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by gwillen 12y ago
If you are familiar with Ripple, it seems like a curious omission from your story. If you are _not_ familiar with Ripple, you should learn about it before you get on board with Stellar. (Stellar is a clone of Ripple, so familiarize yourself
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by gwillen 12y ago
At one time I had good luck with a streaming app called Bambuser. I switched from Ustream because the latter had issues (at the time) dealing with poor connectivity.
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by gwillen 12y ago
While I understand that giving people experimental drugs is extraordinarily dangerous, it still saddens me that, in all likelihood, these guys only got the rules bent because they were doctors. Anybody else would likely not have had the opt
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by gwillen 12y ago
You will be a bit hosed pursuing a CS degree on Windows. People do it, you can make it work, but you'll be constantly fighting to get your system to do useful things.
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by gwillen 12y ago
I swear to god, Kenton, the first thing I thought of when I saw this link was "hmm, I wonder if they would port this to Sandstorm."
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by gwillen 12y ago
A "normal" is a vector that sticks straight out of a surface, perpendicular to it. (This is the usual mathematical definition of the word 'normal'.) When shading a 3d-rendered surface, the normals at each pixel are used
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by gwillen 12y ago
Can you talk more about the extortion? Given that Uber apparently drops drivers that get below a 4.5 or something, I wouldn't expect much trouble from them...
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by gwillen 12y ago
If you lie to someone in order to induce them to give you valuable private information, that's fraud, not "information you carelessly broadcast". If a Stingray says "Hi, I'm a cell tower, connect to me!" that&#
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by gwillen 12y ago
The bitcoin ASICs I'm aware of can't be used for cracking SHA256, because the function they compute is SHA256(SHA256(f(params)), where f is a function that stuffs some parameters into a bitcoin-specific block template before hashi
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by gwillen 12y ago
Are you sure that 1-year cliff is a good idea for founders? A lot can happen in a year, and founder disputes are A Thing; and it sucks for the person with 49.9% to be in a position where any unresolvable disagreement in the first year means
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by gwillen 12y ago
So far I've been very underwhelmed by btsync; I couldn't seem to get it to actually start syncing between my devices. I've gotten it to sync test data and the like just fine, but as soon as I ask it to sync large folders of r
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by gwillen 12y ago
You're absolutely right, I failed to read closely enough.
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by gwillen 12y ago
Note that your link doesn't appear to say anything about that. Might you be seeing an internal revision? (The current revision visible to the public appears to predate the policy change; perhaps a new version was meant to be pushed but
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by gwillen 12y ago
I don't know if you'll see this comment; as far as I'm aware there's no way to passively monitor HN for replies. But if you do see it, please check my reply to dang's comment for a thought on why I'm so angry a
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by gwillen 12y ago
I apologize for the unnecessarily confrontational tone of my comment. (Because of HN's lack of comment notification system, I had no idea it was so controversial until I happened upon it again just now.) Its significantly positive scor
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by gwillen 12y ago
The MUD I played back in high school (Frontier, found on frontier.mudservices.com:7680) has evidently been dead for some years now. When I first played it ~2004 it was already on its second wind, having died and been revived once previously
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by gwillen 12y ago
I think the README mis-describes the performance comparison with the naive "huge array of samples" method. In particular, both methods are O(1) after a precomputation step. What the Alias Method appears to get you is a significant
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by gwillen 12y ago
Your claim that your product will not be discontinued is worthless. If you're so sure of that, put your money where your mouth is, and offer an SLA with a contractual minimum duration you promise to keep the service up, and significant
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by gwillen 12y ago
Perhaps it's time to forward your materials to the FDA? (Or whatever the appropriate regulator is for your device.)
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by gwillen 12y ago
I see you're getting downvoted for this, but the only thing that's wrong with it is that you're a bit late on the schedule. If you go back to the 2011 era it was absolutely true.
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by gwillen 12y ago
As an owner of a Bitcoin ASIC, I don't _think_ they're usable for general SHA-256. I think they're all specialized for SHA-256(SHA-256(X)), where X must be a packet in a bitcoin-specific format.
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by gwillen 12y ago
I think you've inadvertently explained part of the problem here. The people who have the most influence on SO are not the ones most interested in using it for questions, but the ones most interested in improving their "score"
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by gwillen 12y ago
One should not under any circumstances deal with Mircea Popescu. See the other reply to you in order to understand why. (Mircea is the owner of BitBets, the creator of the "no refunds" policy in question, and also the owner of the
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by gwillen 12y ago
The engineers -- the ones down in the trenches -- practically revolted over it. The decision was purely from On High, i.e. managerial. It came down from the highest levels.
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by gwillen 12y ago
Thanks for commenting with an explanation of your moderation (not just this time; I've seen you do it repeatedly.) It really makes a huge difference to how moderation on HN is perceived. (If you look at my comment history, you'll
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by gwillen 13y ago
For most miners at the present time this is not true. The reference code does not do this, and most mining pools are running something close to the reference code. (And furthermore, most such txes will never transit the network in any case,
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by gwillen 13y ago
In Chrome on OS X, either two or three fingers will both scroll and change page.
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by gwillen 13y ago
Right idea, but 4 is not enough. echidna:~ gwillen$ wc -l /usr/share/dict/words 235886 /usr/share/dict/words You get something like 17 bits of password strength per word, depending on the s
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by gwillen 13y ago
The HN mods typically sanitize titles to match the title of the underlying article. (Except when they don't, of course.) They are generally unwilling to explain themselves, even when their edits are clearly making the title worse. It&#
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by gwillen 13y ago
Hah! In all the times I've read this story, I've apparently always missed the punchline. Thanks.

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