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by B-Con 14y ago
> Unless we start deliberately debating the future we want to live in, and information technology in enabling that world, we will end up with an Internet that benefits existing power structures and not society in general. This is very t
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by B-Con 14y ago
The reality TV show "The Voice" is similar. The on-TV auditions are done such that the judges cannot see the performer and must select them for their season-long team based purely on their voice. It's worked well.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I was surprised by that too. Maybe they allowed free-form answers.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Sure, but the number of questions you have in the first 3 months of the language are bound to be more than the number of questions in the second set of 3 months, and far more than after you've used the language for 3 years. Granted most of
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by B-Con 14y ago
JS is #1, and JQuery is #3. That's a runaway win by the JavaScript stack.
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by B-Con 14y ago
It just depends on your goals. For a lot of people, these kinds of activities are, on some level, a social catalyst. For those, it doesn't make sense to do many of them without the social part. But if you're simply interested in the event i
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by B-Con 14y ago
> I read this as a hint/signal that Half-Life 3 may be available I stopped reading here. Lies.
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Computer programming is somewhat like getting an imbecile to play bridge(johndcook.com)
44 points by B-Con 14y ago|19 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
When the signature is generated, they have no idea how close one file is to another file. So long as various copies of THEHOBBIT.mp4 continue to be uploaded, modified by just one byte, user will be able to evade detection, even if Mega keep
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by B-Con 14y ago
It's possible: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/729/is-convergent-... . The trick lies in ensuring the key used for encryption is linked to the file, not the user. You then have to store a separate key for each encrypted file (an
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Unfortunately for Mega, it's generating the RSA keys with Javascript, and the method employed doesn't do a very good job at all of capturing entropy. I think that the vast majority of security experts advise that none of the crypto sh
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by B-Con 14y ago
Badly off-topic, but I found it amusing that the user asking the question was "Lelouch Lamperouge". The juxtaposition of Lelouch and "home" brought that series back into my mind full-force.
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by B-Con 14y ago
> By "works", I think you mean "brings in more revenue than it costs" aka is profitable. Yep. I assume that a monthly or semi-annual newsletter for something that doesn't have a million professional readers is not expensive to build or
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by B-Con 14y ago
When reading a lot of text, I usually scroll about a page at a time and I scroll once I've read about 80% of the page. I don't have text constantly moving around and breaking my concentration. Rather than this, I'd rather just have a "80% s
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by B-Con 14y ago
Only one person in the comments mentioned getting the book in late November. The offer closed on Aug. 18, and I've gotten a book from him before that was mailed promptly. That one person may be an outliar.
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by B-Con 14y ago
> What is also very likely is that few if any of those made a decision not to uphold their end of the bargain. I disagree. Although I agree that it is unlikely that it was their intent from the outset, there is a threshhold at which poi
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by B-Con 14y ago
I think this hits the issue. Humans grow "fond" of flaws/quirks they have to interact with for long periods of time.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I believe that knowledge of cognitive biases is useful for identifying flaws in one's own thinking, but I can't say I've seen it used very productively in argument. Especially for the type who is more of the "learn it and sling it" fact-thr
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by B-Con 14y ago
Sounds kind of like the real issue was how the two modes should be communicated to the user throughout the product. Either the real issue was being ignored, or it was just the representational case for a valid UX question (although that pro
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by B-Con 14y ago
Or maybe the backend code is analogous to bool exit_handler(obj) { return confirm_exit(obj->description) } and he simply missed the unfortunate dialog box that resulted in one of those cases. An oversight, but when
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Yahoo Mail hacked(?)
1 points by B-Con 14y ago|2 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
It's not outdated. Good quality PRNGs are not that new. But for good reasons, cryptographically sensitive applications do not want to be in a position of relying purely on PRNG stretched output. Reading from urandom , you have no idea ho
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by B-Con 14y ago
I understand that, my words were not precise. My point in phrasing it that way was that there is no entropy stretching. (You only get to read (about) as much entropy as has been gathered. You don't have to worry about reading 128 bytes and
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by B-Con 14y ago
I used Lumosity for a year and I was very sure that it helped me. Just doing daily mental exercises helped me in a way that felt similar to daily physical exercise. It think I saw improvement in the brain areas that I knew I was weaker in.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Looking at the patch, they just modified rngd to populate /dev/random from /dev/urandom instead of /dev/hwrng. /dev/urandom in turn just uses the kernel's internal entropy pool, which is the same one /dev/random uses, and a PRNG to stretch
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by B-Con 14y ago
Those are more or less the equivalent of /dev/urandom, not /dev/random. On Linux, /dev/random is only raw entropy, /dev/urandom is raw entropy plus PRG stretching when raw entropy runs out.
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by B-Con 14y ago
Not sure what you mean, but /dev/random should indeed be a blocking read. The question is whether they should be using /dev/random to begin with.
568.
by B-Con 14y ago
The two interfaces really have different styles. The dual 21 inch setup a couple feet from me does not need to behave at all like the 5 inch display in the palm of my hand. The very suggestion that they would baffles me.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I have to admit that I was not expecting mutexes to be anywhere near that fast.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I love it. I like the flat look, and I like simplicity in UIs. I was afraid that flat and simplicity was going to die with Web 2.0, but now with Google and Microsoft pushing simpler, largely flat UIs, that seems to be less worrisome. There

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