Jabbles

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by Jabbles 13y ago
" NSA employees must declare their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. " So how was he allowed on the plane? Surely part of the passport/no-fly-list check would have caught that. Or did he drive to Mexico and
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Click the button in the top right of the search results to turn personal search off. I get Javascript results anyway.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
A 4 page CV would just be thrown away in the UK. 1 page, unless you have 20 years of experience - then maybe 2. A cover letter shouldn't have their logo on it.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
" After a few painful instances of searching for things like “go array literals” and “go repl” I got into the habit of sticking with Golang; and so will this diary. " https://encrypted.google.com/#q=go+array+l
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Ice blown by wind can be dangerous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWq-bwhgZA&noredirect=1
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Is Greenwald technical enough to understand the content? Or is it just going to be buzzwords that have no real technical meaning? The slice deck already looks like someone was presenting to non-technical management - why would they have put
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by Jabbles 13y ago
I think I've tracked down this extraordinary claim to this 2007 DoD paper on the "Global Information Grid", where it states: Key target GIG technologies include: Very large scale data storage, delivery, and transmission tec
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by Jabbles 13y ago
It is interesting, but it's a standard way of demonstrating normal modes, or the applications of eigenvectors. I would think most physics and engineering undergraduates have studied this. That's not to say you shouldn't watch
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by Jabbles 13y ago
That is certainly a disturbing abuse of power. Here is the IPT's ruling on the case: http://www.ipt-uk.com/docs/Paton_v_Poole_Borough_Council.pdf
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Your outrage is justified, but let's not just make up facts. Your link says the surveillance lasted for 10 minutes. Not 3 months.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
I can't understand how you can be happy using ~84,000,000 clock cycles to solve that. Logic programming is a wonderful tool to know about, and armed with that knowledge you can adapt your programming style to the problem in question.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
I think the best explanation is given here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844576 Prism is probably no more than a mail-merge program that will take your (i.e. NSA agent's) signed court order and convert it into
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by Jabbles 13y ago
I think you have a bug in your swap routine :P
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by Jabbles 13y ago
In the original Chinese article, the languages were actually mentioned. And the one we're discussing is C++. (And so as you point out, wrong.) It annoys me that this kind of vacuous article is posted. It reminds me of an old rant about
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by Jabbles 13y ago
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html Entertaining book: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hackers-Delight-2nd-Edition-ebook/dp... The reference: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Co
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by Jabbles 13y ago
It's unclear what language that is. Could that be (well-defined) Java? Besides, it's also wrong because left shifting a signed integer "into the sign bit" is undefined.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
This is the best explanation I've seen so far. It requires no one to lie. The Washington Post inferred too much from the evidence it had, but I'm thankful this debate has occurred. The NSA denies that it has broad access, the comp
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by Jabbles 13y ago
An informative read if you're curious about US sentencing: http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentence... ; excerpt: "People reporting on federal criminal justice — whether journali
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by Jabbles 13y ago
http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=Tradehalts http://www.nasdaqtrader.com/Trader.aspx?id=tradehaltcodes LUDP - Volatility Trading Pause Looks like the circuit breakers were responsible. Edit: Oh, there were two!
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Some people believe that past experiences can be useful in helping you judge similar, but not identical, situations you encounter in the future. I see you are not one of those people.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
" which hasn’t yet undergone peer review " " The device subject to testing was powered by 360 W for a total of 96 hours, and produced in all 2034 W thermal. " When it does, and the reviewers find that the authors can't even get their units
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by Jabbles 13y ago
As the author concedes, it's difficult to draw any conclusions when he rewrote the whole thing in Java rather than python. I am a bit surprised that 300 users costs him $10 a day though. There must surely be some giant inefficiencies in the
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by Jabbles 13y ago
"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses" Bjarne Stroustrup http://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html#really-say-that Of course, that just dismisses the criticism of the language. But to
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by Jabbles 13y ago
I know that Cisco offers £36000.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Yes, although return u.Id == 0 would be even more idiomatic :)
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Yes, this is definitely a special case of CLT. For instance, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Moivre%E2%80%93Laplace_theo...
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by Jabbles 13y ago
Well, not really. The fact that CLT applies to a wide variety of distributions is a much stronger, mysterious and astonishing fact than what is demonstrated here. It would be like demonstrating that you've cracked RSA with p = 7, q = 11.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
This isn't the central limit theorem. This is a binomial distribution. Nice animation though.
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by Jabbles 13y ago
“We just couldn’t crunch those images down to a smaller size,” Zacharias remembers. “It would have taken a significant amount of Google’s entire processing power just to do that.” What? Processing a thumbnail is insignificant compared to
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by Jabbles 13y ago
11.5 hours on average for Cars 2 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20068109-52/new-technology...

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