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amdavidson··on JavaScript Start-up Performance
True, but the driving force of TFA is about the time it takes to get to interactivity. Loading 1.2MB less out of the gate is going to help that significantly.
amdavidson··on Russians Engineer a Slot Machine Cheat that Casinos Can't Fix
Is this statement not literally correct?

I believe the person being baffled in this is the gambler not the programmer.

amdavidson··on Four Million Commutes Reveal New U.S. 'Megaregions'
Half a trillion over half a decade is 100 billion per year.

I make no claim to the accuracy of the original statistic, but if that is the case and the federal budget is 3.7 trillion [0] that is 2.7 percent of the budget.

0: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/51110

amdavidson··on Show HN: A DigitalOcean-like support community for your website in 3 minutes
Many people would not be permitted to attach their social accounts. My workplace requires that we associate our accounts strictly through things they will be able to access after employees leave (IE a company email address).
amdavidson··on Ask HN: Who is firing?
Wickr is based in SF. CA is an at-will state.

Many companies prefer to have a strong paper trail and a lot of evidence to scare people away from filing wrongful termination suits, but he could have been fired just because the boss didn't like him without any legal repercussions.

amdavidson··on Git from the inside out
Clearly not a new post, but the first time I had seen it, clearly spells out what has frustrated me (and many others) for a very long time.
amdavidson··on Cooled Nikon D5500a Chills the Sensor for Clearer Star Photos
APS-C sensor cameras get you an effective 1.5x multiplier on your focal length, handy for astrophotography.

You could always crop down a full frame photo to get the same effect, but then you're just wasting pixels.

amdavidson··on A Postgres Perspective on MongoDB
In redis couldn't your key be something like "someIdentifier_items_3" and your value be 123?

Then if you wanted to make it 456 you would only be updating "someIdentifier_items_3".

amdavidson··on After 45 years, FBI closes investigation into unsolved 'DB Cooper' hijacking
There are some tweaks from airline to airline, but anyone who flies regularly has seen this general outline of events occur countless times.

An attack can be designed against any vulnerability. Whether that attack becomes practically executable remains to be seen.

amdavidson··on U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years
Your comment is a bit unclear, but the answer is the same.

If they rent the lab out to someone else, they're still the owner.

If they rent the lab from some third party owner, they're the operator.

Either way they're violating the terms of the ban.

amdavidson··on U.S. Bans Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes from Operating Labs for Two Years
That falls clearly into the former category.

Extreme to the point of being nonsensical in its impracticality (cost of installation, cost of replacement, current PV efficiencies, etc), but not fundamentally impossible.

amdavidson··on Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects
I get that you probably tweaked this a bit for posting, but I see a disconnect that is relevant to how I want to set this up.

In the first line you mounted your whole Cloud Drive at /mnt/amazon_real. On the 3rd line you upload from /mnt/cache to /TV/.

Do you actually have a subset of the cloud drive mounted at /mnt/amazon_real? I tried to do that some time ago with acd_cli but wasn't able.

amdavidson··on My First 10 Minutes on a Server
Many database servers are not serving databases solely to themselves and have that port open as part of the normal course of operation.
amdavidson··on Mailhero – a more permanent temporary email
Gmail explicitly ignores dots in email usernames[1].

1: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...

amdavidson··on Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
Friendly comment, I read the name of this product as disk ache. I'm gathering that this is not where you were shooting.

If you want to retain the name, I recommend looking into how you capitalize / kern / otherwise present the name to try and get you the association you're going for.

amdavidson··on Craig Steven Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto
Signatures are only probably unique. Theoretically there can be collisions.

Granted, the likelihood that he inadvertently collided with a public transaction is astronomically small.

amdavidson··on Storage Pod 6.0: Building a 60 Drive 480TB Storage Server
Calling Nearline speeds the "same" is dependent on how much data you are storing per account, 4MBps per TB stored[0].

0: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline

amdavidson··on A Visionary Project Aims for Alpha Centauri, a Star 4.37 Light-Years Away
The spot size of the laser will presumably be considerable after 10 light-seconds and we wouldn't want to irradiate the nano satellite.
amdavidson··on Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
Almost $600 million on $107 billion in revenue.

A profit margin of 0.57% [0]. That's so close to zero that I'm comfortable saying they're not profitable.

[0]: https://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AMZN+Key+Statistics

amdavidson··on MAPS.ME users now can edit OpenStreetMap by themselves
Maps.me is a cool idea, but the search functionality is unusable.

Is it done entirely based on OSM data or are they referencing some other data set?

amdavidson··on Tor exit node operator gets raided by police
If the FBI was able to monitor your traffic they would still see the IP addresses to which your node was reaching out. Same goes if they are running a honeypot[0] that your IP is hitting (as could be the case in this instance[1]).

That might not be much in the way of concrete evidence, but if your exit node is hitting carder forums all day long it might be enough for them to still knock on your door.

0: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/30/fbi-honeypot-ensnares-mi...

1: http://www.techworm.net/2016/01/fbi-child-porn-sexually-expl...

amdavidson··on The Trouble with Tor
> Have you considered setting up your own VPN? That would make the ip "clean" and get less captchas, right?

And would negate any anonymity offered by using a VPN.

amdavidson··on The Trouble with Tor
Can you elaborate?

I cannot imagine how Cloudflare could distinguish VPN traffic routed through Tor and standard traffic routed through Tor. The only difference is a hop on the front end, no change to what comes out the exit node.

amdavidson··on Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone
The password that was reset was the iCloud password, preventing the phone from automatically backing up until the new iCloud password was updated. The unlock pin was not changed.
amdavidson··on Apple wants the FBI to reveal how it hacked the San Bernardino killer's iPhone
Where do you live such that those things are required to get a decent insurance rate? My insurance never mentioned a single one of those requirements.
amdavidson··on NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours (2013)
I think you mean something like this: https://mailinabox.email/

It's almost the same setup (and inspired by) the OP's link but in a simple script that you can deploy to a cheap VPS. I've been running my own email server for years, but I've considered switching to this just for the reduced maintenance.

amdavidson··on Distribution packages considered insecure
Testing isn't a rolling release, that's sid / unstable.

Testing is where the next stable (currently Stretch) is being worked out.

amdavidson··on Apple can comply with the FBI court order
How about this?

"...we never sell your data."

http://www.apple.com/privacy/approach-to-privacy/#personaliz...

amdavidson··on Apple can comply with the FBI court order
He is clearly not implying that it is actually going to happen. This is a hypothetical to show that there is always a "choice".
amdavidson··on Google is banning Flash from its display ads
> ... It's not going anywhere.

Yet.

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