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by Confiks 9y ago
The literal Elixir code is: def epoched_random_uid, do: epoched_random_uid(&:erlang.system_time/1, &:crypto.strong_rand_bytes/1) def epoched_random_uid(system_time, strong_rand_bytes) do time = system_time.(:seco
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by Confiks 9y ago
For a toy project, I'm currently using a 64-bit integer of which the first bit is a sign bit (I'm using Postgres' bigint), the next 32-bits make a UNIX epoch timestamp in seconds, and the rest of the 31 bits make a random num
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by Confiks 9y ago
The University of Lausanne's Blue Brain Project has a lot of source code up at Github to take a look at [1], including some kind of specialized neuron ray-tracing renderer. Not too sure which data sources it can use. For example, is (a
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by Confiks 9y ago
Saying that he could "just" do this in my opinion really simplifies it too much. You must be terribly sure of your case to open yourself up to such a risk. Also, in many countries, child protection services can preemtively declare
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by Confiks 9y ago
Does anyone know of any implementation (in some form, maybe unfinished) of this for the web? I'm having a hard time searching for it. NaSC looks awesome but is pretty hard to get running for a one-off lesson in schools (and for use by
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by Confiks 9y ago
I would say you are arguing against quite a contrived point. The article speaks about the methodologies for holding fair lotteries in the context of doing this year after year . You are technically correct that allowing trading once wouldn
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by Confiks 9y ago
If you refer to the case in De rijdende rechter ("The traveling judge"): she didn't have to pay a fine, but pay damages to the opposing party (which applies to civil rather than criminal law). In addition to that, both part
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by Confiks 9y ago
The article isn't correct in that "the version that has received more traffic during the disruption" wins. The amount of transactions that are in a bitcoin block play no role in determining the longest chain. It's solely
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by Confiks 9y ago
Or, perhaps with a better name, a Keynesian beauty contest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_beauty_contest#Overv...
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by Confiks 9y ago
Never waste a good crisis, or why you should sometimes be foolish to harvest your accumulated merit.
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by Confiks 9y ago
First of all, regardless of all the claims made in the document, I find it awesome to see such a gigantic writeup that tries to be at least a bit internally consistent. It reminds me of Bit451 [1][2], although that one was simply insane. So
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by Confiks 9y ago
The tone of both of your posts is very demeaning. You completely tear down the proposal, making lots of – possibly correct – assumptions, without showing the slightest of doubt about them or any willingness to engage in a constructive debat
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by Confiks 9y ago
Looks good. Craft is simple enough to easily port to Emscripten. Another port of Craft I found a while ago is NetCraft: https://github.com/satoshinm/NetCraft
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by Confiks 9y ago
Looks like a great guide to get started with coding with Minecraft. There have been some efforts over the years, but this looks really complete. One obstacle for schools to get started with this however, is buying all the Minecraft licenses
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by Confiks 9y ago
> Until we settle on some definitions for actually-existing AI, instead of sci-fi nightmares, this debate between Zuck and Musk is just another gust of hot air. Painting a picture of doomsday artificial superintelligence indeed looks lik
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Zuckerberg and Musk are both wrong about AI(arstechnica.com)
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by Confiks 9y ago
While technically not a conference, you're missing a big one: SHA2017 in The Netherlands [1]. Starts the 4th of August, and there are still some tickets left. [1] https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Main_Page
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by Confiks 9y ago
This all looks very similar to a naïve version of the early (~2010) Ripple protocol [1], including all its limitations. An unmentioned limitation is that the system doesn't really suit the 'consumer economy', unless salaries
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by Confiks 9y ago
No, it doesn't work that way. One of the other criteria for qualifying as a coffeeshop, is that you obtain a permit from the municipality. Some municipalities simply don't allow any coffeeshops. Coffeeshops also have to be physica
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by Confiks 9y ago
Thanks for the link! I've seen an early alpha version of GP during the Scratch conference of 2016 (the 2017 conference is wrapping up tomorrow), and it worked awesomely, like a supercharged version of Scratch. A fun thing about it is t
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by Confiks 9y ago
If it's only about a few minutes of distraction every time, and that's the way you get your work done, just integrate it into your working time. Getting something to drink or having a roundtrip to the toilet is simply necessary to
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by Confiks 9y ago
I wouldn't say it's a Dutch culinary custom, but the main supermarket in The Netherlands, Albert Heijn (35% market share), does focus heavily on prepared packages with vegetables and indeed even "kant en klaar" (ready to
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by Confiks 9y ago
> But I departed about halfway through the article, at "gender free toys." I think the author meant something different with "gender free toys" than you are implying here, as she's merely talking about the market
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by Confiks 9y ago
And if you want toasted bread, don't buy that $5 toaster, but source your own: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/page2.htm
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by Confiks 9y ago
I actually looked up this story myself yesterday, because it was mentioned by the top comment of this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14672174 I wonder if the current OP posted it for the same reason.
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by Confiks 9y ago
I'm excited to see that the Filecoin project is getting an update. It long seemed to be stale, with IPFS being the main priority. While a new shiny website and this podcast is up, the new promised Filecoin paper isn't yet public.
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by Confiks 9y ago
The fun thing about that discussion is note in the first reply: "[When there is a single Official Wolfram Ego Bitching subhthread in every thread discussing Wolfram], then everyone can enjoy complaining about Wolfram's ego there,
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by Confiks 9y ago
I don't see anything in that Twitter thread indicating where the salt was stored, but salts are actually supposed to be stored next to the password hash. They purely try to prevent precomputation of password hashes by introducing a ran
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by Confiks 9y ago
I'm completely distracted by the name of the website: "War is boring". The vehement disagreement is almost repulsing me to RTFA.
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by Confiks 9y ago
Well, you can do all that until you cannot anymore. The systems are designed in such a way that Google only has to flip a switch, and all Chromebook securely turn into bricks (presumably only the ones that haven't had developer mode e

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