B-Con

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by B-Con 13y ago
> What Simpson's paradox is not > Every ommitted variable problem Not quite the same thing as the OP (not sure if you were implying it was). Regardless, OVP is still a great thing to have in your mental framework.
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by B-Con 13y ago
That assumes more money can produce better results. Imagine if the $115m figure came from legitimate, generous estimates by the development team. They wanted for nothing, had sufficient staff, sufficient resources, etc. Then imagine marketi
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by B-Con 13y ago
That's an entirely reasonable position.
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by B-Con 13y ago
> Do companies ever release linguistic guidelines? Adobe does with Photoshop and others.[1] [1] http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#photo...
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by B-Con 13y ago
That's actually a good quote-analogy. I'm not the most pragmatic person ever, but let me pose this: If you can't tell the difference, do you honestly care?
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by B-Con 13y ago
> You cannot look at data in a vacuum. I never said you could. We're not discussing the philosophy of objective statements that don't require context, we're discussing whether true facts are tainted by subjective elements
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by B-Con 13y ago
That's spam, not useful data. No one upvoted that hypothetical offering of data. People did find this article interesting. And hey, maybe I am interested in learning that language. Assuming your forum was appropriate (say, at a Galicia
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by B-Con 13y ago
I hate it whenever an article mentions a service or drops an affiliate link and someone's verdict is that the article looks like advertising. Do you prefer your reading content to be devoid of mentioning any products or brands? Should
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by B-Con 13y ago
He's one of those people who's name you can't avoid repeatedly tripping over. I took UC Davis's graduate Intro to Cryptography class from him. It was fun to see how much of crypto history he has been involved with. Inter
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by B-Con 13y ago
I've been a long time fan of Age Of Empires II. 0AD looks like a clone of it, more or less. I think I last checked in on 0AD 2 years ago, before there was AI. Back then AOE II had poor performance issues that I really wanted addressed,
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by B-Con 13y ago
> The N.S.A.’s Commercial Solutions Center, for instance, invites the makers of encryption technologies to present their products to the agency with the goal of improving American cybersecurity. But a top-secret N.S.A. document suggests
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by B-Con 13y ago
> Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA influences when they can. When I read this, I realized that I can't recall Schneier ever saying anything positive a
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by B-Con 13y ago
If it's a requisite for hiring, how do you test for it? Or do you only reject candidates that clearly don't have it?
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by B-Con 13y ago
pushd and popd can be used maintain an easily rewindable history of places you have been. Use pushd to add the cwd to the stack and cd to another directory. Use popd to cd to the top dir on the stack and remove it. $ pwd /dir
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by B-Con 13y ago
He has another, similar one that I like: "I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination."
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by B-Con 13y ago
That's arguably backward. The MBTI was developed to help people place into jobs, but it has not proven itself to be a useful indicator of that. Conversely, all it is is a personality measurement. When you analyze the type system, it&#x
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by B-Con 13y ago
> I had a couple people tell me though that "it never changes". Which is ridiculous because it's obviously not true, and depends totally on how you interpret the questions, and that's based on how you're feeling
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by B-Con 13y ago
But couldn't a worker file a lawsuit? I think the big enforcer of policy is employee lawsuits, not government inspections.
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by B-Con 13y ago
His area of expertise is mathematical teaching/learning. He was undoubtedly talking about the average person, I doubt it was supposed to be an absolute neurological-level statement. And as a general statement/stereotype, there are
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by B-Con 13y ago
No, I'm talking about the original hi-res image. (More detailed write-up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6279027 )
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by B-Con 13y ago
That only addresses the active display. What about storage? Do we have any official confirmation on that?
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by B-Con 13y ago
> The machines no longer store or display images of your body - they store and display images of a generic body with the data received from you. How about a bit of warranted cynicism: How do we know the high-res versions aren't bein
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by B-Con 13y ago
> I wonder how much longer these services are going to stay free. I like to download all the content just to be sure that it's not taken away when they eventually go to paid models. I also download everything. I'd hate to want
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by B-Con 13y ago
Short story: Applied Cryptography is an old book and doesn't focus on end-user practicality. (I'd still recommend it for anyone looking to get deeply into cryptography, but it's not a good starting point.) For the record, C
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by B-Con 13y ago
FTA: > Traditionally, information-theoretic analyses of secure schemes have assumed that the source files are perfectly uniform. In practice, they rarely are, but they’re close enough that it appeared that the standard mathematical analy
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by B-Con 13y ago
Breaking crypto is the hard way to get information. Way easier to get it at one of the endpoints. (Industry lingo would say: attack data at rest, not data in transit.) Poison RNGs, get backdoors into the biggest services and software, and y
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by B-Con 13y ago
> I watch him type in his user-name and password. A message box opens up, but the kid clicks OK so quickly that I don’t have time to read the message. Computer sends message to user. User quickly dismisses it without thought. This evokes
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by B-Con 13y ago
Anyone changing their editor settings based on the new guidelines? In vim, I'm thinking about using: set colorcolumn=79 set textwidth=99
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by B-Con 13y ago
The site has the option of auto-playing the frames at your choice of framerate. Not pure animation, but it's kind of close.
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by B-Con 13y ago
> If you’re reading this, you’re probably a red-blooded American programmer with a simmering interest in cryptography. And my guess is your interest came from Bruce Schneier’s Applied Cryptography. Yep. I read it at... age 16? It was old

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