vox_mollis

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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Little bit of an aside: Why do most infosec practitioners prefer conferences like BlackHat and RSA to Bsides and Def Con? The price differences are staggering.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
[edit] I was uninformed, there is no delete option.
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Ask HN: How do I improve at reversing/cracking challenges?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Thank you. I understand why you wouldn't disclose the specific algorithms used, but perhaps issue a set of guidelines for not falling afoul of them? For instance, I always access HN via a public VPN service, and I suspect coming from a
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Apologies, I wasn't aware of the backlog. It wasn't intentionally snarky - if I ran a board as popular as this, prioritizing popular accounts would be sensible thing for me to do, so I assumed.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Ok, yes, it seems nobody responds to the HN email address regarding issues like this. They likely filter out those not as popular as you.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
At your suggestion, I did. I don't know what their typical response time is, but as of yet nothing.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Verified it with both a throwaway and a friend. Also, my 0 minute posts always end up near the bottom of the page, as if I had on the order of 10 karma.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
What's never discussed is HN's "voting hellban". That is, you are permitted to upvote/downvote, but your votes don't ever actually count. This is the case with my account, but it's never discussed or docum
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Hellbanning exists in a subtler form, though. For instance, my account. Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my votes appear to actually count. It's been this way
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Well, yes. The nominal standard here is whether the prejudice is against something the individual has choice over. One does not choose one's race, whereas once does choose one's own religion, even if raised in an environment suf
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
It doesn't appear that the country is after an empire the same way the British had one 100 years ago US empire is defined more by squashing incipient threats to its global hegemony than by UK-style colony management.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Default rates have just hit their lowest point in eight years: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/chargeoff/delallsa.h... From this halcyon point, there's more downside risk than upside going forward. Un
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Not to get too conspiratorial, but Urbit's founder is not a very popular figure around here. Mass autoflagging of * urbit * would not be surprising.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Living in SF is a choice, for technologists. In addition to the absurd rent, there is also the lifestyle nominally associated with the choice to live in SF. The bars, the restaurants, the nightlife, the shows, etc.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Fructose is linked to liver problems, and also creates far more glycation end-products than glucose (which could very well be part of the atherosclerosis explanation). One problem is that glucose without fructose really doesn't taste v
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
A lot of comments here suggesting that encryption increases entropy. While true, it only adds the key's entropy to the plaintext's entropy. In most real-world cases, len(m) >> len(k), so this is usually an insignificant incr
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Predominantly white countries are not permitted self-determination due to innumerable arguments referencing Hitler and slavery. Protection of cultural integrity is permitted for everyone else.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
If governments and supragovernmental bodies didn't wield so much power over our lives, the outcome of elections wouldn't matter nearly as much.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I'm sympathetic to Tom Murphy's analyses, as I used to be fairly doomer-minded as a result of reading them. But I think it's safe to say that he's been proven wrong. Alternative energy technologies, mainly PV solar, real
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Indeed. Their PCI-DSS compliance scanning service is completely useless. Service version fingerprinting only, regardless of binary patch level or actual vulns. Yet somehow, the PCI SSC accepts their scan results as actionable for Level 1-3
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Are you now implying that Nadim is a monster, not merely someone with whom you have a personal beef?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I'm curious why this comment has been so aggressively down-voted. Do we now eschew fact-checking on HN?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Trump's casual racism, misogyny, and conspiracy theories are without precedent among major presidential nominees. It seems that sama needs to listen to the Nixon tapes.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Is the tour supposed to end abruptly at "this is r1" ?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I'm comparing to Southern California; I doubt the Bay Area has 65% higher cost of living.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Par for the course. TWTR has nearly 4000 employees. Twitter. Human organizations always scale to accommodate available resources, not required functionality.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
$155k is already pretty obscene, let alone double. Around here, $50k entry and $90k 10y+ senior for developers is fairly standard.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
One thing you may not be considering is that the Tor community largely comprises highly libertarian or anarchist individuals. There is a strong bias against giving moral sanction to The State by utilizing the services of its judicial system
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Why is this viewpoint SO unpopular on HN? What, precisely, is wrong with a miserable person wanting to end his or her misery? Why do we lionize personal choice in virtually every domain, but collectively choose not to respect the wishes of

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