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by malgorithms 11y ago
Oh, a clarification: the Node client will be replaced by the Go version. The `keybase` command line app will be a superset of what's available in the Node client now. Sorry. So yeah - still providing those API's. PGP support will
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by malgorithms 11y ago
Everyone should also compare monitors, browsers, and OS when saying what they got. First try: 31 / iMac 5K / Chrome. [edit: regarding browser, I don't know much about color profiling, but I do recall seeing an example of the
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by malgorithms 11y ago
Some noteworthy background: this was created by Petar Maymounkov, who is also known for creating the DHT Kademlia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
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by malgorithms 11y ago
Oh cool - thanks for linking to that. I actually think the Github discussion that followed on Express was a good example of how people can actually collaborate well on software. In this case it just led to resolving a misunderstanding on my
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by malgorithms 11y ago
If you run out of invites for HN folks, email me. (I'm https://keybase.io/chris ). We're working pretty hard on Keybase. For the last year it was just 2 of us (me and https://keybase.io/max ) , but
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by malgorithms 11y ago
Keybase is! - https://keybase.io - we're a very small team, currently just 7. Location: NY, SF, or CHI -- preferably you would join us at one of these places. While remote is possible, we like people to be in pairs or more,
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by malgorithms 12y ago
> If we abolish copyright, you certainly no longer have to worry about protecting those freedoms, because those freedoms would no longer exist I think you and the poster above you likely have very different definitions of freedom. Suppor
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Keybase is! - https://keybase.io - we're a very small team, currently just 5. Location: NY, SF, or CHI -- preferably you would join us at one of these places. While remote is possible, we like people to be in pairs or more,
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by malgorithms 12y ago
A lot of people are doing it this way: a GPG user can join Keybase via the website, without installing any Keybase client. When it comes time to prove something with their private key (say, their twitter account), the site shows them what t
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Early, while working on Keybase, I answered it here: https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/788 Technically, not a lot has changed. We're still just putting our own money into it. However, we j
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Cool, just keep in mind Keybase isn't an email client. So if your goal is encrypted email communications, you'll still need to pick a client for that. Whiteout/Thunderbird w Enigmail/Mail.app w/GPG Tools are all app
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Since Keybase inevitably comes up in these PGP conversations, 2 things in advance: 1. I've really been very slow in letting people into Keybase. The wait time is still 6 months (last night I was letting in people who asked back in Augu
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by malgorithms 12y ago
The problem with this is that, from the buyer's perspective, the price is almost always the same when using a credit card or alternative. And with a credit card, the buyer gets rewards back, typically 1% or so. So, sadly, using a credi
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by malgorithms 12y ago
This is a good question: generally if all you know about someone is their twitter name, and that's it, then a compromise of their twitter account could lead to a compromise of their key announcement. Even this case is mitigated because
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Cool site! Max Krohn ( https://keybase.io/max ) and I are meeting with some people working on various PGP projects in Germany in April, and one of the things on our personal agenda is the ideal future of key distribution. We
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by malgorithms 12y ago
This is important: since PGP is also used for signing software, and in that world, this kind of compromise can be even more dangerous. The Tor example is great. Also, check out how many keys are on MIT's PGP keyserver for Gavin Andrese
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Two things we're particularly proud of at Keybase are (1) that there's no server trust of these proofs, and (2) we pin the entire state of the directory to the bitcoin blockchain, to prevent forking. [1] In other words, if you ask
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Here's the doc on that: https://keybase.io/docs/server_security/merkle_root_in_bitco... . Since users on Keybase append their "announcements" (proofs, username announcement, etc.) to a public signat
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by malgorithms 12y ago
A question for the designers (Paul?) about verifiability. In the software world you can effectively choose from 2 levels of review. You can (1) review the source code of a project and convince yourself it's fine. Or (2) you can assume&
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GPGTools is about to cost money(gpgtools.org)
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by malgorithms 12y ago
This is great. Still, if we start arguing that maybe your government is the bad guy, certainly we won't convince the government. Also we won't convince the people who blindly trust the government. Therefore, it might actually be m
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by malgorithms 12y ago
In addition to intimacy increasing over time, it's also a very continuous change. So people aren't really thinking about how it's changing. They're just doing it.
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Author of the post here. (Thanks, Jeremy.) There are many details I avoided in the essay that people will get sidetracked on. Such as whether Apple is actually doing it right or not. This is discussed and speculated on elsewhere. And right
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Agreed! Also, given the successful character extraction, and the knowledge that (1) the font doesn't change, and (2) they're just translated and rotated, I think performing those operations on the individual characters could'
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by malgorithms 12y ago
To elaborate, a nice thing about Iced is the simplicity, even inside flow logic, to refactor async code. # serial for uid, i in uids await load_user uid, defer users[i] All I do is move the await: # concurrent await for u
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by malgorithms 12y ago
I think the great thing about IcedCoffeeScript + the ESC library is how it fits into more complicated flow logic, while allowing easy refactoring. Max doesn't really get into the otherwise impossible examples in his post. Even if you&#
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by malgorithms 12y ago
It's imaginable that there's a very short-term deadline affecting a deal. But remember: that puts the side with the deadline at a disadvantage, not an advantage. Consider these examples: really needing to sell something for the mo
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by malgorithms 12y ago
The distinction is this: "exploding" typically refers to a very short period of time, designed to prevent shopping the deal, extensive legal review or advice, or exploring other options. A legitimate deadline for an offer wouldn&#
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by malgorithms 12y ago
A dear friend and excellent negotiator told me that when he gets any kind of short-term exploding offer, the first thing he does is verbally reject the deadline. And the second thing he does is ignore the deadline and offer feedback only af
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by malgorithms 12y ago
Cool - the notes are very educational. I love this kind of thing: "This must NOT be more than 12 characters long and character 9 cannot be X"

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