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Heartbleed attacks seen in March 23rd server logs?(seacat.mobi)
94 points by semiel 13y ago|35 comments
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by semiel 13y ago
One of the problems I've been struggling with lately is how to arrange for this sort of work, while still allowing the researchers to make a living. Governments and large corporations seem to have by and large lost interest in funding
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by semiel 13y ago
I'm hopeful that Transcriptic[0] will be able to make a dent. [0] http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/18/aws-for-life-science-with-4...
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by semiel 13y ago
Before you can expand, you have to first hit your core market. This deal seems like putting the cart before the horse, to me.
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by semiel 13y ago
You are unreasonably conflating the legal situation and people's moral expectations. No one doubts that Oculus had every legal right to do what they did. People just feel it was unethical.
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by semiel 13y ago
The messaging so far is that they don't intend for anything to change for typical users of npm, and that they'll make money with stuff like enterprise-level support. But I think it's still a bit in the air.
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by semiel 13y ago
The top comment on this link has a nice explanation of why the offered explanation is unlikely to be a sufficient one. I find the claims intriguing, but a full decryption would definitely take more.
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New clue to Voynich manuscript mystery(theguardian.com)
75 points by semiel 13y ago|23 comments
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by semiel 13y ago
The people who make the most noise about elegance and best practices generally dislike Java for precisely that reason.
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by semiel 13y ago
> Go: no parens for if/for. C: parens for if/for. If the if/for constructs are sufficiently alike that you can meaningfully compare their parentheses usage, then I think that's evidence they're pretty damn simila
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by semiel 13y ago
Like everyone else, I had trouble with the definition of "fluent". I said 1, because there's really only one language that I feel like I could immediately jump into writing with minimal recourse to reference material. But tha
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by semiel 13y ago
I'm probably not a good candidate for you (if for no other reason than that I'm not willing to relocate), but this sounds amazing. It's not often that I hear about a new startup and think, "That really could change the w
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by semiel 13y ago
Goal-post movement detected! So even if we arbitrarily exclude a perfectly valid psychological technique because it "doesn't impress you", there's still the matter of my third link. Didja click it? EDIT: The most surpris
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by semiel 13y ago
I was under the impression that this was pretty much common knowledge, but sure, I can point you in the right direction. One interesting place to start is Harvard's "Project Implicit". They have a massive publication list[1]
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by semiel 13y ago
Given that PG is a human living in America, psychological studies suggest that is statistically very likely.
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by semiel 13y ago
Who changed the title from the original's "Bitcoin is evil"? I thought Hacker News was opposed to editorial titles.
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by semiel 13y ago
The fact that there is not enough housing is a convention, not a domain constraint.
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by semiel 13y ago
I'm happy to state it directly: One ought not be an NSA employee.
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by semiel 13y ago
I've followed Sirlin for a long, long time. He definitely has a ton of misplaced arrogance (it's arguably his defining feature), but he is extremely good at game balance. I'm sure there are flaws with Chess 2, but I highly do
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by semiel 13y ago
In real life, a lot of breaks in crypto security come from sidechannel attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, chosen plaintext attacks, etc. Just posting a small number of already-encrypted messages disallows all of these possibilities.
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by semiel 13y ago
This is not a question of whether some specific person is a bad person. It's a question of whether the current incentive scheme leads to certain aggregate behavior.
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by semiel 13y ago
How about adopting "she" as the generic pronoun, then? No chance of confusing it with a plural pronoun, and it's not subject to the gender-based critiques that "he" would be.
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by semiel 13y ago
It's encouraging that all of the comments on the Github issue are supportive of the inclusive language. Sexism in tech is far from a solved problem, but it's nice that we're finally at a point where a large number of people a
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by semiel 13y ago
Tech is a weird culture, where the status symbols are totally different. Knowing weird programming languages, having open source contributions, and appreciating nerdy humor are all more important than clothing choice. (Though someone who ac
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by semiel 13y ago
"Break math" isn't quite right. You'd have to make a major mathematical advance, but there's nothing saying that's impossible.
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by semiel 13y ago
I'm sure that most people, like I at first did, are wondering how useful a game could really be. Answer: Very, very useful. I think Vim Adventures was a way better headstart for me to learn the Vim style of thinking than pretty much an
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by semiel 13y ago
And the field. My programming interviews felt surprisingly symmetrical. Every one of my friends who is in another field has far more asymmetry, just due to supply and demand.
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by semiel 13y ago
Because there are no non-flagship Apple phones.
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by semiel 13y ago
While I disagree with this position from a policy stance, it may have legal weight. Courts are loathe to rule on things based on hypothetical future harm.
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by semiel 13y ago
One of the primary traits of a good developer is a strong desire for excellence. If a developer is willing to settle for a mediocre and boring design, then that is some (perhaps small) evidence that the book may contain mediocre and boring

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