Hacker News: piracykills

New comment by piracykills in "What I learned by living without artificial light"

piracykills — Fri, 27 Apr 2018 02:35:00 +0000

From what I've read, a single drink is usually good for sleep, 2 or 3 is too much and will do more harm than good. Wikipedia currently agrees with me, but the reference is from 1980, so not sure that's the best available information these days...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_use_and_sleep#Alcohol_...

New comment by piracykills in "Google shuttering domain fronting, Signal moving to souqcdn.com"

piracykills — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 16:51:59 +0000

How they do this is basically to send google.com in the TLS SNI then when they get to the HTTP level send

Host: signal.org

This will only work with compatible servers. In Signal's case they use AppEngine which is behind Google's network and the servers for google.com are able to connect to their app servers when given the appropriate Host header.

New comment by piracykills in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:53:25 +0000

I don't think so - over-prescription of opioids and more common usage of fentanyl seem to the be the key factors in the death increases. Nothing to do with underlying socioeconomic conditions nor societal problems. I don't understand how you're making that leap - care to elaborate?

New comment by piracykills in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:49:29 +0000

That some tiny portion of the deaths in your country are from opioid overdoses? People voluntarily injecting themselves with drugs and fucking up? Why exactly does this concern you so much? It's hard to see it as representative of a larger systemic problem beyond the American drug enforcement and medical systems resulting in over-prescription of opioids and fenantly entering common usage. Not much beyond that, is there? I don't see a larger trend to extrapolate from that.

New comment by piracykills in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:47:04 +0000

I'd advise reading the article I linked, the increases are far from modest in many cases.

I'll agree with you on the environmental issues, but I think we're well on the way to solving those too and largely via the same mechanisms, Chinese solar is close to pushing coal out of business on price. That's not to say there's no role for regulation in the environmental direction though, I certainly think there probably should be, but how to do so globally and fairly is a bit of a catastrophe.

New comment by piracykills in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:43:40 +0000

That's a very niche problem in comparison - we're talking hundreds of millions of people leaving poverty across the globe compared to under hundreds of thousands dying of opioid overdoses. Perhaps it's because I'm not American, but I just don't find it that concerning when put into the larger picture.

New comment by piracykills in "OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 17:21:13 +0000

There was a whole push for netbooks like the Asus EEE PC that happened around the same time as the original XO.

New comment by piracykills in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:20:52 +0000

I don't think so, reading real statistics on this kind of thing instead of alarmist and politically slanted headlines paints a very different picture of how the world is doing.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty

New comment by piracykills in "The Price of Free Is Actually Too High"

piracykills — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:16:31 +0000

Stupid clickbait.

New comment by piracykills in "Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings"

piracykills — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:54:42 +0000

Yeah, I managed to miss a digit when I ran the numbers myself so I was off by an order of magnitude when I wrote my post. Glad you checked it. Fucking hilarious what these guys will say - of course, I think that's a goal, to shock anyone remotely reasonable or who even tries to do back of the envelope math out of interest in it.

New comment by piracykills in "Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings"

piracykills — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 17:12:39 +0000

Are suspicions really enough to put you into illegal territory here?

If so it'd be a very hard crime to prosecute as unless you were working for them or something it's very hard to prove you aren't just another victim.

New comment by piracykills in "Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings"

piracykills — Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:29:43 +0000

> >6-7% annual returns

I wouldn't say quite that low, even S&P averages are often higher than that.

But 48% monthly is going to be something like a >1000% yearly interest rate. You really don't get much more of a dead giveaway than that, at that point you're either a fool or you're gambling and hoping you get out before a greater fool does.

New comment by piracykills in "Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes"

piracykills — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 19:16:50 +0000

They've already managed to use CRISPR to give color blind primates their full vision back...

http://www.neitzvision.com/research/gene-therapy/

New comment by piracykills in "Firefox updates its iOS web browser to turn Tracking Protection on by default"

piracykills — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:36:54 +0000

They might just be looking for some way to differentiate themselves on iOS given Apple's policy of not allowing 3rd party rendering engines.

New comment by piracykills in "A new JPEG format"

piracykills — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:00:47 +0000

How widely deployed is that display stream compression?

New comment by piracykills in "FreedomBox"

piracykills — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 04:51:42 +0000

Looking for a way to do better remote access to Linux boxes - Microsoft's RDP completely nails it on Windows, I used to quite like NX, but don't hear much about it these days, how do you find x2go, particularly from a server configuration perspective?

New comment by piracykills in "AV1: A new general-purpose video codec"

piracykills — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 20:58:42 +0000

Fun fact - "DivX ;-)" was a cracked version of the Microsoft MPEG4 decoder which was originally restricted to only play in ASF containers and has nothing to do with DivX the company which came later.

For more history on this, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX#History

New comment by piracykills in "Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010)"

piracykills — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:40:31 +0000

> My hosting provider eventually took it down, because URL redirectors can be used for phishing.

What provider was this? I'm going to make sure to never use them. That's not a valid reason at all to take someone's site down, even if it's being actively abused you notify them first and notify them many times before even considering booting them as a customer.

New comment by piracykills in "MailChimp's Ban on Cryptocurrency Marketing Is Causing Collateral Damage"

piracykills — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 03:44:34 +0000

I think about 3 times a week I get emails from a new cryptocurrency upstart that I've never heard of but which is using either the hacked Mt.Gox or BTC-e list.

The practices these people are using are scummy as fuck.

New comment by piracykills in "Cryptographic Right Answers"

piracykills — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 14:09:43 +0000

Doesn't scrypt suffer from much of the same parameter selection issues? I know I've had to choose some fairly obtuse values when using scrypt for login in a webapp.

In fact, taking a quick look again I find Argon2's "memorySizeKB" and "iterations" make much more sense to me than scrypt's "CostFactor" and "BlockSizeFactor" parameters as it's a lot clearer what's being impacted. I agree with the i-vs-d confusion, but in most cases I think using argon2id as you mentioned should resolve the contention as is already the suggested default in the IETF draft.