flebron

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by flebron 13y ago
He means that the following are equivalent: * How famous PG is in HN * How famous homakov is in HN
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by flebron 13y ago
I think of it as "feed m to f".
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by flebron 13y ago
If that's all there was to entanglement, we would just use the term "ignorance of the actual state". The issue with entanglement is that the system will show properties of being in _both states at once_, which is distinct fro
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by flebron 13y ago
It's clearly Stallman-shaming.
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by flebron 13y ago
That's for a false positive, sure. But who goes to the doctor to confirm a false negative, that 23andme says there's no reason to worry about? The list of negative results is going to be huge, in most cases.
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by flebron 13y ago
- still exists, and + is now "". That is, "foo" forces foo to appear exactly, just as +foo did.
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by flebron 13y ago
Your benefits are so to people who are going to be editing these files. They are not benefits to people who are going to be using these files (i.e. running the script). Most people are not going to be editing the script, they are going to b
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by flebron 13y ago
Pfft, anyone can factor large prime numbers :)
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by flebron 13y ago
I disagree vehemently. It is much better _not_ to create software that gives you the false impression of privacy, than to create it. If I am aware that my IM client is insecure, I'll behave differently than if I mistakenly think my IM
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by flebron 13y ago
Am I the only one very surprised at the scale? Millimeters? I would expect much, much smaller... am I reading this wrong?
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by flebron 13y ago
To be fair, people really aren't too interested in Omega, at least not in conjunction with worst cases. Omega is more suitable for best cases, and that in turn is slightly useless without any knowledge of how common it is. For instance, tel
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by flebron 13y ago
As an aside, trees (Red-Black trees for std::map in libstdc++) have terrible locality, and thus cache behavior. In general, for reasonable n, it's even going to be better to have a vector<vector<int>> in which you literally
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by flebron 13y ago
Sometimes, people sort things other than the natural numbers below 2^k.
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by flebron 13y ago
No, if you assume that the size of each object is constant, O notation will swallow it and report that, in terms of the number of items to sort, Radix sort is linear in time. The usual bound of Omega(n log n), proved using decision trees, i
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by flebron 13y ago
I idle and answer/ask on FreeNode's ##math. #haskell is also pretty chill, people are always willing to explain stuff. Yes, this includes monads for the kth time, forall k >= 1 :).
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by flebron 13y ago
If you knew there was a cracker actively using your network, would you not take any other precautions other than changing the one password you know he used? One could argue Linode was overzealous in resetting all passwords. Reasonable minds
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by flebron 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by flebron 13y ago
It's probably false that "there does not exist a customer of EC2 that has been hacked", and that should be pretty obvious. Furthermore it's false for essentially all nontrivial, large services.
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by flebron 13y ago
Why do you think in both cases this was the result of some sort of mistake on Linode's part, versus an oversight on the part of the target? That is, you use the expression 'they {linode} got breached', versus the more correct 'they {the cus
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by flebron 14y ago
I'm sorry, it's not clear to me. I do not think that there's something inherently sexist in sexual innuendo, or that it somehow isn't OK when among adults (and even if there's kids, they likely won't understand it - that's the beauty of inn
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by flebron 14y ago
I would think any self respecting bot would notice "Hey, there's a valid email address on the page source code :D".
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by flebron 14y ago
If you want to see how crazy this can get, know that you can actually take the derivative of a type (with respect to another type), and this yields useful information. See McBride's paper http://strictlypositive.org/diff.pdf , or this guy
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by flebron 14y ago
I wrote "// global scope" beside the first statement to signify that that statement was run in global scope, same for the statement below it. In global scope, the activation object is the global object, and so saying "var x = 1" will make t
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by flebron 14y ago
For 6), a question, is .bind not just returning a new function, which will .call your provided one with the supplied "this"? That is, I think it's better to reason about it not as an exception to the usual semantics, but as something that c
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by flebron 14y ago
That's not a JS inconsistency, that's just the browser calling yourhandler.call(yourobject, eventobject). The underlying statement is that "event handler" is not a concept in JS, it's just a way of calling functions that some implementation
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by flebron 14y ago
I don't see the "exception to the exception", he is saying that if strict mode is on, "this" isn't the global object when saying foo(), it's undefined. And that's true. It's possible to both have "use strict" and "this" be the global object
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by flebron 14y ago
It is equivalent to, for instance, "every vector space has a basis", and to Zorn's lemma, which I've often used.
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by flebron 14y ago
As a teacher, the reason I teach with formality before allowing students to be informal, is that formality is training wheels. Initially, the students do not know how to write a coherent proof. That is why we give them formal tools such as
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by flebron 14y ago
Say, <a href="foo" fullscreen="true">, I'd guess.
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by flebron 14y ago
That is true, but if you need a way to rationalize it, it's a Schelling fence[1] you're using on yourself. It doesn't need to be false, you can agree to make it true by pragmatism. [1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/ase/schelling_fences_on_slippe

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