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by arnarbi 10y ago
Then just don't show a dialog.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
We do, and some folks even think it is economical to lay a sea bed power cable to the UK to sell some of it off. Most of the electricity is exported already in the form of aluminum. Whether or not to keep building hydro power plants is one
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Offer current buyers the option of giving a second copy to charity for an extra $5?
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Can't agree enough with this. Here's a safe type of bike lane (note the two curbs): http://therecord.blogs.com/.a/6a00d8341c465d53ef0133f21e9125... Here are two incredibly unsafe types, but for some reason th
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Link is to a Go lib for termbox, which is a Curses alternative. Title is inaccurate. https://code.google.com/archive/p/termbox/
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by arnarbi 10y ago
A closer to home example: This is how the top comment starts on the HN thread about the ZLL master key being published, two years ago: "This may not be much of an attack. The master key is used only during "commissioning", wh
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Many misunderstand the classical lesson as "substitution ciphers are trivially broken by symbol frequency analysis", which isn't the point. The point is to illustrate a property of a cipher that leaks information, in this cas
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by arnarbi 10y ago
A lot of smart folks just have enough other things to deal with in their life to allow them to make informed decisions on every single topic. At the same time, marketing machines use side-channels to put unhealthy choices at the front of th
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by arnarbi 10y ago
As you point out, there's a right way to do fingerprints, which Apple did. Only the key pair stored in the secure enclave is tied to your online identity. There is a missing link in the trust chain though, which is attestation of that
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by arnarbi 10y ago
My point is that this is still more expensive than harvesting knowledge factors with phishing and stealing dbs where people use the same factors.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
When done correctly, fingerprints are both something you are and something you have: The fingerprint data should reside in and work only to activate an HSM that then proves possession of an attested key pair. That way the HSM (and the devic
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by arnarbi 10y ago
It's a "something you are" authentication factor, since it is presumed that the cost of faking a fingerprint is too high to be worth it in those cases.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Either I missed something or this is wildly inaccurate. The PM's party lost much support in this election, in particular the coalition they're in doesn't have majority. This was expected. I find no Icelandic news about him re
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by arnarbi 10y ago
That's very far from the reality of European politics. Iceland has had left governments before, and many Western European countries do have left wing governments. Why would the us suddenly start assassinating people?
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by arnarbi 10y ago
curl|sh isn't the least bit less secure than downloading a software distribution and just running it.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
I use these http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
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by arnarbi 10y ago
I don't think they were proposing using J per time as a unit for power, just for power instead of using W * time.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Yes, you are absolutely right ("Pilot's handbook of aeronautical knowledge", "Helicopter flying handbook", etc.). That said, rational numbers and twelfth root of two etc. aren't exactly what musicians or compos
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by arnarbi 10y ago
I'm not an a musician by most measures, and definitely not an experienced one. I lack exactly training and experience, so my understanding of music notation comes from the same kind of observations as the post author - only over a long
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by arnarbi 10y ago
This is the case for many complex topics. One recent example for me is aviation: Textbooks for pilots are woefully inaccurate, contradictory, and plain confusing. But they get you flying. This happens naturally when you can practice an art&
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by arnarbi 10y ago
This is a great point. Hiding behind "mumbo-jumbo" is certainly a big problem with many art forms, and actively prevents a lot of people from entering or even enjoying it. Classical music is sadly especially plagued by this. It&#x
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by arnarbi 10y ago
> Because it was voted to the top after being deemed interesting by HN users. Maybe I worded my actual thought poorly: Why do HN users deem this interesting? It's an honest question, not rhetorical.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Torrent-of-ions is correct. Equal temperament is a compromise in tuning (assigning pitches to notes) which makes the most keys sound ok. The intervals aren't perfect, but close enough. If you tuned a piano for perfect intervals in one
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Yes, this.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Why is this at the top of HN? While the author is right that western music notation has shortcomings, almost none of the (admittedly poorly understood) reasons they list are a factor in that. > [Key signatures] completely obscure the r
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Frankly, I don't understand your comparison. A "smart" door lock isn't trying to make your door harder, it's trying to make it more convenient to operate than your regular lock.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Criticism is good. Straw men are not ("your opinions and arguments on dbs are irrelevant because your blog fell over"), and being holier-than-thou about it only makes people stop listening to your actual criticism. That's why
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Or when you only remember phrases from the letter and you want Google to find it for you.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
That second point is a really unnecessarily belittling straw man, and I think such comments are counterproductive to the discussion.
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by arnarbi 10y ago
Serializing data for RPC, network protocols or storage, description and serialization of configuration, serializable state, serializing complex types for cryptographic signing, etc. Why is it useful? The schema both documents the data struc

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