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by ogreyonder 13y ago
You... might want to reconsider that analogy. Claiming that News Corp is a media company is somewhat tenable. They sell "media" direct to consumer, among other things, and media is an end product. Claiming that Google is an ad com
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
And that's exactly what had everyone else scratching their heads, too! There are plenty of slow random number generators. They're easily built from cryptographic hash functions [1]. Heck, use something like Bcrypt as your hash an
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
As an ogre, I have to say I'm offended. But as a programmer, awesome job Code Combat! Your turnout was pretty inspiring. I'm a little sad at the observation that American kids were such trolls though. I mean, I don't know wha
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Do other markets not buy from the Play Store? Or rather, if they don't, how would you sell your app to them anyway? It is nonsense to develop a for-profit app tailored to people who can't buy it.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
This looks great! I love that there is no account required. However, since I can use it without an account, why would I register? You may want to add some motivational copy to the registration page to tell me. Also, these two statements fro
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Almost by definition, there is only a secure access continuum for known points of attack. Once you breach the access layer--no matter how it's done--the game is over. - One copy of your data that is publicly writable is very insecure -
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Ugh. You say this as a joke, but I vote we come up with a list of features that could be cited as prior art and stick a hash of 'em into the BTC block chain.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Apparently it matters to the good people of Marshall, Texas. According to them, Whitfield Diffie didn't invent public key encryption for exactly that reason. Yeah, I'm more than a little bitter about the technologically illiterate
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Same thing here. Personal story short, I discovered--thanks to the internet--that having hypothyroidosis and taking L-Carnitine [1] can cause rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney damage. 3 doctors completely missed huge warning signs and prescri
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Ah, that makes sense now. I was reading it wrong; thanks for clarifying.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Am I the only one surprised to find that Carmack was still working for iD? I had thought his taking a position with OculusVR implied his departure months ago.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Am I missing the link to actually get a peek at the dashboard? All I see are account walls. I like the idea, and I'm interested -- but pardon me if I say this looks like an astroturfed conversion funnel and not a genuine submission.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Wow! I was just looking for something like this. Thanks for sharing. I especially like the permissive license -- commercial or non-commercial use with modifications allowed and no attribution requirements. Basically, you just can't sel
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
For the sake of argument, let's say I agree with you. What are the corresponding points in those scenarios off the top of your head where being forced to use your full, real name is a middle-ground good? I can't see a benefit to t
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
If you recently joined, you can't. I just went through this yet again, and they now have a "14 day period" where you can unlink. After that, as far as I can tell, it's permanent.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
You might be a literate orangutan. Figured I'd join in on the speculation while it's fresh.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Does that not prove his point? There is no functional requirement for gold in jewelry now that so many cheap stainless alloys exist. Why not make jewelry out of plastic? The answer is: we, as a species, value gold far beyond its usefulness
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Thank you for posting this link! I've had no luck trying to get people to take the attack presented by the original paper seriously over on Reddit [1] and hadn't seen this critique yet. Still, I would have liked to see a more tech
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
An open-source environment is really the only place this kind of motivation could work. As you say, if the project is intentionally buggy, it's unlikely to be used. Love the idea!
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Welp, I'm back from half an hour on Wikipedia reading about "Balkanization"... you use that word a lot. I like it.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Well, the first step was to figure out if it's been done before. I only put in about an hour thinking about it... and it's so simple that I imagine it's been tried, and the people who would know would be on HN. :)
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I have exactly the same feeling. I have so many boxes of things that I've collected ...and moved with... but never use.
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I had an idea. If it already exists, please tell me! Trying to cash in my miscellanea is like a second job, and I'd rather spend my weekends doing something else. I liked the idea of using Amazon Fulfillments posted here on HN, but I f
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Price-O-Matic: Easy answers to "What's it Worth?" for all your junk(i.imgur.com)
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Haha well, if you put it that way now I do look foolish! I mean, I can count the number of people I know who watch Twin Peaks on 1 hand so yeah, you should've been safe. But I'm sure you can imagine my surprise at reading Laura Pa
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
Son of a... SPOILER ALERT for anyone watching Twin Peaks. I find it highly ironic that OP's example mocking a "bot designed to actively try to ruin people's evening" just ruined my evening. Other than that, though, this
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I haven't checked out the app yet but I love the concept. And I'll echo wmaiouiru here that if you don't have FB integration, it should be priority #1. Personally I'd like #7 to be in the development plan as well :)
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
It's astonishingly elegant. I can't imagine nobody's thought of this before, so it's likely that the implementation is harder than it appears. The added weight of the cage and gimbal system likely required them to use ex
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
I really appreciate you posting this information. I had considered Gandi in the past and would not have read their ToS; I'll stay away now. As for our friend jjblue, you can safely ignore his citation trolling. The rest of us appreciat
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by ogreyonder 13y ago
It favorites things for you on Twitter.

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