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by gwillen 13y ago
The HN mods are well known to munge titles pretty much at random. It's really not clear what, if anything, can be done to stop them.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Do not, do not, DO NOT, try writing raw transactions at home. You will fail and you will lose a lot of money. If you must: - Use testnet! If you don't know what testnet is, you have no business writing live raw transactions. - ALWAYS v
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by gwillen 13y ago
Also find out if any of your friends has a cable internet carrier that's part of that deal. (Almost certainly yes.) Then beg or bribe them to create a sub-account for you under their cable account. (At least with Comcast this is easy,
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by gwillen 13y ago
I own one of these. It's cute. I never really got the hang of it. Ergonomics-wise, it takes the pressure off some of the things you usually stress when typing on a keyboard; but it puts the stress on different things instead. (Less on
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by gwillen 13y ago
Debit cards with a Visa or Mastercard logo have the same protections as credit cards, by contract (though unlike credit cards not by law), when used for non-PIN transactions.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Ok, more source diving. Bitcoin Wallet calls into bitcoinj java/com/google/bitcoin/core/Wallet.java sendCoinsOffline(...), which calls completeTx(...), which calls core/Transaction.java signInputs(...), which c
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by gwillen 13y ago
OK, I dove a little more. The actual signing happens in org.spongycastle.crypto.signers.ECDSASigner . I haven't dug into _that_ yet. But one thing I'm wondering is: would any setSeed on any SecureRandom instance cause a potential
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by gwillen 13y ago
Actually, someone elsewhere in the thread has found, and linked, the bugfix commit, in another Android bitcoin wallet: https://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/source/detail?name=... So literally they're
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by gwillen 13y ago
I have done a bit of source diving in response to your question, and the answer is that all I can provide is the bitcoiners' announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=271831.0 They claim the problem lies wi
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by gwillen 13y ago
As far as I know that is NOT correct. The wallets in question were all -- to my knowledge -- using the Android platform-provided Java SecureRandom generator.
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by gwillen 13y ago
They are now taking orders through their website.
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by gwillen 13y ago
I think you are better off working with Peter Todd, a bitcoin developer working on opentimestamps (github.com/opentimestamps), rather than inventing your own thing. He's already got Merkle tree hashing, and injects data into the Bitcoin blo
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by gwillen 13y ago
You don't even _need_ Glass for that -- just an unobtrusive bluetooth headset, and a good backend.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Article is actually about unbundling, not cord-cutting. Author does not know what cord-cutting is.
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by gwillen 13y ago
If you want to put your Bitcoins in a paper wallet, check out Armory instead. No third parties needed.
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by gwillen 13y ago
"Fargo is the only idea organizer that runs in the browser, cross-operating system with entirely cloud-based storage." I'm actually quite fond of another one, Workflowy.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Works when I do it, in Chrome. If it's failing in Firefox, my guess is it's an issue related to the JS history API, which differs slightly between the two (and is generally a giant pain in the ass to use correctly.)
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by gwillen 13y ago
> The best follow-up was to not only look busy but be busy. Stocking shelves or merchandising was always effective. People who want help but are shy about it always seem willing to spontaneously talk with employees who are busy doing so
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by gwillen 13y ago
I wonder what the fraction of such people is, in an average company. I've encountered people before whose feeling is "if there's no written rule against it, I'm entitled to do it." Is the best solution to the "soda problem" just to fire tho
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by gwillen 13y ago
you're
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by gwillen 13y ago
... I think this article has permanently scared me off of generic drugs.
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You'll need to download Chrome before installing Hangouts(imgur.com)
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by gwillen 13y ago
Convince them to switch to XMPP instead. Get an account from Jabber.org, and install Pidgin or Adium. Then they can talk to anybody else with an XMPP account on any domain, which includes Google Talk users until that service gets nuked.
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by gwillen 13y ago
This one is _counting_ to an incredibly large number -- slow it all the way down and watch what it's doing: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#2,3,1,1,2,1,1,0,0,1,0...
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by gwillen 13y ago
Something interesting is going on here. If you log in to Plus, you can use New Hangouts _right now_. And they _do_ interoperate with XMPP users _right now_ -- I just tried it. So does this mean the rollout is not complete, and what they rol
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by gwillen 13y ago
Because you can't pressure Google not to include EME in Chrome, because Google knows which side its bread is buttered on.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Do choose them carefully, though. A routine traffic stop is one thing (but only if it's 100% routine, i.e. you know what you did, and you've got nothing interesting in the car, and the cop doesn't ask to search, or ask you to get out.) Beyo
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by gwillen 13y ago
I think there's an element here that has a lot of relevance to HN, although it's not called out in the headline: The seizure of phones. I think we all understand that the evidence on those phones will never see the light of day, and that no
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by gwillen 13y ago
If you know a password generation algorithm, you can compute a lower bound on the average time to crack a password given that it was generated by that algorithm. Some individual password might happen to get unlucky, but you can still have a
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by gwillen 13y ago
It's not possible to look at a password and determine how long it would take to crack it, without knowing how it was generated. All you can say is how long it would take _you_ to crack it. But just because a password looks hard to YOU, does

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