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by sehrope 13y ago
Check out Yao's Millionaires' Problem[1]. It's exactly what you're describing and does not require a third party. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire%27s_Problem
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by sehrope 13y ago
Yes that's exactly what happened. I originally thought our build times were short enough that it wouldn't go over the threshold but it was. It's surprisingly easy to trigger the cpu throttling on a micro instance. Would be ni
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by sehrope 13y ago
Using micro instances I've seen it go up to 99% during CPU intensive work (ex: app build). The hang ups waiting for it continue made me decide to switch the build server to an m1.small instance instead. It's idle the vast majority
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Adding Heroku Data Sources To JackDB With OAuth(blog.jackdb.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
> But not for proxying HTTPS requests to actual users. Proxying everything, including HTTPS traffic, is not uncommon for internal proxies at corporations. Since they control the desktop infrastructure a lot of companies install an intern
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by sehrope 13y ago
> So JackDB also acts as authentication provisioning front-end for a DBMS so users don't have to do that themselves and suffer the maintenance cost/overhead. Yep. Couple of mouse clicks and a user no longer has access to one or
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by sehrope 13y ago
Thanks. I've previously worked in technology in the financial services industry so a lot of the ideas for auditing/compliance come from meeting the expectations of that market. Our logic is that if it's seamless enough for th
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by sehrope 13y ago
> Which brings us to shared accounts. Having worked with hundreds of companies over the past couple of years, we've learned that shared accounts are ubiquitous, specially for infrastructure accounts (if your company uses SSH, chance
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by sehrope 13y ago
If you're the one holding it behalf of someone else then yes. If you want it to be anonymous as the consumer of the service then it's fine to anonymize your deposit. If you're going out of your way to anonymize what I've
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by sehrope 13y ago
> The SEC alleges that Shavers promised investors up to 7 percent weekly interest based on BTCST’s Bitcoin market arbitrage activity, which supposedly included selling to individuals who wished to buy Bitcoin “off the radar” in quick fas
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by sehrope 13y ago
Clickable: monit: http://mmonit.com/monit supervisord: http://supervisord.org daemonize: http://bmc.github.com/daemonize runit: http://smarden.org/runit/ perp: http:/
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by sehrope 13y ago
EDIT : The site is back up so these links aren't necessary. I'm leaving it here in case it gets swamped again though. --------- This site isn't responding. Here's a link to the Google cache of the list: http:/&#x2
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Postgres Open 2013 – List Of Talks(postgresopen.org)
35 points by sehrope 13y ago|3 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
Yes but I see no point in using fixed length string fields. Double so for the examples the article gives (first and last names). All the times I've encountered them has been with legacy systems ands it's been a universal pain. All
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by sehrope 13y ago
> You still need a round trip to the DB to get an ID No you don't. Not sure about MySQL but Oracle supports returning generated keys as part of an insertion[1]. An additional round trip is not required as it comes back in the &quot
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by sehrope 13y ago
> If you know that the only possible values for a certain column are between 0 and 100,000 then you don’t need to slap a BIGINT data type for that column when a INT would do just fine. What conceivable column could have 100K possible val
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by sehrope 13y ago
I don't see it this way. Foreign keys in your database allow you do define relationships that must be maintained across your data set. Without them it's possible for a bug in your application code to create a logical state that ma
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by sehrope 13y ago
> Err I don't think this would stop me. On the contrary go right ahead. Learning through doing is the way to go. I'm just saying there's a big difference between testing/learning/prototyping and releasing somethi
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by sehrope 13y ago
It's a really interesting idea (and sounds really fun to build) but a bad idea from a security perspective. Javascript crypto in the browser just doesn't make sense[1]. Summary of the link: Since you trust the server to serve the
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by sehrope 13y ago
Putting aside the work itself of creating a UI (this is just a simple install guide), that's not possible without exposing the encfs keys to the remote server. In this setup the client data is all encrypted before it reaches the serv
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by sehrope 13y ago
Nice guide. One nitpick: > Add a user for our project and give him a decent password: Better off not giving the encbox user a password at all and only allow SSH key based login. You can already login to the primary/root account and
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Previewing BLOB columns in JackDB(blog.jackdb.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
Not sure your OS but if you're running anything with a decent shell (eg Linux, BSD, or Mac OS X) you can do this all from the command line. You should be able to do the majority of what you want with a combination of find/while&#x
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How to add Heroku data sources to JackDB(blog.jackdb.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
This is a perfect use case for zero confirmation transactions. Less friction for a legit customer and no real loss for the business if they need to roll back the transaction if it doesn't confirm. The only risk[1] I can see for Nameche
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Auto Importing SSL Certificates Into JackDB(blog.jackdb.com)
1 points by sehrope 13y ago|0 comments
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by sehrope 13y ago
It's not just for large numbers of elements. If you have dynamic elements that get added/removed you can define a single event handler on the parent with a filter condition on it's children that handles them all. The followin
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by sehrope 13y ago
I've upgraded my phone 3 times so far (3G -> 4 -> 4S -> 5) and no issues with migrating Google Authenticator settings. I do have the habit of wiping out all my music but that's because I never bothered to setup iTunes pro
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by sehrope 13y ago
If you lose your device then you restore it from a backup. For Google apps's 2FA setup they also have one time use codes. It s a special list of 10 codes that you're supposed to save somewhere safe offline (eg. wallet, deposit box
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by sehrope 13y ago
This is even more so if your site is served over HTTPS given the latency for the initial SSL handshake[1]. Even better not to load anything and have it properly cached on the client side. If you do it right you don't even have the clie

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