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by kobayashi 10y ago
>The poor timing for Kaby Lake mobile processors [was one of] Apple's reasons stated when the topic of "the MBP isn't keeping up with the competition" arises. I've heard similar sentiments quite a few times. Howe
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Because although many terrible things occur every day, President Trump/Bannon are the most serious internal threats to the freedoms, safety, and security of Americans since WWII, and perhaps even earlier. Moreover, the threats they pos
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I believe it's just when you get directed to their European servers. They also use us.startpage.com, as well as some other variations.
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Hi Colin, what would you say is the strongest argument in favour of Tarsnap over Arq? (As an aside: I've been following your work for the past four years - as someone who is quite passionate about infosec, I'd like to thank you de
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm a little unclear - does Duplicity run on macOS?
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by kobayashi 10y ago
That's a common refrain. It's just that I don't think there's a good idea on which to build/improve. I commend you for putting (presumably) your work out here for all to see, and good on you for making your project
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by kobayashi 10y ago
It's bad enough of an idea to connect to an open/untrusted WiFi network - now we're showing HN how to connect to random VPNs all over the world? My cursory opinion of this is that it's the worst idea ever I've ever
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by kobayashi 10y ago
...and wanting some other, probably less trustworthy org to know what the traffic looks like
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by kobayashi 10y ago
If you can find the source, I'd love to read it.
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm not sure about their legality over the years, but I do know that they were in fact largely accessible and were and extremely important avenue for academic researchers to engage with the broader community. This ban will likely dispr
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PSA: LastPass Does Not Encrypt Everything in Your Vault(hackernoon.com)
161 points by kobayashi 10y ago|157 comments
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by kobayashi 10y ago
It's from the era before which Google defaulted to TLS. Nowadays, the only known difference relates to clicking of links. Here's the info from SE[0]: >1. Clicking on an ad: > - https://google.com : Google will ta
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by kobayashi 10y ago
>there is no protection To my understanding, that's simply not true. What you can accurately say is that with key change notifications turned on, any one* message could be exposed without any means of recourse, but subsequent exposu
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by kobayashi 10y ago
This seems to be standard in many Asian countries.
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Use "App folder" access type instead of "Full Dropbox"(discussions.agilebits.com)
149 points by kobayashi 10y ago|109 comments
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Which tax breaks?
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I did not say that the a machine intelligence mustn't share motivational complexity a la humans. I said that a SAI need not share such complexity. Those are two very different statements. And to understand how/why a machine inte
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Of course, it does have a cheeky tone, though I think all of my points stand. The "interesting points for a layman" are actually a series of straw-man propaganda arguments. It does not argue in good faith and it should not be affo
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by kobayashi 10y ago
>The only way out of this mess is to design a moral fixed point, so that even through thousands and thousands of cycles of self-improvement the AI's value system remains stable, and its values are things like 'help people'
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Too late to edit, so I'll post just a few examples here: >The only way out of this mess is to design a moral fixed point, so that even through thousands and thousands of cycles of self-improvement the AI's value system remains
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I can't disagree enough. Having recently read Superintelligence, I can say that most of the quotes taken from Bostrom's work were disingenuously cherry-picked to suit this author's argument. S/he did not write in good fa
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PIA funds OpenVPN 2.4 audit by noted cryptographer Dr. Matthew Green(privateinternetaccess.com)
10 points by kobayashi 10y ago|1 comments
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by kobayashi 10y ago
This is phenomenal news as Green is one of the most respected cryptographers in the field
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Matthew Green to audit OpenVPN(threatpost.com)
2 points by kobayashi 10y ago|2 comments
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm more interested to know how it handles one person taking something off the shelf and handing it to another person.
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by kobayashi 10y ago
Yes! Been waiting for a uBlock Origin for Safari for a while. I looked into Ellis Tsung, the listed dev, but can't find much about him. The LinkedIn profile most likely (IMO) to be his only has 35 contacts and I've never heard of
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm currently debating if this ludicrous comparison deserves my time to debunk this lunacy. I sure hope that HN readers see the many faults in the logic and morality of such a statement.
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by kobayashi 10y ago
For those of you who are outside of Canada, and even for the many within, please take some time to consider the possibility that the CBC is not a benevolent public broadcaster, and is perhaps not actually putting out high-quality, unique, a
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by kobayashi 10y ago
I'm not sure what you mean
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by kobayashi 10y ago
As someone who took good care of my MacBook charging adaptors and cables, I found them to be perfectly durable. Those arms are only problematic when one wraps the cable 'immediately', instead of giving an extra loop and then begin

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