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martinmlon EBay Inc. To Ask All eBay Users To Change Passwords

I edited the 'value' attribute of the input elements and pasted my password there. Maximum of 20 chars also :\

martinmlon R3 – High-performance URL router library in C

martinmlon CutJS – Fast 2D HTML5 rendering engine for game development

You probably don't have GPU acceleration enabled/supported in your browser. For example, if you use Chrome, check about:gpu.

martinmlon Brick. Webfonts that look good

Inertia (aka it's still working). I'm planning to upgrade OS and hardware before support ends. I can't wait to have more than 4 GB of RAM ;)

martinmlon Brick. Webfonts that look good

I guess it depends on your setup. On Windows XP + ClearType + Chrome the difference is _huge_, it has a much better font smoothing.

martinmlon Show HN: GitPrint.com – A site to easily print Markdown files on GitHub

http://phantomjs.org/

martinmlon Telcos gouging on SMS by up to 90,000%, says consumer group

This was one of the reasons WhatsApp was a big success, at least in Europe, and I suspect it's a reason it's not as well known in USA (they usually have hundreds or unlimited texts included in their plans).

You can't expect to get away forever with charging 15 cent + tax per SMS.

martinmlon Adobe releases emergency Flash update amid new zero-day drive-by attacks

If you use a native click-to-play solution, it will prevent it unless you're victim of some kind of clickjacking attack.

If you use a show-then-hide-with-CSS script (there are several for Chrome, for example), they won't prevent it.

martinmlon Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs

That changed. The app is now[0] free and it's $1/year, in every platform.

[0]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/20/3787472/whatsapp-for-ios-...

martinmlon 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

That's what I've read too, but there doesn't seem to be any official story. I've also read that they closed because it was being abused with services like Classicfon where you earn a few cents per hour you call them. VoIP is a crazy world.

martinmlon 100 time cheaper dropbox like service

Not exactly what dewey was referring to, but for example they unilaterally cancelled their VoIP service to a large part of their customers in Europe, without any kind of explanation.

martinmlon How to Start an Anonymous Blog

You're probably thinking of "tag". The "ref" parameter doesn't have anything to do with Amazon's affiliate program (which is what I understand you're talking about).

martinmlon Taking PHP Seriously

An opcache code just stores the bytecode so you just avoid the parsing step in each request. It does not inherently optimizes anything, although it has been tried with APC in the past (but finally abandoned). I don't know what's the status with the new official opcache and optimization.

martinmlon Taking PHP Seriously

Also about 2), haxe: http://haxe.org/doc/start/php

martinmlon Non-US Cards Used At Target Fetch Premium

If the payment gateway decides to not implement this kind of protection, the payment goes through anyway (I'm guessing it'll be more expensive for the merchant, but still).

martinmlon Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone

Well, yes, an unlocked/unlockable bootloader is not the same as a rooted phone, that's correct. But the former often leads to the latter: for example, the process of rooting a Nexus phone involves flashing a new recovery system, which takes advantage of the unlocked bootloader.

If you don't have an unlocked bootloader, you have to resort to exploits and other flaws in the system. Releasing a phone with an unlockable bootloader is opening a door to rooting and many "unauthorized" modifications.

That's what I mean they're the same in practical terms.

martinmlon Google just approved our first CyanogenMod phone

It is on practical terms!

martinmlon Regex Golf

Because for example "beam" matches [^g-z]. That is, it has a letter somewhere that is not between g and z (namely e and a). I came up with ^[a-f]+$ but I'm guessing it could be shorter :)

Edit: ah, every word in left column has 4 a-f letters. So [a-f]{4} is a shorter match.

martinmlon Ask HN: We are looking to rethink discussion platforms. Your suggestions?

Discourse seems to be working on that problem:

http://meta.discourse.org/t/feedback-improved-topic-summary-...

martinmlon eBay remote code execution

More details in /r/netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1sqppp/ebay_remoteco...

martinmlon 300ms tap delay removed on Chrome for Android

That's starting to change!

Android 4.4 (KitKat) includes a new WebView component based on the Chromium open source project

Will the new WebView auto-update? (...) There are large engineering and logistical challenges. We're not quite there yet, but we're working on it.

https://developers.google.com/chrome/mobile/docs/webview/ove...

martinmlon Compute Engine Load Balancing hits 1 million requests per second

Previously on HN... :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804897

martinmlon MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine

I thought it was a benchmark of the same hardware with 5.6 vs 5.7. I see now that they changed more than that.

martinmlon MySQL 5.7: over 1M queries/sec on a single machine

Well, the performance under the same conditions was 500KQPS before, so definitely there was an improvement!

martinmlon DDR4 Memory Will Be Released By Next Month

It's just blogspam. Here is the original source, which according to The Wayback Machine was created almost a year ago: http://www.crucial.com/promo/DDR4.aspx

martinmlon Steps to install tmux in Cygwin

I've found network folder sharing (cifs or vboxfs) to be quite slow and buggy for certain tasks. Is there any known good alternative?

martinmlon Ask HN: Why does no one use client certficates for auto-authentication?

If you can use a password to generate/link a new certificate, wouldn't that mean the weakest link is again the password? Sorry if I am misunderstanding, it's a very interesting topic but I'm not sure I get it :)