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swvjeff··on We ‘may’ have discovered a potential remedy for tinnitus
Headbands don’t cure tinnitus
swvjeff··on Battling Fake Accounts, Twitter to Slash Millions of Followers
I'm sorry but that is just a horrendous idea unless N is a very high number
swvjeff··on Apple confirms it uses Google cloud for some of iCloud
From a post right above:

> From Apple’s actual iCloud security document:

>> The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as S3 and Google Cloud Platform.

swvjeff··on Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”
A lot of these older sites are probably on old servers that LE doesn't support, making it a little less than trivial.
swvjeff··on Google Memory Loss
I completely agree with you, but your initial argument was that "Joe Infinity page ∞" wouldn't be indexed because Google cannot index every viable page on the internet. That is true, and Google will certainly set limits on what pages is crawls and what pages it indexes. However, in this instance the articles were crawled and they were indexed and they were relevant at one point in time. But google decided to remove them from SERPs for some reason or another (age, lack of traffic, etc).
swvjeff··on Google Memory Loss
That's really not relevant to this article. The author is not talking about crawling and indexing the entire web (although he mentions the "whole web" once, that's clearly not what he means). He is wondering why old pages -- pages that used to be in Google's index -- are no longer showing up in SERPs even when using appropriately-targeted long-tail queries.
swvjeff··on HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
Sure, but that's just more reason to use HTTPS across their entire domain and would help prevent users from being phished as easily. If I enter "apple.com" I expect all links on that page to point me to the correct location. A MITM attack from a non-HTTP page could easily alter the page and link me to https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/login instead.
swvjeff··on Acid reflux drug linked to more than doubled risk of stomach cancer
That study is from 2015. Newer study from 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28590010
swvjeff··on Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office
Yes, I work remotely a few days a week.
swvjeff··on Why You Can Focus in a Coffee Shop but Not in Your Open Office
I do the same and it really helps my productivity. I have no clue why it actually works, but I've been using the strategy successfully for a few years now. I always suggest the idea to a coworker if they're stuck on a problem or find themselves unmotivated.
swvjeff··on Ask HN: Anybody else EC2 issues on us-east-1?
Wow, how did I not know this? Thanks for the info.
swvjeff··on Ask HN: Anybody else EC2 issues on us-east-1?
Yes: https://status.aws.amazon.com/

us-east-1b seems to be affected for me.

4:36 PM PDT We are investigating network connectivity issues for some instances in a single Availability Zone in the US-EAST-1 Region.