sciyoshi

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How Fortnite became the most popular video game on earth(nymag.com)
2 points by sciyoshi 8y ago|1 comments
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by sciyoshi 8y ago
I think GP meant to say that Sweden is buying other countries' trash: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/sweden-s-recycling...
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by sciyoshi 8y ago
Nice to see that we'll be getting a more flexible design system to work with - one that will hopefully reduce a bit of the homogeneity of the current generation of Material-based apps while still keeping some consistency. Has anyone us
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Where have all the pilots gone?(techcrunch.com)
2 points by sciyoshi 8y ago|0 comments
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
I'd also be interested in some performance comparisons with a library like CrossFilter [1]. Does the improvement outweigh the penalties of crossing the JS/WebASM boundary? [1] http://square.github.io/crossfilter&#x
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
> They're literally making up money as they see fit. I'm playing devil's advocate here (I agree that the whole Tether situation is concerning), but also genuinely curious - is this any different than what banks have been d
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
Not quite. A sha256 preimage attack would possibly let one mine blocks more quickly, but would be significantly more difficult than a collision attack, which won't help you in this case. On the other hand, finding private keys for a gi
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
There's been a number of attempts at least, see Ouroboros: https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/889.pdf I'm still on the fence about the viability of PoS from the perspective that PoW at least means you have a chance
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
See also discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642856
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
For something as important as contract code, there should still have been more failsafes. Even just having a kill() on the main contract that doesn't delegate out to the library would have protected against this.
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
There's also Simplicity, which is not Turing complete and includes formal verification with Coq https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15588380
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
This vulnerability had to do with the multisig wallet library code, not with Parity itself. Using geth won't protect you from badly-written contracts.
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
Looks exciting - will need to take some time to read this in more detail. Off-hand, will this not be able to handle ASN.1 certificates due to their Turing completeness?
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
Newer versions of setuptools have builtin support for more fields in setup.cfg: http://setuptools.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setuptools.html#c... That along with setuptools-scm and pip-tools have for me solved most
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
Under growing complexity, average understanding will decrease and tend to become centralized. How many people really understand the dynamics of Bitcoin's current scaling debate? In that scenario, you have a return to manipulation by sp
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
OP's argument is that this distributed consensus algorithm works only if there is already consensus about which algorithm to use in the first place! If you and I disagree about which block history is valid (for example, because my hist
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by sciyoshi 9y ago
This argument sums up my recent thoughts on blockchains. Proofs of their trustlessness and eventual consistency rely on explicit assumptions (no cartels with >50% computation power, bounds on network partitions), but the underlying unsta
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
Have you tried Dashlane? I've been using it for over a year and it's been great. Their mobile app is really handy as well.
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
There's a type of Gray code which is particularly useful for small-scale rotary encoders: a single-track Gray code. The idea is to find a code where the sequences for each position are cyclic shifts of each other. Then you can use a si
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
Webpack has the very useful "chunking" system which is able to figure out common dependencies, and based on how often they are re-used across your app, determine whether they should be bundled separately. It's really good if
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Extending Python with Rust [video](youtube.com)
4 points by sciyoshi 10y ago|0 comments
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
Looks great! Any plans to document the synchronization protocol? I've been using SyncThing but it lacks the main feature I need, which is to selectively synchronize only certain files to other devices.
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
This is really exciting stuff. Mathematica is by far my favorite environment for doing data exploration and mathematics, and although there is a learning curve, the features of the language itself (pattern matching, symbolic manipulation) a
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by sciyoshi 10y ago
I actually really like the consistency of Mathematica's syntax - parentheses are reserved for grouping expressions. You can also create matrices using the cell inputs in notebooks, which uses standard mathematical notation.
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by sciyoshi 11y ago
I wonder if AlphaGo has some specialized knowledge to handle ladders, where stones can have an effect at a distance that might only come into play after 20 moves.
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SurveyMonkey acquires Fluidware, provider of FluidSurveys and FluidReview(businesswire.com)
4 points by sciyoshi 12y ago|1 comments
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Making it Big: How small online businesses can sell to large organizations(fairgroundmedia.com)
1 points by sciyoshi 14y ago|0 comments