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> You can try an Ajax request or loading a picture over SSL and then redirect with JS if it doesn't fail. Neat idea, but wouldn't this still be exposed to ISP-level attacks? Since …

For one, GitHub and DigitalOcean both had Series A investments led by the same partner at Andreessen Horowitz. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/digitalocean/investo... https…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surgical_stainless_steel > There is no formal definition on what constitutes a "surgical stainless steel", so product manufacturers and distributors a…

A bit misleading. The maintainers have been working on large experimental features like a self-hosted "signaling server" which helps sync notes without storing any note data on it,…

How is expiration of files achieved with IPFS? I thought files stored on IPFS were available forever. If my impression was correct, then Firefox Send supports different use cases t…

Not really. "Introduced a bug" is fairly common (just do a Google search and see), and clearly does not suggest intention.

The work vs. business question is simpler than that. Business = working in US for a foreign company. Work = working in US for a US company. Presumably Basecamp has set up business …

Sounds like dehydration. Do you always drink enough water before and after exercise sessions?

Firefox Test Pilot [1] is a more recent approach to testing new UI in Firefox. It's entirely extension based. I think this is a smart approach because it lets Mozilla quickly test …

Interesting. I wonder how many self-driving car researchers incorporate car crash videos into their AI (anti-)learning datasets?

IMO the simple reality is they need to diversify their income sources to avoid putting all their eggs in one basket, and they decided Pocket makes sense. I'm still a huge Mozilla f…

That much is unclear. http://www.ghacks.net/2015/12/05/mozilla-has-a-revenue-share...

> by visiting one of the vulnerable sites repeatedly I mean, how could CloudFlare, or anyone, possibly differentiate this from normal scraping/polling/ manual F5 refresh behavior? …

> 2. I agree $60,000 is a very low minimum. But how is $130,000 reasonable? Even in this industry that's a significant salary. The current administration is businesspeople. They kn…

You're misinterpreting cjensen's comments. This is Hacker News, where people like to use an engineering mindset to find smaller faults in arguments, even when they may agree with t…

Come on, HN. How can nobody be mentioning some of the much cooler stuff available on Google Cloud? https://cloud.google.com/products/machine-learning/ It's a mistake to just compar…

> There is also one sure-fire way to increase telomere length : get cancer. This badly needs a source. This article from 2013 [1] says the opposite, that shorter telomeres are asso…

archive.org's first scrape of the article was January 14, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www2.deloitte.com/glob...

Apache-2.0 They've added https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js/blob/c26cae7ee956c399...

Yes, lazy loading is a good use case. Echo.js ( https://github.com/toddmotto/echo ) is another small no-dependency library (1.89 KB minified), which detects elements appearing on s…

Relevant discussion about YC-funded "InstallMonetizer" from 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5092711