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by CHY872 12y ago
that's actually what you want, though. It's because only successful candidates appear in the statistics. If Google let everyone in, you'd see a good correlation between how well developers do in the interviews and how well th
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by CHY872 12y ago
Who actually needs the extra security? 112 bits of security is enough for everyone, bar none. If you have a 2^32 processors and they can crack 32 bits of encryption every second (unreasonable in each case), then it's still going to tak
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by CHY872 12y ago
Not quite. I did consider Servo, but it's hardly ready for use in the wild. It'd fall foul of many iOS guidelines, not just the 'no browser' one. It'd also fall foul of the 'only C, C++, Objective-C, Swift&#x27
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by CHY872 12y ago
I'm not super concerned about that. In particular, no such browser exists, so it's largely a semantic argument. Furthermore, there are inherent security risks; so it's easier to just lock it down until there is actually a p
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by CHY872 12y ago
and there the additional complexity of C++ is a barrier to entry but no more, so no biggie in this context.
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by CHY872 12y ago
I was referring to compilers in early 2000s vs compilers now.
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by CHY872 12y ago
You've absolutely misrepresented the problem, presumably for effect. It's a far more subtle problem; the question is whether compiler writers should not only make their analyses and transformations be safe in the presence of valid
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by CHY872 12y ago
I think in general, most CPU architectures pick branch not taken for forward branches and branch taken for backwards branches on the first try. So I feel like builtin_expect gives weighting to let the compiler shuffle code around to make it
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by CHY872 12y ago
Yes, but how many people are well educated? The USSR made many similar devices, for powering lighthouses etc, and most of them are rusting away. A number of people have died after trying to steal the casing for scrap.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Of course, but that has a reputation as being hard to set up into a configuration that doesn't get in the way.
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by CHY872 12y ago
People would just be more creative; a curl url | sh, that script copies rm from bin to current directory, executes it there etc. Might help in a few cases, but would lul people into a false sense of security.
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by CHY872 12y ago
This article seems to make no point, and certainly doesn't answer the question. It gives examples of tech firms doing things differently, then it gives three examples of tech firms doing things that regulators frown on, and signs off b
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by CHY872 12y ago
The article tries to massage some kind of connection between tax breaks and a re-election campaign. From the information provided, I don't see it. In particular, if you or I clocked up $26m in tax breaks for a tax year, that would sugg
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by CHY872 12y ago
There are a bunch of languages like that. I've just done a project in HOL, where all functions must terminate. Proving that functions terminate is a pain in the backside, because for any trivial structurally recursive function you writ
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by CHY872 12y ago
You make a distinction between restrictions placed by the semantics of the language and the compiler not performing an optimisation. This isn't a practical distinction for the end user. In both cases, no amount of money thrown at the o
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by CHY872 12y ago
Oh, absolutely! However, you don't need 32 hours in a lab and 4000 words of formal reports and 100-odd pages of handwritten notes in order to prove that.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Interesting reading: 54% of findings with p < 0.05 not statistically significant: http://www.dcscience.net/Schuemie-Madigan-2012.pdf easy stats paper as to why: http://www.stats.org.uk/statistical-inferen
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by CHY872 12y ago
At one top British university, the first year Physics practicals are universally reviled, everyone gets within a few marks of each other, the experiments are trivial (roll a ball down a slope!), and at every meeting the academics all agree
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by CHY872 12y ago
Their eventual goal is for every rocket to land and not have problems. Providing enough fuel for five seconds of hovering is a waste of valuable fuel (see how they're already so low that they run out in the process). Also, falling over
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“If no Virginia elections were hacked, it's because no one tried”(theguardian.com)
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by CHY872 12y ago
The Wikipedia article does not mean that they have to reincorporate the changes of others into their code. Nevertheless, they are doing so. https://github.com/ResearchKit/ResearchKit/pull/20
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by CHY872 12y ago
If you were to not-quite-spend all the fuel, you could use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket , which coincidentally would be your best chance at getting to the Sun.
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by CHY872 12y ago
You don't get plausible deniability in any way. Turns out that the least significant bits of a pixel are not uniformly distributed. The obvious example of failure is that you expect more pixels with value 255 than 254, since any overex
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by CHY872 12y ago
Trivially detectable. Find two screeners. Search for different frames. Oh look, the credits are different! Let's delete the credits to be safe! You want to make it so that the entire binary content of the film looks different for each
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by CHY872 12y ago
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20633919 suggests that they can be mitigated.
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by CHY872 12y ago
Bizarre article. The California border is waaay closer than they stated, and although it's possible for a long term worker to live in SF and commute weekly, that would be the worst of both worlds; obscene living costs + a huge commute.
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by CHY872 12y ago
The relational algebra and functional dependencies are different. The relational algebra is a number of operations that together provide a theoretical foundation to relational databases, whilst functional dependencies describe how data depe
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by CHY872 12y ago
Good description. It might be important to point out that the decision has to be made carefully; whilst normalisation typically improves write performance, a normalised database can absolutely munch read performance, especially when it co
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by CHY872 12y ago
Not totally true. Intel obviously builds its chips to fit its markets, and while the consumer chips have been improving mostly in power consumption (because of the shift to laptops and the miniaturisation of those laptops) their server chip
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by CHY872 12y ago
I almost totally agree with your overall view, but you could have made the same point whilst still being civil about it... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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