CHY872

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by CHY872 11y ago
I don't buy that. For stuff like key derivation, there are loads of ways you could vary the process without compromising security. For example, a normal disc encryption system with the caveat that the password is XORed with a secret be
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by CHY872 11y ago
No. They are not superior to passwords - they merely provide different tradeoffs. For example, the site that requires your hypothetical key-type key would require that either all of their customers have spent money on such a key (bad) or th
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by CHY872 11y ago
How about big-endian x86, in case anyone makes a processor that operates that way? At least OpenSSL is ready!
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by CHY872 11y ago
Lombok's a bit sketchy as parts of it rely on some undocumented, non-standard parts of the Sun Java compiler - you have to be really into code generation to want to use it. Other libraries like Immutables are safer for this purpose.
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by CHY872 11y ago
I suppose that this is a somewhat stripped down version of Windows, and their concern is that either through bugs or through manipulations people could trigger the activation window in some manner. Allowing people to activate Windows in thi
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by CHY872 11y ago
and hyperv! There are also plugins that allow deployment to (say) DigitalOcean.
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by CHY872 11y ago
I agree that the question needs improvement, it admits too much confusion unless there's a context. List is an ADT in Java and OCaml and some of the literature, an implementation in Python, C++ etc. Linked-list would have avoided that,
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by CHY872 11y ago
The approach generally taken by Oxford and similar is that a scripting language like Python or Lua is simple enough (or at least the bits of it needed for the course are) that anyone taking the course can pick it up with no specific learnin
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by CHY872 11y ago
In this case, the alleged victim when interviewed described events that could certainly constitute rape - for example waking up and finding Assange having unprotected sex with her.
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by CHY872 11y ago
Seems silly to needlessly antagonise your future employer? I mean, it's a cool hack, but common sense seems to have gone out the window.
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by CHY872 11y ago
Current electric cars and hybrids still all have 12V lead acid batteries in them (Teslas, Leafs, Priuses etc). These are typically used to drive the lights, windscreen wipers etc but also to bootstrap the charging process. I think in some s
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by CHY872 11y ago
Kalman Filters are super efficient to calculate - they're what kept the Apollo program on track (60s compute!). Another post gives the asymptotic complexity - but as a rule of thumb if you can do any practical computation at all you ca
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by CHY872 11y ago
I hope that some day I may join him too at 'Unemployable Island'
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by CHY872 11y ago
This is way simplistic. Frequently testing with the real database wastes a tonne of time. I've worked with a team where running a single test with the true database took a minute, and there were 200 such tests. Thankfully, the only gua
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by CHY872 11y ago
I guess that's a role reversal from Tianhe-II, for which the processors were made in the US and assembled in China.
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by CHY872 11y ago
That's very different; Iceland's total debt was tiny (compared) as it is a very small island (Iceland's debt was perhaps 1/12 the size of the debt held by Lehman Brothers). Very annoying if you had money stored in Icelan
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by CHY872 11y ago
The current issue is because light is line-of-sight. Such systems traditionally need a lanyard of some kind to provide unobstructed access, and this is super inconvenient for the user. Then there's the problem of means-of-detection; Ph
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by CHY872 11y ago
A similar (more strongly worded) comment from one university's computer security course (re phishing etc) > “If only it weren't for those gullible users” is arrogant and idiotic
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by CHY872 11y ago
At the moment it is illegal for them to do such a thing (at least in the US) for black people are a protected group (civil rights act etc). Other than for a small number of reasons due to protected groups, businesses generally have the righ
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by CHY872 11y ago
Ok then, where is your proof that they are? It's perfectly possible to have world class researchers who don't use machine learning to do exactly what you claim it does.
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by CHY872 11y ago
Add OCaml Labs (at Cambridge) to that list; their work is helping to remove some of the big gripes with OCaml whilst Mirage is genuinely interesting new (I think) work.
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by CHY872 11y ago
I think that's apocryphal; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9961530 suggests so anyway. The cause is probably the same; $1 is seen as an irrelevant amount of money by most people. Even so, you compare very differen
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by CHY872 11y ago
The specific reasons for how people place value on music aren't hugely relevant; all that should matter for the label in most cases is maximising the total revenue (as for digital downloads the marginal cost is irrelevant).
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by CHY872 11y ago
I don't think you can honestly rationalise it like that. You could similarly rationalise selling an iPad for $2,000 by 'We have a bajillion engineers, who all went to top schools after decades of non-stop education, who worked 80
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by CHY872 11y ago
They shouldn't use tools like this one, though. This is purely a research project and not industrially usable. In any case, the purpose is to specify what Javascript is supposed to do, and not what Javascript engines actually do. The
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by CHY872 11y ago
Thanks - that makes sense. My understanding is that SML's libraries will never improve to a similar level, sadly.
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by CHY872 11y ago
Yeah - the most common area is DSP chips and similar, where you require really predictable performance, and have tight arithmetical loops with a good source of parallelism (also a field where it isn't a problem if you have to write a n
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by CHY872 11y ago
In what situation might you use this instead of ocaml? There are a lot of drawbacks of using Standard ML in general, so I'd be interested in seeing if there are any advantages at all.
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by CHY872 11y ago
This isn't for that. This work is to create a formal model of Javascript - a definition of what a perfect Javascript runtime should do. The next step (potentially) is then that you can reason about Javascript programs in a useful manne
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by CHY872 11y ago
I would define a startup as a business that grows through equity funding, and not debt funding. By that definition, Palantir is certainly a startup.

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