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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Really great writeup. Here's the most astounding part to me: "[Rubin Xu] decided to use Coppersmith's Attack[1] to derive the private exponent. In this attack, only pieces of the private key are needed and the private key is
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
> For academic publications almost no one uses Microsoft Word except for a small minority. Sure, we're all biased by our own experiences, but I've found this to be blatantly false in the biological sciences. Microsoft Word dom
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
I agree. But unfortunately many of the browser creators want to support full-fledged apps within a browser, which in their minds necessitates the rebinding of core shortcuts. A great example is command/control-s in Google Drive Docum
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Scary indeed. Has anyone created a status-board kind of site to show which major servers were affected and which are still affected? I'd like to start changing passwords, but it doesn't do much good until things are fixed.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
You're missing my point. If this were a "solved problem," then it would be no better than the status quo with TSV. Tabs are a similar kind of control character, except they can be typed and displayed easily. And TSV files
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
It's a shame. The solution is in the charset, but tools never developed to use it so we don't use it. But I'd wager that if tools had historically supported them, then the situation would be no different than it is with tab
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Name mangling, as always, is a mess. If they export extern "C" headers, then of course there's no trouble. There's work on interfacing with the C++ ABI, though. See Cpp.jl[0] and Clang.jl (whose C++ support is still a
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Yeah, it's a big change in mindset for Julia. Basically, the reason MATLAB/Numpy/R folks harp so much about vectorizing code is because their interpreters are slow , and within a vectorized function they can punt to some C&#
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
I felt the exact same way about Consolas' i and l… so much so that I hacked its metrics to remove the extra serifs. http://mbauman.net/geek/2009/03/15/minor-truetype-font-editi...
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
There's now content at the support page you linked, but the security content of the patch still hasn't been published [1]. See the new thread about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299287 [1] http:
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Kinda sorta not really. Abstract supertypes currently behave somewhat like an interface. But because multiple inheritance is still an open issue [1], it doesn't really fulfill the requirements of an interface. But it looks like it&#x
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
"Not because of the missing functionality, but because you can't talk about go without somebody bringing up [the GIL]." It's better these days, but for a while it was a common point of contention.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Reminds me of the Python GIL.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
I've had to do this when training research monkeys in a former life, particularly when there is only one or two parameters being varied. They would learn the 'patterns' far too quickly. After seven heads in a row, they&#x27
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
No, it uses bing + a little secret sauce, as I understand it. Edit: "Link results are API driven, though top links may come from other sources. Link sources include: Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Blekko, WolframAlpha, and many others."[1]
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Well, in many ways, they are going with the flow. They're targeting mathematicians, and R/Matlab users… all of whom use 1-indexed arrays. And, really, the kinds of dictionaries you're used to are constructed with {} brace
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
But it's not running through Python at all (as I understand it). The kernel is all implemented in Julia. It just uses the IPython frontend and architecture. See this post on the implementation of IHaskell[1] for more details. My und
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
And embedding (and its documentation) will likely get much better very soon. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4997
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Everyone's answer to that question will be different. In my opinion, there's lots of things to love about Julia. First class arrays and array literals. It's a wonderful thing… like Matlab but very smartly designed. The type
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
It'd be so wonderful to have a SC4.5k. Or, hell, could you imagine what the modding community could do with the source? No chance in hell of that ever happening, but one can dream...
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Ahh, that makes much more sense now. Thanks for the clarification.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Interesting design decision to hide the connection's address until you send them an email. It at least notifies the recipient that you now know their address. And the recipient gets the sender's address in exchange. It shows
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
I was listening to a radio show this past week (All Things Considered, I think) that recounted the history of airplane screenings. It was fascinating. Before screenings, hijackings were much more common and the airlines liked to negotiate
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Nice. A smidge better at 582: 5[54]|2[437]|00($|[369]|1[25])|^8[17]|^3[29]|9.7
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
The alternative to "OK" is "Settings," with a link that just dumps you into the main settings view… leaving you to find the Images section to change it back. Quite an opt-in.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Too many, didn't click: (the result order for me; yours may vary) DDG: 1 2 Bing: 1 2 (but ads before) Yandex: 1 3 Baidu: 1 2 Yahoo: 1 2 (but so much ads/images/cruft before) Blekko: 3 x
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
It's an ad for me. Of course, Google's been doing all it can to make ads look like organic results. Looks like she bought into the protection racket.
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
Oh my, right you are. Here's a better source: http://www.elsevier.com/journal-authors/author-rights-and-re... Isn't there a site that relies upon the "scholarly sharing" clause ( "sharing indi
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer, nor have I thoroughly read the DMCA; is the text broad enough to cover such licenses, over and above copyright?
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by 3JPLW 13y ago
That's the interesting part: Elsevier does not have copyright of these papers! The authors do. However, by publishing with Elsevier, you grant them an exclusive license for the right to publish and distribute the article.[1] Note t

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