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I started enjoying Netflix more when I realized I shouldn't be looking for stuff I knew of from elsewhere, but rather explore titles, rate, and help their algorithm to suggest thin…

Likely they're holding their cards close to the chest as it's a competitive market.

My 2 cents: many file systems do not have a file locking feature that can enforce file locking. In unix-like systems, file locks (e.g., lockf(3)) are "advisory" rather than mandato…

My 2 cents: many file systems do not have a file locking feature that can enforce file locking. In unix-like systems, file locks (e.g., lockf(3)) are "advisory" rather than mandato…

Congrats Navneet, Mehul, & team!

Speed is one concern but far from the main reason. You couldn't use a typical-length RSA key to encrypt a large chunk of data because there's a max input size for any given RSA key…

alt+. does the same thing as well, and is slightly easier to type.

Speaking for the Bay area, public transportation here is shockingly bad, even for something as routine as getting to the airport. For someone living in the valley to get to SFO (ab…

For HTTP clients and servers, I've not had too much trouble with cpp-netlib. It's heavily boost-based, and it uses Boost::Asio for concurrency and SSL handling, but if you're famil…

Which book did you get? Curious to find out what's in it. > ... so disadvantageous in an evolutionary sense? Environmental factors (such as staring at a computer screen...) Well if…

Correct. I didn't mean slow implementation, I meant slow enough on modern hardware using the fastest implementaiton.

I may not understand the whole context, but if you're using PBKDF2 for key derivation, you don't want to use something that works "fast". You want whatever algorithm/iteration comb…

> I wonder if the C implementation is much faster Very likely -- Run this on your machine and see if it improves things http://stackoverflow.com/a/9781943 . I got about 18.6s for y…

I've been thinking about this very problem---recovering a forgotten encryption password without trusting a third party. The state of the art seems to be 1. Print it out on paper an…

I've read a few bits and they're all great one way or the other, primarily because chapters on specific projects are written by their primary authors. A couple of good ones Nginx: …

What you're speaking about seems similar to what most people on the Leangains [1] diet follow. In looking around for healthy diet + exercise patterns for predominantly sedentary li…

YC Winter 2012 security startup (stealth) - Palo Alto, CA - First Hire We are building a multi-platform security application + SaaS that solves a big problem for businesses and end…

While you have a valid point, Flutter has some pretty deep and well-trained computer vision code that can't be replicated in a month or two. In addition, even if one app (say iTune…

Yet another satisfied customer here, and to me, one of the huge advantages of YM is that the mechanic comes to you... no more worrying about how to get your vehicle to a shop, whet…

Any shell script can be made one line with enough semicolons.

It's on LWN. 90% of programmers who go there really do need to know memory in the detail Drepper talks about. I see your point though - I fully expected the title to be linkbait to…

Stealth startup (YC W12) - Mountain View, CA - Paid INTERN (local) We are building a secure Platform-as-a-Service that is more secure and compliant than existing PaaS systems. Exis…

Cool implementation. Were you inspired by the Google 2-factor approach to log in to Goog websites that was pulled? http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_launches_qr_code... A…

Marissa Mayer is hardly the best role model out there for computer scientists, in the classical sense of the word "scientist". There's a very clear distinction between programmer, …

Quite easy to find online, but... http://ycombinator.com/apply.html , point #1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804408