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by nzp 13y ago
It's kind of like that. The state of a particle in classical mechanics is a linear combination of some basis vectors which are not it's states as such. But the superposition in QM is the superpositions of states . The phase sp
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by nzp 13y ago
Eh, I remember how about a month ago when that recent GnuTLS bug was found the almost dominant sentiment on HN was along the lines of "how come anyone is using GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL", "GnuTLS codebase is horrible, use Ope
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by nzp 13y ago
That's because Wikipedia isn't a tool to learn mathematics. Wikipedia articles (on anything) are not meant to teach about a subject (in the sense of schooling) but rather to give an exposition of a subject. It is considered to b
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by nzp 13y ago
Hm, I wouldn't say normal people, but subpopulations of normal people (i.e. not individuals but groups). It's an important distinction in this case. But it depends on how CIA analysts' estimates are aggregated if at all. I
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by nzp 13y ago
Well, I didn't mean your comment was a case of naivete, because, TBH, the analogy with my layman physics example isn't perfect, but it reminded me, it's a similar thing: people who are or should be aware that they have only s
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by nzp 13y ago
Heh, actually, kudos to joshuahedlund[0], I found it in his comment. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7515263
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by nzp 13y ago
> It just reduces the size of the crowd and shows a fundamental misunderstanding of statistics. Why do you assume that what's in the NPR article is all there is to it, that there's no info, technical or other, left out? Of cour
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by nzp 13y ago
In general these are valid remarks. But we're not talking about random clueless people deciding to play statistics, the research is obviously conducted by people who know how this kind of stuff (statistics) works. This reminds me of
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by nzp 13y ago
He's probably referring to considerable fascist elements in the Maidan movement. The Right Sector[1] and Freedom[2] (formerly called Social-National Party of Ukraine). The former is "just" fascist, and the latter is neo-naz
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by nzp 13y ago
You made a racist statement. "Unorganized dirty jungles" of Asia in contrast to, presumably, tip-top, spotlessly clean, perfectly organized European cities...
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by nzp 13y ago
It seems he's promoting himself in a professional capacity with the site, for example: http://mobilemavericks.eu/work-with-us/ It would be really... courageous if he did it with an Onion style site. I too hope O
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by nzp 13y ago
Wow, just wow. I'm not exactly a youngster without life experience about what kinds of sleaze bags people can be, but I'm still amazed and shocked when I see the liberties such people allow themselves in what they say or write.
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by nzp 13y ago
With all due respect to those comments, would it really be a loss? I really, really don't want this comment end up taken as a personal attack on those commenters, that's not the point or intent. Rather, the point is let's r
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by nzp 13y ago
When I first learned today about this change my knee jerk reaction was the same as with most people commenting on this---it will be horrible, it will enforce groupthink, it will stifle discussion, and so on. But after some thinking, I real
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by nzp 13y ago
> Nobody's suggesting we get rid of capitalism. With all due respect, speak for yourself.
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by nzp 13y ago
I'm not sure about the US, but USSR developed one, the Energia II. It was AFAIK never built, it shared the destiny of the rest of the Energia/Buran programme, but they were certainly able and did try. I can't find any refer
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by nzp 13y ago
So if you were Page, you would hold Musk to the same accountability standards? (Anyway, I don't think this accountability thing has anything to do with Page's motives).
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by nzp 13y ago
I upvoted you because I think this is an interesting line of reasoning, but I disagree that it's a very useful one. You seem to be implicitly defining "computation" as that which a physical computer does (machines, biological
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by nzp 13y ago
Finding a paradigm better than language, i.e. an abstract symbolic system, would be a such a revolutionary turning point in the ... um, everything that I think programming would at that point seem just silly. What would that even mean? We
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by nzp 13y ago
Interesting article, but I think that the basic premise, that it's "bizarre" that we're still using concepts developed 50+ years ago, is a bit naive. To give an analogy from a different engineering field, the basics of
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by nzp 13y ago
One for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost.
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by nzp 13y ago
Not only that, but in Serbo-Croatian, in latin script, "nj" is a digraph for the ɲ phoneme. (A very small number of words, mostly of Latin origin, can cause ambivalence because they have "n" and "j" juxtaposed
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by nzp 13y ago
There was a nice DjangoCon talk by Russell Keith-Magee. It's about the custom user models in Django 1.5, but the first 15 or so minutes of the talk deal with exactly this problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHg6AoE
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by nzp 13y ago
> Are you saying we should be able to simply stop there and then just use /dev/urandom? Yes. > If so, then why is the CSRNG re-seeded every 60 seconds? It would seem that there are reasons for doing so. From what I understan
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by nzp 13y ago
With my occasional sysadmin hat on, until a few weeks ago I had the luck to never have had to deal with XML configuration files. Then came Solr and now I know what horror is. (To be clear, Solr itself is great, but those god damn config f
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by nzp 13y ago
Always good to see people trying to fight superstition. :) Just one tiny nitpick if you don't mind: it seems to me it's somewhat unclear what does FreeBSD actually do. In FreeBSD there is in fact no /dev/urandom, it&#x
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by nzp 13y ago
It makes no sense. The only difference between /dev/random and /dev/urandom is that random uses the estimator of the seed entropy (which doesn't make that much sense to begin with) to block when it "estimates&
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by nzp 13y ago
Not really. I'd be impressed with a robot that could do bipedal gate (for example) as well as humans do, but the problem is lack of computing power. A human doing mental arithmetic is not at all representative of what and how much th
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by nzp 13y ago
While I agree with most of these two sentences, you can't really be sure there's no such bug in OpenSSL. I mean, not this specific bug, but a similar hard-to-imagine-random-situation bug.
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by nzp 13y ago
Haha, don't. I would never notice that there's a difference if you had not pointed it out. :)

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