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by bascule 13y ago
They're actually talking about pursuing a "N:1" concurrency model (i.e. userland-managed coroutines in the kernel). See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXuZi9aeGTw
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by bascule 13y ago
It's like Go with more features: Go and Rust offer GC. Rust allows you to choose when you use it. Rust also makes it explicit when you're allocating memory whatsoever. Go and Rust offer M:N threading. Rust provides separate heaps
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by bascule 13y ago
Came here to post the same thing. IMO a company should be created to DELIGHT CUSTOMERS. FULL STOP.
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by bascule 13y ago
It told me to go fuck myself when I put in Mephistopheles Stout by Avery. I think it's broken
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by bascule 13y ago
For robotics, see Artoo: http://artoo.io/
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by bascule 13y ago
See also: Freenet, MNet: https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere/wiki/FAQ#q-what...
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by bascule 13y ago
See Matt Green's Zerocoin concept: http://zerocoin.org/
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by bascule 13y ago
Cryptosphere author here. Thanks for the mention! The brochure site probably provides a better overview than the github project page: http://cryptosphere.org I should also give a shout out to Tahoe-LAFS, which the Cryptosphere i
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by bascule 13y ago
therubyrhino and nokogiri provide pure Java backends on JRuby, FYI
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by bascule 13y ago
Schneier has been giving some pretty weird advice lately. This is probably the weirdest thing I've seen from him: "Prefer conventional discrete-log-based systems over elliptic-curve systems; the latter have constants that the NSA
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by bascule 13y ago
Check out Xavier Shay's talk on JRuby at Square for more info on our experiences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMpd4CzR1f8
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by bascule 13y ago
Not as great as some other language ecosystems, however many people are using Sidekiq, a multithreaded job queue, successfully (and more generally, the Celluloid concurrency framework Sidekiq is based on)
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by bascule 13y ago
Until Rails 4, the core framework didn’t even support concurrent request handling. Rails has supported multithreaded operation since 2.2: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/2_2_release_notes.html It never gained widesp
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by bascule 13y ago
Actually it's by a PhD linguist, who developed his own modified version of PageRank that incorporates sentiment analysis combining Markov chains and multidimensional vector spaces as his thesis. This is just showing off in a potentiall
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Show HN: my friend made an adult blog search engine but was afraid to post it(pornblur.com)
13 points by bascule 13y ago|4 comments
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by bascule 13y ago
If you think that's cool, you ain't seen nothin' yet. Check out Andrew Miller's PhD thesis: a compiler that can take the Agda description of any data structure and produce a cryptographically authenticated "Merkel
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by bascule 13y ago
I think the larger problem is referential transparency: most OO languages allow two objects that represent the same states to have distinct identities, even if compare-by-value claims they're equal. Of course, it's not impossible
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by bascule 13y ago
Tahoe-LAFS is a mature project of this nature: https://tahoe-lafs.org/ I am writing a similar project which is fairly immature: https://github.com/cryptosphere/cryptosphere
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by bascule 13y ago
If you're interested in this sort of thing, also take a look at MenTaLguY's WebActors: https://github.com/mental/webactors
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by bascule 13y ago
Client certs can't be phished
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by bascule 13y ago
I brought up OTP because it actually provides perfect secrecy, unlike "perfect" forward secrecy. And yes, we won't know when (or for the true pessimists, if) quantum computers capable of breaking today's public keys will
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by bascule 13y ago
I don't think you understand Diffie-Hellman, or how forward secrecy applies to it, so let me take you through it. Alice and Bob want to compute a shared secret with ECDHE. I'll use Wikipedia's notation: https://en.
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Imperfect Forward Secrecy: The Coming Cryptocalypse(tonyarcieri.com)
22 points by bascule 13y ago|8 comments
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by bascule 13y ago
How long until they can fix my vitreous floaters?
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by bascule 13y ago
A sufficiently patient attacker can still eavesdrop on TLS sessions established via RSA or ECDHE today, wait for quantum computers to arrive (10+ years?), then break their public keys, and derive the symmetric keys used to encrypt the sessi
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by bascule 13y ago
McBits is a public key encryption algorithm which should be resistant to attacks by quantum computers: http://binary.cr.yp.to/mcbits.html
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by bascule 13y ago
But what about GSOS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_GS/OS
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by bascule 13y ago
Given the local root in Linux lately (CVE-2013-2094), would you still recommend Linux for a server OS? :P
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The cloud isn't dead. It just needs to evolve(tonyarcieri.com)
2 points by bascule 13y ago|1 comments
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by bascule 13y ago
So I'm confused: are you accusing William Binney of lying, or do you just think he doesn't understand Stellar Wind as well as you do? To reiterate: William Binney's allegations are that the NSA had the opportunity to intercep

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