Estragon

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   by Estragon 15y ago

   The interesting thing about pythonanywhere, to me, is the integration with managed hosting.
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   Exactly. OK by who?
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   Coming from academia myself, I'd have to say you've been deceived on both counts, there. At an institutional level academic research is all about the money, and the prestige used to bring in more grant money and student-loan money. For in
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   Actually, the HFT people are more likely to sock their winnings away. Anyway, "I take money from people so that I can increase the national GDP by spending it" is not much of an argument for a socially valuable way of life.
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   What kind of vulnerability would a timing attack expose, in the use case I outlined?
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   That's fair enough. I was just pointing out that not every architecture involving in-browser JS crypto suffers from the problems tptacek detailed.
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   I would periodically copy the encrypted files to removeable media, then physically transfer the copy to the offline machine.
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   Actually, I think in some limited circumstances, JS crypto could be useful for a kind of "separation of trust." For instance, I am considering a service at the moment which would involve people uploading confidential information. The uploa
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   by Estragon 15y ago

   Football is not an end in itself. People play it because it's a fun social activity. You can easily play football in a vicious way which, while still entirely within the rules and increases your chance of winning, diminishes the enjoyment
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    The lottery aspect of it makes me think of a human-powered, authoritarian bitcoin.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    "Months" actually sounds pessimistic to me, but I am ignorant, and I'd welcome a pointer to a list of the necessary biz knowledge and how to acquire it.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    Oops, didn't mean it as a callout, just hoped the bug report would be helpful. Probably should have emailed it. Given the number of browsers you'd need to check, it's completely understandable for a lone developer to miss something like th
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    Blog doesn't scroll on my smartphone,so I couldn't read the post.(Standard browser on droid running android 2.2.3.)
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    Interesting, but I think we're talking about very different things. You're talking about engineering systems which manipulate people into doing things you think are good for them, and I'm talking about largely undoing the system's scope fo
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    It's hard to step outside the systems of social domination which suppress dreams, encourage overwork, etc. because they operate from fears which are often so deep-seated we're often not even aware of them. Bringing those fears into the lig
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    For instance, they are points in the geometric object known as the scheme over the integers.[1] The Riemann Zeta function of the Riemann Hypothesis generalizes to other schemes, and reflects their geometric properties (being vague because
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    If the messaging was peer-to-peer, the objections in that post wouldn't apply quite as much. Then you would connect to the NoPlainText server to download the JS client by HTTPS, and use it to encrypt the direct connections to your messagin
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    BTW, your landing page at elastic.io could use some work. The slideshow runs much too fast (I had to hit the back button at least ten times to read it) and it didn't really explain the service you're providing (or explain why it's valuable
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    > ...this record, which stood for 75 years, MAY stand > forever as the largest prime found by hand calculations. I shudder to imagine the holocaust which would have to happen before this record could be broken. Though I
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    I'm curious about what the new business model is going to be.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    I knew a guy who shorted yahoo at $8 in the late 90s.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    Not quite what you're asking about, but an interesting related innovation: http://untyped.com/untyping/2011/02/11/stop-ab-testing-and-m...
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    Thanks.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    What is SSO?
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    > If you dive into this even a little, I predict you will be shocked Thanks, sounds like my kind of ride.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    You might find this comment suggests a way to do it on heroku. (Wishy-washy language because I have no direct experience with buildpacks.) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3860312
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    What's a good text for learning to program these? (Or perhaps series of texts, as my knowledge of electronics and computational hardware is very superficial.)
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    You only have to be first to get the network, and they already have the network.
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    But for $1B, couldn't facebook just reimplement Instagram's interface and forcefeed it to facebook users? It's not like it needs the Instagram network, right?
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    by Estragon 15y ago

    You're not being downvoted for flagging. It's for not meaningfully contributing to the conversation.