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by bigmac 16y ago
This thing has real potential. Props to whoever put it together.
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by bigmac 16y ago
For awhile I had a coworker with less than stellar English skills. Said employee wrote an error message that was poorly worded, and somehow we missed it and the poor English was shipped to customers. The response was that everyone on the
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by bigmac 16y ago
Wow, ok. I thought "How to make it in prison" was going to be some ironic title on breaking out of a chroot prison or something. Nope, its actually about being in real-life prison. Some topics include whether to join a gang and how to ga
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by bigmac 16y ago
The Social Network
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by bigmac 16y ago
When you say inliner, are you referring to LLVM's inliner or something closer to the front end? I know LLVM's is pretty aggressive as is -- are you able to get benefits from it?
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by bigmac 16y ago
Or, some enterprising Arc programmer could add inboxes to HN and submit the patch to pg. I'm quite fond of using that feature on reddit. Although it is used somewhat rarely, it comes in handy when I do need it.
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by bigmac 16y ago
That said, the process of dealing with each Android handset on a case by case basis is a lot more arduous and time consuming than developing the app for platforms like iOS and Windows Phone 7. I have to wonder if that has something to do
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by bigmac 16y ago
I work for a software protection company. We have a White-box cryptography product. Setting aside the ambiguity of a term like "serious cryptographers," the best I can do is point you to this overview of the field: http://homes.esat.kule
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by bigmac 16y ago
The encryption/decryption libraries exist on Windows. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_DRM
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by bigmac 16y ago
Its all based on whose content you are streaming, and what specifications they mandate for access to their content. Generally, I'd imagine both Hulu and Netflix are subject to the same specs, but I'm not familiar with the specifics. Your i
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by bigmac 16y ago
The problem comes down to key-hiding. You can encrypt it all you want but if the attacker can extract the key from the software the game is over. Working with the mobile phone providers, you can embed the root key in hardware. This makes
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by bigmac 16y ago
There are certain specs that anyone implementing a video streaming/content delivery service must comply with. The studios mandate that certain specs be followed, and an engineer has to sign off that they've implemented the DRM spec correct
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by bigmac 16y ago
I was at David Sehr's presentation at the LLVM conference. There are something like a dozen Googlers working on getting PNaCL working. They are able to get pretty close to the performance of native code, which is pretty enticing. There's
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by bigmac 16y ago
His TED talk gives an interesting perspective on Global Warming, and how we should be thinking about it. ~17mins, worth the time. http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioritie... I watched it awhile ago. The argument I re
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by bigmac 16y ago
I've looked into this a bit. There are three programs that I'm aware of: The BitBlaze project at UC Berkeley. http://bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu/ There's also http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/amk/ which offers a PhD studentship in "R
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by bigmac 16y ago
Dave did a nice job on this. I found that it summarizes me pretty well, so I'm going to add a link on my profile that points to it. Might be kind of nice to have it automatically do that a la hackernewsers.
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by bigmac 16y ago
Practical Cryptography - Schneier/Ferguson Algebra - Artin Of Human Bondage - Maugham Malware Analyst's Cookbook - Ligh et al.
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by bigmac 16y ago
This is an appealing program and makes it legitimate to get paid for vuln research. The other group that pays for vulnerabilities is the zero-day initiative. Here: http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/ That said, since we're kind of a free-
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by bigmac 16y ago
I can't quite understand if you're saying GA's are neural networks, or just that both of them are overused. Either way, one of the big problems is that the heuristics for a heuristic algorithm must be designed by with human insights. In t
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by bigmac 16y ago
It looks like this was targeting an x86_64 version of the kernel. For a good reference on LLVM-supported backends, see this table: http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures Clearly, x86 gets the most love. x86, ARM, PPC, an
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by bigmac 16y ago
If you're going to be developing a sort of API and plumbing that underlies this, you'll probably want to have at least one application that you use as your test bed for the API. Sort of how HN was PG's test application for Arc. It should
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Sal Khan visits the Gates Foundation(thegatesnotes.com)
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by bigmac 16y ago
Under what circumstances did you decide to get an RFID chip implanted in your hand? I'm genuinely curious.
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by bigmac 16y ago
The comments on this page seem surprisingly negative. I for one just had a great experience using that service. I've been looking on and off for months for a course on Abstract Algebra (with lectures). So, I type in "abstract algebra" int
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by bigmac 16y ago
His social value calculations towards the end of that video are not to be missed -- it was quite the pitch.
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by bigmac 16y ago
Yeah, I'd like to see someone's lecture notes or something. "Mandatory Attendance"...
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by bigmac 16y ago
I'll be there -- if any HN'ers didn't sign up for the 2v2 tourney but want to enter with a Plat/Diamond Terran, let me know :) They're expecting some cancellations so maybe we could sneak in. More on topic: I'm looking forward to Michael's
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by bigmac 16y ago
I feel about Southwest the same way many around here feel about Dropbox; such a great service that gives me exactly what I want. It will be interesting to see how Airtran employees are integrated into Southwest's fold. For some reason I lo
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by bigmac 16y ago
[DELETE: So we should close down schools that are failing, get a lot of good charter schools and figure out new contracts for teachers so that better teachers can get paid more money, that more for performance as opposed to just based on h
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by bigmac 16y ago
A bit more discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699405

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