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I like the slider puzzle Mercury built into their 404 page: https://mercury.com/404 My high score today is 33.

> is having me click on an email going to make it more secure? We implemented this at Mercury recently to stop phishing attacks, and I believe Coinbase implemented it for the same …

FWIW this is configurable. Edit `browser.tabs.tabMinWidth` in about:config

I've been using DDG for around six months now, largely because I love their keyboard shortcuts. Weirdly there doesn't seem to be a shortcut to help insert bang commands. I've been …

In a related move, Facebook disabled embedded videos from youtube/vimeo/etc last month. https://vimeo.com/forums/help/topic:291071 https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/196353579725…

This has come up a few times, but I liked ribbonfarm's take on the same topic. http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/09/how-to-take-a-walk/ hn discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/…

> Update: On a more detailed examination of those two states, I’m convinced the contrast here is due to differences in the sizes of the blocks. North Dakota’s blocks are more consi…

Mine has phrase-length, plus some highlighting to help keep your place in the text. http://qwerjk.com/force-feed

First, it looks like this scheme is broken due to cpu constraints. However... It had looked more like the encrypted bloom filter was intended to prevent the client from obtaining t…

Good point. Now I understand why they were suggesting bucketing. I came up with this method for maintaining privacy while retrieving installed apps (to give app recommendations). S…

What about this? 1) Client uploads a bloom filter with all contacts on phone 2) Server responds with a bloom filter with all registered contacts that match the client's bloom filte…

First, yes, this is really cool. However, it's even worse than you think. It's making a lot of references to minified/obfuscated names. Things like $('.nH.hx'). When I was working …

It's not enough to find 33 independent questions that evenly split the world's population. An optimal, though inelegant solution to that goal might look something like this: "Is th…

Interesting. I was going to complain, as I thought "probably" meant the probability of occurrence was greater than 50%.. That doesn't seem to be the case. Probably: almost certainl…

Sorry I don't have anything more constructive to say, but you have Europe and Asia reversed. 5:00 PT is midnight UTC, so Europe is more likely to have just gone to bed.

I don't know if intrinsic value is the right term, but I've been thinking along the same line. A Bitcoin is essentially a tradable hashcash, which has direct value in spam filterin…

It's not just about confidence. If the price is being driven by new speculative investment (ie, a bubble), the price should stagnate as fewer speculators join the pool. If the pric…

Thanks to $elemMatch and automatic parameter parsing, this vulnerability is easier to exploit than it would seem. In rails, both of these are usually considered safe: MysqlCollecti…

If you've had good luck with RSVP on your phone, I built a RSVP bookmarklette[1] a while back for reading articles on the web. I never had much luck reading with it, but it might b…

"...indeed, we were capable of inducing a complete compound eye on an antenna, on a wing, or on a leg... We actually showed, later, that the fruit flies can see with these eyes." W…

Someone should release a tool to scrape craigslist and post to padlister. Wouldn't craigslist have to counter-scrape and file a DMCA takedown notice for each listing?