Hacker News: ucho

New comment by ucho in "This is how Netflix's top-secret recommendation system works"

ucho — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 16:15:17 +0000

Just to power users? I keep getting suggestions to finish viewing last 1-2 minutes of each episode - the end credits that I previously skipped using big "start next episode" button.

New comment by ucho in "Increasing numbers of wingsuit jumpers are dying (2016)"

ucho — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:37:17 +0000

They are called adrenaline junkies for a reason. That makes me wonder - can we put thrill-seeker in "rehab"? And should we?

New comment by ucho in "Headphone startup Kanoa shuts down"

ucho — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 13:33:58 +0000

Some monitors just have bad backlight. I had old one where maximizing terminal(which is mostly black) window caused taskbar and window handle also to turn almost black.

New comment by ucho in "Practicing Elixir or any programming language"

ucho — Fri, 25 Aug 2017 09:00:50 +0000

Last time I tried hackerrank i wasn't impressed - the problem specification was lacking, input/output wasn't defined well enough. Quality varied wildly between problems.

New comment by ucho in "Video is Coming to Reddit"

ucho — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 16:05:34 +0000

> Imgur had DEFINITELY gotten WAY worse than even a year or so ago

There is vicious cycle with all image hosting services and Imgur(and Photobucket) has reached the last step:

1. Notice all other services are filled with ads and full of bloat

2. Create new, free and very simple image uploading site

3. Site gains popularity

4. Operating costs go through the roof

5. Try to monetize by adding ads or move to paid accounts

6. goto 1

New comment by ucho in "Reasonable Scala Compiler"

ucho — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:22:02 +0000

It worked out for Facebook and PHP so maybe that is why they want to give it a try.

New comment by ucho in "HTTP Error Code 418 I'm a Teapot is about to be removed from Node"

ucho — Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:48:16 +0000

> Did you read the github issues? There were hundreds of people against it.

Every time github issue goes viral it ends with hundreds of useless comments full of animated gifs. That is not an argument for anything.

New comment by ucho in "EasyList: Ad-serving domain removed due to DMCA takedown request"

ucho — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 11:40:33 +0000

Storing hashes in source repo would make it very hard to manage and I am not sure if processing raw names into hashes as part of build would be any help against such DMCA request.

New comment by ucho in "Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo"

ucho — Tue, 08 Aug 2017 08:49:56 +0000

> My job is not to balance an arbitrary math equation that x% of engineers are supposed to be women

It really sound like Goodhart's law. It no longer matters that corporations wanted to remove bias from hiring process and access mostly untapped pool of talents. Now it is important how well they are doing it, measured by single % value.

New comment by ucho in "Mozilla’s Send makes it easy to send a file from one person to another"

ucho — Fri, 04 Aug 2017 11:42:07 +0000

Makes me wonder when Firefox will be able to resume interrupted file downloads without addons.

New comment by ucho in "Google’s native ad blocker for Chrome shows up in Android developer build"

ucho — Tue, 01 Aug 2017 14:05:28 +0000

Even more interesting will be the effect on sites that can't get "good" ads due to adult content or sketchy legality like file sharing sites.

New comment by ucho in "REST in Peace. Long Live GraphQL"

ucho — Mon, 24 Jul 2017 16:41:32 +0000

  What is GraphQL?
  GraphQL is all about data communication

Somehow it reminds me of good old "The S stands for Simple": http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple

New comment by ucho in "Used GPUs flood the market as Ethereum's price drops below $150"

ucho — Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:10:53 +0000

Buying ASICs is high risk and (probably) high reward - in event of crash you are left with worthless machines. GPUs will still have some value, even after all crypto currencies drop.

New comment by ucho in "Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check"

ucho — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 16:23:37 +0000

Now it is wrapped in "SmartCloud" instead. I am not sure if that is an improvement.

New comment by ucho in "Audi claims the A8 is the first production car to reach Level 3 autonomy"

ucho — Thu, 13 Jul 2017 15:56:01 +0000

> perfectly clean sensors

I saw thin layer of ice appear on parking sensors after few minutes of driving in snowy conditions, triggering "close object" warnings. And cars get dirty all the time, I wonder if cars will end up with separate wiper for each sensor.

New comment by ucho in "The Old Are Eating the Young"

ucho — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 08:22:38 +0000

As a counter counter anecdote, scientists where estimating that perfecting automatic text translation will take another 10-15 years... in ~1960. I guess hoping that future technology will solve all out problems is similar to expecting next generation to pay our debts.

New comment by ucho in "WebAssembly: Mozilla Won"

ucho — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 16:01:37 +0000

Yeas, what about it? Oh right, it might stop working after Firefox 57: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224 . There are people working on it but that isn't true for many other extensions that are no longer under active development.

New comment by ucho in "Wrapping up Java 9 new Features"

ucho — Fri, 05 May 2017 13:54:29 +0000

Yeah, worst example ever. They should make it harder to make inner anonymous classes, not easier. When such code is used inside JEE/CDI/Spring Beans it leads to some annoying leaks or issues with serialization.

New comment by ucho in "Google plans ad-blocking feature in Chrome browser"

ucho — Thu, 20 Apr 2017 09:17:03 +0000

Lucky for us (in this case) certificate pinning is considered to risky to actually deploy in production, it is to easy to make the page completely unacceptable with single mistake.

Also it looks like Chrome actually ignores pinning for proxies as a feature: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#...

New comment by ucho in "Https hurts users far away from the server"

ucho — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:08:25 +0000

Maybe it is even worse when it is just few - people won't know that website creator isn't responsible for all of its content. And sometimes is hard to know who is the culprit like in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12091900 .

Is there any solution other than totally killing HTTP that protects from HTTPS stripping attacks? HSTS won't protect first visit and STS preload lists can only be so large.