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by signalsmith 9y ago
There was a case in 2012 where someone had a DNR tattoo as a joke after losing in poker. It was published in a medical journal: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-012-2059-... The doctors in this case
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by signalsmith 9y ago
I've submitted a comment on the site but I'll post it here as well: I think this looks neat. However, last time I implemented something like this, I ran across a few elements/attributes that didn't behave in the simple
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by signalsmith 12y ago
The level-4 modifiers are actually useful - I don't see their inclusion as a failure of a standard. Ambiguity was going to be possible either way - here's a Level 2 example: /{+a}/{+b} -> "&#x2
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by signalsmith 12y ago
Um - shouldn't this have the [2012] tag for historical posts? I mean, I love URI templates. They're neat, they're reversible, but they're not exactly new, right?
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by signalsmith 12y ago
I was told a story by a friend who works for a CDN (big one that handles lots of online video): "Hey - look at this, I think someone's trying to DDOS us." > "A hundred thousand requests a second? Neat - is it affecti
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Show HN: Tamper-proof web-apps using Data URLs(geraintluff.bitbucket.org)
5 points by signalsmith 12y ago|1 comments
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by signalsmith 12y ago
As others have mentioned, the JS for the crypto is fetched from the server every time, which is a weak spot because the server could give you duff crypto code. I've looked at similar things before, and I became very interested in Data
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by signalsmith 12y ago
This isn't a technological change - they're just publicly stating that members of the community are being harassed (especially women), and that's not OK. So it's not de-anonymisation, it's calling out bad behaviour
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by signalsmith 12y ago
I can't +1 this enough.
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by signalsmith 12y ago
As a mathematician, that article was a little embarrassing to wade through. While there are valid criticisms of the way statistics are sometimes misused in science, pretty much every one of them comes from lack of understanding about how st