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by new299 11y ago
> developers most willing to guess about how code works, copy and paste googled code, and push others to feed them answers instead of doing research on their own are considered to be the top developers because they 'get things done&
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by new299 11y ago
There were lots of people doing and trying to do this earlier in Java's development: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle I've not heard so mu
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by new299 11y ago
I would have thought the problem in mobile networks might be easier than elsewhere. Where the wireless network is public infrastructure, for example, if devices used randomized MACs then I'd imagine it'd make them much harder to t
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by new299 11y ago
> necessarily common to all mobile communication devices I think there are possible technical solutions if there was a will to adopt them. The main problem is authenticating with the network, if unauthenticated wireless networks were gen
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by new299 11y ago
The state of the art in compressing wikipedia is 1.278bits (on a certain subset) [1]. So that does seem pretty good. [1] http://prize.hutter1.net/
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by new299 11y ago
First thought was that it's likely a signal processing technique designed to pick out a periodic signal in noisy data which allowed them to pick up out the heatbeats. To me that doesn't seem like much of a leap, but I don't k
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by new299 11y ago
"The difference between theory and practice is greater in practice than in theory" is my favorite version.
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by new299 12y ago
And they're even eventing new languages! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/16/science/linguist-finds-a-l...
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by new299 12y ago
A browser feature would be required that could calculate/display the hash of the delivered code and optionally verify it against a 3rd party server. Ideally you'd want have particular versions signed as "audited" etc. I
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by new299 12y ago
yes, and I also would be scared to too. It's interesting thinking about why though. I think there's a significant social/psychological component to the decision. I'd also be less scared if it was running on my own server
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by new299 12y ago
> Yes, it could be hashed, but it isn't and there's no mechanism for this nor plans to build one. That's kind of a shame. It would be nice if apps distributed over the web could be signed the same way they are from reposit
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by new299 12y ago
why does the client need to be built locally? Are you inherently suspicious of anything delivered over HTTPS? I'm genuinely interested in why people feel local clients are more secure than something running in a browser. It's some
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by new299 12y ago
I live in a similar fantasy land, however I think Acorn had ample help from the UK government. After all, pretty much every secondary school in the UK purchased them. That and free national TV advertising from the BBC. The problem was that
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Show HN: Minaterm an SSH Client Implemented in JavaScript(minaterm.com)
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Fractal Slippy map(gu.pe)
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by new299 12y ago
Sure, I linked to a in browser Linux emulation too. But both I think Windows isn't really what you want, and the Linux emulation has no network access. They both also rely on emulating an x86 system. I think what might be interesting i
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by new299 12y ago
Unless the attacker has access to the server for a period of time, in which case they just replace the JS with their own code. Seems like there should be a way to sign the JS offline (away from the server) and prevent that, but I don't
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by new299 12y ago
Or you do both. If your using SSL you still have to trust the server, or anyone who gets access to it. Encrypting in browser at least means the server doesn't intensionally have access to the plaintext. That means if the server is stol
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by new299 12y ago
I came across this issue when I was implementing an ssh client in browser ( https://www.minaterm.com ). It's absolutely correct of course, but interesting that it's an issue in 2015. There should be a way of having the b
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A visit to an electron microscope(41j.com)
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by new299 12y ago
If you're transmitting your own GPS signal in an Urban area someone is going to notice pretty quickly and angry pretty fast. You will interfere with both law enforcement and emergency services, and likely cause a bunch of trouble. Thin
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by new299 12y ago
Yes, of course, so do all SDRs which is why they don't come with high power frontends. GPS Signal generators are sold as test equipment, and design for wired connection over coax as you say. Using them with a high powered frontend woul
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by new299 12y ago
You can buy second hand GPS transmitters for ~50USD. Remove antenna, plug in transmitter done. Reverse engineering the board would be fun though.
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by new299 12y ago
This seems similar to selecting a single random line from a file in a single pass: http://41j.com/blog/2015/02/select-random-line-file-single-p... Which is a question I've had come up in interviews. It&#
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by new299 12y ago
You have a number of options: 1. Quit 2. Do an excellent job, and try and present an unbiased case. 3. Try and present as negative case as possible for IP, and as positive a case for not protecting the company IP. 4. Don't do it and ho
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by new299 12y ago
For those interested in the color version I've made it available on my server here on the web here: https://www.minaterm.com/endoh1.html or of course via ssh directly here: ssh www.minaterm.com (endoh1/endoh1)
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Common Git screwups and solutions(41j.com)
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by new299 12y ago
Then don't use it. :) Seriously though, this is largely a techdemo. But I can see situations where it might be fun, like making nethack sessions available over the web. As a local installation I would suggest it's somewhat more se
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by new299 12y ago
I've been interested in full operating systems implemented /in/ the browser for a while (rather than access remotely). The Linux in Javascript demo seemed like a neat demo: http://bellard.org/jslinux/ Bu
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by new299 12y ago
Interesting! I just submitted my ShowHN which includes a version of OpenSSL compiled to Javascript: https://www.minaterm.com/ It uses it as part of libssh2 to implement a ssh client.

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