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by Laaw 11y ago
So what? You know your phone visited a website, but if that site had a zero-day, would it matter?
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by Laaw 11y ago
I realize this is the actual title of the piece, but it's going to get much fewer views/reads because of it. For the sake of HN readers, it might be worth editorializing this title to add some kind of context.
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by Laaw 11y ago
> Can I email StartSSL or VeriSign and ask them to revoke faceb00k.com? I think so, yes. I don't have any direct evidence to back this, but my intuition is yes, they would contact the intermediary cert issuer and request the cert
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by Laaw 11y ago
I see it regularly when I'm doing dev work.
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by Laaw 11y ago
In theory, at least, a fraud website like faceb00k.com wouldn't be able to maintain a green padlock for very long because the issuer will revoke the cert. Not saying that's a solution, but it mitigates the problem somewhat.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I've been waiting for a very long time for pact, looking forward to trying it when I get home. All I really need is a terminal that, once I ssh to a *nix box, won't get in the way.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I don't think shame is an effective tactic, because it has no real "stick" component. People will always do what they can. The only way to stop someone from doing something is to make them unable to do it. That's not s
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by Laaw 11y ago
When looking at founder groups, do you shy away from or gravitate towards founders who were friends before the company/idea?
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by Laaw 11y ago
I don't understand why respect would be part of this, or loyalty, patriotism, or whatever. Do you really think the best strategy to defend against an adversary is to shame them into behaving? This is about what's cryptographicall
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by Laaw 11y ago
Combine my individual sentences, as I did, and try again.
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by Laaw 11y ago
The attitude you're bringing to this conversation makes me entirely unwilling to continue. Sorry.
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by Laaw 11y ago
None of those are what I described, though.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Doesn't it blow your mind that there are no "standards of engineering" or whatever for software? There's no licensure body for software engineers who build software running your car, and therefore no accountability on a
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by Laaw 11y ago
I don't agree! I think much worse things would have to happen to dissolve the FDIC than would have to happen to lose a significant portion of your investments in the bond/stock/real estate markets.
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by Laaw 11y ago
You are, as far as I know, entirely correct. I still think the survey was designed specifically to find these people who exist in this manner, and I think your criticisms are valid when placed against the thrust of the survey.
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by Laaw 11y ago
You're the second person to say this, but how would "cash in savings" be equally worthless? Maybe I'm not understanding, but it's pretty difficult to actually lose money in a savings account, that's the whole
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by Laaw 11y ago
I'm sorry you don't follow, but it should be fairly obvious that stocks can crash, bond markets can collapse, and home prices can plummet, whereas money in FDIC insured savings accounts would only be lost in the event of a catastr
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by Laaw 11y ago
But also probably true, regardless of this specific situation.
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by Laaw 11y ago
You're exactly the kind of person this article is pointing out, because your ability to be wiped away by the market is a precarious position to be in.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Or, I could just play on chess.com and not have to deal with it.
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by Laaw 11y ago
And get paired over and over again with 1900s trying to up their rating beating 1200s? No thanks.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I said this in another comment, but based on what Alexis said here, it seems like there might actually be staffers (reporters) doing additional research into the stories as they appear on upvoted.com.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Seems like they do have journalists* on staff, according to Alexis, in these comments. * "202M+ people can surface his story and raise a ton of money, but our team of reporters has a much easier time following up to close the loop.&quo
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by Laaw 11y ago
Can someone provide for me a path for keeping up with specifically software engineering research? As a guy whose title is literally "software engineer", I'd like to know what the PhDs in my field are up to.
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by Laaw 11y ago
You're right, but the "base52" part isn't what you're right about, it's the 'encoded' part. "base52" is accurate, it is a series of base52 characters, however it doesn't appear to be t
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by Laaw 11y ago
User with Homebrew here! No problems upgrading this time (took ~15 minutes), had ~2hr upgrade last time.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I got: /Applications/Xcode.app: accepted source=Mac App Store override=security disabled Which I think means I have Gatekeeper disabled, but it still gave me the 'accepted' response.
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by Laaw 11y ago
I've never heard of this negative reaction to Groupon like you folks are describing. What was the negative side? Was it not a good advertising investment for companies? Were expectations not being set correctly by Groupon? Do they
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by Laaw 11y ago
Your comment is like writing, "Why not code everything in C?" on a Haskell post.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Hoping for updates on: > But we'll think about it.

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