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by nikcub 11y ago
Sorry I missed your reply - I was using AWS G1 insances (on the spot market) plus my own password cracking cluster (the old one had 6 ATi cards, building a new one now)
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by nikcub 11y ago
It took me only 24 hours and about $200-300 in compute to hit Blockchains hidden server key which is: blockchainbdgpzk.onion I'm pretty sure it's the second most trafficked site after FB If anyone is looking at setting up a hidden
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Billion-dollar exit of autonomous-tech darling Cruise brings legal headaches(recode.net)
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Tech Companies Face Greater Scrutiny for Paying Workers with Stock(nytimes.com)
58 points by nikcub 11y ago|64 comments
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by nikcub 11y ago
> Would HN be upvoting this story if it was Stephan Dion or Stephen Harper trying to teach QM? We upvoted Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong's sudoku solver[0], and he can hardly be described as being from the left. Similarly, Rand Paul g
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by nikcub 11y ago
Free alternative for anonymous requests is to hit the google caches, ex. site:whois.domaintools.com "Y Combinator" https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=site%3Awhois.domaintoo...
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by nikcub 11y ago
I'll give you a counterexample: Paul Ceglia[0] He claimed to own 80% of Facebook after reaching a written agreement with Mark Zuckerberg and filed a lawsuit[1]. He managed to retain some very high profile law firms to pursuit the case
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by nikcub 11y ago
> Wait until you have maximium leverage and then play your legal cards. From the other version of events, in how Guillory presents it, there were no cards to play - he just assumed the entire time that he had a stake and when the acquisi
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by nikcub 11y ago
Investor exploding offer: "Given the time pressure because of other deals we're looking at" Employer exploding offer: "Given the time pressure because of other candidates" Everybody has a way of dressing up an explo
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by nikcub 11y ago
I find this hard to believe considering how strongly sama has come out against exploding offers: http://blog.ycombinator.com/exploding-offers-suck Even characterizing them as "terrible behavior"
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by nikcub 11y ago
I just happen to have a conversation with Matt Ocko, a venture capitalist, about this on Twitter tonight: https://twitter.com/mattocko/status/712227775805988864 TATP (acetone peroxide), the type of improvised expl
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by nikcub 11y ago
In the future we'll look back at this era of web advertising and security completely bemused: the state today is that most major websites hand over control, context and trust to unknown and untrusted third parties to execute whatever c
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by nikcub 11y ago
All but one of the accounts was created before Jason tweeted about it. and i've been around here long enough to know that even when outsiders do link to threads you don't get 50%+ green comments without sockpuppets
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by nikcub 11y ago
You are one of 7 brand new accounts created since this thread was posted who have left comments praising Jason: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=supergeek18 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vincentc
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by nikcub 11y ago
and i'll give a counterexample - Jason yelling down and belittling an entrepreneur and his team during prep for a conference presentation, for a totally unrelated reason and then cancelling their appearance because he was mad at some
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by nikcub 11y ago
I have the same printer, from 1992 iirc - still prints and has been an absolute workhorse. HP bought a lot of brand loyalty from me with that printer.
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by nikcub 11y ago
The solution to this is Certificate Transparency[0], a distributed public log of certificate timestamps that are submitted by CA's and checked by browsers. CT has been required for EV certificates in Chrome for a year now[1], and event
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by nikcub 11y ago
https://ninite.com/
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by nikcub 11y ago
It is a 3-sided market with high acquisition costs and high churn on all three sides - the restaurants, the drivers and then the users. A better business model may be to focus on one of these and provide it as a service to the others. ie. a
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by nikcub 11y ago
This is a great response. I'd add that you can meet people on Snapchat without giving away too much private detail, like a phone number. The new 2d printed avatars that allow you to easily add people you meet are perfect. Shows Snapcha
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by nikcub 11y ago
> How do they make a profit if your calculation is correct? They don't. Or freight.
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by nikcub 11y ago
Airline fuel costs are (were) largely hedged so the true cost to an airline isn't reflected in day-to-day fuel prices. Worse yet - most airlines bet the wrong way on the movement of fuel prices and locked in expensive hedges that they&
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by nikcub 11y ago
If you use a distinct server for Tails then you could still spot the downloads, you'd need HTTPS and serving from a busy mirror that serves a lot of other apps and systems as well
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by nikcub 11y ago
First, Harvard bomb kid was caught because of some decent sysadmins ran good network analysis and after receiving a bomb threat that was received from Tor saw that there was only a single student on the entire network that was running Tor.
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by nikcub 11y ago
You're right. At the moment it's difficult to download Tails anonymously, especially with everything we know about XKeyscore targetting. It's a problem that others can help fix by setting up mirrors on HTTPS. Ditto with hosti
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by nikcub 11y ago
yep, the way it is setup is you create a private network in VMWare, the proxy/router box has a live IP address on one end and is running a DHCP server on the private network. The client VM's connect to the Tor daemon on the proxy&
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by nikcub 11y ago
Isolating proxy: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorifyHOWT... meaning the only way to route out is to proxy via Tor. IMO it's the only safe way to run Tor and remain anonymous.
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by nikcub 11y ago
I built a custom VMWare install of Windows Embedded (well, they're all custom) running just Chromium. I think it's pretty secure - the footprint is tiny, I was actually more concerned about switching off some of the fancier featur
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by nikcub 11y ago
I appreciate a lot of the work that the Tails guys do - but for a privacy and security focused distribution there are far too many included apps for my liking[1], which increases the attack surface. LibreOffice, Gimp and Audacity are just s
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by nikcub 11y ago
moving to uBlock was at first waiting on it to be included in Debian, but then abandoned as the Adblock in Tails doesn't allow the accepted ads by default (ignoring the performance improvements): https://labs.riseup.net&#x2F

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