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jeanjqon How to launch and defend against a DDoS attack [pdf]

It's a list of spoofed addresses. That means they are pretending to be Dreamhost, not that Dreamhost is compromised.

jeanjqon Predicted market correct last 13 days in row

What's the probability of correctly predicting HIGHER/LOWER 13 days in a row?

(1/2)^13 = 1/8192

jeanjqon How the Internet hurts your sleep schedule, productivity and personal life

^hurts^changes

Headline says one thing; final paragraph says another: "Bottom line? The Internet is quickly changing the way we allocate our time, but there’s no call to panic yet. You might want to stop reading this thing on the Internet and get back to work, though."

jeanjqon Woz Is Unimpressed By Apple’s New iPads

Why do we care what Woz thinks of Apple's current product line? I'm genuinely confused.

jeanjqon Can I Be Trusted?

No, I do not. I have no reason to distrust him but equally no reason to unthinkingly trust. I listen to his opinions and take them into account.

jeanjqon Lua: the world's most infuriating language?

Welcome to HN where the top-rated comment is from someone who admits they didn't read the presentation, doesn't understand what the author was saying and manages to complain.

jeanjqon Lua: the world's most infuriating language?

He does talk about arrays on slide 25 and the last slide is about the problem of global scope.

jeanjqon A quick look at the Redis source code

Fun. This isn't really specific to Redis, but is a good introduction to the sort of thing that C programmers often get up to. You'll see this sort of function table in all sorts of C programs. Take a look at GNU stuff like make and you'll see the same format.

Congratulations on the exploring.

jeanjqon Air Gaps

I don't think this is right. You should reduce the entire attack surface. Since Bruce is worried about malware getting in via a removable device and cites examples that attacked Windows he should not use Windows.

jeanjqon Air Gaps

Seems to me the only reason to choose Windows for this would be to use Microsoft Office to read the NSA documents and he's stated that he's using OpenOffice, so...

jeanjqon Air Gaps

Surprised that he decided to use Windows.

jeanjqon Jonathan Ive designs Leica camera for Red charity

I'm always uneasy with the idea of (RED) charity: the message is "save the world by buying stuff". It's just consumerism with a bit of karma, no?

jeanjqon Meet the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm

Interesting. It's sad, then, that Nest does not emphasise that fact.

jeanjqon Meet the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm

What is wrong with the $7.50 Kidde?

http://www.amazon.com/Kidde-Sentry-Battery-Operated-Ionizati...

Reviews seem good.

jeanjqon Meet the Nest Protect smoke and CO alarm

I wonder what battery life is like on this? A typical smoke alarm battery can last years but this appears to have a lot of functions and WiFi and a light.

BTW Why do smoke alarm batteries die at night? Because temperature drops and a weak battery's voltage output drops with temperature.

jeanjqon The cold emails which got me meetings at Twitter, LinkedIn and GitHub

This rule apply pretty much everywhere and especially to VC. If you want to talk to a VC find some one who can introduce you. If you can't do that then work on your network.

jeanjqon Edward Snowden Q&A

The Guardian approach to this thing is infuriating. There's little useful information from it. eg this question and answer

Question: Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption? Answer: Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it.

Pfft. What size RSA keys are unbroken (2 048, 4 096, 8 192)? Is there a backdoor in the ECC NIST P256 (or similar) curve? How many TOR exit nodes does the US government manage and how good are they at in/out correlation?