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by moyix 10y ago
If you want to skip ahead to the full content, you can read the paper :) I also don't think it's fair to say that this is content-free – it's setting up the setting and motivation. It's not immediately clear why someone
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How to add a million bugs to a program, and why you might want to(moyix.blogspot.com)
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Do Portia Spiders Have a Mind? (2006)(dichotomistic.com)
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by moyix 10y ago
Another (lengthy!) take on the same topic by Scott Alexander: http://squid314.livejournal.com/346391.html
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by moyix 10y ago
For (b) – yes, papers generally get DOIs. I would love to have something like this. However I think that you may be overestimating the willingness of people to contribute high quality discussion about a paper. The people best able to offer
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by moyix 10y ago
Sure, you should absolutely read the article first! But I found that even after reading the article it was very valuable to read a journalistic perspective on the reportage. It's also really interesting to contrast this story with the
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by moyix 10y ago
It's worth your time (and extremely entertaining) to read Sarah Jeong's twitter commentary on this piece. She does a really nice job of highlighting all of the places where basic journalism, asking for outside expertise, or really
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by moyix 10y ago
It's a shame no one has stepped up to provide a better alternative! I don't see any reason why it shouldn't accept, test, and post all submissions automatically using something like a Docker container.
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by moyix 10y ago
Yes, but they serve as a reasonable refutation of the specific points made in the article, which focus on small, simple programs.
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by moyix 10y ago
Against this article, we have the results from the computer language shootout: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.ph... I like this because anyone can try to prove their assertion that their lang
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by moyix 10y ago
Thanks! I'll be writing follow-up posts on the technical details and evaluation of LAVA as well. It's a really cool problem and I do hope that it can actually make bug-finding software better.
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by moyix 10y ago
There has been some more recent work on this lately: https://www.dfrws.org/2016eu/proceedings/DFRWS-EU-2016-7.pdf Essentially, with newer RAM (DDR3), the location things end up on the physical chip is scrambled to
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by moyix 10y ago
Seems very dubious: * As one poster mentioned, as far as I know factoring has nothing at all to do with AES. * Mentions of it have previously been cropping up on conspiracy theory sites: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum
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How to add a million bugs to a program, and why you might want to(moyix.blogspot.com)
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by moyix 10y ago
(Sorry to take so long to reply – I wish HN had a comment reply notification!) Well, there would be two problems with that: 1. LAVA works on source, and app devs aren't required to submit source code to the app store. It's possibl
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by moyix 10y ago
For what it's worth, the web site denies involvement with the twitter account: > I SAW SOME DIFFERENT TWITTER ACCOUNTS CLAIMING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS SITE. IS THAT YOU? > No. Since it is no longer possible to create a Twitte
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by moyix 10y ago
I'm one of the authors and happy to answer any questions people have! I gave a 40 minute talk on the work a couple weeks ago, and slides for that (which may be a little more digestible) are here: http://panda.moyix.net/
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by moyix 10y ago
A more practical problem with applying this on age data specifically is that everyone I looked at (granted, only a handful of CS papers) only gave one decimal place, not two.
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by moyix 10y ago
Just to address your comment about publication bias – we do have techniques for detecting that across a set of studies on the same subject, namely funnel plots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_plot
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Wow, this is a really clever technique, and the results are really alarming. I suspect we'll see some careers unravel as a result of it.
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According to http://news.softpedia.com/news/possible-myspace-data-breach-... "Just take note that the first entry, "homelesspa," was automatically generated for a number of accounts that had the same ema
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by moyix 10y ago
It seems like it would be strange to give a printer a DNS name if you didn't intend to talk to it over the internet. If you're directly connected it doesn't need an IP at all. I think the sniffing threat mentioned is overblow
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by moyix 10y ago
Some previous discussion of an earlier paper that suggested a fungal infection may be to blame: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10401344 Very interesting to see more suggestive evidence from another group!
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by moyix 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I'm definitely not a hardware expert and was going off of what I remembered from the talk on Monday.
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by moyix 10y ago
This is a neat paper. One of the tricky parts of making a malicious circuit is the fact that you want your behavior to only be triggered on some unlikely condition. In other words you want: if (counter == 0x686e686e) { do evil } else counte
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by moyix 10y ago
Perhaps I misunderstood the article, but taking a collection of anecdotes (n = 36) about highly successful people who took a wide variety of paths to success doesn't seem like a very good way to attack the concept of grit. For one thin
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by moyix 10y ago
Doesn't that mean 15 bpp? Since 2^15 = 32K? Or am I misunderstanding what bpp is?
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The 8000th Busy Beaver number eludes ZF set theory(scottaaronson.com)
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Is there any documentation on how the dynamic tracing functionality actually works? In particular, how does it avoid the traditional problem with hooking via patching (i.e., that you have to get the disassembly exactly correct or you risk p
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by moyix 10y ago
I think you're conflating a very narrow slice of CS (theoretical computer science) with the larger field. There's a huge amount of CS research that relies on gathering and analyzing data, building systems, etc. Theoretical compute

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