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historieson Readme.txt vs. README.txt (2015)

> READ.ME just looks cool, same thing as with internet domains.

http://read.me/ I'm not interested, but it definitely looks cool

historieson How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

Not the parent but I had similar experience: I could open an account by ING.

Opened end of 2022, fully online. I have italian citizenship; my residence title was just... resident? I had the Anmeldung for the apartment I was living in.

But it wasn't all easy. I needed:

- A german telephone number.

- A document (with a MRZ) with my german address in it.

- Not sure but maybe they also asked about my job?

The document was critical for me; I had to go to my embassy and apply for a new id that had my german address.

Also everything was fully in german, no english whatsoever.

historieson Xkcd 1928: Seven Years (2017)

The last image in that comic is burned in my memory. Incredibly powerful

historieson How to found a company in Germany: 14 "easy" steps and lots of pain

Your website is amazing and has helped me personally thousands of time. It became the first quick english reference for everything when I first moved here. Thank you!

historieson Mycenaean Warriors and the Sea-Peoples (2013)

If you understand italian, here's another short podcast: https://www.ilpost.it/episodes/podcasts/lafinedelmondo/

historieson I'm Too Old

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it;

3) anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

-- Douglas Adams ( https://douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html )

historieson Hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future

No one's forcing you

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1) A lot of the findings come from a data breach of Gab, and shines a light about anonymity on the internet, so it is at least in some way in HN zone of interest

2) Doxxing Stonetoss is morally ok in my book; if it's not for HN mods, let them remove the post

historieson People hate the idea of car-free cities until they live in one

Berlin has a plan to have the Ring car-free: https://volksentscheid-berlin-autofrei.de/

No idea if it will actually happen

historieson Nicolas Bourbaki

I wholeheartedly recommend Luther Blissett's first novel, "Q"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(novel)

historieson Miles Davis and the recording of Kind of Blue

* Ashley Kahn

historieson Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?

>Omitting a leap year every 4000 years

Wait, is this right? omitting every 100 and adding every 400 should be enough.

EDIT: the 4000-year rule is just a proposal for now. So 365.2425 is correct.

historieson Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?

365.2425

historieson "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

Directly from David J. Peterson's website, tons of resources (for the first film): https://dedalvs.com/work/dune/

historieson Blind, Alone, and Confused for 24 Hours Challenge (2020)

>how much physical strength it requires in your arms to drive up an incline

I'll take this as an opportunity to recommend to you all the manga "Real".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_(manga)

historieson SuperTux

One of my first linux distro was Knoppix, which had inside incredible games like Kobo Deluxe, Frozen Bubble, The Battle for Wesnoth, and of course SuperTux.

historieson Berlin TYPE: The official type for the city of Berlin (2020)

I can only find: "... is freely available and usable for everyone. However, modification of the fonts is not permitted."

historieson Punk is dead and so are we

Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for March 18, 1992: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1992/03/18

historieson A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)

I just guess the HASH's bytes, not the KEY's.

To be practical: my first guesses are:

0000...0000

1000...0000

2000...0000

...

f000...0000

I discover that c000...0000 takes slightly longer. Then, my next guesses are:

c000...0000

c100...0000

c200...0000

...

cf00...0000

Now I discovered that c700...0000 takes slightly longer...

And so on.

At the end I have the full hash.

Getting the plaintext key from that hash is a different problem.

UPDATE: damn, I understood what you mean now. Sorry. Yes, it will take a lot of computation to generate the good hashes.

historieson A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)

If the check is not done in constant time, the attacker can discover hash(b), by trying one byte at a time (without knowing b).

Of course it's way less impactful than discovering b, but it's nonetheless a vulnerability.

historieson A beginner's guide to constant-time cryptography (2017)

What's the difference between a plaintext key and a hash in this context?

>The attacker can crack the first byte of the key by trying all 256 possibilities, and observing which one caused the comparison to take longer.

It means that at the end you get the hash and not the key, but it is still a vulnerability

historieson Coffee machine camera at Amazon warehouse raises concerns about surveillance

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historieson The Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic

I think he has been changing reality through literature since forever!

"I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness."

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8218991-there-is-some-confu...

historieson Show HN: Hacker News Outliers

I like https://hckrnews.com/

historieson Sora: Creating video from text

And it never worked? Prohibitionism fails

historieson Nokia made too many phones

I miss all the unconventional designs, before every phone became a black rectangle.

My old Nokia E65 was amazing design-wise and the best phone I had.

historieson Analyzing Spotify Stream History

Love last.fm (been there since 2009!).

My only gripe is that all the charts are by number of scrobbles (how many times you listened to a song) and not by amount of time.

1 Pink Floyd song can be as long as 10 Misfits song...

historieson Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever"

This makes my blood boil. If I "bought" these shows, you are literally (and sadly legally) stealing my stuff.

And money is not even the issue. My "unreasonable" request is that I get to keep what I buy.

Piracy offers me this. It also offers me a free product, but that's mostly irrelevant. I have a gigantic bandcamp library precisely because they let me download drm-free files (but even they pull up stuff; that's ok, I have my local files).

Pirate everything. Rip everything. Keep backups.

historieson A seafood firm wants to farm octopus. Activists say they're too smart for that

> you wouldn't legalize crack because beer is a drug and beer is legal

Off-topic, but why not? I would actually legalize every substance; enforce safety measures (e.g. no driving while high) and services like NA.

Let people do what they want.