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by bqe 4y ago
I remember being asked this during my interview at Google. It was the first time I heard it and I gave an answer that iterated over the list twice. The interviewer said that it wasn't good enough and I am only allowed to iterate over i
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by bqe 5y ago
Why this is interesting: a major defense against mass account takeovers (ATOs) at large scale companies has been fingerprinting browsers. You as a normal user see this most when you use something like reCaptcha, but it's actually happe
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by bqe 5y ago
I haven't tried it yet, but if it does what you say it does, I honestly think you underpriced this.
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by bqe 5y ago
Awhile ago I wrote a Python library called LiveStats[1] that computed any percentile for any amount of data using a fixed amount of memory per percentile. It uses an algorithm I found in an old paper[2] called P^2. It uses a polynomial to
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by bqe 5y ago
I think the simplest solution to this would be to simply hide comment/retweet/like counts. It will be possible to sort of figure this out from the engagement, but it won't be easy to figure out if a tweet is popular or wildly
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by bqe 5y ago
Spiritless Kentucky 74: https://spiritless.com/products/kentucky-74 It's pretty good!
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LOL just got kicked out of @ycombinator(twitter.com)
1041 points by bqe 5y ago|588 comments
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by bqe 6y ago
That website is not a quality source of information. Media Bias/Fact Check rates it as questionable, low quality, and far to the right: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/here-is-the-evidence/
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by bqe 6y ago
> They pay for expensive ($$$$$$) cloud anti-bot/anti-scraping, captcha you after a few requests if you run adblock, they pay for extensive browser/device (attempting to reidentify a user across multiple devices/multiple b
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by bqe 6y ago
The parent commenter was discussing revenue and not profit. If they were aggressively expanding, I would expect that profits to remain small or negative, but I'd expect revenue to grow as a result.
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Wiggle the mouse to fix the test (2013)(seancassidy.me)
2 points by bqe 6y ago|0 comments
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Phishing Simulations Considered Harmful(seancassidy.me)
4 points by bqe 6y ago|2 comments
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by bqe 6y ago
It's important to know the limits of your knowledge and reasoning capabilities and defer to relevant experts, which is known as epistemic learned helplessness[1]. This is also much faster, as a lot of bullshit sounds like truth if you&
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by bqe 7y ago
Yes! https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server
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by bqe 7y ago
NIST 800-63b actually recommends against character class requirements[1] in favor of minimum length requirement and blacklists of breached passwords and other obvious passwords. Sites that require special characters are not following the cu
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by bqe 8y ago
The thing is running a marathon isn't that hard and there's little to no luck involved. By following a rigid plan most people can do it in about a year. Millions of people do it every year. However if you followed all of Sam'
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by bqe 8y ago
This phenomenon is called cost disease and it's really hard to figure out why exactly it's happening. https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost...
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Self-Driving Cars Will Always Be Limited(medium.com)
6 points by bqe 8y ago|0 comments
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by bqe 8y ago
I think you underestimate how many people blindly copy examples without understanding them. Safe example code results in more correct programs.
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by bqe 8y ago
Websites that want to prevent automated bots from attacking them benefit immensely.
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by bqe 8y ago
A good SIEM can search terabytes of logs quickly and aggregate interesting things like least common values. Good luck doing that with grep.
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by bqe 8y ago
Whenever free will comes up I like to bring up Conway's Free Will Theorem[1]. If you define free will as future choices cannot be predicted based on history, then it turns out that if humans have free will, so do elementary particles.
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by bqe 8y ago
MarkMonitor is what Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and other huge companies use. They don't take small accounts, though.
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by bqe 8y ago
Don't let it discourage you. It was a really cool finding. I've done everything right before when it comes to disclosing bugs, and I've still had people dumping on me. You should consider security as a second career if you ev
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by bqe 8y ago
This is valid C and C++.
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by bqe 8y ago
Backslashes are valid characters in a POSIX filesystem, but they don't indicate a directory.
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Ur-Fascism (1995)(nybooks.com)
2 points by bqe 8y ago|0 comments
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by bqe 8y ago
> Again, this is an entirely subjective form of criticism. I haven't had any issues with keeping my virtualenvs up to date. What tools do you use keep all of your virtualenvs up to date?
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by bqe 8y ago
Rents in Seattle have stayed relatively constant over the past several years despite adding tens of thousands of residents because many new apartment buildings have been built. However, home prices (including condos) have risen drastically
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The 'rogue GSM tower' episode (2018)(yatebts.com)
2 points by bqe 8y ago|0 comments

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