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by ddlatham 14y ago
Bcrypt slows down a brute force attack considerably, but cannot prevent one. If your password is one of the top N passwords in use, then a determined attacker can still break it. For example, if you set your work factor such that it takes
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Apple is all about streamlining and optimizing for the common case. Not providing options for the minority with different preferences. If your lifestyle doesn't match, then you're doing it wrong.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
My eyes trick me into reading that as: What Jamie did Wrong at Khan Academy
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Make no mistake - all the major smartphones out there are infringing someone else's patent. If this is the precedent, next thing we'll have iPhones banned for infringing on Motorola, and Windows Phones banned for infringing on RIM patents.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
That doesn't appear to be the meaning of "control" that OP is using.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Consider the case of a company with 3 shareholders. A has 49% B has 49% C has 2% When an important vote comes up, C's vote is just as important as A or B.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
When I read this headline, I interpreted it to mean Jack owns 28.3% of the shares, but that his class of shares has greater voting rights, and so he has 75% of the votes (a majority - similar to Zuckerberg). However, that's not what the aut
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by ddlatham 14y ago
In fact, in Oracle JVMs Java enum hashCode() values are almost never the same across JVM instances. This has bitten me in the past for Hadoop MapReduce jobs specifically.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
We have email notifications on test failures, so the creator and reviewer of the pull request can see it fails. Haven't done it yet, but would like to extend it to report back the result as a comment directly on the pull request.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
One disadvantage is that with multiple, short-lived branches, manually creating CI to confirm that all tests continue to pass becomes far too much overhead. It must be automated for this model to work and be trusted. "Jenkins Build Per Bra
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Please notice that there is _no_ advantage in everybody in the world using the exact same algorithm, quite the contrary in fact. If your password database is leaked, there are 2 categories of attacks that you need to be concerned with: 1.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Another datum: the hash of my password (randomly generated 8 character mixed case alphanumeric) was in the file, without any overwritten 0's.
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by ddlatham 14y ago
That quote is from the slide "Our Legacy DB: Sharded MySQL", not describing F1.
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What Happens When Toddlers Zone Out With an iPad(online.wsj.com)
3 points by ddlatham 14y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 14y ago
Decrease the minimum bid increment from $0.01 to a value such that ties are rare.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Even better, if we can get speculative patents now on all sorts of future technology that will take at least 20 years to develop later, the patents will all be expired by the time the tech is ready.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Yesterday's discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3711603
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by ddlatham 15y ago
No it isn't.
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Be sure to check out the rebuttal. http://tauday.com/tau-manifesto#sec:the_pi_manifesto_a_rebut...
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Also, see MIT announcing admissions decisions on Pi Day at Tau Time. http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/i-have-smashing-news
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Happy Half Tau Day (The π is a lie…)(halftauday.com)
1 points by ddlatham 15y ago|1 comments
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Launching a Democratization of Data Science(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
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App Store bot farms are mobile's 'dirty little secret'(pocketgamer.biz)
2 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 15y ago
What if the file in another public folder was held by the owner of the copyright, or someone else who had license to distribute it?
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Some Android phones are bigger, some are not. One of the advantages Android has over the iPhone is that it can go after many segments of the market, and manufacturers will choose various factors to differentiate themselves. One of them is
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CES 2012, as seen by engineers who went to the dark side(ces.cnet.com)
1 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments
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Jurors Need to Know That They Can Say No(nytimes.com)
353 points by ddlatham 15y ago|133 comments
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Earlier discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371392
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by ddlatham 15y ago
Here's the patent in question, #5,946,647, filed Feb. 1, 1996: http://www.google.com/patents/US5946647 "A system and method causes a computer to detect and perform actions on structures identified in computer data... uses a pattern analy
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Match.com iPhone App Pulled for Skirting In-App Purchasing Policy(wired.com)
1 points by ddlatham 15y ago|0 comments

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