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by krenoten 13y ago
Interesting article, but slight quibble: differential cryptography is a cryptanalysis technique, ie a method that anybody can use to try to break a cipher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_cryptanalysis
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by krenoten 13y ago
If you're interested in running networking applications on small hardware, you may be interested in the Beaglebone. It's more expensive, but vastly outperforms the Pi with regards to network I/O. The Pi is awesome for video
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by krenoten 13y ago
Your definition of "superior" may imply vastly different trade-offs. If you want files fast, then they are quite inferior to Bittorrent. The aforementioned protocols can vary a bit in what they do well, but in general the goal i
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by krenoten 13y ago
More that bittorrent was significantly faster and more convenient for users. In general, the more anonymous you want to make a network, the worse the tradeoffs involved will favor performance. Tor, for example, is designed to be low-laten
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by krenoten 13y ago
You're talking about Linux, not a BSD. There are many desktop users who are capable of developing support, and I'd be surprised if nobody is already working on similar things for retina.
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by krenoten 13y ago
Is the Z3 theorem prover an example of a CP tool? For those interested, Z3 is one of the world's fastest theorem provers and has been open sourced by Microsoft. Theorem provers have many interesting applications, but one of my favorites i
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by krenoten 13y ago
"Nice people will allow you to hire them even if they know they are not among your best candidates; a good person won’t let you hire them unless that is what is best for you." Uhhhhh... Isn't that exactly the kind of person who values the e
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by krenoten 13y ago
"The people who plant the seed are often forgotten through history," Molina said. "Even though one could arguably associate substantial or equal credit to them. I'm not saying that's what I want. I just think it's interesting how the last o
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by krenoten 13y ago
If you have the time, this video by Basho's CTO will give you a much better understanding of the tradeoffs that are involved in distributed system design: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Scale-Distrib... A great alternative
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by krenoten 13y ago
My experience must differ from yours, but metrosexual and hippie are useful superficial descriptors for many people I encounter. I know many people who would self-identify as either. When I was completing college I also knew several peopl
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by krenoten 13y ago
For mobile devices and laptops, the ability to turn off ticks on certain cores translates to huge power savings. I almost doubled my battery life on a quad core laptop when I switched from a full-tick to a dynamic-tick kernel.
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by krenoten 13y ago
Fans of the cult movie "The Room" may be interested in knowing that Tommy Wiseau spent a substantial amount of the total budget on securing rights to sing "Happy Birthday".
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by krenoten 13y ago
At what point does the doctor become unnecessary? Someone or some thing needs to know how to interpret the patient's symptoms accurately, but I imagine after expert systems focusing on symptom-> recommendation become commonplace that t
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by krenoten 14y ago
Having this setup really helped when my card was skimmed. I received a call from my bank asking if I had anything to do with attempting to purchase some very expensive train tickets in Sweden. They tried to make a large purchase, and when
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by krenoten 14y ago
That's a great description of how it works - looking forward to reading more of your comments on HN in the future.
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by krenoten 14y ago
It is basically TLS, so if you are connecting to a public node then it is easy to see that you are using tor. This is why we need more bridges that are slightly more difficult to enumerate.
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by krenoten 14y ago
The common implementation of tor does use 3, but as you can see on page 5 the basic concept functions with 2: https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des... It helps to simplify when explaining to others.
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by krenoten 14y ago
A public server is not an exit node unless it is specifically configured to be one. If you want to be absolutely certain that you are not an exit node, just check out your torrc configuration file and search for a line beginning with "Exit
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by krenoten 14y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but that mindset confines you to local optima. Life is not pain free - and we are all better for it. With no contrast, life is meaningless. Explore a little! Check out page 3 :)
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by krenoten 14y ago
As is the case with every other part of the internet - you should probably use noscript if you are concerned about being attacked. You will never be completely safe from exploits - you need to get comfortable with that. To your browser, i
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by krenoten 14y ago
As long as you don't operate an exit node, there are no risks that I am aware of (as a citizen of the USA or EU, YMMV otherwise). I've been running several entry nodes with directory caching enabled on Amazon for a year or so with no probl
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by krenoten 14y ago
Absolutely, but they comprise ~2/3 of this list.
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by krenoten 14y ago
I'm surprised by the proportion of yahoo email addresses. There are 662 of them.
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by krenoten 14y ago
Ahh yes, thank you!
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by krenoten 14y ago
Learning decorators is usually one of the first 'a-hah!' moments in the experience of someone coming to python from another language. The wonders of the yield statement often follow. Here's the obligatory link to 'A Curious Course on Coro
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by krenoten 14y ago
Did you completely lose your ability to use non-colemak layouts after switching, as I recently have?
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No, he says it has all of the ones we know about. He emphasizes the fact that there stands to be a lot of learning to do and bugs to work out.
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by krenoten 14y ago
The Flow language they implemented for this is interesting. http://www.foundationdb.com/white-papers/flow/ I think we are going to see eventual consistency deflate as people relearn to love transactions. SQL also makes users of a databas
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by krenoten 14y ago
So, that is a possible bad outcome. A possible good outcome could be the elimination of much of the loss of information that happens when we ham-handedly convert our thoughts to verbal, or especially written, communication. Imagine how mu
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by krenoten 14y ago
Here's a page that gives a high level overview of the technology that he has helped to develop: https://www.numenta.com/technology.html On Intelligence has dramatically changed the way I think about thinking. It's an awesome book.

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