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by fjarlq 11y ago
Also relevant: Whitfield Diffie's 1988 paper, "The First Ten Years of Public-Key Cryptography"[1]. [1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1988/diffie.pdf
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Martin Hellman explains what he plans to do with his share of the Turing Award money: https://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/the-turing-awar...
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Diffie and Hellman's 1976 paper, "New Directions in Cryptography"[1], cited by their Turing Award, seems like a good start. [1] https://www-ee.stanford.edu/~hellman/publications/24.pdf
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Oh, good point, I wasn't aware that GNU tar also supported automatic compression recognition. I should have tested it. Thanks!
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Good point. GNU tar requires using the correct option, -J, when extracting an xz-compressed tarball. But OS X tar is bsdtar, which ignores -z and -J when extracting because it automatically recognizes compression and does the right thing. S
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by fjarlq 11y ago
You can build the gdb executable manually on OS X 10.11. First, run this if you haven't already installed the Command Line Tools for Xcode: xcode-select --install Then run these commands: curl -o gdb-7.11.tar.xz https:/
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Related: http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/why-our-intuition-about... ... discussed here 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11138242
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NetApp to lay off 12% before August(blogs.barrons.com)
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Much better: smooth animation and smooth audio, with Safari 9.0.1 on a mid-2014 15" Retina MacBook Pro. With Chrome 46.0.2490.86, the animation is smooth, but the audio is stuttering quickly and noisily.
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by fjarlq 11y ago
pwd -P would be equivalent and more portable (POSIX compliant[1]) than readlink -f . which doesn't work on BSD-based systems. [1]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696899/utilities/p
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by fjarlq 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_i...
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Phil Plait's take on it: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2015/10/14/weird_st...
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by fjarlq 11y ago
What blocker are you using, and what config?
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by fjarlq 11y ago
There are a lot of people who believe surprising things. For example, from a 2013 Harris poll: 58% believe in The Devil (26% don't) 47% believe in evolution (29% don't) 42% believe in ghosts (37% don't) 36% belie
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Cool, good idea! I have a couple bits of cosmetic feedback for you: I would like the chess pieces to appear much larger within each of their squares, ala http://www.365chess.com/opening.php Also, the green border around pro
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by fjarlq 11y ago
I like Inconsolata[1] a lot. I prefer the version of Inconsolata with straight quotes[2]. [1]: http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html [2]: http://nodnod.net/2009/feb/12/
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by fjarlq 11y ago
But that's widely reported as not being true. On what basis do you claim otherwise? > It’s important to note that Ashley Madison’s sign-up process does not require verification of an email address to set up an account, so legitimat
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by fjarlq 11y ago
ETA for BitBucket's 2FA support is less than 6 weeks: https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/5811/support-two-fa...
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Honest question: who here is using open source XMPP software today in a Slack-like manner? If so, what is your software+config, and how do you like it? When I last investigated XMPP for this, back in January 2014, I found that open source s
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by fjarlq 11y ago
This "Come From Google" (CFG) paywall bypass bookmarklet usually does the trick for me: https://umur.io/paywall-bypass-bookmarklet-come-from-google/
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Emily Lakdawalla has written an excellent guide explaining what can be expected to be seen over the next several days: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2015/0624055...
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by fjarlq 11y ago
Reddit co-founder and executive chairman Alexis Ohanian (kn0thing) had something to say about that yesterday: > Monday is the start of a new week and I wanted to be sure everyone will be online (not on US holiday weekend) for a post. -
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by fjarlq 11y ago
There was no way Neil could have really prepared for a manual landing in the low gravity of the moon. In fact when they tried to test it on Earth, it very nearly killed him That seems like an incomplete summary of the story. You're n
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by fjarlq 12y ago
Wolfram published his analysis of CA RNG in 1986.[1] Since then, his paper has been cited 408 times.[2] Richard Feynman tried to crack rule 30, but declared he couldn't. That's probably partly why Wolfram describes rule 30 as &quo
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by fjarlq 12y ago
Rule 30 is how Mathematica generates random numbers: And in Mathematica--ever since it was first released--Random[Integer] has generated 0's and 1's using exactly the rule 30 cellular automaton. The way this works is that every
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by fjarlq 12y ago
Coverity has been improved so that it now detects Heartbleed and similar defects via static analysis: http://security.coverity.com/blog/2014/Apr/on-detecting-hear...
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by fjarlq 12y ago
"multi-user VR stuff" https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/577889129284898816
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by fjarlq 12y ago
Correct, HN is written in Arc, a dialect of Lisp. But, the Arc compiler is written in Racket[1], and internally outputs Racket code[2]. "mzscheme"[3] is an early version of PLT Scheme, aka Racket. [1] https://github.com
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by fjarlq 12y ago
A hint of explanation of the reverse-engineering: https://www.quora.com/Many-articles-about-Drew-Houston-say-t... Update: I haven't found video or slides about Rian Hunter's explanation, but I did find this note a
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by fjarlq 12y ago
Video of the winning game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unCQHAbGsAA The author's list of milestones illustrates the key components of this achievement, as well as some limitations: https://github.com&#x2F

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