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by bdhe 15y ago
I tried it, (ten kilometer commute on a bicycle) and a month after I stopped it I was back to what I had been previously. Nothing gained. Now, this is just a personal anecdote, but I've noticed lot of exercises (lifting weights, cardio) h
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by bdhe 15y ago
You should also use SJCL's AES. Here's the link: http://bitwiseshiftleft.github.com/sjcl/
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The TRW entry caught my eye, because it was back in 1984! Here's some more information from wikipedia: TRW Inc. was an American corporation involved in a variety of businesses, mainly aerospace, automotive, and credit reporting. It was a p
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A very interesting observation. Especially since there's no laws protecting it. There are a couple of things to point out: * How well do traditional laws hold up in this new distributed, de-centralized model. In particular, if bitcoin is
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The problem is they tip on the Groupon price, not the full price, and are thus tipping something like 40% of what they should be. I am not intimately familiar with the tipping culture (at least in the US), but here are some genuine questi
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Turkish police arrest 32 suspected Anonymous members(h-online.com)
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IFixit: Chromebook (Samsung Series 5) teardown.(ifixit.com)
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Ars: Inside the US-Anglo-French plan to civilize the Internet(arstechnica.com)
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We should ban the united states from the Internet and leave them with their own will. Simply, disgusting. With a lot of discussion on HN about Eternal September, let me take this opportunity to say comments like these are incredibly group
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Since the article references Bruce Schneier, he gave an interesting TED talk where he once again describes the usability/security tradeoff and how humans are very poor (because of hardwiring) perceivers of risk. This might also be why one n
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by bdhe 15y ago
But who got intoxicated in the first place? Who didn't take reasonable steps to avoid getting behind the wheel? I am not a lawyer, but I believe, firstly, this is largely orthogonal to the original discussion, and secondly, my understandi
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Argh, this is actually a very legitimate case. It is rather unfortunate that in most people's eyes this is viewed as a textbook example of a farcical lawsuit. Some points, which are mentioned in the very wiki article you linked. * The coffe
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by bdhe 15y ago
Bitcoin is not quantum-hard. When quantum computing reaches a certain threshold, bitcoin will lose its uniqueness and collapse. Could you elaborate which aspect of bitcoin has efficient quantum algorithms? The proof-of-work system require
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how are google forms different than other forms on a website? That was poorly phrased. In "normal" websites, a form sends information to the web server and SSL ensures that no passive or active adversary listening to the wire can compromi
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I think there's a subtle difference. Think of a parent who has been told to never enter sensitive information unless the URL has a little green lock. Unfortunately, as shown in the article, these phishing attempts are over SSL and might tri
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Perhaps coincidence. Still, interesting. Almost certainly a coincidence. RSA was under an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) a while back in March, which might have lead to compromising the security of the SecurID tokens. http://www.pcworl
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by bdhe 15y ago
The article talks about how Western Union telegraph was taken over by essentially one person, which in turn thoroughly destroyed the credibility and trust in the system. I can imagine something similar happening to the internet, and some pe
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The internet doesn't need fixing, what it needs is protection from men who want to put a big fence around it and charge you money so you can get some. Ars Technica had this feature article that I thought was very insightful. http://arste
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In that vein, I highly recommend his lectures titled "Quantum Computing Since Democritus". His notes are amazingly written: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/ and largely cover complexity theory from the ground up (not just quantum
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Here are a couple of articles on the announcement by Scott Aaronson and Dave Bacon (professors at MIT and U Washington). http://blogs.forbes.com/alexknapp/2011/05/24/q-and-a-with-pr... http://www.quora.com/Is-the-D-Wave-One-a-true-quantu
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Does anyone know if voice traffic actually passes through super-nodes, or are super-nodes just used for authentication, and punching holes through NAT? If it does, can you point to a reference stating this? Yes, Skype traffic does pass th
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by bdhe 15y ago
Income Tax Colony? Lot of companies in India both public and private, including the govt. have subsidized housing adjacent to the office buildings. They're often called colonies. A lot of the times, these subsidized housing options are op
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by bdhe 15y ago
This is off-topic, but his blog is not only readable but has a very distinctive design/feel to it. It immediately reminded me of these two fantastic articles that have appeared on HN before. ViM: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-ho
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Bitcoin could be to quantum computing what Sputnik was to NASA. Could you elaborate? Does mining bitcoins become easier with quantum computers? Is there some other connection I'm missing?
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...but on second thought, I'm sure Facebook is big everywhere. According to this website ( http://www.nickburcher.com/2011/04/facebook-usage-statistics... ) the US has 150 million, out of 600 million active facebook users (according to wi
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Refusing to sign it and taking your business elsewhere is one of the best ways to let them know that you won't stand for this type of thing. Although this is probably the best way to let them know, unfortunately real world constraints oft
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The author kind of mentions this but not explicitly. When you want to use obscurity always make sure it is layered on top of security. In other words, if you are hiding some piece of information that you think helps in security, always ma
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I was assuming dropbox would do reference counting so they could delete data that nobody is using, and account tracking so they can put storage limits on your account and charge you for using more space. Definitely. There are a few proble
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They save a lot of costs by deduplicating copies of files, and it makes file renames/moves/shares really easy for them. Therefore, they wouldn't have the incentive to destroy that advantage: That's one of the major scale advantages they ge
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They don't need to - you upload AES(F, H(F)), so if the RIAA give DropBox a sample "Beyonce: Pop Song #7.mp3" file, DropBox can do H(F), then do AES(F, H(F)), then say "do we have this? Yes. Who uploaded it? Accounts adambloggs1, beatriceb

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