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by cthor 8y ago
Isn't OWASP top 10 based on impact and prevalence?
92.
by cthor 8y ago
I think drawing the line at the OWASP top 10 is reasonable.
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by cthor 8y ago
Probably would look like a union (a dirty word in software), where their collective bargaining allows them to have leverage on software firms and have policies to punish non-payment in an ethical way. Sequence looks something like: Security
94.
by cthor 8y ago
These already exist. There are darknet firms that independently verify that an exploit is real (staking their reputation that they won't take it and run once shown), and then open it to the market. The main trouble is that for it to fu
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by cthor 8y ago
I don't think meritocracy implies cosmic fairness. The way it's used by most hackers is to say that someone's work is judged only on its own merits, rather than the author's social status or how good they are at playing
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by cthor 8y ago
The list of "maddening" items in this article are so comically low-budget it's hard to take this complaint seriously. None of the 9 listed in the article sound particularly egregious. Almost all are grants to research institu
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by cthor 8y ago
Are there any big examples of feminine names becoming masculine? It always seems to go the other way.
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by cthor 8y ago
The main situation that this was apparent is Euls on Axe when he blinks onto a target. Axe's Beserker's Call has a 500ms cast time. Euls is instant. Bots have a 200ms reaction time. Humans have 200-300ms. The problem is the human
99.
by cthor 8y ago
So, basically, stick your head in the sand and pretend the problem doesn't exist.
100.
by cthor 9y ago
Ah, ok, I misread. Yeah, that requires a subquery then, but not because of floats being unsuitabe for sorting, but because you're doing a 1-to-many thingy in a 1-to-1 way by hardcoding 3 columns. It's like writing items[0].te
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by cthor 9y ago
Having run into this problem a few times now, Approach 1 is unfortunately best. Two reasons: (1) If updates fail, you don't get a resulting broken state (2) The size of the lists is not that large (<50), so the extra writes are not
102.
by cthor 9y ago
SELECT * FROM list ORDER BY pos LIMIT 3 If there's an index on pos, there's no cost to the sort.
103.
by cthor 9y ago
How do you make a SELECT that gets the items in the correct order? The point of the solution here is so you can simply go `SELECT * FROM list ORDER BY pos` and have the correct order.
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by cthor 9y ago
TFA is slashdot slang: the f'ing article It really depends on what you want the ranking to mean. If you want it to mean: "If all the players in the world played in a tournament, what would the expected result be", then a norm
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by cthor 9y ago
> The problem is that the matchup disparity matrix is difficult to derive. Well, TFA had no bones about calculating one. > Is HBox just the best player ever The current data says pretty definitively, yes. If other players can learn ho
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by cthor 9y ago
Has this been tried? (1) Figure out a matchup discrepancy matrix e.g. Peach vs Puff winrate is 0.43 (2) Use an Elo head-to-head variant where the Elo update function takes matchup discrepency into account e.g. - A vs B has an expected 0.9 w
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by cthor 9y ago
The most recent discussion I saw on this subject[1] makes it very clear that there isn't a consensus. If there is, it's in the "Perl 6 should rename" direction. [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl&#x2
108.
by cthor 9y ago
Clarification: Decided by the Perl 6 devs who want to keep the name and don't seem to care about the damage that decision does to Perl 5
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by cthor 9y ago
Getting Over It: With Bennet Foddy breaks all these rules and was wildly successful. The Witness sold at $40 and people bought it anyway. Good games will sell. But you might not have a good game. The market doesn't owe you anything. Al
110.
by cthor 9y ago
Clementine is better than foobar imo
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by cthor 9y ago
I'll precommit to being very impressed if a bot can achieve >5k MMR in solo ranked or if a bot-controlled team wins a tier 6 (or higher) battle cup. When Checkers and Chess and Go pros were beaten by AI at the actual game , people
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by cthor 9y ago
> [T]here is a general formula for successful pop songs What would you say that is? Your answer has to be detailed enough that a computer can understand it. There's a lot of patterns to pop songs but there's patterns in all mus
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by cthor 9y ago
Having listened to the song linked in the OP I was blown away, but then: > I ought to note that a human being is involved in all this: the French composer Benoit Carré, who took the raw data generated by the CSL and matched it to audio f
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by cthor 10y ago
The U.S. reaping these benefits from their two party system is confounded by the primaries. The "centre" of each primary is with respect to the party platform, not the general population. Presidential candidates' optimal stra
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by cthor 10y ago
When talking about the effect of voting systems on elections, something I think is overlooked is the game-theoretic implications on the candidates. Take the second diagram in the article and move the candidates around. What's the optim
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by cthor 10y ago
I think the point being made is that Facebook, NYT, et al. are not in a position to moralise about journalistic ethics. I would go further and say that the half-truths being peddled by these outlets are far more dangerous than obvious non-t
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by cthor 10y ago
There's some perverse doublethink going on when it's considered racist to suggest we stop discriminating on the basis of race.
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by cthor 10y ago
You don't think him reciting a canned script made to give the impression of expertise and closing with "I could talk about this for ages..." is deceptive? He was talking like he was well-versed in the subject, when he had rea
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by cthor 11y ago
Businesses can be simultaneously profit seeking and for the public good. In fact, that is the ideal. It's concerning that many feel this is not the case.
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by cthor 11y ago
What made colours much easier for me was stating them as hsl values, rather than rgb ones, because that's how we actually think about colours. For example, I can tell just by looking at it that the HN banner is orange (hue: ~30), fully

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