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by plopilop 8y ago
Great article! I feel that the article is a bit vague about the applications of homomorphic encryption, so I'll add some examples. For instance, suppose that your mail server encrypts your mails, and only you can decrypt them. If you w
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by plopilop 8y ago
yup, you're right.
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by plopilop 8y ago
What? Bayes' theorem does not require anything about the events, even more so it is useful when the events are not independent. If events are independent, Bayes' theorem has no usefulness. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by plopilop 8y ago
There are problems that I find even more counterintuitive than Monty Hall, such as the sister's paradox. Your neighbours has two children, one of which is a girl. What is the probability of the other child to be a girl? A.
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by plopilop 9y ago
In France, we had a similar case, a computer guy with the pseudonym Bluetouff[0]. He downloaded loads of national agencies confidential documents, because they were available on Google. However, he was sentenced (3,000€ fine), because when
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by plopilop 9y ago
As mentioned in the Reddit thread, the terms now specify that that they share your data with partners. I guess the consent they got from you was "Oh hi, so here's the new version of the app, btw we updated our policies, click anyw
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by plopilop 9y ago
Maybe they just sold your email, they don't need to have been breached for that.
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by plopilop 9y ago
"Valid" configurations do not exist, there are only optimal/suboptimal and saturated/unsaturated ones. The classic FPR makes no assumptions about this (indeed optimality is derived from FPR minimum), and as such should a
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by plopilop 9y ago
Oh, my bad, I misunderstood your sentence.
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by plopilop 9y ago
Strange coincidence, just this morning I was reading a paper [0] from 2008 about Bloom filters. Specifically, their false positive rate is higher than what is usually advertised - even on Wikipedia. Edit: also as is written in the document,
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by plopilop 9y ago
The idea is that two elements x and y despite having the same fingerprint, will be stored into two different buckets. So you can have several time the same fingerprint in a Cuckoo filter, which you can't in a Bloom Filter. When you wan
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by plopilop 9y ago
I don't think it's the case yet. GDPR will enforce the right to be forgotten and as such truly delete data about you, but other than that, I don't think there are other regulations forcing you to delete data.
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by plopilop 9y ago
I have an opposite story. Once upon a time in the French countryside, there was an old pastry chef who was well known for her unique creation (of which I forgot the name), that, even 40 years later, my father still praises. The recipe was o
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by plopilop 9y ago
Sure, but most of the time I don't feel like I have things relevant to add to the discussion, I'm more of the lurker type. I just wanted to point out that in my case, getting points was not that easy. But I actually don't car
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by plopilop 9y ago
Aaaaaaaand now this comment is my most upvoted comment. Obviously.
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by plopilop 9y ago
I don't find it easy personally, my most upvoted comment has 14 points, most are under 4 points. But then, I don't comment often and I don't care about being able to downvote, so I think I'll survive.
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Venezuela's cryptocurrency: Petro Whitepaper [pdf](elpetro.gob.ve)
4 points by plopilop 9y ago|3 comments
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by plopilop 9y ago
- According to wikipedia, the launch mass of the Falcon Heavy is about 26 tons for a geostationnary launch, which is quite a lot and definitely enough for ISS like launches. I guess either the launch mass is way lower for leaving earth&#x27
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by plopilop 9y ago
All right, but then why are most open-access papers under $3000? If an editor can survive with these fees even when the paper will be publicly available, how can Nature need $30,000 for a paper people will pay to read?
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by plopilop 9y ago
Then you may be interested in Jakub Trávník's self referential formula: http://jtra.cz/stuff/essays/math-self-reference/index.html
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by plopilop 9y ago
Well, yes, but it's the same thing, really. It's what my last paragraph above is about. E=mc² is not about nuclear reactions, it's about every reaction. A chemical reaction of combustion transforms some fuel molecules into ne
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by plopilop 9y ago
I did not know about this relativistic mass, but doesn't wikipedia says it is only true if you consider the mass as m = F/a rather than m = p/v?
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by plopilop 9y ago
Well, in case of a rocket, there are two phenomenon resulting into thrust. The first one is the action-reaction principle: fuel goes in one direction, rocket goes in the opposite one. The second one is indeed the E=mc^2 equation: as the fue
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by plopilop 9y ago
Sure, but it's less noticeable. The Sun loses 4.4 millions of tons every second (out of a mass of 10^30kg, but still)
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by plopilop 9y ago
The conversion you are talking about is true only if you annihilate your fuel (which creates photons), and then you convert photons into speed in some way with 100% efficiency. But really this never happens, rockets work by ejecting mass at
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by plopilop 9y ago
As I explained in an other article here on HN, another meaning (and the most important one imo) is the one Einstein actually wrote about: the inertia of a particle depends on its energy. The thing is, you don't read E = mc² but rather
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by plopilop 9y ago
Ok, I see, my bad. Well then, no idea.
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by plopilop 9y ago
As stated in the article, the previous version of the network required MAC addresses for authentication, and you can easily code something that will allow you to add a MAC to your account from a Web page. But they wanted to do something new
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by plopilop 9y ago
È and À are actually easy to write: the grave accent ` is ALT GR + è, then type your letter. Special thought for the ù letter, which has its own key even though it's only used in one French word 'où' (ok, we use this word fai
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by plopilop 9y ago
What bothers me with this blockchain is, who will actually run the nodes? If only the merchants do so, then they can also counterfeit everything just as they want. In the end you rely as much on your trust to the merchant than with the clas

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