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by dfranke 17y ago
Isn't "game-over flaw" a bit overstated? It's a serious blunder, but if the data you're authenticating is highly structured then in many cases it won't be exploitable because the final padding from the original message becomes part of the
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by dfranke 17y ago
The same thing I do every weekend, Pinky...
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by dfranke 17y ago
By "level off" I meant "return to a growth rate comparable to before the boom", though in actually it sometimes ends up negative -- Japan and much of Europe is breeding below replacement rates (read: committing cultural suicide). But more
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by dfranke 17y ago
I haven't the slightest clue how you extracted that conclusion from anything I've said.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I added the qualifier of "most" because I wasn't sure about that one. I'm not a biologist so I have to rely fully on the opinions of others to tell me what avenues of aging research are likely to pay off and how soon. But anyway, I'm pret
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by dfranke 17y ago
I think you two have this completely wrong. Falling death rates produce a population explosion, but only for a generation or two. After that, birth rates fall in line and things level off. China and India have already seen this play out.
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by dfranke 17y ago
The world has bigger problems than car accidents, but think in terms of bang for your buck. Fighting poverty is hard and expensive. Autonomous vehicle technology could be had for a fraction of what gets spent on pork projects during any g
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by dfranke 17y ago
They're trying to improve global welfare as much as possible, and this is what they come up with? Improved online banking? Seriously? Ranking global priorities is a hard problem, but it's one that a lot of smart people have already put a
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by dfranke 17y ago
I don't see why he would be. CoS's fair game tactics are pretty much identical to what 4chan griefers do to their targets for the lulz. The only difference is that the CoS can use lawsuits for harassment, while channers can't afford to do
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by dfranke 17y ago
I am so submitting this proposal. In cartoon form.
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by dfranke 17y ago
My contest entry: 1. Use the given demographic data and LexisNexis to deanonymize the data. 2. Search Facebook, Twitter, message boards, etcetera for movies that they've talked about but haven't rated yet on Netflix. 3. Identify keywords in
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'd still object to his publishing of the stolen Twitter memos under the pretense, contradicted by Ev, that he had permission, no matter how ingratiating he were about it. Other conduct, such as his baseless attack on Last.FM and his recen
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'm fairly sure it's the comment thread that I started ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=831461 ) which set off this essay, so I guess I'm the archetype of "ordinarily calm people who go berserk when [Arrington's] name comes up in comme
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by dfranke 17y ago
The first person to actually do this has lots of HN karma coming his way.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I haven't read any of the cited research, but formalization of causality seems like it should be a straightforward endeavour. The notion of a controlled experiment already embodies a fairly rigorous understanding of what it means: if you h
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by dfranke 17y ago
My home systems use Tolkien names, which while by no means an original idea, has the benefit that they will never run out, especially if you've read The Silmarillion . At work, the names are all music-related. I didn't start this one,
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'm a n00b at it. I'm classically trained, most of what I listen to is Renaissance or Baroque, but I try to write in relatively modern style, mostly for a solo tenor vocalist with piano accompaniment. However, I've yet to compose anything
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by dfranke 17y ago
They're both a stretch. Hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug Hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviu_Librescu Hero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Autrey MIT dome hackers: not heroes. ASU football players: not heroe
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by dfranke 17y ago
I agree that they shouldn't be punished or anything. They shouldn't be punished in any way severe enough to screw up their future or their academic career. But I think it's important to keep hacking illicit and therefore require that it
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by dfranke 17y ago
The administration has always gone through the motions of trying to stop hackers. Evading them has always been part of the game. Those caught usually get a citation for trespassing, but certain professors have a history of covering the fi
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by dfranke 17y ago
Yes, it is indeed a better critique. That should have occurred to me.
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by dfranke 17y ago
It's not legitimate news. It's confidential correspondence. Arrington is seeking to bribe a Google employee to betray his employer by breaching his NDA. If the document were evidence of wrongdoing on Google's part, it would be a differ
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by dfranke 17y ago
There are hopefully considerably fewer offering explicit quid pro quos for said documents.
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by dfranke 17y ago
It isn't funny. Arrington seems to think it is, but apparently all he's laughing at is his own lack of ethics rather than at any intended jest: i mean, sure, we’d take the docs and deliver the tshirt. but we do have one or two other ways
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by dfranke 17y ago
We’re offering a free TechCrunch tshirt to any Google employee that forwards that screenshot to us. No questions asked. Anyone left on HN who still wants to stand up for Arrington's reputation as a journalist?
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by dfranke 17y ago
I was thinking of putting it into an import car show but the promoter told me that it looked too plain and recommended that I put some decals on it, lower it, and put on some aftermarket wheels. /me boggles. This is either a joke or an i
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by dfranke 17y ago
Really? It loads instantly for me, and the server is basically idle.
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by dfranke 17y ago
http://dfranke.us/pfs.html Though, I've recently been contacted by a high school student who intends to implement a subset of the idea for some sort of school project. I'll be interested to see what he does with it.
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by dfranke 17y ago
There seems to be a high incidence of Sudden Oak Death in areas populated by aesthetically-impaired bureaucrats. I recommend a study to determine whether they constitute a potential vector for the spread of the disease, and if so, preempti
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by dfranke 17y ago
I can't recall the details any more, but I'm reminded that there's a historic cemetery in Boston, where several of America's founders are buried, where the tombstones have all been moved from their original locations. Someone during the Vi

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