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d0ugie··on Tell HN: I wish “we use cookies” messages could be globally turned off
So how do you feel about Piwik?
d0ugie··on AT&T fined $100M after slowing down its ‘unlimited’ data
By the way, go here if you'd like to request a Project Fi invite: https://fi.google.com/signup
d0ugie··on Securing access to Wikimedia sites with HTTPS by default
Not perfect, but wikimedia scores a respectable A on ssllabs:

https://dev.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=wikimedia.org...

Same IP as en.wikipedia.org, so does that mean they're using SNI to serve different certs? http://caniuse.com/#search=sni

d0ugie··on Ask HN: What emerging technology do you think is the most interesting and why?
ngx/mod_pagespeed, because it implements best practices without interfering with developer workflow.

Also the QUIC protocol, gotta save round trips... Hope to see it more widely-implemented.

d0ugie··on Dodging Abilify
I'm with you on the benzos sounding more appropriate, but parenthetically, Paxil does have some very off-label uses for which it is indeed effective, including, for example, treating vasovagal syncope, a fainting condition. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2998831/
d0ugie··on Dodging Abilify
Just a few years after being diagnosed bipolar and still new to the game, on a trek to find the right "cocktail" of medicines to keep me both sane and happy, I used Abilify for about a month to contain my mania without "snowing" myself intolerably.

It did snow me, it made me depressed, in addition to not working while at work (or socializing at all) I would either leave work or hide in a conference room.

Normally the thing to do obviously is discontinue the drug and try another, but it's during these states, at least for me, that one loses focus, self-perception and the nerve and inclination to resolve the situation.

Your doctor might argue that what you're feeling is actually normal, what everyone else feels, and you just feel lousy because you're not manic as you had delightfully been before. Just give it three weeks, he says.

Maybe he's right, maybe he's not; maybe he doesn't want to deal with trying a different drug at least for a few more weeks to get you to calibrate to the one you don't like. But he's got an advantage in that debate which is that you are chemically subdued. Challenge him and put up a fair fight before letting yourself become convinced one way or the other. You might reach a compromise that works better, like sticking with the drug but at a lower dose.

Eventually my shrink put that together and we subbed in another atypical antipsychotic, Zyprexa, which, though like Abilify good for some people and bad for others, and risky, gets the job done, along others in the cocktail, nicely for me.

So when starting a drug, especially a neuroleptic or an antimanic, try to remember to be aggressive in monitoring yourself and be vocal when articulating what you think are your negative side effects stemming from the new drug. Don't just show up to your next session and say you're doing fine when you're not, even though a depressive spell makes that a tempting thing to do.

And for the rookies, in addition to the above, if you find yourself reluctant to complain about any new drug that has a sexual side effect like impotency or no libido, for God's sake, snap out of that and tell your doctor, otherwise you will not only not resolve those problems but you risk conditioning yourself to distrust medicine and psychiatry which can lead to noncompliance and possibly your downfall.

It takes some time, but if you're motivated and smart about it, you've got a good shot at rescuing your captured soul from manic depression, and without killing your soul, or yourself, in the process.

d0ugie··on Applebot, the web crawler for Apple
Note that serving bots, especially for media-rich sites, eats heavily into a finite resource.

For those of us whose resources are especially tight, blocking Yandex, Baidu and MSN may be very helpful, your ideals notwithstanding.

d0ugie··on Query your local network for Chromecasts and have them play media
Nice! So, nodejs on Android to run this from my phone, would I want this? https://github.com/ldesegur/nodejs-android
d0ugie··on Flywheel: Google's Data Compression Proxy for the Mobile Web
More of a "best practices" proxy, if you will, than a compression proxy: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/module/filters
d0ugie··on VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos
Say it ain't so! Sigh... Well, not a lot of green in the VP9 column here: http://kodi.wiki/view/Android_hardware#Compatible_chipsets
d0ugie··on VP9: Faster, better, buffer-free YouTube videos
> missing phrase in the post is "hardware acceleration"

Well, yeah, but they focus first on the significance of this for the 240p to 480p crowd for which that is less relevant.

Touting impressive-sounding and strongly-needed improvements of an activity many people engage in, evangelizing, Google is taking advantage of what may be a position to influence hardware to enable, for example, the 80% of Indian youtubers who can only watch 240p youtube clips to watch 480p now with this Google math.

