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path411··on The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
Firefox didn't make Firebug though. Chrome has supported developers directly a lot longer than Firefox has.
path411··on Some people see this dress as white and gold while others see black and blue
I see it as very light blue and as gold. From an eye dropper chrome extension this seems to be the correct color of the photo.

The white or blue part appears to be #8292b3. And the gold or black part appears to be #7b6d48.

http://www.colorpicker.com/8292b3

http://www.colorpicker.com/7b6d48

I think out of the photo people will agree these are blue/gold.

path411··on The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
What about chrome doesn't respect web developers? Chrome's web debugging in browser is very good, and until recently firefox didn't even compete in that regard.
path411··on Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces
I think this is a pretty natural progression of applying machine learning to real life.

I find that people will say things like "I prefer people with blue eyes", but what they are really saying is that the people they find attractive often have blue eyes.

Humans don't seem to be able to actually determine the characteristics of a person's looks that makes them attractive, and rather resort to pattern recognition bias. So instead a computer is able to determine what you are actually attracted to as it doesn't have the same bias and is able to consciously distinguish more data from a person's face than the extremely basic set a human can.

path411··on Testosterone is the drug of the future
> Men do more dangerous jobs, are much more likely to be murdered, do riskier behavior, and commit suicide more often.

Couldn't the likelihood of a male being involved in these things be affected by testosterone levels as well?

path411··on Alan Turing's notes found being used as roof insulation at Bletchley Park
While I don't buy, I think if someone does so with disposable income, I don't see a problem. Honestly I could even see some people might even enjoy the process of buying a lottery ticket so they might actually be getting a value back for every ticket.

> You can't spend the time dreaming you'll win it, if you don't buy a ticket.

I think this statement is more key to a lot of things than people realize. You can never be lucky if you don't take chances. People often like to defend gambles they take in life by using expected returns/risks as a premise that they are making an "informed risk". At the end of the day, however, buying stocks, creating a business, starting a new job, etc, are all gambles.

path411··on Thepiratebay.se is back online
Just look into using a proxy or VPN.
path411··on How to get into an admin account on a Windows computer
I graduated from HS 9 years ago and I almost got suspended from all computer access, ended up getting some detentions, and various other punishments just for using Firefox. (Would have hated to see what the naive principal would have dished out if I wasn't one of the top students in my class)
path411··on JavaScript in 2015
So the real problem is passing wrong parameters to a function? Sounds like you should swap to something like TypeScript for strict typing then.

Or you know, stop acting like JavaScript is unique in that improper function calling breaks your code.

I can't believe in 2015 there are still people who follow the "JavaScript equalities are WTF" mentality. If you are running into equality operator problems in JS, you are probably going to run into a myriad of problems in any language.

path411··on US Senate Report on CIA Detention and Interrogation Program
Obviously if we aren't as bad as someone else we don't need to worry about our own misdoings.
path411··on Hater News – Now for Twitter and Reddit
My worst tweet is insulting myself. (To be fair I rarely use twitter anyway). I wonder if self insults are weighted any different than regular ones.

"I feel dumb for never thinking of using %2π"

path411··on Urbit: a personal cloud computer
I always find the forceful use of female gender pronouns to be very odd. If you are conscious of and disagree with the general use of male gender pronouns, wouldn't you wan't to push the use of gender neutral pronouns?

Personally, I'd rather see the use of some of the new made up neutral pronouns than thinking swapping male to female pronouns is a viable long-term solution.

path411··on W3C declares HTML5 standard complete
That gap is constantly closing. The sky is falling on Flash. Sure, if you legitimately have a project that won't work in HTML5, maybe Flash is a good choice. However, most of the time I see these statements used by Flash developers that don't want to learn javascript or admit their time is limited as Flash devs.
path411··on TXT Record XSS
Chrome didn't have this feature for a very long time, and if anything sounded like it was actually harder because of how Chrome handles their processes.
path411··on This 6 month old startup has the cure to Ebola
Following the click bait sensational headlines of this was amusing:

