mehrdada

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by mehrdada 11y ago
Yes. There are two lotteries: one exclusively for people with US Masters or PhD degrees (20000 winners) and one for the rest. If you do have a US advanced degree and don't win the first lottery, you have one more chance in the wider ap
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by mehrdada 11y ago
That is an interesting characterization of the situation. I would be more inclined to agree with you about X denying something to Y if Y had asked for it in the first place. However, in this case, I have heard Zuck himself saying numerous t
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Right, but if you look at the adoption curves of technology, empirically, the long run comes quite quickly, so it is questionable that accelerating technology adoption is worth the long term monopoly leverage it brings. EDIT: this is especi
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by mehrdada 11y ago
CFAA
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by mehrdada 11y ago
> Do CPUs support doing math directly with BCD values Perhaps surprisingly to some, x86 has instructions for BCD manipulation at the CPU level. Legacy.
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by mehrdada 11y ago
"Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers" Technically, [digital] computers only natively "store" high and low voltages. The interpretation of a sequence of thos
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by mehrdada 11y ago
> You see, the biggest advantage of open-source, its raison d'être if you will, is the possibility to fork It might be the raison d'être of open source , but the goal of free software is preserving users' freedom, n
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by mehrdada 11y ago
That's beside the point made in the OP, which attributed Chrome's great security to its lack of functionality, which is just false. You argument is a valid one with respect to its lack of popularity. That said, while compatibility
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by mehrdada 11y ago
In the last couple years at least, Chromebooks have often topped Amazon best-sellers. Technically, a lot of people buy them. It's just that compared to mobile devices, laptops as a whole are a small category. Admittedly, most Chrome
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by mehrdada 11y ago
JavaScript is not the only way to do things; cf. Native Client[1]. [1]: https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/overview
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by mehrdada 11y ago
I've heard this argument many times since I was a kid and I was "fighting" the educational system I was in and later on, and I think this is red herring. Any change in the educational system that seems to target it for the &
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Assuming your pattern is static, it shouldn't be much slower. String matching can be done in linear time with some preprocessing: check out Knuth-Morris-Pratt and Boyer-Moore algorithms. Basically, the idea is that you build a determin
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by mehrdada 11y ago
You are underestimating inertia and unwritten rules. It's widely considered unethical (or at least frowned upon) to join a PhD program and intentionally quit with a Masters. In practice, it seems that many people are actually doing so
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by mehrdada 11y ago
I am no expert in that sort of stuff, so I have no estimate of the difficulty of it. I'd imagine it's too costly to be worth doing on every random iPhone in every random investigation, but if someone really really wants it, the
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Each iPhone comes with a unique key burned into the processor. I believe the PIN is cryptographically combined with the unique key to derive the encryption key on device. That makes offline brute-force intractable without knowing the unique
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by mehrdada 11y ago
It doesn't matter much for TLS certificates (the slowness might though) except if they choose to issue another certificate under your name with their private key to MITM your connections, it'd look more legitimate if your real cer
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by mehrdada 11y ago
In which case, it can be easily MITM'd by an attacker sitting between CloudFlare and your server, which makes it only slightly better than plain HTTP. It would have been great if CloudFlare let the user to upload and pin a specific sel
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by mehrdada 11y ago
They are not quite the same thing: * CloudFlare doesn't give you a certificate. It terminates your TLS connection at their endpoint with a certificate they own the private key to. * StartSSL free tier is for non-commerical use only. *
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by mehrdada 11y ago
"Modern" is a quite vague here. Direct injection (usually coupled with turbocharging) is a key rule of thumb. If your car has a direct injection, turbocharged engine AND it requires ("recommending" is cheap) high-octan
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Even if everything in the article were right, I disagree with the conclusion. I'm glad there we have no "profession" to act as another gatekeeper for people to do things. The negative consequences of such "licensing&quot
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by mehrdada 11y ago
It's not public domain, for sure, but it is free, for some definition of 'free', similar to GNU GPL.
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by mehrdada 11y ago
It is possible to structure it as "patent granted to everyone, but expires the moment they bring up a lawsuit against us or any of our licensees" to do doubly good for the world.
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by mehrdada 11y ago
This is great. I am hoping things like this will shake the dynamics of publication-oriented credentialing and ultimately the value proposition of academia/academic research.
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by mehrdada 11y ago
For additional context, please note that the Apple TV device is provided to developers for $1 (would have been free if not for address verification) under the NDA with the specific intent of developing apps for it. It's not like repair
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Let me guess. For every person in this situation, there were probably ten in his situation a few years back. I suspect if you were to ask him or folks in a situation similar to him before he got his medallion, they would have complained abo
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Yes, iOS 9 introduces a new content blocking API making ad blockers in Safari possible: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/releaseno...
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by mehrdada 11y ago
Yes. It requires serious engineering across the OS stack though. Also, it is generally harder and less effective to this retroactively; existing third party apps may not switch to leverage the new APIs when it is done retroactively. This ma
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by mehrdada 11y ago
I stand corrected then. Photos are probably still encrypted under "accessible after first unlock" class. Sigh. Sorry for this mistake. The idea of having a security architecture with different classes of data still remains, so a t
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by mehrdada 11y ago
I quote from the link you posted: "...opens up access to the phone application to listen to a user's voice mails, place calls, and view contact information. Attempting to go beyond that sends users back to the passcode screen.&quo
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by mehrdada 11y ago
If you do that, you'll lose 100% of your PC's functionality, whereas iOS is quite useful in locked mode. With some neat tricks, it even fetches new mail for you, for instance: basically it encrypts new messages by encrypting them

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