B-Con

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by B-Con 14y ago
> Oh Jesus, UI Design has turned into fashion. Yes. It's been obvious since at least the Web 2.0 push. Rounded corners where everywhere, gradients, 3-D effects, shadows, etc. IMO, it was like the industry realized that they had the tech
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by B-Con 14y ago
> I'm sure many CS graduate programs offer very good courses in cryptography. On the topic: I have an interest in crypto and for a while I was looking at grad schools for cryptography. The number that even offer a course is less than im
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by B-Con 14y ago
I personally have four reasons for writing comments. If a comment does not fall squarely into one of them, I try to omit it: 1) Why the code is doing what it's doing. What's the motivation? Why is a check necessary? What's the context? 2) H
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by B-Con 14y ago
I agree. Occasionally people will say something about "having to sit at a desk" in relation to their job or mine. "Have?" I get to sit at a desk with a portal to logic, problem solving, and all the information I could want right in front
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by B-Con 14y ago
> How comes it that in the US this kind of trust based systems with numbers are so popular compared to other parts of the world? Like many other things in security, because systems evolve and these things aren't planned. SS numbers were
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by B-Con 14y ago
I agree that Python is a good language to learn and to teach as an introduction. But HN isn't quite the most reflective of the job market . It's reasonably diverse, but how much interest does, say, .NET generate on here? Not much, but .NET
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by B-Con 14y ago
I have to disagree. Although those are labeled as social community and many of us take part in them, they're nowhere close to the same as being social. They take place on our time schedule (we visit when we want to), they take place with pe
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by B-Con 14y ago
Just as an aside, I dual-majored in both pure math and C.S. I found the types of thinking for both subjects to be very, very similar. In fact, finding a constructive proof for a math theorem was almost like writing code. I started programmi
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by B-Con 14y ago
The confirmation e-mail doesn't have any link back to the website. Hopefully your weekly messages do, it's where most of us will look for a link if we want to share it with others.
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Is making DNT opt-out bad? The common argument is that it is: 1) Advertisers won't give up tracking across the board. It's too lucrative for them. 2) Most users don't care about the setting that much. 3) Enabling it for default for th
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by B-Con 14y ago
They do tend to share popular pop-music, though. Some K-Pop artists convert their hits to Japanese, and rarely even write in Japanese first. In general, it wasn't their thing. It was funny and kind of interesting, but not the sort of thing
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by B-Con 14y ago
> On other hand, in 1st, 2th, and 3th year, there are still more women in abstract math classes than men. This is almost definitely false. While the male/female gender ratio is reasonably close to even for math majors (I think it's 60/4
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by B-Con 14y ago
It's a boring political tie-in, even if the implications are interesting: > Its political aspect is that because it's so simple, it can be reimplemented anywhere at any time, and so it provides a way for users to communicate privately e
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by B-Con 14y ago
More detailed explanation here: http://lwn.net/Articles/508865/
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by B-Con 14y ago
I remember writing the bulk of the Wikipedia article[1] on this cipher back in my late teens when I was getting into crypto. Checking back, it's been heavily edited, but it retains the bulk of the original structure and all of the original
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by B-Con 14y ago
From other people's research ( http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Jun_Fuku... ) he seems to have a credible background. Although I find it interesting that he works for Toyota: > My name is Jun Fukuyama. I’m currently
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by B-Con 14y ago
> So after they played a violent yet fake video game that they likely found to be fun, you give them a fake story and they pick violent outcomes? They were likely still in the mindset of playing the game that they found fun. Yeah, that
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by B-Con 14y ago
Following from that, it would be interesting to see if competitive contact sports (football, basketball, etc) would produce a similar effect of aggressive behavior.
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by B-Con 14y ago
I'm curious how much of these was simply being primed to be competitive. Were the test subjects competing against actual humans in the nonviolent video games? The violent video games add a form of personal feel to the game, regardless of wh
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by B-Con 14y ago
> Is it truly in Google's interest to work towards the minimization of government capability wherever it is? This is the wrong perspective. They're working toward maximizing their profits, not minimizing their benefit to the state. $1 b
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by B-Con 14y ago
The lesson from that is that customers are more likely to trust ads that come from the marketplace, not the sellers. The original point is very good and can be extended a bit: Customers don't hate ads, they hate modern advertising. Obviou
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by B-Con 14y ago
My use cases are similar. Here are some of my thoughts: * Facebook: Photo and video sharing with friends and family. That's 80% of it. 15% is hearing updates on friend's lives and 5% is sharing my own updates. * Twitter: Following the thoug
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How Dataium Watches You(blogs.wsj.com)
3 points by B-Con 14y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
I just ask for extra. After the rice, I ask for more rice. After the beans, I ask for more beans. After the cheese, I ask for more cheese. Those ingredients are pretty cheap, they don't charge extra for them. I get a bowl and ask for two to
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by B-Con 14y ago
I went to UC. Need to stock up on my alumni clothing before this hits the stores. Bleh.
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Has HTML5 made us more secure? (rdist.root.org)
2 points by B-Con 14y ago|0 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
You can? Migrate everything from Google to Apple. Then check back in 5 years and see if it's as painless. That was one of the author's points. We're becoming a culture where you pretty much buy into one provider or another provider. One o
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by B-Con 14y ago
Not really surprising, considering that Windows 8 is not a desktop-oriented OS. Existing non-touchscreen desktops and laptops have little motivation to upgrade. Windows 7 was a new generation OS that was friendlier than the previous attempt
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Windows 8 adoption reportedly growing more slowly than Windows 7(bgr.com)
2 points by B-Con 14y ago|1 comments
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by B-Con 14y ago
"Buy now" makes sense because you would be buying a license. Although I do agree that the distinction between a product with DRM and a license to use a product with DRM does not seem well distinguished. Exactly what you are obtaining should

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