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DissidentX is a censorship resistance tool.(github.com)
3 points by ch 13y ago|0 comments
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by ch 13y ago
There is a nice treatment on entropy coders in Managing Gigabytes ( http://ww2.cs.mu.oz.au/mg/ ). I highly recommend the text as it gives good background on entropy encodings and it also takes a nice engineering approach
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Finite State Entropy - A new breed of entropy coder(fastcompression.blogspot.fr)
78 points by ch 13y ago|13 comments
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3,111 email addresses and $15,798: The story of my first successful product(planningforaliens.com)
3 points by ch 13y ago|0 comments
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by ch 13y ago
Considering that a face transplant currently requires a lifetime regimine of immunosuppressives ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_transplant#Ethics.2C_Surge... ) in order to have post-op acceptance of the transplant by
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by ch 13y ago
sdedit looks like a really useful tool. Thanks for posting this!
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by ch 13y ago
In the mode where a client is responsible to move writes from 'pending' to 'good', it wasn't clear to me what happens if the client dies before contacting all servers in the second pass? Does the data remain stable, or must some additional
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by ch 13y ago
Someone should check that thing for back doors! http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by ch 14y ago
This is the point right here. Google intends these URLs for machine consumption, that you can simulate the work of the computer by hand doesn't change the facts. It also doesn't prevent them from creating another alternative URL scheme wh
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by ch 14y ago
What this boils down to is that there is space on the Web for both human consumable, and machine consumable URLs. If a URL becomes a popular for human usage, it is a safe bet to keep it as it is, that doesn't mean you cannot have all sorts
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by ch 14y ago
Nice hack. I would have liked to see some power draw measurements on this. The LiPo battery is a good source of power, however if the draw is low enough, a portable solar power source would allow for indefinite usage (perhaps even charging
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by ch 14y ago
Perhaps you need to think of this hack as something that is useful not in the case of when you are stuck in a place for only 4-5 hours, but instead something for when you deliberately plan to be off the grid for more than 4-5 hours.
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by ch 14y ago
I think the author has an interesting proposal in his idea of "Letters to the Author"; however, one thing lacking in such a scheme is that the "Letters to the Editor" tend to come at the start of a publication, which itself can be thought o
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by ch 14y ago
Yes but just being logged in isn't evidence enough. Someone might have lifted his account password and logged into the website with it impersonating him on the chat, and so it only makes sense to then confirm identity by challenging for tha
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by ch 14y ago
> ... my argument is simply that we publish API specs in a machine-readable format ... > ... XML is ugly. JSON is nice since it's human-readable and light. ???
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by ch 14y ago
Without firsthand knowledge of the Jane Street corporate environment it is naive of me to think that allowing engineering to pick the tools which best let them get their work done need not be incompatible with the requirements of non-expert
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by ch 14y ago
Clark Griswold would be impressed.
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by ch 14y ago
It doesn't appear that this is the case. This is more like a multi-gift-card (not sure of any technical term for it) than a pre-paid credit card. From all I can see, you can't use it to make purchases at any merchants other than the ones wh
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Why smart glasses might not make you smarter.(m.spectrum.ieee.org)
8 points by ch 14y ago|0 comments
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by ch 14y ago
I'm curious to know how much field testing you guys have done with this app. It looks very promising!
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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by ch 14y ago|0 comments
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by ch 14y ago
Very cool. And I suppose in a pinch you could always start X using FBDev when you need something that doesn't support the frame buffer directly.
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SWIFT Reimagines Banks' Role in Commerce for a Data-Driven Future(americanbanker.com)
1 points by ch 14y ago|0 comments
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by ch 14y ago
So to be compatible with the PATCH method json-patch must be atomic. Barring some type of transactional memory system won't this mean that you either must a) copy the target before applying the patch, or b) record a reverse patch to roll-ba
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by ch 14y ago
Try reverse!
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by ch 14y ago
I had overlooked that he was using a pointer to the struct, and so I was interpreting things to be that C++ was actually doing under the hood allocations. I'm glad I asked though, cause I was really worried about C++ for a second there :) S
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by ch 14y ago
Having no experience with C++ the next statement will just further show my ignorance of the language. I was under the impression that an optimizing C++ compiler would be able to inline the container object and the contained object into one
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by ch 14y ago
I'm curious just how far down the rabiit hole you can take this philosiphy. Just how many APIs and programming interfaces and other interaction points of a computer can be eliminated or automated away or even made to adapt to user preferenc
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by ch 14y ago
And just to expand on that a bit further. The FMLA allows you to take up to 12 weeks unpaid leave for health reasons, and protects you from being terminated by your employer during that time. My wife and I had to face similar decisions when
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by ch 14y ago
I'm interested in hearing more about this RPi OS. Would you mind sharing? So as not to take the thread too far off course: my email is in my profile.

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