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by nmc 13y ago
Moreover, the article seems to be about Hajj — the Muslim pilgrimage [1]. How is this relevant to HN? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hajj
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by nmc 13y ago
Last year I wrote a short Python script to easily visualize that kind of effect: https://github.com/ncanceill/alea_jacta_lib
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by nmc 13y ago
You are referring to the common mistake of confusing randomness and uniformity . Your players are thinking: "Dice rolls are equiprobable, so I should roll evenly-distributed results." That only starts being true after a great
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by nmc 13y ago
Steganography is about hiding, not necessarily encoding . One of the earliest examples of steganography comes from ancient Greece: the king of Miletus would shave the head of his messenger, write the message on the top of the head, then le
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by nmc 13y ago
In spite of the fact that Ruby is indeed standard on Mac OS X, a simple shell script would have been clearly lighter. However, for proper JSON escaping of the snippet, you need a full set of replacing rules, which kind of kills the purpose.
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by nmc 13y ago
My bad! Completely forgot about that! Considering that rvm and gems are a real pain in the azz, I think this could still benefit from a rewrite.
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by nmc 13y ago
Ruby is not standard on Mac OS X. EDIT: actually it is, thanks the_french. I would be happy to rewrite that in vanilla shell this evening.
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by nmc 13y ago
Impressive. This guy goes to the extent of linking to the transcript of a talk perfectly irrelevant to the point. But he cannot link to the paper he is criticizing. So here it is: Shin et al. How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine?
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by nmc 13y ago
No offense, but Metasploit is already 11 years old, and this is Hacker News .
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by nmc 13y ago
Excellent article! I love how they not only disprove a hypothesis that has been at the foundations of thermodynamics for a long time, but they even go about explaining why nobody thought of that before them.
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by nmc 13y ago
Technically it should, but in practice the police only targets torrent-hosting sites, never seeders.
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes and no. I download copyrighted media, without consent from the copyright owner, and without paying. However, here in The Netherlands, this is legal. Only uploading and hosting copyrighted material is illegal.
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Telecom giant Orange breached: 800k personal records stolen(thisfrenchlife.com)
1 points by nmc 13y ago|0 comments
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by nmc 13y ago
Like my home IP address or my e-mail address, I believe my full name is not very private data. If it allows people to know that I own an iThingy, or to relate my surname to my MAC address, then so be it. I accept this is not private data, I
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by nmc 13y ago
Public scientific research?
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by nmc 13y ago
I have friends in a similar situation: living in France and both speaking a perfect French, but the father is a native German speaker. His main technique, during the first 3 years of his son, was to talk to him in French, but immediately re
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by nmc 13y ago
Thought this was a joke, but in case you are serious, you may be looking for the C-based object-oriented version of ABCL [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABCL/c%2B#ABCL.2Fc.2B
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes, seeing some phony SMTP requests from Comcast and Cox (easily blocked by Spamhaus), but not in a larger amount than the usual. By how much was it a "massive up tick" on your systems?
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by nmc 13y ago
To be fair, I wrote "new or exclusive" , not "unknown to me" . The "strange etiquette" you mention is exactly what I was referring to. Except that, to me, it did not feel like a joke, so I wanted to be sure
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by nmc 13y ago
Hard to tell because of the written means, but I hope you are being ironic.
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes, I mostly refer to that first question. I did not get stuck there. I believe you misunderstood my post. I do not claim Americans are ignorant — I was asking a question anyway, so not claiming anything. I believe that, by publishing such
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by nmc 13y ago
Are Americans so ignorant to justify the publication of such an article? (OK, I must admit, I had never heard of Mykola Lysenko before.) * * * EDIT: it seems this post is getting misunderstood, because I tried (and apparently failed) to sho
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by nmc 13y ago
Heard about www.blockedinchina.net ? Maybe you could ask them for advice.
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by nmc 13y ago
I mostly agree. Two nuances: - they will assure you that the PIN re-issuing process is completely automated, and no employee has the authority to actually read your PIN; nice touch, but you still have to take their word for it - they will i
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11 Students Expelled for Keylogging Teachers' Computers(arstechnica.com)
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by nmc 13y ago
Not yet, but it is coming. In France, all electrical panels will have to be "smart" by 2020. (However, the data will go to the electricity company, not to you.)
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by nmc 13y ago
A spell checker can be useful to correct typos, especially if you are like me — I look at the keyboard about 50% of the time when I type. In my mother tongue, I have a perfect orthographical sense: I just need a glimpse of a word to know if
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by nmc 13y ago
You should edit your post to add that as the "text" of the post.
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by nmc 13y ago
> this approach means the Pin code has lifetime of its card Of course, that's the big downside of not allowing PIN change. If the PIN is compromised, then the card is compromised. However, from my experience the re-issuing of a co
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by nmc 13y ago
Yes, you need foundations to build a knowledge temple, but that was not my question. I am simply wondering how the average HN reader, with average programming abilities and knowledge, would feel about an article of this level.

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