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by wyc 9y ago
We should remember the most often centralized aspect of blockchain projects promising a fully-decentralized future: the developer teams. They are typically very centralized with disproportionate power over the network. See the graphs in the
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by wyc 9y ago
Couldn't this be bypassed by regulating a drone's bitrate to a constant steady flow? The sacrifice will be either video quality or freshness of data, but it would be a straightforward way get past that protection.
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The Geometry of War: Fortification Plans from 18th Century America (2013)(clements.umich.edu)
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When you're applying for online-only degrees, keep in mind what you're giving up. While the quality of the education may be comparable, much of the value of attending in-person is to build career-lasting relationships with smart,
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by wyc 9y ago
One of my favorite pieces of equipment in my home lab has to be an APU2 running OpenBSD as a router. It's cheap, feels solid, and pf lets me configure complex network routing rules with quite a nice interface. Hasn't choked yet. I
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Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine(techcrunch.com)
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by wyc 9y ago
Here are a few reasons that I hope you find somewhat convincing: - Single point of failure. It's ran by one person who can be bribed or manipulated. I've never met Troy Hunt, and from what I can tell he looks like a great upstandi
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Yes, I did. Particularly this part: > If you visit a site on Have I Been Pwned's naughty list, it will throw a flag stating, "You visited hacked site ashleymadison.com." This does more than just tell users if their credent
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by wyc 9y ago
While in good intentions, this project has the potential to concentrate large amounts of power. Who decides what website is "valid" or not? Just as internet companies such as Google and Facebook, unwittingly or not, have become th
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by wyc 9y ago
The book Mastering OpenCV helped me a bunch several years ago during implementation. The best advice I can give along with this book is to try and understand the fundamental geometric problem that computer vision tries to solve. It's b
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by wyc 9y ago
If you're a working programmer looking for a bit more depth on text searching, check out Taming Text by Ingersoll. It was written by some real pros, and it's very practical. It goes over everything from the first naive approaches
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I think more and more the trend is for aggregators to buy networks and strengthen themselves. Facebook did so with WhatsApp, Instagram, and TBH. Amazon did so with Whole Foods. Google bought DoubleClick. Software can be easily replicated, b
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Great points. Hardware is definitely hard. There are more variables, abstractions, and processes to worry about. In software, you can write a function that doubles big numbers perfectly until it hits limits of CPU and memory in about one li
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Thank you for the links, I had no idea about OSET, but find them really interesting. It's always good to look at prior work before rushing in with the new shiny technologies of the month.
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I feel that voting data should be made public record after de-identifying individuals. This is one area where stronger standards and norms may be helpful. If there was a market for third-party voter archival services at low costs, this woul
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by wyc 9y ago
From a different trending article: > San Francisco-based Twitter also disclosed that it had discovered an error in how it had measured its user base since 2014 and revised its estimates downward, but said the difference amounted to less
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by wyc 9y ago
In Peopleware, Tom DeMarco thinks it's because a business's customers will tolerate lower quality software, so there are diminishing marginal returns to revenue as investment in software quality continues. He predicts that while t
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by wyc 9y ago
Interesting last point! It does seem to be the trend, notably with large data sets: https://wycd.net/posts/2017-04-09-rpcs-for-moving-computatio...
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From The Information's article "When Docker Said No to Google": > In 2014, Google approached a startup called Docker proposing the two collaborate on software each was developing to help companies manage lots of complex ap
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by wyc 9y ago
You're right; I still struggle to come up with a good catch-all definition for "object." On an unrelated note, I'm also still trying to figure out what DevOps is, aside from YAML and tears.
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It may even be fair to say that Haskell's typeclasses make it more like an object-oriented programming language. They have things like properties and multiple inheritance. Even Wadler has a section leading with "Object-oriented pr
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If you want to see a "from scratch" implementation using existing algorithms, here's short working snippet of elliptic curve cryptography (specifically Bitcoin's) without 3rd party libraries: https://github.co
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by wyc 9y ago
ORMs are great for prototyping new business systems. The performance is not great, but when your priority is to quickly model business logic into something functioning, there are few better tools for it. However, if you have well-defined re
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Projects tend to gain more and more functionality to match the new workloads they're being used to accomplish, and it must certainly be a difficult decision for project visionaries. Do I listen to my users and implement features that w
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My Favorite Strange Loop 2017 Talks(wycd.net)
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I was investigating Vimeo's paid plans[0] as a video hosting solution for a startup client. The plans were pretty economical and compelling, and I can see why they're interested in acquiring livestreaming capabilities too. I think
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What really upsets me is that most of the whitepapers pumped out by ICOs today are emphatically not the way we best understand how sustainable new companies come into existence. Many contain big grandiose plans that stretch years and don’t
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That's a good point about taxes. I wonder how the tax structures of the future will evolve if cryptocurrencies reach full swing. It could be reasonable to expect elaborate tariff systems that skim off the channels bridging wet and dry
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Right now, I like anything that helps normalize the white-hot hype of cryptocurrencies. There's some real utility in this technology, and we won't get to see it until companies are forced to make sustainable business cases and ser
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by wyc 9y ago
> ...the company has permits for two wells to extract a total of 499,918 cubic meters of water per year, or 499.9 million liters. In 2016, the company extracted 78.8 percent of the permitted total. So the government gave Coke the permits

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