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by pak 15y ago
Back when Facebook was still wet behind the ears, before the whole apps platform was created, such "power user" features were occasionally available... via SQL injection. Ah, those were simpler times.
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by pak 15y ago
This only supports my long running contention that normal people (outside of Japan) do not understand QR codes, and wherever they are printed, you would be better off writing a short URL. They are 1) opaque, 2) ugly, 3) impossible to memor
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by pak 15y ago
But where do you put the light rail? Put it on an elevated track, and that property value change goes the other way (noise, visual pollution, loss of sunlight). OK, so put it in the middle of the street. If it's a dedicated lane, not onl
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Wat (or, a few WTF gems from Ruby and JavaScript)(youtube.com)
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by pak 15y ago
Neither is great practice, in my opinion. This page looks dated in its recommendations. Any sane JavaScript that works with DOM elements should use a DOM abstraction like jQuery. Leave document.forms.fooinput.parentNode.firstChild.nextSi
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You don't even need to pick somebody popular, although I suppose it might make certain things easier. If you pick a plausible name and an attractive-looking profile picture, after a few hundred requests to people in the same location, you

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