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throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Exit scammers run off with $660M in ICO earnings

Did it actually raise 660m or was that the size of the "market cap" when it collapsed?

if I sell 100 tokens for a dollar then convince someone to buy 1 token for 10 dollars, if I run off with the money I've not run off with $1000 even if it feels like it for the people left with tokens.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Kafka, GDPR and Event Sourcing

Right, and what if those connections are burned into an immutable data source through the connection event in your event sourcing?

That is what this article is about, and methods to deal with that.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Web Authentication: Proposed API for accessing Public Key Credentials

1. A fingerprint is something you cannot change, cannot revoke if leaked and cannot be unique across different sites.

2. A fingerprint hash isn't a cryptographic hash because you need to be able to match to nearby matches. A small variation in input needs to have a small variation in the hash so a distance function can be applied.

Those are terrible properties for a password.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Probabilistic Filters By Example

I was trying out the javascript example, but managed to get a case where there is a negative conclusion but this goes against the introduction where it says negative conclusions are always definite.

My multiset was:

   a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, j, abc, def, asd, asds, 3g46stb6vy6vsyosyvosfsdfsdsah, oooooooooooooooo
Then trying oooooooooooooooo a second time, the bloom filter correctly says it might be in the set. The cuckoo filter says it is not.

I assume this is just a javascript bug in implementation, because previously the filter said it might be in the set, actually adding it to the set then gave a false negative when trying it again.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Container Extension: Take control of how you’re being tracked

There's a "Same-Site" cookie flag that helps prevent CSRF by preventing cookies being sent in that scenario. Can the browser be made to treat all cookies as "same-site" for a quick 'fix' to this issue?

Obviously this would need a white-list (and a pair<from,to> whitelist, not just "this domain is OK list) to allow SSO scenarios.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: Facebook's Zuckerberg will not appear before British MPs

That makes it sound like people are upset about an isolated incident, trying to play this off as an isolated incident is going to blow up very badly as people "discover" just how much of their data is everywhere, whether they gave permission or not this isn't about a single breach.

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: What Works and Why: Opus Magnum

The Steam integration is nice if you have a couple of other people who also play these games because you get to compare your best with their best.

Personally I managed to keep up with the global optimums early on in the shenzhen campaign but as it went on my solutions were progressively worse than the population. (Or least the portion of it left still completing those puzzles.)

The personal satisfaction is still the main driver of course, I think having the base binary "solved or not" solution is a good way to gate progression as you can choose to optimize as you go through or do a success pass and then revisit for optimisations which suits different play styles. (Personally I like to optimize as I go).

throwawayReply | 8 years ago | on: CRPG Book Released

I'm happy to see it covers Legend, a game of which I have many fond memories, it was the first RPG I played and sadly highlighted the difference between my (parents') 386 with PC speaker beeping out the music in off-colour cga and my friend's 486 full music and good looking VGA.

The game itself is was fun, more than tricky (almost impossible for the 9 or 10 we were at the time) and there aren't many games which combine all it's best elements. As the book says, the custom spell rune system was a treat. Creating a spell which shot a missle which exploded and also fired other missles around it was really fun.

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