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by rb2k_ 14y ago
My Master's degree project was a webcrawler. If you're already reading this, the thesis[0] might be a somewhat entertaining read. I had a bit different constraints (only hitting frontpage, cms/webserver/... fingerprinting, backend has to be
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
You could just enter the selector in the top right search box in the elements tab. I just noticed that Chrom seems to have updated, it works again: https://skitch.com/marc.seeger/em6tu/hacker-news-add-comment
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
It's a long shot, but worth a try: I loved using Safari's inspector for for trying out CSS selectors. It seems that both for Chrome and Safari, only searching for xpath seems to still work. Am I missing something or did that really get remo
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I think that's a problem in academia in general.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Interestingly, if you sign up using a US Apple ID, there doesn't seem to be any additional Geo-IP filtering in place currently. I was able to watch an episode from Germany without a VPN/DNS solution.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
On twitter, he actually points to the Arstechnica subscription (5$) which will give you the review in pdf/epub/mobi At least he seems to be fine either way.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Inflation and the art market? If a painting was valued 1 million dollars 100 years ago, it would probably be worth a bit more in pure numbers today. (I'm really just guessing here)
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
exactly the same for me
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Your diet sounds like a lot of the 'low carb' ones. I personally try to eat a paleo/keto-ish diet which mainly consists of eggs, meat, veggies and a bit of fruit and nuts. In general anything that doesn't contain sugars or things that get m
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Is there a simple and free service that sends me an email once my address shows up in one of the various dumps that leak to the net these days?
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I have it in the back of my head that there is a way for the site to get a small percentage of the revenue if they 'properly' integrate it. At least I think Instacast, the iOS podcasting client, used that feature.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
They could just partner with [0]flattr, that way I could also subscribe to my favorite libraries. [0] http://flattr.com
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
According to Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat... : > The incarceration rate in the United States of America is the highest in the world. As of 2009, the incarceration rate was 743 per 100,000 of
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Oh, I didn't mean to imply that. I just wanted to point out that trying to fix this bug 'up front' might be a timesink. I think for conferences, you should try to optimize the 'details' once you're at a point that your product could 'ship'
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I think this is called "Straw Man": http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/straw-man.html
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
I really hope it's not premature optimization. I'd rather see a good speaker lineup as a first priority and a diverse lineup coming second. I really don't care WHO presents, as long as the talk is good. I'd really hate to have to sit thro
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
The Xbox 360 was one of the worst user interfaces I've used in a long time. They forced me to register an account and enter information in about 20 text fields using my xbox controller before I could do anything with the device. After being
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
As far as I see the only line with selectors is: > return [ $($('h2 a')[0]).attr('title'), $($('h2 a')[1]).attr('title') ]; which are 2 css selectors and picking an element. That is pretty much covered by all of the available http parse
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
When you say 'rely on jQuery', I think it would be more precise to say that it relies on CSS selectors. Most libraries will actually provide you a way to access an HTML parse tree in that way. I guess phantomjs is a good a tool as any, but
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Isn't coloring supposed to train fine motor skills in children? Just using a 'tap and fill' functionality takes that completely away from them :(
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Ohhh, I just didn't get the UI! I just saw the netflix logo on the right and the text about "Netflix Instant not found" above it. So my brain turned this into "There are two sources for this and both aren't available".
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
1. Click 'top rated' 2. Click first movie 3. "iTunes link not found. Netflix Instant not found." yeah... I think that's where we have the problem :( p.s. also: nobody outside the US will be able to use this. As opposed to the competitor :(
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Something that also happens often is that Linux has problems sending the hard drive to sleep properly and you end up with a "I'll stop and start it 3 times a minute" scenario which is able to wreck a HDD pretty quickly compared to normal us
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
At least the beta supposedly just points you at the app store for public transport in Boston. (haven't tried this myself, asked a friend of mine who installed the beta)
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Is the "easily detected" part really a problem? The idea isn't to try security by obscurity. The main advantage is that it would still keep people from using precomputed rainbow tables and slow down brute force attacks with a minimum of add
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
It also was conventional wisdom that banks were too big to fail ;) Are there any actual arguments against using this as an 'easy' fix to the precomputed rainbow tables scenario? Multiple rounds of a cipher seem to be a relatively common ope
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Even if you run a bad codebase that just uses unsalted MD5 and you don't want to add a new crypto algorithm: Couldn't you just run your whole database through X more rounds of MD5 and do the same in your authentication function? That way, s
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
If people are "distracted" by their cellphone during your presentation, the problem might not be the cellphone...
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Thanks, I love duplicity from a technical standpoint, but for some reason, I'd like to have a native OSX UI and the ability to access my data from my iOS device while on the go.
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by rb2k_ 14y ago
Seeing as you build your own 'filesystem' on top of a simple key/value interface, I think advancing the backend support might be good 'low hanging fruit'. It doesn't even have to be something as 'cloudy' as rackspace, support for something

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