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sumnuluon A Starter Kit for Emergency Websites

> I know there's much better ways of testing load/performance.

such as

There will be very few black listed tokens, and they are ephemeral. You can use memory replicated datasets, such as CRDTS or just broadcast the whole BL token list to all nodes.

For the size argument, you can use cbor instead of json. (CBOR Web Token) CWT https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8392

sumnuluon Volkswagen exec admits full self-driving cars 'may never happen'

Except if you are living in Japan.

sumnuluon The physical Apple Card is a case of form over function

You can burn it FYI

sumnuluon Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

Burning money is not that bad, even burning 99% of all the money in the world.

sumnuluon A Rooftop Device That Can Make Solar Power and Cool Buildings

(video) https://www.ted.com/talks/aaswath_raman_how_we_can_turn_the_...

> "What if we could use the cold darkness of outer space to cool buildings on earth? In this mind-blowing talk, physicist Aaswath Raman details the technology he's developing to harness "night-sky cooling" -- a natural phenomenon where infrared light escapes earth and heads to space, carrying heat along with it -- which could dramatically reduce the energy used by our cooling systems (and the pollution they cause). Learn more about how this approach could lead us towards a future where we intelligently tap into the energy of the universe."

sumnuluon Pentagon has a laser that can identify people at a distance by their heartbeat

Some of them can steal:

  - Jesse James
  - Bonnie and Clyde
  - Arsene Lupin
  - Lupin the third

sumnuluon RAMBleed Attack – Reading Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them

I find it the other way around annoying, talking in absolutes when one is not sure.

sumnuluon What Happened to 'Miegakure,' the Game That Promised the 4th Dimension? (2018)

(tip) keyboard short cuts: qwerty asdfgh

sumnuluon Erlang/OTP by Example

Very happy with Akka. It is fast (thanks to JVM), has lots of build-in building blocks / modules and documentation covers everything, also community is very helpful.

https://akka.io/docs/

sumnuluon Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

In ideal world all functions should be pure and be a dependency and all code should be just pure functions.

sumnuluon Evergreen: a React UI Framework built by Segment

Replace “dependency” with “code / function” in your post and you will see the problem.

sumnuluon Isochronous Curves

Same here 6 hours ago I watched it.

sumnuluon The US chip industry starts to wake up to new competitive reality

That login screen after restart is basically fancy boot loader screen. After authentication your disk is decrypted and the slow parts start. You will notice that that login screen is some what different for restart and sleep.

sumnuluon Show HN: Faster.js – a micro-optimizing JavaScript compiler

Incidentally, http://www.scala-js.org compiler has constant folding too.

Also if you need faster numeric calculations https://github.com/non/spire (has scala.js support)

sumnuluon JDK 10: General Availability

Java 8 and 11 has LTS http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

sumnuluon OpenTable Fires Employee for Making Fake Reserve Bookings

Stealing 99% of "everyone's" money.

sumnuluon Intel made smart glasses that look normal

Projects inverse image of every other notification, problem solved EyeSaver (TM)

sumnuluon Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

> As a general rule of thumb: public key is what you use when you have no other choice.

I think you mean, "private" key is what you use when you have no other choice.

sumnuluon Concurrent JavaScript: It can work

http://akka-js.org

Akka port for javascript

sumnuluon Why HTTPS for Everything?

Idea: https terminating home routers with open standard will be solution for IoT devices, may be something like UPnP?

sumnuluon Show HN: Sorting 50K Array, HTML5 Web Worker Demo

"As you can see, without Web Worker, your browser maybe able to sort the 50K Array but you can't work with your browser while sorting and also your browser won't render anything until sorting ends, that's why you can't see the animated progress bar in the page."

sumnuluon Git client vulnerability announced

Also case insensitive file systems has other problems with git, if your team has a sensitive one. Mac comes with defaulted to insensitive and that is not good.

sumnuluon My Adventures with “4K” 2160p and Linux

Fixed: http://codepen.io/anon/pen/GgZXYO

sumnuluon Evil Icons – Lightweight SVG icons for your web project

http://www.webjars.org

sumnuluon Why you should move your startup to a small fishing town

If you miss, there is a (hidden) navigation menu at the top of the page.

http://www.thebluehouse.io/

http://www.thebluehouse.io/month-long-program/

http://www.thebluehouse.io/projects/

http://www.thebluehouse.io/blog/

http://www.thebluehouse.io/apply-house/

sumnuluon World's Simplest Electric Train [video]

Magnets are serving two purposes; First one as contact point for the coil and completing the solenoid, and the second one to push the battery. Metal coil is generating magnetic field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampère%27s_circuital_law

sumnuluon Amazon DNS error

Not fixed yet, CloudFront is down. DNS resolution not working.

sumnuluon Permissions asked for by Uber Android app

Strange blog:

  + credit card check banner
  + stolen template notification?

http://postimg.org/image/vg3ehzxqb/

sumnuluon Scala Best Practices

To be fair these are not rules, just best practices, like naming conventions.

i.e.

   > 2.1. MUST NOT use "return"
   > 1.1. SHOULD enforce a reasonable line length
   > 1.5. Names MUST be meaningful 
   *(x, xs, xss, ns, are meaningful names by the way)*
   > 3.3. SHOULD NOT apply optimizations without profiling

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