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by josnyder 5mo ago
Sylvan Dr and Forest View Dr are two blocks from each other.
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by josnyder 2y ago
While it can't be done server-side, this can be done straightforwardly in a signer service, and the signer doesn't need to interact with the payloads being uploaded. In other words, a tiny signer can act as a control plane for mas
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by josnyder 2y ago
Most jurisdictions make a distinction between moving violations, which are issued to the driver, and parking violations, which are issued to the car (and its owner, by extension). This is why, in most places, you cannot get points on your l
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by josnyder 3y ago
Yes, by design. One major goal is to prevent a landowner from squatting on an empty lot while their neighbors build prosperity around it. The "squatter" then cashes in, having done nothing themselves. "Everyone works but the
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by josnyder 3y ago
(I'm a big proponent of LVT) The two downsides I'm aware of are difficulty in transitioning to an LVT and difficulty in valuing the land. Transitioning to an LVT means that landowners no longer capture land rents for themselves, w
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by josnyder 4y ago
This was great in 2012. In 2022, most use-cases should be using parallelized zstd.
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by josnyder 4y ago
I'm a big fan of privacy.com: they provide me with a spend-limited debit card number that varies by vendor. I use them especially for newspaper subscriptions that make it difficult to cancel and have balloon renewal payments.
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by josnyder 4y ago
OP appears to be Jack O'Connor, one of the designers of BLAKE3, which is the fastest full-strength cryptographic hash function currently available. It's always nice to see practicing cryptographers also producing digestible crypto
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by josnyder 5y ago
PoW systems rely on the "phone a friend method" as well. When you download a Bitcoin client from a "friend", you are trusting them to honestly introduce you to the network. If you fall asleep for a period of years, you h
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by josnyder 5y ago
I'm saddened that the answer isn't "Just use BeyondCorp". Layer 7 solutions provide so much more capacity for granular AuthZ, and thereby eliminate the "soft underbelly" of corporate networks.
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by josnyder 5y ago
I clocked a custom Ubuntu-based AMI at 2.85 seconds for the median of 10 runs. https://gist.github.com/hashbrowncipher/17a92c6afb9642503876...
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by josnyder 5y ago
Location: Bay Area Remote: No preference Willing to relocate: No Gist: SRE with a focus in databases; additional specializations in security, automation, and performance Technologies: online databases (Cassandra, MySQL, Postgres), Python, T
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by josnyder 6y ago
> Even worse, the idea that SE is a learning process is not communicated in any of the SE textbooks I know. I think that Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985) communicates this idea succinctly and forcefully. It&#
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Rebooting datastores into the future(medium.com)
3 points by josnyder 7y ago|0 comments
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by josnyder 9y ago
I saw it presented at Percona Live three days ago. As far as I am aware, there was no video.
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by josnyder 10y ago
I think it would be interesting for a member of Congress (or their staff) to operate a SecureDrop instance. Such a system might be a useful supplement to other forms of communication between federal officers and Congress (e.g. fax, interoff
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by josnyder 10y ago
rurban has been proselytizing against use of psuedorandom functions (such as SipHash) for hash tables for a while now. He appears to truly believe that using PRFs for this purpose is inappropriate. Every argument I've seen from rurban
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by josnyder 11y ago
I work for Yelp, and we use cron for purposes similar to those mentioned in this article, mostly synchronizing small bits of configuration or data that we want local to the machine. We're heavy Puppet users, and we made a module to as
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by josnyder 11y ago
Yep, I found a number of them, but I promptly forgot them in excitement when I found the one I actually wanted. If you want to check them out yourself, they appear to congregate in the kernel tree at net/sched/sch_* [1]. The only
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by josnyder 13y ago
Defcad's DNS point-of-contact is dns@jomax.net. Meanwhile, megaupload's is ipr@ic.fbi.gov. It seems very likely that this is a wonderfully crafted hoax.
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April Fool: DefCad (3D printed gun site) seized by feds(defcad.org)
5 points by josnyder 13y ago|1 comments
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by josnyder 14y ago
jwz's thesis, that uninformed people shouldn't vote, is overwhelmingly correct. I consider myself to be well-informed, politically speaking. Yet I voted in only 7 of 17 races on my ballot. I am not, for example, equipped to make informed
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by josnyder 14y ago
From Wikipedia: Leon Chua, who is considered to be the father of non-linear circuit theory, has argued that all 2-terminal non-volatile memory devices including phase change memory should be considered memristors. Stan Williams of HP Labs h
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by josnyder 14y ago
API design requires much skill and foresight. As you said: Designing a good API is one of the most difficult skills to acquire in all of software development. However, the yardstick for copyrightability remains creativity (among other
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Ask HN: Invest where you eat?
1 points by josnyder 15y ago|1 comments
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by josnyder 15y ago
The way I view copyright law (IANAL), this is the correct approach. Each upload of an item to Megaupload is an independent assertion by the uploader that they have a license to put the work in question on the site. _Content_ itself is not
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by josnyder 15y ago
It already has, to a small extent. Two services I can think of which already aim to provide this guarantee: Firefox Sync [1] and Tarsnap [2]. [1] http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/overview.html#cryptogr... [2] http://www.tarsnap.com
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by josnyder 15y ago
This has been done. Real World Haskell [1] comes to mind. [1] http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/types-and-functions.ht...
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by josnyder 15y ago
Much as I like to jump on VZW, I don't think that Verizon should be vilified for this one. By my back-of-the-envelope math, Verizon is passing on the cost of credit-card processing to their customers, and no more (2% CC processing fee on a
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Adblock Plus will now allow "acceptable" ads by default(adblockplus.org)
10 points by josnyder 15y ago|0 comments

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