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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm following this story with a lot of interest. I've done (and still do!) a lot of data crawling/scraping. In the past I've worked on so-called "alternative data" collection and analysis for financial forecast
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by dsacco 9y ago
In fairness to those candidates, do you make your length or detail expectations explicitly clear? I've accepted someone's 30 second summary of TLS before as an interviewer because it was pretty clear they understood it at a high l
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by dsacco 9y ago
I was a little surprised to see an Apple domain in there, but I can't really tell what the private key was for (could have been a test or an example). It looks like it's either an outdated result or an Apple engineer quickly saw t
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, it's deeply frustrating. I can confirm what you're saying and I only run about 30 miles a week, but I can run a six minute mile and a sub-20 5k (none of which are humblebrags by the way, that's at most a year of consiste
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by dsacco 9y ago
Heh, this looks familiar. The article is suspiciously similar to the Wikipedia page for Post-Quantum Cryptography: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography . Especially the algorithms section. This is p
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by dsacco 9y ago
Agreed, and can we please not make this a thing, actually? Because it happens regularly already and in my opinion it's pretty noisy. We have questions like: "What is your pain point?" "What do you wish existed?" &
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by dsacco 9y ago
I think the context matters here. The underlying point is not to be taken so literally. It means don't prematurely optimize your code until you have a functional, enjoyable piece of software. Then sure, work on maintainability and impr
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by dsacco 9y ago
...which is true. Restaurants sell meals, not ingredients. Chefs don't give you ingredients to eat, they craft the base ingredients into something worth selling, preferably with a good experience. I get your point, but that analogy has
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by dsacco 9y ago
That's not an appeal to authority. The essays themselves are substantive; he didn't say, "Chollet says so, thus it is so." More importantly there is an element of misuse going on here: the "fallacy fallacy" i
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by dsacco 9y ago
Any chance you could throw up an email for me to contact you, or use the one in my profile? I'd be interested in chatting with you "offline" as it were.
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LinkedIn Case Tests Whether Firms Can Use Your Data(wsj.com)
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by dsacco 9y ago
NB: Assuming SF, NYC or a similar locale. Junior: $120k base. $10-15k annual bonus. Mid: $150k base. $20-30k annual bonus. Senior: $180k base. $30k annual bonus. Slightly skewed towards consulting; notch it up a bit to account for stock g
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by dsacco 9y ago
I feel the parent was referring to new projects released under the GNU banner, not software that is decades old and highly stable.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Once again: there is plenty of room for both Rust and C++. One language does not need to "win." The Rust community doesn't endorse your flavor of evangelism here. It's not a holy war.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Well are you at liberty to say who they are?
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by dsacco 9y ago
The article only states that each received, "a few million", so it's ambiguous. I can't easily find a clarifying number on a quick search, so it looks like it's not public info.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> At this point it is immoral and unethical to have tackle football in schools. That remains a normative claim, not a positive one. Some parents will be dissuaded from allowing their children to play football competitively, but you&#x2
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by dsacco 9y ago
You mean something like The Internet Bug Bounty?
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by dsacco 9y ago
The nature of the work is such that: 1. If you have to ask this question, you are quite far from being able to do it any time soon (and that's assuming you can find the vulnerabilities!), 2. You will predominantly sell your vulnerabili
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by dsacco 9y ago
As those tools become more widely used and more easy to use, you'll be able to lower the mean bug bounty reward payment as well.
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by dsacco 9y ago
And even if you're "spooky good", you only really need to be spooky good for six - 12 months before something like Google Project Zero will pick you up to (in all likelihood) pay you far more anyway.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, I really do need that explained to me, and no I'm not kidding when I say I don't see us heading for that future. Hey, I could be wrong! I'm willing to be wrong, this is not my primary domain of expertise. But I remain
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by dsacco 9y ago
I actually agree with the position that dangers of artificial intelligence are vastly overstated; that said, this is cherrypicking and doesn't really help the cause of reducing FUD, because it can be refuted with counter examples.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm struggling to understand your point, because it just sounds like FUD. I mean that sincerely - you're not really backing up your concerns here, other than to (essentially) say the technology is new. Yes, emerging technologies c
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm normally a huge fan of Elon Musk, but that tweet comes across as pretty hostile to me. Neither party seems to have critically backed up their beliefs, but I didn't get the sense that Zuckerberg was attempting to single out any
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by dsacco 9y ago
"Making clothes for soldiers" is reaching. You're expanding "use technology for war" to the point of nonsense and diluting the point. I can just as easily say that the cotton gin enhanced every thing ever because it
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by dsacco 9y ago
Absolutely agreed, I was speaking as a matter of theory :)
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by dsacco 9y ago
> once received, the content does not give away the key names of the other mailing list members This doesn't present a problem, because you can construct anonymous group signature schemes.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can you be a bit more specific, maybe with an example issue?
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by dsacco 9y ago
To open this comment: I used to own application security at an international bank. I was responsible for technical penetration testing across the organization, including code responsible for deposits, withdrawals, C2C transfers (customer to

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