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I would have preferred to write out "Analyis" but there was a character limit.
by dontbenebby 4y ago
I would have preferred to write out "Analyis" but there was a character limit.
- dredmorbius 4y ago"I Know Why you went to the clinic: Risks of HTTPS Traffic Analysis" is 66 characters. (Your're allowed up to 80.)
- bradknowles 4y agoExcept that would be changing the title, which is verboten.
- dredmorbius 4y agoUntrue. Editing titles is specifically permitted to improve the title quality: If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it. E.g. translate "10 Ways To Do X" to "How To Do X," and "14 Amazing Ys" to "Ys." Exception: when the number is meaningful, e.g. "The 5 Platonic Solids." Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html And shortening is specifically permitted as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21515548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21515548 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31962722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31962722 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743041 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31743041
- dontbenebby 4y agoI wouldn't mind if it's edited. I don't understand why I had the issue in the first place. Maybe I was copying excessive whitespace? I know that can happen if the original was done in latex.
- dredmorbius 4y agoAFAIU HN compresses out redundant whitespace. The original title of the paper, "I Know Why You Went to the Clinic: Risks and Realization of HTTPS Traffic Analysis", is 83 characters. HN's limit is 80. Removing the words "and Realization" drops the character count to 67, well within HN's allowance. That's what I'd done in my alternate suggestion: A: "I Know Why you went to the clinic: Risks and Realization of HTTPS Traffic Analysis" B: "I Know Why you went to the clinic: Risks of HTTPS Traffic Analysis"
- dontbenebby 4y agoThen why did it tell me too many characters when I copied and pasted directly from the PDF? (Feel free to try to replicate it. I actually spent a few minutes playing with ellipsises to find a different way to chop it.)
- dredmorbius 4y agoI've suggested a shortened edit of the original, if you compare my version to it.
- winternett 4y agoLots of people go tp clinics for colonoscopies, so it's kinda Anal(ysis)... Bit of a stretch I know...