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by cdman 13y ago
Nope, doesn't work. Most of spam today is sent trough compromised computers (botnets), so requiring more CPU work doesn't do anything (other than increase the world power consumption a tiny bit).
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by cdman 13y ago
Interesting choice of colors - red signifying that all the unit tests pass :-) (that is usually considered "green")
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by cdman 13y ago
Hmm, are you sure that this (linked lists with small elements) is a good example which you should tell people about? Linked lists are bad because they have big overhead (8 bytes for every element in your case - which dominates by a large ma
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by cdman 13y ago
The first question I would ask is: what attacks are you trying to defend against? Can the attacker eavesdrop on the initial communication? If so, the attacker has all the needed information. If the initial channel is assumed to be protected
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by cdman 13y ago
HMAC actually double-hashes the input, so something closer to HMAC would be hash(combine(hash("a", t), "a")). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash-based_message_authenticati...
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by cdman 13y ago
Doesn't work for me, generates an error in the console "FB is not defined"
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by cdman 13y ago
Funny and informative :-) Though "syndrome" seems misnomer. Probably "failure" or "failure mode" would be better (syndrome makes me think of a person).
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by cdman 13y ago
Seems to work from Romania (although it errored out on the first try, it worked after that).
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by cdman 13y ago
I would recommend __against__ CCCP and any other codec packs. Codec packs in general are pieces of software ripped from the original installs and put together in ways the orignal author didn't expect. Thus it will crap out with a high
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Show HN: Videos from Coursera class "The Science of Gastronomy"
1 points by cdman 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 13y ago
Careful with that. perl -c still runs the BEGIN blocks so don't rely on it for safety (ie. if you're handling untrusted code).
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The New Yorker using faked in article about chemical attacks in Syria(hackerfactor.com)
1 points by cdman 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 13y ago
You had me until "backups are encrypted with PBKDF2". PBKDF2 is not encryption, it is a Key Derivation Function (it says so right in the name - KDF). Given that one of the developers is claiming that they are "encrypting&quot
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I made this for hacker news, but that doesn't mean you can't hire me too.(techno-anthropology.blogspot.ro)
1 points by cdman 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 13y ago
Either s/he edited the link or your DNS is hijacked since it works for me :-)
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by cdman 13y ago
I cleaned up the audio a little bit (using Audacity and Auphonic) and uploaded it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVNC3q_Dqg4
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Ask HN: What's happening to the "Learn X the Hard Way" series?
13 points by cdman 13y ago|1 comments
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PostgreSQL as a Schemaless Database(thebuild.com)
2 points by cdman 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 13y ago
AFAIK you can't actually eat "real" Fugu in any but the most select places. What you get as Fugu is a domesticated / non poisonous version usually.
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Crowdfounding initiative for PyDev - the Eclipse based Python IDE(indiegogo.com)
3 points by cdman 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 14y ago
I had the opposite experience: while the lectures were quite good, the exercises were many times confusing and frustrating - they kept refusing my solution because there were hidden assumptions, not stated clearly in the problem definition.
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by cdman 14y ago
Hey droithomme, could you please email some concrete examples (like I'm on page X, do Y after which there is a long delay) to attila [at] udacity.com? We're trying to iron out all the issues as quickly as possible.
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by cdman 14y ago
The 1956 musical My Fair Lady [1] features a professor with the same claim. Nothing new under the sun I guess :-) [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady
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Show HN: Java Advent Calendar
1 points by cdman 14y ago|0 comments
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by cdman 15y ago
I uploaded a better quality version here: http://blip.tv/cdman/mastering-git-basics-by-tom-preston-wer... Things changed: - removed noise - removed second track (which was mostly noise) - passed trough Levelator