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I stopped visiting sites with image recognition reCAPTCHAs. It has to be one of the worst UX patterns ever devised. It's dirt cheap to automate them away so it doesn't really stop …

According to first vice-president of the European Commission, citing some internal report from the Frontex (EU border agency), 60% are economic migrants. https://www.irishtimes.com…

"More than half of those fleeing to Europe from the Middle East and Africa are economic migrants and not asylum seekers fleeing the horrors of war in Iraq or Syria, according to fi…

Outstanding documentary. Thanks.

Read again: most of those countries . Now make a list of countries that had its forces on the eastern front, and the list of the ones that didn't. Still Bizarro World? Not that fac…

We also seem to forget that most of those countries were part of Hitler's forces that attacked the Soviet Union a few years before that. Small example would be Hungary that sent ~5…

If you're Firefox user go to 'about:config' and set 'media.autoplay.enabled' to false

You're right. That may ruin it for some. It differs a lot from country to country, I guess. Where I'm at the moment there is no import tax on <150 EUR items, and handling is 1 EUR.…

You can get those Rockchip HDMI sticks for $50 on aliexpress, shipping included (RK3288 ones support 4K). They usually ship with Android 4.4 these days. But for $70-$80 you can get…

Well at least it's not the Q4 2016 :) https://xkcd.com/678/

It's even better idea to boycott it. Embrace-extend-extinguish may work for a big player but it will harm everyone else. We've been there before.

Can we please stop pretending that this has anything to do with loading pages faster? Stop breaking the web. It's stupid. You can try to just shove the ads down someone's throat bu…

Web for the win!

Nothing destroyed the quality of web content as much as AdSense did. So many websites turned into "made for AdSense" and started doing stupid things that actually severely reduce t…

Sounds like racketeering :)

It kinda depends. You'd have to test it yourself. Here's CloudFlare's home page accessed from Europe a few moments ago, via 3G dongle. http://s21.postimg.org/8gn6f7i2f/cloudflare_c…

DIKW Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid Now your turn. What's the name of the book? :)

Dismantling Russian Typhoon class submarine (47 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine

Not sure if this applies to the maps in question, but legal rights (and obligations) are handed down to successor country/countries. International treaties, debts and everything. E…

There was a beautiful thought yesterday somewhere on HN, on a completely unrelated subject. Forgive me for not remembering the author, or the thread. I was half drank :) Every gene…

Why not $route = new Route($pattern, $recursive = true);

Best of luck, but is there any danger for you to get in legal trouble with Namecheap, eBay, SitePoint, etc?

I feel for you, but shady market, no buyer screening, plain text passwords, doxxing, ... not a lot of trust there. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.…

Given the stated accuracy and such a low base rate it looks like it would yield ten times more false positives than true positives. To eliminate some of the trolls you effectively …

You forgot to add pedophilia, racism, terrorism, and drugs to that list. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world speak English as their second, third or fourth language. …