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by aminuit 17y ago
Also, when you say "HTTPS servers set DF," are you observing from the server or from the client? Over the Internet, it's likely that you'd see different values for DF on opposite sides of the connection. Any router can set or clear the DF
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by aminuit 17y ago
Did you try tweaking ip_no_pmtu_disc and run your tests? I played a bit with the openssl test client/server and it seems to respect ip_no_pmtu_disc. Test goes something like this: 1) In one window run openssl s_server 2) In anothe
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by aminuit 17y ago
On Linux (at least recent kernels), there are a number of variables that can determine whether or not DF is set on outgoing packets. I ran a few tests with (Ubuntu Hardy) firefox and it seems largely to vary based on the value of /proc/sys
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by aminuit 17y ago
This article is based on a false premise. Because HTTPS clients and servers set the DF or Do Not Fragment IP flag on packets and regular HTTP clients and servers do not. There is nothing anywhere in any standard that requires DF to be set
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by aminuit 17y ago
Darl McBride wasn't taking any risks. He was being compensated to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars per year for driving SCO to bankruptcy. There was no risk involved if he was going to be rewarded regardless of the outcome.
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by aminuit 17y ago
grep -i '^[qwertasdfgzxcv]*$' /usr/share/dict/american-english | shuf | less lots of good ideas.
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by aminuit 17y ago
People, for some reason, feel much worse interrupting you if you are wearing headphones than if you're not. I love my headphones, but this doesn't work at all for me. Usually it just means that I'll get startled by someone tapping me on
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by aminuit 17y ago
Are you suggesting that std::string, or as my not-so-friendly c++ compiler likes to call it std::basic_string<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::basic_string(const _CharT*, const _Alloc&) [with _CharT = char, _Traits = std::cha
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by aminuit 17y ago
I don't understand this. As a consumer buying a video game, I'm trying to maximize my entertainment per dollar. Why would I ever pay more than the minimum amount? Maybe the HN crowd will pay a little more out of a sense of camaraderie, b
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by aminuit 17y ago
I can't believe people are agreeing with you. I'm not even sure you've ever written software professionally. C script? C is compiled. Nobody says "C script". One developer commenting other developers code? That's ridiculous. You're e
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by aminuit 17y ago
Even on your example of a typical Indian 256kbps circuit, a 700k update is only about 20s. http://www25.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=700+kilobytes/256+kbps And it's going to happen in the background anyway. jQuery (as per jQuery.com)
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by aminuit 17y ago
This isn't a clever way to update to lynx, or to send firmware updates to a Mars rover (that would be really cool use case). It's for Google Chrome, the browser that Google built to handle the next generation (read as: bandwidth hungry) of
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by aminuit 17y ago
Yes I read the article as well. The issue is that Google probably has as close as you can get to an infinite amount of bandwidth, which makes this sort of a low priority item. I don't want to trivialize the technology; it's obviously very
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by aminuit 17y ago
It's a very impressive achievment, but I'm not sure I buy their motivation for doing the work. 70k vs 700k? It's a blink of an eye on today's Internet. Sounds more like a very bright engineer wanted to work on a cool project, then revers
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Why Bing Is the Wrong Name(codingthewheel.com)
5 points by aminuit 17y ago|1 comments
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by aminuit 17y ago
Not exactly. The standard only defines pointer subtraction between two pointers that point into the same array object. That's not what's going on here. If he had written ((func_table+max) - (func_table+0)) then yes you would just g
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by aminuit 17y ago
Experiments ought to be repeatable. Here is a quick bash/perl script to generate the parts he left out. It expects that you have copied his main module to a file called main.c in the CWD. echo "Generating funcs.h" perl -e 'for (
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by aminuit 17y ago
Smart. Are you planning to charge for it? What about recurring vs. non-recurring specials? I'm looking forward to trying it out.
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by aminuit 17y ago
I like it. Does it work all over the country? I thought of doing a similar thing, but it seemed difficult to scrape this type of data from the Internet. If it's not your secret sauce I'd love to know how you're gathering the happy hour d
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by aminuit 17y ago
16 and I worked for at an ice cream shop too! Corporate chain type though. $5.25/hr (1998 dollars). edit: birthday paradox in action?
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by aminuit 17y ago
I doubt people are using URL shorteners because they're bumping up against twitter's 140 character limit. It has become the trendy thing to do, and most non-technical users probably use it only because everyone else is. Anyone know where
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by aminuit 17y ago
I'm pretty sure it's impossible for bit.ly to set the referer since it is supplied by the browser. If you could actually spoof the referer that would have fairly serious security consequences.
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by aminuit 17y ago
It's interesting that the web 2.0 crowd have created their own system of buzzword compliance, all the while rejecting the enterprise development version of the same thing. Unfortunately there's a pattern here. We'll surely get past the Ag
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by aminuit 17y ago
The same article was posted about 2 months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552581
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by aminuit 17y ago
Purported interview with the anonymous developer: http://fourpointreport.com/blog/?p=978
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by aminuit 17y ago
Interesting article. The author makes a strong case that Charter was mismanaged under Paul Allen's stewardship, but poor management is not the same as securities fraud. He does make a very strong case that the UBS analyst turned investment
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by aminuit 17y ago
I posted it because of the interesting, if unethical, business idea. The technical bits are probably unsophisticated.
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Corrupted Word Files for Sale(schneier.com)
62 points by aminuit 17y ago|32 comments
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by aminuit 17y ago
Anyone buying this? I don't think a spreadsheet with a list of servers and applications constitutes compelling evidence that they have "everything." There are probably hundreds or thousands of people at T-Mobile who could get this list.
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by aminuit 17y ago
YouTube probably costs a small fortune, even in Google terms, to keep running. So I think the question is: how long can they keep running YouTube at a huge loss before shareholders grow unhappy?

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