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by biggerfisch 10y ago
I was a CS student who (personally, not a critique of all CS teaching) got tired of the way CS was taught at my school, which focused so much more on algorithms (which is good) and how to implement them (which can also be good) but tested t
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
It seems likely that he really is alive, but AFAIK, there's been no recent signature from a wikileaks private key. People on reddit seem to be convinced he's not in control of the keys anymore, which is somewhat disturbing.
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Some of the current sites still up are likely to be exploring their options in that regard. The core problem comes down to the fact that a (potential) compromise (as in w.cd) results in the admins hitting the Big Red Button and nuking every
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
His comment about the "zoo" of data-driven tests made the way my university's major algorithms class did tests finally make sense. It's not a concept that particularly easy to search for when you're working from the
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
So is this really anything except an interesting way of deriving MOND? The article says > Verlinde thinks his theory will be able to handle the Bullet cluster observations just fine. but doesn't actually show it doing that. As that&
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
In the US, unpaid internships that provide "immediate advantage from the activities of the intern" _are_ illegal.
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Forgive me for only doing basic research into this, but couldn't one set up some solar panels for electricity, dig some shelter, and recover water from the atmosphere? Wouldn't that do a decent job of allowing at least some degree
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
As someone who's worked with OSS while employed at a very large company, using BSD licensed software is infinitely easier than GPL. GPLv3 was likely to be flat out banned and even GPLv2 required many approvals and a long process from l
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Sorry, wasn't clear. I assumed it was obvious that bitfinex's online key was also compromised, no matter what happened with BitGo, whether their key(s) were stolen or if their api was abused.
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
If it turns out that BitGo did not properly enforce limits (as opposed to being hacked or ???), would they be liable for the losses?
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Has it been verified that BitGo's key was not simply compromised? As unlikely as it may be that both online keys could be compromised, it certainly seems that it could have happened (perhaps while it was not internal to bitfinex, it co
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Thanks, I somehow missed it first pass.
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
Am I missing something or is there still no NFC support?
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8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Hashcat Benchmarks(gist.github.com)
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by biggerfisch 10y ago
The "benefit" is that it causes a "trusted" tab to change, not a new one that a user might expect to be tainted. If I open a link from HN (for example), read it, and close the tab, I'd expect to be back at HN. If th
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
Even if he is, it's still information that doesn't need to be revealed. It's not a security issue in and of itself, but if combined with another exploit, it could help an attacker. Good security is all about layers and protec
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
Well, imagine you're in a controlled environment (eg, China) and having your non-vpn IP leaked could compromise your identity. Having an easy way for a site to reveal you is therefore a security issue.
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
I much prefer tmux because it really doesn't matter what system I'm on, I can easily rearrange windows/panes and form a custom workspace. While iTerm can do this on the local mac, it's a real pain to use tabs/split
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
> Their site is unbearably bloated with scripts and whatnot I don't think most people (outside of HN for sure and still a lot within HN) actually run NoScript or something that makes them aware of the number of scripts on a page. An
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
Hangouts has an option under "SMS" to disable automatic retrieval of MMS messages. Can anyone confirm if this at least stops the instant loading of malware?
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by biggerfisch 11y ago
I might add more info about supported banks before users start to expend effort on signing up. As soon as I saw that my bank wasn't supported, I lost interest.
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
> Then they sacrificed the animals and looked at their brains. That seems... extreme. Interesting word choice there!
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
Their technical details page seems to push eMMC pretty hard but their prices, 64GB for $80 [1], seem really high compared to a microSD card. Can anyone with experience comment on whether the eMMC has anywhere near the value for its price? [
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
A helmet has saved my father's life several times while commuting to/from work. We have at least one of the helmets saved, complete with a crack down through the entire side. It was a hard enough hit for him to be unconscious for
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
Sorry for the silly question, but the slides seemed to indicate that any USB keyboard can read any other keyboard's keystrokes? Is that a correct understanding? Otherwise, I don't see how they can steal passwords. Am I just missin
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
The only solution I found involved leaving the thief alone several times - is that not worse than leaving the thief with a family whose parents are apparently dangerous?
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
> Most people are quite dumb. I know what you're trying to say here, but consider today's xkcd[0] as a counter-point. I think "most people" are quite capable of solving a lot of puzzles. This issue is that any puzzl
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
The FAQ isn't saying that the only bad thing is that email accounts might be compromised, simply that that's one reason to not email passwords. While you're right about email comprises allowing an attacker to simply reset a p
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
Looks cool but I'm curious how it stacks up against services like Carbonite (for example) that actively monitor and look for changed files. If I update my archive/folder/etc that I want on deepfreeze, do I have to upload it
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by biggerfisch 12y ago
It depends on the class, but most are taught both. At my school, almost everything in the science classes was done in metric, though we were of course very familiar with imperial.

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