bpchaps

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by bpchaps 9y ago
I'd love to see a discussion around data breaches with the use of public records laws. There's a huge lack of responsibility and auditing around it, which lead to large batches of information being wrongly released to the public.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Mostly because it's an extremely difficult problem that pushes me to learn new things across a wide field. If you're interested in checking it out, it's at [1]. I'd like to make something similar to [2] in the mid-term,
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Mapping out chicago's parking tickets Polling metrics over I2C for a distributed power stack 7 ongoing FOIA requests for email metadata. A clojure web scraper Building an caching server with an nvme raid Building a large
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by bpchaps 9y ago
If you're still interested in doing research, you could potentially do a foia request for the communications of the people involved in redaction.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Yep, I've seen this happen before when an old boss let a formally dressed, very attractive pen tester through the front door. It became somewhat of a joke afterwards, but at the time, the auditors involved took it very seriously.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Here's how - https://imgur.com/a/S00fk
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by bpchaps 9y ago
A SF barista makes 18k/yr. Can they make it on that? Sure. But when a third of your salary is on food - based on your quote - it's not going to be comfortable and saving is a stretch to say the least. Especially with student loans
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Hah, I bittersweetingly accept!
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Muckrock as another poster mentioned, but they're not as comprehensive as I'd hope and their business model kind of ironically paywalls information. A good strategy I've used is to read similar requests beforehand. It's
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by bpchaps 9y ago
I'm not sure what the specifics would be, but it would very likely be related to the emails that contained ongoing FBI investigations. (Which, for the record, is deleted and unshared.)
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Good sauce. FOIA has been somewhat of an obsession of mine for a few years now and I can't recommend its use enough. It's difficult, full of legal and non-legal gotchas from front to back in every state I've sent requests to,
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by bpchaps 9y ago
It exists... it's just rare. I've seen it work first hand in most of my career at trading firms of all sizes. Though, after leaving the field from extreme burnout (definitely something to be said there), I haven't seen anythi
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Please don't do this. It just makes everyone else feel like they have to work 24/7. It's very, very toxic.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Deleting "drawbridge-up" from the html tag and the <div id="drawbridge-root"> tree does the trick.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Despite your consistently dismissive attitude, it IS the right tool for me, the teams I work on/with, and side projects. If that's not what prometheus is for, you should seriously consider adding a more-explicit mention of it in t
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Any thoughts on a timeframe? This is the only thing holding me back from using Prometheus in any sort of serious way.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Something like a magnet school? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_school
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Sorry, but that's total bullshit. The promotion of mental health stretches only to those with mostly-good mental health. A true focus on mental health is severely deprioritized in the workplace for legitimate mental health problems. Wh
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by bpchaps 9y ago
I truly do not trust Braintree as a secure payment service. As a company, they host an asinine number of public events at their 100+ person meeting hall at Chicago's Merchandise Mart. To get to that hall, you have to walk about 200ft p
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Super cool! I wrote something that converts png files to OpenComputer 3dprint .3dm files. Next time I play, I'll try to combine your code with my own for easy portraiting :).
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Possible explanation for typing "google" instead of "google.com" - it's because autocomplete makes typing out the full URL unnecessary. I'd be willing to bet the students were running on muscle memory.
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Does that warrant downvotes, though?
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Chicago Open Data Portal(data.cityofchicago.org)
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Heh, that could be said about ANY bubble. You're entirely victim blaming here. Keep in mind that many, many, many of the people who become taxi drivers are from other countries and often speak little to no english. Many do it because
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Definitely. I heard about him (10 years ago) from one of his old bosses who mentioned this page. This sed one liner page took about a month to go through from basically zero Unix experience. Probably the most important learning piece I&#x27
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by bpchaps 9y ago
I'd be curious if one of the unspoken goals is to make people outraged enough by the donation to make donations to smaller institutions. Wishful thinking?
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by bpchaps 9y ago
@damn - Could you followup on your comment that you might disallow WSJ if they ever did this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620821
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by bpchaps 9y ago
I think so. It's funny, despite having a relatively damn good career without a degree, I still get constant grief from friends and family. There probably hasn't been a single family visit since leaving home where someone hasn&#x27
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by bpchaps 9y ago
Loopholes all the way down...
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by bpchaps 9y ago
damn - any followup thoughts on this [1]? Looks like the google loophole's broken (for me, at least). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13620821 Edit: Here are some non-WSJ sources articles, discussions and a li

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