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Followup - I'd actually been using chrome a bit more heavily; and was wanting to use FF more, just to support open standards. One of the main things I was missing was being able to…

That seems really ass-backward, and not just because I use the search feature a lot. If I'm reading that right, they're deprecating support for discoverable browser-independant mar…

> You may disagree that it's the real Bitcoin, but it's undoubtedly open to interpretation It really isn't open to interpretation. And that is why people have been disparagingly ca…

That's pretty much exactly how the EtherDelta smart contract works. The contract can only move coins you've signed an order for, and only when it's properly paired with a matching …

Followup just to clarify: The reason smart contracts drastically mitigate "server compromise" is that compromising / altering the operation of the VM (and not merely exploiting a b…

Oh, I definitely think they can. Didn't mean to imply otherwise! I do think the surface area for attack is much more limited, since the code is innately public (unlike centralized …

That is one reason why I'm actually kinda wild about distributed exchange like etherdelta (as proof of concept, at least). The security model is such that it literally doesn't exis…

1) No counterparty risk. Everyone can get hacked, but coinbase being hacked shouldn't every, under any circumstances result in me loosing any bitcoin they hold on my behalf. This p…

If they have the money to buy hashing hardware that's competitive, staking that money has a lower barrier to entry... You don't need space, hardware, or technical experience to ass…

That doesn't fit. Per bitinfocharts.com the coin with the highest txn rate is Ethereum, followed closely by Bitcoin. The others are far behind. I'd say it's seeing a lot of use.

Segwit was a soft-fork upgrade. It only takes effect if you move to a Segwit compatible wallet and send from there. Which tells me people don't actually care enough, or they'd be d…

Ethereum's Casper uses the solution that while validator A could double-vote for multiple blocks, validator B could take those multiple vote messages, and submit them as cryptograp…

Not that I'm totally sold on it, or grok it fully, but from my rough understanding the very highest level (for Ethereum's Casper)... The idea is that a double-spend attempt by a ca…

"ascii" the codec does exist under python. It's strictly defined as byte values 0-127, anything in the 128-255 range causes a decoding error... >>> b"abc\xf0".decode("ascii") Unico…

As the article points out, in a directed attack it just has to be an outage which affects the target server: e.g. compromise a firewall, lan DNS, or managed switch in front of the …

Not to mention shorewall, which IMO provides a really nice abstraction over iptables, that fits 90% of the needs out there.

Would love to know this myself. I'm in process of moving my company's main web app to python 3, and standardized on 3.5 to match Debian 9. But python 3.6 has so many cpu & memory i…

The post posits that, to handle the burden of legacy instructions, an "obvious technically-appealing approach (is) starting over with a clean-sheet architecture". The approach that…

Wow! Thanks for mentioning OODA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop ), never heard of that before. That's a really intriguing concept... so many cogsci, ML, netsec, and game …

Does anyone know if [Shorewall]( http://shorewall.org/ ) has plans to support nftables, or is it staying on iptables for now? While I'm excited to hear about a simplified abstracti…

At my company we tend to use "NOTE:" just to be aware of something, "XXX:" when something's functional, but has room for improvement, "TODO:" when functionality's missing, and "FIX…

Not quite turnkey, but openvpn is essentially tls over udp with an ip tunnel on top

There was an article a while back -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1144548 -- purporting that the efficient market hypothesis is true if and only if P = NP. ... which I'd ar…

One bit of trivia I really love is why "DEL" is at 127 -- weirdly way away from all the control codes. It's because 0x7F is all ASCII bits set to "1". Back in the early punch card …

Actually, per a snopes article ( http://www.snopes.com/donald-drumpf ), the Drumpf to Trump transition may have occurred because the former was more German sounding, and there was …