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by ReidZB 13y ago
I'm not sure about the handling of the glass. The paper [1] gives all of the specific materials used in the experiment, but it doesn't say anything about handling them and I don't know enough about the area to be able to intelligently comme
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by ReidZB 13y ago
Interesting point. I'm not sure what prevents Eve from simply computing K(B) from P if she has stolen Bob's slab. Maybe I have misinterpreted something? The actual paper does describe generating n different patterns and then randomly select
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by ReidZB 13y ago
The two slabs are actually different. See my explanation of the algorithm downthread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5741793
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by ReidZB 13y ago
The original paper [1] is much clearer about the actual algorithm. The below is pretty much pulled straight from it, although I simplify it slightly (by assuming one pattern, etc.) First, Alice and Bob decide on a pattern P. Then they each
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by ReidZB 13y ago
There are cryptographic voting protocols that don't use combinatorial approaches like the one you describe.
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by ReidZB 13y ago
Well, the grandparent's comment isn't asking if your scheme cures cancer and ensures world peace. Instead they're asking if your scheme is at least as secure as other current cryptographic voting protocols out there, the answer to which is
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Just taking a random guess, but it could be that it's easier to use the intercom and ask everyone instead of digging out the passenger list and scanning to find someone whose prefix was 'Dr' (if such info is even included on a passenger lis
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by ReidZB 14y ago
The reason we can't drop the article into a computer and have it magically return "true" or "false" is because making computers that even have human intelligence is damn hard as it is, so until we can perfect language parsing and the like
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by ReidZB 14y ago
"A little learning is a dangerous thing" -- Alexander Pope
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by ReidZB 14y ago
A very important point though: public-key cryptosystems rely on one-way functions, functions that are hard to invert in the average case, NOT just the worst case, which is not your typical complexity-theory mindset. So, I would be careful w
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Purely SEO. Articles being identified by number is much cleaner programming-wise, but search engines like it when URLs have text in them to index against. It's also good for readability of URLs in general, really.
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Warning: graphic/gore images (not to mention irritating JavaScript alerts, etc) on the demo page. I would highly recommend avoiding it.
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by ReidZB 14y ago
If I reload the page, it always fixes itself for me.
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Using the AUR is of course preferable, but in his defense, the AUR package has been flagged as out of date and has the wrong dependencies (as per the comments). Of course, this can be fixed by editing the PKGBUILD with your favorite AUR hel
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Fundamentally, a few things are wrong with math education. First, you can advance grades without a full understanding of what you were taught. I'm not saying students need 100% comprehension, but letting someone go up in math with only ~50-
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by ReidZB 14y ago
Absolutely. Religion is a personal view, one that everyone decides. I can't fault anyone for their belief. I loved this story and I generally love whatever I read on this site. For a non-religious person, death is an even sadder event than
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by ReidZB 15y ago
I don't really like the article. It seems to cultivate the mindset that introverts are somehow disabled or lesser than extroverts in social situations, which obviously isn't true: otherwise, how could we have had any introverted presidents?
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by ReidZB 15y ago
I write quite a few Ruby utilities (for myself) and this is what I do: use backticks to harness the power of shell utilities, but have Ruby glue to do more complex tasks with those tools. For example, I recently wrote a quick Ruby script to
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by ReidZB 15y ago
If you're actually writing code from scratch in a linear fashion, then you do spend a fair bit of your time in insert mode. After a few years of vim use (about four years, so I'm not a grizzled veteran by any means), I've found that when I'