moshezadka

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by moshezadka 16y ago
Just as an aside, there is a word for "specifically male man", it's "wereman" (just as "wifman", the old version of "woman" meant "specifically female man" -- "man" was short for "human", from "humanous" -- earthling, which both women and m
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by moshezadka 16y ago
For the record, 18yo me would be interested in it. :)
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Wow, just wow. I never studied in college in the US, and I'm horrified that this is the standard. In Israel, we had the previous tests in the library, and the student union created a (for-sale) curated versions, all above board and perfectl
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by moshezadka 16y ago
How will the "properly-applied" eugenics be done? I mean, currently people get other people to write their papers for a college degree -- think of how much they'd be willing to pay if it was their kids' existence on the line! tl;dr: Eugenic
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Yes, you are missing one thing: if you are storing that file, a security breach (several kinds of those) means an attacker can get that file. Are you thinking this is not a problem? Think again! * For "moderately" strong passwords (say, one
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Maaaan. This says absolutely nothing, except for the ever-present "just start-up, it doesn't matter." It doesn't matter only if you're a Blub programmer (see http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html though I imagine most people have already see
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Well, the contradictory argument can be made as well: If you're a start-up, and your early adopters get annoyed because someone made sure Firesheep works with your web site, and they're all getting pranked, they're going to decide they won'
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by moshezadka 16y ago
What do you mean "not for professional use"? For most professional use, meaning "work", I use work's e-mail system (usually based on Exchange, but I guess that depends on where you work). If I apply to companies, do you think they really ca
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by moshezadka 16y ago
This is a variant on Schneier's fundamental theorem: Any fool can design a CAPTCHA for which they cannot program a solver. Just like in crypto, the only true test of CAPTCHAs are which one survive the test of time after having been attacked
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Here is a sustainable approach: make sure that teachers are legally obligated to report bullying instances they are aware of to the police. (This law can be passed in the municipal, state or federal levels -- it doesn't matter.) Bullying is
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by moshezadka 16y ago
But that's not the point, is it? We are talking about what advice parents give to their kids. The parents who would read a thread on HN are clearly the parents who care. If a kid's parents do not care about him, I'd like to suggest that the
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Yes, here is a way to do it (not theoretical, worked in practice) -- get the adults involved. Make sure that your kid feels it's OK to tell you that he's been bullied (he's not being a snitch, he's bringing the problems to the knowledge of
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Copyright vs. 3D printing(arstechnica.com)
35 points by moshezadka 16y ago|28 comments
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I'm lucky...my mom had to recuse herself from the committee where they decided on whether to buy the software my company makes (for obvious reasons).
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by moshezadka 16y ago
It can't work the way you explained it: I just solved your CAPTCHA with 33% success rate (waaay too high for a useful CAPTCHA). Perhaps if you ask for "the three pictures of X animal out of those 9", and you had a database with which animal
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I believe denial-of-service attacks, even against someone who you think is committing a criminal activity (remember: we are all innocent until proven guilty) is still illegal. tl;dr: taking the law into your own hands is illegal, yes.
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Nothing against scala, but you can program in Python and get all the goodness of JVM compat by simply running your programs in Jython...
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I'm not even sure what he's suggesting. It's easy to say "let's ban political parties", but what would be the actual law? That people aren't allowed to call themselves Democrats (or Republicans?)? That people aren't allowed to say "I identi
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by moshezadka 16y ago
When I read this, I could not stop thinking about Harry Potter & The Methods of Rationality, and how HP calls out Dumbledore out for "pretending to be wise". See http://lesswrong.com/lw/yp/pretending_to_be_wise/ for an explanation --
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Two notes I did not see below: * For a site that launched a few days after FireSheep was announced, and that wants me to put in (somewhat) private data, I think that at least having an SSL option is necessary. * Re: demo page: Is it really
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I would ask for a good mobile web version way before an App (android or iphone). If you have a good mobile web version, people can pretend it's an app, and if it works -- feel free to use PhoneGap to make a real honest-to-god app out of it.
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I feel the same dichotomy. What people said below is correct -- he does not mention sexuality -- but it still tinges what he writes. In thinking why this is, I have the following to offer: if it was "John Q. Random on Why Software Companies
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by moshezadka 16y ago
What I was missing is explanations for the badges: what actually got me each badge? Like dannytatom, I would have loved to know what a "Fisher Price First Tweet" is. Especially if you're talking about "winning badges", I would love to know
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by moshezadka 16y ago
I would disagree with the central thesis. You can sacrifice P for a weaker version: assume a network which "eventually heals": any live node will answer at least one message in a hundred, say [any node which does not is assumed to be unavai
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Thanks! The article was long on CSI-style antics and short on actual science.
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by moshezadka 16y ago
While it's not my primary means of communications, my Facebook account gets near 0 spam (both literal spam and "mailing lists which are fairly boring but every now and again I should check") which means that while I made everything else in
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Cool, I'm very happy that you guys are making money! (For what it's worth, my love is not abstract -- I actually learned something about my spending habits in the mere two weeks of using Xpenser that helped my peace of mind. It's something
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by moshezadka 16y ago
Let me start by saying I love xpenser. But note the following: """ Why is Xpenser free? How do you plan to make money? We'll be introducing premium accounts that'll carry a monthly fee in the near future. The goal is to keep the base produc
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The dangers of USB drives (Stuxnet-related)(slate.com)
2 points by moshezadka 16y ago|0 comments