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by jtdowney 14y ago
John from Braintree here. In the case of our client-side encryption library we use sjcl ( http://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/ ) to generate the symmetric keys for encryption. This library uses Ferguson and Schneier's Fortuna PRNG to generate r
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by jtdowney 14y ago
The W3C has a crypto API draft at: http://www.w3.org/TR/WebCryptoAPI/
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by jtdowney 14y ago
NoMethodError: undefined method `new' for Foo:Module You can't initialize modules, I think you meant to make Foo a class.
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by jtdowney 14y ago
They seem to be over their limit with Github, pasted below as a mirror: You probably noticed Charm had some nasty downtime a couple weeks ago. Service quality is very important to us. If we didn't think we could do better, we wouldn't do it
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by jtdowney 14y ago
"Java and PHP have been around long before Ruby." It seems like they are confusing Ruby and Rails in the first point. PHP, Java, and Ruby were all first publicly released in 1995. From their respective Wikipedia articles: "Lerdorf released
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Braintree raises a $35M series B(pandodaily.com)
2 points by jtdowney 14y ago|0 comments
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Braintree's Payments Platform Launches Across Europe And Canada(techcrunch.com)
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by jtdowney 14y ago
Volunteer to mentor a FIRST Robotics Competition ( http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc ) team. The robots built for the competition use a National Instrument cRIO ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIO ) which run VxWorks 6.3.
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Here it is from the original source (WSJ): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870455410457543...
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Since the OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.generate method lets you generate RSA keys with a different exponent there is some manipulation needed between the ruby side and OpenSSL. From my understanding the code was part of a refactor to release the glob
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by jtdowney 15y ago
The article is pretty interesting. My favorite part is the last paragraph: Also in 2003, Paignton Zoo carried out a practical test by putting a keyboard connected to a PC into the cage of six crested macaques. After a month the monkeys had
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Moxie Marlinspike is the creator of Convergence. I highly recommend watching his Blackhat 2011 talk ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA ) covering authenticity on the web and Convergence.
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Under the heading That attack sounds complicated! Surely, you're better off with crypto than without it? "Any attacker who could swipe an unencrypted secret can, with almost total certainty, intercept and alter a web request. Intercepting r
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Looks like the bug was introduced by Rasmus Lerdorf, the creator of PHP. http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_4/ext/s...
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by jtdowney 15y ago
That is assuming the deadbeat client cares about following license restrictions.
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Years ago I worked for the ResNet team at Purdue University and some of the items in the story were similar. I can relate to the posters pain but I've also been on the other side. We had an entirely automated system to temporarily block use
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Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released(blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp)
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by jtdowney 15y ago
Maybe I am nitpicking, but Silverlight runs on Windows and Mac, which is why MS claims it is cross-platform. The article indicated it is Windows only.
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by jtdowney 15y ago
I can add this blog to the list of things to read when I want to feel stupid. Definitely cool if it turns out to be true.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Who said that the game they are playing has two participants with a winner and a loser.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Seeing this on HN is awesome. I am a mentor on a FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) team as well and I have just began reading The New Cool. Amir is an inspiration to every mentor and student in FIRST. We are right in the middle of our region
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by jtdowney 16y ago
I am still hoping to hear that they will support bringing your own BizSpark licenses for Windows instances.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
I wonder if they will package the toolchain sans IDE for free as a download. Otherwise in the future package managers on OS X (homebrew, macports, fink, etc) may have a $5 entry fee.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Microsoft has rev'd the language a few times and brought C# and VB.NET to parity language wise (that is what they say there is probably lots room for discussion). For example with the release of VB.NET 10 in VS 2010 they finally removed the
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Kind of like the division of Diebold that made voting machines became Premier Election Solutions
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by jtdowney 16y ago
It reminded me of the AK-47 quote from Jackie Brown: AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf@#$%r in the room, accept no substitutes.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c77Qnk_CMF8 Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovy2kPFOu0E Part 3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y23LUiBRcOg That talk was at the 2010 Chaos Communication Congress which just concluded a
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by jtdowney 16y ago
Check out the Web Platform Installer ( http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx ) it is a close approximation of apt-get install for the Microsoft web stack (ASP.NET, SQL Server, IIS, VS Express)
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by jtdowney 16y ago
My team came up with using Pixar characters for server names but were told no by the Universities hostmaster. Apparently the University had previously gotten C&D letters from Disney for something similar.
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by jtdowney 16y ago
I was able to get Tower to open the Linux kernel git tree (>200,000 commits) on my MBP. It was sluggish but worked as expected. For comparison I tried Brotherbard's gitx fork on the Linux kernel tree as well. It also loaded the tree as

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