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by 0xmohit 10y ago
It seems that you didn't see: https://twitter.com/taviso/status/758143119409885185 Full report sent to LastPass, they're working on it now. Yes, it's a complete remote compromise. Yes, I promi
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Maybe I shouldn't have mentioned Encryptr. There are fair number of open source alternatives that allow you to store secrets in the cloud: vault: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault blackbox: https:/&#
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
One should really consider using open source tools for such things. The good thing is that those are battle-tested real well and are, usually, more secure than the commercial offerings. An example is Vault [0]. Encryptr [1] is another alte
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
One could achieve a similar thing using PDF files by utilizing a feature called "File Attachments" [0], [1]. There is nothing insecure about it too. You could even need commercial software for it, and could use TeX and friends [
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> When I talk to people about wanting to work reduced hours, take a teaching job, or whatever is required to lower my stress level, I get nothing but encouragement. I guess that this depends a lot on the society that you're in. Whi
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Recipe for burnout is inverse of recipe for success: https://imgur.com/a/5yrMm Understanding Burnout [0] by Christina Maslach [1]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLPyV8lBbs [1] http://
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Is nytimes.com down? HNed?
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
A URL shortener made literate (43 lines) [0] [0] http://bitemyapp.com/posts/2014-11-22-literate-url-shortener...
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
The source for the book is available at https://github.com/aosabook/500lines
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
They seem to be relying on the database take care of those :)
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No, it's BH. https://twitter.com/BlackHatEvents/status/748215791779217409
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
From the briefing: We will demonstrate that, by forcing your browser/system to use a malicious PAC (Proxy AutoConfiguration) resource, it is possible to leak HTTPS URLs. Would be interesting to see the exploit in action. Ho
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BrowserLeaks.com – Web Browser Security Checklist for Identity Theft Protection(browserleaks.com)
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Worth quoting from the article: Accordingly, using pgbouncer to do connection pooling with Postgres has been generally successful for us. However, we have had occasional application bugs in our backend services that caused them to
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Isn't WAL-based replication more reliable?
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One could use connection pooling. Quoting from the tuning guide [0]: max_connections sets exactly that: the maximum number of client connections allowed. This is very important to some of the below parameters (particularly work_mem
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
It's hard to say, but one can often find people switching from Postgres to MySQL (and vice-versa). For example, see this [0] and the related HN discussion [1]. [0] http://insights.dice.com/2015/03/19/why
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Facebook maintains it's own fork [0] of MySQL. A couple of interesting talks are also available: MySQL at Facebook, Current and Future [1] and Massively Distributed Backup at Facebook Scale [2]. [0] https://github.com/
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
"The Lives of Others" [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> I would desperately love to see an HN discussion of this This was the reason behind posting it again after 3 days. Worth highlighting: our checkers are built on micro-grammars, incomplete fragments of a language. Tools like vet
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> But two weeks cannot get you across the bar of "can contribute robust, maintainable code in this language". Unfortunately, this is so true and yet so difficult for people to realize and understand. I've seen in real life
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How to Build Static Checking Systems Using Orders of Magnitude Less Code [pdf](web.stanford.edu)
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The NEWS file usually gives more details about the changes and such. The NEWS file [0] can be found in the git repository. (C-h n if you are already running emacs.) [0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
> Feedback works when it is fairly instant, friendly and most of all fair. Well said. I assume that by "friendly", you imply "constructive". Also: "How to Offer Constructive Feedback & Recognition" [0]
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
This will probably attract downvotes, but I'd call it an algorithm for collective, mass fraud . One might find it surprising, but I've seen people do this several years back. The only difference being that it was on a much small
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Here's one from LYAH: http://www.learnyouahaskell.com/a-fistful-of-monads There are a couple of other links here [0] including "Don't fear the Monad" by Brian Beckman. [0] https://github.com&#
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Does that imply that HN creates a new link if a previous submission has no comments? The previous one was posted some 12 hours before this one.
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by 0xmohit 10y ago
Previously posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12151146
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The only thing that comes to mind is Pandoc [0], [1]. It is worth adding that it was originally created by John MacFarlane, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley. It's written in Haskell. [0] http:/
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Category Theory for the Sciences(category-theory.mitpress.mit.edu)
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