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parktheredcar··on Ask HN: What are some books where the reader learns by building projects?
There's a good web app companion to the first half of this course at http://nandgame.com/ as well.
parktheredcar··on Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests
I think recent years have proven that despite all the memeing about things like rest, "don't break the web" is not a value shared by all of the parties involved.

The takeaway is that for those of us that do still wish to uphold those values, we can let this serve as a lesson that we should not publish assets behind urls we don't control.

parktheredcar··on First Battle of the Marne – Entente forces counter attack
I actually like the fresh approach to telling a story they're experimenting with, but they do have some bugs. Specifically that pop-over dialog you're talking about - if you set the window to half-size, a close button appears that apparently is getting lost in the responsive layout breakpoints. Pressing Escape will also close it.

If the site owner ends up visiting - please consider using some form of javascript routing or html5 history tied in to any full-page repaints to allow for backing out and using native browser functionality! Interesting page that I'll be checking back to later at any rate.

parktheredcar··on Top Single-Board Computers Introduced this Year
Slideshow
parktheredcar··on Technical report on DNC hack [pdf]
The bloomberg article I read (http://archive.is/j5wRd) presented it as evidence. Maybe other publications are doing the same.

>As part of the administration’s response, the FBI and Homeland Security Department also released a report with technical evidence intended to prove Russia’s military and civilian intelligence services were behind the hacking and to expose some of their most sensitive hacking infrastructure.

parktheredcar··on Tips to Unlock the Potential of Microsoft OneNote (2014)
I have some experience with their powerpoint library, not bad for sure but I really wanted to make a ribbon plugin integrated into OneNote desktop.
parktheredcar··on Tips to Unlock the Potential of Microsoft OneNote (2014)
I didn't, I was hoping to work on the desktop app with offline files.
parktheredcar··on Tips to Unlock the Potential of Microsoft OneNote (2014)
Why ideas why Microsoft doesn't officially support OneNote plugin development? I was trying to put something together the other day to bulk insert pages and it took hours just to piece together a working VS project that was compatible with OneNote 2013.
parktheredcar··on GSM Network Characterization Using Software Defined Radios
Could you already make an app like pressurenet to do this for towers?
parktheredcar··on Introducing Pebble Time
I wonder if they are getting the usual 5% or if there's some sort of partnership based on the two companies' histories together.
parktheredcar··on Introducing Pebble Time
Maybe watches can be practical tools again, and not just a status symbol hanging off your arm.
parktheredcar··on Introducing Pebble Time
It looks like a sport watch. That's still a watch...

I'm ok with pebble not trying to be jewelery.

parktheredcar··on Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll have to consider it. That's definitely a workaround but I've had issues with instability on nightly builds in the past because... well... they're nightly builds. Could things be worse than having no phone functionality on my phone? Hmm....
parktheredcar··on Microsoft to invest in Cyanogen
So, can someone address the Nexus 4 no call audio issue? Because right now I can't make emergency calls.
parktheredcar··on IBM says 'several thousand' layoffs on the way
awful secret of enterprise software. or maybe it's not so much a secret, I don't know.
parktheredcar··on Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers
Thanks for sharing, that looks like an interesting read.

There was also this paper (linking to summary) about figuring out how to decode the audio of someone typing on a keyboard.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/acoustic-snooping-...

parktheredcar··on Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers
I feel like with most security research the only way to get $INDUSTRY to take things seriously is if there's an easy tool for anyone to use that exposes the weakness, like firesheep with https. For individuals driven by money, you need to get their customers riled up. So in a way, developing open tools to exploit weaknesses is a way of countering the weaknesses in the long run.
parktheredcar··on Researchers work to counter a new class of coffee shop hackers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking
parktheredcar··on CyanogenMod 12 nightlies available
The support of a single device reflects the quality of the project overall?
parktheredcar··on Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video]
These are some great resources! Thanks.
parktheredcar··on Implementing a bignum calculator – Rob Pike [video]
Does anybody have suggestions for sources of software / computing / codecasting related videos similar to this? Something to put on in the background while working?

TOPLAP (http://toplap.org/) is a decent example of this but they are focused on audio/visual entertainment only.

Basically I'm looking for Twitch for programmers.

parktheredcar··on Google Fiber Austin
How is Google Fiber's customer service? I have heard lots of complaints about support for their free products, and most US users know the typical (Comcast, Verizon) ISP has terrible service, but I haven't heard anything about Fiber itself. Does anybody have first hand experience?
parktheredcar··on Unpatchable Malware That Infects USBs
Why so many Wired Magazine articles lately?
parktheredcar··on I was asked to crack a program in a job interview
kali default user?
parktheredcar··on iOS8 Adoption, hour by hour
I'm pretty sure there is a setting on highcharts to treat missing data points as zero. They just have to set that to false, not too complicated...?
parktheredcar··on How to Use Your Cat to Hack Your Neighbor’s Wi-Fi
I think the EFF has been pushing this idea recently.
parktheredcar··on Show HN: Spot hyped news at a glance on Hacker News and Reddit
Do chrome extensions allow you to enter javascript functions that get executed via settings? I could see something like a 'custom hype formatter' callback option that passes a dom reference to the news item along with its hype ranking being pretty neat.
parktheredcar··on The Scraping Problem and Ethics
Could you explain your point of view? I'd like to understand both sides here and I think I understand why more competition would be good, but now why it wouldn't be.
parktheredcar··on YouTube Founders to Sell Delicious, a Social Bookmarking Site
What would HN, Reddit, etc be classified as if not social bookmarking?
parktheredcar··on Pebble (YC W11) sells 400,000 smart watches in its first year
It's very good for delivering information from the smartphone without having to reach in your pocket. Any notification has its text delivered to the watch. On the other hand I haven't found it to be terribly useful at taking input. Awkward buttons with awkward placement on the wrist, it's just easier to pull out the touchscreen. Still, just as a satellite screen it's really nice to have. Sure, I could technically live without it just as I could technically live without a smartphone, but I have chosen to wear mine every day for the last year or so.
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