adrianmacneil

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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
If he had reported the keys along with the original submission, I think it's safe to assume they probably would have rewarded him handsomely. Instead, he sat on the keys for over a month , and in the meantime used them to download eve
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Exactly. This is extremely shady behavior, I'm sure if he (a) reported the S3 creds as soon as they were discovered, and (b) did not start randomly downloading everything accessible onto his personal device, this would have turned out
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Also note that the second part of this conversation happened over a month after the original report.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
When reading the author's article, it would certainly be easy to grab the pitchforks. It is actually a pretty interesting/useful vulnerability that some low-level AWS keys were able to be escalated to some highly privileged keys,
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This may or may not be true, but we should be more accepting of people who want to start companies rather than simply telling them they are not necessary.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Honestly most startup backend systems are not amazingly engineered or something to be proud of, so I would guess that the code would need some considerable work before releasing it to the public if that is what they chose to do. Even after
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
It's all just part of the curve of slow bitcoin adoption. First, bitcoin was completely unknown. Then, bitcoin was outright laughed at (some HN commenters are still at this stage of evolution). Next, people jumped on "blockchain&q
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Like Namecoin (supported by a separate currency) or Blockstore (uses the Bitcoin blockchain)? Even if you have a central organizer/bank, you are simply using their currency as the native token. You could use a native token which has ex
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
True, but decentralized databases (where all nodes are trusted) were already invented long before bitcoin came along. You do not need a blockchain if all actors are trusted.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
I imagine Mailbox has a heavy server component, which would be non-trivial to get set up and running on your own.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
How will your proposed blockchain protect against double spends or sybil attacks without a native token? This was the entire innovation of bitcoin.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This is only partially true. While you can have a blockchain without bitcoin, you cannot have a blockchain without some sort of native digital asset giving value to the network supporters (in bitcoin terminology, the miners). I think many p
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Given how dependent php is on hosts to upgrade, and how slow php hosts traditionally move, it would seem that php would benefit from a 7-to-5 transpiler, similar to Babel for JS. Does anything like this exist already?
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Pretty sure newer versions of php have an opcode cache built in, so they don't need to load everything on every request now?
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
> for some reason, they did not go for the holy grail, even though they knew what the holy grail would be. This seems pretty simplistic. Presumably yahoo and bing were also "going for the holy grail". I highly doubt that they s
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Here are the main things I wanted in a migration tool which I couldn't find anywhere else (at least not all in one tool): * Ability to create/drop database (super helpful for test environments) * Read database connection string fr
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This is really old: https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-... I wonder why he reposted it.
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Show HN: A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool(github.com)
3 points by adrianmacneil 11y ago|3 comments
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Excited to get the app running, and following the brief instructions of his coworkers, Joe types: docker-compose up His rails bootcamp didn't teach them anything about docker. It turns out docker-compose isn't installed. Not wanti
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Hillary Clinton Joins the 'Make Silicon Valley Break Encryption' Bandwagon(techdirt.com)
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This might be too late since you have already left, but check out Schwab bank - they offer free international ATM withdrawals, and will also refund any fees added by the ATM operator. I think it's mostly a loss leader for their brokera
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
https://www.ethereum.org/ and https://www.stellar.org/ are two interesting ones to check out.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
It depends. If Coinbase doesn't have a presence in that country (registered company, licensing, employees) then they most likely don't need to follow their laws, and could make an argument that they are operating purely on a cross
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
> There's a lot more flexibility in a lot of the new consensus protocols coming out that can run Turing-complete contracts etc Agreed. But most open source protocols are/were not great. IPv4, SMTP, HTTPv1 all have massive flaws
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Well if you conduct transactions on their platform, then they know the source/destination, notes, amount etc. AML laws require them to detect and prevent illegal activity on their platform (just the same as Square, Stripe, Venmo/P
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Unfortunately, both. Because that is how financial laws work.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
That's the end game. I think this can be seen as the bitcoin industry following "Embrace, extend, and extinguish".
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
Yes, probably related to money transmission licensing (and various other state finance laws). See https://www.coinbase.com/legal/licenses . There may also be some restrictions at the Shift end.
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
As someone who used to work at Coinbase, hopefully I can shed some light on this. First of all, Bitcoin should not be seen primarily as a currency, but as a protocol. Therefore, bitcoin does not need to increase in value for it to be succes
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by adrianmacneil 11y ago
This might be a silly question, but did you use your Coinbase account to conduct any illegal transactions? The team there really cares about customer experience, so generally if they are ignoring you it's because your account has some

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