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631.
by aphyr 16y ago
All this does is make an already available service (SSH) available at a predictable location. You still need to use a password, RSA/DSA keys, or other methods to log in.
632.
by aphyr 16y ago
Yup, coupled with a little init script and instructions for use. Oh, and this particular method can't be used to log into your forwarding host, due to the construction of the public key. Only wrote the script so I could add network topology
633.
by aphyr 16y ago
This tool won't handle the connection management for you. You could scan for unsecured wifi networks periodically and connect to them. I'm just presuming a thief will log into my laptop's passwordless account, and network-manager will handl
634.
by aphyr 16y ago
That's exactly my motivation. I've been using these tunnels for a while, but I've never seen it packaged up neatly for anyone to use.
635.
Gift HN: tund - SSH to your stolen laptop(github.com)
86 points by aphyr 16y ago|46 comments
636.
by aphyr 16y ago
This is exactly the line of reasoning I wanted to suggest; operant conditioning, as with all forms of learning, has nonlinear results below a certain threshold of involvement. We're not good at expectation values, especially in these cases:
637.
by aphyr 16y ago
Did you even read the article? It explicitly states the cloak bandwidth includes red, green, and blue optical frequencies. Calcite's dispersion relation gives slightly different shifts for each frequency, but this is nevertheless a huge ste
638.
by aphyr 16y ago
Works great for me on Chromium 9.0.572, Ubuntu 10.10, Macbook Pro 3,1. 3d accel helps.
639.
by aphyr 16y ago
...which is why nobody speeds.
640.
by aphyr 16y ago
Oh my god. I have dreamed of, and half-implemented badly, exactly this. Not quite what I was thinking of, but still quite useful for that class of problem. You should submit this as an HN post too. Thanks!
641.
by aphyr 16y ago
Specifically, I want to express a model in analytic terms: x = 2y + z^2 provide a dataset of x, y, and z tuples with associated error distributions, and ask questions like "what is three-sigma confidence interval for the model given this da
642.
by aphyr 16y ago
Has anyone created a probabilistic language akin to Prolog? I feel like confidence interval propagation, with appropriate notions of covariance and error distributions, could be really useful for hypothesis testing.
643.
by aphyr 16y ago
Uhh, there's also no problem with using regular expressions to provide a normalized set of genders in the database for pronoun agreement. "Gender is a linguistic term with a hard meaning." Credibility: 0. This doesn't make sense from a ling
644.
by aphyr 16y ago
"Their" is totally a gender-neutral 3nd person singular now.
645.
by aphyr 16y ago
I've written code drunk (read: one beer, I'm a lightweight) a few times--mostly for personal projects, but at work occasionally. The results tend to vary: sometimes it's bloody inspired, other times I have no idea what I was thinking. It do
646.
by aphyr 16y ago
I do know that they use Riak. Not sure if that's the only store they're using. Edit: Yep, skimming the article, I'm almost certain they're talking about Riak EnterpriseDS. Asynchronous replication between multiple datacenters, powered by an
647.
by aphyr 16y ago
Good point uvdiv: if the ionization events are sufficiently rare in both cases we ought to be able to treat them as cumulatively equivalent. I guess it would depend on the error correction time and the size of the affected nucleotide sequen
648.
by aphyr 16y ago
Preface: I totally agree with your argument that risks must be weighed against outcomes. I also believe that even if the scanning technology were totally safe, it would be objectionable on privacy grounds. I think we're going about the whol
649.
by aphyr 16y ago
We know that short-term small doses of X rays results in increased probability of developing skin cancer. We know that prolonged exposure to low-level radiation sources increases your probability of developing skin cancer. We know that acut
650.
by aphyr 16y ago
This comparison is meaningless. The risk of cancer is caused by DNA errors. Your cells are constantly checking and repairing your DNA for mutations and damage. They can usually repair or detect a low error rate, like the kind you get from l
651.
by aphyr 16y ago
Actual web page: http://www.public.asu.edu/~atppr/bodyscan.html Actual article: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.public.asu.edu... The first thing you'll learn in radiation safety is that the nature of the dose matters a lo
652.
by aphyr 16y ago
Totally tangential question--in American English the transliteration is "mawashi-geri". Does V sound as W in Russian?
653.
by aphyr 16y ago
He mentions his stance isn't serious in the followup to the article.
654.
by aphyr 16y ago
I'm not sure why you're voted negative for this. There are appropriate contexts for a restrained fight, to be sure: this advice may not be appropriate for an "honorable" bar-fight or a friend who's on meth. But this is similar to the techni
655.
by aphyr 16y ago
Goshdarnit. I just sat down and started talking to myself about hash functions, filesystems, the wire protocol, and partitioning scheme for half an hour instead of making dinner. Nerd sniping?
656.
by aphyr 16y ago
Asia might be "winning" because the author fails to recognize that topology is a fantastically complicated topic in mathematics, just as worthy of exploration as real analysis or abstract algebra. :-(
657.
by aphyr 16y ago
Inverse square law. Radiation from a phone 10 cm from your brain is 100 times more intense than radiation from your friend's phone a meter away.
658.
by aphyr 16y ago
It's more true than you might think. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plancks_law
659.
by aphyr 16y ago
Irony: a post about the fallacy of seeking local maxima urges focus on the extension of life on a planet which cannot support our current population's demands.
660.
by aphyr 16y ago
I read that as "(256) (color rxvt-unicode windows)". Good god, man! ;-)

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