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by niftich 10y ago
It's likely that these are mass-reused passwords from bots. See: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/so-just-...
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by niftich 10y ago
I think the feature in question is declared in the source code here [1]. The RFC goes into some detail about what this means [2] and how it's used [3]. I'd love a whitepaper but the RFC is fairly descriptive and is the best source
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by niftich 10y ago
There are some design decisions in Brotli I just don't quite understand [1][2][3], like what's going on with its dictionary [2]. One of the Brotli authors is active in this thread, so perhaps they can talk about this. Zstandard is
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by niftich 10y ago
Related (from yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14057164 This Ars Technica article provides additional context vs. the Reuters article on the history of net neutrality in the FCC and the current chair's
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FCC chair wants to replace net neutrality with "voluntary" commitments(arstechnica.com)
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by niftich 10y ago
One of the replies to my similar post in the earlier thread [5] was from btrask who proposes a similar scheme, using a manifest placed in .well-known/, on the issue tracker for the W3C SRI spec [6]. The conversation is still ongoing, b
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by niftich 10y ago
Last year I started using rclone [1][2] to upload photos to Amazon Drive using the "unlimited photos" tier included in Prime. Soon after that offering was given another interface to the same backend -- and that other frontend, &qu
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by niftich 10y ago
More detail on this: in a browser's current usage model, this is vulnerable to a 'cache origin confusion attack'. See this thread [1]. It's a bit hard to follow, so perhaps see these posts [2][3], which state the problem
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by niftich 10y ago
Pick a spot [1] touched by more than one thick pipe, in jurisdiction known for political and civic stability and a regime with rough compatibility to the ideology and national security apparatus of western allies -- their home base and prim
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by niftich 10y ago
If I recall the first TV ad they did was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjLYPMmZfwY , which is the only one I saw -- but I saw it a lot on late-night television; probably Comedy Central or Adult Swim. The ads were problemat
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by niftich 10y ago
Well it's the same problem isn't it? Programming languages and their libraries come with their idiomatic conventions of API design, calling conventions, data structures, etc, which tend to translate awkwardly to a "foreign&qu
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by niftich 10y ago
The examples given are just embarrassing. What weather service doesn't understand zip codes, or, y'know, the name of an entire US state? Last year, I said: "Chatbots are a fancy name for when your API is accessible through s
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by niftich 10y ago
Thrift and Avro -- and later, gRPC, but not protobuf -- are full RPC stacks where you use an IDL to codegen your endpoints, and those endpoints communicate using their own serialization. Since this is form-on-the-wire is "internal&quot
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by niftich 10y ago
Yes. The github readme [1] has more info: Earth Enterprise is the open source release of Google Earth Enterprise, a geospatial application which provides the ability to build and host custom 3D globes and 2D maps. Earth Enterprise does not
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by niftich 10y ago
In practice, Seattle's location in one particular corner of the continental US, anchoring a metropolitan area that's "only" 13th in population (by CSA), and not possessing a significantly populated catchment hinterland m
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by niftich 10y ago
Really neat project! The tools are released under CC-0 on Github. The HN thread [1] on Part 1 went into discussion about how platform differences and the prospect of more rapid iteration meant that several early games were written with VMs.
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by niftich 10y ago
Michigan artist David Barr (1940-2015) created the 'Four Corners Project' [1] exhibited at the Smithsonian, where he inscribed a regular tetrahedron into a transparent globe. In choosing his points, he used his personal criteria:
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by niftich 10y ago
The article focuses heavily on the angle of tantalum ore supply -- but it's worth noting that Niobium capacitors [1][2] have been gaining prominence since the 2002 for the same reason. Niobium-based capacitors have some desirable prope
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by niftich 10y ago
Azimuthal equidistant projections are really something else, especially in this globalized age of air travel. For example, did you know Sydney, Seattle, and Rio de Janeiro are all about 12000 km from Dubai in three different, but beautifull
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by niftich 10y ago
In Feburary 2015, the EFF was cautiously celebrating [1][2][3], although the context was primarily Net Neutrality: "Reclassification under Title II was a necessary step in order to give the FCC the authority it needed to enact net neu
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by niftich 10y ago
Up until 2016-08-23, Service Workers were marked in MDN as experimental [1], despite the concentrated push by various parties to get people to stop using stuff like AppCache and use Service Workers instead. That being said, at least Dialog
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by niftich 10y ago
A few posters on the thread [1] for the Senate version's passing have noted [2][3][4] that this is the case, but those points appeared largely lost in the discussion to follow. To quote the comment at [2]: "This undoes the 73-pag
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by niftich 10y ago
Discord competes with Teamspeak, Mumble, Ventrilo, and Skype in the category of gaming voice chat, but it also offers an interface set up like Slack, which has gained popularity for topic-based persistent chat. It hits a sweet spot of good-
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by niftich 10y ago
Last year, a project that does this was featured as a 'Show HN': Sharingbuttons.io [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12209595
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by niftich 10y ago
Amazon doesn't need to buy Discord because Curse/Twitch has close-enough feature parity and if they successfully get enough people to install Twitch Desktop for some reason (there are reasons more than just chat, like streaming),
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by niftich 10y ago
Don't forget, Twitch bought Curse, a company known for catering to gamers: - the longtime Curse Client, effectively an addon manager that started for World of Warcraft but now supports games like Rift, Skyrim, Minecraft, Kerbal Space P
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by niftich 10y ago
Do you have sources on this? The conventional wisdom in the community is that it's the SC2 engine -- a view backed up by the game's origins as an SC2 map, similarities in internal file formats, folder structure, the nature and ava
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by niftich 10y ago
Amazing news! Though I didn't play it competitively, StarCraft was a big part of my life -- my friends and I made custom scenarios to be played in 'Use Map Settings' mode, like dozens of iterations of tower defense and the li
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by niftich 10y ago
I don't disagree with your points but your timeline fudges the timescale quite a bit. I've researched this [1]. Facebook Chat went live 2008-04-06. Google didn't view them as a threat in messaging but a threat in social netwo
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by niftich 10y ago
Android Messages is apparently [1] the renamed "Messenger", the Google one (the internal android APK names are the same), which was probably confused with "Messenger" the Facebook one, likely to Google's detriment a

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