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by teyc 16y ago
I thought the journalists own experience when HSM validated the idea and gave it sufficient credibility to start a discussion. I am curious. In this age where we talk about gamification etc, what is the underlying approach in HSM? I wonder
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by teyc 16y ago
Rand does. He sells a web crawler service that does the same thing as Google's "link:" operator before Google closed it off.
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by teyc 16y ago
OK, the government is DDOSing him. This would be interesting if it were the 90s in the 4chan sort of way. Childish but technically uninteresting. PS. I don't buy the argument about publishing any news article related to programmers, especia
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by teyc 16y ago
While this is not tech, it is interesting because this guy (Australian) tackled the issue of the weekend binge unconventionally. Instead of harping on the problems of alcohol damage, he turned his energy into blogging over a 3 month period
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High sobriety (smh.com.au)
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by teyc 16y ago
Hackers are by definition counter-culture and seeks wisdom in going against crowd thinking. If there were no schools, hackers would go to school. If schools taught projects, hackers would do rote learning. All hackers urge the same thing: "
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by teyc 16y ago
I can't tell you how excited I am in anticipation of Ron Paul news appearing on the front page of HN.
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by teyc 16y ago
If you get invited to a party for fashion designers, you'd better spend some time picking the right thing to wear. If you get invited to a geek party, remembering to shave alone would put you above the 90th percentile.
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by teyc 16y ago
While the site guidelines (see below) classifies general news as off-topic, I believe tech news sites like TC needs a higher level of votes before showing up on the front page. -- On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
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by teyc 16y ago
Interesting that you mentioned it is 8 words in a row. The usual way duplicate content is checked for is using a moving hash. I had one that I put up online a few years ago. Other content that should be checked is the printable versions sho
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by teyc 16y ago
Here is a question for the Indian readers: Is there a cultural issue here? Perhaps the employers are looking for forthright people, while (the limited number of) young Indian grads I've met are usually soft-spoken and more circumspect. Coul
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by teyc 16y ago
No, I don't think this will solve anything. The problem with Google is that it is sized to deliver big brands, big scale and big projects. First. Google today cannot deliver small brands because failure is very expensive. Every Wave, Buzz,
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by teyc 16y ago
This type of bribes already occur through taxation, traffic fines and other processing charges. These allow public servants to earn a bonus on top of their normal wages. This is the effect of bribery tainting everybody up the chain. However
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by teyc 16y ago
Ex-mining engineer here. Mining is very different to what Will describes. In fact, mining has very many similarities with the lifecycle of a software company. Firstly there is the prospecting phase. This is akin to customer development. You
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by teyc 16y ago
I believe the decrease of 'quality' is due to the failure of HN to create a society of like-minded people. This failure is on two levels. Firstly, the open voting system and comments drive has a tendency to revert to the mean. Secondly, HN
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by teyc 16y ago
I wonder if the ubiquity of SiteAdvisor (due to various freebie installation offers) results in McAfee being perceived as an unwanted service rather than as a necessary service.
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by teyc 16y ago
That assumes that the government employees are independent of one another and will not "punish" the person reporting the incident. What works better is a system where the PM alone is allowed to take bribes with impunity but no one else is a
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by teyc 16y ago
Even if the CA is cheap and sloppy, an effective attack requires MITM through subverting DNS. This requires the attacker to either have access to the machine or access to the routing equipment. If the attacker owns the machine then it is al
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by teyc 16y ago
Sometimes we take a line of argument and simply write on and see where it goes. Scott has obviously decided to trash it. Why would anyone choose to retrieve it?
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by teyc 16y ago
Why is it that the last comment on every blog that features this story calls it a hoax?
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by teyc 16y ago
Myspace was killed by backwards compatibility. One key aspect of Myspace is how customizable it is. As any programmer can tell you, this limits the ways features can be rolled out. For example, you want to have a new layout? Too bad. It wil
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by teyc 16y ago
I agree that sanctions exacerbated production problems. However, it doesn't detract from the point that money is hackable. I don't know if it is solvable though, because governments have coercive power over what constitutes legal tender.
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by teyc 16y ago
This is pretty insightful, the part about hyperinflation vs confidence. I'm not a BitCoin supporter, but I still think you are wrong on this count. Confidence depends on perceptions. Nothing can command confidence consistently if the underl
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by teyc 16y ago
OK, I take it that from government attacks you are referring to gold seizure in E-Gold and during the Roosevelt era. I don't know if this can be avoided. Governments could coerce the release of private keys so that the BitCoins could be rea
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by teyc 16y ago
> Bitcoin (or vanilla gold-backed money) does not > prevent FRB per se. It just makes sure that FRB > will be very limited and will usually go down with > a bang fairly soon. What you say makes sense. Since Bitcoin has the
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by teyc 16y ago
Bitcoins still need to be securedly stored, and this is beyond the capability of 95% of the world. In the end you'll have a consortium of "guards" who will offer storage services. If humans in the future are like humans of the past, then fr
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by teyc 16y ago
By hacked, I suggest that there are loopholes which allow some body/some group to have undue influence on the creation, destruction and distribution of money. In responsible hands, this level of undue influence doesn't lead to negative outc
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by teyc 16y ago
Hardly. Bitcoin is somewhat of an improvement on gold, since you don't have to dig it out of the ground, only to bury it again and put guards around it. However, the monetary system is already hacked. I'm just hoping other hackers have some
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by teyc 16y ago
Yes, I wanted to do it, just to demonstrate that BitCoin is just as susceptible to problems of money supply as any other currency. The basic idea is to allow people to deposit BitCoins, but then issue a BitCoin derivative subject to fractio
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by teyc 16y ago
My understanding is that this is all caused by an unsecured failover server. Hopefully, we get a bit more details of how this came to be and learn what they intend to do with future server deployments.

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