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by shuzchen 12y ago
Hard to see how this passed anybody's internal alarm that warns them of impropriety and conflict of interest. As a developer living in Hawaii that dreams of building my own company one day (and dreams of building that company in Hawaii
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Mbloom’s first investment is in themselves?(alohastartups.com)
77 points by shuzchen 12y ago|29 comments
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by shuzchen 12y ago
Similarly, anything you've installed in that virtualenv that installs itself in a bin folder (pip, mercurial, django-admin.py, etc) will be in that bin folder, and calling them from that directory will execute them in the context of th
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by shuzchen 12y ago
Depending on the data model there are a few ways to deal with cycles. My project involved a friendship graph, and doing queries like "find friends of X", or "find people who like X, who are within 2 degrees of friendship-sep
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by shuzchen 12y ago
Actually you can have a graph database in postgres as well! Look into queries using "WITH RECURSIVE", and you can do pretty much anything a graph database could do. From the specific use case I had, there was actually no differen
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by shuzchen 12y ago
As a person that uses Django to make a living (at my full-time job, and for my freelance work) and who has tinkered with a lapis/openresty site on my spare time ( http://graphcake.com ), I'd say productivity is on the si
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by shuzchen 12y ago
When my wife (then girlfriend) was doing her masters, I set her up with I, Librarian ( http://www.bioinformatics.org/librarian/ ). At that time, it was (from the dozen or so that I tested) the best open source reference
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by shuzchen 13y ago
How easy it is to hack the server itself really ranges from super simple to extremely hard. Is your target is a home server exposed to the internet, admin'ed by someone who installed apache from following online tutorials? Sure, you&#
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by shuzchen 13y ago
I'm not certain but from the copy it sounds like they'll be using that same pixelated cartoon no matter who the candidate is. Also, it doesn't appear like the signup form has a field to attach a photo.
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by shuzchen 13y ago
You can't go back in the sense that random end-users that visit your site will likely have that cached. In chrome, you can always visit about:net-internals and clear the HSTS cache. Probably not useful for random users, but good to k
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Yes, on the queries that I've done (mostly friendship graphs, and doing queries like getting friends of friends) postgres was pretty much on par with neo4j. I'm way more familiar with tuning postgres though, so there's that.
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by shuzchen 13y ago
This is awesome. I've used WITH RECURSIVE in postgres to do graph traversals (even replaced neo4j with postgres), and now this is also available with sqlite. I can see running tests in development becoming a whole lot easier.
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by shuzchen 13y ago
People who write (python) crawlers use BeautifulSoup because it was created with invalid input in mind. If you're crawling the wild wild internet, chances are you'll find a wide range of invalid markup and lxml barfs on those (it
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Any reliable VPS offering should support custom kernels -linode, prmgr, and ec2 do. While it's not "any OS you want", they support any kernel that runs under Xen, which pretty much opens the door to most distros you'd wa
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by shuzchen 13y ago
I really liked the criteria that http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-not-lgpl.html outlines regarding lgpl or not. It's the same criteria I use to decide whether to use a strong copyleft license or not: >The most
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by shuzchen 13y ago
I'm mostly surprised that they went into the actual parser/compiler and modified that. If I were crazy enough to do this, I'd probably just write a pythonb-to-python compiler.
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Let's first forget that this is a crazy idea: This is doable since dictionaries and blocks show up in different contexts. A block never follows =,:, ;, or (, so with a context sensitive grammar this can be accomplished. I guess it de
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by shuzchen 13y ago
The problem with this widget is the majority of the widget contents are stuck in an iframe. The js code mostly just does time detection and places the iframe on the site. So even if you can audit and fix the js code you're running, yo
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Assuming they've already compromised the crypto bits of the chip there's nothing to gain in avoiding them since the non-crypto bits could just as well have the same compromises. Might as well just take the time/energy saving
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by shuzchen 13y ago
In my personal experience (I have a thinkpad x120e with a E-350) it used to be the case that I needed the proprietary drivers to get anything respectable. However, things have changed recently (in the last year or so) and I've been ge
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Now you have a different problem, fearing breaches at Paypal (and their record isn't clean on this front either)
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by shuzchen 13y ago
People looking to test this out might want to try apply for the starterpack ( https://cloud.google.com/developers/starterpack/ promo code brdo-in). I know a few people with pretty vague ideas that still got accept
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Look around for hackerspaces or co-working spaces. They are generally inexpensive, and put you in working proximity with local talent and like-minded road warriors.
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by shuzchen 13y ago
This hn comment links to a few places where people complained: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6779036 The link that specifically shows people complaining that nobody viewed their app or looked at their video is this:
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by shuzchen 13y ago
In my case, I actually did think of this idea! Just never had the hardware knowledge to even know where to get started (and I was worried about the trouble it'd cause as card skimmers used it to easily clone cards - hopefully we'
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Failing together usually only make sense for the simplest of apps, not for anything that has a lot of moving parts. If my pub-sub message queue falls over, I'd rather the web workers still stay up so visitors can see the site - they&#
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by shuzchen 13y ago
If that's the case with the resolution setting then my concern there isn't as major, although users might still be at risk if their webservers are configured a certain way. I'm not concerned about users uploading files to som
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by shuzchen 13y ago
I'm not sure how that helps any. The issue isn't access to the raw movie file source, but access to the url, userid and eventual customization variables necessary to start a transcode job. All of this is readily available to any
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by shuzchen 13y ago
One thing you could do is involve HMACs. Basically, give the user a key that they use to sign the request (basically sign a hash containing the url, user id, requested options). You can then use the HMAC to verify that the user did request
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by shuzchen 13y ago
Doesn't strike me as very secure, since everything here happens through the url and anyone can just go in and grab the required values to spoof a transcode request. It's mostly mitigated by the necessity of file upload access, bu

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