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by niftich 10y ago
Highly is perhaps an overstatement, but compressible like most clear signal data, behaving similar to PCM audio. I compressed '20090922_950_GLFS_outdoor.wav' (150 kHz - 1750 kHz) from the Perseus site [1] with some lossless compre
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by niftich 10y ago
I find this fascinating because the context of transmissions occurring simultaneously is indeed ephemeral. This data gets lost with traditional archiving, which is squarely considers context (including temporal simultaneity across multiple
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by niftich 10y ago
Presumably, the full-time job's contribution to financial security is the driver of this indicator, rather than its contribution to lack of facetime between spouses. But as these are confounding variables -- they correlate inversely --
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by niftich 10y ago
This is a beautiful use of revision control; the dataset is intriguing in its own right, but changes to it are extremely insightful. A+ This also exposes subjective issues with diff algorithms, like Github's default. Viewing this compa
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by niftich 10y ago
If I see a comment that says close to what I would've said, I upvote it. Then, I inspect that comment's parent. Notwithstanding whether I agree or disagree with substance of the parent comment, I parse it for tone and intent, and
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by niftich 10y ago
It's fine to use a SHA2 variant HMAC in PBKDF2 with an obscene, ever-increasing number of rounds, but the scrypt paper [1] provides a detailed justification why you may want to switch to a dedicated password hashing function regardless
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by niftich 10y ago
Good for them. Lots of people spend lots of time on Facebook, so ads get a lot of eyeballs, making them valuable. But I wonder what their clickthrough-rate is. For some types of ads, that's obviously not the point, but I doubt it'
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by niftich 10y ago
Great job on Moment.js, and I'm sorry it caused as much pain as it did to Tim. I think he fell victim to being too nice and accommodating. I remember 'follow'-ing the Moment issue tracker on github at a time when I followed a
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by niftich 10y ago
> but I'm not sure how this illustrates that SHA2 just got even faster, so it illustrates rather well that you wouldn't want to use it for password storage -- of course that was always true, but the improvement drives that poin
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by niftich 10y ago
It's a hedge against Google. Google, through V8, Chromium, Chrome, Chrome OS, Android, and Dart, has a large say in the future of the web platform, browsers, apps, the future of Javascript, etc. Time and time again, Google has used the
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by niftich 10y ago
Any public company's valuation is the sum of every vested actor's belief in the stock's promise of (future) value. It definitely doesn't mean that Twitter has $11 billion in the bank. If anything happens that makes veste
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by niftich 10y ago
100% correct. Java 5-compatible libs tend to work most of the time, but not all of the time. To the casual observer, they both look and smell like Java, and copy-pasted Java code will probably work or be made to work, but the fact that not
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by niftich 10y ago
I too don't understand the rationale for this process having taken place in public. All allegations of sexual abuse make third-parties confront a web of trust problem. Since the facts are most often not independently verifiable, there
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by niftich 10y ago
Facebook requires a real name and most people provide it, because they also use it as a Friends & Family social network. We've also drilled into an entire generation's heads that employers will check Facebook, so realistically
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by niftich 10y ago
Yesterday, I saw this chart [1] from Twitter's Q2 2016 earnings report, and noticed that US users are only 21% of Twitter's 313 million monthly active users. Presumably, other anglocentric (ie. posting in English about topics rele
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by niftich 10y ago
Astoria was always a gamble because Google is in a rather advantageous position to change Android and Google Play Services whenever they want. Amazon, with their FireOS Android flavor, decided not to provide a shim for Google Play Services
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by niftich 10y ago
Machine Learning! Neural Networks! Serverless! </hype> But all hype has an element of truth. A sibling comment linked the Infoworld article ( edit: now deleted, here it is [1]), it has some good points (binary protocols, IoT, We
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by niftich 10y ago
H.264, VP9, etc., are all macroblock-based DCT codecs with I-frames that contain a full still image (like a JPEG), and other kinds of frames that contain instructions in terms of motion vectors of how those macroblocks move around. They als
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by niftich 10y ago
The camera portion of Tesla's vision system produces a grayscale image that's then run through some algorithmic pattern detection to figure out what's what in the scene. Here is an actual dataset [1] of stills from Daimler th
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by niftich 10y ago
Though I'm sure you'd rather avoid it, you can inspect other bignum implementations and perform a port. Coming from a Java library, for example, the port would be relatively straightforward, as syntax and semantics will largely ma
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by niftich 10y ago
Well, they're not really wrong; while it's true they were selling high-margin hardware and making a handsome profit, they've been a vertical for many, many years, and all that hardware install base is just to get their servic
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by niftich 10y ago
There are not many JS libraries in this space that have sane handling for complex numbers and arbitrary precision. I'm not entirely sure, but perhaps NumericJS [1] would have what you're looking for? [1] http://www.nume
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by niftich 10y ago
An intriguing analysis of supply and demand. In short, the increase in solar generating capacity has caused peak electricity demand to occur in the evening as solar generation tapers off, as opposed to mid-afternoon in years when solar&#x27
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by niftich 10y ago
Dropwizard is really just an opinionated bundling of sane Java libraries that don't suck, and is essentially tailor-made for the (quasi-)event-driven processing model of: 1. request comes in 2. do stuff here 3. response goes out While
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by niftich 10y ago
This point is critical to understanding how we ended up here. The weakest points of the Internet or anything that runs on top of it, like the World Wide Web, are the parts that interact with meatspace, ie. once you dig far enough down, you&
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by niftich 10y ago
The 'full-stack' trend is a reflection of rising, dare-I-say unrealistic expectations, one which the author supports by their recommendations in their blog post. By perpetuating the notion that the only 'true way' to be
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by niftich 10y ago
Or a hardware token. It doesn't have to be a software token running on your existing phone. That being said, several companies [1][2][3] have in fact made software authenticators that run on J2ME. [1] https://guide.duo.com&#
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by niftich 10y ago
The author might be onto something here. There's definitely a lot to be said for the social pressures of feeling 'in' with company culture, I can see why a limited-history, always-scrolling, continuous stream of group chats w
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by niftich 10y ago
Several mobile 2FA apps come with the platform's native cloud messaging support for push notifications; is that not sufficient?
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Github repo for the working documents: https://github.com/usnistgov/800-63-3 Issue tracker (discussion/request for comments): https://github.com/usnistgov/800-63-3/issues

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