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Weapons For Space Wars(projectrho.com)
2 points by ehsanul 16y ago|1 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
If I'm not misunderstanding, in the full 45-minute keynote, he mentions endurance a bunch of times. Apparently, on the newer memristor devices they came up with, the lifetimes of the devices are on a "geological" timescale, and could "theor
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by ehsanul 16y ago
This is astounding! To think that circuit component as fundamental as resistors/capacitors/inductors has been hidden from us till now.. And the applications are equally mind-boggling. If he's right about what is potentially possible using m
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Isaac Asimov: The Last Answer(scritube.com)
102 points by ehsanul 16y ago|19 comments
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ITA Software's Hiring Puzzles(itasoftware.com)
100 points by ehsanul 16y ago|44 comments
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Feynman on Great Men(brics.dk)
6 points by ehsanul 16y ago|1 comments
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The Unix Haters Handbook(cs.washington.edu)
67 points by ehsanul 16y ago|28 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
I was slightly hopeful as I looked into their careers section. There are 99 open jobs apparently, which is great! And I'm just graduating with a BS in mechanical engineering, and they need interns doing tedious tasks as much as any other co
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by ehsanul 16y ago
It may not be obvious that it was a joke, given that impossible requirements have been asked of before. Case in point: requiring 3 years of rails development when it had only been in existence for 2 or so years.
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by ehsanul 16y ago
The game called "Portal" is also a great one which is almost completely about exploiting the architecture of your surroundings.
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The Graph Traversal Pattern(arxiv.org)
5 points by ehsanul 16y ago|0 comments
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by ehsanul 16y ago
Not a particularly tasteful image, nor interesting at all. How does this get on HN's front page?
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by ehsanul 17y ago
For 3D context free art, check Structure Synth. Combine it with the Sunflow renderer, and you'll be in love with it - http://structuresynth.sourceforge.net/
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I'm somewhat put off by the similarity of the ideas in this book to the ridiculous "The Secret" with its "Law of Attraction." I found this out through reviews of the book though, and the similarity may well be superficial.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
You're right, salt just protects against rainbow tables, my mistake. Increasing the cost so that a single brute-force attack would take a few years/decades is actually fine. I don't see why it would then be "too simple to get the SSNs", giv
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Remind them that it's gender-neutral term.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
The fact that bad comments show up as dead is however a good indication that HN is coping with them well enough. As long as this pattern of voting down the worst comments remains the same, the commentary here should hold up fine.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I not sure your argument about semantics applies. First of all, we do not know if the word "attach" was used in the original experiment. In fact, the main candle problem page says this: The test presents the participant with the following
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Yeah, that's how I originally found out about it, and would have linked to that talk. Except, TED talks often don't seem to get many points here, which seems strange to me given the community.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Yes, the cost parameter can be tuned without rehashing. This is because the cost is actually stored with the hash, so the == method of the Password object knows what cost to use to check if a password matches. Don't take my word for it, try
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Taking longer is not an indication of strength of the algorithm ...you shouldn't generally be using MD5 I thought md5 is discouraged precisely because it is so fast to compute, hence allowing brute-force attacks to succeed in relatively
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I second looking at darkxanthos' blog posts about his experiences with "social skydiving": http://socialskydivingwithjustin.posterous.com/social-skydiv...
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Functional Fixedness - The Candle Problem(en.wikipedia.org)
10 points by ehsanul 17y ago|5 comments
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The Current State of Twitter (Statistics)(mashable.com)
4 points by ehsanul 17y ago|0 comments
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by ehsanul 17y ago
I'm doing this with my demo page for my YC application. I hadn't thought about making separate pages for each person I demo to though, which really is brilliant.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Using MongoDB also solves this problem, with an arguably cleaner approach.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
Not dead now though, which makes me wonder how that's so..
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by ehsanul 17y ago
And the more impressions served that have no real value, the lower CPM falls.
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by ehsanul 17y ago
However, by selling views to a person like me who doesn't help advertisers at all, CPM eventually goes down. So that argument doesn't really hold water. You want views to go to people who are influenced by the ads, otherwise it's just a was
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by ehsanul 17y ago
For those who ignore all ads anyways though, using an ad-block simply takes away some distractions and let's both you and the ad-server use less bandwidth. For people who are immune to advertising anyways, I see no harm to the content produ

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