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by smitop 6y ago
When 5 rounds up, you can easily implement rounding as floor(x + 0.5).
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SYN cookies ate my dog – breaking TCP on Linux (2018)(kognitio.com)
130 points by smitop 6y ago|37 comments
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by smitop 7y ago
Their Terms of Service ( https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... ) say: One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account
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by smitop 7y ago
Just tested this, I was able to create an account without a phone number. I think it doesn't require a phone number if Botguard is highly confident you aren't a bot. (it does recommend adding a phone number for 2FA though) Also, I
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by smitop 7y ago
> If you wish to make more than 1k calls per second or 1m calls per month, you must use reCAPTCHA Enterprise or fill out this form and wait for an exception approval. According to https://developers.google.com/recaptcha&#
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by smitop 7y ago
You can bypass hard HSTS errors in Chrome by typing in "thisisunsafe". There is no textbox to type it into, you have the press the letters on your keyboard blindly.
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by smitop 7y ago
It is still possible for websites to access indexedDB by using Web Workers: new Worker("data:application/javascript,console.log('indexedDB: ', indexedDB)") This works since userscripts only run in top-level w
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by smitop 7y ago
They used to be a reseller, but in early 2018 they completely moved off of Enom and registered domains directly: http://domainincite.com/22467-namecheap-to-bring-millions-of...
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by smitop 7y ago
On a related note, if you start an SMS with "!", then the leading exclamation point will be stripped, and a delivery confirmation SMS will automatically be sent (not sure if it's from the mobile network or the receiving phone
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by smitop 7y ago
It is still possible to determine what browser caused an exception. The "sec-ch-ua" header is used by Chrome (but only to HTTPS websites) to send the "real" user agent, which for me is "Google Chrome 79" (and I
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by smitop 7y ago
Since GH URLs are github.com/<name>, you also can't register usernames like @login, since that would cause a conflict. However, @case-studies and @customer-stories both are content pages (well /case-studies redirects to
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by smitop 7y ago
On most lyric search results, Google cites LyricFind as the source: https://www.lyricfind.com
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by smitop 7y ago
It doesn't appear they have a CLA. The old license was BSD 3-clause, which states: > 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. > 2. Redistribut
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by smitop 7y ago
For those interested, the demo instance is at https://sandbox.ebay.com/ The message at the top says "eBay and PayPal will be separate companies soon", even though they became seperate companies 4 years ago.
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by smitop 7y ago
The recent Canada federal election used paper ballots (all of them have), and those attacks are mostly preventable. Ballots are counted by two people from Elections Canada, and all candidates can watch. The match up the number of ballots wi
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by smitop 7y ago
The Canadian Human Rights Act states: > Every person who is an employee has a right to freedom from harassment in the workplace because of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression by his or her employer or agent of t
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by smitop 7y ago
Amusement ride tickets have inherient utility: you can redeem them for a ride. What utility can you get from BAT, other than selling it?
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by smitop 7y ago
> the repo "network" This is actually an optimization done by GitHub. It would take up a lot of space if GitHub copied the entire repo every time someone forked it, so they keep all the commits in the original repo. As a side
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by smitop 7y ago
Probably the upcoming Area 51 raid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51,_They_Can%27t_...
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by smitop 7y ago
When I read the headline I assumed it meant that GitHub was hiring an employee named Semmle, which confused me until I realized Semmle was a business.
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by smitop 7y ago
Stripe Issuing lets you specify a webhook can approve/decline transactions [1], so you could use that to only approve transactions at a certain movie theater. [1] https://stripe.com/docs/issuing/authorizations
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by smitop 7y ago
> couldn't find nofollows on either HN or Reddit links HN nofollows job ads and posts under ~10 points (it's 5 in the opensource code, but it seems HN has been modified there). Old reddit has rel="nofollow" but then
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by smitop 7y ago
The ipfs.io is just a web-based way to access IPFS, called a gateway. There are a bunch of different gateways. In addition, you can run an IPFS node locally, and then as long as just one node holds the content you're looking for you ar
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by smitop 7y ago
Fixed, thanks!
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Show HN: Square Game(smitop.com)
60 points by smitop 7y ago|30 comments
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by smitop 7y ago
The Metanet protocol isn't Bitcoin SV specific. Any immutable datastore could serve as the backend for a Metanet.
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'The' Ohio State University Wants to Trademark the Word 'The'(nbcnews.com)
2 points by smitop 7y ago|0 comments
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by smitop 7y ago
This is because it's illegal to require a Canadian to provide their SIN, unless the use is on the list of exceptions [1]. One can still ask a Canadian for their SIN for reasons not on that list, but it is illegal to refuse service for
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by smitop 7y ago
Couldn't a bad actor abuse liveTr() and call it with a ton of random strings to make me pay to translate a ton of garbage data?
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by smitop 7y ago
That wouldn't comply with the license terms, which require the first two paragraphs (The above copyright notice and this permission notice) to be included in copies. LibreJS tags don't include that.

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