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by bo1024 5y ago
The top comment on this HN submission at the moment has this misunderstanding.
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by bo1024 5y ago
People publish in journals (etc) because of the peer review and reputation. People are much more likely to read, trust, cite a paper that’s been through peer review. Also people are more likely to discover the paper by looking in prestigiou
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by bo1024 5y ago
Framework might be for you! I think it's 3:2.
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by bo1024 5y ago
One really nice thing about ncurses (which I used in python to make an email user agent) —- you can run ncurses apps in an ssh session.
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by bo1024 5y ago
This strikes me as extremely generous. I agree that on an individual level, developers may be just following an industry-trend path of least resistance. The trend is putting the developer first. But as a general phenomenon, it's exploi
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by bo1024 5y ago
Just to clarify, FOSS has significant provisions above and beyond allowing personal use. The term non-free is very different from "not allowed to use at all".
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don't think this is a good fit for HN. It's just a couple tweets.
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I don't know what those companies do, hopefully someone who does know will chime in and answer.
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I didn't mean to suggest a targeted attack. If the goal is to just overwhelm Apple's system, the attacker doesn't need to target a particular phone, they just need to distribute lots of colliding images to some phones. Even t
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don't know. I don't know what other systems use, I just know what I've read recently about Apple's.
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by bo1024 5y ago
That's true, one way to put it is that traditionally non-cryptographic hashes are supposed to prevent accidental collisions, while cryptographic ones should prevent even collisions on purpose. But hashing is used in many places that co
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by bo1024 5y ago
Not complete answers but background: apple’s system works by having your device create a hash of each image you have. The hash (a short hexadecimal string) is compared to a list of known CP image hashes, and if it matches, then your image i
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by bo1024 5y ago
> The fact that you can randomly manipulate random noise until it matches the hash of an arbitrary image is not surprising. Strongly disagree. (1) The primary feature of any decent hash function is that this should not happen. (2) Any pr
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> "Market approach" is when you don't give any thought about the cost to other party - you just make your request, and expect them to tell you whether they'll do it, how long will it take, and what they expect in retu
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by bo1024 5y ago
They announce the challenge starting today and it ends 6 days from now? I feel like that will really limit the entries.
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by bo1024 5y ago
If you have DuckDuckGo in your browser search bar, then you get their bang functionality automatically, which replicates this. E.g. "bicycle !w" searches wikipedia. Includes !so (stackoverflow), !g (google), !yt (youtube), !a (ama
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by bo1024 5y ago
Agree, the quote lumping the models of computation together is very misleading. Turing’s machines are immediately obvious how to mechanize and automate, even with very old technology. That was the key difference. Then proving them equivalen
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I also couldn't follow. It seemed to jump between topics without making a connection or using them to make a central point that I could see.
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Cheating is posting the question to Chegg and then copying the answer someone posts into your exam. For example.
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It seems like the thing that makes it steep is the percentage rather than a charge per transaction, right? Philosophically it's geared to the total value you generate rather than the value they provide to you.
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If you don't know Dan Luu's blog, I suggest reading the rest!
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by bo1024 5y ago
There are versions of Gibbard's theorem for outputting a single winner too. The famous one is Gibbard-Satterthwaite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbard%E2%80%93Satterthwaite_...
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by bo1024 5y ago
The final note is important, otherwise the statement of Roth's result is misleading. The X-proposing version of deferred acceptance is strategyproof for X's, but not for the other side (the Y's). For example in the national r
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by bo1024 5y ago
Just to respond seriously for a second: it's good to remind ourselves that ML isn't magic. If it knew your weight and age it would use those for predicting life expectancy instead. Same for smoking history, sleep habits, etc. But
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Makes sense, thanks for the reply!
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But is it right that the issue is fetching resources from a different domain than the current one? As a user, just because I've connected to domain A, it doesn't mean I necessarily want my computer to connect to any domain B that
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by bo1024 5y ago
I think "exploit" is more accurate than "hurt" here.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I don't agree with this. It's fine to have an opinion, but I don't think it should be represented as a consensus when it's not. (edited to add) There is an important difference between having downsides and being a scam.
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by bo1024 5y ago
Actually, my understanding is that cryptocurrencies are having impact in developing countries. They can address hyperinflation, access to financial services, general friction in exchanging money etc.
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by bo1024 5y ago
I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, but in other areas of computer science it works in a very similar way to yours.

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