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by o_nate 13y ago
It's not malleable once it's been included in the block-chain at a certain depth, before that it is malleable. It appears this was known at least by some people since 2011, but it doesn't seem like the information was widely
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by o_nate 13y ago
It turns out that "non-issue" might have been a slight exaggeration. I can understand where the Bitcoin developers are coming from. I mean no one likes to admit there's a bug in their code. Just read through Microsoft supp
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by o_nate 13y ago
A+
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by o_nate 13y ago
Another lesson to be learned here is it's generally not a good idea to publish the code to a vulnerable, in-production system unless you are very, very sure there are no bugs.
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by o_nate 13y ago
From my understanding, workarounds do exist for the issue, and some exchanges probably have implemented them. However, the issue goes beyond Gox in the sense that without those workarounds in place, any exchange could be vulnerable.
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by o_nate 13y ago
This article seems rather biased and brings in lots of past problems at Mt. Gox rather than focusing on the current issue - perhaps because a more detailed explanation of the current issue would reveal that this problem goes beyond Mt. Gox.
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by o_nate 13y ago
Seems like there would be a good opening for a third-party company to offer XP support updates going forward on a subscription basis. If hackers can reverse engineer updates and figure out the weaknesses, couldn't another company do t
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by o_nate 13y ago
Worst I can remember recently, since I never really solved it, was a .NET Runtime Fatal Execution Engine Error that occurred somewhat randomly in a long-running, multi-threaded console application, but only on one machine. Eventually just
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by o_nate 13y ago
One of these: Robert Bellah - Religion in Human Evolution Frank Kogan - Real Punks Don't Wear Black Jerry McGill - Dear Marcus Mark Kurlansky - The Big Oyster
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by o_nate 13y ago
http://guidetodatamining.com/ Readable, gentle intro to practical data mining techniques for programmers who may be wondering what all the fuss is about.
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by o_nate 13y ago
It wasn't clear from the article, so forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but does the site in question distribute the subtitles only, or copies of the entire work with new subtitles added?
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by o_nate 13y ago
Or like Thailand, where you can get sentenced to 10 years in prison for insulting the royal family, or even for writing a fantasy story about an unnamed family which some interpret as being about the royal family: http://www.nyti
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FBI and Microsoft take down $500m-theft botnet Citadel(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by o_nate 13y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 13y ago
Is it stealing if a cashier gives you too much change back and you don't say anything?
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Empirical Software Engineering(americanscientist.org)
2 points by o_nate 15y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 15y ago
I agree completely. Either (A) this guy is a stock-picking genius (in which case this blog post is a missed opportunity because he doesn't say anything about his strategy, but just casually mentions eye-popping gains) or (B) there's someth
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by o_nate 15y ago
Stored procs can actually improve the separation of business and logic layers, because they help to encapsulate the data layer from the logic layer. You don't want the logic layer to know too much about the internals of the data layer. St
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by o_nate 15y ago
It's possible that we need reform for other types of patents as well. I don't know enough about patent abuses in other fields to say. But in software at least, it seems like the system is clearly broken. Invalidating all software patents
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by o_nate 15y ago
A program is a tangible, physical arrangement of electrons One could likewise argue that math is a tangible physical arrangement of pencil marks on a page or of neurons in the brain. But the point remains that math is not patentable. Sho
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by o_nate 15y ago
There seems to be some confusion here between the thing that is being patented and the description of the thing that is being patented. The fact that the description is written using the alphabet has no bearing on the patentability of the
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by o_nate 15y ago
How could a physical object be pure math? Even if you could completely mathematically specify the process of creating the object, that only means you couldn't patent the specification itself - the object would still be patentable.
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by o_nate 15y ago
What if I was the first person to write a murder mystery in which the butler did it? Could I patent that plot device so no one else could use it? The point of copywriting code is not because people care so much about great coding style or
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by o_nate 15y ago
A program is pure math - the fact that a computer takes certain actions on the basis of the math doesn't change that. In a sense, all possible computer programs for a given architecture are implied in that architecture, even if they haven'
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by o_nate 15y ago
It's interesting how mobile has totally reinvigorated the notion of stand-alone apps. On the desktop, stand-alone apps were going the way of the dinosaurs - everything was moving to the web. Web apps are easier to deploy, easier to suppor
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by o_nate 15y ago
My major was Mechanical Engineering, which is perhaps even more of a grab-bag than CS. Within that one department, we had product design people who could have fit in in the art department, fluid mechanics people who were doing serious numbe
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by o_nate 15y ago
The human digestive system evolved over millions of years, and there is not much that is known with certainty about the human diet over that span of time - however, it is known that humans have a better ability to process starchy foods than
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by o_nate 15y ago
And the average life expectancy of a caveman was what, maybe 20 years? Cavemen perished too soon to have to worry about the diet-related health problems that we deal with today.
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by o_nate 16y ago
Can you imagine if private schools in the US had to do the same? Currently the top-tier private colleges in the US admit only about 10% of their students from the bottom 50% of the income distribution.
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by o_nate 16y ago
I think comparisons to Amazon or eBay search are misleading. Amazon only indexes and searches its own site - the same goes for eBay. So of course these companies wouldn't mind if Bing copied some of their search results - after all, this
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by o_nate 16y ago
I totally agree with this. There's not really any good reason why Microsoft should piggyback off of Google's search results. The fact that they're able to observe Google's results by observing user clicks in a browser rather than by simpl

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