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by jsnathan 10y ago
Google found me this [1]. "On 29 December 1934, Albert Einstein was quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as saying, “There is not the slightest indication that [nuclear energy] will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom woul
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by jsnathan 10y ago
It seems more like a rush to the finish to me [1], rather than a slow crawl. The goal doesn't seem to be to create a 'perfect' AI driver before deployment, just one that is good enough. And after all, we only really need a st
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Ask HN: Any great talks you would like to share?
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WorkFlowy: Simple enough for a shopping list, powerful enough to run a business(chrome.google.com)
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by jsnathan 10y ago
>>> import pysize >>> import sys >>> pysize.get_size([]) 0 >>> sys.getsizeof([]) 72 >>> a = [[],{},()] >>> pysize.get_size(a) 0 >>> sys.getsizeof(a) 96
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Anyone remember this? > On February 20, 2004, the developers of wxWindows announced that the project was changing its name to wxWidgets, as a result of Microsoft requesting Julian Smart to respect Microsoft's United Kingdom trademar
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by jsnathan 10y ago
I believe that the development of synthetic meats that are both cheaper and of a more homogeneously high quality will supplant butchered meat, and eventually enable us to outlaw it. The science is happening as we speak.
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by jsnathan 10y ago
He's not the only one who seems to think so: https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4pkt3k/bbc_forec...
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Going to try to summarize a bit. The article explains that different organisms exhibit different patterns of aging, when we consider aging as either defined by increases in the probability of death, or decreases in the probability of reprod
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Researchers Suggest Insects Have Rudimentary Consciousness(news.discovery.com)
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by jsnathan 11y ago
Really sorry about the edits! Thinking in real time :) So about the size of the phone number space. Interestingly I guess you could at least limit it by country. But, unless you already know the mobile phone numbers of the target's acq
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by jsnathan 11y ago
OK hold on. Say the rotating salt thing doesn't work, for whatever reason. But you yourself made a better suggestion! If we do hash (phone #) contact pairs, and every client publishes multiple hashes, one for each of its contacts, then
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by jsnathan 11y ago
See my sibling comment about the salt. As long as hashes are computed client-side, I don't see why the size of the installed base matters?
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by jsnathan 11y ago
> You can't use a salt, the contact you want to match has to be able to compute the same hash. I think the misunderstanding here is that I meant one salt for all users at a time, instead of one salt for each hash. And as long as s
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by jsnathan 11y ago
There cannot be precomputed tables for every custom hash computation. Especially an expensive one. Even less so if you add a salt. It could be made prohibitively costly for all but the most determined adversaries - and those could probably
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by jsnathan 11y ago
Can't you just make the hash more expensive? Also, couldn't you regularly rotate salts?
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by jsnathan 11y ago
> Ray Kurzweil and Aubrey De Grey are playing on the hopes and fears of people to make arguments about the fountain of youth that won't come to pass. I wish they would, but they won't. Oh but they will. Most certainly. It'
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French parliament votes to jail tech execs who refuse to decrypt data(theregister.co.uk)
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Scientists have found a mysterious boiling river(sciencealert.com)
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Facebook and Twitter take firm stance alongside Apple in encryption debate(thenextweb.com)
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by jsnathan 11y ago
FWIW I prefer the same kind of spacing. So there's at least two of us.
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by jsnathan 11y ago
That seems counterfactual to me, but that's just my opinion.
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by jsnathan 11y ago
Sorry I was referring to the second part of your comment. Even if you happen to be in majority with your progressive views, in this instance, there is no guarantee for that generally, especially if we consider the entire global populace.. i
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Synthetic Meat May Be On The Market Sooner Than We Thought(bigthink.com)
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by jsnathan 11y ago
But would you be in the majority with that? :)
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by jsnathan 11y ago
It might power 20% of all domains, but that doesn't equate to 20% of mindshare. Individual Facebook pages should be counted individually in this context. Wordpress also is not really a federated system, because the individual sites are
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by jsnathan 11y ago
IF this were the case, then the solution would be a whistleblower. Or someone hacking into the system, who makes the information collected public. Of course this person would face even more risk than Snowden ever did.
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by jsnathan 11y ago
This is just a question of what you take pleasure in. Boredom does not count as pleasant. I would expect that if you take aesthetic pleasure in highly complex art or science or mysticism, that is perfectly fine with Epicurus. It doesn'
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by jsnathan 11y ago
I wonder what ever happened to the dream of Perl 6 running (or interfacing with) Perl 5 code out of the box, and thus having access to all of CPAN from the get-go. Does anyone know if that is still a goal? I always thought that would make a
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by jsnathan 11y ago
If I read the article right, it looks like the investors already think that :) Seriously though, if you use enough buzz-words, like crowd-sourced virtual incubator, or Kickstarter for Innovation, or whatever, I'm sure you could sell th

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