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Ask HN: Onion links allowed?
10 points by drvdevd 10y ago|5 comments
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I haven't read the article yet but your comment just reminded me of one of my all-time favorite movies: Pi (1998). Please watch it if you haven't! [edit] took a look and this is quite beautiful. Of course the search for a pattern
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Right. I certainly wouldn't argue that we do/don't have the computational power to do this or that it's even going to be possible as I'm nowhere near qualified. This is simply my layman's view of "bioinfor
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Arguably this is where the future of binary code is anyway: automatic static and dynamic analysis and simulation to automate patching. Machines will be much better at this than we can ever hope to be. One could imagine the only way to guare
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I really hate my PS4 and PSN and want to run Linux or FreeBSD on it. I'm not much of a gamer, but I paid about $100 for a couple games I planned to play eventually . Then I got locked out of PSN and really can't be bothered to ca
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by drvdevd 10y ago
It also can be seen as a meaningful signal of attribution capability to certain parties. Think of the form - an official document intended for public consumption - as not really being intended for consumption by the general public.
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Coinbase Customer Doubles Down on Legal Action Against IRS(coindesk.com)
1 points by drvdevd 10y ago|0 comments
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Well, if the data you're ingesting/parsing/etc is anywhere near well formed or having a known structural definition, you should be able to mock the code handling it reasonably well, even up to the point of covering many weird
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Ah I see. This is actually a very good point. One team I was on would constantly get hung up on this sort of issue. I believe a more general ability to just run a code review and study session would've saved lots of time.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I'm interested in your take on #4: why wouldn't you allot time to run code in a debugger? Personally I would like all my code to be written against a debugger and with test suites allowing me to step through it. I've been chi
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes this is just basic UNIX isolation 101. It's a good article for that purpose. And I would use a jail as well if I were solving this problem because why not. [Edit] not sure about video acceleration in the jail though
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Qubes uses Xen for isolation as I understand it -- essentially putting different programs in their own specialized, locked down domU. So it's probably much more robust against attack than this approach. [edit] but I'm not arguing
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by drvdevd 10y ago
And I've actually had (a couple times now) random hardware failings, with random notification emails from Amazon, on EBS storage on AWS, with accompanying data loss. Might as well treat your zpool like it's on real hardware and
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Sure but it feels like there is some close relation there: proving an author is genuine and proving the author is producing genuinely valuable work wrt some given publication's specific audience. If one were to build a system along t
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by drvdevd 10y ago
If the peers were properly authenticated as such, then wouldn't that obviate the need for the journals, if trust is their only value add?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Perhaps "limited advisories" are always damaging because they can lead users to think not everyone "knows" about the vuln and thus that they have extra time to patch, whereas most people who understand the issues general
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Np, I'm just glad you got it working! Like I said I wrestle with the same issues almost every day. I think it pays off in the end though because you come away with a deeper understanding in general and start to see the bugs other ppl d
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Arguably, society could not exist without self-censorship. And of course lying.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
... giving long time spammers a brand new market.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Ah OK I see. I think what's so interesting to me about comparing bitcoin to IPv4 is that the latter is an artifact of artificial scarcity based on history rather than deliberate design. I'm sure others have noticed this parallel b
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Ok so I suppose you're referencing what I found to be interesting about your first comment: you can compare IPv4 to Bitcoin in terms of artificial scarcity, which you're also saying makes it a somewhat meaningless comparison.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Not sure if you're just being sarcastic, but I actually find that to be an interesting comparison.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This was an unfortunate title to an otherwise not so horrible article. It really didn't press the comparison too hard.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I would also argue that it's important not to conflate issues with the Linux kernel with any particular Linux distribution specific issue. The incident with Linux Mint is not reflective of the broader security of Linux in general, alth
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by drvdevd 10y ago
It's only fraudulant if you don't report it. And you should charge the highest possible sum you can, IMO, or whatever sum you choose if you're being charitable. In such a hypothetical case - it's your project and so th
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This is a brilliant point. Programming has always been a fundamentally collaborative discipline and of course communication is paramount to proper collaboration. And it's easy to forget this when you're spending hours alone mired
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This just sounds like an attempt to take control of a popular project. An attack. [edit] an interesting vector: open source politics
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Now that does sound like a difficult situation to handle. I'd like to think I'd always choose the high road and say, "code quality first!" But personally I probably would not always do that when there's a strong f
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Ah OK, I missed that. Well I suppose even with such an offer, the onus is still on the person making such a request to remain civil if "No" is still the answer.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
The author mentioned receiving an email personally requesting a bugfix due to the requestors' deadline. Now, I don't have any projects as big as Redis I'm building, or even Python - my OSS contributions are here and there sma

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