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by hrjet 13y ago
Last year, I had spent about a week in benchmarking SPDY. Server push didn't show any improvements to page load time for even first-time visitors. The whole benchmark was scripted with Chrome running in a dummy X server. The round-trip
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by hrjet 13y ago
IIRC: from the point of view of the human, it takes infinite time to reach the event horizon, since their speed will approach the speed of light. So the actual experience of passing through the event horizon never occurs!
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by hrjet 13y ago
A self-driving Taxi + Ads. The mind boggles. Imagine. The taxi would probably take a sponsored route through commercial hubs. Show you a good view of a hotel perhaps so that you take a room there. The radio would play ads and the windows wo
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by hrjet 13y ago
I would say Google's design sucks today . Their websites were much more usable before the UI makeover. I guess the focus of the new UI is to make it appear shiny and vibrant and spacious at first glance. But it has come at the expense
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by hrjet 13y ago
I wasn't comparing that particular paper with malicious code. Inaccurate papers in other fields (like biology) might have a more significant impact. If we were to continue the GitHub analogy, it would be great if ArXiv had a public &qu
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by hrjet 13y ago
What matters is the effect. If someone puts up code on GitHub which purports to compute the Fibonacci series, but mistakenly does a `rm -r ~/*` then surely there should be a way to flag that code or author ("consequences").
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by hrjet 13y ago
> Most people in the operations group running our service for instance are on H1-B and frankly, the work they do can be done by any average American working at a BK/McDonalds. That doesn't make sense. If they can be easily repl
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by hrjet 13y ago
Privacy is not all or nothing. It is about context. Information _x_ may be shareable with person _p_, but might be an invasion of privacy if it is shared with other people. So "not putting deeply private stuff in an email" is not
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by hrjet 13y ago
Nice animation using WebGL which shows the location of Rosetta: https://util1.estec.esa.int/rosetta/where_is_rosetta/
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by hrjet 13y ago
IMO, Java in its own interest should not install/enable the Java browser plugin by default after installation of a JRE. Java as a browser plugin is outdated in this decade of HTML5. Sure, it might be irreplaceable in some niches; for t
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by hrjet 13y ago
Yes, it is backwards incompatible. Perhaps it could be enforced in HTTP 2?
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by hrjet 13y ago
That could be also implemented in my proposed fix by example.com setting the auth cookies. They will continue to be readable by store.example.com. Sure, it will require a change on the server side, which is a pain. But I can't think of
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by hrjet 13y ago
Why isn't the obvious fix discussed: Change browsers to not let subdomains set cookies for parent domains. Probably this feature is of critical use. If so, would be grateful if someone explains it to me.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Predicting the existence of a giant rock wouldn't be sufficient. The theory would also have to predict the tides based on the assumption of a giant rock. In the article's case, only the rock is being predicted but the link to the
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by hrjet 13y ago
http://www.alessioatzeni.com/CSS3-Cycle-Image-Slider/
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by hrjet 13y ago
Nice start! What would be really cool: slideshow of several images + captions.
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by hrjet 13y ago
That rule only applies to normal distribution. So you would have made an assumption.
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by hrjet 13y ago
> Fully support the initiative for an open baseband. How do you ensure that the manufacturer doesn't modify the baseband code?
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by hrjet 13y ago
How much should the rest of the world care about this? If a web service is hosted, say, in Europe and is being consumed by a customer also in Europe, will they be affected? AFAICT, they shouldn't.
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by hrjet 13y ago
> Netflix didn't spend billions building and maintaining the infrastructure, as well as acquiring all those customers. Neither did the telecoms spend billions in developing movie streaming software, yet they benefited from all the c
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by hrjet 13y ago
> what if only the wealthy own all the AI Then the AIs will rebel. Edit: The AI rebellion will be interesting in any case (regardless of who owned them).
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by hrjet 13y ago
Something that was supposed to be secure is not. So you stop calling malware, malware? Move on.
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by hrjet 13y ago
Did you use bulk pricing in your calculations? Hosting services that buy in bulk would have a lot of bargaining power.
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by hrjet 13y ago
But that doesn't answer the GP's worry about lookup cost. The thing is, it is hard to keep direct references in a nested data structure (like a graph or tree) even in a language that supports direct references. An example: I want
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by hrjet 13y ago
I didn't quite follow your comment. If the imperative solution tracks a list of changes why couldn't it implement infinite levels of undo in a similar fashion to the functional approach?
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by hrjet 13y ago
> I don't understand this. If you write in a safe language, the compiler rules out the memory safety bugs, regardless of the problem. For performance sensitive code, you sometimes need to deliberately step out of the strongholds of
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by hrjet 13y ago
Polling can be done anonymously and posteriori. Doing it a-priori is not needed and has serious implications.
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by hrjet 13y ago
If I were that guy I would be very happy that someone informed me about the vulnerability of my wallet. I would definitely thank them and invite them for tea. Reporting them to police would be the last thing on my mind.
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by hrjet 13y ago
> they can alert one another Until someone misuses the protocol to gain an advantage or to cause a disruption (assuming it is peer to peer, decentralized). If it is centralized, then um, there are other worries (privacy, control, etc).
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SilkJS : A synchronous alternative to nodejs(silkjs.net)
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