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by tansey 15y ago
Hence the need for honeypots, pg. :)
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by tansey 15y ago
> You then distribute the film through the site, for a fee. Split the revenues 70 / 20 / 10. The film makers get 70%, the "producers" (the funders) get 20%, and the site gets 10%. This would be illegal unless everyone is a qualified inv
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by tansey 15y ago
> Some of the best ideas may initially look like they're serving the movie and TV industries. So that's interesting. My startup somewhat falls into that category. Hollywood is so entrenched that the only way to change it may be to work
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by tansey 15y ago
I'm jumping in a little late to this discussion, but I'm sort of required to comment here. First off, as of early last year, I noted [1] that there is in fact quantitative evidence that HN is deteriorating in terms of positivity. I really n
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by tansey 15y ago
It was the same way with my startup. I had no idea how Hollywood or fashion worked, but I had a problem [1] and when I asked people if they knew how to solve it, they just gave me back a similar problem they once had [2]. At that point, I f
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by tansey 15y ago
I actually am planning on doing that! I had an idea for one today that I'll probably post later next week.
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by tansey 15y ago
I didn't save them. They were something along the lines of: "Draw a man in a cave being chased by a fire-breathing dragon. He is desperately trying to remove a bunch of stones that are blocking his path. A fairy and a forklift just appeared
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by tansey 15y ago
Fun article to write. I crowdsourced all those images on Mechanical Turk in about an hour. Best $2 I ever spent! :)
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The Startup Dragon(wesleytansey.com)
54 points by tansey 15y ago|15 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
Not to be too harsh here, but wouldn't you want that URL to be a little bit better optimized for search engines? Just look at the results for "how to make duckduckgo my default search engine": https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+to+make+duckduck
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by tansey 15y ago
My referrals usually are between 50% and 75% Chrome, with FF a distant second. I wrote up an analysis of one article's traffic earlier last year [1] where it was 48% Chrome and 23% FF, but articles more towards the end of the year were much
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by tansey 15y ago
Can someone please explain to me why it would be a bad idea to make it illegal for hospitals to negotiate rates? It seems like the majority of the problem here is that we let the insurance companies bargain with hospitals, so everyone pays
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by tansey 15y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Austin, TX and Pittsburgh, PA; Remote OK We're currently hiring freelancers to do some low-skilled work. This isn't really programming related, so it's better suited for a person who is computer savvy but not formally t
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by tansey 15y ago
Happy New Year from DC!
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AntiSec dumps 860,000 Stratfor accounts, including 75,000 credit card numbers(databreaches.net)
1 points by tansey 15y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 15y ago
Worth noting that these passwords are all MD5 encrypted but not salted. There were also no creation rules enforced, as a quick check reveals: Highest reused password count: 12023 "stratfor"? 12023 "password"? 517 "password1"? 46 "Password1"
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by tansey 15y ago
Sure, outside of some small information gain about which hashing/salting algorithm you're using-- which is usually known to the attacker anyway-- there is no real risk to the rest of the users. I just disagree that each user should be respo
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by tansey 15y ago
And in this case, I am talking specifically about security policies for sites that store credit card information, like specialforces.com did. I do not believe that having no password is an acceptable trade-off in this situation.
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by tansey 15y ago
Okay, so use a better password creation rule/pattern set like the one in that comic. Just don't throw up your hands and say "oh well, everything will be cracked in 3 days so it's worthless to do anything."
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by tansey 15y ago
> will always store passwords with bcrypt, sanitize user input and not store any purely private data in plaintext, I'm not going to make a decision about password security that might mean losing customers. This seems incredibly short-
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by tansey 15y ago
HN is very different from an e-commerce site. If you are giving your credit card information over to a site, and especially if that site saves cc info, then you should be pretty sure that the site is securely storing your data, because now
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by tansey 15y ago
As I'm currently in the middle of a research project on password security, I downloaded the passwords and had a look. I'm beginning to believe that you should just assume that if your site does not have any password creation rules, it will
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by tansey 15y ago
They are threatening to dump them, they haven't officially done it yet.
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by tansey 15y ago
Then none of the people in top universities would be there. Talented researchers go to top-tier universities for their PhD because they want to work on research professionally. They do not wish to teach, they are forced to do it because aca
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by tansey 15y ago
That is absolutely wrong. I am a PhD student in Computer Science, and I strongly consider what I do more science than engineering. Machine learning is all about making a hypothesis, implementing it, testing it, and observing the results. Th
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by tansey 15y ago
I think you missed the first part, where it says that he is going to join as nonexecutive chairman. He's basically going to succeed WB only in terms of maintaining and guiding BRK's ethical standards, not its investment decisions. Also, thi
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by tansey 15y ago
I moved from CA (Palo Alto and San Diego) to Austin in August to start my PhD at UT. Austin is pretty good in the sense that it's probably the best possible city you could live in that's in middle America. That said, it's not California. Th
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by tansey 15y ago
Agreed here. Also, if you have time, swing by the Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Here's a quick video tour: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYt-E0BVSCc
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by tansey 15y ago
I've been working on OpenNERO this semester, along with Igor Karpov (lead dev), Adam Dziuk, Leif Johnson, and Risto Miikkulainen. The idea of this tournament is that you are training a population of evolving agents, each controlled by a sep
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by tansey 15y ago
> Have you ever wished that you had somehow invested in Facebook, Twitter, or Google before those companies became billion-dollar brands, back when they were first getting started? Replace those company names with Color, Pets.com, and

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