eksith

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by eksith 12y ago
If a woman blogged unkind and sexist behavior at a tech company, but hid her name to avoid the backlash (like Michael), that would be unethical. I guess she'd be an "asshat", right? Same thing for a journalist u
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by eksith 12y ago
That was a fantastic article! Thanks for linking that. It certainly gave me a lot of food for thought.
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by eksith 12y ago
My honest hope when I first heard of Uber was that it would give a huge wakeup call to the industry. Let's face it, America is a service industry and many of its services suck. The attitude is marginal at best, horrifying at worst. I h
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by eksith 12y ago
No, taxi regulations are in place so this kind of nonsense gets your license revoked: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...
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by eksith 12y ago
And this, folks, is why taxi regulation is a thing. Of course, there is crime and corruption and they have their own variety of scams[1]. But what you won't see is a sweeping sense of impunity because if you go out of bounds to this de
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by eksith 12y ago
That's pretty bad. I think those get filtered before it gets to the inbox most of the time, but the phishing continues too. This one from 2010 is pretty similar : http://www.mcgill.ca/it/news/phishing-attack-m
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by eksith 12y ago
This is why PBKDF2 would have made more sense then. They can centrally authenticate, derive a secondary token from the original pass while specifying the max limit for each of those services. Best of all, this means the mail, UNIX login etc
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by eksith 12y ago
The McGill Password length has also been increased from exactly eight characters to a variable length of eight to 18 characters. So they're not using bcrypt (usable length 72). Even PBKDF2 would have been acceptable, but my
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by eksith 12y ago
If the popularity of GoDaddy has taught me anything, it's that people use what they know; not what's good. The list of companies that should have gone out of business is as long as the number of years since commerce began. The fac
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by eksith 12y ago
The registrar issuing cert solution would certainly speed up HTTPS adoption; you're dealing with one less org to secure your site. The down-side is that if you decide to move registrars, that still complicates things. What if the new r
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by eksith 12y ago
Privatoria.net is a service which provides secure communication, anonymous surf and secure file sharing for individuals and business. All security services are united together in Privatoria. It includes Secure VPN and Anonymou
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by eksith 12y ago
That's extreme. This is just a swing toward turning internet access into utilities like electricity and water which are available without being tied to your residence. You still have public street lights and public water fountains outs
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by eksith 12y ago
> You can view something like 20 stories a month 10 stories a month. Also, even though you may only post one or two as you say from these sites, others do the same adding to that total E.G. wsj.com Which doesn't allow viewing at al
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by eksith 12y ago
Some context in the previous thread on Tollef's resignation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8615962
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by eksith 12y ago
There are many reasons not to freely give out your address, or name for that matter. The validity of ideas need not be tied to an identity. If an idea can stand on its own, then so be it. If not, you can just move on. "...being account
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by eksith 12y ago
Amen. Actually that would have been the better outcome anyway since it adds entropy to the gene pool. Cross pollination of ideas could have benefitted both parties. And even if your side doesn't take the cake, enough people would have
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by eksith 12y ago
"While these death threats and the like are in no doubt horrible..." Then let's stop there. No bridge is sacred enough to warrant physical threats when burned. No attitude poor enough to elicit the response that this did. It&
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by eksith 12y ago
The real story of the design is pretty interesting though http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...
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by eksith 12y ago
It would still be acceptable for a large number of folks who do primarily browsing/downloading, but for Netflix et al (which is quickly becoming the primary means of entertainment for a lot of people), it's not worth it. I'd
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by eksith 12y ago
Extremely difficult. There is plenty of technical expertise in networking, laying fiber, trenching, construction, equipment etc... around. Even with the local terrain. The problem is with the legal landscape. Take Google for instance. The b
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by eksith 12y ago
In an ideal world, any traffic entering and leaving a private network would be encrypted, but the issue is with near-realtime services like VoIP and remote presence where latency isn't acceptable. When you add the large number of users
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by eksith 12y ago
Bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics. Experience in engineering, consultancy and management while working at Tesla and Space X (particularly their engine design). Has a history of literally thinking outside the box.
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by eksith 12y ago
Because the foundations upon which AI shall be built aren't exotic. They're still programs. They still need an architecture to run on and they need electricity. Even if new architectures that are specifically designed to leverage
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by eksith 12y ago
That's awful! You should never even insinuate physical threats like that. You're putting yourself and others at risk by doing so and permanently harming your own reputation. Look, I'm not hopelessly naïve (most of the time) a
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by eksith 12y ago
It was actually a credit union. And yes it is crazy, but then so are a lot of their other practices. Also, I was calling them internationally so even though the private questions they asked me verified my identity, it was still an arduous p
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by eksith 12y ago
I had a discussion with a friend about The Thing[1], an invention by Léon Theremin and how ingenious it was that it required no external power source and can be turned on/off at will by transmitting at a certain frequency. The trouble
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by eksith 12y ago
It's a nightmare sometimes to cancel credit cards, especially if you're travelling. There are some banks that simply won't cancel the card until you visit your local branch. A tricky maneuver when it's 2000 miles away (I
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by eksith 12y ago
It will look like every other book... intended to hold private information so they'll never suspect anything! ;) I once had the bright idea to put passwords written on a small piece of paper and place it inside a 3.5" floppy. If i
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by eksith 12y ago
The laughter was nearly deafening when this product was introduced http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/05/password-minder-the-b... I wonder whether its time has finally come. Edit: It's worth noting that
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by eksith 12y ago
The Democratic part before the civil right era was vastly different. After the passage of the Civil Rights bill in 1964, the political climate of the party changed drastically, especially in the south[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.

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