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neur0manceron The new home of popcorn-app

And some developers are working on this [1] new webpage.

[1] http://popcorn-time.tv/

neur0manceron Popcorn-app no longer on GitHub

http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/ seems to be down.

neur0manceron Crowdsourcing volunteers comb satellite photos for Malaysia Airlines jet

Right now, the website of the company (http://www.digitalglobeblog.com/) redirects to 127.0.0.1

neur0manceron Email (let's drop the hyphen) (2003)

My upvote, sir. HN needs more Simpsons' quotes.

neur0manceron HTML plays GBA

README? A description?

neur0manceron $ make -k $(python2 -c "print 'A'*5432")

Actually, there is no need for -k I was trying to point that even very common programs have (stack) buffer overflows and nobody cares to fix them.

neur0manceron Voynich Manuscript partially decoded, text is not a hoax, scholar finds

Someone should build a web plataform to allow to decode it using crowdsourcing ..

neur0manceron "Strong" stack protection for GCC

I wish all distros will start compiling all its packages with a consistent policy to enable at least some level of stack protection (like Ubuntu and unlike Debian).

neur0manceron Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF

The lock (fake) manual is available here:

https://microcorruption.com/manual.pdf

neur0manceron Swatch Internet Time

http://deadhomersociety.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/theysave...

neur0manceron HTTP Status Code 418

In certain CTF, for example SQL injection challenges, the target webpage returns 418 to make more difficult the success of blind injection scripts (they will fail randomly, so you have to check that the return code is weird and retry)

neur0manceron Steam is down.

Still, game updates are working (i.e., L4D2)

neur0manceron Introducing itch.io: a marketplace for hosting indie games

Fortunately, you are wrong: http://itch.io/browse/platform-linux

neur0manceron Introducing itch.io: a marketplace for hosting indie games

Great work leafo!

I just "reposted" this here, because i didn't know this cool website.

neur0manceron Introducing itch.io: a marketplace for hosting indie games

I'm happy to see another DRM-free game marketplace/store.

neur0manceron Lavabit Proceedings Unsealed [pdf]

scribd link seems to be broken

neur0manceron Web app for interviewing technical candidates in the browser

"Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-clause License."

It was clarified in the README. My bad.

neur0manceron Web app for interviewing technical candidates in the browser

Great idea! I hope others will follow your example.

Btw, could you clarify exactly which type of licence you are using (https://github.com/paf31/initialround/blob/master/LICENSE). Is it something like BSD?

neur0manceron Women's magazines ignore technology and demean women

Magazines are crap. Why we should care?

neur0manceron Reverse Debugging with GDB

I tried it. Unfortunately, it is very slow.

neur0manceron Formalizations of Gödel's Ontological Proof of God's Existence

The paper with some explanation about the proof is here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1308.4526v4.pdf

neur0manceron ‘Pushback’: Resisting the life of constant connectivity

Recent but relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OINa46HeWg8

neur0manceron The growing irrelevance of Google Search

Too late.

neur0manceron Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks

And also a big step to catch these papers in which the results are not exactly as good as the authors said..

neur0manceron Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks

At least for some of the Machine Learning and related papers (specially old ones), to reproduce the experiment should be relatively easy.

neur0manceron Inspired by the 180 websites I will understand 52 academic papers in 52 weeks

Are you planning to reproduce the experiments in every paper too?

neur0manceron Functional Python Made Easy

What Python really needs to be more useful as a "functional language" is a consistent way to define algebraic data types and to perform pattern matching.

This is the closest thing i found for that: https://github.com/lihaoyi/macropy

neur0manceron Hostnames

Someone should try to use these a source for guessing of subdomain for a large number of domain (probably fetched from Google).

neur0manceron WikiLeaks Releases Fifth Estate Challenger: Mediastan

Free for all, enjoy while it last:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hK6DDC4CV0s

neur0manceron TorSearch launches to be the Google of the hidden internet

https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3A.onion

No results here. If they are crawling, the results are not shown.