ectoplasm

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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Let's say you want as much money as you can get. This is probably not rational. Now let's say you have a choice of being given $5 or $10, which do you choose? Why was that not a rational choice? Because it's predicated on
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Which RFC 4122 are you not talking about, the one that came first or the one that came before?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Sorry, I'm kind of confused here. Why is the approach I'm defending considered random and not based on data? Is the generation of random hypotheses in general considered unscientific? What about fuzz testing or pharmaceutical R
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> it seems that Vancouver has very sound fundamentals to sustain the higher prices. Have you seen the pictures? http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Fundamentally I believe non-consensual violence is the result of suffering. I think isolating violent people and protecting yourself is much better than meting out arbitrary punishments. Consider that someone willing to punch a nurse in t
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Wait a minute. First of all, the data is simply "there is a reproducible bug in the program". The real hypothesis is that a small, localized portion of the code is responsible for the defect. To find it, you can try binary sear
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> And frankly, I think that sometimes, it should be okay for healthcare workers to interact with a patient like they are an asshole because THEY ARE. Irritability is a part of suffering.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Binary search is not random permutation. The hypothesis is "problem lies in this half of the codebase". Hey, if your test passes after commenting out some stuff, great.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Out of thousands of rides, 90% of the time I get an immigrant cab driver. I find they're perfectly capable.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Look for a decrease in resubmissions, per this comment above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012199
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I just use the comments page to find interesting discussions.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Another concern is a lower per capita federal tax base.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
To me this sounds like admin trying to save money. I found some more discussion in a couple places: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2014/02/17/cheating-at-caltech/ https://www.quora.com/Are-
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
This stuff is so interesting. D.J. Bernstein is certainly prolific! It's cool how processor-specific that cache-based attack is. It's weird, I have a compilers background but (evidently) I've never even thought about timin
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
I think people want three things: 1) good; 2) different; 3) similar. If your work is good, all that matters is finding the right audience for it. People want things that are different from your past work and the cultural status quo, but t
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Hey this is pretty interesting. Thanks for taking the time to explain. My first reaction was that you have to know the hash function for this attack to work, but I guess the salt serves the same purpose as hiding the hash function, and is
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Ok, fine, so there are no real-time, optimization, or scheduling guarantees in C / C++ and it's better to be safe than sorry. But why does it actually matter if either the hash function or hash value comparison takes data-depende
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
There is a binary test for a programmer: someone with basic proficiency in a Turing-complete language. I like this answer on SO about what that is: https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/132385/what-...
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
> I’m the PhD who wrote the original article. I’m delighted a high school student worked so hard and wrote so well. He's certainly not doing himself any favors with this condescending appeal to authority. In general, the exchange b
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Often you can even take the same dress and dress it up to accompany someone in a suit or dress it down to accompany someone in jeans and a t-shirt.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Wow, maybe I have a future in cryptography! Anyway, why exactly isn't the hash function constant-time? I don't understand this, the hashes I've played with for hashtables are just a bunch of bit shifts. Is it only message l
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Oh, I don't live in NYC, but we have rent stabilization here and the landlord is allowed to increase the rent by a percentage of the current rent plus a percentage of the amount spent on repairs and renovations. If NYC doesn't co
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Why is rent stabilization bad? All it does is stop the rent from going up too much while you are living there. I wouldn't want to be a tenant without it - who wants to be forced to move because the rent went up by too much? As soon
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
You're right, there's a hard limit on password length. That might be fatal if you're using diceware, I don't know if you could accommodate passwords that big. As for the set of strings, just assume it's every stri
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Why do you think YC finances HN? Also, it's quite possible to watch TV shows for free without advertisements. And, how do you get around product placement?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
A perfect hash is a function in the mathematical sense in that there is a unique output for each input. So, hash the stored password ahead of time, and hash the challenge password after receiving it, and then compare the two hashes. You d
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
"Bait and switch"?
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
What happens if nobody yells their guesses and people only talk to one other person at a time? That's more like what happens with real estate agents.
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Ah, mastermind. I think you mean the ones that take more time on average contain a letter from the password, not less. Anyway, good point. I was thinking you could maintain an array of flags to indicate whether you've compared a cert
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by ectoplasm 11y ago
Let's assume you're right. Why can't you choose characters to compare randomly, until you've compared them all?

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