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by oakenshield 11y ago
I started enjoying Netflix more when I realized I shouldn't be looking for stuff I knew of from elsewhere, but rather explore titles, rate, and help their algorithm to suggest things to me. Has been working out well so far - I got into
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by oakenshield 11y ago
Likely they're holding their cards close to the chest as it's a competitive market.
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by oakenshield 12y ago
My 2 cents: many file systems do not have a file locking feature that can enforce file locking. In unix-like systems, file locks (e.g., lockf(3)) are "advisory" rather than mandatory, meaning it's up to the higher-layer apps
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by oakenshield 13y ago
Congrats Navneet, Mehul, & team!
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by oakenshield 13y ago
Speed is one concern but far from the main reason. You couldn't use a typical-length RSA key to encrypt a large chunk of data because there's a max input size for any given RSA key size. Standard block/stream cipher modes of
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by oakenshield 13y ago
alt+. does the same thing as well, and is slightly easier to type.
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by oakenshield 13y ago
Speaking for the Bay area, public transportation here is shockingly bad, even for something as routine as getting to the airport. For someone living in the valley to get to SFO (about 40 miles), a taxi can cost anywhere from $50-$80, and th
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by oakenshield 14y ago
For HTTP clients and servers, I've not had too much trouble with cpp-netlib. It's heavily boost-based, and it uses Boost::Asio for concurrency and SSL handling, but if you're familiar with Boost, you can be up and running in no time. IIRC,
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Which book did you get? Curious to find out what's in it. > ... so disadvantageous in an evolutionary sense? Environmental factors (such as staring at a computer screen...) Well if you're arguing that it's a nurture thing, there are ple
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Correct. I didn't mean slow implementation, I meant slow enough on modern hardware using the fastest implementaiton.
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by oakenshield 14y ago
I may not understand the whole context, but if you're using PBKDF2 for key derivation, you don't want to use something that works "fast". You want whatever algorithm/iteration combination that is as slow as possible [1], but not too slow th
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by oakenshield 14y ago
> I wonder if the C implementation is much faster Very likely -- Run this on your machine and see if it improves things http://stackoverflow.com/a/9781943 . I got about 18.6s for your python code while this one with a 16 byte salt and
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by oakenshield 14y ago
I've been thinking about this very problem---recovering a forgotten encryption password without trusting a third party. The state of the art seems to be 1. Print it out on paper and put it in a safe. This is somewhat annoying and inconvenie
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by oakenshield 14y ago
I've read a few bits and they're all great one way or the other, primarily because chapters on specific projects are written by their primary authors. A couple of good ones Nginx: http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html LLVM: http://www.ao
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by oakenshield 14y ago
What you're speaking about seems similar to what most people on the Leangains [1] diet follow. In looking around for healthy diet + exercise patterns for predominantly sedentary lifestyles (such as the HN crowd), there seem to be two main s
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by oakenshield 14y ago
YC Winter 2012 security startup (stealth) - Palo Alto, CA - First Hire We are building a multi-platform security application + SaaS that solves a big problem for businesses and end-users in the domain of cloud storage and sharing. Our produ
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by oakenshield 14y ago
While you have a valid point, Flutter has some pretty deep and well-trained computer vision code that can't be replicated in a month or two. In addition, even if one app (say iTunes) builds this functionality, users would still want gesture
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Yet another satisfied customer here, and to me, one of the huge advantages of YM is that the mechanic comes to you... no more worrying about how to get your vehicle to a shop, whether you will make it there by closing to pick it back up, wh
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Any shell script can be made one line with enough semicolons.
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by oakenshield 14y ago
It's on LWN. 90% of programmers who go there really do need to know memory in the detail Drepper talks about. I see your point though - I fully expected the title to be linkbait to a hastily written article. This article, however, is the re
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Stealth startup (YC W12) - Mountain View, CA - Paid INTERN (local) We are building a secure Platform-as-a-Service that is more secure and compliant than existing PaaS systems. Existing PaaS offerings cannot support applications that need to
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Cool implementation. Were you inspired by the Google 2-factor approach to log in to Goog websites that was pulled? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_qr_code... As others said, I'd love to see an android version. However
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Marissa Mayer is hardly the best role model out there for computer scientists, in the classical sense of the word "scientist". There's a very clear distinction between programmer, hacker, and scientist which the author may not be aware of (
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by oakenshield 14y ago
Quite easy to find online, but... http://ycombinator.com/apply.html , point #1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804408
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by oakenshield 14y ago
While it may be tempting to look to nature to draw inspiration for engineering, realize that nature/evolution often makes horrendous engineering "decisions" precisely because it is not intelligently engineered. The most often cited example
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by oakenshield 15y ago
This is awesome! I had never thought of commissioning artwork previously, but checking out some of the already commissioned postapocalyptic artwork made me realize I'd love to recreate custom-made versions of scenes from my favorite science
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by oakenshield 15y ago
I don't find #1 very good advice. The "celebrities" are the ones who you most need in your network, and you need to bite the bullet, navigate the crowd, and get at least a few minutes of facetime with them so they know who you are. Sending
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by oakenshield 15y ago
The FAQ mainly complains about multi-statement macros that use conditionals or loops (among some sillier criticism). For a one-statement expression such as the above, I would use a macro because it's so much easier to define than a (potenti
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by oakenshield 15y ago
Stealth security startup (YC Winter '12) Mountain View, Full-time. Interns also considered We are looking for our first employee in a kernel / systems / generalist hacker role. We are solving a high-impact problem in data security. Our pro
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by oakenshield 15y ago
> It is the best PDF viewing solution out there. If you read CS papers in PDF format, it's great. Unfortunately true, despite having a heavily crippled PDF reader. The zoom is completely broken (100%-150%-200% only?), and there's no scr

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