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whatnotests··on 18yo arrested for reporting a bug in the new Budapest e-Ticket system
That's how the DMCA works. Remember the guy who gave a talk about Adobe's PDF creator which purported to produce "secure" documents (required a password) but the feature was easily bypassed.

Adobe had him arrested the day after he gave his talk.

Link to a Wired article here: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wired.com/2001/07/russian-a...

EDIT: I have a terrible memory-- thanks to the folks who replied to my comment with corrections.

whatnotests··on Ask HN: What do people use to prevent crawlers?
One cannot stop a determined thief.

One technique that bothers me quite a bit is constant random changes in class names or DOM structure, which can make it more difficult. Not impossible but more difficult.

whatnotests··on Fast MySQL Backup and Restore Using Mydumper and Myloader
1. Shows password on CLI

2. Segfaults for me

I'll be using mysqldump for now...but doing a flush+lock+copy the innodbdata file(s) seems like it would be much, much faster.

whatnotests··on Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes
AMAZING idea.

Please allow me to G+ connect or facebook connect, b/c I don't want to have yet another password to remember, and I'd like to (maybe?) share some activity on Cinc with my FB peeps.

Just a thought.

whatnotests··on Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]
Obama speaks more clearly, more calmly and more fluid than Trump, who speaks with more stuttering, filler words and with more intense facial expressions.
whatnotests··on Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]
This would never work on someone who stumbles through their speeches like Trump.
whatnotests··on Ask HN: Angular 1 migrating to ______.js
Why are you migrating it at all?
whatnotests··on Beyond public key encryption
Using something unchangeable (such as one's retina) to derive a key for encryption sounds like a great idea, until the key must change.

You can't change your retina so easily.

whatnotests··on Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license
PR submitted.

https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/10194

whatnotests··on DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Scans by Not Traveling
Zoom, bang! Straight to the endgame!
whatnotests··on DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out of Face Scans by Not Traveling
> Free migration is the most effective way to reduce world poverty.

Temporarily, yes, and it often comes with the burden of providing for the migrant for the rest of their life.

the most effective way to end poverty long-term is to create conditions in which populations of impoverished nations fix their own problems on their own soil "over there".

whatnotests··on Ask HN: Is Anybody Using React Fiber in Production?
Interesting-- that will definitely be something we deal with for some time.

An article from you and your team about what to do/not to do during the migration and on the road ahead could be good PR and mutually beneficial to all parties involved.

Hope you publish something when you can!

whatnotests··on Interactive Go REPL
This makes Go much more accessible to coders who prefer this style of development.

Can't wait to give it a shot!

whatnotests··on Ask HN: Is Anybody Using React Fiber in Production?
Nice - did you make any changes to your workflow, project organization or build tooling?
whatnotests··on Babylon.js 3.0
Even looks great on Mac OS + Chrome!

I hope this opens some doors...

whatnotests··on 17th Century Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards of English Home
Wow...I was simply asking "why" is this here?

Is it the change in the English language over time?

The types of things that were on the list, compared to what's considered normal today?

Is it the fact that it just shows the month + year, vs YYYY-MM-DD-HH-mm-SS.XXTZ like we must have now?

Is it the idea of what appeared to be a letter that might have been posted via mail to some other place in advance of the courier which would retrieve the goods requested?

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My point is that there are a number of reasons why this could have been posted here on HN, but no indication of any of those was given.

So I was wondering.

Sheesh.

whatnotests··on 17th Century Shopping List Discovered Under Floorboards of English Home
Pretty cool, but why is this being submitted here? (Not that it shouldn't be - just curious why.)
whatnotests··on Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others
Wait wait wait wait.

You mean we don't naturally end up with 1% of the people having 99% of the dollars??

whatnotests··on Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
Gonna get around to it any time now.
whatnotests··on What’s Next for Gitlab CI: Auto DevOps
This is the kind of software one expects from a team who has never seen how it's supposed to work in real life.
whatnotests··on The Pentagon Says It Will Start Encrypting Soldiers' Emails Next Year
They need to install backdoors first, duh.
whatnotests··on I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program
iOs/ chrome shows the correct referrer in both cases.
whatnotests··on An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7M in Series A funding
ORGANIC garbage.
whatnotests··on Show HN: An online interactive Kubernetes playground
Will return later!
whatnotests··on Prisma’s next AI project is a fun selfie sticker maker called Sticky
FFS can we stop with the ridiculous selfies, stickers and MP3-sorting tools?

Who throws money away on these things??

whatnotests··on A set of best practices for JavaScript projects
Interesting point.

    app/services/signup
    app/services/signin
    app/services/newsletter_subscribe
    app/services/create_report
    ...etc
In larger Rails projects I've been on, we often start with a monolith but then break it into different services to scale out.

Starting with different services at the beginning may cause some other problems: what if the boundaries between services was wrong?

whatnotests··on It is as if you were doing work
Ah well then!
whatnotests··on It is as if you were doing work
Does not work on chrome on iPhone
whatnotests··on Ask HN: How do you keep up as software developer stuck at home?
Udemy is good. Tutorials are good.

Make sure you've got something on your github.

If you find a bug, a typo, a missing test, submit a patch if you can.

If you have an idea, open an issue for the project.

Just getting involved on a small thing here and there opens doors you may not even be aware of.

Take this time to contribute what you can.

whatnotests··on Employers 'having to pay more to recruit new staff'
Best way to get a raise is to get a new job.
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