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by dsacco 9y ago
> Oh look, another "middlebrow dismissal" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920 ) upvoted to the top of a HN post. Color me surprised. Do you see the irony in using a low-effort, middlebrow dismissal t
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by dsacco 9y ago
> How does cycling AWS instances quickly provide additional security beyond obscurity? The same way issuing a new session token for each login improves security. If the changes are unpredictable, whatever process an attacker uses to gu
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I don't like closed systems that I have no oversight into, into what they might be logging, etc. I’m going to be generous and assume you’re both diligent and technically competent enough to inspect all the security-relavant open
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by dsacco 9y ago
> It's possible to use OpenPGP in instant messaging [0] and it works fine (transparent encryption and decryption in a client) For some definitions of "possible" and "works fine", sure. But OpenPGP is not nativ
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I think it would be good to read this post remembering that Moxie is competing with OpenPGP with his Signal app. No, this is incorrect, for several reasons. 1. Signal and OpenPGP have substantially different intended use cases. OpenP
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by dsacco 9y ago
> There are many, many errors in the published mathematical literature, and the older you get, the more of them you see. Can you provide any examples? I know this is true, but I'm interested in examples you have off the top of you
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Most recent studies in psychiatry and social sciences that I have read, even those published in Nature, use sample sizes of around 50 people, which should be considered insufficient. I disagree with your reasoning even if your conclu
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is a good point. I found the article's content disappointing, to be honest. I think it hit a bit of an uncanny valley - it was too shallow to be comprehensive for a technical math/computer science audience, but too deep (and
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by dsacco 9y ago
For those who would like to get a better idea of the cryptography described in this article, here is an overview of the usually encountered computational hardness problems in lattice-based cryptography: 1. Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) - Gi
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by dsacco 9y ago
SHA-256 (SHA-2) is incomparable to SHA-1. The (first) successful SHA-1 collision attack executed by Google et al earlier this year implies absolutely nothing about the computational hardness of SHA-2. There is no evidence whatsoever that qu
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by dsacco 9y ago
No.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Their future is in autonomous however, which will never be the ambulance business (it will never be autonomous, ambulance drivers frequently have to break standard driving laws in emergencies, drive at high speeds, drive around vehicl
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is correct.
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by dsacco 9y ago
I answered one of these questions in the comment below this one, but for the other: I worked as a technical consultant for a large firm before going out on my own. That’s where I primarily learned the business side of the work - being on ki
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by dsacco 9y ago
Correct. Although these days my consulting has drifted into distributed data analysis pipelines and overall software architecture.
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Step 1: Be popular/famous enough that people know your name. Step 2: Be good/accurate enough at opining in ways that make sense. Neither of these are prerequisites for being extremely successful at consulting. My consulting
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by dsacco 9y ago
> A lot of developers I’ve met who hated math had the skills for it. If you can master a new programming paradigm in a few weeks than you can do math, it’s not the monster all theses writers make it out to be. Let me start off by sayin
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by dsacco 9y ago
Your friend shot them?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> They both have the ability to be controversial, but you're ignoring the context and assuming that they can both be the same level of controversial. No, I'm not ignoring any context. I'm asserting that they can both be
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by dsacco 9y ago
And again, I'm not drawing any comparison or equivalence between people who eat meat and people who are gay. As clearly shown in the portion of my comment you quoted, I am comparing the beliefs and suggestions about which beliefs are a
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by dsacco 9y ago
> A person can change beliefs about how you should treat gay people. A gay person cannot change their homosexuality to accommodate anti-gay people, and trying actively harms them. I think your claim here has a high likelihood of inviti
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm not comparing people who don't eat meat and people who are gay. I'm comparing the strength of nonviolent opposition towards both those groups, which can be absolutely equivalent. I stand by what I said - when we're
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by dsacco 9y ago
> You should not be able to hold whatever views you like and participate in the community. There is no form of bigotry that belongs in software. The problem with this philosophy is that it has a significant potential (and likelihood) f
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Knowing your superior wants you dead(white supremacists) or psychologically tortured(conversion therapy) or inherently doesn't believe in your competence(sexism, racism, what have you) is not something one just shrugs off. Those
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, but that’s not relevant to the conversation at hand. No one is saying it’s reasonable to have a CEO who has announced a campaign to eradicate all homosexuality, in an official or unofficial capacity. They’re saying that, when not so ex
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The CEO is meant to represent the organisation. Denying rights to individuals goes against Mozilla's ethos and detracts from its campaign goals. This implies Mozilla is intrinsically a political organization, because that’s an e
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by dsacco 9y ago
You might believe he did that. Brendan Eich likely doesn’t believe that, or he doesn’t believe those specific rights are fundamental, or he has a different interpretation of those rights. When you frame his behavior the way you just did, yo
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by dsacco 9y ago
> It is a signalling of a maverick industry so powerful it can succeed without the approval or gatekeeping of stuffy banks etc. It is a huge middle finger to The Establishment. > There are good psychological reasons for enforcing i
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m open minded to what you’re saying, and I agree that dismissing alien contact due to popular zeitgeist is silly. But here’s my problem with what you’re saying: where did they come from then, and how did they get here? Why do we not have
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by dsacco 9y ago
> However, 'ball' is from geometry, while 'neighborhood' is from analysis. They overlap, but they're not to be confused, because 'neighborhood' is used to emphasize that one should not visualize it. Y

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