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An interesting take on three emerging Cyber Threats.(schneier.com)
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by bdhe 15y ago
Looks like a digital, semi-automated scrapbook. It is also starting to look a lot like what myspace was. Of course, without allowing customization, they could make it look a lot cleaner and meaningful but only time will tell.
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by bdhe 15y ago
Also, every number system is base "10" in its own system :-)
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I guess their credibility is now completely out the window and from a reply to this post: There's no such as independent back there to begin with. I find this to be incredibly annoying. Asimov's essay on relativity of wrong should be ma
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by bdhe 15y ago
This comes up often. I took it upon myself to write it out without too many technical details. You can see it here (in particular, the section about uploading and syncing files): http://crypto.stanford.edu/~ananthr/dropbox/
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Zombies, Run A running adventure game for iOS/Android(kickstarter.com)
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by bdhe 15y ago
Interestingly, this seems to converge towards traditional ways of mass transit, like trains. Except for two crucial differences with regards to the US: Insane connectivity, seeing how good the highway system is in the US, and of course the
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by bdhe 15y ago
Let's not get into name-calling. I think HN usually agrees that despite his personality Arrington did definitely have the skills and contacts it took to "rise to the top" and carve out a niche for himself. If we choose to disagree with how
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Commandlinefu: Get Futurama quotes from Slashdot headers.(commandlinefu.com)
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Controversy over Cantor's theory.(secure.wikimedia.org)
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In the rare circumstance that someone hasn't read Isaac Asimov's Foundation Series , this immediately reminded me of Hari Seldon's work ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychohistory_(fictional) )
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Excellent quote. I cannot unfortunately pull up citations but there was this great New Yorker piece on the prison system which talked about how ever since privatization of prisons began, vocational rehabilitation programs were severely cut
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Mathematica uses the Rule 30 Cellular Automaton as a PRNG.(en.wikipedia.org)
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Rob Pike (2001): Presentation looking back on 1 billion seconds of Unix. [pdf](herpolhode.com)
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While they are the most population-dense areas and are growing faster than other places in the world, I'm pretty sure it's more likely that the 7 billionth person won't be born in India or China. It takes all of 2 mins to calculate. All f
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Cool stuff. He has two more follow ups that I thought I'd post if someone was interested. This man is an amazing writer and truly a genius of our generation. http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/the-no-self-defeati... http://terryt
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Terry Tao: The "no self-defeating object" argument(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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TLS-SRP: The smarter way to do password authentication.(secure.wikimedia.org)
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Phil Zimmermann: Beware of Snake Oil Crypto (1997)(philzimmermann.com)
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Technically off-topic, but I would like to spread word about this documentary by Al-Jazeera English that talks about the revolution that was not covered in the west. It is an absolutely horrifying video covering the protests and the brutal
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I tried to find a $200 Porsche, but couldn't so I had no problem stealing one. At first glance this might seem a fine refutation of the earlier point, but upon deeper inspection, it falls back on the fallacy that digital data is analogous
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Research website: https://telex.cc/ Paper: https://telex.cc/paper.html Previous discussions: 1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2775988 2. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2790146 All in all, the community consensus is unclea
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This is a little off topic but I have to rebut your argument. There's plenty of information and sources cited in this article [1,2,3] and I can't understand the sentiment that the problems with Monsanto are more hype than real. Also, a comp
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There are 2 things I'm curious about ever since I heard the NPR podcast on patents. 1. It almost seems like IV is involved in a lot, if not all, "patent troll lawsuits" over the past few weeks. Is this a coincidence, or is IV one of the "bi
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People study the Price of Anarchy [1] to design algorithms to minimize the deleterious effects of decentralizing decision making to rational and selfish agents. Traffic flow is a textbook example of selfish behaviour leading to highly ineff
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Obligatory link for those who haven't seen it before but want to know the right way to do it. http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/
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2012: The Alan Turing Year. A list of centenary events.(mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk)
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This and plenty of other interesting ideas here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2810689 and in the replies to OP: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2809544
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This isn't the first time: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_PATRIOT_Act
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Ars: Is serious patent reform on the horizon?(arstechnica.com)
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