    This 6 month old startup has the cure to Ebola ->
    This 6 month old startup is already helping to fight Ebola ->
    By using Snapp ... volunteers created a free, informational mobile app to educate the public on the Ebola viral disease.
path411··on I am not planning any nuclear attacks
Zero tolerance public schools have taught us that anyone who can draw a gun is a terrorist.
path411··on I am not planning any nuclear attacks
So, the ol' bluff a college student because they don't know better.
path411··on Who am I: A mind reader (don't forget to view source)
I tried doing this:

http://jsfiddle.net/path411/sRkWq/

It appears as though Chrome (37-dev) will not receive any data from behind the canvas, while IE11 and FF(29) will allow me to see pixels behind the canvas, but only see the unvisited color.

I don't believe there is another method to receive the color of a pixel from a canvas except through getImageData(), but I could be wrong.

path411··on Opal: Ruby to JavaScript Compiler
I don't think there would be much benefit except possibly some minor performance gains. But then to even take advantage of these you would likely have to be extremely proficient in native JS.

Personally, I don't really see much of a downside to JS transpiled languages. You are already working with a high-level scripting language. The incredible amount of benefits you gain from using something like Coffeescript or Typescript far exceed any negligible downside to them.

(You do have to trust that the transpiled language is good however. You don't want to accidentally start using a bad language that fails to transpile or is simply harder to work with than native js. With Coffeescript/Typescript being very popular, I would consider them both "safe".)

path411··on Runnable – jsfiddle for everything
Awesome, I love the multiple file approach. This is what I've started to realize holds backs a lot of similar services. (Especially jsfiddle). I'm glad someone was able to capture something I've been looking for.

And of course I'm going to have to bug you for TypeScript support!

path411··on Google's XSS game
Also using the ',' operator works.
path411··on Just press go: designing a self-driving vehicle
They don't really add any extra privacy issues than carrying around an android device in your pocket. Also even if you dislike Google, they are fairly transparent and would likely tell us if they are tracking the data, how do you know GM/Ford aren't already tracking vehicle routes and using this data?
path411··on Introducing ASP.NET vNext
Make the jump to TypeScript, you will be glad you did.
path411··on Headphones and Earphones Benchmarking Test Files
I guess my ears are strange, I couldn't hear 22 kHz >> 19 kHz (tried on headphones and speakers) but could hear 18 kHz >> 9 kHz. If under 14 sounded anything to your dogs like it did to me I feel sorry for them, I felt like barking.
path411··on The next version of DuckDuckGo
It is true that it does promote analytics. However, one key feature of Google analytics giving privacy as a normal user is that you can never actually look at the profile of a user. You can look at stats such as 10/100 people used the "Best Hammers" search term, and that 80/100 people come from the United States. But you can't say look at X IP address and see where they come from, what browser they use, and what search term they used.
path411··on Google's Street View computer vision can beat reCAPTCHA with 99% accuracy
Actually often it can be the opposite of what you would think. I don't think Google will distort the "unknown" word as much as the "known" word, making it where the "known" word can be harder to read for a human because it's passed through more filters.
path411··on Ask HN Mods: Can you make submission URLs human-readable?
Having an id in the URL lets you have a key to uniquely query. Without it, you would have to disallow identical titles.

What benefit do you get from having a title in the URL?

I think of a URL as simply an easily repeatable parameter of a web request. The URL is only one parameter of the request, but it's the only one that's easy to repeat.

path411··on The Face Behind Bitcoin?
In the online article it says:

"Satoshi Nakamoto in Lancaster, Calif. Credit: Photo via Photobucket.com via Satoshi Nakamoto (Wagumabher)"

Sounds more like she uncovered his personal photobucket and took an image.

path411··on Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever
Well on the other hand, this is actually good news for mining because you will always be able to mine. It means that they don't have to worry about incentivising "mining" after all the coins are gone.
path411··on Dogecoin decides to allow annual inflation of 5 billion coins each year, forever
It's only 5% the first year. Since it's a flat amount, the % of the inflation would reduce every year.
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