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jarydon Compressing chess moves for fun and profit

You could check to see if one of his games has that position using https://fenfinder.com (site I built). Of course it's a long shot given the huge possibility-space of unique positions, but hey, one can hope :).

jarydon Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut (2019)

We actually moved to TripAdvisor a few months ago.

jarydon Ask HN: How do you answer “where do you see yourself in 5 years?”

Predicting the future is really hard, and a lot can happen in 5 years. I would reframe the question to a more reasonable time-domain and talk about my personal and/or professional growth goals. If you don’t have any then this is worth spending some time thinking about. In my experience, if you don’t prioritize your time then someone else will, and they’ll likely have different goals than you.

jarydon AirPods Pro owners complain of worse noise cancellation after firmware updates

Thanks for the comment. I don't know the answer but came here to ask this too. It seems really useful to be able to objectively measure the efficacy of noise cancellation across diverse products.

jarydon Stripe’s fifth engineering hub is Remote

What were some of the key lessons or most impactful things?

jarydon Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?

https://redacted.ch

jarydon Ask HN: What are your favorite long-form nonfiction websites?

new york review of books (https://www.nyrb.com/)

jarydon Ask HN: As a CTO, what is your most frustrating problem with technical debt?

As a follow up, what are the most useful methods for managing technical debt without incurring too high of a cost to team/product/project velocity?

jarydon Ask HN: Any project management app you feel at home with?

Second Asana. I've been using it for years and it has really improved tremendously over that time. There are definitely still many things missing (most notably for me is the lack of advanced markup in comments/conversations)... but it works very well for cross-functional collaboration and longer-term project management.

jarydon Redoing all my home networking

I love this -- thank you for the tip. I'll start using this immediately :)

jarydon Vassal – Online Adaptations of Board Games

Hooray for FCM :)

jarydon Uber Paid Hackers to Delete Stolen Data on 57M People

Yeah this was such a PITA several years ago... To solve the problem we ended up building a small proxy in Perl for the express purpose of adding 2FA to Github Enterprise.

jarydon Hollywood Hitmaker Plans to Fund Next Blockbuster with Crypto

Anyone know of any extensions that automatically (and reliably) quash auto-play videos or automatically mute them?

jarydon It Takes Just $1k to Track Someone's Location with Mobile Ads

Here's a link to the actual research paper that the article summarizes: https://adint.cs.washington.edu/ADINT.pdf

jarydon Before Silicon Valley, New Jersey Reigned As Nation's Center Of Innovation

For those interested in learning more about Bell Labs I recommend you check out the book "The Idea Factory" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11797471-the-idea-factor...).

jarydon Live TV on Plex

It works with a tuner or antenna

jarydon Workspaces for Mac 1.0

Love tmuxp!

jarydon DuckDuckGo Donates $300K to Raise the Standard of Trust Online

That's a good point. We actually recently starting using them for internal/dev resources. I'll definitely make a note of it for next year.

jarydon The best board games of 2016

+1 for Terraforming Mars. I enjoy playing it solo as well as with a group. There is enough variety in the cards to keep it fresh and the difficulty ramps up quickly.

jarydon Spanish Boy Racks Up €100K Bill, Google Cancels The Charge

FWIW: This confused me as well

jarydon OpenSSL Security Advisory

You'll typically see these come through USN (Ubuntu Security Notices) as they're available.

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/

jarydon A Saudi Arabia Telecom's Surveillance Pitch (2013)

Please add 2013 to the title.

jarydon Ten Year Old Girl Gets Accepted as Paris Innovation Fellow

Here's a link to her personal blog: http://corot.top (it's mostly in French as far as I can tell)

jarydon Comcast's NBCUniversal buys DreamWorks Animation in $3.8B deal

On the flip side, there will now be lots of talented and creative people available to potentially work on more interesting projects.

jarydon CMU’s computer science dean on its poaching problem

Just curious: How many out there are yinzers? I knew there was a nice technology scene here but am surprised to see Pitt/CMU on HN several times over the past couple weeks.

jarydon Facebook Rights Manager

For those of you, like me, who didn't know what "freebooting" is:

"the dubious practice where Business Pages and celebs can rip videos from elsewhere, repost the content on Facebook and grow their brands while robbing the content creators of views." (From the article)

jarydon Stripe: Open Source

Wow--thanks for the update. Buffering to memory before writing to disk is definitely a great feature (especially when operating out of AWS) and could be enough for us to switch to unilog.

Regarding the timestamps. We've actually gotten quite used to TAI64N--it's definitely not human parseable but it is extremely specific :) We end up just piping logs through tai64nlocal or converting it at the logstash stage.

jarydon Stripe: Open Source

Would be interested to hear from the devs about the actual reasons they chose to write unilog (https://github.com/stripe/unilog) instead of using multilog (which ships with Daemontools).

Agreed that multilog is arcane and weird but what are the actual problems with it that unilog solves?