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by drostie 14y ago
These are good questions! There are a lot of subtleties here. One of them is that for real one-way functions you generally get a big number and you need some sort of reduction back to the password domain. Let's call it '¬' because most font
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by drostie 14y ago
Thanks for this question! The answer is complicated. :D Let me tell you first why it does not help! In order to build a rainbow table, we must be able to build a lookup table (since they're just compressed lookup tables). But a lookup tab
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by drostie 14y ago
In fact I think this would be more informative as a description of rainbow tables, so here goes: Okay, so Bob in principle can write down a lookup table, but there's a problem -- that lookup table is going to be as long as the dictionary! W
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by drostie 14y ago
You might be interested to know that there's a voting system for politicians which works similarly, called "Mixed-member proportional representation." 50% of the politicians are directly voted and then 50% are appointed in order to make the
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by drostie 14y ago
The US problem is actually a perfect storm formed by the collision of at least two smaller storms that each forms its own problems. Combined together they self-reinforce and make the system worse. The first storm is what Lessig mentioned: s
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by drostie 14y ago
Right, but the original comment is also quite right that the speed is being misreported and the actual speed you're going (reported as 7000 pixels per second) is 3x the speed of light: (12742 km) / (100 px) * (7000 px)/s / c = 2.975
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by drostie 14y ago
Here is the attack scenario: Alice is trying to login to server Bob, but her WiFi access point Eve is running a protocol-mismatch attack: Alice communicates to Eve by HTTP, which Eve records and then transmits to Bob by HTTPS. We'll assume
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by drostie 14y ago
I vaguely also remember typing a password into Paypal and it said, "hey! no spaces are allowed!" and I definitely lost a significant chunk of confidence in their process.
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by drostie 14y ago
Fun tip: reCAPTCHA is actually two things, the "re" and the "CAPTCHA". In other words, one half is about testing that you're not a human, while the other half is a legitimately unknown word from a source of failed optical character recognit
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by drostie 14y ago
What would be very interesting is to set up an open WiFi access point which alters any HTTP response from an unknown MAC address, inserting a local copy of the script tag right before the /head tag. You could also prank your friends with th
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by drostie 14y ago
I now have a routine where every Tuesday and Thursday I fast for 24 hours. Breakfast the following days breaks the fast; so on Wednesday and Friday before breakfast I take a thorough shower, chant Tara mantras, and then meditate for a while
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by drostie 14y ago
Right, they're basically saying that v8(dart2js(code)) is faster than v8(transliterate(code)), i.e. that dart2js is becoming better at optimizing the code for V8 than V8 is by itself.
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by drostie 14y ago
This article didn't mention it, so I thought I would: Glass is about as strong as steel. Okay, okay, so glass is really a class of materials with widely varying strengths and some glasses like soda-lime are not very strong -- but steel is
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by drostie 14y ago
Also, aside from hoisting, there is a much better solution for named+assigned function declarations, because the reason for naming such a function is to use it recursively. Hence, just use the verb form of the word "recurse" and it immediat
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by drostie 14y ago
I will just point out that the first example I was given was a chess CAPTCHA which had two checkmates, so it is not a case of "the only destination square that will checkmate" -- there may be two moves.
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by drostie 14y ago
I do occasionally enjoy pointing out to people that the soda/pop/cola they've bought is a drink designed to disappear. The water is carbonated, so that you do not savour the drink but immediately try to gulp it down. There is phosphoric aci
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by drostie 14y ago
I think speed reading, as skimming, would be good in cases where you are trying to skip through data rather than process it. I do something very similar with lectures on topics which I'm already familiar with -- I speed them up to 2x or 3x
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by drostie 14y ago
You could probably pull out the exact probability mass function with characteristic functions. To review why these would be useful, let χ[T](s) = ⟨ exp(i ω T) ⟩, then χ[A + B] = χ[A] χ[B] for any A and B which are independent, so the charac
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by drostie 14y ago
That last point deserves underlining, so I'm just going to post a separate comment about it. Even though this particular link has been removed from this particular page, the first result on Google Scholar is still "Object Oriented Softw
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by drostie 14y ago
Maybe, but voluntarism is only part of the moral equation. So-called genetic "designer babies" are widely considered morally problematic but that process is totally voluntary; and in general eugenics provides an echo-chamber for certain dis
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by drostie 14y ago
You're right -- it's not impossible but it might have been difficult. I hadn't checked out the interior and so I was not sure what sort of display one looks at to see the remaining range; there is one which suggests that you can see it righ
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by drostie 14y ago
You are certainly right that it becomes an M/G/1 model and thus that M/M/1 and M/D/1 will give reasonable approximations. The reason that it's an M/?/1 model is partly what you're saying, but also partly because the random assignment of the
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by drostie 14y ago
I also thought this at first, but it was his second time visiting that station: there are two stops by Milford's supercharger in the vehicle logs and the claims are about the second, so he is potentially familiar with the area at the time.
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by drostie 14y ago
Maybe, but I do think Occam's Razor favors the "expected 90, saw 50 in bad lighting, misread it as 90, could not misread it when it dropped to 45" explanation over both the "battery suddenly dropped from 90 to 45" explanation and the "NYT r
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by drostie 14y ago
Sorry, I thought that at first too, but that is wrong. The "overnight" drop is visible as a small vertical jerk of about 1% difference in the "Battery State of Charge" graph right after the 300 miles mark. That's why in my account I have th
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by drostie 14y ago
If you really look at the two accounts, it's not necessarily clear that they're contradictory except in a couple of statements on speed: he said 55 when he was doing 60; then said 45 when he was doing 50. Even then, it's not clear whether t
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by drostie 14y ago
I believe they intended the 'proper' code to look like: def global_feed(request): tweets = Tweet.objects.all() tweets = itertools.ifilter(lambda t: not t.is_profane(), tweets) return render(request, 'global_fee
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by drostie 14y ago
Salts?
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by drostie 14y ago
Your opinion is in fact wrong. Or, at least, it's phrased in a way that is just-barely not true. Glucose is a catch-all term referring to both chains and cycle structures based on a certain "base" of atoms, and that base is chiral -- it is
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by drostie 14y ago
I found it relevant because the link in question is a petition addressed to Larry Ellison about an Oracle business practice which was directed towards making money, at the expense of serving the userbase. I put it here precisely because it

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