And those who can only watch 480p instead can enjoy silky smooth 720p, and those who just cannot get enough pixels and want 4k but don't have Google Fiber just yet can now enjoy VP9 WebM 4k video on their Nexus 6 without excessive battery drain, as others with 4K displays could do too if they had some HW acceleration, which, while not written in the article, is visible to someone like you and someone like a hardware engineer at Apple and some codec whiz of the Surface and Windows Phone guys at Microsoft.

For all you enthusiasts, Google says? Here's your ffmpeg how-to link, right in this blog post. No need to worry about patents either y'all! And this VP9 vs H264 side-by-side is to write home about, ain't it.

Note that VP9 users are not quite edge cases, as they claim 25 billion hours of youtube was watched in the trailing twelve months. Not sure how many unique visitor sessions that is but that's a big number.

So the blog post, in addition to proclaiming this magical, newsworthy math most relevant to that list of countries I'm glad I don't live in, plus Google's running the youtube show, plus Google's web properties, plus Chrome and so forth, they can add some pressure to the hardware guys, the gods of official standards and of course the browser foot-draggers that make other browsers, to help Google help everyone else make the web faster.

Kind of like with SPDY. :) https://plus.google.com/explore/makethewebfaster

edit, from the end of the post:

> Where can I use VP9? > Thanks to our device partners, VP9 decoding support is available today in the Chrome web browser, in Android devices like the Samsung Galaxy S6, and in TVs and game consoles from Sony, LG, Sharp, and more. More than 20 device partners across the industry are launching products in 2015 and beyond using VP9.

Here's a stack of 4K/60FPS youtube clips (don't hit play using your daddy's codec): http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/youtube-is-experimenting-wi...

d0ugie··on We are under attack
> Because of the number of requests we are receiving, our bandwidth costs have shot up to USD $30,000 per day.

Perhaps the US State Department might be inclined to help?

d0ugie··on The Multiverse and you – Is there another version of you somewhere out there?
You just blew my mind.
d0ugie··on How the Nintendo Duck Hunt Gun Worked
Note that this was first released in April 21, 1984.

Alternative source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Zapper#Technical_details

> When the trigger on the Zapper is pressed, the game causes the entire screen to become black for one frame. Then, on the next frame, the target area is drawn in all white as the rest of the screen remains black. The Zapper detects this change from low light to bright light, as well as the duration of the "flash", as the different targets on screen (if multiple targets are on screen) will flash for different durations. This is how the game knows which target has been hit. After all target areas have been illuminated, the game returns to drawing graphics as usual. The whole process is almost imperceptible to the human eye, although one can notice a slight "flashing" of the image. Although the Zapper just detects light, it can only be used on CRT displays. It will not work on LCDs, plasma displays or other flat panel displays due to display lag. This darkness/brightness sequence prevents the possible issue caused by pointing the Zapper right next to or into a light bulb. Some people believe that this way it is possible to cheat and get a perfect hit score, probably misled by other older light guns which didn't use this method.

d0ugie··on Shaving Your RTT with TCP Fast Open
Regarding client support, why does only Google appear to be interested? Talking about saving a round trip here...

To try with NGINX, you may need to add compile it with --with-cc-opt="-DTCP_FASTOPEN=[X]" otherwise just adding fastopen=23 into your server block may be problematic. https://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/5392464

d0ugie··on Google Domains Launches to All in U.S
Not seeing any mention of SSL certificates. Might they get into the CA game as well?
d0ugie··on If you search for Chrome on Bing.com, the first link is a spyware
Or they fixed it/bing corrected itself, or it was an anomaly - hey OP, how about a screenshot?

What I'd bet against is it being deliberate, unless an employee went rogue.

d0ugie··on The best ping story I've ever heard
Ping fans, be sure to check out bing! Fun stuff and 97.2% accurate (not really)! :)

> Bing is a point-to-point bandwidth measurement tool (hence the 'b'), based on ping. Bing determines the real (raw, as opposed to available or average) throughput on a link by measuring ICMP echo requests roundtrip times for different packet sizes for each end of the link.

http://fgouget.free.fr/bing/bing_src-readme.shtml

d0ugie··on India Orders 32 Websites Blocked, Including GitHub, Archive.Org, Pastebin
A lot of these sites, almost all of them, are pastebin-esque, including sourceforge.net/projects/phorkie/ which is a "PHP and Git based pastebin."

