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sente··on Check if a file was made with Claude
You misunderstand how Claude watermarks things.
sente··on Canistilluse.com
I'm red/green colorblind and cannot for the life of me tell the boxes apart
sente··on Why is some web pages don't load in web views?
https://i.imgur.com/oDHwxQB.jpg
sente··on Ask HN: Is it morally acceptable for a country to not want immigration?
Thank you for linking the NYTimes article.
sente··on Show HN: Announce and discover GitHub repos
Very nice, thanks for creating and sharing this.

If I may make a suggestion, can you tweak the layout/design for a better mobile experience?

I can only read the first three or so words about the repos when scrolling through the list.

https://i.imgur.com/8sjvAlo.jpg

sente··on Console.table()
This is amazing. I love it.
sente··on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
atop creates world readable log files. Does anyone else think this is a security vulnerability?
sente··on “Rise and Kill First” Exploring Israel's Assassination Program
Thank you for sharing this.
sente··on Show HN: Six Degrees of Wikipedia
Thus is awesome.

Just a heads up - some of the node colors can be difficult to differentiate for people who are red/green colorblind. Very minor, just wanted to mention it though.

sente··on John Perry Barlow has died
Thank you for sharing
sente··on Hacker News equivalent for other fields
/r/netsec is usually topnotch, by the way.
sente··on WEB DEVELOPER (DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES)
http://i.imgur.com/q6lzN9x.png -- Here's a screenshot for anyone who might stumble upon this thread in the future, because craigslist deletes posts after a couple weeks.
sente··on Vim.js – JavaScript port of Vim
I'm incredibly quick with Vim and I rarely use `q:`, `q/`, `:normal`, etc.

In fact, I think I only type `q:` as a typo when I'm trying to `:q[uit]` :p

sente··on Python web scraping
He recommends http://51proxy.com/ - I was curious and signed up for their smallest package. It's been 24 hours since I created the account and I have 48 "Waiting" proxies, and I haven't been able to connect to either of the "Live" ones.

Has anyone had any success with them?

sente··on Ask HN: Who wants a couple of free domains?
I have a couple, maybe...

Are you on IRC (/msg sente if so) - would you be up for chatting?

Not trying to be secretive here, but feel 10 mins of chatting would be far more effective than posting a write up.

sente··on Ask HN: Bookmarklet library + community
I make bookmarklets all the time as well. Let's just start sharing and see where it goes, what do you say? Github w/ a wiki / readme's would be a great and easy way to start this without requiring much effort.

I have hundreds of them...

sente··on Would anyone use a command line blog platform?
Yes
sente··on Sentry, The (Now Profitable) Bug Tracker Gets A Huge Makeover
Got it working now
sente··on Sentry, The (Now Profitable) Bug Tracker Gets A Huge Makeover
I've played with the hosted service as well as hosting Sentry myself. I only played with the latter version for 20 minutes but I didn't know how to get it up and running such that I could actually use it in the same way the getsentry.com was. (this was last week, before the UI redesign)

Is there something obvious I was missing?

This all being said, I'm very impressed with exception reporting at getsentry.com!

sente··on Githtml - View Html Files from Github Repos On The Fly
A few months back I created a bookmarklet to render the html when looking at the raw html page -- https://gist.github.com/1831405

I've ended up using this bookmarklet on a lot of non-github.com sites too.

For instance, you can see how it renders http://c.sente.cc/hcVg/xkcd.txt here: http://i.imgur.com/DNVqd.png

here's the code in snippet form:

  javascript:function write_window(content) {top.consoleRef=window.open(%27%27,%27git-r-done%27,+%27,menubar=1%27+%27,toolbar=1%27+%27,status=1%27+%27,scrollbars=1%27+%27,resizable=1%27);top.consoleRef.document.writeln(content);top.consoleRef.document.close();}function dostuff() {$.ajax({url: document.location.href,dataType:%27html%27,success: function(content){setTimeout(function(){write_window(content)},500);}});}function add_jquery(attempt) {var jq=document.createElement(%27script%27);jq.type=%27text/javascript%27;jq.async=false;jq.src=%27https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js%27;var s=document.getElementsByTagName(%27script%27)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(jq,s);try{var foo=$(%27*%27);dostuff();}catch(err){if(attempt < 5){attempt = attempt + 1;setTimeout("add_jquery("+attempt+")",1000)}else{alert(%27could not load jquery..try again!%27);}}}add_jquery(0);
sente··on Show HN: Githtml - Instantly View Github HTML Pages
Nice. A few months back I created a bookmarklet to do exactly this -- https://gist.github.com/1831405

It was kind of a one-off, but it's been serving me well the past few months. When at the page https://raw.github.com/ryt/githtml/master/example.html -- both of our bookmarks seem to work identically.

http://i.imgur.com/b0kYy.png

sente··on Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project
Thank you.

Flowplayer is really good by the way, check out http://j.mp/NBFTze if you're interested.

sente··on Show HN: Prolifi.cc, a weekend project
The video won't play in my Android by the way.

How about that blurb? ;)

sente··on What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.
actually -- 'better' results are here -- http://sente.cc/wsgi/number_poll/results_unique

(the other link doesn't restrict each IP to only 1 vote)

sente··on What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.
Results are at http://sente.cc/wsgi/number_poll/results
sente··on What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.
I had 10 minutes to create the poll before the library closed...I definitely could have done a better job describing the problem, you're right.

Each person was told to pick a number between 0 and 100

The number I would pick would be dependent on who else is taking the poll, how much credit do you give them, etc

I'm in my phone now with a low battery, otherwise I'd type

sente··on What happens when you ask people to pick the lowest unique prime number.
This reminds me of a question asked in a Game Theory class server years ago:

Pick a number Whoever's number is closest to one half the average of all submitted numbers wins!

I just whipped together a tiny wsgi app for this:

http://sente.cc/wsgi/number_poll/

sente··on Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major anti-spam move
I'm glad phys.org and science daily are banned, I think /r/science and other subreddits will be better without them. They're both interesting sites, yes, but they blast out articles about X Y or Z if a scientist somewhere finds a b or c.
sente··on Can you make yourself smarter?
I'm probably just being overly critical here but his example of "deciding if a number is odd or even in a matter of seconds" seems odd, I think 2nd graders and up can tell you in half a second or less whether or not a number's even or odd.

He says:

"In addition to working memory, researchers are seeking to improve fluid intelligence by training other basic mental skills — perceptual speed (deciding, in a matter of seconds, whether a number is odd or even), visual tracking (on a shoot-’em-up computer game, for instance) or quickly switching between a variety of tasks."

http://i.imgur.com/k9PXE.png

sente··on The uncanny valley of web scraping
That's awesome. I also love scraping, there's just something about which I find really satisfying.
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