komaromy

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by komaromy 10y ago
Post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12016570
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by komaromy 10y ago
With the vanishing of required compilers courses, I am unsure that this will ever be the case.
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by komaromy 10y ago
The west (and the United States in particular) has had ample time and resources to do something about the problem, and failed to act meaningfully. China and India would have had to make much larger sacrifices in terms of individual quality
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by komaromy 10y ago
He came so tantalizingly close to being world champion. Besides the two World Championship matches with Karpov, one of which he lost by a single game, the 1974 Candidates final also decided the championship following Fischer's abdicati
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by komaromy 10y ago
How should repeated (third or more) plagiarism offenses be addressed if not expulsion?
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by komaromy 10y ago
> (Also, one example doesn't make something true.) Neither does "I've never seen it being used".
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by komaromy 10y ago
You only get into those situations if you choose to follow theory, which is not necessary. There are myriad sidelines that are adequate outside of the very top level and will give you a playable middlegame with little to no theoretical know
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by komaromy 10y ago
> So, it wasn't surprising to me to learn that the Grand Masters are Grand Masters because of their memorization of opening sequences, the depth of that memorization, and when to use which variation. This is not true. Opening knowle
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by komaromy 10y ago
He's the real deal. I remember watching the scandal on 2+2 unfold a few years ago.
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by komaromy 10y ago
It's annoying when the subject of an article is interesting enough to warrant attention but the headline is sensationalized regardless.
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by komaromy 11y ago
> due to a major accident that occurred attempting to extend the Metro under the Taedong River in 1971 killing at least one hundred workers This sounds like a horrifying way to go.
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by komaromy 11y ago
An ideal hash function would have perfect avalanching; that is, changing one bit of the input would result in a 50% chance of each of the output bits being flipped. While modern cryptographic hash functions have at least really good avalanc
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by komaromy 11y ago
Wow, this is great. I hope it prevents another contractor-related debacle like healthcare dot gov.
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by komaromy 11y ago
So, the NSA.
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by komaromy 11y ago
> If you can control 1 unit it's trivial to control 100. Control them, sure-kiting 100 units at a time would be a breeze-but using them together in a coherent way is drastically more difficult.
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by komaromy 11y ago
Once there's a system that claims to be better than humans, sure, but it's just a headache for researchers until then.
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by komaromy 11y ago
That doesn't sound like all that much for the CEO of an IBM-sized company.
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by komaromy 11y ago
Location: Cleveland, OH Remote: Sure! Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Scientific Python mostly (NumPy, scikit-learn, pandas). I also enjoy Scheme and C, and have some Java experience. I'm comfortable on *nix systems. Résumé&#x2F
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by komaromy 11y ago
I'm guessing it was a reference to this tweet: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768
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by komaromy 11y ago
> the encryption here is obstructing justice No, it isn't. The phone they're trying to break into was the shooter's work phone, provided by his employer. He physically destroyed his personal phone before the acts in questi
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by komaromy 11y ago
Can you provide an example of when this has happened?
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by komaromy 11y ago
I hope there's more coming from this blog.
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by komaromy 11y ago
I get more excitement from seeing his avatar in my Twitter timeline than any other.
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by komaromy 11y ago
I was not aware that a decent "free software live video stream" exists. Anyone know what technology they'll be using?
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by komaromy 11y ago
Sending the notification still seems like a better idea than not doing it. If a page has gotten you to enter the password at all then it's pretty likely that it knows the significance before the notification.
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by komaromy 11y ago
It felt too restrictive to me. Things were changing without me asking for them and that was preventing me from learning. One of the most egregious problems was forcing the change from text logs to journalctl binary logs.
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by komaromy 11y ago
The Arch docs are superior (best that I've encountered in the Linux world) but Slackware is worth it to me to stay away from systemd.
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by komaromy 11y ago
It'd be nice if more reporting on the subject highlighted the absurdity of DFS being legal but betting on game outcomes illegal. I think that DFS should be legal but at least the NY AG is being consistent in enforcement.
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by komaromy 11y ago
They're now at 134k, so I'd guess it started recently.
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by komaromy 11y ago
Obama came into office with the same idea, then expended pretty much all of his political capital on passing the ACA. Lessig's plan seems to be on the same order.

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