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cleverjake

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cleverjake··on Use of Google Translate in medical communication: evaluation of accuracy
> while “Your child has been fitting” was translated [with the least amount of accuracy, at] 7.7%

For what its worth, Even as a native english speaker, I had to look up what that meant in english.

cleverjake··on Iowa to launch smartphone driver's license
There is also Guided Access mode in iOS
cleverjake··on Iowa to launch smartphone driver's license
It specifically says you can choose to keep a plastic ID, so, yes, but only if you opt into it. Certainly interested if this is a way to entice people to unlock their phones, though.
cleverjake··on Tell HN: Thank you for interface change
If I had to guess, so that the user can decide which parts to keep, based on the entire title. If they submit it via a bookmarklet, and the beginning of the title is "Some Corp Offical Blog | Mission Statement Blah Blah | Announcing The Worlds First" - you get nothing of value.
cleverjake··on US Has More Solar Workers Than Coal Miners
A common argument against renewable energy pushes is how it hurts the coal jobs - at least in areas like pennsylvania, kentucky, and west virginia. A "they're tryna take er jerbs" argument is a good way to get voters out against it when most people are in the industry, or have parents, siblings, inlaws, or relatives that would loose a job if that happened.
cleverjake··on Giving Stephen Hawking a voice
Actually the recordings from At The Movies weren't usable because so much of them had movies playing in the background. They used all of his DVD commentaries (mainly from criterion collection, if memory serves).
cleverjake··on The Final Countdown for NPAPI
back in june - http://www.cnet.com/news/in-chrome-googles-hangouts-plugin-g...

I use video chats every day (on chrome canary os x) and never had an issue

cleverjake··on The Final Countdown for NPAPI
www.oldversion.com/windows/google-chrome/
cleverjake··on The Final Countdown for NPAPI
Download an older version of chrome, and turn off auto updates.
cleverjake··on Response to Netflix's “Node.js in Flames” Blog Post
Worth noting that the person defending express is Eran Hammer - the of one of it's biggest competitors, hapi (hapijs.com)
cleverjake··on Passports for sale
The united states offers investment visas that grant "permanent residence to the individual" to anyone who invests over $1,000,000 in several industries. - http://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-through-job/green...
cleverjake··on Nexus Player
The movie rental would be through the google play store. The "apps" most likely are referencing netflix, hulu, and their ilk
cleverjake··on Ask HN: What was the easiest buck you've made on the web in 2014?
reddit.com/r/beermoney - made over $1,000 in the last 4 months in amazon gift cards.
cleverjake··on Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Up, Up, Up, Up
A friend of mine worked on the netflix debugging tools for a majority of their players (tvs, blu-ray players, consoles, etc) and there are a number of remote combinations like that inside the players to bring up all sorts of goodies.
cleverjake··on Full email validation regex (RFC 2822)
Neat visualization thereof - https://www.debuggex.com/r/v99uZHQj97Tkgnjy
cleverjake··on Was jquery.com compromised?
Quite a silly response, considering the content and how easy it is to view just the text

Earlier today, RiskIQ published a blog post stating that the jQuery.com web servers were compromised and serving the RIG exploit kit for a short period of time on the afternoon of September 18th. Our internal investigation into our servers and logs have not yet found the RIG exploit kit or evidence that there was in fact a compromise.

RiskIQ was able to make contact with the jQuery Infrastructure team on September 18th, at which point with members of the RiskIQ team tried to find evidence of compromise. So far the investigation has been unable to reproduce or confirm that our servers were compromised. We have not been notified by any other security firm or users of jquery.com confirming a compromise. Normally, when we have issues with jQuery infrastructure, we hear reports within minutes on Twitter, via IRC, etc.

At no time have the hosted jQuery libraries been compromised.

Currently the only potential system compromised is the web software or server that runs jquery.com. We have asked RiskIQ to help us look through our server logs and systems to help identify when and how a compromise happened. Please check this blog post for updates on the situation.

Even though we don’t have immediate evidence of compromise, we have taken the proper precautions to ensure our servers are secure and clean. If you happened to visit any of the our sites on September 18th and are afraid of your system being compromised you can follow the advice RiskIQ recommends:

Immediately re-image system Reset passwords for user accounts that have been used on the system See if any suspicious activity has originated from the offending system

cleverjake··on Tendina, super fast side menus in jQuery
You should use it on your own homepage, rather than a header
cleverjake··on Recommendations API
Super stoked to see a public api from your company. First thing I did, though, was try to hit http://api.remix.bestbuy.com/v1/products/1162032.json. Despite being a json file, it returns html. Admittedly, a consumer should be looking at the err code first, but a json formatted error would be preffered :]

keep up the great work!

cleverjake··on Show HN: Please Break In – Don't put your house keys online
But using a service that does it for you is much easier than either.
cleverjake··on Steel worker reveals blocking view of U.S. aircraft on day of atomic bombing
the visibility of the city isn't affected by the height of the plane. they weren't trying to smoke out the plane, just cover the place they lived.
cleverjake··on Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
A giant "Why we are asking for this" would be a great start
cleverjake··on Ask HN: Is it possible to have forum type community running without a database?
One of the main points of static sites is that they don't update terribly often. Forums, on the other hand, update constantly. You are wanting something with good caching (server side and client side), and thats about it. Otherwise, you are going to be regenerating the pages constantly on every post/update.
cleverjake··on Pay for GitHub with PayPal
fwiw - I have worked at a number of sites, and all that implemented paypal saw a non trivial conversion bump, some into the double digits, percentage wise. Audience wasn't developers ever, though.
cleverjake··on How I Became the Most Hated Person in San Francisco for a Day
> I'm betting that a high number of those tables sat empty tonight and those restaurants are already out money

having worked in restaurants, once someone is more than 10-15 minutes late for a reservation with no advanced call, the table is free game. Enough people come stumbling in without a reservation for "hot" restaurants to even notice.

cleverjake··on [dead]
please flag and move on then, rather than start a conversation about how bad it is.
cleverjake··on IRS claims to have lost 2 years of Director's emails
well, considering they are claiming its only emails from the director, any email sent to her from inside would be available as a sent email from that person.
cleverjake··on Lazy Load Images without JS on IE
To be clear, this isn't what most people would call lazy loading images - ie loading an image once it is in the viewport. This is more like the async attr for the script element - it defers downloading the image until all other resources have been downloaded.
cleverjake··on GitHub New Features: Rendering and diffing images
1. This isn't a new feature, its existed for years. 2. Git detects a difference, so github will detect a difference.

That being said, there wouldn't be a visible difference when comparing the two images.

cleverjake··on [dead]
covered earlier in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836092
cleverjake··on Intuit acquires Check for $360M
I use check regularly. I can pay all of my bills (~15 a month) within about 3 minutes, on the walk to the car from my apartment.

Most utilities, car loan, and bank websites are miserable, interface wise. Being able to pay for all of them within 3 taps, for free, is amazing.

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