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by mvanveen 6y ago
I'm almost 31 and I said the same thing to myself this weekend. Ironically coincident with this announcement, I ended up going through LFS and managed to get a kernel compiled using an entirely bootstrapped toolchain. About halfway thr
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by mvanveen 6y ago
Thanks for the correction! Apologies for my gross oversight.
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by mvanveen 6y ago
Yes! Let's make sure in the memory of Aaron Schwartz and the many others who have faced undue scrutiny under CFAA that we see drastic reform of this draconian law and how it is applied.
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by mvanveen 7y ago
Previously to this month I was a Senior Machine Learning engineer at Zest.ai. I have over a decade of professional experience as a backend engineer with Python before that. I accepted a job offer at the highest salary I'd ever been of
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by mvanveen 8y ago
The founding fathers published the federalist papers pseudo-anonymously. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers
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by mvanveen 8y ago
What if you want to start a row with a field that has a `#`? Not to mention how to handle backwards compatibility with the above concern...
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by mvanveen 8y ago
I had several encounters at my time as an intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I was alerted to my immaturity and the responsibilities that were in front of me. I'm tremendously thankful for each one of those lessons. There are m
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by mvanveen 9y ago
Please also check out and share the video recording flow we've built at https://video.battleforthenet.com
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by mvanveen 9y ago
SEEKING WORK / remote / San Diego I'm a full-stack startup and web system technology junkie. I think in Python and have used it professionally for over 8 years. I have over six years of post-collegiate industry experience wor
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by mvanveen 10y ago
Coming across The Tao is Silent in college changed my life forever. I've subsequently recommended it to select friends who seemed like they'd benefit from it and they've reported back and told me the book has had similar e
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by mvanveen 10y ago
This 8ch.net thread also has some good technical analysis: http://8ch.net/tech/res/679042.html might have nsfw ads watch out
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by mvanveen 10y ago
I think until there is satisfactory evidence that Assange is safe and still behind the wikileaks web, social media properties, etc. we should assume that they have been co-opted. Publishing the hashes is meant to serve as a canary for this
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by mvanveen 11y ago
I had the pleasure of taking Differential Equations from Dr. Coward at UC Davis back in undergrad. He was one of the best math professors I ever had.
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by mvanveen 12y ago
Congratulations guys! Wearing my #11 beta sweatshirt as I write this. :) It's been incredible to watch Firebase grow from a glimmering James' and Andrew's eyes. It seems like just yesterday a few dozen of us were all huddli
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by mvanveen 12y ago
how about merely 50% confidence on whether or not an individual is considered "foreign?"
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by mvanveen 12y ago
There doesn't seem to be any way to export to a machine-readable format. Not even the Google Data Liberation Front seems to be of any help :/ Feeling determined and stubborn, I even tried writing a quick CasperJS script to scrape
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by mvanveen 13y ago
Interesting, the Bitcoin Foundation logo is still visible on the MtGox front page as of 8:43 PM PST on Sunday.
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by mvanveen 13y ago
SEEKING WORK: Remote or Bay Area http://mvanveen.net http://github.com/mvanveen michael@mvanveen.net Some technologies I've used lately include: Python, C HTML5/CSS/JS GAE datastore
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WikiLeaks releases secret TPP Environment draft(wikileaks.org)
3 points by mvanveen 13y ago|0 comments
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by mvanveen 13y ago
I have a ScraPy-based crawler project available at http://github.com/mvanveen/hncrawl
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by mvanveen 13y ago
Google was already image caching external email images, IIRC. So as far as amount of raw information being leaked, I think today's feature launch represents a step backwards.
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by mvanveen 13y ago
I think as far as classifying it as a foreign language is concerned, it could likely be a reflection of the fact that US education curricula are decided at a state level in general, and so the federal government has limited ability to incen
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by mvanveen 13y ago
The way I read the comment, I think you are correct about it being a boon and not a bane. However, it is because the request was timed at the same time as the message read, not the other way around. It seems the commenter functionally test
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by mvanveen 13y ago
My immediate reaction is to ask how this reliability characteristic of CPUs affects critical software applications? Certainly some space missions and medical devices out in the field must have surpassed the MTBF mark for the given CPU depl
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by mvanveen 13y ago
just the humor
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by mvanveen 13y ago
OK, that's a pretty good counterexample. Touché. :-p GAE just avoids it alltogether (except locally, where you have CPython and use it to stub out core services hosted on the cloud runtime). You simply can't import sqlite3 on GAE
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by mvanveen 13y ago
numpy has all sorts of awful C bindings which make it less than versatile in environments where you want pure Python. It's great from a performance point of view, but horrible for compatibility. Google App Engine used to suffer becaus
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by mvanveen 13y ago
A "snoop free alternative" demands a transparent implementation that can be verified. Otherwise, how can we trust the claims of being "snoop free"? The extent that we can verify a system is the extent to which we can tr
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by mvanveen 13y ago
Doesn't this beg the question about larger issues, e.g. NSA man-in-the-middle attacks? I think rsync.net's warrant canary is top-notch and a leading example of a good privacy / transparency policy put into practice, but it&#
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by mvanveen 13y ago
How does it know a url is safe for work? Also doesn't "fu.gg" kind of seem like it's asking for it?

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