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by daeken 13y ago
This has been covered on HN a few times, and I should point out that the sample size on this is in the low tens, so don't get too excited. But every time I see it, I remember a really odd side effect that I had while on a mood stabiliz
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by daeken 13y ago
Hashes never increase the amount of information that's present, thus if there are 10^10 possible phone numbers, there are 10^10 possible hashes of phone numbers (with a given algorithm). How many bits you encode the information in doe
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by daeken 13y ago
I've been wearing Google Glass every time I leave the house for 2 or 3 months now. My social interactions have certainly changed; lots of people either recognize it as Glass or ask about what it is. Bear in mind that this isn't in
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by daeken 13y ago
Even if it does, it still won't help. Crypto in the browser is like playing soccer in a minefield: either you don't move or you lose a leg. Either way, your game is hosed. The issues are, to put it mildly, insurmountable. The envi
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by daeken 13y ago
Honestly, it's the right move if they want even a chance at getting their money back. Best case if they go to the police: a long court battle with Mills in which they get a tiny fraction of their investment. At least this way has a cha
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by daeken 13y ago
Interesting idea. Many crimes are committed due to a lack of options caused by poverty (theft most directly, but many other crimes are correlated strongly with poverty levels), so if a prison has to pay if a released prisoner re-offends, p
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by daeken 13y ago
> The history and evolution of this instruction has quite an interesting story from a CPU architecture perspective. I'd love to read about that if you have any references. I've used the MOVS instructions a million times withou
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by daeken 13y ago
To be fair, the reason I got the NuForce Icon HDP is for my headphones (Sennheiser HD650); the DAC is great, but the preamp for headphones is downright spectacular. Anyway, it doubles as my DAC for my speakers.
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by daeken 13y ago
Audioengine A5 + Audioengine S8 + Nuforce Icon HDP is my current rig. Can't be beaten in its price bracket, IMO.
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by daeken 13y ago
> But does one go from becoming an expert at breaking systems to automatically churning out a secure cryptographic system? Or does one become an expert at breaking and then build a bunch of flawed crypto systems, as the learning process
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by daeken 13y ago
Step 1 in security: Assume that every connection is untrusted. Now think of their model; does it hold up in that situation?
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by daeken 13y ago
The problem is that if the authors had actually consulted crypto guys, none of this would have happened. Their lack of security shouldn't be excused.
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by daeken 13y ago
> I usually take a pretty skeptical attitude on this blog when it comes to Internet security. For the most part we do things wrong, and I used to think most people didn't care. The fact is that I was wrong. If the response to our au
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by daeken 13y ago
> I really would hate to taint my MBP with ugly duct tap on the camera, but I may have to in the future. A tiny piece of black electrical tape blends in nicely and won't leave gunk on your bezel.
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by daeken 13y ago
> 1280x720 pixels for both displays Does this mean 1280x720 for each display, or combined? That's a bit vague. Still, this is quite neat; the resolution was what made me not back their first Kickstarter. Maybe this is worth thr
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by daeken 13y ago
I really wish Datahands were available for purchase. No one gets rid of them, and they aren't produced anymore (I tried emailing them numerous times before their site disappeared -- nothing). If anyone wants to sell a set, I'm b
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by daeken 13y ago
There are two things that make eating out the most viable option for a whole meal when you're poor: The first is that when you have a refrigerator that's sub-par and don't have a freezer, you have to buy the smallest quantiti
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by daeken 13y ago
Homelessness is something I've been thinking a lot about lately and all I keep coming back to is: I want to help, but I have absolutely no idea how I can do so. In the short term, volunteering at soup kitchens and things along those l
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by daeken 13y ago
This is indeed how many studies are done. It's also why many studies are 1) completely worthless, and 2) impossible to reproduce. This is simply not valid science. It's not blinded, it's not representative of the population
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by daeken 13y ago
Have you read the paper? What that means is: no statistically significant links were found. But because of bias in the study, it's possible that we're wrong about the highest end of exposure, so this should be studied further. C
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by daeken 13y ago
> one day science may find that previously undetected thing that cellphones emit and the human body absorbs. This makes no sense. While it's easy to argue that cell phones are safe because of non-ionizing radiation, that's now
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by daeken 13y ago
So, I just read over the paper, and the biggest thing that stands out to me is: it's completely backwards, methodology-wise. They start from tumors, then work backwards to collect data about their mobile phone usage, and compare them
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by daeken 13y ago
Citation badly needed. There have been many studies on this and, as far as I'm aware, not one has shown such a link.
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by daeken 13y ago
If anyone is curious, a few random thoughts from my mom on this: It was important that you understood how to get from point a to b. You were always good at being able to put things together easily. Sequencing and figuring out how a charact
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by daeken 13y ago
I'm not sure of Alan Kay's childhood, but in my case I was reading at a 6th grade level (IIRC) when I entered kindergarten, and was reading and writing stories from a very young age. I can't speak to the nature side of thing
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by daeken 13y ago
I bought 23andMe ages ago and haven't sent in my test yet. Because I purchased it quite a while ago, will I still be able to get all the info? If not, I'm gonna be pretty disappointed.
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by daeken 13y ago
When you fork a process, your application's contract with the kernel is such: existing pages will be made accessible in both the parent and the child; these pages may or may not be shared between both sides -- if they are, then the fir
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by daeken 13y ago
> Isn't fork the real offender, which requires Linux to overcommit by default? Maybe I'm missing something, but how does fork require overcommitment? When you fork, you end up with COW pages, which share underlying memory. Th
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by daeken 13y ago
Aaaand liftoff! Glad to see that it went off without a hitch this time (so far).
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by daeken 13y ago
A lot can go wrong in the meantime: electrical or communication systems could fail, orbital insertion burns could fail (either due to messed up timing, communication, propulsion, or any number of other things), etc etc. But that said, barri

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