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by j1vms 10y ago
Use a one-time pad (and distribute "securely") for anything you want to encrypt as best as possible. Consider everything else in the open already, or at some not too far off time in the future. https://news.ycombinator
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> "I always think we're 30 days from going out of business," Huang says. "That's never changed. It's not a fear of failure. It's really a fear of feeling complacent, and I don't ever want that to s
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> why does AMD need to be in the kernel? Why can't they release the way nVidia does? Perhaps it was strategically important to them to be upstream (marketing point, driver ubiquity)? It may not be the year of Linux on the Desktop,
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That's why you put Win7 in a VM (e.g. VirtualBox) and let them figure out the rest.
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> A process of invention as far as deciding which axioms to assume (...) Possibly, but I think what mathematicians find is that they end up having little choice about what sets of axioms (when taken together) are useful, fertile, and&#x2
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> And here I was thinking, damn if the interviews weren't hard enough .. well good to know they haven't stepped up a whole three notches Ah yes, interviewing in tech, from what I hear: ten times harder than interviewing for a C
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> It's not a fair comparison at all. Especially since Bell Labs sat within a state-sponsored (enforced?) monopoly until the mid-80s, so there was no direct concern about revenue. Which is not to belittle them in the least as they m
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And all of these, in terms of quality of research output, pale by about an order of magnitude in comparison to Bell Labs for much of its existence (particularly in the era ~1940 to mid 1980s). They were the R&D benchmark for most imp
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> Systems like Signal and WhatsApp show that that's not necessarily true to the degree of previous solutions. I dunno if I'd really believe that until either company is willing to put a rising bounty starting at say $10 milli
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I think we are getting closer to furthering the concept that dreaming isn't just a side-effect of thinking (or simply a defrag/clean-up routine upon the previous day's thoughts or the mind's expectations for tomorrow).
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> I'm seeing a lot of people say this is a bad idea. I completely disagree. (...) Hacker news is a news aggregation medium for "Hacker News." I'm not sure yet whether I think this is a good or bad idea, though this I
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by j1vms 10y ago
I think what buddy means there (the grandparent post) is that the NYTimes statement/claim in its article had not been qualified by reference (i.e. attribution), rather than that Clinton herself was unqualified for the job. That's
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> (...) but they already have it, and aren't impeding my travel. But don't be mistaken, that based on the Snowden revelations, "they" may not have already had it, and needed another country's intelligence agenc
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Upvote for posting a disclaimer that you have a horse in the race. People need to try and start doing this more when posting opinions.
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He doesn't want advertising in his life, but guy goes and immediately "shits in his head" using Bill Hicks of all people!
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As a rough way to understand this, take a look at the difference in operation between an analog computer [0] and a digital computer. One of the main differences is that an analog computer does not achieve a given "operation" (e.g
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by j1vms 10y ago
Assuming you based this off their financial statements, then everything you are saying is pretty much 100% on the ball with regard to interpreting their cash flow. > That doesn't make me very optimistic. I would say that the market
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by j1vms 10y ago
I know people are talking again about a distributed (blockchain-based?) forum preventing problems like this, and once that happens it will make "message forgery" like this a lot harder. But a "low-tech" solution in the
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by j1vms 10y ago
Not sure if anyone here has mentioned this yet, but it's useful to think of matrix multiplication as the most natural extension of one-dimensional algebra into multiple dimensions. First, remember that people first wrestled with and
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by j1vms 10y ago
> between machine learning methods and applied statistics (...) often there is not a clear distinction between the two. I would say applied statistics draws a line just prior to implementation concerns (say, real-world resource usage mea
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by j1vms 10y ago
> GS thinks they will make more money on their own when they built up a nice patent portfolio in this space. So instead of contributing back to the community on a openly-developed technology (not talking about R3, but Satoshi's bloc
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> Minor nitpick: Someone who is smart enough to crack quantum mechanics, and build a "manual" computer when alone, should be smart enough to figure out a way to find a source of energy so the computation happens automatically.
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> ...skyscraper that someone tried to make nuclear-bomb-proof (...) That's fantastic. Given the state-of-art nuclear weapons in the early 70s, it's fantastic in the unbelievable sense as the thing would stick out like a sore th
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> Don't let anybody every come close at touching that. Another way to look at it is, nobody can tell you what to do unless you're willing to hear it from them -- so always be mindful and reasonably opinionated about who you hav
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I will revisit 'hg' a little bit myself again to see how it and its ecosystem has evolved. Thanks for the recommendation.
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> The area around the White House is intentionally pixelated. Not for the Russian "Google Earth" counterpart, it ain't. ;)
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> The people who were influenced the most by fake news are those who probably don't even feel there exists a fake news issue. Which points the way towards the question of whether some people ever really want to know the truth abou
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Looking at the exchange a bit and reviewing the context in which it occurred: it's a great example of someone clearly deciding what problem they want to fix, followed by defining their priorities and sticking to them. As Linux has poi
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> Due to the ubiquity of git (...) we (the users) are in the same case today. Github aside, in what ways does git fall shorts of your expectation as a user? Maybe there are alternatives for you to use, but we need some clarity to decide
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> Is there any real physical evidence that an electron can be both states at the same time, outside the mathematical framework of QM? Another way to respond to your question is to consider that the transistors inside the machine you used

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