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by callahad 10y ago
Google's marketing term for websites that use Service Workers in a manner that allows the site to function while offline. The sites also have to publish a Manifest file with metadata like icons and a start URL to be considered a "
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by callahad 10y ago
Lyft allows for in-app tipping, and has a more humane contract with its drivers, as outlined in this Wired article: https://www.wired.com/2016/01/lyft-drivers-settle-suit-but-s... Specifically, Lyft can only deact
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This one also sets the body to `overflow: hidden` and has a scroll event listener that tries to prevent scrolling the document. At which point I bounced.
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https://mitmproxy.org/ or https://charlesproxy.com/
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by callahad 10y ago
What's the expected final toolchain for C -> Wasm? If I understand correctly, there are at least two competing backends (upstream llvm, emscripten-fastcomp), as well as several paths through binaryen (s2wasm, asm2wasm)... and Binary
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by callahad 10y ago
Can you say more about this? I may have a country change in my near future.
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The combination of Custom Elements and Shadow DOM allow you to create a separate, semantic representation of your markup that you can script against, while encapsulating the actual markup required for presentation. E.g., imagine you wanted
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So... what's the next best alternative for obtaining lossless (FLAC) audio? Buying physical CDs seems a bit wasteful, but a bunch of artists only make their digital catalogs available in lossy formats.
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by callahad 10y ago
Doh! I was in India earlier this year and forgot to change currencies on the way out. Any ideas for a US national holding 9 of the Rs500 notes?
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by callahad 10y ago
Yep, though hopefully we'll be able to avoid reinventing wheels and instead re-use something like WebFinger / WebFist and... something... from OpenID Connect. My immediate concern between now and the end of the Persona shutdown is
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Exactly! And you can run one instance for all your projects, regardless of language, instead of having to set up Django-All-Auth for one and Ruby OmniAuth for another. Plus, if we can succeed at the federated discovery protocol part, user
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by callahad 10y ago
I think you mean to be in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12861815
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All components of Persona were fully open source from the beginning, but we unintentionally built a few intractable points of centralization into the system that made it impossible to meaningfully self-host without native protocol support i
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by callahad 10y ago
Technically, you always created an account when you used Persona. Sometimes with a password, sometimes without. Sometimes old passwords would come back to haunt you if your domain added and then removed support for BrowserID. Sometimes yo
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by callahad 10y ago
Persona had grown into a gigantic, unmaintainable, big ball of mud. If I recall correctly, the ongoing operational expenses were in the very low 5-figures annually, but it was bitrotting, we weren't able to transition Persona to commun
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by callahad 10y ago
Persona was many things to many people -- arguably too many -- everyone from the old core team has a different idea of what features defined Persona. :) For me, it was the developer experience: trivial setup, email in/authentication o
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Yes. It's multi-provider authentication as a service. I think this matters, since it means I can run a single instance to support all of my projects, regardless of language, because everything speaks HTTP. I don't have to grappl
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Portier is an implementation detail for the websites you're using -- it doesn't do anything but validate addresses, and it doesn't have any kind of persistent database. It'd be up to the sites you're using to have s
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by callahad 10y ago
I'm not sure it's a fundamental flaw: it's exactly identical to sending a confirmation email when a user signs up for a website, which is considered a best practice on the Web. If that works well enough for the Web at large
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by callahad 10y ago
Postmark just dropped our outbound email for high bounce rates. Falling back to SendGrid :/ Try again in 5 minutes. Edit: Ask HN: Any suggestions for solving this? Hitting the frontpage means people are spamming the login form with bog
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by callahad 10y ago
There's a little more discussion of that over on Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/fkosun/ . The TL;DR is that URIs just didn't work for the mass public. You had to supplement the login form with a NASCAR-esq
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by callahad 10y ago
It will be! We're not sure what the eventual protocol will look like, but it'll probably start with webfinger, which can then point to whatever authentication gateway you want. We only need SMTP as the base case in the chain of st
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We're literally running this on a hobby-tier Heroku dyno, with free-level redis and smtp services and doing fine at the tens-of-requests-per-minute rate. So you should be able to host your own! :) Once we implement https://g
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We discussed this in https://github.com/portier/portier-broker/issues/44 , and unfortunately don't think there's a good way to blanket-enable support for G Suite domains. :( I'd really love to m
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by callahad 10y ago
In the long run, authentication should be baked into browsers, and it seems like FIDO U2F is making decent strides in that arena. For right now, I think Portier hits a sweet spot for smaller sites without a lot of time or energy to put into
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by callahad 10y ago
Further discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12837669
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Yep! Requiring a separate account for Persona was, in hindsight, misguided. I've written a bit about what Persona got right and wrong, and how we* plan for Portier to be different, at https://github.com/portier/por
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by callahad 10y ago
Hi! A few of us have been hacking on this scaled-down, spiritual successor to Persona. The core idea is that you treat this (self-hostable!) microservice like a black box: email address goes in, validated proof of identity comes out. No pas
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by callahad 10y ago
Hi y'all! A few of us have been hacking on a scaled-down, spiritual successor to Persona, and we think it’s far enough along to show off and get some validation of the idea / architecture. The core idea is that you treat this (sel
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Show HN: Portier, a spiritual successor to Mozilla Persona(portier.io)
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