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   by wyc 9y ago

   I know that Samsung is trying to push its Knox product to enterprises. I'm unsure about their technical or financial success. I don't know of anyone trying this in the consumer space either, but I'd definitely love to see mor
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   by wyc 9y ago

   Thanks, and I can't wait to see systems that will fuse cheap multi-pose structured light sensor data together too! These devices are all measuring proxies of the same thing: 3D structure.
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   by wyc 9y ago

   I was an early backer of the LiDAR Lite[0], and I'm really excited to see LiDAR products become more affordable. A recent project called Sweep[1] the $350 super low-end disruptor to the $80,000 Velodyne models. I wonder how long before
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   by wyc 9y ago

   I loved using those tools, but I think many browser extensions today are more involved than small shim scripts. A lot of them have CRUD operations, data editing interfaces, css/image assets, etc. I was thinking about something a bit mo
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   by wyc 9y ago

   For those wondering how it works, it seems to be a blacklist. Here's the crux of it: chrome.webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(details => { // ... // Is domain white listed if (
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   by wyc 9y ago

   Regarding your first point, it's difficult to implement some security schemes at the operating system level alone. With full vertical control of the product, you can have nice things like secure enclaves and de-facto hardware cryptogra
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   by wyc 9y ago

   Apple sells hardware differentiated by integrated software for premium pricing. They want to build better and more expensive products through superior design and quality control. Collecting and analyzing personal data isn't the most im
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   by wyc 9y ago

   When you're making a new movie, the production of the master copy can cost millions of dollars. Same thing with software products, songs, and digital photos. However, making a digital copy after that is very cheap. Therefore, it's
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   by wyc 9y ago

   Thanks, and good catch. I agree that high fixed costs underlie the very first production unit, followed by cheap distribution and low marginal costs.
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Information economics seem to be playing out exactly as expected. The price of a good is reverting to its cost of production--near $0 for copying bytes. You can't stop the rock. In Information Rules, Shapiro & Varian argue that if
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    by wyc 9y ago

    > So, if you were in a case where the thief was asking to hand over your phone – you can just reach into your pocket, squeeze it, and it will disable Face ID. It will do the same thing on iPhone 8 to disable Touch ID. I imagine that auth
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    If Cryptocurrencies Became Useful: Raising Seed Money(wycd.net)

    3 points by wyc 9y ago|0 comments
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    by wyc 9y ago

    > I have argued that the rise of founder-friendliness in startup funding is not just an idiosyncratic matter of philosophy, but a structural matter of negotiating power: If good ideas are rare and valuable, and capital is cheap and plent
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    by wyc 9y ago

    A different kind of "expressiveness." NB. naive k-nearest neighbors in J dist =: [:%:[:|[:+/(*:@:-) NB. dyad takes two vectors, returns euclidean distance data =: 1 2 3,2 2 3,2 3 3,1 2 3,:2 3 4 query =:
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    by wyc 9y ago

    oops thanks
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Here's the ELI5 of monoids used in programming that might help get the idea across: Conceptually, a monoid is anything that: - Has a "zero-value" (mempty, e.g., 0) - Can be "appended" together (mappend, e.g., +) - H
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Other thread got duped...reposting here: It seems that his staff feel ambivalent about his comments: JPM Blockchain Lead: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" https://twitter.com/AmberBaldet/status/907675559492288512 Former
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    by wyc 9y ago

    On this topic, here's a great reference for some common operations on high volume SQL databases: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/safe-operations-for-h... Has anyone been collating large-scale SQL best pract
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    by wyc 9y ago

    It seems that his staff feel ambivalent about his comments: JPM Blockchain Lead: "¯\_(ツ)_/¯" https://twitter.com/AmberBaldet/status/907675559492288512 Former JPM Director of Global Macro: "Jami
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    by wyc 9y ago

    I can't wait to see products like these spawn brand new professions like Email Summarizers to get the gist out of long threads, Department Librarians to organize and catalog discussions and events, and Communications Coordinators to tr
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    by wyc 9y ago

    This is truly low: Equifax gives the affected victims a "special offer" to protect their identities. In the fine print is a waiver to any class-action lawsuit. https://twitter.com/wyatt_privilege/status/9
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    by wyc 9y ago

    > Shoutout to @gio (and MIchael Lopp2!)who posted a link in the PUB that included most of these resources! Thanks! That's like copying 80% of a textbook and leaving a single reference to it in yours. It seems like they&#x2
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Pushing back on this a bit...for example, securely exposing a JSON endpoint to the public internet requires extra machinery that applications like nginx bring for free. If you simply set the router to your handler, then you accept arbitrari
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Thanks for the candid transparency, it's very appreciated. Someone with much more hubris might claim to have recorded it in one shot, first attempt, as some ridiculous technical interviewers seem to expect you to do. I think it really
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    by wyc 9y ago

    If you're interested, here's a secp256k1 implementation (underlying elliptical curve cryptography) in pure Haskell: https://github.com/wyc/haschain/blob/master/Secp256K1.hs Should probably wrap
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    by wyc 9y ago

    It's still early. Had you bought at $1 or even $0.01, would you have really held until $3500? At $40 you would have had decided whether to sell or not, then again at $200, and at $600, and at $400, and then at $1000, etc. I think peopl
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    by wyc 9y ago

    I had a great experience with SMS as customer service. I bought some pens from OfficeDepot and they didn't ship. Texted their support SMS number with my problem and upon request of my order number, I just took a picture of the order em
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Good point. Mozilla made most of their money from Google, and other advertisers, iirc. "More free" might've been prudent. You make a good observation about Safari too. Apple doesn't make much money from advertising--they
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    by wyc 9y ago

    Keep in mind that it's not within Google's incentives to facilitate ad-blocking and prevention of tracking. After all, that's where the lion's share of their revenue comes from. However, Mozilla is free to actively suppo
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    by wyc 9y ago

    This is one of the best-written books ever! Most non-fiction works strive (knowingly or not) to reach such a fine form. Words are massaged into terms, sentences into propositions, and certain paragraphs into arguments. This work is the pure