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netzone··on Why Searching Through 500M Pwned Passwords Is So Quick
I guess you didn't read his notation in the beginning of the article that you should read his previous posts on the subject. The whole point is that you give only a part (5 first characters) of the hash (SHA-1 in this case if I'm not mistaken?) to the API, and you are then returned a list of passwords with the same first characters, then you check that response against the actual password.

In effect, Troy's service never knows the password. It doesn't even know if it existed in the list you received.

netzone··on Unfortunately, StackOverflow is difficult-to-avoid nowadays…
It all depends on how you use it. If something I make produces an error, or unexpected output, the first thing I do after the usual "stop and think" phase is google it. More often than not, that search will give me at least half a page of Stackoverflow pages - many of them completely irrelevant to my specific problem of course - but looking at the code can jog something in my mind that I wouldn't have thought of myself. It helps to look at somewhat related code. At least in my opinion.
netzone··on What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures
But from that point of view - aren't you underestimating Earths ability to adapt? Or overestimating the power Humans have over Earth.

What if Human technological advancement is Earths plan to regulate itself?

netzone··on Electron 2.0.0 beta
Really, I agree that there are probably better markup options, but still, there's a reason people choose Electron over the alternatives. For me, personally, that reason is the ease of prototyping - the time it takes for me to have something in front of me that looks good and works easily is so much less using something like Electron.
netzone··on The Dunedin Study Has Been Studying Aging for 45 Years
Also what I did. It's really the only logical assumption!
netzone··on Were There Really Arrow Storms?
Sure. I'm sure you think of it during most medieval show that has some sort of warfare, some variation of it is almost always featured, though as far as I know tactics similar to that had been used long before that particular battle.
netzone··on [dead]
Not entirely sure I like how vulnerabilities are almost marketed these days.
netzone··on Over the Next Year, Germany Will Hit a Scary Demographic Milestone
I don't necessarily think this is a huge problem. In a healthy society there is by default less births.
netzone··on How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay
I agree. And this is why I no longer pirate stuff, if I can get it legally in a reasonable way. For me as a non-american though, there is a serious lack of content available to me, which means that if I want to watch something, sometimes the only available option is to pirate it.
netzone··on Ask HN: Is it possible to publish research work in CS without any affiliation?
Honestly, the easiest way to get involved is, similarly to open source contributing, I think, is to build upon someone elses work. Find a paper you like and think you can use as a base for something. Then when you've done, publish it and contact the writer of the paper you used as a base. If you're lucky, you'll get some important feedback from him.
netzone··on Google, Facebook, and Amazon have fundamentally transformed the web
But then he would need to describe the context in which the word "Web" is used in the title also.
netzone··on Web developer, welcome to Ethereum
I don't get it. Why should I be doing stuff with this?
netzone··on CKEditor 5: New approach to rich text editing on the web
This looks similar-ish to Substance[0]

[0] http://substance.io/

netzone··on The “Happy Path” to HTTPS
Yup. I use LetsEncrypt for 12 sites with their own individual certs, and even that gets painful, but managable.
netzone··on Creator of cURL wins Polhem Prize 2017
Certainly curl is used by lots of malware, and many a hacker probably use curl in their software.

I guess it's possible he was flagged by someone reviewing malware. Would malware creators give any credits?

netzone··on I Quit Facebook
That's not a bad idea on the online dating. Though it would probably mean Facebook becoming much more transparent regarding what data they collect on you, at least to the unknowing majority.

That's something I really don't see happening.

netzone··on First detection of the missing half of normal matter in our universe
Also, to expand on that (I have no knowledge, just making assumptions), the space between galaxies would need to either create new matter, or the matter would get infinitely spread out over time?

So, if the stretching thing is true, would there be areas with absolutely no matter or anything at all?

netzone··on 'Staying longer at home' was key to stone age technology change 60k years ago
I see nothing in the rules like that.
netzone··on Min – A smarter web browser
Who are you to judge what belongs in a raw browser? What belongs in a browser is simply what the developers want. A "raw" browser as you say, would just be the HTML and JS engine? No need for any navigation!
netzone··on “Ancient Aliens”: The History Channel’s Assault on Truth
Oh, man. The Investigators were awesome! Made me as a kid want to play around in scrapyards, also getting kicked out of a fair few.
netzone··on Oculus Medium Under the Hood: Developing the Move Tool
This could be awesome, being able to inspect and make changes to your 3D models as if standing right next to them.

I mean, it would even have applications for sculptors. Actual materials to sculpt with are not cheap as far as I know, and it could streamline the training process.

netzone··on A lingering farewell to the username
Just match the mentions to an ID instead of something that's not static.
netzone··on Ask HN: How does an online game with AIs manage so many AIs?
Yup. Imagine a boss in a game decides it's not in his best interest to be predictable, or take matters in his own hands and attack the players when they aren't ready. Or any number of things that sounds cool on paper, but would be exceedingly frustrating when actually playing the game.
netzone··on Harvey Wrecks Up to a Million Cars in Car-Dependent Houston
Now, I don't know what Houston looks like, I've never been there, but you never gave a reason for the impossibility of Houston transit. Your post is based on your assumption that you would have to drive to any transit stop. Why would you have to do that? What makes Houston so unique in that a transit infrastructure is impossible?
netzone··on An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication Within Tesla”
Do you bill those hours also?
netzone··on A Game You Can Control with Your Mind
You'd still have to deal with connecting to servers and grabbing whatever data you need. Then you'd have to deal with the delays, which might not be so fun.
netzone··on I fell in love with an assassin (2008)
The first sentence seems something out of Buzzfeed.

> ... (with a few conveniently erased).

Just... why?

netzone··on Bees Are Bouncing Back from Colony Collapse Disorder
Not sure why this question is always asked on threads like this. Bees and wasps look very different, you can usually tell them apart at a distance of 5 meters, maybe more if you have time to watch it for it's behaviour while flying.
netzone··on How I rediscovered my love for JavaScript after throwing away 90%
Not sure I understand this. Sure, it looks pretty, but what is the point? It just feels like adding unnecessary complexity to something that shouldn't be complex.
netzone··on Coding is the new cursive writing – and we have to embrace it
It doesn't even have to go as far as writing code, which can be a real bottleneck for some people.

Visual programming is getting larger by the day, and it's a much smaller step for people to take.

It lets you focus more on the actual logic of the things, which is what I think is most important when teaching programming.

There's no point in teaching people how to work with javascript libraries, memory management or any kind of specific programming if that's not what interests them.

It should be as much surface-programming as is possible, and still letting them create cool stuff.

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