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by enki 17y ago
quantum cryptography isn't "encryption" in the sense that crypto algorithms are involved. the encryption part is just XOR with a random one-use string (the key). the hard part is distributing that key. a better name is quantum key distribut
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by enki 17y ago
you were right to leave it out - quantum cryptography and quantum computing have only the quantum in common. (i've published on quantum cryptography protocols)
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How GrubHub.com confirms with restaurants that they placed a delivery order(grubhub.com)
70 points by enki 17y ago|22 comments
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by enki 17y ago
My reasons for accepting such an offer would be the nonlinear utility of money (my chances at making more money would significantly increase with the initial freedom to work on projects fulltime), and the equity equation ( http://www.paulgr
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by enki 17y ago
i'd totally go for this
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by enki 17y ago
500-900$ if you're willing to live with others. soma, mission, north beach are startup central - the rest is down in the south bay
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by enki 17y ago
couchsurfing is tough - for the popular destinations you need to contact lots of people with personalized messages, and you still might not find anyone with a free room. there's just often more demand than supply. paying might feel weird at
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by enki 17y ago
congrats guys! had a great experience with airbnb when i moved to SF in march!
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by enki 17y ago
Well, i've seen this too, not only with Go but with Programming and a whole lot of other things. They're busy showing off how good they are, instead of helping you learn. However, once you know the trick, you don't need anyone to teach you,
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by enki 17y ago
I don't think your problems with Go are at all a given. Playing repeatedly and fast is a choice you can make out of pure logic. Go is a language and should be tought like a language. You don't explain phonetics to a child, but instead let i
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by enki 17y ago
I've taught Go to over fifty people over the years - and i've seen this over and over again: some people have shaking hands putting down the first stone in their first game ever. For some reason they assume they ought to be good from the be
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by enki 17y ago
ha, i remember learning english with SQ1 and a dictionary :p
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by enki 17y ago
i agree it was worth a shot, but it's still a shame they took away the funding from people with more promising approaches and stigmatized the field for decades.
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by enki 17y ago
The problem with AI is that people try to call simple heuristics and learning algorithms AI, while what we're actually seeing is an overglorified Eliza. The term Intelligence sets the expectation of "universal learning", not just solving pr
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New U.S. Federal Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship(voices.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by enki 17y ago|0 comments
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by enki 17y ago
hey amichail, i'm happy for you and imma let you finish, but the internet has some of the best memes of all time.
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The History of Atari: 1971-1977(gamasutra.com)
3 points by enki 17y ago|0 comments
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Live-Tweets from YC Demo Day #YCdemo(search.twitter.com)
4 points by enki 17y ago|0 comments
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Google Wave is the new X-Windows(lolstartups.com)
84 points by enki 17y ago|41 comments
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by enki 17y ago
http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/wiki/Installation instructions just went online
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20k+ lines of wave protocol code released today (wave federation day)(code.google.com)
58 points by enki 17y ago|13 comments
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by enki 17y ago
the comments over at cnet are very ill-informed. native client allows you to run x86 assembly code (from a c compiler or even handwritten) at native speed. that is: no vmmon, but truly native! this is very different from JIT compilation or
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by enki 17y ago
i think we'll have a huge shortage of programmers shortly
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by enki 17y ago
a counterexample doesn't mean there's no trend. it's a prediction, so i doubt he'll have hard data to back it up, but i think the argument is pretty compelling: if transaction costs hinder smaller companies in competing, but on the upside t
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by enki 17y ago
well, if you've worked for startups, then you've worked for the exception. i'm not saying there aren't any, just fewer than would make sense. i hope there will be more startups in europe in the future, and some people are already doing a gr
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Waterfall: The European Way Of Starting Companies(lolstartups.com)
18 points by enki 17y ago|24 comments
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by enki 17y ago
this should be required reading for anyone wanting to build a big django app right now
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by enki 18y ago
oauth
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by enki 18y ago
now, /that/ is useful information for "hackers"
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by enki 18y ago
remember kids, every friday is a fortran day

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