Hacker News: c3t0

New comment by c3t0 in "Symantec Backs Its CA"

c3t0 — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 23:20:35 +0000

> This action was unexpected, and we believe the blog post was irresponsible.

Problems since Oct 2015 and the action unexpected? see 1)

> We hope it was not calculated to create uncertainty and doubt within the Internet community about our SSL/TLS certificates.

Symantec took no ownership of the issue. Snarky underhanded remarks are not a professional way to address shortcomings in managing their product.

> For example, Google’s claim that we have mis-issued 30,000 SSL/TLS certificates is not true. In the event Google is referring to, 127 certificates – not 30,000 – were identified as mis-issued, and they resulted in no consumer harm.

Per Chrome's team an initial set of reportedly 127 certificates has expanded to include at least 30,000 certificates, issued over a period spanning several years see 2)

Summary: No ownership and no action plan conveyed in Symantec's 421 word message.

1) https://security.googleblog.com/2015/10/sustaining-digital-c...

2) https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/blink-d...

New comment by c3t0 in "Rabbit hole leads to 700-year-old Knights Templar cave"

c3t0 — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 22:27:38 +0000

Video walking through the cave on Youtube is worth watching. https://youtu.be/maDTJsGgmD0

New comment by c3t0 in "How a comment on Hacker News led to 4½ new Unicode characters"

c3t0 — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 04:18:49 +0000

Congratulations! Following through all that work specially with a consortium of such significance is great feat of perseverance.

Thank you for stepping up and making a difference.

New comment by c3t0 in "F*** You, I Quit – Hiring Is Broken"

c3t0 — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:31:59 +0000

Previous discussion thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757

New comment by c3t0 in "[dead]"

c3t0 — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:21:52 +0000

Email from the hands free mobility team:

Hi!

So we're at $91,028 Of our $240,000 goal..

We have 24 hours to go and the campaign will not be extended - this is an all-or-nothing campaign.

This is it - right now, we need a miracle.

We DO still have 24 hours. And we DO have 462 amazing and awesome people who care enough to have contributed to the campaign. As well as those who have joined our mailing list and liked our Facebook page recently. Most of the contributions on the campaign so far are small ones, but even the small ones make a really big difference when there's enough of them.

But today we're asking: are you our miracle?

Can you send our campaign to someone who can get it more coverage? Do you know someone who might be able to buy a prototype?

Are you the one that can get us funded today?

Here's the link to our campaign - http://igg.me/at/ogotech

Either way, we'll be in touch after we close to let you know what's happening next.

Hoping for a miracle,

-Kevin and the Ogo team

New comment by c3t0 in "Google Shutting Down Wallet Card"

c3t0 — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:13:00 +0000

AMEX requires 3 direct deposits of $500 or more.

Simple does not seem to have that condition.

New comment by c3t0 in "Chinese Buy One-Third of Vancouver Homes: National Bank Estimate"

c3t0 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:33:42 +0000

Reminded me of the shopping spree of the Chinese Insurer Anbang.

Waldorf Astoria in NY was one of their big purchases

They were bidding on Starwood Hotels http://www.reuters.com/article/us-starwood-hotels-m-a-anbang...

Fidelity Life is also theirs http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-11-09/anbang-to-...

New comment by c3t0 in "Kik's side of yesterday's story"

c3t0 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:37:10 +0000

First posted as far as I could tell.

New comment by c3t0 in "Kik's side of yesterday's story"

c3t0 — Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:31:33 +0000

Already submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11346845

New comment by c3t0 in "NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?"

c3t0 — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:07:43 +0000

Functions Are Not Packages

Cracked me up :D

Alton Browns's Jet Cream 10 seconds for carbonated ice cream

c3t0 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:58:59 +0000

Article URL: http://www.popsci.com/alton-browns-jet-cream

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11337945

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Alton Brown: I think of myself as a pretty good hacker

c3t0 — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 16:55:28 +0000

Article URL: http://www.popsci.com/alton-brown

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11337913

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by c3t0 in "One of the FBI’s Major Claims in the iPhone Case Is Fraudulent"

c3t0 — Tue, 08 Mar 2016 23:36:28 +0000

Thanks for bringing it up. Last week I read your article and I found it very interesting.

You did receive harsh RTFM comments (stark contrast with the tone of the comments on this thread).

Glad that you can see your work corroborated.

New comment by c3t0 in "The New England Journal of Medicine on Data Sharing"

c3t0 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 15:24:38 +0000

Freudian slip.

Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Collins

New comment by c3t0 in "The New England Journal of Medicine on Data Sharing"

c3t0 — Sun, 24 Jan 2016 07:05:09 +0000

There is concern among some front-line researchers that the system will be taken over by what some researchers have characterized as “research parasites.”

So we should consider Francis Collins & James Watson "research parasites"?

Without their own analysis of other researcher's data the double helix would not have been discovered.

You cannot control information/data just because you gathered it. Pick up your marbles because you do not like what your pears concluded?

Science is based on reproducibility and peer review.

Peer review without full access to data is a fallacy.