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by ay 16y ago
Trapdoor function means the function is easy to calculate in one direction, but is difficult to calculate in the other direction without knowing a special bit of information that allows this calculation much easier . What would a trapdoor
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by ay 16y ago
thanks for enlightening about the context surrounding it - that explains the emotions some folks have towards the report. I treated the name as just a name so the reactions were pretty hard to explain. In context, together with this sentenc
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by ay 16y ago
You have a valid point. I am sorry. The second question even respectable strangers tend to ask me after "where you are from ?" is "you must be really into drinking vodka ?", so the effect of stereotypes on me is mostly amusement. Another ex
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by ay 16y ago
"a play on the stereotype" - this makes it humorous, not racist. Please, please, please, oh dear people. Try to be a little bit less busy with the showdown maquillage of political correctness and overthinking. Putting variables X, Y, Z in
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by ay 16y ago
I would be cautious in making the conclusions. Technically, it's quite trivial to implement precisely what you say is impossible. How: give the private key of an RSA keypair to US Govt; use the public key of that keypair on the clientside t
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by ay 16y ago
...Then you install Linux and the problem becomes identical to the one we have just solved ;-) I am saying this semi-seriously: have been using Linux as my primary OS on the desktop for the past 9 years, with half-year deflections to MacOS
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by ay 16y ago
If you are using only the open source edition of VirtualBox, kvm can do a reasonable job. I run Windows 7 on it in headless mode with VNC - primarily I need it for the presentations, everything else I do from Linux. My perception was that i
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by ay 16y ago
I thought it'd not be too much entropy, though maybe writing it as "kkkohd{3+1}" could have helped :-)
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by ay 16y ago
I stand corrected indeed, sorry. I heard it first played by Guns'n'Roses, and the association is so strong I did not even have a second thought.
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by ay 16y ago
(I was wondering if anyone were to ask ;-) Knocking on Heaven's Door by Guns'n'Roses. (With a couple of l33t character replacements, I admit).
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by ay 16y ago
The usual trick is to use only the first letters of each word: e.g. something like "Mttboom1cuia!Igdtdts1flIkohd." is reasonably strong and is easy to remember (it's just a song). Or you use all the characters ?
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by ay 16y ago
I read it and do not find anything snarky in it. But the way you mentioned it made me wonder: there are "intentions" and there are "results" - are there a lot of the comments that are intentionally snarky ? Or, the snarkiness is just a way
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by ay 16y ago
Another algorithm which is much simpler in its recursive form is a flood-fill - paint the screen area with a given color till you hit a "border".
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by ay 16y ago
And then would be very interesting to feed a Bayesian filter with this feedback, and see if that filter can pick up future "snarky" comments automatically. If that works, then requiring a proof of work (a simple-ish logical puzzle) attached
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by ay 16y ago
Very interesting. I had a similar (same?) idea though did not push it further than grabbing the domain (ovrdub.com) UX-wise, I wonder if there is a reason why you do not represent the different "pieces" as tracks ? I think this might make i
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by ay 16y ago
Agree, just x86 and x86_64 - though realistically, is there a lot of usage of other platforms for high-performance servers ? And if the server is not high-performing, mongrel2 + $something can be a very good choice. (And has a more liberal
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by ay 16y ago
See my comment above about the TCP minions.
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by ay 16y ago
Catch up with Jana on twitter @janaiyengar to check if he has more details to share. I think having minions is a great idea to get the networking out of (TCP|UDP) ghetto.
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by ay 16y ago
TCP minions is there to solve precisely this problem: http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/2009/tng/papers/pfldnet10-slides.pd... TCP over TCP works well enough as soon as your packet loss is small enough to be within the fast retransmit. As soon as
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by ay 16y ago
Luajit2 approaches C on speed [1] - and with the newly released FFI library the C is not really needed that much - so, pretty much all the work has been already done. Just use the results of it :) [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=64
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by ay 16y ago
Probably the reason is a higher percentage of gentlemen than you might meet elsewhere.
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by ay 16y ago
Good point. "A reward for determining the most liked of the two movies" probably would not fly.
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by ay 16y ago
"POINTS" - how are they shown ? Chromium here, I do not see them...
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by ay 16y ago
Fun! Here's an idea for you to consider for getting money out of it: display the two choices "coming up" and accept person betting either on one or the other. Don't show how many people placed a bet. When the choice is done - the part that
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by ay 16y ago
The creators of Microsoft, Apple, Google were not daydreaming about it. They were busy doing stuff.
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by ay 16y ago
He misspoke. NHK correcting this now. micro is correct; NOT milli
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by ay 16y ago
180 workers onsite now, according to YokosoNews folks translating the TBS.
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by ay 16y ago
This link that you posted seems to be sending a lot of misinformation, though the "return to work" part is correct. Radiation levels in Tokyo are near-normal as far as I can see on the online counters. I'm collecting the factual links that
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Live broadcast with English translation of Japan news(ustream.tv)
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by ay 16y ago
Very interesting set of docs. However, I think the language misses in two areas that have shown to be pain points: * Blocking resolvers. They are a royal pain in an interactive GUI app. But I guess here the language goes with what the OS pr

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