archgoon

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811.
by archgoon 11y ago
> I think that perhaps the Math Department at Cal doesn't deserve such a great professor if the system is as decrepit as described. At the very least, Coward does not deserve them.
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by archgoon 11y ago
Stuxnet was designed to attack airgapped control systems.
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When Radiation Isn’t the Real Risk(nytimes.com)
2 points by archgoon 11y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 11y ago
Why? If the field is looking at a fundamental problem, then it's basically true. Linear Algebra, for example, could claim legitimately having had major impact in brain dynamics, quantum technologies, and quantum gravity almost triviall
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GitXiv: Collaborative Open Computer Science(gitxiv.com)
127 points by archgoon 11y ago|20 comments
816.
by archgoon 11y ago
You mean something like this? http://i.imgur.com/e9s29Jl.png
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by archgoon 11y ago
The actual guts of the algorithm are in compiled javascript https://github.com/imeckler/diffgeo/blob/master/Native/ODE.j... However, this seems to simply be using the numeric library. http:/&#
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by archgoon 11y ago
I was expecting them to put forward an existential risk (rogue AI), but this seems much more mundane. Granted, they might be downplaying that angle to taken more seriously. However, from a mundane perspective, the main issue that you have w
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by archgoon 11y ago
I was expecting them to put forward an existential risk (rogue AI), but this seems much more mundane. Granted, they might be downplaying that angle to taken more seriously. However, from a mundane perspective, the main issue that you have w
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The Police Are Still Out of Control(politico.com)
1 points by archgoon 11y ago|0 comments
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by archgoon 11y ago
> For future HN bug bounty/black market threads: note the absence of Facebook XSS vulns on these price lists. Nobody is paying tens of thousands of dollars for web vulns. Except the vendors. :) Is this due to the fact that the value
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by archgoon 11y ago
What would the testing plan look like?
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Chisel: Constructing Hardware in a Scala Embedded Language(chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu)
57 points by archgoon 11y ago|58 comments
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by archgoon 11y ago
The catch tends to be if you're able to detect when you're in a more complicated situation and bail out accordingly. One very useful thing is auto-labeling, which turns out, getting it wrong is more problematic than one would expe
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by archgoon 11y ago
I do not believe that this is a serious question, and is rather a parody of this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9928556 If this is serious, could you please indicate what you mean by "web-focused", but
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A French Scrabble champion who doesn't speak French(theguardian.com)
165 points by archgoon 11y ago|91 comments
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by archgoon 11y ago
> The product does much better than any other I've used, it's easy to clean, and it takes all manor of abuse. Dyson! It takes on all manors. It'll take on yours. ;)
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by archgoon 11y ago
> This application was developed, with permission, > from the Java circuit simulator by Paul Falstad. Original author approves? Check. > Thanks to the kind permission of Paul Falstad > the source project for thi
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by archgoon 11y ago
Facebook's inline video player uses it. On linux, I get a popup saying that I must install Flash.
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by archgoon 11y ago
A lot of advertising networks use it to deliver advertisements. Whether it is simple inertia at this point, or because the networks can get a better fingerprint using flash, I don't know. Also, it used to be the case that Flash had bet
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by archgoon 11y ago
Interesting, thanks for the reference. Though paragraphs like "But these “linear trend lines” based on the three previous years of data aren’t really useful. The authors’ projection shows that births would actually increase a bit durin
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by archgoon 11y ago
What? Of course it's sloppy journalism. Stating who did the research is important. It's less important in this situation since they link to the actual paper, but it's one of the first things you want to know when you do a rep
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by archgoon 11y ago
That was number 17. I'd link to it, but individual cards don't seem to be real URIs. "The case against: The lead theory has the same problem as the abortion theory: in the 1990s, even people who had been exposed to lead as ch
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by archgoon 11y ago
Here the concern was that Lego would jeopardize it's brand, but they also wanted to leverage their brand to increase appeal. Were the issues you were dealing with similar, or of a different nature? Can you give any examples? I know lit
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by archgoon 11y ago
That sounds interesting; can you provide a link to your homepage? Or describe the project in more detail?
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by archgoon 12y ago
> What? No. That's not how the Vorlons worked at all. But it is how they wanted to be perceived . ;) Granted, Microsoft can quite easily say "We have always been here."
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by archgoon 12y ago
So, when does Microsoft release their Genetic Algorithm / Z3 based Fuzzer called 'Morden'? It's what I want at least.
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by archgoon 12y ago
You'd think Snowden would've mentioned the NSA blackmailing the president.
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by archgoon 12y ago
Why, you didn't actually think that the links that Google displayed were actually _links_ to the websites did you? ;) For a variety of reasons, the links that Google displays when you perform a search first redirect you to their server
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by archgoon 12y ago
Elon Musk is able to do what he does largely because he made himself rich off a startup. If you want to be Elon Musk, you have to be rich.

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