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by bmm6o 11y ago
Ars coverage of the story: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/10/pandor...
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Is there an easy explanation for why the oscillation implies mass?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
That's fine as a long-term goal, but it's pretty directly in conflict with the short-term goal of getting support for this image format into all browsers. If you want this in e.g. IE, someone will have to re-implement it with a l
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> The recidivism rate is even worse. In 2005 almost a half a million inmates were tracked after their release, more than 75% were rearrested within 5 years. We have an electorate and politicians who want to put a lot of people in priso
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by bmm6o 11y ago
That TechCrunch article actually provides several reasons why you should not believe the press release. Did you think it supported your claims?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
What's "politically incorrect" about saying that they have to provide additional services in the Australian market? And I don't buy that a 2-year warranty costs Adobe $1800 per user. How many hours of phone support is
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I'd be surprised if it had the amount of entropy you need. I haven't looked at the source, but javascript in a browser is not a good source of random numbers.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
It depends on your perspective, which can depend on how the topic was presented. One approach (perhaps the mathematical one) is F_0 = F_1 = 1, F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2}, so you generate the series 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... That is, at the time
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by bmm6o 11y ago
(Totally off-topic, but that's not a very apt usage of "diamond in the rough": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/diamond_in_the_rough )
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by bmm6o 11y ago
No problem. I hope I don't sound too negative. It can be fun to play around with ideas like this, and trying to see if you can crack your own systems. But there is a huge gulf between "this is fun and I'm learning somethin
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> problem is that the algorithm itself is what makes the system strong. once revealed in a white paper, the whole thing is useless This is a deal-breaker. Your system is not strong if you rely on other people not knowing how it works.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Have you read the Wikipedia article? It's not written for lay people but it's not bad. Using it you should be able to prove to yourself that if the key has less entropy than the message it's not possible to achieve this leve
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> it's an imitation of OTP mechanism but has nothing to do with how OTP is conventionally implemented That's called a Viginere cipher and people stopped using it in the 19th century.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
> that's used to make it just as secure as the one-time pad, but more practical. No. There is no such thing as "just as secure as the one-time pad but more practical". If you want information-theoretic security you have
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Your key is too short - it's not possible for it to be information-theoretically secure. That's just one of its obvious faults: it looks like it doesn't even work all of the time, the system generates a key instead of taking
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I left off: * Adobe's implementation doesn't have a drop-in replacement that offers a near-frictionless alternative.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
To me, it seems like a combination of several factors: * None of Adobe's products are particularly stable or secure - not even the ones they charge a lot of money for. * Flash's wide install base and the fact that it's ea
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by bmm6o 11y ago
I believe the HTTP spec talks about requests , though I don't know how this was translated into the HTTP/2 spec.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Faking upvotes, no. But that wouldn't be necessary if they had an actual communication channel in place ahead of time. Which they would if they really understood the value of the community and what it takes to manage it.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Yeah, I've heard that, and that's crazy too. The community actually has a veto on communications from the CEO? Absolutely nuts. They couldn't just hack the backend to give her a billion upvotes?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
It's crazy to me how poorly this whole recent "revolt" was handled. The only thing of value to Reddit Inc is the community, so you think they would be more proactive about everything, that they would be hiring more community
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by bmm6o 11y ago
The whole article is like one long spin job. "Explicit" is somehow the happy medium between the query engine putting together a plan based on data statistics and... I'm not even sure what space this claims to be the middle
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Note that schools being supported primarily by local property taxes is how you consistently get bad schools in poor areas, which tends to be a self-reinforcing cycle.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Seconding bargl's comment that getting letters from previous landlords sounds unusual. Others should know that this shouldn't be a blocker.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Parent is talking big-O and so is ignoring that it isn't exactly k^2. Depending on how you count (do 2 nodes require 2 connections or 1 bi-directional connection) it's k(k-1).
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Right, maybe "killed" isn't the right term, but the impression I got was that it lost the support needed to pass.
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by bmm6o 11y ago
The Daily Show had a segment on this a few months ago. IIRC there was a bill in Congress to stop the ivory trade in the US and it had wide support until the NRA spun it as an infringement of your gun rights, because you need to buy/se
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by bmm6o 11y ago
These types of attacks generally have to already extract signal from noise, you're just introducing more noise. The correct solution is to remove the signal, not bury it under more noise. Also, the Law of Large Numbers works against y
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by bmm6o 11y ago
Right, that's what I thought. Is there value in giving the job queue its own database then, or are they taking advantage of the fact that the jobs modifications can be included in transactions that involve other tables?
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by bmm6o 11y ago
The long-lived transaction that keeps the deleted jobs from being reclaimed - is that process working with the job queue table, or is it working with other tables in the database?

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