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by Smerity 12y ago
The team at the Internet Archive, responsible for Wayback Machine, ArchiveTeam, the TV News Archive, and many other projects, are true gems. I had the chance to meet Brewster and many others whilst last in San Francisco and their passion is
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by Smerity 12y ago
For only one million web pages, the job would likely be quite cheap. The Common Crawl corpus is hundreds of millions of pages and, given the right setup, only takes $10 to $100 to process, especially for relatively light entity extraction.
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by Smerity 12y ago
As Google Analytics is "self reporting" (i.e. your browser tells the GA servers what it's doing) you can avoid reporting or erroneously report whatever you'd like. It'd likely be easier for you just to block Google
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by Smerity 12y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own results from a research project I did using the Common C
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by Smerity 12y ago
It actually isn't a compiler error in Go to deviate from gofmt's specification* but it is a widely enforced rule in the community. Most major Go projects use gofmt and any Go code, such as the built-in libraries, are gofmt'ed
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Paul Graham's Participatory Narcissism (2008)(blog.codinghorror.com)
9 points by Smerity 13y ago|2 comments
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Common Crawl's Move to Nutch(commoncrawl.org)
3 points by Smerity 13y ago|0 comments
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The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks(krebsonsecurity.com)
93 points by Smerity 13y ago|48 comments
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EFF Challenges New Jersey Subpoena Issued to MIT Student Bitcoin Developers(eff.org)
254 points by Smerity 13y ago|59 comments
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by Smerity 13y ago
I was testing disaster recovery for the database cluster I was managing. Spun up new instances on AWS, pulled down production data, created various disasters, tested recovery. Surprisingly it all seemed to work well. These disaster recovery
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by Smerity 13y ago
I quite like Bret Victor and points he has made previously, but this seems entirely aimed at inspiring a flamewar. I'd love to have a discussion around this, but I don't feel that will happen due to the way the message was portray
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by Smerity 13y ago
I said upfront that this is not a straight up comparison. The main point for me is that I walk past the memorial for the MIT police officer killed in duty about once per week. One of these events had a tremendous impact on MIT and the surro
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by Smerity 13y ago
I'm still more disturbed by the laws in play. Aaron was facing a cumulative maximum penalty of 35 years in prison. The roommates of one of the Boston bombers was only facing 25 years in prison[1] if found guilty of helping Dzhokhar Tsa
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by Smerity 13y ago
Self promotion is no issue when you have high quality content! I started picking locks recently for fun and your guide on YouTube is one of my favourite resources. It's also my go-to whenever trying to show someone in a minute or two t
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by Smerity 13y ago
In the article I explicitly say this won't work sadly :( While the Google Analytics JS is loaded over HTTPS, the tracking information sent back to Google inherits HTTP/HTTPS from the website itself. That means if you're on a
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Google, make Google Analytics HTTPS by default(smerity.com)
75 points by Smerity 13y ago|24 comments
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by Smerity 13y ago
There are two primary issues here: the prevalence of Google Analytics and the unencrypted nature of the majority of websites. Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k,
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by Smerity 13y ago
Edward Snowden isn't mentioned, no, but it's largely due to him that the debate and recent revelations have been so heavily discussed by so many. We'd known about strange telecommunication interception by governments for year
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by Smerity 13y ago
I loved the Startup School Notes and this is the perfect continuation. You've taken all the publicity and activity and directed it straight to a cause which was pitched with emotion and conviction to the Startup School crowd. It's
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by Smerity 13y ago
For those who might not know, Hal Daumé III is a highly respected researcher in machine learning, spending a lot of time working in Natural Language Processing (NLP). He also contributes his knowledge to many interesting open source project
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by Smerity 13y ago
They already provide adapters for standard Python HTML parsing libraries[1], specifically html5lib and BeautifulSoup. This is how they suggest it be used with Python[2]. [1]: https://github.com/google/gumbo-parser/
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by Smerity 13y ago
Singling out GitHub seems silly. If you're on GitHub, have a .gitconfig with name + email, and you've made a commit, then that's all public. If a site uses your Gravatar, game over: Gravatar's literally a raw MD5 of your
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Roy Castillo: How I Exposed your Primary Facebook Email Address (worth $4500)(roy-castillo.blogspot.de)
1 points by Smerity 13y ago|0 comments
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NCSS Challenge 2013: Help teenagers get a running start in Computer Science(groklearning.com)
10 points by Smerity 13y ago|1 comments
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by Smerity 13y ago
I love PostgreSQL but many of the tools for it are nowhere near the same level of quality as PostgreSQL itself. Many of the past start-ups have used MySQL and whilst the base may not be as good the tooling on top makes their replication set
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by Smerity 13y ago
For others who might be interested, compilation works fine in Ubuntu 12.04 after `apt-get install build-essential nasm qemu`. If you install libsdl and libsdl-dev you can run the reference version written in C which runs significantly faste
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by Smerity 13y ago
The post is fun, thanks. I like Tim's idea of "taking the journey" with a programmer on discovering new content. It's certainly the best way to introduce the topic to others. All the potential sticking issues have been h
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by Smerity 13y ago
I'd be immensely wary of Sony declaring themselves open to indie devs. When I was a teenager I did homebrew development on the Sony PSP. Sony did every damned thing in their power to stop it. To run homebrew, you had to either run an o
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by Smerity 13y ago
Whilst yes, GitHub Sudo Mode will certainly help if you leave your machine unattended or someone snipes just your session, but it won't help if someone gets your password. GitHub should have two-factor authentication by now. We've already s
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by Smerity 13y ago
I didn't realise I missed a point to address, I'll seek to clarify. It's always the user's choice as to whether to send referrers or not, as the referrer is actually added by the user's web browser itself. Extensions exist for just about ev

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