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by dfranke 17y ago
Nothing enormous; that's basically what PBKDF1 does. cperciva might correct me on this, but IIRC there are some minor concerns, addressed by PBKDF2, which is a slightly more complicated construction, about the iterated hash function degene
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by dfranke 17y ago
#startups on Freenode.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Stolen from another forum: "Is there not an 'Eicar' equivalent for testing airport security?"
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by dfranke 17y ago
A removable singularity is still a singularity. If I'm asking for f(x) and it's giving me lim(i->x,f(i)), it should tell me so.
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by dfranke 17y ago
1000225/1809 = 552.91
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by dfranke 17y ago
It shouldn't be surprising. Your ISP's server serves enough customers that most popular sites will be cached most of the time, and you're likely to have a shorter ping time to your ISP's server than to any other.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I don't want "Dashboard controls to manage your experience the way you want for you, your family or your organization". I just want a DNS server that obeys the goddamn protocol.
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by dfranke 17y ago
If you're looking for a job as a Java programmer, then I think it's reasonable for the interviewer to expect you to be able to give some sort of answer to "what is your favorite Java class". Being asked the signature of a specific method i
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by dfranke 17y ago
That's a workaround, not a cure. I'm all in favor of eliminating the need for concentration and self-discipline wherever possible, but doing so won't give you more of it.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Step 2: stop reading Hacker News :-) But seriously, log off for a while. Stop Twittering, stop IMing, stop reading your RSS feeds. If you're regularly employed, then take a vacation and go to the mountains. If not, go there and stay ther
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or horrified by that postfix hack.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I think the right thing to do is to make the site look as boring and indistinct as possible until you've dug down to only a little bit above the danger area.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I notice the new 'avg' column on the leader board. Can you add a breakdown into submission scores and comment scores?
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by dfranke 17y ago
These stories make me cringe. The security of SSL is as good as the verification practices of the laziest CA. We need fewer of them, not more, and any CA that can give certificates away for free is guaranteed to have atrocious practices.
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by dfranke 17y ago
De Grey's research is aimed at preventing cancer, not curing it. De Grey names his efforts "engineered negligible senescence". Senescence means the increase in your probability of developing a deadly disease within the next N years as you
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by dfranke 17y ago
Through your own argument, you've conceded that aging happens when the body doesn't invest enough resources in controlling damge, and that the amount of investment made can vary widely between species and even within a species. So then wha
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by dfranke 17y ago
False all around. Aging is a result of evolutionary neglect, not evolutionary pressure. We haven't evolved to live longer because until extremely recent times, only a negligible fraction of us lasted long enough for old age (or menopause)
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by dfranke 17y ago
I find it a little odd that you think Aubrey de Grey is crazy but Eliezer Yudkowsky isn't, given that EY is a vocal supporter of de Grey's research and claims that we'll live forever for considerably more speculative reasons than any that d
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'll stick with Borlaug. I know singing his praise has become slightly cliched on this forum, but he very objectively deserves it. He's done more for humanity than anyone since whoever it was that discovered how to make fire.
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by dfranke 17y ago
Vending machine manufacturers are used to this, I suspect. They go through it every time the design of the currency changes.
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by dfranke 17y ago
This would be a great plot for an Evil Overlord.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I love this idea. Not so much because of its efficiency, but because it'll make so many people say "Wait, you can do that?". Too many people haven't internalized what having a fiat currency really means. Having the government flex its
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by dfranke 17y ago
You can get away with one, really -- protection of private property, with one's own body defined as a property. However, it's probably easier to codify without an accompanying philosophical treatise if you write it as three to four laws, b
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by dfranke 17y ago
and then found a rubber band amid the rubble and seized it as an unregistered exotic firearm.
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by dfranke 17y ago
A long time ago, in a faraway, and mythical country, which we'll call China, everyone wanted to know how long the Emperor's nose was. Of course to be seen even trying to look closely at the Emperor's visage - let alone to hold up a (differe
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by dfranke 17y ago
This is not the first story of this kind to come up on HN, and last time I commented that I'm pretty sure there was a supreme court decision that established that trying to forbid people from warning others about speed traps over CB radio w
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by dfranke 17y ago
I trust a generated parser more than a hand-written one. Any parsing algorithm that involves the use of split() is almost certain to be weakly thought-out and have ill-defined behavior for unexpected input. A well-written parser will neve
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by dfranke 17y ago
Eeeeeeewwwww. If you're using .split() to "parse" untrusted input, and not even validating it against a regex first, that's an epic fail in its own right.
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by dfranke 17y ago
I went through a serious period of depression during high school. I missed a huge amount of school and there was a period of about a month during which my parents were considering having me committed to an institution. The key to beating d
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by dfranke 17y ago
I'm talking about exploitation of this vulnerability in general, not the specific case of Flickr. Not everything is a sequence of key-value pairs formatted in UTF-8.

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