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by edraferi 9y ago
Keybase is a good example of the centralized “secure ledger” described in the article you linked: > Keybase's approach to server security: (1) each user has his or her own signature chain that grows monotonically with each announcem
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by edraferi 9y ago
Then make a challenge on http://longbets.org/
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True, but also a safe statement. Most high-risk revolutions / startups / ventures fail. It is vanishingly unlikely that any of these projects will see widespread adoption and success. So you can just say “that will never work” t
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Some folks get nervous when they have to justify the actual value of their work. Sometimes it’s because doing irrelevant work well or relevant work poorly. More often, I think the business impact connection is just difficult to make. The fu
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It’s the second one. If you have some expertise/ mastery of best practices in your area, then you can make a good living by implementing those things for organizations that would benefit from them, but don’t want to invest in staffing
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by edraferi 9y ago
I know several married couples that met on eHarmony. Folks tell me they like it because the fee is a barrier to entry that keeps out non-serious folks, and the detailed profiles help you cut down the crowd to something manageable. Seems to
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by edraferi 9y ago
Software is used everywhere. If you care about the broader impact of your work, take your skills to an organization who’s mission you respect.
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Bravo! I’m going to check out some of these. Huge fan of the culture series. It’s very interesting to see how Banks portrays humans in a scarcity-free society. A lot of the conflict centers on what you’re supposed to do with all the free
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From the last couple sentences of the abstract: This could lead to a recommendation of 1000 IU for children <1 year on enriched formula and 1500 IU for breastfed children older than 6 months, 3000 IU for children >1 year of age, and
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Also, Stockfish was denied some initialization data that it usually uses: The player with most strident objections to the conditions of the match was GM Hikaru Nakamura. While a heated discussion is taking place online about processing pow
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Victory in the Alabama Senate race is a binary signal that can hide a lot of information. If Moore wins, compare the margin of victory to pre-revelation polling. It's entirely possible that there's a major shift in public opinion,
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This is only true until the Republicans exciting new tax plan goes into effect. It kills the State and Local Tax deduction (SALT) to allow them to cut the Corporate tax rate to 20% and eliminate the estate tax while only increasing the fede
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by edraferi 9y ago
Interesting idea, if poorly defined at the moment. I wonder how editorial control will work out. Wikipedia has a lot of well documented problems that they’ll get a second chance to avoid.
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Agree. In your 20s, your main competitive advantage is your ability to take risks. Plus your skill set is incomplete, so you’re likely to see much better returns from investing in yourself than the market.
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Oh man Now I have to add a “contempt” parameter to everything I make!
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This is a pretty thorough introduction to personal digital security. It starts by emphasizing Threat Modeling, which lay users often forget. Most of the recommendations are standard (password manager, two factor authentication, basic OPSEC,
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NY Times published an update about these kids in 2015 [0]. Basically the US immigration system prevented them from pursuing engineering within the United States. This was before DACA, and they were undocumented. Thus: > Lorenzo Santillan
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I don't think it's quite so gloomy. A lot of cool add-on functionality relies on semantic markup in the email itself [0]. These are open standards by necessity -- any email provider can add support for them. For example, here&#x27
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by edraferi 9y ago
More information about the developer experience here: https://gsuite-developers.googleblog.com/2017/10/gmail-add-o... Edit: Looks like you build the add-ons with Google AppsScript. Very similar to Microsoft Office
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Which is the well-understood cost of getting an otherwise free, highly performant, unusually secure service for free.
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>The main, 24-foot parachute was just flapping in the breeze and was tangled in its own shroud lines. It hadn’t opened! I could see the white folds neatly arranged, fluttering feebly in the air. > “This is very serious,” I thought.
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Very cool resource, thanks for putting it out there. Noticed a couple areas for improvement: Contribution instructions: Per the contributors page, it looks like an email is the way to go [0]. It would be nice to be able to run the standar
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by edraferi 9y ago
Bokeh supports streaming data to existing graphs. This lets you define a graph, display it in a browser, and then push updates from your code. This is a lot lighter than doing a full draw in matplotlib, plus works over the web. Here's
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Data can be replicated infinitely, for zero cost, with no notice to it's creator. The only effective way to protect data against universal distribution is to keep it on your machine (and keep that machine secure). With Gmail, big G has
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Keybase has a public API [0]. There's a community Python library, but it appears to be unmaintained [1]. [0] https://keybase.io/docs/api/1.0/intro [1] https://github.com/adamldoyle/p
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It's on the front page of the Washington Post today.
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The Talk Python To Me podcast just did an episode on this [0] It's mainly an interview with Glyph (author of Twisted) about his PyCon 2016 talk "Shipping Software To Users With Python" [1] [0] https://talkpython.fm
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Problem is, the place is huge... 263,900 employees as of this year. [0] With that many people, you'll inevitably have numbskulls who upload critical security information to public websites. You'll also have so many services deploy
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Man. You're right - that's a mess.
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Yes, Conda [0] is a package manager designed by Continuum Analytics (now Anaconda, Inc.) to support their Anaconda Distribution [1]. The distribution is free, and the Conda client is open source. However, Anaconda sells several enterprise p

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