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541.
by hendzen 12y ago
Interesting to see that the (scathing) TNR article didn't make it to the front page, while the founder's blog post received 645+ upvotes.
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by hendzen 12y ago
This kind of complexity is only really needed for library writers... e.g. someone writing a package for Boost. Your run-of-the mill application code in C++ will probably stay away from this kind of wizardry.
543.
by hendzen 12y ago
Mike Hearn is also a core Bitcoin developer, as well as an HN commenter. Hi Mike!
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by hendzen 12y ago
Thanks! Some noteworthy excerpts: - Participants assigned to the low-carbohydrate diet were instructed to maintain an intake of digestible carbohydrate (total carbohydrate minus total fiber) of less than 40 g/d. - The reduction in body
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by hendzen 12y ago
Here is the actual paper (paywalled) : http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1900694 Anyone have access that can upload it to Scribd or similar?
546.
by hendzen 12y ago
Next time Keurig should hire a cryptographer. GPG signed QR-codes or something similar (vulnerable to replay attack, but harder to circumvent).
547.
by hendzen 12y ago
Yep - kind of like active hard-drive protection [0]. I could imagine stop-lights turning red at major intersections, elevators stopping and opening at the nearest floor, BART trains coming to a stop, etc. [0] - http://en.wikipedi
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Haskell-style list manipulation in C++14(coliru.stacked-crooked.com)
2 points by hendzen 12y ago|0 comments
549.
by hendzen 12y ago
Another way to look at this is that it is based on Microsoft's internal distributed systems infrastructure and thus will never be open-sourced for the same reason Google will never open-source Spanner, Megastore or Colossus. Having bat
550.
by hendzen 12y ago
And again, Evgeny Morozov is shown to be uncannily prescient about how technology is affecting our society.
551.
by hendzen 12y ago
As someone who has used TSX to optimize synchronization primitives, you can expect to see a ~15-20% performance increase, if (big if) your program is heavy on disjoint data access, i.e. a lock is needed for correctness, but conflicts are ra
552.
Oracle cluster daddy jumps ship to NoSQL upstart MongoDB(theregister.co.uk)
4 points by hendzen 12y ago|0 comments
553.
by hendzen 12y ago
Here's the main commit. https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/87739d45b9c974da88ca...
554.
by hendzen 12y ago
It's not lobbying - it's 'political hacking'.
555.
by hendzen 12y ago
Our industry is fucked.
556.
by hendzen 12y ago
The last time I played around with rust (a few weeks ago), rustc compiled binaries included a statically linked runtime as well.
557.
by hendzen 12y ago
Having a preprocessor is nice. Having a real macro system is nicer.
558.
by hendzen 12y ago
Aphyr (Kyle Kingsbury) & Peter Bailis have a nice survey of actual network partitions that have occurred in production systems: http://aphyr.com/posts/288-the-network-is-reliable
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by hendzen 12y ago
Escape analysis, dead code elimination, and function inlining are standard optimizations taught in an undergraduate compilers course. Go is cool, but I wouldn't really cite those as justifications for why.
560.
by hendzen 12y ago
Glad to see the dynamic language folks reinventing core dumps ;)
561.
by hendzen 12y ago
Simple, CockroachDB is a CP system, while Riak is an AP system. If you need multi-key ACID transactions, and can tolerate potential downtime in the event that some partition loses a majority of its Raft replicas, you might want to use Cockr
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Edward J. Snowden email inquiry to the NSA Office of General Counsel(icontherecord.tumblr.com)
5 points by hendzen 12y ago|1 comments
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by hendzen 12y ago
Not to be a curmudgeon but why would one want to use Rust for web development for a non-toy project? I am a big fan of Rust, but as it aims to be a better C++, it is probably a better fit for OS development, game engines, embedded systems,
564.
by hendzen 12y ago
Two things missing from this statement that should be part of this note and every note like it: 1) How were the passwords stored (hashed? what algorithm? what parameters?) 2) How were the CC #'s stored (encrypted? what cipher/mode
565.
by hendzen 12y ago
The real problem with online communities is that the people who are upvoted the most are the ones who spend the most time commenting. Generally, very successful people don't spend large amounts of their time commenting on online forums
566.
by hendzen 12y ago
I doubt the components are backdoored by default in stock hardware. More likely, GHCQ was worried that other nations (China, Russia, etc.) were targeting Guardian journalists in an effort to gain access to the Snowden cache. As such, GHCQ p
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by hendzen 12y ago
Google code is heavily used internally at Google.
568.
by hendzen 12y ago
Compared to the crypto used in Zerocash, Zerocoin's internals are fairly elementary. Zerocoin used one-way accumulators and discrete log based ZKPs, which are fairly approachable to anyone who has taken an undergraduate course in crypt
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by hendzen 12y ago
"A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." - Nietzsche
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by hendzen 12y ago
Seems pretty similar to http://thebinaryapp.com/

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