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by vesinisa 13y ago
Indeed, Brendan has actually gone to extreme lengths to not use his right to freedom of speech. Just look at all this "I prefer not to talk about my beliefs"[1][2]. With the CNET piece, the reporter was very kind, open and profe
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Eich has been with Mozilla since the very beginning, and before that he worked at Netscape, writing the first implementation of JavaScript among others. There was some uproar when his Prop 8 donation was revealed in 2012, but no noticeable
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by vesinisa 13y ago
> Since v7.3, Vim supports Blowfish, which is much stronger. No. Even the designer of Blowfish thinks you should not use it anymore: https://www.schneier.com/news-048.html
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by vesinisa 13y ago
The upside of a very simple system is that it is much more simple to audit than a password store "Swiss army knife".
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by vesinisa 13y ago
> the last step is to send your DS record to your Registrar which involves using their custom webgui to send them the following data [...] When deploying DNSSEC, I found it surprising that no one has built a protocol for this. Some regis
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by vesinisa 13y ago
I run my own DNS server. I contacted my registrar to enable DNSSEC for my domain on the domain root server. All they could give was a package where they would take over my domain hosting, that was the only way to get DNSSEC for my domain. S
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Includes important security fixes for vuln's disclosed at Pwn2Own, like this arbitrary heap write from JS: https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-31.h...
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Planck length is a theoretical very small unit of length in physics. It is the scale of quantum foam and several orders of magnitude smaller than all those fancy particles like quarks, electrons, protons and atoms: https://en.wik
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Unfortunately, even assuming a board diameter of 2, storing that game's any state would require some 10^435 times more bits than there are cube Planck lengths in the observable universe.
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Can someone then explain to a layman, why Google shares even have any value? What good is a share, if it's voting power in controlling the company is practically void? Google has never paid any dividend either. Are all the stock invest
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Well, regardless of the specification, most JSON deserializers approximate numeric values as floats, at least in the default configuration. Enough so, that the Bitcoin exchange JSON-APIs I know of all put numbers in strings. So `{"bala
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by vesinisa 13y ago
My point is that your best chance of getting neither narcolepsy or death by flu was by not taking this shot.
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by vesinisa 13y ago
According to Wikipedia, 4% of young H1N1 infectees are hospitalized and only 5% of those die. The study found that the vaccination increased risk of narcolepsy in children by factor of 6.5. Baseline prevalence of narcolepsy is one in 3,000.
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by vesinisa 13y ago
I am pretty certain that's exactly what CIA is doing right now, but using their own spy satellite constellation.
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by vesinisa 13y ago
> It's only awful when used to build anything massivly complex (such as joomla! or drupal...) Or a Bitcoin exchange
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by vesinisa 13y ago
If the CEO of MtGox Mark Karpeles is under gag order and he is on IRC, couldn't people confirm this by asking him while he is actively discussing some other topic on the channel, to publicly deny that he is under some sort of gag order
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by vesinisa 13y ago
The best not-so-well-known tool he mentiions is socat. If you use netcat, socat is like netcat on steroids. It's just a bit hard to remember all the options, but next time there's something crazy you want to do with netcat that it
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Apparently, you can still write polyglot documents that are both valid XHTML and HTML5.[1] But this requires closing void tags with <tag />. [1] http://blog.whatwg.org/xhtml5-in-a-nutshell
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by vesinisa 13y ago
That would seem more plausible also because in that case the coins were not stolen, but simply lost. I would think that someone should have found the blockchain trail of the 750k BTC by now, if they were indeed stolen. It anyway took only f
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by vesinisa 13y ago
To me, it seems like this site Techblog copied Vice without giving any credit. Vice credits the original story to their in-house journalist, while Techblog.co seems like a news aggregation service. I am cool with news aggregation (think Goo
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Wired: Bitcoin Exchange MtGox Goes Offline Amid Allegations of $350 Million Hack(wired.com)
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by vesinisa 13y ago
If MtGox actually had much none of the BTC they showed on their clients accounts, it was exactly that – a Ponzi scheme. Not sure if it changes the matter whether they did it intentionally or not.
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Did MtGox ever roll out LTC support?
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Previously, I have understood this was a concern mostly with the so-called "open-access" journals. In 2013, the Science Magazine went to some extreme lengths to discredit these journals, that more often than not seem to lack any f
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by vesinisa 13y ago
You keep putting words to my mouth. I have not compared OpenSSH, Go or Rails as web frameworks. I compared Ruby's speed to Go and Rails' security record to OpenSSH. But I give you misrepresentation is a great way to make someone l
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by vesinisa 13y ago
How is it going to help anyone whose web application has been hacked to know that the problem was expected because the platform they were using was so popular/complex/whatever? From a purely practical security point of view, using
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by vesinisa 13y ago
It does not suffice that a software is popular to render it insecure. OpenSSH is wildly more popular than Rails will ever be, yet it has a superior security record ( http://www.cvedetails.com/product/585/Openbsd-Op
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Not sure how to respond. I am arguing for concrete technical points here. Something being popular does not equate it being right. Does the YC community diswelcome those making critical arguments, or what?
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Rails does suffer disproportionately from security issues. The framework code has become increasingly bloated and serious security vulnerabilities are being continuously discovered (see http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerabilit
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by vesinisa 13y ago
Sadly, I tend to agree. It seems anyone starting a new publicly-accessible web site with Rails are aiming for a shot at their own feet. Rails might still be usable for Intranet servers in a trusted network setting or prototyping web site id

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