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by ddlatham 11y ago
I'm curious to see more about the distribution of questions and answers people had, and how the HN population may differ from the NYT's. There will certainly be self selection bias here, but if you're willing to share how yo
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Got to laugh to see the parent post. Written by Alex Stamos. And downvoted.
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I think the point is: why do you trust the "off" button for the features on your other devices but not trust the assurances of the Echo about what it is doing? The other devices could just as well lie about whether they are off.
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Do you trust the advertising/documentation/claims? If so, Echo advertises that it is listening for its wake word and doesn't transmit the audio until that is used. It sends the information to a service of your choice. If not
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Is there a reason you trust this device less than the computer with a microphone that you carry around in your pocket all day?
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If the Confederate States of America held a public vote to secede - do you think it would have passed? If it passed, do you think the United States should have let them secede?
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The architecture is extremely similar.
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Got any references or links?
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A Murky Road Ahead for Android, Despite Market Dominance(nytimes.com)
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How much more?
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Looks like there are two separate relevant configs: index.translog.interval - How often to check if a flush is needed, randomized between the interval value and 2x the interval value. Defaults to 5s. index.gateway.local.sync - How often
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by ddlatham 12y ago
I also live in Alameda and work in SOMA. I have T-Mobile and get excellent coverage in Alameda (definitely improved over the last 4 years), across much of BART, most of the Bay Bridge (not in the tunnnel), and perfect in SOMA. Hangouts wo
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No database can "achieve both consistency and availability" during a partition. Also, if you follow the rest of the twitter conversation you may realize, as they did, that only requests to the minority partition are unsuccessful -
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HBase. With the caveats that it's piggy backing off the success of Zookeeper, and the tests were not run by Kyle himself: https://eng.yammer.com/call-me-maybe-hbase/
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by ddlatham 12y ago
I mentioned this as a reply in the other thread on this topic, but just to make sure it is clear to those who may not have read or reasoned about the full report: The reason it is powerful is not this particular attack. It's a demonst
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The reason it is powerful is not this particular attack. It's a demonstration that they are willing and able to inject malicious responses to any request going to a Chinese resource (web site, analytics service, ads, etc.). Imagine i
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Notable is the story of Arrhichion who won the Pankration when his opponent surrendered even though he died in the attempt. His corpse was crowned and proclaimed the victor.
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Agreed, a benchmark would be cool. From what I've read before it ends up taking longer than the integer methods anyway because you still need to keep log n bits of precision in the floating point values around to get the correct answe
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Here's the comparison by the author of Cap'nProto: https://capnproto.org/news/2014-06-17-capnproto-flatbuffers-...
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Providing a client or library is great, but serves to shift the actual API to be that which the client or library provides. Ultimately there is some interface between what you provide and your customer. That's the point you need to m
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Is it ok for a group of us who to complete the challenge as a team for fun? Or must we agree to only work individually?
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I'm also in Alameda and recently setup a email group and directory for our neighborhood that also has block parties and neighborhood watch meetings. Shoot me an email if you want to compare notes.
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Did you see Google's comment quoted in the article? No argument that PE is more elegant. If we had a path to universal input that all supported, we would be great with that, but not all browsers will support PE. If we had Apple on boa
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Using X is preferable to death or torture. That's what I call faint praise.
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Tycho Brahe Tycho suddenly contracted a bladder or kidney ailment after attending a banquet in Prague, and died eleven days later, on 24 October 1601. According to Kepler's first hand account, Tycho had refused to leave the banquet to
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I believe that such instances are not generated by this game, however.
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Is it fair to rely on the fact that there is only a single solution to make deductions?
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And to generalize: There are 2^n possible end states to partition into n outcomes. So there must be at least 1 outcome given by at most 2^n/n end states. If n is not a power of 2, then 2^n is not divisible by n, so there must be one
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by ddlatham 12y ago
Thanks for the interesting question. Let's take a stab at the case with 3 squares/coins. When the second prisoner comes in she will say that the magic square is 1, 2, or 3 based only on the state of the 3 coins. There are 8 possi
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With a bloom filter that's still just 2MB of memory for a 99.99% accuracy.

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