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by jwegan 14y ago
It is impossible to estimate decreases from "patterns found in the SHA-1 hash function". There is a good likelihood no patterns will be found in 10 years. It is also possible (although probably unlikely) an attack could be found that utterl
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by jwegan 14y ago
DNS reflection has been known (and used) for years. That is why cloudflare mentions there has been an ongoing effort to clean up open resolvers.
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by jwegan 14y ago
Futures and option contracts have been around for hundreds of years and there is some evidence that ancient societies also had similar financial instruments.
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by jwegan 14y ago
You might want to set TCP_NODELAY on the socket to disable Nagle's algorithm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagles_algorithm ). We ran into some issues with memcached where if Nagle's algorithm was not turned of, GETs would often take sever
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by jwegan 14y ago
Seriously, just having a basic LinkedIn profile will get you a couple recruitment messages a week. If your co-founder tempted by standard form letter recruitment emails then you have bigger problems.
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by jwegan 14y ago
Another big question for colos is redundant power. Preferably they have two separate lines all the way to the utility and test their generators on a regular basis.
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by jwegan 14y ago
Another one to add is personality. Generally at the end of the interview there are two questions I have to answer: 1) Can the candidate do the job? 2) Can I work 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, under stressful situations with this person?
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by jwegan 14y ago
I've been doing this myself and it has worked out pretty well so far. My password is in the list of passwords released, but is uncracked and I can rest assured knowing that I did not use the same password on any other website. A couple thin
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by jwegan 14y ago
Palo Alto, CA (H1B welcome) Shopkick - http://www.shopkick.com/jobs.html Shopkick is cross-retailer loyalty platform with over 4 million users. Macy's, Best Buy, Target, Old Navy, General Mills, and Proctor & Gamble are just a few of
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by jwegan 14y ago
1. It was published the day after the Instagram acquisition that Facebook had assigned a valuation of $75 billion to their stock. 2. I doubt Facebook bought Instagram for the "social graph" . Facebook has always been laser focused on user e
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by jwegan 15y ago
They have only been around for 2 years so they certainly have not been granted any patents. It is very unlikely they have even filed for any patents. Most startups will only file patents in their first few years if patents are a critical pa
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by jwegan 15y ago
It was the head of Yahoo research ( http://allthingsd.com/20120304/exclusive-yahoo-labs-head-rag... ) and it seems likely that he left because Thompson will be making deep cuts to the research department
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by jwegan 15y ago
To add more detail, the reason is would not show the IP of the Tor servers is because you only send ARP requests for IPs on your same subnet. If the IP is not on your subnet there is no reason to send an ARP because you already know you can
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by jwegan 15y ago
Palo Alto, CA (H1B welcome) Shopkick - http://www.shopkick.com/jobs.html Shopkick is cross-retailer loyalty platform with over 3 million users. Macy's, Best Buy, Target, Old Navy, General Mills, and Proctor & Gamble are just a few of
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by jwegan 15y ago
One thing that you can't do right now is send original quality videos. This could be useful for uploading large videos, but it seems KickSend still tries (like every other app out there) to compress the video which takes FOREVER and kills y
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by jwegan 15y ago
That is incorrect. SHA1 still has no known collisions despite years of research and computing power dedicated to finding just one collision. Edit: Furthermore since the set of valid emails and phone numbers is a very restricted set of input
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by jwegan 15y ago
Slightly off topic, but it really bugs me that Chrome has security researchers busy analyzing hypothetical attacks, but refuses to do anything to prevent practical real world attacks. My 5 year old cousin can find out all my saved passwords
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by jwegan 15y ago
> the end of all progress for humanity No.
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by jwegan 15y ago
They said the same thing about the TV
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by jwegan 15y ago
The suggestion to not give a number first is awful. You may not want to give your previous salary history, but you most certainly do want to give the first number. You should do your research and figure out what the company usually pays for
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by jwegan 15y ago
This is the exact opposite of how to successfully negotiate. Maybe if your not confident in your worth, some company might offer you more than you would have suggested. However, the art to successful negotiation is to make a first offer on
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by jwegan 15y ago
Palo Alto, CA (H1B welcome) Shopkick - http://www.shopkick.com/jobs.html Shopkick is a startup looking to use mobile to transform retail shopping. Macy's, Best Buy, Target, and Proctor and Gamble are just a few of our partners. We are bac
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by jwegan 15y ago
They are not going to be able to BS their way through an entire code base. The problem is that a large number of coders out there simply do not have a project they can show an interviewer. This can be for a number of reasons such as only
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by jwegan 15y ago
With options, an employee can dream of making millions if the company becomes successful, but with most typical cash bonus/profit sharing there is no chance of that. The idea is that these mega cash-outs even if not very likely are more mot
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by jwegan 15y ago
Being in the same datacenter is a feature since it means there is extremely low latency between your dedicated and cloud machines. Sub-millisecond vs. 10s of milliseconds round trip times can make a huge difference.
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by jwegan 15y ago
Of course its not amazing, but it is a feature they have that would have made the transition to dedicated easier.
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by jwegan 15y ago
Rackspace's primary business is dedicated hosting. In fact they let you have both dedicated hosts and cloud hosts and allow dedicated and cloud hosts to talk to each other. I'm curious why they didn't just switch to Rackspace's dedicated ho
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by jwegan 15y ago
I think the consensus on HN is that your company's hiring practices are not normal. While some percentage of good developers will put up with your practices; I think a much larger percentage pass on you before you ever hear from them. As yo
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by jwegan 15y ago
Another way to implement map reduce in Python is to use the Hadoop Streaming Jar ( http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.1/streaming.html ). You basically write a mapper and reducer as python scripts and ship them out with the job in a
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by jwegan 15y ago
Palo Alto, CA (H1B welcome) Shopkick - http://www.shopkick.com/jobs.html Shopkick is a startup looking to use mobile to transform retail shopping. Macy's, Best Buy, Target, and Proctor and Gamble are just a few of our partners. We are bac

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