awesome! :)
Really? Downmoded because of the comment "awesome! :)"? Pretty harsh.
How I Hacked Hacker News (with arc security advisory)
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#63Very impressive. Are a you a professional security researcher or just a programmer who tilts that way?
The qualities that make a great developer and a great professional security researcher are about the same. Both involve taking hardware, a programming language, an API, an application or something else that someone in the computing industry had one purpose for, and bending it in a way to produce a rather unexpected, very unique result. A great developer builds Web 2.0 with something as novel and limited as JavaScript…
Developers think of ways to make things.
Security guys think of ways to break things.
That's the main difference.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not quibbling over credit; I just think this kind of simultaneity is a fascinating phenomenon. No doubt both of our thought processes got tweaked by the cluster of other security posts that were showing up on HN at the time.
it's actually not that uncommon. I spoke with my patent attorney some time ago and he could attest that very often the exact same inventions are sent to the patent office only days apart. Sometimes even on the same day. Famously Elisha Gray sent in his patent application for the telephone at the same time as Alexander Graham Bell. A letter was sent out to the two parties asking them to defend their application in ord…
Another popular theory is that Bell flat-out stole the idea from Gray.
(see The Telephone Gambit: Chasing Alexander Graham Bell's Secret, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393062066?ie=UTF8&tag=... )
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#65Off topic yes, I cruised through his profile to see what else he was involved with or does and found this small piece he wrote that I found to quite good. I would recommend checking it out. http://dfranke.us/cfod.html
I enjoyed that essay, although he never cleared up my confusion as to what he meant by libertarian. I generally use it as a synonym for anarchist, but he sounds (and I could be wrong) more like a right libertarian. Is this right?
You Spanish? In US English at the very least libertarian maps to anarcho-capitalist/classical relatively closely. Anarchist is almost always a synonym for anarcho-syndicalist.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not quibbling over credit; I just think this kind of simultaneity is a fascinating phenomenon. No doubt both of our thought processes got tweaked by the cluster of other security posts that were showing up on HN at the time.
it's actually not that uncommon. I spoke with my patent attorney some time ago and he could attest that very often the exact same inventions are sent to the patent office only days apart. Sometimes even on the same day. Famously Elisha Gray sent in his patent application for the telephone at the same time as Alexander Graham Bell. A letter was sent out to the two parties asking them to defend their application in ord…
There's also the Calculus and the primacy dispute between Leibnitz and Newton. The dispute itself isn't that interesting, but that something so complicated was created in the background of natural philosophy by two different people.
(I've recently read The Baroque Cycle again, does it show?)
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I enjoyed that essay, although he never cleared up my confusion as to what he meant by libertarian. I generally use it as a synonym for anarchist, but he sounds (and I could be wrong) more like a right libertarian. Is this right?
You Spanish? In US English at the very least libertarian maps to anarcho-capitalist/classical relatively closely. Anarchist is almost always a synonym for anarcho-syndicalist.
American. Are you saying Daniel Franke is an anarcho-capitalist?
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#68If only "What is the story with the most points?" had been asked a few weeks later than it was:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=604323
Previous record holder with 530 points:
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hope you scoop him up for one of your YC teams. That hack was damned impressive for breadth and depth of knowledge, pretty rare in my experience.
I imagine Daniel wouldn't have trouble getting a job with a YC company, if he were so inclined. If we were hiring (couple more months...), we'd certainly talk to him.
Hire him you piece of shit. Fire yourself if necessary.