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by wyc 6y ago
Spruce Systems | Engineering and Design | 4-Hour Overlap with US Eastern | Full-Time | Remote-Only Spruce is hiring programmers to develop world-class open source products and libraries implementing the W3C Verifiable Credential and Decentr
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by wyc 6y ago
Spruce Systems | Engineering and Design | 4-Hour Overlap with US Eastern | Full-Time | Remote-Only Spruce is hiring programmers to develop world-class open source products and libraries implementing the W3C Verifiable Credential and Decentr
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by wyc 6y ago
Also, the IETF has no formal membership roster or membership requirements, and all participants and managers are volunteers.
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by wyc 6y ago
Spruce Systems | Engineering and Design | 4-Hour Overlap with US Eastern | Full-Time | Remote-Only Spruce is hiring programmers to develop world-class open source products and libraries implementing the W3C Verifiable Credential and Decentr
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by wyc 6y ago
Yes, it's true that SMS-based authentication has its flaws, but it's far from useless/harmful in many contexts. The same strawman arguments used here would also find TOTP "wholly ineffective" which is an absurd conc
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by wyc 6y ago
I had to make the decision whether to start companies or pursue a career in research, and chose the former. I think I would've been happy with either. The thing I enjoy about both is that there are rarely closed-form solutions, as the
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by wyc 6y ago
React Native scares me with its dependency webs: http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/react-native From my experience, it's really great to work with and definitely saves a ton of work, but the depgraph above
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by wyc 7y ago
A good amount of work has been put into this visualization for sure, and there are certainly significant overlaps with today's situation and that /game/. However, this misses the mark for me in terms of tastefulness.
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Optimizing Elevators: Destination Dispatch(peters-research.com)
3 points by wyc 7y ago|0 comments
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by wyc 7y ago
I think the implications of an open source API-only access method for these services are huge for user privacy. Taking reliance off of company-provided JavaScript will result in truer control over what actually gets sent to their servers. A
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by wyc 7y ago
What would this taste like?
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by wyc 7y ago
I love item #2, as it talks about writing code that can safely handle "future" enums and values as a result of rolled back code. Maybe we should call it the Sarah Connor Pattern. I haven't heard enough people discuss the depl
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by wyc 7y ago
is there any open source alternative to firechat ( https://www.opengarden.com/firechat/ ), which seems to now require internet account creation prior to use? something imbued with cryptography that communicates purely vi
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by wyc 7y ago
In general: 1. Find key data structures, guess at their purpose, and examine frequently-called functions that operate upon them 2. Outline program entry points: command line, API calls, RPC, etc. 3. Identify major systems and interfaces, es
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by wyc 7y ago
What's the liability involved in participation in such data collectives as hosts? From running a Tor exit node to un/wittingly seeding leaked restricted docs, someone who believes in digital freedom of speech and open access to in
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Pass-by-Name Parameter Passing(www2.cs.sfu.ca)
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Facebook Blockchain: A Moral Obligation(medium.com)
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by wyc 7y ago
More entry vectors means more coverage, and physical security is often nonexistent while phones come with at least base levels of protection and isolation.
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by wyc 7y ago
Once on an international flight, I overheard some construction workers describe how the US government must fly in US citizenship-holding personnel and US sourced materials in construction of certain foreign projects for security reasons. Do
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by wyc 7y ago
I always wonder why open source mass surveillance isn't in fuller swing. Imagine a Kickstarter for $2 credit card-sized disposable listening devices which can mesh network for autocorrelated quality-enhancing signal reconstruction and
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by wyc 7y ago
There is a class of products with strong elements of charitable contribution. For example Plex Pass, endangered species chocolate, LWN subscription, and select blockchain tokens--and maybe this too. There are hard to pin down non-commercial
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by wyc 8y ago
Quality can be pretty subjective. If you're making a saw-blade that needs diamond tips, synthetic could be even better, as you rightly mention. If, for whatever reason, you value that the rock has been dug from the ground, then on this
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by wyc 8y ago
Synthetic diamonds might be a disruptive innovation. They are often cheaper, lower quality, and lacking in complex features such as authenticity. There is a different and advantageous cost structure compared to that of mining for natural di
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by wyc 8y ago
The biggest concern that engineering teams seem have with stored procs is maintainability. The consistency guarantees are indeed very attractive, but perhaps not at the expense of keeping business logic in separate places, weak version cont
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by wyc 8y ago
Wow, this is great. Where can I find more of your poetry?
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by wyc 8y ago
Summary of argument: - Some claim that Ether is not a security because it is decentralized and therefore not a "common enterprise" by the Howey test, but the author disagrees with this specific argument because he thinks it's
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by wyc 9y ago
A great book for this is Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows. She has many illustrative examples that really help get the points across. Coming from an electrical engineering background, I found her discussion around the interactions bet
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by wyc 9y ago
I strongly believe that extensions stealing resources and power from unwitting users should be banned. However, that many legitimate extensions have also been pulled reinforces that this is a lot of power in one place with no observable ext
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by wyc 9y ago
This paper should have the most relevant answers to your questions: Beyond Corp: The Access Proxy https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45728.html
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by wyc 9y ago
The short and long of BeyondCorp: - Instead of a single VPN that will expose your entire squishy corporate LAN to anyone who gets VPN access, each application gets its own protected proxy. - The protected proxies query a centrally-aggregate

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