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by academia_hack 3y ago
My personal take on the land of cyber security frameworks - and especially security standards - is that a good security team should be able to read through a list of controls (e.g. those in NIST 800-171) and express a reasoned opinion on ea
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by academia_hack 3y ago
Really good point. I think at a macro level it makes a lot of sense to do that and if Harvard were a state run institution the government should definitely try to share the benefit. To some extent this is what the use of national entrance e
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by academia_hack 3y ago
Something of a hot take, but I'd contend the Legacy admissions are there to the benefit of the people who earned their place! As someone who got into an "elite" university despite not coming from an "elite" backgrou
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Ask HN: How to make Enterprise Security not Suck?
2 points by academia_hack 3y ago|5 comments
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by academia_hack 3y ago
> only seemed to make people buy more tangible goods to hold on to. In an inflationary market it makes a lot of sense to buy today what you can't afford tomorrow.
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by academia_hack 3y ago
International law is not the same thing as the EU dictating laws that they want to apply internationally. It think it's totally reasonable to say that you didn't vote for any EU legislators, couldn't even if you wanted to, an
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by academia_hack 3y ago
Completely agree. I'm not sure who benefits from locking people in cages when their ability to roam free doesn't endanger anyone's safety. Ban her from owning equity in any business if you need to avoid repeat offenses. If th
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by academia_hack 4y ago
There might be some distopian way of doing this using biometrics and cryptocurrency. Submit your "human hash" (e.g. some set of cheaply collectable and individually unique biometric signatures) and receive one USDT or similar fixe
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by academia_hack 4y ago
100 years ago, you could have just set the money on fire and had a pretty similar net effect (reduce the money supply, increase the value of the remaining money for everyone else). There are some caveats. Money burning benefits aren't
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by academia_hack 4y ago
I've been in almost this exact same situation with a slightly smaller team and "only" about $5 million running through the tangled web of php. We did a complete rewrite into a Django application, it took 2 years and untold po
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by academia_hack 4y ago
Helped lead a team that moved a huge decade-old internal amalgamation of php applications to Django around 2014. It was a nightmare that took almost 2 years, but the end result was orders of magnitude more maintainable and stable. A lot of
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by academia_hack 4y ago
I left academia for industry a few years ago and still get hassled every week or so for help with open source code I published in conjunction with one of my papers. My other papers, where I provided no artifacts, generate an average of zero
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by academia_hack 5y ago
The phrasing in the press release makes it sound like this is some sort of intrinsically grave offense, but it's quite possibly an innocent mistake. It sounds like this guy's colleague switched companies from one where they were
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by academia_hack 5y ago
Definitely go to MIT. You'll hear a lot of advice about not paying a fortune for private universities when affordable state schools are just as good. This advice makes really good sense for most people, but MIT and Ivies are clear exce
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by academia_hack 5y ago
Plover was great when in university and taking lecture classes. Let me keep up with lecturers and gave me a fun activity (learning steno) to keep me awake during boring lectures. Utterly useless for note taking as transcripts are really not
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by academia_hack 5y ago
For me it's always an optimization problem between weight, GPU, battery life, and cost. Generally, doing better in any one of those dimensions trades off with the other three.
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by academia_hack 5y ago
It's really just a very slow, very inefficient and very public, database with an audit log of hashes keeping track of every change made. Everything else is just fluff/hype around that idea.
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by academia_hack 5y ago
China absolutely has designs on Mongolia. The whole existence of the modern Mongolian state is a mess of cold-war / world war 2 geopolitical compromises that left basically no one happy. If Sino-Russian relations cool, or the climate o
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by academia_hack 5y ago
If you actually read OP's link, the charges seem to have nothing to do with the fact that these individuals once worked for the US gov. Instead, the US federal government seems to be asserting that knowledge of offensive security tools
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by academia_hack 5y ago
He's building an ASAT weapon. The debris story is just PR spin.
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by academia_hack 5y ago
If they can make this tech viable, DOD will buy it as an ASAT weapons capability with essentially a blank check. Debris removal is a fantasy veneer slapped on to space weapons development for investors.
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by academia_hack 5y ago
This is only half true. Many of my Chinese friends, especially affluent ones who have spent time abroad, both know and hate what Xi is doing to their country. Behind closed doors and or while walking in parks in Shanghai and Beijing I'
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by academia_hack 5y ago
This is awesome! I'm still afraid that one of my friends will go on a Minecraft binge (or idle in a farm) and drive up the costs beyond the $13/month or so I pay for VPS hosting but I think this approach would objectively be quite
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by academia_hack 5y ago
I think the knowledge that the set is countable and can thus be counted is, as you say, quite obvious. However, actually counting it or generating the complete set is terrifically hard in practice. There are many more illegal positions than
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by academia_hack 5y ago
I don't think it's 250 seats, but 250 employees. Lots of fairly low tech businesses (such as restaurant or retail chain or universities) may have less than a dozen docker users but still cross that total threshold.
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by academia_hack 5y ago
This is a fair point, although not in great alignment with many of the norms that keep society working outside of tech. However, don't all (or nearly all) licenses imply restrictions of some sort? Do you think code should just be relea
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by academia_hack 5y ago
This is true in a technical sense. Restrictions on commercial use are incompatible with a very specific interpretation of what "free" means. I could also invent a definition of freedom that was contrived to be incompatible with co
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by academia_hack 5y ago
In my experience, even the worst parts of Croatia are safer and have more responsible cops than the sketchy parts of any mid-sized US city. Young people are fluent in English, along with most well-off middle-aged folks who know enough to co
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by academia_hack 5y ago
Yeah. The quality of life available in many of these major Balkan cities is on-par with anywhere else in Europe for a tiny fraction of the price. You can find lovely flats in the urban center Sofia, Bulgaria for less than $500 pcm, pay basi
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by academia_hack 5y ago
A less cynical view is that it keeps the military industrial complex healthy and robust in case an urgent need (e.g. WWII) arises. I'd much prefer to just hand cash to Raytheon for that and not have them shoot anyone though....

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