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by racbart 9y ago
PSA: Please be cautious because this is an excellent opportunity for taking over packages and injecting malware by malicious people. Example: https://www.npmjs.com/package/duplexer3 which has 4M monthly downloads just
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by racbart 13y ago
This is truly great as proof of concept and also as a reminder that in software development building 80% of perceived* functionality usually takes only tiny fraction of total development time which is required to build final product. * - th
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by racbart 13y ago
Yup, my provider is quite easy to find, I don't mind. I just didn't want to make this info to be googleable with their name, to respect that they never publicly wrote about it. No idea why they don't advertise this feature. T
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by racbart 13y ago
Protip: If you use paid email, ask your email provider how to hide your IP while sending via SMTP. I asked mine and it turned out that they run a separate SMTP port which you can use and then your IP won't be included in message header
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by racbart 13y ago
> The app doesn't auto-update favorites yet. For now you can manually update via pull-to-refresh. Just to let you know: I favorited a song (using menu bar) and then pulled to refresh in my favorites view. The song was shown twice on
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by racbart 13y ago
This is a summary of my understanding of their method after a very quick scan of their docs: They assume working as a malicious/selfish pool having less than 50% of hash rate, but still a significant portion of the total hash rate. All
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by racbart 13y ago
This should be a feature on the NSA website.
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by racbart 13y ago
This is nice if considered a programming exercise but it's actually pretty useless for real world use. This data is static, that is it very rarely changes. The whole dataset is also very tiny. It's just better to store this data i
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by racbart 13y ago
Current Matchbook offer seems quite humble. Publishers will be naturally reluctant to sell their $22 books for $2 but I hope they'll understand very soon that this isn't actually a discounted sale. It's either extracting more
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by racbart 13y ago
For anyone like me interested in which new gTLDs were introduced but was surprised that their names were not included in the blog post: شبكة (xn--ngbc5azd) — Arabic for "web/network" онлайн (xn--80asehdb) — Cyrillic for &quot
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by racbart 13y ago
At today's Apple, both software and hardware are means to sell 3rd party software. They earn so much on their ecosystem that it's more profitable to give OS updates for free and provide more unified and less fragmented ecosystem t
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by racbart 13y ago
This actually looks shady. If you're not going to charge me, then why the hell do you want my CC number?
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by racbart 13y ago
You are correct and I'm not saying that I described the Holy Grail of detecting porn in a single paragraph. I'm just pointing to another direction. No solution to a very complex problem could be one-dimensional. Combining several
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by racbart 13y ago
Wouldn't testing for skin colors produce far too many false positives to be useful? All these beach photos, fashion lingerie photos, even close portraits. And how about half of music stars these days who seem to try to never get caught
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by racbart 13y ago
So one day you get an email that you got $100 and all you need to do as a recipient is to click on a link and enter your full credit card details? Sounds like a phishing paradise.
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by racbart 13y ago
What happens when your private key is compromised? Someone is able to read all your messages and send messages impersonating you and you can't stop that, as the address is a hash of the public key which derives from the private key. Yo
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by racbart 13y ago
Regardless of what you use the level for, 2.7 degree matters a lot! I can detect something being off by 45 degree using my bare eyes. It's values like 2.7 degree which require to use a level. 2.7 degree off means that if you hang a one
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by racbart 13y ago
If he had a $1m car and the FBI wanted to seize it, would it legitimize cars as a currency?
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by racbart 13y ago
With this reasoning, one should never consider BBC as objective as it's owned by the British government. Yet it has been perceived for years by many as one of the most objective and thorough TV station worldwide.
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by racbart 13y ago
Except that before we reached some kind of protection coming from governments, we lived through thousands of years where governments, kings and lords of any kinds were the masters of life and death of ordinary citizens. Would we have such k
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by racbart 13y ago
“According to his calculation, one such satellite is able to supply a third of total energy needed by humans.” I'm just commenting on what they wrote and I see nothing about a farm of satellites in the article. Perhaps the original sou
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by racbart 13y ago
Taking aside feasibility of this, having a single source of power delivering 33% of world's energy is a terrible idea. Especially if it would not be quick to fix or replace if it'd had been completely destroyed. Such a single poin
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by racbart 13y ago
Wouldn't work with most drivers that I know, who usually keep their phones in holders mounted to the center console or front window.
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by racbart 13y ago
Taking aside misunderstanding of the issue by most people commenting in the article what the judge said (“that a person sending text messages has a duty not to text someone who is driving if the texter knows”). Texting the driver is actuall
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by racbart 13y ago
Just tell that you run a business. Most people who you don't want to be confused with (who actually don't do much and are business wannabes) wouldn't tell that about themselves. They “are entrepreneurs” in state of their mind
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by racbart 13y ago
Well just let me know when you implement a restore feature.
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by racbart 13y ago
This is 2013, not 2003 anymore. Today throwing 100 GB of online storage at people won't cause “yay, I need to claim that and upload everything I have” but “who are these people who want to store 100 GB of my data” and then a dozen ques
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by racbart 13y ago
It's really a matter of personal preference - all of three popular preprocessors (including Stylus) do their job well. Here you'll find more comprehensive comparison between the three of them: http://net.tutsplus.com&#x
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by racbart 13y ago
There's no tour or screenshots so I'm judging by the cover. How is this different from http://doodle.com/ ?
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by racbart 13y ago
This is wider than HN-related only. Some non-tech bloggers do this as well (disallow comments). My understanding is that they try to move discussion from private space - which is their own website - to public space, which are all the social

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