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by yahelc 3y ago
The purpose is so that Twitter is seen as the source of the traffic. A lot of Twitter-sourced traffic comes from native apps, so when people click links from tweets, they usually don’t send referrer information. If the redirects were server
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by yahelc 3y ago
How hard was acquiring the domain twenty.com?
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by yahelc 4y ago
I thought about it, but I hadn't originally built it to make money. It was a weekend hack project that I never expected to do that well, and suddenly the prospect of centering my life around a product I didn't really feel passiona
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by yahelc 4y ago
I built a social media analytics API. At its peak, it brought in about $23k/mo, with server costs at about $3k/mo. When I got a job at Instagram, they decided it was a conflict of interest and told me to sell it, which I did for a
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by yahelc 4y ago
Easy to imagine why this didn’t capture peoples’ attention in late March 2020…
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by yahelc 6y ago
This unnecessary condescension is made all the funnier by the fact that the quote the expression alludes to wasn't actually written by Mark Twain, but in all likelihood by a French writer named Nicolas Chamfort. https://quo
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by yahelc 6y ago
Probably because they include HIBP data https://www.troyhunt.com/were-baking-have-i-been-pwned-into-...
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by yahelc 7y ago
The author, Virgil Goode, is best remembered for this incident. It may help in understanding his motivations in opposing high-skilled immigration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quran_oath_controversy_of_the_...
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by yahelc 7y ago
In addition to properly escaping inputs, Content Security Policy Headers to restrict the hosts that the browser executes JavaScript from (e.g., script-src). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP&#x
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by yahelc 7y ago
I’m well aware. But every other map handles this correctly except Google Maps. It’s not that hard.
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by yahelc 7y ago
Also a pain-point -- 2.6 million people live in Queens, NY, but Google Maps gets the city wrong for the vast majority of them, and it causes major headaches for residents (since so many services rely on Google Maps), and they have yet to fi
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U.S. regulators approve the Long-Term Stock Exchange(reuters.com)
394 points by yahelc 7y ago|187 comments
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by yahelc 8y ago
The city doesn't run the subway, the state does.
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by yahelc 8y ago
I've done this a few times and have found it to be an extremely effective way to do simple pixel tracking (for custom emails and the like).
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by yahelc 8y ago
The piece explicitly credits them: > Workers have also started to replace faulty signals that trigger a train’s emergency brakes at low speeds, a problem investigated by The New York Times and The Village Voice that has also led to slowe
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XKCD-Inspired Calendar Facts Generator(yahel.com)
2 points by yahelc 9y ago|0 comments
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by yahelc 9y ago
You're close. The bank isn't "a" bank, it's a Central Bank. And it's Swedish, not Swiss.
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by yahelc 9y ago
No, cookies can be restricted to paths, it's just less commonly utilized. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document/co...
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by yahelc 9y ago
Can't be this, since they don't have on-page ads.
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by yahelc 9y ago
Interesting that String padding made it in -- sort of jumps out as the simplest of these additions. I wonder how much of that had to do with negative PR for JS-land due to left-pad-gate.
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by yahelc 9y ago
The HackerNews repo is gone (and thus the issue), but at one point this was a Github issue I successfully filed to get HN to add it so their referral data for non-SSL pages wouldn't be lost: https://github.com/HackerNew
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by yahelc 9y ago
Voter files being public data depends on which state you're talking about -- you're looking at ~50 different sets of laws and regulations. Some states restrict access to only political parties using it for political uses and prohi
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by yahelc 9y ago
Twitter loophole works: https://twitter.com/search?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.com%2Fart...
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by yahelc 9y ago
Someone actually built a model back in 2013 to predict risks of various Google APIs shutting down: https://www.gwern.net/Google%20shutdowns
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by yahelc 10y ago
>$30 just for the delivery fee, a daily income of a well off family back in 1998 $30/day is $10,950 per year, which in 1998 was only $100 more than the poverty line for a household of 2.[1] I agree it's a lot of money for a del
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by yahelc 10y ago
Oyez does this for all cases. They also publish the oral arguments (which the Supreme Court itself releases) as a podcast feed, which I highly recommend. It's great listening even if you're not legally trained. scotusblog.com als
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by yahelc 10y ago
Perhaps I've been reading the wrong newspapers, but I can't recall Kraft, Coca Cola, Nestle, P&G, Coca Cola, et al ever being considered media companies.
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by yahelc 10y ago
Randall Munroe has a response to your lamentation: https://xkcd.com/603/
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by yahelc 11y ago
This is amazingly well-timed. Just yesterday I was complaining that the Python SQL libraries are annoying and verbose, and that I wished there was a library as good as requests is for HTTP.
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by yahelc 11y ago
From my testing, it seems like Gmail will cache via its proxy, but that cache respects the cache headers, so you can instruct Gmail how often to refresh the data. (That, and you can cache-bust on a per user basis using a unique identifier i

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