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New comment by jp_rider in "Chirp Pong – uses microphones and audio for networked game play"

jp_rider — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 16:56:08 +0000

Very cool! How much bandwidth can you get using this method?

CRDTs for Free

jp_rider — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:12:54 +0000

Article URL: https://ossa.network/blog/post/2026/05/05/crdts-for-free

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48023634

Points: 1

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Ossa: Towards the Next Generation Web

jp_rider — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:35:40 +0000

Article URL: https://jamesparker.me/blog/post/2025/08/04/ossa-towards-the-next-generation-web

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45712730

Points: 1

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New comment by jp_rider in "Many Covid Patients Have Terrifying Hallucinations and Delirium"

jp_rider — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 02:33:05 +0000

Where do you see that rate in your source? You seem to be off by an order of magnitude.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01738-2

Edit: I misread your qualifier of "under 50 age group". Overall fatality rate seems to be around 0.4% according to the CDC site.

New comment by jp_rider in "Introducing Haskell to a Company"

jp_rider — Wed, 03 Oct 2018 15:05:59 +0000

I am available if your company needs consulting services for Haskell. I can help with development, design, maintenance, and training. If you would like to learn more, please email me at consulting@jamesparker.me.

New comment by jp_rider in "Phishing Is the Internet’s Most Successful Con"

jp_rider — Sat, 15 Sep 2018 16:01:00 +0000

I've been working on PKAuth, which addresses this problem (not at the TLS level though). I wrote a short blog post [1] with a demo video about the underlying protocol. I'd appreciate any feedback!

[1] https://pkauth.com/blog/post/2018/08/27/announcing-pkap

New comment by jp_rider in "Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials"

jp_rider — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 16:30:21 +0000

How does the browser know what the relying party is? Does the website provide a URL for the browser to communicate with?

New comment by jp_rider in "Poverty, segregation persist in U.S. schools, report says"

jp_rider — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 17:10:19 +0000

Since Baltimore City is getting more money per student, why aren't they able to properly maintain their buildings [1]? Poor management? Corruption? Lack of heating and working bathrooms is inexcusable.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/baltimore-schools-wint...

New comment by jp_rider in "IOTA Surges Past Ripple"

jp_rider — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:45:50 +0000

It appears their own crypto was already vulnerable. A friend pointed me to this article:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amycastor/2017/09/07/mit-and-bu...

He was also concerned that there's no security proof in the whitepaper. To me, it seems like you could feasibly launch an attack with less than a majority of the computing resources.

New comment by jp_rider in "Firefox 57.0 Released"

jp_rider — Tue, 14 Nov 2017 16:00:42 +0000

If you'd like to disable pocket, here are instructions:

https://help.getpocket.com/article/1025-disabling-pocket-in-...

New comment by jp_rider in "The Case for Writing a Kernel in Rust [pdf]"

jp_rider — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:39:10 +0000

If you haven't already, check out Redox OS [1,2]. It's a microkernel written in Rust.

Here's a good interview with the developer [3].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Redox/

[2] https://redox-os.org/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5JgMlNE8o

New comment by jp_rider in "Why one Republican voted to kill privacy rules: “Nobody has to use the Internet”"

jp_rider — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:41:10 +0000

Even with https it's a lot. Saw this post the [other day](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarOnComcast/comments/65547r/as_if_...), but I can't find a cached version.

New comment by jp_rider in "Cloudflare gets wildcard certs for a domain using their DNS-only service"

jp_rider — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 12:12:40 +0000

Wow, same for my website (using Cloudflare for DNS-only). How do we get these revoked?

Edit: If you're using Heroku, the zerigo_dns addon makes it easy to switch to Zerigo.

New comment by jp_rider in "Blockstack: Decentralized DNS for blockchain applications"

jp_rider — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 18:42:53 +0000

How does this compare to Namecoin? It seems pretty similar.

New comment by jp_rider in "Apple Ordered to Pay $625M to Patent Troll in FaceTime Lawsuit"

jp_rider — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 15:42:24 +0000

I actually sort of like your proposal. Don't individuals have to file for patents and then employees buy it off them for like $1? If this is true, existing patents would fall into this loophole, but new patents could never end up in corporate hands since you can't buy a person.

Another issue I see is that patent trolls could just represent patent owners in litigation and charge high legal fees (or sign a contract that they receive all revenue for the patent).

New comment by jp_rider in "Request For Research: Basic Income"

jp_rider — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 23:37:15 +0000

I don't know whether basic income will be effective, but I hypothesize that its changes in incentives will reduce productivity and happiness for the majority of people.

Personally, I’m more interested in a system where costs of living are drastically lowered. Subsidies could work, but I think technology could play a large role. Imagine a clothing factory where everything is automated. Raw fabric comes in and finished clothing comes out. With minimal human interaction, variable costs should be much lower. Customers might even be able to design custom clothes with software.

Nonprofit organizations could be established to maintain the factories and equipment. Their primary goals would be to minimize cost, ensure quality, and maximize customer satisfaction.

Obviously, such a system would require a lot of capital and technological advances, but I believe it is feasible. This idea could also be applied to other areas like farming, electricity, ISPs, etc.

New comment by jp_rider in "Perfect – Server-Side Swift"

jp_rider — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:23:08 +0000

I ported Haskell's [Aeson](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-0.10.0.0/docs/Data-...) library to [Swift](https://github.com/PKAuth/SwiftAeson). You might find it helpful with verbosity and better type checking. Note that there is some hackery to satisfy Swift's type checker (and its type inference usually doesn't help too much).

New comment by jp_rider in "Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network"

jp_rider — Sat, 10 Oct 2015 00:37:55 +0000

Opt out [instructions](http://www.techlicious.com/blog/verizon-uidh-supercookie-tra...).

New comment by jp_rider in "Is HTML a Programming Language?"

jp_rider — Wed, 13 May 2015 01:32:35 +0000

As an aside, HTML5 and CSS3 are [turing complete](http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4222).

New comment by jp_rider in "3 drinks a day can trigger liver cancer; coffee offsets it"

jp_rider — Sun, 29 Mar 2015 05:14:13 +0000

It's been shown that caffeine shortens telomeres, while alcohol lengthens them [1]. This could be the reason why they offset each other.

[1] - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205142127.ht...