On Mining - ethereum blog
Decentralization, n. The security assumption that a nineteen year old in Hangzhou and someone who is maybe in the UK and maybe not have not yet decided to collude with each other. There has been a large amount of ruckus in the past week about the issue of mining centralization in the Bitcoin network…
Hasnain says:
This is really really well written and worth reading. Relates to bitcoin mining and the recent 51% attack.
Posted on 2014-06-21T02:18:42+0000
A Mysterious Sound Is Driving People Insane — And Nobody Knows What's Causing It
Until now.
Cgrep by awgn
Cgrep is a grep tool suitable for searching in large code repositories. It supports 30 programming languages and searches that go beyond the simple pattern matching. It enables context-aware filtering and semantic searches through wildcard combinators.
Hasnain says:
Semantic code searches - this seems really useful. Can't wait to use it.
Posted on 2014-06-21T00:24:50+0000
Belkasoft - Leading Digital Evidence Extraction Software for Computer Forensic Investigations.
Belkasoft - forensic and system software tools. Instant Messengers, Browsers, Mailboxes, Pictures and Videos search, analysis and extraction. Find Internet Evidence quickly!
Hasnain says:
SSD's seem dangerous. Article is actually titled
"Why SSD Drives Destroy Court Evidence, and What Can Be Done About It"
Posted on 2014-06-21T00:24:11+0000
Videogrep: Automatic Supercuts with Python
Videogrep is a python script that searches through dialog in videos and then cuts together a new video based on what it finds. Basically, it's a command-line "supercut" generator. The code is here ...
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Stream music from leading services like Rhapsody and it won’t count towards your 4G LTE data plan. Free lifetime Rhapsody music and more.
The Board Game of the Alpha Nerds
Before Risk, before Dungeons & Dragons, before Magic: The Gathering, there was Diplomacy. One writer enters international competition to play the world-conquering game that redefines what it me...
Thousands of secret keys found in Android apps - CNET
Even among the top apps found on Google Play, researchers have found a crucial security flaw that could compromise user data.
Cap'n Proto: Cap'n Proto, FlatBuffers, and SBE
Yesterday, some engineers at Google released FlatBuffers, a new serialization protocol and library with similar design principles to Cap’n Proto. Also, a few months back, Real Logic released Simple Binary Encoding, another protocol and library of this nature.
No Money, No Time
The poor are under a deadline that never lifts.