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Re:Comcast About to Screw Customer's Charging for Bandwidth on Sunday November 10, 2013 @12:03PM (#6707290)
They were already doing this. Maybe in just some places I guess? Previously their cap was 250GB and they would call or threaten disconnect if you hit that multiple months. Then they switched to the block plan where you could go over and just get the extra charge instead of the threats. Then for a good while (up to now, last I checked) they completely put the cap on hold, I'm guessing to test how customers were impacted?? But now perhaps they're either rolling out the block plan everywhere, or just reinstating it and giving proper notice before they turn it back on. So this isn't really new, but short of providing an unlimited plan, this is a good alternative in my opinion.
Re:Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems? on Friday November 01, 2013 @07:05PM (#6657135)
> class="cf-captcha-submit"

Yea, looks like its a custom CF page. I got the standard CF captcha screen when going to pastebin. Screenshot and HTML source below.

Screenshot: http://imgur.com/bylyqlM

HTML: http://pastebin.com/6HrfCWFY

Re:Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems? on Friday November 01, 2013 @06:42PM (#6657009)
Yea, its recaptcha. I'll try to get a screenshot the next time it happens.
Re:Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems? on Friday November 01, 2013 @06:03PM (#6656793)
It shows up with the HN theme (orange bar at top and beige background) but without other links/text like user info on the right or the footer. I first noticed it the other day when I started using a wired connection at work instead of WiFi.
Re:Ask PG: Is HN experiencing server problems? on Friday November 01, 2013 @03:12PM (#6655617)
This might be unrelated, but I'm constantly being prompted for captcha even when I'm just viewing and not trying to respond. Can something be done about this?
Re:Samsung posts first ad for Galaxy Gear smartwatch [video] on Friday October 04, 2013 @06:52PM (#6498550)
I'm waiting for a Dick Tracy themed ad. Halloween is coming up after all...

"Dick Tracy calling Joe Jitsu... calling Joe Jitsu"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=vUx...

It would be nice if I didn't have to set up _another_ repo. Integrating with GitHub or BitBucket would be preferred (be backed by, not just import). That said, I wouldn't actually use it since GitHub lets you edit individual files through the UI. Just an observation. The rest looks nice though.
Re:US Navy to pay $1M to make Android more secure on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:04PM (#5611099)
I think the Naval Research Laboratory is more than capable.

http://www.nrl.navy.mil

Re:Are Bitcoins The Future? on Thursday April 04, 2013 @08:43PM (#5496195)
Maybe they're in the process of gathering their coins!
Re:Official Hacker News T-Shirt on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @04:27PM (#5364649)
Maybe you should allow downvoting for everyone then. I'm more likely to downvote a dismissive reply then I am to upvote every positive reply to overtake it. And on the mention of dismissive comments: as a frequent visitor I feel emotionally safer just reading and not posting... so if there is a karma threshold for allowing downvotes, I doubt I will ever hit it.
> Bellard, born in 1972, began practicing his own coding techniques first on a TI-59 scientific calculator, at the beginning of the ‘80s.

I wonder how many people have started their programming experience on a TI calculator. I had the same way in with a TI-85.

Re:Fizz Buzz codegolf challenge in 15 languages on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:47PM (#4922150)
In other languages n is the number between 1-100 passed into the method. The loop is outside of fizzbuzz_solve.
Re:Fizz Buzz codegolf challenge in 15 languages on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:43PM (#4922129)
=\ No point in trying with Java then?
Re:Fizz Buzz codegolf challenge in 15 languages on Friday December 14, 2012 @12:34PM (#4922074)
I don't understand why this only gets a score of 1:

    static String[] c = { "", "FizzBuzz", "Buzz", "Fizz" };
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        for(int i = 1; i <= 100; i++)
        {
            c[0] = ""+i;
            int f = ((int)Math.ceil((i%3)/3.0))+1;
            int b = ((int)Math.ceil((i%5)/5.0))*2;
            System.out.println(c[(f+b)%4]);
        }
    }
Re:Our weekend hack on GoCardless - HipBucket on Monday April 02, 2012 @09:50AM (#3788056)
CloudFlare doesn't like direct IP access =\
Re:Chrome Now Officially Lets You Open All Email Links In Gmail on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @10:53AM (#3648249)
wut? This is for mailto links on webpages, not links within an email to webpages.
Re:RIM should get in bed with Microsoft, Nokia style on Monday January 23, 2012 @09:40PM (#3503211)
Are you counting the Storm 1 in the 'best hardware' category? Or just the newest of the new?
Re:No New Accounts Today on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @02:43PM (#3481469)
Append ?banner=no to the url.
Re:Show HN: Scroll Reddit on Friday November 04, 2011 @02:49PM (#3197246)
oh dang, just lost about 30m. will bookmark.
I'd be on it if they supported Google apps accounts and not just gmail.
Re:16 Arrested as F.B.I. Hits the Hacking Group Anonymous on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @11:50PM (#2784222)
Seven proxies couldn't hold them back.
Re:G+ invite open again on Thursday July 07, 2011 @09:20AM (#2738305)
You can invite people by adding their email/gmail as a person to share a post with on your stream. You don't need a send invite button. I was able to invite ppl even when it was supposedly closed last week.
Re:Sega says hackers stole data of 1.29 million users on Sunday June 19, 2011 @01:53PM (#2671328)
Lulz has a problem with someone else going after Sega, but thinks its all peachy when they're the ones behind the wheel exposing the faults? Either they are jealous or their intentions aren't to force people to take responsibility for poor security.
Re:Reject the PROTECT IP Act on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @08:49AM (#2632879)
submitting the form will mail and fax your congressmen. so, it is not just another online petition. i got replies from two of them, though canned they seemed, but i know they got them at least.
I was actually thinking about this a couple hours before I saw this. Crazy. Just not about the anonymity part. One thing I came up with was that instead of a trusted website bootstrapper to show a new node to the swarm, one of the nodes could update a DNS record to point to itself. If that node fails, another node is choosen to update the record.

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