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by zawerf 7y ago
I felt like racism against asians did get a little worse this year. A lot of it is probably due to china coming up a lot more in the news so I start noticing the stereotyping/generalizations surfacing in the comment threads. Usually we
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by zawerf 7y ago
Dropbox's implementation of python was pyston: https://github.com/dropbox/pyston But I think it's dead now: https://blog.pyston.org/
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by zawerf 7y ago
https://gingkoapp.com/ is another similar app. Like some of the other commenters in the thread, I gave up on these apps and went back to using filesystem folders/files.
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by zawerf 7y ago
Can you elaborate what the implications are? Is the attack something like a malicious site operator cnameing subdomain.evil.com to yourbank.com and which can then be accessed from evil.com? Same origin policy would still block that right?
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by zawerf 7y ago
Microsoft has an actual underwater data center for energy efficiency purposes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244525
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by zawerf 7y ago
My initial reaction is that this counts as malicious. But thinking about it some more, I at least don't mind clothing ads using me as the model. (Assuming there's opt in and all) It's better than mentally swapping out the ski
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by zawerf 7y ago
Does anyone have good technical resources on how mesh networks work? Who's the authority on the identity of a recipient? Do you exchange something out of band (for example a QR code) first? How do messages get routed? How do messages b
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by zawerf 7y ago
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20827480
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by zawerf 7y ago
While the email experts are in this thread, can I get a guide on how to setup a simple email address @ my own domain? If you google, most of the top hits are for free mail forwarding using your domain registrar. I tried this and it was pret
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by zawerf 7y ago
The underlying project MediaPipe looks pretty cool: https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/do... I wonder why they didn't build it on top of one of the gazillion flow-based v
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by zawerf 7y ago
That makes a lot sense, thank you! I was stuck on the visualization analogy where choosing the wrong axes for the histogram makes it useless (e.g., when all the data falls into the same bin you can't see the shape of the distribution).
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by zawerf 7y ago
No background in this, my layman interpretation is: Track a histogram with log-scaled bins. These are easy to increment and only takes up size of the number of bins in terms of memory. Two histograms from different servers can easily be mer
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by zawerf 7y ago
I thought you were going to go the other direction with your first sentence. It took some 4 billion years to go from the first cell to the first homosapien. Maybe another 400,000 years to get from that to how we are today. That means 0.01%
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by zawerf 7y ago
His first bullet point is probably the most practical thing I know about logging. Log lines are useless without context especially when the lines are interleaved. But this is easily fixed just by prefixing them with a context id that you fi
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by zawerf 7y ago
> we can see that the malware authors mined 53.72 XMR (~4,200 USD at the time of publishing this article) during the near month that the above address was active. Anyone a little surprised by how small the profits are? With control over
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by zawerf 7y ago
I think github is already trying to do many of those things. They started Github Sponsors[1] and Github Package Registry[2] recently. Regular github already makes it pretty easy to choose an open source license for your project. If they add
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by zawerf 7y ago
Curl is really handy if you want to write a quick crawler for some globs of urls. For example if you want to download a gallery of images with some fixed format you can do curl "http://example.com/imgs/[01-99].j
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by zawerf 7y ago
I am not saying not to trust the word of the CEO, but this exact use case of using cloudflare as a image hosting comes up a lot on HN. The word on the street is that they will start throttling and contacting you once you hit several hundred
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by zawerf 7y ago
I was really surprised at Scale AI's recent 1 billion valuation considering it's also more or less just another labeling service: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20614672
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by zawerf 7y ago
This post was such a ride. At one point they found a fucking legitimate reason to compile a javascript interpreter to javascript(wasm) to run javascript!
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by zawerf 7y ago
America has had so many shootings you can't really cover them all. For example the one I was never taught was the Greenwood Massacre despite its scale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot
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by zawerf 7y ago
There are pretty fun examples of how people try to dodge censorship. For example the Hong Kong billionaire Li Kha Shing managed to post a two page newspaper ad which contains a hidden message: https://i.imgur.com/7IJLn3g.jpg
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by zawerf 7y ago
If you're using graphql for the backend, is it still MVC? Even if you can stretch the definition to fit, is it still useful to organize your code along those terms instead of what's natural in the new ecosystem? (data source resol
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by zawerf 7y ago
I don't know if it's still true, but Netflix supposedly offers a really high base salary with no equity. I think the logic is that you can just buy the stock yourself with the higher salary if you believed in the company enough to
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by zawerf 7y ago
I am not caught up on browser engines, but WebKit is mostly just Safari and iOS browsers right?
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by zawerf 7y ago
I find the culture around 90-day disclosure deadline fascinating. Is it actually reasonable to disclose this just for missing the deadline given that it has already been exploitable for twenty years? I know nothing about security but I just
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by zawerf 7y ago
Can someone explain to me what researchers considers "scientific validity" in psychology? I feel like human behavior will change as culture evolves. For example how people react to a plane hijacking drastically shifted after 9&#x2
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by zawerf 7y ago
I think the current meme/trend is to drop as many dependencies as possible. Which is probably the overcorrection of the previous trend of using single utility function libraries like "leftpad". I do agree with this specific i
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by zawerf 7y ago
I didn't know this was a trend! I also have several vietnamese relatives who faked their age except their logic was to use an older age so they can claim social security benefits earlier. They usually don't even use the same month
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by zawerf 7y ago
I remember a really impressive demo where someone found all the alt accounts of a HN user using stylometry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17944484 The account didn't have that many comments on it (maybe ~1000 ka

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