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GaiusCoffeeon Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur

I have always wondered how "hosting" sites deal with malicious actors, like sharing of copywritten stuff (like movies), xxx stuff or worse (cp).

Is there content moderation at the backend of Horizon?

GaiusCoffeeon The Race for a Zika Vaccine

Mosquitoes are the main food source of some animals, which leads them to die out. Then those animals are the food source of other animals, etc. etc..

Also, the male mosquitoes also pollenate some plants and flowers, which also negatively affects the ecosystem- only the females bite.

GaiusCoffeeon Mysterious mutants: 13 masked people should have devastating diseases but don’t

I think I watched a Bayes Probability vid on Youtube that basically says that 13 out of the 600,000 is most probably false results..

GaiusCoffeeon State of Bootstrap 4 vs. Foundation

Link is down for me: Error establishing a database connection.

* http://www.isup.me/http://dannyherran.com/2016/03/state-of-a...

GaiusCoffeeon Lwan, a high-performance web server with Lua support

Lwan, a backronym for "Lwan Will Annihilate Node.js". Cheeky.

GaiusCoffeeon LyX – The Document Processor

As a layperson, why would I use this rather than just open MS Word? Is there any benefit for me, considering I'm not writing Math?

GaiusCoffeeon FBI Returns Seized Devices to EFF Client

Is the EFF Client Chris Roberts, the game developer of Star Citizen?

GaiusCoffeeon Clef's company handbook

Damn it, I thought it's for Dr. Clef of The Foundation :(

GaiusCoffeeon Agloe, New York

What do you mean? I went on Street View and there is clearly a body of water there..

https://www.google.com/maps/@30.384544,-97.7351451,3a,75y,10...

GaiusCoffeeon JSONlite – A self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, JSON document store

Shared Preferences* works for small data.

*http://developer.android.com/training/basics/data-storage/sh...

GaiusCoffeeon The Pixel Factory

Amazing! :D Learned a lot about pixels

GaiusCoffeeon Fuzzysearch: Tiny, fast fuzzy searching for JavaScript

This JS "library" contains one function:

> function fuzzysearch(r,e){var n=e.length,t=r.length;if(t>n)return!1;if(t===n)return r===e;r:for(var f=0,u=0;t>f;f++){for(var a=r.charCodeAt(f);n>u;)if(e.charCodeAt(u++)===a)continue r;return!1}return!0}

I mean.. come on, guys. This is getting absurd..

GaiusCoffeeon The random number generator of DOOM

I hope I don't sound too dumb, but how does it work, exactly? It doesn't look random to me, more like an unordered (but repeating) sequence..

GaiusCoffeeon Squib: A Ruby DSL for prototyping card and board games

Looks cool. I don't know ruby though.. :(

GaiusCoffeeon HTML is done

What? No it's not. Do you know how hard life is for the blind? :/

GaiusCoffeeon Google Font Effects

Cool.

GaiusCoffeeon Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech on Encryption, Privacy

On-premise vs. Cloud?

GaiusCoffeeon World without end

“So, annoyingly, by doing it wrong you get a nicer effect,”

Realism vs Cinematics :/

GaiusCoffeeon LaZagne – An open source application used to retrieve lots of passwords

USBdriveby emulates a keyboard that types commands at inhuman speeds, and since keyboards are plug and play.. you can probably guess what happens next ;)

GaiusCoffeeon Ask HN: Is my code any good?

After several years in a test-driven development team, seeing your test directory made me cringe :/