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In the about page:

> Using client-side cryptography, your files and text are protected with a special password that is never sent to our servers.

However, the .js file is still sent server-side.

Tony Arcieri notes "there’s nothing to stop anyone who has sufficient access from injecting a malicious payload into it at any point in time." [1] This is a false promise; a user still must trust the server.

[1] http://tonyarcieri.com/whats-wrong-with-webcrypto

It might be easy, but until iOS 8 is released, non-Safari JS still takes a performance hit. [1] You may want to take a look at the Tesseract library and Objective-C wrapper. [2]

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/06/03/ios-8-webkit-changes-finally-a... [2] https://github.com/ldiqual/tesseract-ios

edit: Looking closer at this lib, impressive. Might give it a go.

I can't find information why the design(s) were as they were. The design of Ctrl-Alt-Del was intentionally unintentional.

Gates noted Ctrl-Alt-Del should have been one button, not three [1]. David Bradley, the inventor of the trifecta, did make it deliberately difficult to reboot, however, it was also originally an Easter Egg which made it to production [2].

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4772680/bill-gates-admits-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete#History

The ToS in section 5.10 seems to address it:

http://www.fifa.com/legal/tos.html

  5.10 If You wish to use or display any FIFA feeds / FIFA APIs on Your website:

  (a) FIFA grants to You a non-transferable, royalty free, non-exclusive license to
  display such feeds on Your website subject to these Terms;
  
  (b) You expressly agree: (i) to ensure that the FIFA feed / FIFA API does not
  state or imply that FIFA approves of, sponsors or endorses any other website 
  activity, company or entity, resource, content, or presents FIFA and/or its 
  activities in a false, misleading, defamatory or derogatory manner or otherwise 
  damages FIFA's reputation or takes advantage of it; and (ii) to properly attribute
  the FIFA feeds used to FIFA to avoid any misappropriation or confusion;
  
  (c) where possible, You must create a functional link back to the FIFA story or
  other material summarized by the relevant FIFA feed.

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4007229

In addition, as of January 2013, merchants are allowed to add a surcharge.

http://usa.visa.com/personal/get-help/checkout-fees.jsp

Thoughtback [https://thoughtback.com/] is an incredible web app / app for this. I don't think provides a public mechanism.

Simply, I enter an idea and in return, I'm immediately given one I posted before, reinforcing the idea.

I feel like I'm making 2-4 hours a day.

The rest of the time, I'm producing 6-8, but the remainder don't feel productive.

Such is ilfe.

That's the beautiful thing about DVCS, no?

Please elaborate where the official git sources are.

An unofficial mirror: https://github.com/libressl/libressl

I've not used any of these services, YMMV.

http://unbounce.com/

http://launchrock.co/

http://www.ioninteractive.com/

https://www.google.com/search?q=landing+page+as+a+service

It is now. It wasn't at the time of vacri's post. Top of the homepage is best.

"Heartbleed Bug" Q&A: http://heartbleed.com/

To be fair, this wasn't searchable in 1996. :)

They rediscovered the card a couple days ago and the string of characters only results in the content itself. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=OFWAIHHBTNTKCTWBDOEAIIIHFU...

The solution was someone recognizing the pattern, not arbitrary Googling, which I find far more interesting.

Tell me, either way a Soekris box or an OpenWRT compatible router, how this brings a solution to the masses.

I don't. The English version [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geigenwerk] suggests the a hurdy-gurdy wheel is in constant contact with strings, while the viola organista allows for a large number of strings to lower on to the wheel, so individual notes strings and notes are played.

This seems like he moved technology forward, no?

First off, I didn't know the hurdy-gurdy was an instrument, nor did I know it preceded this. Guess I really didn't pay attention to Donovan's lyrics…

I'm even more curious now. I want to know why this couldn't or wouldn't have been built before.

Adobe Topcoat [http://topcoat.io/] provides metrics. The "optimized" CSS is growing, and becoming an interesting space.

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I upvoted this 10 times, even though it counts once. Thank you, scoofy.

Huh: http://asana.github.io/kraken/

Agreed. I commented on the organization. One expects the NSA to provide a sub-par post-mortem.

a) it is the NSA and

b) it is a "marketing" website

I'm not sure what utility www.nsa.gov provides beyond a mission statement. Never was curious before, now I am. :)

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It sure is. It's been down for hours.

    http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/nsa.gov.html

Funny thing is, outages for GitHub and its ilk hit HN in minutes. Either way, the transparency in the post-mortem is more valuable and telling than the outage. Organizations need to prove themselves with transparency to build and earn trust.

Yet, one of these things is not like the other.

> Once upon a midnight dreary, while I {pon}ered

It's a visual demonstration how gzip works. The first line says it all. 'pon' matches the bytes in 'upon', the first first instance, thus it's pointer to those bytes instead of "duplicating" the pattern. As the text goes on, there are more matches, thus more pointers.

Thoughtback [https://thoughtback.com/] sent me a pertinent reminder this morning. No affiliation, just a great tool.

    Organizational metrics, which are not related to the code, can predict software
    failure-proneness with a precision and recall of 85 percent. This is a significantly
    higher precision than traditional metrics such as churn, complexity, or coverage 
    that have been used until now to predict failure-proneness. [1]

[1] The Influence of Organizational Structure On Software Quality: An Empirical Case Study

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/pubs/default.aspx?id=7053...

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It isn't all GoDaddy. I have no affiliation with GoDaddy. I don't use them anymore myself.

WestHost or otherwise, WordPress sites, bar none, need a caching plugin.

Thank you for Greg Wilson's talk.

I've been trying to find empirical information about software development and he's frank about the lack of it. He noted work by Lutz Prechelt [http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/w/SE/OurPublications], for one.

> If you want to get the best advertising delivered to you, based on your actual interests, start here.

They make no compunction, though, that's not what I want.

No.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6248089

Given what you know, you may recuse yourself. Others are not afforded that decision. Even at a cost.

Also see http://huboard.com/.