DrewHintz

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by DrewHintz 16y ago
How about a challenge.gov Challenge to help secure the site?
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
Where should we report security vulnerabilities in the site?
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
If anyone wants to play SC2, feel free to add me: pushespretn@gmail.com
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
http://imgur.com/n1KoJ
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
What browser are you using?
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1898
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
Apple's 'Preview' PDF viewer has lots of security vulnerabilities. Simple fuzzing will quickly find plenty of 0day.
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
> It’s like Y Combinator .... > a $115 million fund in order to create five successful Chinese startups a year The funding levels imply it is less like YC and more like a standard VC. With those numbers -- even assuming 50% overhead
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
Yes, the deal is finished: http://twitter.com/23andMe/status/12732636102 It ended at midnight GMT which is also 5pm PDT, perhaps for the business day.
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by DrewHintz 16y ago
Dreamhost also repeatedly shut down my sites, such as mapwow.com, due to too much traffic. One time they even denied they shut it down -- even though my web directory had been chowned to root, which requires root privilege. I moved to slice
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
> What should I know before taking the plunge? Along with the SDK, use the Eclipse plugin.
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
> do these attack vectors still apply to MySQL prepared statements? No.
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
People have been using this technique in this way since at least 2006: http://int2e.com/blog/improved-digg-integration-script/ http://jeremiahgrossman.blogspot.com/2006/08/i-know-where-yo... Since changing browsers to prevent this will
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Here's a video of their earlier presentation: http://vimeo.com/6307559
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Real world use of XSRF/CSRF against a web interface to IRC(unethicalblogger.com)
2 points by DrewHintz 17y ago|0 comments
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Chris Anderson describes a similar idea in his book Free[1]. Anderson says the price of an item converges towards its marginal cost, and the marginal cost of duplicating information is essentially zero. http://books.google.com/books?id=lLZ
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Does the iPhone now include turn by turn navigation?
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
"If you issue a query for a domain name that does not exist, Google Public DNS always returns an NXDOMAIN record, as per the DNS protocol standards." http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq.html#nxdomains (Disclaimer - I'm a Google em
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Looks nice. The account auto-creation is neat. I didn't see an option to change the auto-generated account name (such as a35) to something of my choice. The Preference checkboxes at the bottom of /settings.php don't appear correctly on Chro
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Want to noticeably reduce the world's energy usage? Austin-based Green Revolution Cooling (my friend's startup) is looking for a software engineer. They have created a very efficient cooling system for data centers. The startup has two mech
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Rather than storing the actual passwords in the database, you'll want to only store a digest of each password. For example, storing a keyed HMAC using SHA-2 is great. An easy similar method is to store the SHA(password + some server secret
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
You can make the minimum deposit/withdrawal for your system 50p or higher, while still allowing smaller transaction amounts for questions and answers.
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
When creating my account, I left the default of "Student" so now I can't answer questions. I suppose I'll have to create a new account and chose Tutor so that I can answer questions. How about making it an editable value in the account page
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
The original link is dead, but here's their site: http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/ It looks like they're also starting a place up in SF: http://hackerhouse.bluwiki.com/go/HH/San_Francisco
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Can we please stop using MD5?
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Ask HN: Anyone here play Warcraft? (feedback on a project requested)
1 points by DrewHintz 17y ago|0 comments
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
> one of my friends to handle getting funding Why do you need funding?
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Launch early and iterate often! Websites fit this model perfectly. Launching can be scary -- but what do you have to lose? Feedback from a partially working site is better than nothing!
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
Site down. Cancel.
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by DrewHintz 17y ago
SpriteMe seems to only sprites images that are already used in a background. It would be more useful it had the option of spriting all images on a page and then gave you the HTML/CSS code to display each sprite.

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