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by jlrubin 6y ago
just curious -- is this project part of your role at stripe or just a (highly polished) side project? I know that Stripe has been investing heavily in better Ruby tooling, e.g., sorbet.
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by jlrubin 6y ago
Dang :( I always got excellent engagement on my periscope livestreams given my existing twitter audience, will have to look for an alternative that has as good integration
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by jlrubin 6y ago
Minimum bike weights serve 2 important roles other than "it's just the rules": 1) Fairness: While differences between bike manufacturers are large, the competition is about primarily athletics & setting standards allows l
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by jlrubin 6y ago
You can do something similar in Rust to ML modules using traits and generic impls as module functors! https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio... This can be really useful especially as traits wi
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by jlrubin 6y ago
Does anyone have experience with this book/method? I usually organize at the week scale, curious about peoples experience planning daily.
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by jlrubin 6y ago
A few sub-projects you might be into: WSPR: https://youtu.be/QkYXPJMqBNk?t=4974 Blockstream Sat: https://github.com/Blockstream/satellite
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by jlrubin 6y ago
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin could be fun to explore some modules (email me if you want some guidance). I wouldn't say it's particularly "clean", given the constraints on the project, but it d
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by jlrubin 6y ago
It's always fair to call someone out on the ethics of their work, but I don't think this is a particularly effective or positive way of engaging the creator. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html fo
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by jlrubin 6y ago
https://ocaml.janestreet.com/ocaml-core/109.55.00/tmp/re2/Re... should do the trick! ocaml core is well maintained AFAIK
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Startup Lessons I Needed to Learn First Hand (But Maybe You Don’t)(nancyhua.com)
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Quadratic Voting Is Flawed(scorevoting.net)
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by jlrubin 7y ago
This is really cool, I've been thinking about making something like this myself for a while! Design seems to be relatively well thought out. I might be a bit too paranoid of file loss to install it though...
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by jlrubin 7y ago
I have at various points used IRC more or less actively. It's necessary for Bitcoin r&d more or less. I've also used Zephyr more often in the past (MIT has a lot of users), and found it's ability to handle topics in a cha
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by jlrubin 7y ago
Good thing I kept all my old receipts with the discount meter -- can use the money I saved to buy gross-out stock!
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by jlrubin 8y ago
coq allows you to extract a real program, whereas TLA+ just checks a spec for correctness (and you may have bugs implementing it)
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Firefox already has tools to throttle tabs which are abusive CPU-load wise, which seems sufficient in this case. And it's unclear such resources are being 'stolen' if it's stated in the site ToS. Cryptocurrency mining is
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by jlrubin 8y ago
I'm glad to see that it seems the student in question was afforded a measure of process and admitted guilt -- I could easily see the story ending where the weaker opponent casts fake votes for their competition to get them eliminated!
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Feels anti-competitive to have defaults to block mining while not having default enabled advert blocking. I'm much happier for a site to mine on their tab while I'm watching a video than to show me 2 minutes of advertisements ever
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Not quite -- for example, the way that registers are implemented in modern processors is super complex. Here's a sketch of an attack against this: the registers don't actually get overwritten they get renamed in modern CPUs. That
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by jlrubin 8y ago
I don't think the distinction matters that much in this context, so I amended above. I think they're theater because they do something complicated with ambiguous security benefits. And even if they are used correctly, flaws in the
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Would be cool to see more up front in the privacy policies/terms in conditions (or, source even) to get assurances that an app that can access all my browsing data is only doing so when I actively enable it (e.g., for the video I'
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by jlrubin 8y ago
I think that every design that relies on trusted hardware needs to be much more up front about it (e.g., put it in the title) so the paper can be less disappointing. I don't understand academia's obsession with these security thea
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Yeah, I think it's basically splitting hairs. My understanding of the chronology is that Whit was a bit earlier than Ron to the party, and Whit's seminal work is what inspired Ron and gang to work out RSA. Hence I put Whit 1 &#x27
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by jlrubin 8y ago
From the guidelines https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Don't shoot the messenger!
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by jlrubin 8y ago
I think you're unfairly punishing him for not knowing; it's a bit tough to find. I'll give you that the joke -- pinning it on his wife -- is unfunny. None of the folks you mentioned, I believe, invented commitment schemes. Wh
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by jlrubin 8y ago
(In case you're wondering -- you're likely being downvoted for calling the parent 'Broseph' -- it's a bit of a pejorative, which is uncalled for in HN's mostly civil discourse)
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by jlrubin 8y ago
Unenforceable non-compete clauses played a non-minor role in the success of CA as a tech-hub. Sure take a job in MA or NYC as an engineer, but come back in 2 years when your employer is preventing you from working or building a company.
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by jlrubin 8y ago
I think a part of it is that resumes are more or less dead for a lot of roles; you need a referral from someone (don't even have to know them) in the team to land the job. It seems that having a jobs listing is similar to having to put
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by jlrubin 8y ago
It seems you may be correct -- I'll pass it along to Mitch.

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