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deefour··on Tracking the Fake GitHub Star Black Market
There are plenty of people making a living from donations to their open source contributions.

It seems odd to title them influencers based on that.

deefour··on Whistleblowers: Software keeping inmates in Arizona prisons beyond release dates
Okay?
deefour··on If Not SPAs, What?
Turbolinks isn't specific to rails.
deefour··on Show HN: Bear – Minimal blogging platform
I absolutely love Netlify.
deefour··on Better Box Shadows (CSS)
Your website is gorgeous.
deefour··on Retiring Wave
> tool that was, for a while, built into gmail

Do you have a source for this? I don't remember it ever being part of Gmail.

deefour··on Principles
I imagine it updates to make it easier for a reader to grab a link directly to the section they're currently looking at.

They could use `replaceState`[1] instead of `pushState` though so as not to mess with your browser history.

[1]https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/History_API...

deefour··on SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses
> it seems they've just made the UI elements bigger, and added background images for songs and profiles

The last major attempt at "improving" UI/UX that stands out to me was in 2014 when they launched the redesigned iOS app.

That was when I stopped using soundcloud on my iOS devices. Everything became more difficult for me.

deefour··on How AeroPress Fans Are Hacking Their Way to a Better Cup of Coffee
I bought my aeropress and a hario pour over at the same time having never previously used either. I much prefer the coffee that comes out of the pour over for the same reason; it definitely makes a more tasteful coffee.
deefour··on Lecture 6: How to Start a Startup
It's called a High Rising Terminal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_terminal
deefour··on Butterfly: Your everyday terminal in your web browser
Does anything like the quick history select or the google-instant style auto-complete/suggestion exist for zsh?
deefour··on Vagrant Share
I install ngrok[1] on my vm's to show off what I've been working on temporarily or to see how things look on iOS.

[1] https://ngrok.com/

deefour··on How to Swap Out a Time Warner Modem With Your Own Faster One
My Comcast modem died on me on a Thursday afternoon. Comcast couldn't have a tech out until the next Tuesday to give me a new modem and said if I tried to bring it to the local Comcast branch to swap it for a new one I'd be refused service.

After my frustration subsided I spent a little time researching [1], made use of my Amazon Prime subscription and had a brand new, well reviewed, compatible modem [2] at my house Saturday morning.

The modem Comcast gave me retailed for $28. I paid $7/mo for over 4 years. That's well over $300 for a $28 piece of garbage, just because I didn't know I had the option to use my own hardware. I canceled my monthly rental, had a tech come out to pick the broken modem up at no charge, and have been happy since.

Invest in a modem like you do your other hardware. It will be better for your wallet and have the added benefit of _not_ lining the pockets of a company many people despise.

[1] http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/ [2] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007IMPMW4

deefour··on Analysis of yesterday's PHP.net exploit
My money is so far on Darkleech apache module[1] as the cause. As far as I know it's still unclear how the attacker gains root access to the server to do the install.

[1]http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac...

deefour··on Php.net detected as a malware host by Google Safe Browsing
I've seen this sort of thing from the Darkleech apache module[1]. It also won't show the malicious Javascript to any IP that appears in the `last` log. It looks like php.net uses Apache too[2]. The easiest way I've seen to find the module (they come with a variety of names) is to do something like

  strings /path/to/modules/* | grep -i blacklist
[1] http://malwaremustdie.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-evil-came-bac...

[2] http://builtwith.com/php.net

deefour··on Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans
I can't speak for freehunter, but know a lot of us have moved to DigitalOcean.
deefour··on Zinc – Order products with a few lines of code
I think that's what marban was suggesting.
deefour··on Show HN: Free hi-resolution photos for your website. 10 new photos every 10 days
"Usage Rights" at the bottom of this page: http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search

You get there by clicking the gear icon on the right side of the image search results page; 'Advanced search' is under that. Yay for Google making one more tool more difficult interact with.

deefour··on Show HN: Laravel 4 - This framework is revolutionizing PHP.
> and it outputs a json serialized array as html

Actually, it renders a raw JSON response - a single object of 'unguarded' attributes (all by default) for the model with Content-Type: application/json set. It has nothing to do with HTML.

Your syntax is invalid too. To do what you want you'd actually call

    return Model::where('asdf', 1)->first();
deefour··on Unicode Character 'Slice of Pizza'
I see it just fine in OSX through Chrome, Version 27.0.1453.93
deefour··on Source code example of the Shazam algorithm
The very post you mention is linked to in the first sentence of OP's article, as well as a quote from the author about being threatened with a lawsuit...
deefour··on Show HN: Crawling car dealerships for a real time consumer search engine
I think this is nice, and I already found a deal I haven't come across yet on a vehicle I'm interested in, so thanks!

A few initial thoughts:

- I can't click the radio buttons themselves within each options group; only the link/label itself is clickable

- I would rather the mileage filters be < 10k, < 20k, < 36k, etc. If I can't have this, I want to be able to select multiple mileage filters at once

- I want to select multiples of other filters too. Year for example. eBay allows me to enter "2009-2011" or "2009-". I can only view one year at a time on this site.

- It took me a minute to realize I had to select a make before a model (yes, I feel stupid for this); showing an empty stub where the options will appear once I have selected a make is not intuitive - how about not showing the not-yet-ready filters until they are relevant?

- Seeing the "Contact Dealer" red button directly below the phone number made me initially think I was going to be calling the dealer. I finally clicked it after seeing no other place to view the dealer's own listing. I'd make getting to the dealer's site a bit more prominent

deefour··on FireMe - Who wants to get fired?
And (the now defunct) http://pleaserobme.com/ from a couple years ago.
deefour··on How to stop Time Warner Cable sucking at Youtube
You can run

ipfw delete ____

where ____ is the id of the firewall entry.

deefour··on I'd like to use the web my way, thank you very much Quora
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_D%27Angelo
deefour··on Storenvy Goes From Getting Kicked Out Of YC To Raising A $5M Round
It goes by the local government where the kitchen is. Here in Connecticut the home kitchen needs to be inspected/licensed/approved just like any other commercial kitchen.
deefour··on Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon
Dropbox support offered up the ?dl=1 querystring as the solution to permanent, public URLs when I emailed them, but I have the same issue with the fact that the files are forced to download. If they're going to stick with Dropbox branded preview for public URLs, I'd like to at least see a similar ?view=1 querystring to keep images/pdfs/etc.. displaying directly in the browser.
deefour··on Newegg refuses to repair defective laptop because user installed Linux
A debit transaction processes as an EFT against your checking account. A credit transaction goes through your credit card company. You don't get the liability coverage Visa/Masetercard/Amex offer you when you pay with a debit card - its up to you and your bank to try and get your money back, not the big credit card companies' lawyers/fraud departments.
deefour··on YC Facelift: Flutter
I'm pretty sure he's a partner now, but Garry Tan used to be a resident designer for YC

http://mashable.com/2011/01/14/posterous-founder-leaves-star...

deefour··on HTML5 Canvas + JS Fireworks
I think that's got more to do with your computer and/or browser-of-choice than anything. I have to shoot 10+ fireworks at once, with `partCount` at 500+ in order to get below 20fps.

I wish I could make the launch of the firework a bit more realistic; it shouldn't accelerate against gravity. Maybe I just need to play with the settings a bit more, though I can't set an acceleration value less than 1.

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