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by madars 11y ago
According to Ted Ts'o (maintainer of ext4): "the main reason why we did the ext3 -> ext4 fork was that adding 64-bit numbers required major surgery, and we didn't want to break a lot of production users who were using ext3
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Hacking Team and Boeing Subsidiary Envisioned Drones Deploying Spyware(firstlook.org)
5 points by madars 11y ago|0 comments
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by madars 11y ago
The author has published all the code on Bitbucket ( https://bitbucket.org/bloodrizer/kitten-game ) and there even seems to be a vibrant community around it (/r/kittensgame).
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You are a kitten in a catnip forest(bloodrizer.ru)
169 points by madars 11y ago|56 comments
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by madars 11y ago
Not sure why the parent is getting downvoted -- the ps.gz file lacks searchable text, which is a reasonable thing to expect in 2015. But, of course, the file is freely made available by Don Knuth, so all is forgiven :)
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Were All Those Rainbow Profile Photos Another Facebook Experiment?(theatlantic.com)
4 points by madars 11y ago|0 comments
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by madars 11y ago
Because you probably don't want to recompile gazillion binaries if one library has an exploitable security vulnerability.
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by madars 11y ago
I think you overestimate the straight-forwardness of this. Option #2 means including economic incentives in your relationship ("I better rush towards marrying someone, lest I get kicked out!"). Option #3 is very restricted -- if y
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by madars 11y ago
It seems that Linux version has a version of the database as plain text (including their meanings); wc -l tells me that OSPD4.1.txt has 178378 entries, which seems about right. edit: seems like that's only true for v4 and below, while
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by madars 11y ago
One has to note that NATO is not "expanding to the east". None of the new members were lured into NATO. To the contrary, those are all sovereign countries who wanted to join NATO and escape Russia's bullying. No formerly occu
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Bitcoin Core Developers Join MIT Digital Currency Initiative(coindesk.com)
1 points by madars 12y ago|0 comments
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by madars 12y ago
To provide a second opinion: for me it was probably one of the best books I read last year -- extremely lucid writing and very lively. I think I would have loved it in high school.
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Fog Creek Interview with Peteris Krumins(blog.fogcreek.com)
26 points by madars 12y ago|0 comments
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Starting off in Rust: Trying to write a shell(blog.achernya.com)
88 points by madars 12y ago|19 comments
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Physical Side-Channel Key-Extraction Attacks On PCs(cs.tau.ac.il)
100 points by madars 12y ago|16 comments
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by madars 15y ago
While it is obvious that a satisfiable instance will have a simple yes-certificate, it is not known if for any unsatisfiable instance there is a short no-certificate (i.e. SAT is in NP, but believed not to be in coNP). The Jewish problems h
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by madars 15y ago
Yury Lifshits (then a research scientist at Yahoo! Research) did a talk at Estonian Summer School on Computer Science called "Intro to Content Optimization" [1], where he explained one of the approaches. It makes an interesting read. [1] --
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Announcing SSH Tunnels for Browserling(catonmat.net)
38 points by madars 15y ago|1 comments
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by madars 15y ago
Try ipv4.icanhazip.com and ipv6.icanhazip.com .
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Reconstructing encrypted Skype calls from packet sizes(cs.unc.edu)
3 points by madars 15y ago|1 comments
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Zeus crimeware source code leaked(threatpost.com)
11 points by madars 15y ago|2 comments
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by madars 16y ago
Has anyone encountered ZDDs (or BDDs for that matter) in the industry? This seems to be a relatively new data structure (Knuth says that "it's one of the only really fundamental data structures that came out in the last 25 years") and I hav
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Kaspersky anti-virus source code leaks online(news.softpedia.com)
9 points by madars 16y ago|0 comments
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Two Centuries On, a Cryptologist Cracks a Presidential Code(online.wsj.com)
83 points by madars 16y ago|8 comments
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by madars 16y ago
The patent in question is http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7640098.html (source: http://news.priorsmart.com/stenbock-everson-v-runwayfinder-l... )
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by madars 16y ago
> Yes, it is extremely inconvenient (available exactly as you described) There is a shortcut key for that - F12, so it's actually quite convenient :-)
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by madars 16y ago
The solution is by dynamic programming. Let p_1 = 2, p_2 = 3, ..., p_172 = 1021 be the first 172 primes. We will denote the number of subsets of {p_1, p_2, ..., p_k} that sum to n by D(k, n). We know that D(0, 0) = 1 and D(0, n) = 0 if n &#
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by madars 16y ago
http://codepad.org/5TyD9Jqy -- C++ solution with running time of ~0.004s. 30 lines not counting empty lines/comments/braces, half of the code is generating P.
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by madars 16y ago
> Every windows computer I have ever owned has consistently failed me on this point. Ever tried ThinkPad? :)
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How the heatwave in Russia is connected to floods in Pakistan(economist.com)
3 points by madars 16y ago|0 comments

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