JacobEdelman

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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
If all you are doing nothing illegal then disagreeing with a cop should not result in your injury.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
When talking about "Time" its hard to ignore the wonderful thread on it on the xkcd forum. If you can't understand what they are saying its not your fault. They have such a detailed culture and so many customs that they are n
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
The word "It" has never appeared in the NY Times. http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=it
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
"He" is and has always been more common than "She". http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=she.he
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Summer Program in Theoretical CS(facebook.com)
2 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|0 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Actually, with the constant of approximation being two, its almost exactly half good.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Not all of those projects are legit. For instance, J.A.E.S.A. is obviously a fake product. It promises Jarvis, holographic interface and AI, without any explanation of how it works. Even one of the several technological advances it promises
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Well.... As far as spying goes it doesn't sound that horrible. Since they are only checking hashes of your history against a list of common cheating site hashes they really gain minimal information. If their were clear opt-ins and tran
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
If a court legalizes Batman then its court authorized, but he's still not a publicly controlled entity and those still a vigilante.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I'd also like to thank you for your blog. It is a resource that I have repeatedly found myself going back to as I explore CS and math.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Wait, I know movie services might be expensive but music seems really cheap. Ever tried http://grooveshark.com/ ?
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I would be more suspicious if they didn't use socket.io, its incredibly common and useful. I'm happy to see competition here as this shows that the ideas behind Popcorn Time really stand a chance of growing and improving.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I can't really think of a scenario when DDOSing would be responsible policing. If that kind of tactic becomes common it can set up the exact type of aggressive struggle we don't want a 51%er in.
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I think that the "selfish mining" in your first point isn't truly selfish mining. The idea is that the particular method of selfish mining being discussed would be defeated by a truly selfish mining method. No matter what you
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
Their Bitcoin is broken argument doesn't really seem to work. I agree that something needs to be done to stop huge amounts of pooling but this seems to be too alarmist. The initial Bitcoin is Broken post is at http://hacking
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
The suggestion that GM crops are causing the problem is absurd. The crop is simply a tool that we are using to allow us to kill off milkweed. Although I am against giving GMO suppliers too much power over farmers the idea that this makes GM
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
As long as the service can store my data with a less then 1% chance of loosing it in a given year and allows me to access it at the rate of a few gigabytes per month I'd be happy. I'd be storing anywhere from a few gigs to a few t
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
I saw Amazon's Glacier service but I'm interested to know if there is anything cheaper. I don't need particularly fast reading or writing abilities, just the ability to do it when needed.
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Ask HN: What is cheapset method of data storage?
6 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|9 comments
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by JacobEdelman 12y ago
A RNG with 10^118 secure bits isn't really that great at all. All I need is a 49 character entirely random password or a 36 word long xkcd-936 complaint password. I can then use them as my key/seed for secure cryptosystem (RSA or
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HSCTF – A hacking competition by high schoolers for high schoolers(hsctf.com)
9 points by JacobEdelman 12y ago|3 comments