I noticed Pastebin getting a fair number of mentions in the news in connection with the Sony attack as a place for hackers to dump sensitive information publicly and easily.

My guess is this blacklist was assembled to mitigate such hacking damage on Indian targets, but it was assembled with some haste; and github and vimeo, I doubt, will remain blocked for too long.

d0ugie··on MozJPEG 3.0
Yes, but not when storage, bandwidth, money, a desire to deliver only the best user experience (or nothing) and pushing WebP are concerns.

By the way, it's remarkable when running an image-heavy site how much bot/mass downloader traffic relative to humans vanish when turning away Firefox user agents.

d0ugie··on MozJPEG 3.0
An nginx redirect based on user agents to an apology and a list of download links to WebP friendly browsers. I used to include a link to a Firefox fork that supported WebP natively, but no one bothered.

I made a sort of Google+ companion to the site which I'd bump them onto but I still haven't gotten the hang of not getting banned.

d0ugie··on MozJPEG 3.0
> nobody would really bother..

I did, last summer, converted all images (35K) on my NSFW hobby site (check profile) to WebP with no jpeg fallback or shabby javascript decoder (which don't work on very high res images), and haven't looked back.

On my journey to 1000ms-to-glass with a site like mine, I'm going to go with the format that gives me dramatic size savings, thank you Google.

That said, I can see how it benefits Firefox users not to be able to render WebP... sigh.

It would be helpful if 4chan followed my lead by at least allowing users to post WebP with something like mod_pagespeed running.

d0ugie··on Did North Korea Really Attack Sony?
Their bandwidth is estimated to be in the neighborhood of 6Gbit/s, and they allegedly grabbed 100TB of data. If my math is right that would take fifteen days for them to download.

Unless of course they got a bargain on a VPS somewhere else..

d0ugie··on CIA Travel Advice to Operatives
Sir, did you just insinuate that the US intelligence community has room for improvement?
d0ugie··on Google Play Store in Numbers. Open Source Crawler for Mobile Apps Data
Okay... So, having been down this road and beyond already, what do you think of this guy's approach which is nice and visible for inspection?

Might help not only him but some of us learn further, us tinkerers, those who might have a faint curiosity in c# etc if you shared. Then you'd be able to plug away shame-free.

d0ugie··on Youtube-dl
fredoliveira: Eyeballing those lectures, which are enormous, youtube-dl is helping you more easily teach people to make their lives and careers better, instead of just downloading Taylor Swift songs. So youtube-dl is indeed being used for Good.
d0ugie··on Youtube-dl
Quick protip for those wondering, the simple command to download an entire youtube channel is like so:

$ youtube-dl -citw ytuser:LastWeekTonight

I downloaded a channel with 121 videos, 4.4 gigs, took 26 minutes, so 2.8MB/s average. Curious if the Youtube people will shrug it off and free the beer or rate limit or more aggressively combat this.

Also, to get the total number of supported sites:

$ youtube-dl --extractor-descriptions|wc -l

466 (wow)

As this can run on anything with Python, I guess that includes Android[0], iOS[1], Windows Phone[2], heck even Blackberry[3]??

[0] https://python-for-android.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[1] https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/using-python-on-...

[2] http://pythonforios.com/

[3] http://forums.crackberry.com/blackberry-z10-f254/blackberry-...

Thanks pmoriarty for submitting this. Awesome and I'm just getting started poking around with it. Makes me really want to learn Python, seems that's what all the fun stuff[4] is coded in.

[4] http://motoma.io/pyloris/ :)

d0ugie··on Sweden has proof foreign submarine entered its waters
Well, it would not be the US's first time invading an ally's waters, presumably to spy, as we did to Israel in 2004 for whatever reason. http://www.haaretz.com/news/report-submarine-spying-off-coas... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_re...
d0ugie··on Raided for Running a Tor Relay
Has uProxy been abandoned/shelved?

It supposed to be opened to the public in January, then nudged back a few months, and now on their site it says summer of 2014.

Might have helped this guy practice his "altruism" without appearing to engage in money laundering better than tor.

d0ugie··on Hacker News API
dstaley nice work. Would be nicer still if firebase had SPDY and QUIC lit up. I don't think it would be a problem with Apache already in front of Varnish.

But more importantly, why no favicon? ;)

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