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by mbrubeck 13y ago
> URIs are names for data. Yes, they are, essentially. But the difference is that an HTTP URI is not a name for a piece of data -- instead it is a set of instructions that say "connect to this network endpoint and send them thi
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
The thing that got me interested in Urbit when it was first announced back in 2010 was reading Van Jacobson's "Networking Named Content" paper [1] and related work from PARC, referenced in this blog post [2]. As someone who
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
In a typical keyboard+mouse FPS game, for example, you get 2D analog "look" controls with the mouse, but much more limited 2D "move" controls with the keyboard. With two analog sticks/trackpads/mice/etc. y
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
No, it specifically addresses that. The white paper says that rather than rigidly fixing the tube to each pylon, it would be fixed to a damper that would "absorb the small length changes between pylons." The problem with the whi
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2013/08/hyperloop/ goes into this in more detail (and is skeptical that it can work as described in the Hyperloop Alpha white paper).
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Species? We don’t need no stinkin species(nothinginbiology.org)
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NSA spies reportedly exploited iPhone location bug not fixed until 2011(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
For what it's worth, I submitted this link to HN a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6187176
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
In a MetaFilter thread, one of the commenters pointed out that the story being copied in the video is "Kiosk" by Bruce Sterling, a story about (among other things) the government trying to hold back a social revolution triggered b
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Some people object to the way the data is used for behavioral ad targeting, because it's "creepy" -- it causes companies to reveal that they know things about you, without making it clear who gave them that information or how
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LL and LR in Context: Why Parsing Tools Are Hard(blog.reverberate.org)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I agree. I've been a regular reader of the site for over six years (and a regular poster for 4.5 years) and I'm pretty sure this has gotten a lot worse in the last few years. Headline-writing is very audience-specific. A headlin
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After patent loss, Apple tweaks FaceTime—and logs 500,000 complaints(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
There are a few private ferry companies with international routes from the U.S... to Canada: https://cohoferry.com/ (Of course this is just trivia and should not distract from the real point, which is that air travel has no
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
In addition to aggregate usage stats, there's also the indirect (and slower) route: more users -> more ad impressions -> higher revenue -> more employees or other resources available to improve the service.
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Droid Inspector: 3D Android UI inspector(sriramramani.com)
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Learnfun and playfun: A general technique for automating NES games(cs.cmu.edu)
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Coroutines in one page of C(embeddedrelated.com)
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Introducing Daala part 3: Time/Frequency resolution switching(people.xiph.org)
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Rig 1 - A UI designer & engine(roblog.sixbynine.org)
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Web Security Relies on SSL Which Relies on Email Which is Broken(blog.whitehatsec.com)
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Proposal to Change the Default TLS ciphersuites Offered by Browsers(briansmith.org)
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Science versus SoftRAM(dansdata.com)
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Investigating Firefox Security Vulnerability Report(blog.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Actually it turns out to exploit an vulnerability that was already fixed in both Firefox and Firefox ESR: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/08/04/investigating-s... The fix was included in a Tor Bro
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OCSP Stapling in Firefox(blog.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
I think you took a karma hit not for saying unpopular things, but for assuming bad faith. One of the lead developers of the Rust language pointed out some gaps or mistakes in your comment about Rust. Instead of appearing eager to correc
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
The graphics and media codec people here at Mozilla regularly write assembly code to provide highly-optimized (often SIMD) code paths for different chips. Example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634557
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Clawing Our Way Back To Precision (garbage collection in SpiderMokey)(blog.mozilla.org)
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McDonald's pulls out of Iceland(news.bbc.co.uk)
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