traviscj

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by traviscj 8y ago
No majorities, I guess?
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by traviscj 9y ago
Piling on/agreeing with you: The “magic smoke” isn’t the model, it’s the infrastructure the model plugs into, the data->feature pipeline, AND the model. Assuming you’be done the things you mention (and maybe with one additional assu
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by traviscj 9y ago
One weakness of the way you’ve described this: John isn’t getting a commission on trades between the minglers, he gets a commission by the things he blares on the TVs in the room.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Derp, I missed the obvious. Thanks. I had heard of uMatrix but didn't realize it had that functionality, which is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!
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by traviscj 9y ago
Browser fingerprinting is an easy path toward a “stronger than ip” correlation. [1] is an interesting starting point. 1: https://panopticlick.eff.org
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by traviscj 9y ago
Seems like browser-based PUT is at once "too" generic and simultaneously not self-describing enough for a lot of input. (Should I be allowed to change my wife's facebook details?) The protocol supports rejecting those edits,
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by traviscj 9y ago
This does not solve the problem GP has raised.
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by traviscj 9y ago
More discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582266 , though it is interesting to hear it straight from the Google's mouth.
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by traviscj 9y ago
We have a similar thing at work: if we're deploying, and start getting paged for error rates, the default action is "roll back!" We explicitly don't try to figure it out before we roll back or try some heroics to fix i
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by traviscj 9y ago
Why does anyone have "access to live passwords"? That point alone calls into question all of their practices, to me...
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by traviscj 9y ago
An interesting related video: Slow Motion Flipping Cat Physics [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU
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by traviscj 9y ago
Everything has a failure rate. This introduces another set of heuristics (and another false-{positive,negative} rate), another set of potential implementation bugs in those heuristics. What if being able to run the program on a particularly
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by traviscj 9y ago
More simple semantics are easier to understand. Ergo we should make the semantics as simple as possible. More complicated semantics save more words. Ergo we should make the semantics as complicated as possible. (This specific example is pro
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by traviscj 9y ago
This seems pointless because an attacker could just proxy the login back to your bank. Well, not pointless -- it raises the bar attackers have to pass -- but not a real solution. Or am I missing something?
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by traviscj 9y ago
> Perhaps I've missed something The road that the taxes (probably) paid for? Also, GP said "allows", not "subsidizes every aspect of the most luxurious way for".
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by traviscj 9y ago
This is really cool. I end up doing a lot of this kind of stuff at work, so I plan on using the bejesus out of this.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Even if you are uncomfortable assuming that, search results for "org-mode"/"orgmode" are unambiguous and helpful for anyone out-of-the-loop and curious, so it doesn't seem exclusionary or like a secret in-joke
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by traviscj 9y ago
The "implicit argument" feature seems really neat. I've grown really tired of needing to thread some random flag through all of creation to pass it to some dark corner of the code.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Make the ugly one. Be encouraged by the functionality, rather than the form. There is nothing wrong with a prototype that solves a problem but needs a facelift. If people are willing to use it, figure out how to improve the visual design --
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by traviscj 9y ago
On the other hand, makes it sound more likely to be a routing/reverse proxy issue instead of (say) a database issue. Those sound easier to deal with via a rollback vs something like "oops we dropped a critical index on the `messag
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by traviscj 9y ago
What's the thread model here? You lost your card/it was stolen, but you haven't noticed and canceled it yet? Isn't it more likely that your card data is scraped up in a data breach or something, in which case your card i
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by traviscj 9y ago
I've used wikis like Mediawiki and blogs like Jekyll to great effect for this purpose.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Furthermore, it is only definitive until it isn't. If we trained users to look for the github page, we'd have forked projects that point to the compromised extension, fake github clones that look like the project, fraudulent likes
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by traviscj 9y ago
Which restaurant do you call? Do you find it on Yelp/Some other review website? Are those reviews of the dine in experience or the dine out experience? Will the person I speak to get my order correct? I dunno. I'm put off by the &
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by traviscj 9y ago
Those who don't understand history are destined to repeat it? also that approach seems dependent on all projects you might want to grep (in this example) building cleanly into an external directory, which is naturally never going to be
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by traviscj 9y ago
There definitely are bad databases. You can easily make a system that is NOT consistent and NOT available and NOT partition tolerant, for example.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Your equation does not make sense to me. Is b really a slope (* instead of +?) or an intercept (seems simpler to have a "k*x" term than pretending that "k=1")?
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by traviscj 9y ago
I'd buy that index.
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by traviscj 9y ago
I prefer cat because > vs < is an easy typo to make but one clobbers the file. Happy to pay the performance penalty as insurance against that.
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by traviscj 9y ago
Seems like there's a (difficulty/physical file size)/(profit or effort)*(likelihood of success) score that matters in these things: a terabyte of credit card numbers (alone) would be 62.5 billion card numbers, but a terabyte

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