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by stevenh 11y ago
For anyone unable to load the page: https://archive.is/ybHy7
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by stevenh 11y ago
Now would be a good time for Apple to spread word of this disaster far and wide and to offer a free iPhone to anyone who brings in an Android phone for recycling.
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by stevenh 11y ago
This submission reached third place on the front page before it was removed. I'd be interested to see whether certain user names and/or anonymized hashes of IPs always upvote atlasobscura articles. I don't understand why site
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by stevenh 11y ago
Where can we read the confessions he's responding to?
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by stevenh 11y ago
Replacing the site with a takedown image seems almost comically stupid. Why announce it to anyone? Why not keep the site running indefinitely under your own control to track and catch the people who continue to use it?
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by stevenh 11y ago
These need to be disabled by default, and the steps you list should be taken by people who want to enable them. If a masochistic user wants to navigate the labyrinth of dark patterns meant to confuse them into not understanding that the &qu
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by stevenh 11y ago
You're right, I misinterpreted the timeline there.
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by stevenh 11y ago
Remote code execution exploits were found in Firefox at least once per month during the first half of 2015. The only reason we didn't hear about these cataclysmic exploits is because it wasn't Flash. January 20, 2015: https:&#x2F
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by stevenh 11y ago
The Flash plugin update fixing the RCE bugs is scheduled to be released tomorrow by Adobe, after which the block will be lifted.
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by stevenh 11y ago
Why is everyone so obsessed with bashing Flash? Is it just because a RCE exploit is found once in awhile? Let's compare Adobe's diligence of patching to another company's. How about Mozilla? Adobe usually patches a RCE exploi
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by stevenh 11y ago
My Macbook kernel panics and force-reboots itself because of a bug in some newer Firefox browser feature(s) which are used by a JS-based GBA emulator which was trending on HN yesterday. I can consistently duplicate the kernel panic by resiz
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by stevenh 11y ago
Firefox user on OS X reporting in. Super Mario Advance 4 caused a kernel panic within 60 seconds and force-rebooted my laptop. I was resizing the window while the emulation was taking place which may have been a factor.
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0-day Adobe Flash remote code execution exploit. No patch is available(krebsonsecurity.com)
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by stevenh 11y ago
Facebook not only added native video support, but their news feed algorithm blocks YouTube links in favor of native videos all of the time. They created the freebooting problem themselves on purpose to keep people (and ad revenue) locked in
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by stevenh 11y ago
I wish Google would start fighting dirty. Want to access Facebook mobile? Hope you have an iPhone, because Google pushed a mandatory update last night which banned Facebook from all Android devices. Want to access Facebook through Chrome? S
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by stevenh 11y ago
Are you folks sure anything is being generated on the fly here? I get a pre-generated version that is exactly the same every time I load the page. I'd like to see some sort of explanation of how the neural network knew how to produce u
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by stevenh 11y ago
That page is showcasing examples of Content-Aware Fill in Photoshop. If you have a copy, then it's very easy to try yourself. Edit -> Fill, then select "Content-Aware". http://i.lightimg.com/d2112.jpg
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by stevenh 11y ago
Now I get this error in the console as soon as the page loads in each browser I try: [Error] ReferenceError: Can't find variable: css generateMaze (mazeEventHandling.js, line 30)
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by stevenh 11y ago
Even if they had said it all along in their FAQ, it's still infuriatingly disingenuous for someone to act as if anyone ever browses to Hola's site and reads their FAQ either before or after installing the Hola malware extension. N
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by stevenh 11y ago
FYI, it has the exact same issue on Safari on OS X.
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by stevenh 11y ago
Everything I uploaded resulted in a ridiculously inaccurate response. Here is a much better example of this type of classification engine: http://www.clarifai.com/#demo
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by stevenh 11y ago
I'm not sure which problems you are referring to, but one problem made worse by two of the sites he is involved with is freebooting. Sites like Facebook and Imgur profit off of the value of original content created by third parties in
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by stevenh 11y ago
How much would the melody of any given song played on piano need to be modified before it would no longer be legally considered a cover?
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by stevenh 12y ago
While interesting, I'm not sure how I feel about him ending the article with solid advice for criminals on how to avoid getting caught.
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by stevenh 12y ago
I've noticed a strange habit in web journalism lately. If the author doesn't like something that's popular, they'll falsely claim it's on the verge of death and that nobody has willingly associated with it for month
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by stevenh 12y ago
I bet the sky would look very different to them, too. If they did evolve eyes at all, it would probably only be in order to detect thermal radiation from other life forms on the planet; so infrared, microwave, and/or radio frequencies,
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by stevenh 12y ago
I've created a few Chrome extensions, and I constantly get bombarded with aggressive emails practically demanding that I accept financial compensation in exchange for adding whatever sketchy javascript snippet they want me to add. Some
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by stevenh 12y ago
I don't care about the Bitcoin argument either way, but I'm annoyed by how you keep bringing up its use of electricity. There are over 877,500 bank branches in the world, each consuming a nontrivial amount of electricity every day
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by stevenh 12y ago
Which laws would they be violating by announcing they were attacked by China?
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by stevenh 12y ago
I feel Google goes above and beyond to financially compensate content creators, at least as far as YouTube is concerned. Google even automatically detects duplicated content in other people's YouTube videos so that true creators can mo

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