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Facebook Vindicated in Irish Privacy Audit(foxnews.com)
1 points by aristus 15y ago|0 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
FWIW, my book is 3.something MB. I don't care that much, though most people assume that revenue splits come after costs. It turns out that most/all book contracts give everyone's cuts out of the retail price, then costs. The rest, if any, g
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by aristus 15y ago
Not sure I get your point. At a higher price, the net would higher, yes. But it is still not and will never be "70%" as advertised by Amazon. The total cost of printing the book or "digital delivery" is taken out of the author's cut. Tradit
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by aristus 15y ago
I don't normally rise to your mocking/trolling/whatever, jrockway. I am glad you are content with your life and transport choices. In the past, I have never had problems renting cars. I rented one in Mexico the month previous, no problem. B
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by aristus 15y ago
Spot on, but a minor correction. The 70% (or 60% for print-on-demand) revenue split advertised isn't what it seems. This is how it breaks down in reality: Paperback retail price: $15 Amazon takes 40% of retail : -$6 Amazon charges you fu
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by aristus 15y ago
Of the top of my head: start off with big up/down buttons. Then show a list of floors. Some people won't notice the second press required, but it's a start. I was confused by those things the first time too.
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by aristus 15y ago
I had a harsh experience while on vacation recently. In Miami, I was utterly and completely refused a rental car because I didn't have credit history. Never mind that I could buy one of their cars, cash. They didn't want to hear it.
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by aristus 15y ago
From a person who loves to read, this article is barely coherent. It lists three things that will "kill" bookstores then says Barnes is "only good at two of them". Wha? Only good at two ways of killing yourself? And one of those things that
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by aristus 15y ago
http://carlos.bueno.org/2009/11/ycombinators-rfs-5-accidenta...
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by aristus 15y ago
A cathouse, as it were.
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Lauren Ipsum: how to draw a circle(carlos.bueno.org)
3 points by aristus 15y ago|2 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
When I worked at Spock we had pretty much the same policy. Spock mined everything it could, including corporate bios, news articles, phone directories, etc. It wasn't deeply thought out; we just didn't have time to work it out fully. There
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by aristus 15y ago
Surprisingly it's hard to track down. The Wiki article linked abode has one or two mentions of a "Mexico incident", but that's it. Here are some others: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/05/01/science/nuclear-spill-at-j...
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by aristus 15y ago
There was another incident 25-odd years ago near where I grew up on the US/Mexico border. Radioactive steel (with cesium or cobalt, from medical equipment, IIRC) was sold for scrap and turned into various things like restaurant tables. It w
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by aristus 15y ago
...for one thing, every offhand remark becomes a news story.
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by aristus 15y ago
No, you're right. The first chapter is allegory. Lauren is literally attacked by the Jargon. You're not supposed to understand all those words. They are Jargon. :) Not much learning happens in chapter 0 but it sets up the rest of the story.
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by aristus 15y ago
What about it gives you pause? The goal isn't to teach programming per se, but to have fun with some of the really interesting ideas and habits of mind that go along with programming. And to sneak in a lot of bad jokes. Do you have or know
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A little game to demonstrate timing attacks.(carlos.bueno.org)
215 points by aristus 15y ago|68 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
I get what you're saying and I'm sorry if I was snarky. On the subject of politeness, I myself don't enjoy reading posts titled "Facebook privacy fuckup" at 5am on a Sunday. Please also remember that not every report actually pans out. I ca
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by aristus 15y ago
Fair enough, I won't quibble. In the absence of a bug report, and having to do this in public, I'm trying to get what information I can. I'm also trying to respond to the author's claims about private investigators, etc.
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by aristus 15y ago
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. Were you reporting bugs (eg X doesn't work), or a security vulnerability? Where did you report?
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by aristus 15y ago
Larger arrows. My #1 feature wish. Why do I have 10 points just for signing up?
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by aristus 15y ago
/whitehat is not a "complaint letter". It goes directly to the security team oncall, whose job is to keep users safe even if it means killing things written by other engineers at Facebook that had unintended consequences. (edit: removed sna
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by aristus 15y ago
If you are truly concerned about harm to users, did you try reporting this to facebook.com/security or facebook.com/whitehat? FWIW, I've alerted some people. Your post is unclear on one point. Did you see this screen BEFORE confirming via S
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by aristus 15y ago
Good point. I am going off of the original algo by von Neumann, which throws away both flips if you get HH or TT. There are many others, and I don't see any reason against your optimization, if the flips are truly independent. http://www.f
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by aristus 15y ago
A fair cop. :) I used to ask it as a follow-up to a much harder, less "ah-ha" question, to see how candidates approach probability.
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by aristus 15y ago
If you did, then it was very likely me interviewing you, and you should have said that you had seen it before. #busted :D
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by aristus 15y ago
50/50 is a special case. You don't need to use the von Neumann extractor. This algo is for sources of randomness that you suspect have a bias. But if you did use this algo on a 50/50 coin, half the time you'll get an HH or TT and have to st
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How to turn a biased coin into a Fair Coin(carlos.bueno.org)
137 points by aristus 15y ago|47 comments
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by aristus 15y ago
I submitted an article, two actually. Peter gave extensive feedback and went over it in person with me on his own time. He was looking at first for quite long (20k) pieces, which was beyond my ability and depth of knowledge. At the time I w

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