nthompson

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by nthompson 9y ago
I run bandgap.io off of protonmail. I have had no problems with deliverability, have had great interactions with customer support, and enjoy using the product. After email hack after hack, I just couldn't see how I could ethically stor
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by nthompson 9y ago
Awesome! Super responsive and fast.
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by nthompson 9y ago
When wolves got reintroduced to Idaho, a few hillbillies went up into the primitive area and stole some pups, and they circulated around as pets. My buddy had one, and it scared the shit out of me. It was 130lbs of killing machine. They cou
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by nthompson 9y ago
I think the title should be "Efficient classical algorithm for boson sampling discovered". I don't get the whole singularity thing.
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by nthompson 9y ago
I'm confused about how either MIT, Harvard, or UC Berkeley owns the IP. Ostensibly the research was funded by the NIH or NSF, not those institutions. Is it really the case the the universities own the IP of NSF-sponsored grants?
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by nthompson 10y ago
I have a business account through protonmail.
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by nthompson 10y ago
This reminds me of the Eldo Kim bomb threat: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/tor_user_iden... I guess the guy was the only one on the network using tor, making him easy to identify. So unl
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Fast Numerical Software(bandgap.io)
7 points by nthompson 10y ago|1 comments
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The Buckingham Pi Theorem(bandgap.io)
11 points by nthompson 10y ago|4 comments
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by nthompson 10y ago
I'm building https://bandgap.io , which is a platform for computational solid state physics. It computes band structure, Fermi surfaces, and someday, I hope, we can get to computing topological properties. It's done in
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Using the awesome Google benchmark [pdf](github.com)
1 points by nthompson 10y ago|0 comments
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by nthompson 10y ago
Just found and fixed multiple bugs using prospector; even better it flagged some code as suspicious that I was previously unwilling to touch because I couldn't understand it.
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Ask HN: How do you handle large Python projects?
69 points by nthompson 10y ago|48 comments
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by nthompson 11y ago
The 'always' was a typo, thanks for the catch.
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by nthompson 11y ago
Damn dude. This looks way nicer than my page (and has links to hipper tools) . . . I need to take a course in web design . . .
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by nthompson 11y ago
SSL labs is the gold standard: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ But I don't see a way to automate a test for the integrity of (say) a password recovery flow or that one user cannot access another user's data.
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by nthompson 11y ago
This checklist was designed for corporate-to-corporate and corporate-to-military sites which host data deemed valuable. If you are designing consumer websites where the user data is not particularly sensitive, then this advice is not approp
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Security Checklist(securitychecklist.org)
149 points by nthompson 11y ago|61 comments