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by al_james 14y ago
Arh... but with that, the service provider has to opt-in.. they have to choose to add get satisfaction. I am talking about a place you can go and register issues you are having with a service, even if they have not added any formal issue tr
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by al_james 14y ago
Whilst I agree with your point, the problem is a quest (like "Ask HN: Does the password reset work for you?") would probably have sunk to the bottom without anyone seeing it. Not a judgement on HN, but rather a judgement on human nature!
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by al_james 14y ago
This has just given me a (potentially stupid) idea: If a site has a public issue tracking system, thats great, a case like this could be handled. However, lots of sites/services dont have public ticketing systems. At best I can fire off a b
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by al_james 14y ago
This goes without saying, but just to check off a possible cause: Did you try gmail's 'all mail', 'spam', 'notifications', etc... labels? Gmail seems to find new and inventive ways of hiding automated emails in different folders.
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by al_james 14y ago
Yes, its likely the Euro will reduce further against the dollar (given the current situation in Europe), so Apple needs to build in a buffer to account for this.
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by al_james 14y ago
Just found this if any PHP developers wants an easy to use bcrypt password library. https://gist.github.com/1053158
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by al_james 14y ago
>Moreover, you made the security of your system "key"-dependent: what if I generate such "key" that will only use 5 iterations of MD5 and 1 iteration of SHA-1? This would be a major failure. Imagine if the security of AES was not 2^128,
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by al_james 14y ago
Ok, got it. Thanks. Yes, much better. I was under the impression bcrypt was also a fixed cost operation. If anyone else is wondering how to implement bcrypt with a cost parameter in PHP, see http://php.net/manual/en/function.crypt.php und
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by al_james 14y ago
>bcrypt is tunable to be as slow as you want, even to account for hardware progress. I did not know that. Can you expand on this point?
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by al_james 14y ago
Here's a (potentially stupid) idea: The app provides a fixed 'secret key' that defines (somehow) a sequence of hashing and scrambling functions to apply to the password. So, for example, the secret key "df8dfuhuejew3" (or whatever) might be
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by al_james 14y ago
What stands out here is how long a disk read takes (especially compared to network latency). Indeed, disk is the new tape.
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by al_james 14y ago
I see the problem in theory, but in reality, the time of a couple of hash functions compared to network latency and application server routing would be quite small. Can timing attacks actually work in such situations?
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by al_james 14y ago
Hi, interested in the above comment. Can you explain how a timing attack would work here?
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by al_james 14y ago
Wow, if they are not doing any reuse that really really dumb. I can't back this up, but would have thought at least 50% of all pins are repins.... if that 410TB figure is correct, this oversight is costing them $18k a month . It would be
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by al_james 14y ago
Does anyone else feel that 410TB of user data seems quite a lot? If I have my maths right, even if all the 80 million objects are user data (as opposed to, say, logs) thats 5.3mb per object. Considering that most pinterest photos are from
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by al_james 14y ago
Causes Safari on iPad (iOS 5.0) to force quit. I had hoped it was not possible to crash the browser with CSS!
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by al_james 15y ago
Is it me, or is it slightly worrying that a Twitter client (albeit a very nice one) needs 978 images amounting to 26MB in the original version? Regardless of the compressed PNG site, I guess all active images still need to be held in memory
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by al_james 15y ago
There is an economic cost. If even one person pirates a digital work who WOULD have paid for it had pirating not been an option, it causes a cost to the producer of the media. So there is a real cost.
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by al_james 15y ago
I wonder if GPS could be used to estimate the air speed by means of a permanently refining mathematical model? E.g. If I know I have heading X, ground speed Y, weight Z, thrust A, you should be able to work out your predicted ground speed
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by al_james 15y ago
> 2) Don't give free content. Make me pay for it. If I like it I would. You might. 99% of the population would not.
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by al_james 15y ago
The approach I use is to combine a master password (so only one password to remember) with a site specific name (e.g. the domain name or site title) using some difficult to reverse combining / hashing algorithm. This way, even if one passwo
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by al_james 15y ago
As far as I am aware, you can submit third party browsers as long as they use the supplied webkit framework.
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by al_james 15y ago
Sounds great to me. Especially if you need to support SSL with a limited range of IP addresses. Can anyone comment on the security repercussions on using the 'flexible SSL' mode, e.g. traffic is SSL between the user and cloudflare, but non-
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by al_james 15y ago
Looks interesting, however I have not got 43 minutes to see if thats the case. Tip: If you want people to actually look at your presentation, post the slides separately so we can scan through and see if the video is worth watching.
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by al_james 15y ago
It seems to talk about watches more.
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by al_james 15y ago
Love the motion blur effect around his body.
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by al_james 15y ago
>Hmm, everything seems pretty expected till now Except its called iPhone 4S and not iPhone 5!
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by al_james 15y ago
>The concrete difference is that on Facebook I follow friends and coworkers, on G+ I follow Scoble, Tim O'Reilly, Alton Brown and other people who write interesting, public posts. But I feel those use-cases have less overall appeal for
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by al_james 15y ago
Quite simply: MongoDB is the most SQL-like of all the no-SQL databases out there. E.g. the shortest transition for developers used to using SQL databases (Mysql in particular) who need a bit more flexibility.
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by al_james 15y ago
Reading articles like this makes me wonder my Opera bothers having their own HTML engine at all (at least for desktop). Why not use webkit and help develop that? I cant see any advantages from Opera's point of view, just a big bunch of prob

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