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KhalilK

2,177 karma · joined February 25, 2014

GitHub: khllkcm

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/khllkcm; my proof: https://keybase.io/khllkcm/sigs/E94-JbalPg0U9paAIK4rL8loPzAKv1dyikzSRiUkjNQ ]

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KhalilK··on T-Shirts Unravelled
Tell that to Instagram moms.
KhalilK··on Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?
This! They are so boated and for no reason whatsoever.
KhalilK··on Is Self Hosted Blogging Dead?
I spent a couple of weeks developing a blogging system in Django last summer. Doing so allows for great customization and fits exactly my needs.

It was more fun than writing actual blog content though.

KhalilK··on Scrapy Tips from the Pros
I tried using PHP to scrape 50,000 webpages for a couple of fields, got it done in 4 hours, with scrapy it took 12 minutes. Been using it ever since.
KhalilK··on Is there any point to the 12 times table?
Obligatory Numberphile video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6xJfP7-HCc
KhalilK··on Four New Elements Added to the Periodic Table
Fun fact: Japonium[0] is a suggested name for Element 113. If accepted, the letter J will finally appear on the periodic table.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ununtrium#Naming

KhalilK··on State Considered Harmful – A Proposal for a Stateless Laptop
[Insert Security vs Freedom debate here]
KhalilK··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?
>it's so long that I can't really recommend it.

Tell that to the teacher who made us read it at the age of 14. A masterpiece nonetheless.

KhalilK··on Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests
>Stop smoking, and control how much alcohol you drink, continue to be important public health messages to reduce the incidence of cancer.

That obviously depends on the type of cancer. Smokers are way more likely to get lung cancer but for other types of cancer with high mortality rates (prostate, breast, myeloma, lymphoma etc) there is no single attributable 'exposure' that is known to be the cause.

KhalilK··on Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests
Yes it is down to the environment but right now we don't know what these environmental exposures are. I've always considered "chance" and "luck" in science to simply be a placeholder for the unknown.
KhalilK··on Gimp 2.9.2 Released
Here you go http://download.gimp.org/mirror/pub/gimp/v2.9/

It's a development release so it was in the Development snapshots section.

KhalilK··on From dictatorship to democracy: The road less travelled
As a Tunisian citizen I must ask, is democracy always a positive thing? Even if the majority of the people doesn't know what's best for them?
KhalilK··on Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Tunisian ISPs. HTTPS was the solution of course.

http://www.businessinsider.com/tunisia-facebook-2011-1

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/25/tunisia_facebook_pas...

KhalilK··on Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show copyright notices to customers
Same was done during the Tunisian revolution only to inject keyloggers.
KhalilK··on Feynman's Letter to His Wife
Stupid onion-cutting ninjas..

This was quite an emotional read, a wake up call for many.

KhalilK··on Quantifying and Visualizing the Reddit Hivemind
Nope, even tried different OSs (Windows and Linux)

Chrome shows the request as Pending, tried disabling my ad-blockers, still an endless "Loading".

KhalilK··on Quantifying and Visualizing the Reddit Hivemind
I still can't get this particular website to load.
KhalilK··on The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 attributed to tunisian people
Tunisian here. This just goes to show how unreliable the Norwegian Nobel Committee is.

Also, flagged for a very misleading title.

KhalilK··on The OnePlus 2 pushes the boundaries of how cheap a flagship phone can be
Relevant video: https://vimeo.com/134128443
KhalilK··on Who'll be the next president – Google Search
I like how the second search result points to this thread. We've gone meta HN!
KhalilK··on SQL injection in ESET website allows free NOD32 license
Clearly, English is not the author's native tongue.
KhalilK··on Ceres RC3 Animation: Bright spots revealed to be composed of many smaller spots
our space junk is stuck orbiting the Earth.
KhalilK··on Game theory’s cure for corruption
posting it on YouTube is likely to end his career in any society.

Given that the video gains enough visibility of course but I would still take that with a grain of salt.

KhalilK··on Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died
https://www.facebook.com/robert.h.goldberg/posts/10153303390...
KhalilK··on Offer HN: Free Domains
khalilqacem@gmail.com

I've been saving to buy a .me domain in bitcoins since I don't have easy access to international banking in my shitty country.

KhalilK··on Two Federal Agents in Silk Road Case Face Fraud Charges
What a terrific example of how Bitcoin's transparency is one of its greatest assets.
KhalilK··on German Airbus A320 Plane Crashes in French Alps
Last reported position: http://www.flightradar24.com/data/airplanes/d-aipx/#5d42675
KhalilK··on How computers could change pure mathematics
It is worth noting that according to the Curry-Howard isomorphism[0], programs are equivalent to proofs and vice versa.

0.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry%E2%80%93Howard_correspon...

KhalilK··on Chinese Activists under DDoS
Just curious, how are DDoS attacks mitigated?
KhalilK··on Animated vector map
At first I thought this was using real-time traffic data and I got overexcited. It still looks pretty neat nonetheless!

Running smoothly on latest Chrome on Ubuntu 14.04.

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