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811.
by dullcrisp 13y ago
This makes me wonder, would running WireShark at all times provide some protection from viruses by spooking them?
812.
by dullcrisp 13y ago
I haven't heard about m-of-n transactions until now, but the way I understood it is that you do broadcast a transaction transferring the money to an account controlled by 2-of-3 people. So no one can then spend the money until two of t
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by dullcrisp 13y ago
Here's a link to Google's cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
814.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
Why make a fake statement when the real one touches on the same points more eloquently?
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
Could you please rephrase your point using less sarcasm? I don't really understand what this comment is saying. I don't know how to make this request without sounding sarcastic myself, but I'm being sincere.
816.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
Math doesn't really work that way. Edit: Less snarkily, the integers are mysterious and not at all well understood and chock-full of effects like the one you mentioned. It's fallacious to simply argue that because there are infinitely many
817.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
Yeah, the article half tries to paint a story which doesn't really make sense without a cause of death. Also, the cryptic comment is clearly in Russian. That, or some unlikely intersection of Russian and Ukrainian. More likely, they figured
818.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point. What chance of personally deciding the outcome of an election do you need to have before voting is worth your time? 50%? One votes for the same reasons one refrains from littering in a public park, or
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
"I am willing to do whatever it takes to get what I want" sounds more like a slogan for cultivating motivation. It doesn't say "I am unwilling to reflect on or revise what it is that I want," just that one is willing to work as hard as it t
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
I don't really understand the restriction that was used against Zediva. Is the key point that the same company that's renting out the DVDs is also renting out the means to perform them? Hypothetically, a company could set up a datacenter wh
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
I haven't checked out Coursera, but isn't it more of a college course that you can take online? Khan's videos seem much more accessible and are mostly aimed at a high school level. There are many people who browse through Khan's videos who
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
I would really like to see something like a Khan Academy for introductory computer science. As it is, it seems there's nowhere to learn computer science basics at a below university level.
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
If they don't disclose that the box they gave you purportedly to record TV shows is actually also drawing power from your line and using it to run part of their datacenter? I would think that that could be considered theft by deception. It'
824.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
Also regarding the electricity, would that not be considered theft, if nothing else.
825.
by dullcrisp 14y ago
That's not true everywhere. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/ .
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
Well, the relevant search space when reversing a hash is the space of original passwords, and you do have to remember your master password. The attack to worry about with these systems is a website taking your generated password and malicio
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
It worries me that they seem to by implying that, e.g., MD5 and SHA-1 are impossible to reverse, when my understanding is that that isn't the case. "Do not reveal anything about the input that was used to generate it" seems to be too strong
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by dullcrisp 14y ago
You realize that building new meat sacks is a much more difficult problem than slinging meat sacks into space? It's like wanting to rewrite an entire operating system from scratch instead of fixing a difficult driver bug (terrible analogy,
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
Half of that $5000 is from a single pledge. Is it possible that they pledged $2500 to themselves to make it look like their project is getting more attention than it actually is? Or does someone out there just really really want this game?
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
I'm late to the party, but a quick and dirty implementation of this in ghci computes the 10,000,000th Fibonacci number for me in about 3 seconds, though it takes a lot longer to print to my terminal. It's pretty neat. newtype T = T (Ra
831.
by dullcrisp 15y ago
"dropbox.com" is ranked Good and " http://www.dropbox.com is ranked Great. I found this amusing, but as it says in the article, there are very many common patterns which it doesn't check and so overestimates the entropy of passwords using
832.
by dullcrisp 15y ago
This looks really cool but I can't get the REPL to accept keyboard input in Firefox.
833.
by dullcrisp 15y ago
I may be way off, but I don't think that's how multipliers work. That is, even if you had a bunch of them, they should still have the same aggregate efficiency, no?
834.
by dullcrisp 15y ago
Ah, so there is something simple you can set. It would probably make sense for at least Google to set that attribute on their text fields if abuse of these diacritics continues to proliferate.
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
Is there any good way to support Unicode and user-submitted content, but prevent people from drawing "outside the lines," so that for example what happened to the HN front page because of this post doesn't happen? I guess in any case when y
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
Can you provide links to papers which try address this problem in practical terms, or some leads that one might use to acquaint themselves on the current state of research in this area? The paper the parent links I've only skimmed but what
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
There's a comment further down linking to a series of articles which propose the same solution. http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm is the relevant article. It's something that should be considered since it seems like currently t
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by dullcrisp 15y ago
He doesn't have to specify whether or not the sort is stable -- the compiler should only have to satisfy the constraints he imposes. So if he doesn't specify that it must be a stable sort, the sort might be unstable, just as with many sort