taopao

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by taopao 13y ago
If this approach became popular enough, it seems like this method could be easily gamed via outsourcing.
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by taopao 13y ago
The author acknowledged ITT that the site probably did serve malware. The right thing was done IMO. Wouldn't it be worse if the OP was blamed for infecting his users? "Probably both sites were infected at some point. Again, I neve
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by taopao 13y ago
452 Blocked for reasons which may or may not be legal but I probably shouldn't say either way
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by taopao 13y ago
Markdown parser turning your emphasis into <strong>
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by taopao 13y ago
Maybe you should spend a few minutes on Google (or Bing) assessing the state of WinRT before making prognostications. Spoiler alert: WinRT is completely DOA.
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by taopao 13y ago
but... that one-liner makes my rails.node.js.io framework so beautiful and simple...
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by taopao 13y ago
Can't have a 2013 HN discussion thread without "Snowden" or "Google Reader". It's a machine-verifiable stamp of authenticity.
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by taopao 13y ago
Rabble rabble Reader rabble rabble! Oh wait, 'tis Yahoo. crickets
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by taopao 13y ago
Watch for their pivot when they find out they're giving everybody scurvy!
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by taopao 13y ago
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/08/inside-story-of-moto-...
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by taopao 13y ago
Why?
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by taopao 13y ago
Android has exponential backoff for retries, which would foil this attack, no?
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by taopao 13y ago
Time, and the Ribbon, and Metro...
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by taopao 13y ago
No big loss, since Tumblr search is TERRIBLE. As are most features - the service feels like a creaky pile of hacks for viewers and publishers alike. A Tumblr directory/web crawler would be really great.
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by taopao 13y ago
DRM isn't possible without cooperation with a "trusted" component. If the decoding is happening in an environment that is available for introspection (e.g. Javascript runtime) then you can trivially tee the decoded bits after
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by taopao 13y ago
DDG uses Bing, Bing honors takedowns, ergo DDG is "tampered".
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by taopao 13y ago
So can I buy hiybbprqag on Amazon now?
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by taopao 13y ago
No, keep reading. It is more targeted than that. It sniffs the results of your Google searches , and sends the result over HTTP (not HTTPS) to Alexa. (See "It reports contents of certain websites you visit to Alexa") It knows you
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by taopao 13y ago
Amazon owns Alexa, just to make that clear.
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by taopao 13y ago
HDMI-CEC is probably the more appropriate interface for something like this.
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by taopao 13y ago
WHY are they keeping Lisa Brummel? MS' HR department is notoriously bad at recruitment and performance management. It's rotten at the core. I'm very disappointed that they didn't use this opportunity to nip the problem
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by taopao 13y ago
Cue the usual HN wailing and gnashing of teeth that accompanies project cancellations: Yahoo! Axis (June 28, 2013) Yahoo! Browser Plus (June 28, 2013) Citizen Sports (June 28, 2013) Yahoo! WebPlayer (June 30, 2013) FoxyTunes (July 1, 2013)
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by taopao 13y ago
Time travelers from the year 1997. Not a big demo.
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by taopao 13y ago
I welcome a return to mass market creativity instead of paint-by-number UGC linked to real names.
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by taopao 13y ago
The content is distracting, which kind of defeats the point of Lorem Ipsum.
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by taopao 13y ago
Your computer and phone are big balls of blind faith in software/firmware.
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by taopao 13y ago
Hacker News has now become Reddit.
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by taopao 13y ago
Where'd you get that bit of FUD from? They wouldn't ever do that, the console would be inaccessible to deaf/mutes.
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Yahoo to free up old usernames after a year of inactivity(engadget.com)
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by taopao 13y ago
It's like a million hipsters cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I will pour out some PBR for good ol' .io.

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