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by relix 13y ago
Sorry, what you're talking about is a perpetual motion machine, which the laws of thermodynamics forbid. The AC will just have to work harder to get the extra heat added by the thermoelectric device back out, no free energy here.
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by relix 13y ago
The article is titled "I used ... and switched back" not, "why you shouldn't use DDG". It's by definition subjective, and if this person found better results 99% of the time, then that's a good reason to s
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by relix 13y ago
That was how I was planning on doing it at first, indeed! But after giving it some thought that still doesn't make sense. Basically if you sign in using Facebook connect, your accounts are linked, and the third party site should be tho
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by relix 13y ago
Because else logging out is meaningless - just pressing the "connect with facebook" button again would instantly the user back in, without asking for confirmation or a password. Hardly secure.
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by relix 13y ago
Actually, the issue is that the site in question implemented it wrongly, and the users have the correct mental model. On my site, the users in red would actually be correct, i.e. logging out of my site would log you out of Facebook. This is
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by relix 13y ago
The CSRF attacker cannot set a cookie for the domain of the target site, it can only set the token on the request itself, which will most likely be not equivalent to the cookie token.
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Landsat 7 scan line corrector failure(en.wikipedia.org)
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by relix 13y ago
No, on top of that, it's probable that a lot of these people were already living in Tallinn, yet registered elsewhere, or are still living in a nearby city, and just registered with a relative/friend with an address in Tallinn. I&
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by relix 13y ago
I live in a city where this has recently been implemented. In Tallinn, population 400K, public transportation is free since January 2013, for all residents (not tourists or people living in other cities). You need to have a valid ID and a v
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by relix 13y ago
Previous HN thread on this, which was not quite as popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5794632
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by relix 13y ago
Another day, another "proof" that Ruby is slower than X, which surprises exactly no one. The interesting thing here though is that considering the trivial amount of work to be done, Ruby shouldn't be that slow. I'd like
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by relix 13y ago
It's a common joke that Ruby is designed to make it as hard as possible for parsers. For the code samples going forward, keep in mind that in ruby you don't need a literal return statement to return a value from a method. Just wha
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by relix 13y ago
Yep, just about, although if you look closely, the `any` in the original code is not a symbol, but is actually a variable or a method (could be either, we can't know from the sample). Also, the return in that block would cause an excep
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by relix 13y ago
I'm a professional ruby programmer and your comments opened my eyes. If you don't know what's going on, then that does look like really icky code. First off, parenthesis in ruby are optional. So calling a method can be done w
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by relix 13y ago
Ah I was probably confused with that, then. I guess my statement is still technically correct, but I did mean last year's WWDC event.
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by relix 13y ago
Since last year, you mean? Edit: Thanks smackfu - apparently last year's WWDC event was not streamed, but their October special event was, which got me confused.
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by relix 13y ago
The doctor's check up might cost $200. I pay $60 a year for my vitamins.
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by relix 13y ago
Might be the Vitamin B, anecdotally I've heard some people getting headaches from high doses of it.
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by relix 13y ago
I can give you my reason: I take supplements because I'm positive I'm not getting 100% of my necessary vitamins from my diet/sunlight. Also because on some days I might need more, and on others less, so I make sure that I tak
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by relix 13y ago
Nothing, but it becomes quite expensive.
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by relix 13y ago
The trials show vitamins don't help cancer patients. They also show that OD-level supplementation of vitamins that are hard on the liver (vitamin A) increase mortality in cancer patients. That last part shouldn't surprise anyone.
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by relix 13y ago
And importantly, a lot of countries do have laws against mega doses, causing pills with more than 150% of RDA to be illegal, making it really hard to get a decent supplementation, especially during winter.
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by relix 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem#Ad_hominem "Conflict of Interest: Where a source seeks to convince by a claim of authority or by personal observation, identification of conflicts of interest are not ad ho
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by relix 13y ago
I'm just adding to the body of facts here. There's an almost identical article by him in the Guardian linked below which contains a plug to his book. It feels a lot like a marketing campaign for his book which will be released nex
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by relix 13y ago
First of all, the author sells a book about vitamins being bad, so he's probably not being objective about it. I'm also biased in favor of taking daily supplements, because I take daily supplements and don't want to feel like
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by relix 13y ago
What would've been really cool if he had weighed it with a very accurate scale. If I remember my chemistry correctly, it shouldn't have changed a bit, and would've been proof of it's isolation.
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by relix 13y ago
Actually, the Date content header is quite well defined in HTTP/1.1 [0], and should not be manipulated nilly-willy by intermediates. If you're having problems with proxies caching your requests, even if you're asking non-cached content [1],
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by relix 13y ago
If you want that, you can just remove the caching, and it'll always accurately reflect the server time. However who changes their local clock? I think we could definitely get away with caching it for 7 days. Same thing with DST (I even ment
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by relix 13y ago
Here ya go mate, caching, fallback, all in a 15 lines of javascript. If you want to extract jquery out of there that should be easy enough. No need for extra servers, the OPs guys don't even need to know it's there. Take an extra performanc
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by relix 13y ago
The point is that this could be solved by a solution that is completely external to their current infrastructure, meaning they don't even have to mess with any integration or legacy code. Agile in this case seems perfectly suitable because

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