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by taway2012 13y ago
Good write-up. Couple of (unsolicited?) review comments. Nitpick: I might be mistaken here, but I think PBKDF2 uses a HMAC function not a simple hash function. So it's highly likely you meant HMAC-SHA256, not SHA-256. Nitpick: I'm
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is why: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+market+can+stay+irrational+lon...
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by taway2012 13y ago
See other reply below. And to answer your question, yes, they use HTTPS.
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by taway2012 13y ago
SpiderOak user here. Just remember to not use the Web UI: if you do so, your plaintext password is sent to the servers, because decryption happens on the servers. This is mentioned in their FAQ. Unless things have changed since the last tim
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by taway2012 13y ago
> They mostly cry without any reason watsoever. Hmm, I'm guessing you are child-free? In my experience, it's not normal for a baby to cry for no reason. I'm only replying to present a diff. point of view in case people go
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by taway2012 13y ago
The comment by 'victorantos' here is useful. But he seems to be hellbanned. Please turn on showdead in your prefs so that you can see his comment.
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by taway2012 13y ago
There is a diff between what the parent said and what you said. They aren't opposites, hence they can both can be true. IMHO. What I understood from parent was: good college + good GPA => meets minimum hiring criteria, so make them
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by taway2012 13y ago
Very well-written article. I was half-dreading that this would be a humblebrag about how they're achieved so much more since leaving Google. Anyway the campfire incident resonated with me, and I completely believe it. I recently finish
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by taway2012 13y ago
> but they are usually told about it. Ummm, no. If so, why would they persist in posting using their hellbanned accounts. In any case, there are numerous threads where people have said that they had no idea they were hellbanned.
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by taway2012 13y ago
IMHO, there is a subtle difference between your version and the version posted. You assuming a "real" producer-consumer relationship. But the posted code seems to imply a sort of "supervisor-worker" relationship. The &qu
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by taway2012 13y ago
Do you mean /dev/random or /dev/urandom? They are different, AFAIK.
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by taway2012 13y ago
Yep, amazing documentary. It was inspired by workers' pride in their work.
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by taway2012 13y ago
> ... can't help but feel this is an attempt to justify a technology which simply isn't ready yet Statistically speaking, such long commutes are unusual. However comments like this create the impression that an electric car wi
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by taway2012 13y ago
I frequently find Nissan Leafs driving very slowly (45 mph in the middle lane on the freeway, 30 mph in a 45 zone in the left lane). And they accelerate very slowly from traffic lights, clogging traffic behind them. Does the car itself
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is a fascination article by Roger Penrose where he argues well (imho) that there must really be a reality. http://www.mintinnovation.com/links/docs/Mind_and_consciousn...
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by taway2012 13y ago
No, they did (last phrase of quote below). "So now we have a restaurant industry where African-Americans are demeaned as “Canadians”, in reference to another group which is considered by US servers to be low tippers."
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by taway2012 13y ago
I don't know a lot about Lavabit's arch. But my guess is he's referring to replacing the login page's Javascript code with a malicious one that phones back the plaintext password. Kinda like a keylogger.
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is probably contrarian ... I wonder if people will still go by default to Amazon if they're not the cheapest. For instance, Newegg always sells for a few dollars more than Amazon. Heck Amazon even sells for a couple of bucks less
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by taway2012 13y ago
Patents can often be worked around. Almost all "real" patents can be worked around (BS "business method" patents are not "real" patents by my definition). I also think Tesla has a bright future. But I hope they
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by taway2012 13y ago
I thought that intermixing of words was interesting to see. People of the country of Bangladesh (Bangla + desh) are culturally Bengali. Maybe the people of Bangladesh refer to their govt. as "Bangla govt.", which translates into E
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by taway2012 13y ago
You're basically saying that if everything works as expected, then a signed cookie is no different than an opaque handle to server-side data. But it doesn't answer (IMHO) the point that there are more things that can go wrong with
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by taway2012 13y ago
While I agree with you that putting session data in a cookie is a risky idea, I had a question: > I have even written my own session handling wsgi middleware just because I don't understand encryption and cannot find a framework tha
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by taway2012 13y ago
He quoted the tweet as is, which led me to the identity of the poor job seeker who had the misfortune of applying to work at this company. Looks like bad form to me. I'm curious what about the tweet thing turned this guy off.
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by taway2012 13y ago
Oblig link on "after-the-fact-recognition": http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lea...
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by taway2012 13y ago
This sort of abusive, insecure extension poisons the well for all extension developers. Now, I wish to submit a couple of feature requests to the Chrome team. 1) I wish there was a way by which an extension could declare its access patterns
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by taway2012 13y ago
This is not really the most insightful comment, but anyway. I found the article to be needlessly defeatist. I am not a crypto expert. I've read Practical Cryptography and have a lots of experience with software engineering in general.
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by taway2012 13y ago
Taxes went up by 33% from 2008 through 2011? Doesn't seem credible to me. Can you post the article in which the image you posted occurs?
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by taway2012 13y ago
The point is about dragnet surveillance. Since info is centralized, it can be copied without too many people being aware that it's being done. E.g., the copying of info from Google etc was done without any "hacking" or backdo
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by taway2012 13y ago
I wish I had some authoritative references for this. Hopefully somebody else can write authoritatively or correct me. Based on my readings, slavery was always a problematic aspect of America. Even the founders debated whether to abolish sla
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by taway2012 13y ago
> Eventually, quantum computers should be able to eat though any of today's crypto Probably not. Quoting from http://blog.agilebits.com/2013/03/09/guess-why-were-moving-t... : A quantum of bits [Update

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