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by niftich 10y ago
In the "transition" from FTP to HTTP, the level of abstraction in popular use has shifted out of the protocol and into resources (mime-types) [1], rel types [2], server logic [3][4], and client logic [5]. In the past, I've sa
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by niftich 10y ago
The scenario illustrated in the GP happens because the the rightmost lane is subject to merging traffic from onramps and offramps, and also tends to be the lane where trucks and vehicles obeying the speed limit (or both) congregate. Meanwhi
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by niftich 10y ago
Java isn't a bad language for an intro programming language -- it strikes a nice balance between hiding low-level details that are often important to be aware of, but are intimidating to firstcomers, it has a rich standard library and
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by niftich 10y ago
This is perhaps a great example that proves that not all publicity is good publicity. While they flew under the radar, they weren't widely mocked, and they might even have succeeded in building a following. After all, on face value, K-
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by niftich 10y ago
Yes, it's worrisome. An issue like this was brought up on golang-nuts in 2014 [1]; the response from the devs was that this behavior is intentional [2], and they note that this happens with other compilers as well. I'm attempting
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by niftich 10y ago
> This service works by providing a hidden form that is built on page-load and uses javascript to 'click' the form submission. This means cookies will work correctly for the site you've submitted to, but you need to have
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by niftich 10y ago
What a fantastic demo! Thanks for sharing your in-depth notes about reverse-engineering the hardware's behavior. I admit, previously I didn't understand why some emulators promoted so heavily the fact that they did more hardware-a
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This is such an oblique position for legitimately grassroots activism to take. I mean, it's not like people are dropping dead en masse in Canada, out of all places, from taking supposedly sketchy, industrially-produced medication. Mean
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by niftich 10y ago
The article posits that instead of trying to focus on display ads and impressions, they should have focused on sentiment analysis, data mining, trend forecasting as avenues of monetization. Shazam, the app that can recognize a song from a r
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by niftich 10y ago
Beautiful. Great satire, excellent timing, and does what it says on its Face. Skinnable for extra Snazz, configurable with your own endpoints for Insta-Stories. No giant framework, just a Gram of vanilla JS. This guy knows Whats up.
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by niftich 10y ago
Europe tends to have public transport and long-distance car hire services that make an outlying airport capable of being used to visit a "nearby" much larger city. In the US, outlying airports are those of third- and fourth-tier c
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by niftich 10y ago
TeaVM [1] does this, but I don't know much about it. [1] https://github.com/konsoletyper/teavm
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I was just looking at the Alsek valley on Google Earth the other day. It's (obviously) a water-level route from behind the mountains to the coast, and abuts the drainage divide with the Yukon. The entire Alsek-Tatshenshini-Kaskawulsh-D
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by niftich 10y ago
Both the site and the blog post are devoid of good information, like an explanation of the exact design issues in the affected protocols where this effect occurs. I would've liked to see that. In either case, TLS does this too [1], so
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by niftich 10y ago
Of course these firms are struggling -- (did I word this confusingly?) The point is, it's a market that never took off, and Facebook could change that very quickly, due to their sheer scale, their market penetration, their homescreen p
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The real purpose of multiple reactions is to help train their sentiment analysis models with human input. Amidst some noise like people who always click a particular one like 'love', or the posts that hijack the reactions as a mul
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by niftich 10y ago
Facebook is sitting on the largest audience of real-world identities and hasn't entered the market of microtransactions in exchange for content (like news) yet [1], even though they could single-handedly wipe out the half a dozen or so
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by niftich 10y ago
Lots. In fact, probably more of them than not, considering national consciousness tied statehood that does not always fall along prior ethnic or cultural lines is something all sovereign states try to cultivate to stay together, and define
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by niftich 10y ago
I remember this appearing, and I recall other contemporaneous threads asking how to make it go away, but I can't find the reference in the Chrome 55 release notes that this would show up: not in this friendly blog post [1], not in this
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by niftich 10y ago
Well yes, but the reference to Turkey is intentional. Kazakhstan is a founding member of the Turkic Council [1][2], and a sort of pan-Turkic alignment helped by sharing a language family is a strategic goal, to create a camaraderie of state
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by niftich 10y ago
Golang seems to follow the 80/20 rule from the outset (or perhaps an even smaller proportion), which is perfectly fine. Some other languages' standardlibs try to offer a complete treatment of a particular problemspace from the sta
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by niftich 10y ago
'Discover' is the name of the Snapchat feature first introduced in January 2015 [1][2] that surfaces content from media and 'Stories' formerly just referred to the landing page for the 1:n casts introduced in October 201
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by niftich 10y ago
Instagram is a social network where the best effect occurs when your account is public: you get social validation from a large audience liking your content on its merits, the sum of all your content forms a persistent feed, and your followe
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by niftich 10y ago
There is a fairly well-known curated list started in 2015, 'free-for-dev' [1], which lists "SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev" . There is another list started in 2016,
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by niftich 10y ago
There was recently a very good HN thread on Etak [1] including comments from people who've seen it firsthand or have worked on related ventures. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13744825
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by niftich 10y ago
Not any more than this HN comment [1] and its replies, one of which is mine. It's using golang's own extensions for secretbox [2], a NaCl-secretbox-compatible implementation, and it's adhering to the uniqueness of nonces as f
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by niftich 10y ago
See the related curl blog post 'No websockets over HTTP/2' [1], which talks about that spec and how it didn't generate enough interest from concerned parties, and goes into some alternatives and perspectives on the matte
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by niftich 10y ago
It's true that the mechanics of triggering HTTP/2 Push are done with the Link rel=preload directive (defined by the W3C [1]), the advice to hardcode HTTP headers on outgoing responses that point to file references is simplistic
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by niftich 10y ago
ASN.1 as used by Internet PKIX X.509 uses [1] a form known as DER (Distinguished Encoding Rules) which provide a canonical way encoding any particular value such that any particular value can take only one specific form. [1] https:/&#
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by niftich 10y ago
It ought to be staggeringly obvious that distribution matters when there is a physical good involved, and especially so in time-sensitive situations where customer pressure is strong. There are a number good points made here, some with the

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