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If you reread the article, I actually say you should add a meta header regardless of whether you do or don't want to send headers. Why? It actually solves your "next in the TODO list". Most web sites that shouldn't send referrers don't use
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1) User's browser requests page from Site A 2) Page from Site A suggests what should be sent in the referrer via the meta referrer 3) User clicks on link from Site A to Site B 4) User's browser requests page from Site B (referrer is set by
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This is the default behaviour, thought it indeed likely means sensitive referrers are being leaked from website X to third party website Y. In most cases I'd wager people aren't aware this is the default behaviour. An example where the defa
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Whilst I still think referrers should be used where appropriate, there are certainly places or reasons you want to nix them. HTTPS not passing along referrers by default is a sensible decision, as is the addition of <meta name="referrer
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Where did all the HTTP referrers go?(smerity.com)
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This is a beautiful book -- thanks for pointing it out! It's a graphical and mathematically light introduction to many of the areas in which fractals / space-filling curves intersect with programming, even if it's not explicitly pointed out
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Wow, I was curious as to how bad it could be ... It's bad. The first video that came up on YouTube is an episode on the official Disney channel[1]. The plot involves exactly what you said: consistently snarky comments, combative conversatio
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The advantage with the signs before the final water sign is that they should be enough for any reasonably alert driver and don't make the environment more hazardous. You really want to have the water screen projection, which douses the road
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Agreed but that's only applicable when you have a product. I should have specified that I was coming at this from the point of view that someone's writing a single page article or blog post with no conversion target other than to have it re
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Assuming you have a reasonable estimate on the time spent reading an article, the distribution of time spent on the page can be telling as to the quality of the article and how you conveyed the content. If a reader leaves early that's possi
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I did consider the possibility of Instapaper, Readability or other similar apps, but as you say I couldn't imagine they'd be the majority, even on the relatively tech savvy Hacker News. As an example of alternate HN clients, hckrnews.com ha
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Understood. Other services do accurately measure this however. ChartBeat[1] tries to differentiate between users who are reading, writing and so on. Re: your example, it does literally keep track of how far you scrolled as well. Unfortunate
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I was just discussing this with a friend today. We both had front page stories on HN recently. He reported 6k of 6.8k[1] leaving within 10 seconds and I saw that 11k of 13.5k[2] left within 10 seconds. If these numbers aren't accurate due t
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Good point, I guess I didn't add an explicit explanation, instead building up to it implicitly. I've fixed that now. Thanks for the feedback. ---- When the GIF software decides to take a snapshot of the animation instead of playing it, it g
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I was going to mention APNG but honestly it's dead. The PNG Group itself decided not to embrace APNG in April 2007. The format's years old now and even if it were to make a comeback, it still faces all the same issues as WebP except without
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You'll need to wait a while longer, then, I think. GIF really should have died a long time ago. It's technologically inferior and lives in only the smallest image niche of the web, animation. WebP should win over GIF. It's smaller, can be e
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Thanks for pointing that example out! I should have searched when I wrote about it, but it just tangentially dawned on me that true-colour GIFs were possible as I was writing the article.
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Just to back up your point of "most countries have", the report in [1] provides an interesting read. It also shows America previously performing industrial espionage as well, targeting both government and civilian targets, and commonly pass
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Google Sydney has servers on site, but they may well just be to be local productivity aids (mirrors for development etc). Google generally don't publicise where their servers are or what they're for. Even if the servers are just like any st
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To expand on one of the points in the article, let's expand venture capital raised per capita[1]... Israel: $170 per capita, USA: $75 per capita, Australia: $4.09 per capita. Austrlaia literally spend more on a single day of gambling (Melbo
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AWS have owned the base cloud market with EC2 and S3. What I find impressive is that they're continuously lowering prices competitively[1] and expanding their services in a way that makes their base offering more attractive. OpsWorks starts
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This is a good time to remind ourselves: Facebook's API is a service and can be a single point of failure for your business. Unlike AWS, you don't even pay for it and it has a history of being problematic[1]. Allowing users to log in to you
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I think your suggestions are good. I've found that the weakest element of Coursera courses were discussion. Even with heroic efforts of the volunteer tutors, the forums still end up cluttered and confusing. For this person to come in and tr
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I should have specified earlier: Google Sparsehash also contains Densehash which is optimised for speed, not space. It, however, is also more space efficient than most other hash implementations. Check out dense_hash_map[1] [1]: http://spa
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Agreed. When I was working on Google App Engine, the Quota team sat next to me. The Quota team are the service that just about every other service at Google calls to ensure a user isn't abusing "The Google". That means that they need to hav
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Just to expand on this, if you spend $2-5 million on reserved instances, you get a standard 20% discount[1]. If you spend more than $5 million, Amazon just say "Contact Us". Heroku certainly qualify for the "Contact Us" discount: at an aver
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I'm glad to see this blogged about as it was on my todo list. I have numerous previous examples of this scam as well if people want to compare and contrast (free sunglasses [Oakleys], free headphones [Beats by Dr Dre], etc). What annoys me
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I thought this would be popular considering a large number of Hacker News readers use S3 for static hosting, especially given the rise in popularity of static site generators like Jekyll. Lack of proper redirects has been a recurring issue,
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AWS announces web page redirects for Amazon S3 hosted websites(aws.amazon.com)
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