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   by jffry 11y ago

   I got the Safety Check and I most definitely wasn't using a VPN, nor was I in the same hemisphere. From an admittedly-unscientific sampling of my friends who also got the Safety Check alert, it seems like the geofence or query that led
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   by jffry 11y ago

   See also today's discussion of `cash` ("CoreUtils implemented in pure JavaScript"): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334597
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   by jffry 11y ago

   My apologies, there doesn't seem to be a way to permalink just the winning entries' blog post.
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   Results of the 2015 Underhanded C Contest(underhanded-c.org)

   1 points by jffry 11y ago|1 comments
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   by jffry 11y ago

   I can't speak to running Clojure outside the JVM, but on the JVM there's good interop with native Java, which allows using Java-based tools and libraries. This instantly gives you access to a whole ecosystem of stuff written for J
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   by jffry 11y ago

   Whoops, paste fail. Good catch. It looks like somebody at Cognitect has also added a redirect now. Sorry about that!
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   State of Clojure 2015: Survey Results(blog.cognitect.com)

   215 points by jffry 11y ago|109 comments
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   by jffry 11y ago

   https://asciinema.org/a/9gt0i1kxbto41gj4796tjkdnt
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   by jffry 11y ago

   Depends on what you count as exploding. It was definitely fiery: https://www.instagram.com/p/BAqirNbwEc0/
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    by jffry 11y ago

    See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923582
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    by jffry 11y ago

    The linked article [1] has an explanation: In simple terms if an application (e.g. Test.exe) loads a DLL (e,g. foo.dll) by just the name, Windows follows a specific search order depending upon whether “SafeDllSearchMode” is enable
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    by jffry 11y ago

    It's also a fun little project to roll your own in JS. Here's mine: https://jffry.github.io/blizzard.js/demo/ ~2kb raw, ~900 bytes minified, ~600 bytes min+gzipped
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Protecting those users _does_ matter. As CloudFlare points out, many people simply cannot upgrade their devices to something that supports SHA2. Instead, the choice is either (1) they don't get crypto at all, because SHA2 won't w
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    by jffry 11y ago

    It's always been open-source, at least according to its author's blog post, which was previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10573561
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    by jffry 11y ago

    "Disruption update: We are slowly letting teams back on to Slack and watching to make sure things stay stable as we do. Thank you, and sorry!" https://twitter.com/SlackHQ/status/668898031471865860
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Right now the server is down, so here's a mirror: https://archive.is/ekGpj
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Maybe are you looking for the word "libelous"? https://www.wordnik.com/words/libelous
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Aside: What's with all the blank newlines at the top of the source of that first link? ( http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/1.02/crypto.rebels_pr... )
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    by jffry 11y ago

    To quote dang: Please email hn@ycombinator.com if you would like us to send you a repost invite. This is an experiment we've been working on that gives good stories a second chance at attention on HN. via https:/&#x2
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    by jffry 11y ago

    You might enjoy Chris Ford's talk "Kolmogorov Music" from this year's Strange Loop conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg3XOfioapI I recommend the whole thing, but he starts talking about infinit
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    by jffry 11y ago

    The same author just posted about a realtime stream of comment data: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/3mk1vg/realtime_d...
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    by jffry 11y ago

    http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-rich-color-variations-... says it's a false-color image incorporating blue + red visible light along with infrared. Here's a true-color image: http://www.nasa.
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    by jffry 11y ago

    In addition to what others have said: If the individual cells in your grid aren't changing dynamically, you can use a one-time-binding[1] which will improve performance by removing the watchers after the expression is populated. You ca
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10242987
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    by jffry 11y ago

    And it's especially bad if you interleave them all: var heights = lotsOfElements.map(function(el){ el.classList.add('ok'); return el.clientHeight; }); Better is to batch the DOM updates and reads, where you c
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    by jffry 11y ago

    For an introduction to absolute beginners it could be something like: (->> (range 10) (map (fn [x] (+ x 2))) (reduce +)) And then later on you can explain the #() shorthand
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    by jffry 11y ago

    There was also the address of the other internal services. I think the best way here is to put the "fetch random URLs" service out in its own subnet, where it cannot access any other internal services like the EC2 status service.
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Maybe it's the country-specific redirect? https://www.google.fr/get/sunroof 404's as well. What if you go to https://www.google.us/get/sunroof ?
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    by jffry 11y ago

    Here's a sample using Google's own campus: https://www.google.com/get/sunroof#a=1600%20Amphitheatre%20P... And here's one for a random house in the Boston area, where you can really see some of the varia
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    by jffry 11y ago

    There was a startup doing just this - https://AutoPay.io - that was advertising in Boston and Cambridge back in March. Amusingly, they seemed to follow around the people issuing tickets, and slipping fliers[1] under windshield w