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by drostie 10y ago
You're not wrong to notice the VPN side: what are most of our examples? Malicious service providers! What's a VPN? An intermediate service provider! I did say decrypt, and I did really mean it. SSH and TLS are not nebulously &quot
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I think you're being downvoted because there are two readings of your first question and reading the whole paragraph is needed to understand that the flippant reading "Psh, you say this is happening to you but I don't believe
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Nobody has really commented yet on how highly suspect the methodology here is, nor the tradeoff between education and experience, nor the tradeoffs inherent in the world "acceptable" when you're trying to figure out what the
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It should not drive you nuts that the two-party system is the best we have. The two-party system is the natural mathematical consequence of our electoral system, "divide the land into districts and each district holds a first-past-the-
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Because (a) it does not let you relicense as GPL, which is the only thing GPL compatibility means ("Can you be press-ganged into our army later? Great: you're compatible. We just haven't assimilated you yet ."), and (b)
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"Any Covered Software that You distribute or otherwise make available in Executable form must also be made available in Source Code form and that Source Code form must be distributed only under the terms of this License. You must inclu
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Let me force you to be concrete. What right are you even talking about?
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I mean, (1) has nothing to do with the Sun examples, it's not something unfortunate about CDDL but unfortunate about the GPL. If one thinks of it in national terms: there is a GPL Nation holding its land against a bunch of proprietary
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That's not quite right. Non-copyleft licenses say "I will not sue you"; a sort of first-level copyleft license says "I will not sue you unless you potentially threaten to sue other people"... but the GPL is fully re
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byobu is basically an abstraction over screen and tmux, letting you use either with some common keybindings for spawning new windows and a common toolbar at the bottom telling you disk usage and load average and the like. I am not sure why
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I still remember the first time I was in a computer lab and I leaned too far away from my computer and my headphones that were blaring music popped out... and the whole room WASN'T subjected to the same loud music. And I opened up the
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If anyone was wondering what that next number was in the sequence, the sequence for the problem given is https://oeis.org/A076912 and it is now known to begin, 5, 2875, 609250, 317206375, 242467530000, 229305888887625
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Taking the manager's side for a moment, it echoes a somewhat-uncommon-but-important problem which we have in our industry: when management makes risk decisions for engineers, rather than engineers making those decisions for themselves.
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That would be because that quote inspired the research. However the mechanism that they discovered is actually somewhat more subtle; it is that "rockstar scientists", intentionally or not, suppress radical new ideas coming into th
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If people are interested in this sort of thing, there's some nice linear algebra underlying the idea. The Fibonacci recurrence is a linear recurrence, meaning that if you have two different sequences such that F[n] = F[n - 1] + F
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by drostie 10y ago
I'm not quite so familiar with the Git internals, how do you deal with the problem of having different non-leaf nodes scattered through the directory tree? This might be a non-issue based on how Git stores the tree, but I can imagine o
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One of the first tech talks I remember was Bryan Cantrill at Google, and I vaguely remembered that he mentioned at the beginning of that talk that he had contributed to a book called Beautiful Code , so I double-checked and it seems to be
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Worth pointing out: the extreme polarization appears to be the straightforward consequence of our election process in the States. Our government divides the country into a bunch of districts and forces each one of them to run a first-past-t
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Consider it me paying forward the joy I got from Fork Yeah!, which is still somewhere in my top 10 tech-talks of all time. :)
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Approximate η-expansion: "I understand your outrage, and I also have mixed feelings about the role of the Linux Foundation in open-source. I am on the Technical Oversight Committee of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation which is a Li
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I would only add an asterisk for part 3: whom you voted for ought to be secret from everyone other than you . But you should be able to verify who you voted for. Here's one way that a crypto-voting protocol might give you this right.
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No, you don't understand: the conclusion of the Chinese room argument is precisely your statement " more stuff inside is needed for understanding it, than just input and output ." That's precisely why consciousness is
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That's mostly true and he's even admitted it on several occasions. (His TED talk for example.) He thinks that you can ultimately get some sort of (possibly quantum) electromechanical microscopic description of consciousness by pok
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I have no clue what Searle would say, and my degree is in physics not philosophy. But my best guess is that it's probably a borderline case? The person inside the Chinese room still of course has access to qualia, and those qualia do l
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Hi! Searle fan, here. Searle is not, as you might at first anticipate when you see that he's on the "computers can't be conscious" side of the argument, some sort of woo-woo psychic-spiritualism philosopher; he's ac
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Ah, what I know as "figure-skating voting". I don't know very much about these except that Arrow's theorem can't apply directly to them because they have a different ballot structure; however given that Borda is som
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I haven't fully investigated it yet but at one point I played with the idea of a "Markov election" based on the fact that Arrow's impossibility theorem assumes determinism. Nondeterminism is not necessarily a bad thing,
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If you mean that the top candidate earns N points and the Nth candidate earns 1 point, I answered that in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12875982
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There are many ranked voting systems and that one is called a "Borda count." It's really cool but it has its own flaws, as you'd expect from Arrow's impossibility theorem. Here's the most basic problem: the vid
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With only a modest simplification you can view security as ultimately just being a figure measured in dollars: "it costs an adversary $X to beat these countermeasures." Your goal in securing a system is not to push X to infinity,

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