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by sgentle 12y ago
The Gregory Hays translation is great. I didn't even finish Meditations the first time I tried because the language in my translation was dry and archaic to the point of being distracting. I basically had to read each page twice and co
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by sgentle 12y ago
It would be pretty interesting to see one degree of abstraction up from this - what sets of lines are close enough to match a certain word? If you averaged over all those sets, would the resulting blobby heatmap resemble the original word i
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by sgentle 12y ago
As I understand it, all the major payment processing companies have their weight behind NFC payments (Visa: paywave, Mastercard: paypass, Amex: expresspay). What's to stop them from all writing into their contracts that if you want to
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by sgentle 12y ago
Imagine a graph, with "effort" on the x axis and "value" on the y axis. I think you're down the bottom-right. I just don't care very much about remembering which movies to watch. That's not to say I wouldn
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by sgentle 12y ago
"Just so we're perfectly aligned, I want you to understand the relationship that Robocoin has with our manufacturer. We are actually just a reseller of their kiosks with our software." I've heard this from smaller retail
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by sgentle 12y ago
Let's say you have a queue processor called Q. It takes in jobs described by tuples of (hours, utility) like (8,1), (2,4), (5,15). Using the above example, you make an interesting observation: if your queue processor processes only two
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by sgentle 12y ago
As someone who doesn't know anything about DNSSEC, that was a helpful introduction! One thing I don't understand is, why all the complexity in NSEC/NSEC3? Couldn't you just have an NSEC-type record that returns "tus
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by sgentle 12y ago
Here's my attempt using the "ring of xor" technique posted elsewhere: https://imgur.com/xGHmN9c It follows the hex structure of the other gates (inputs down and diagonally up, outputs up and diagonally down).
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by sgentle 12y ago
I don't think "you're such a talented criminal, would you like a job?" coming from a federal agent is terribly trustworthy. It was previously used to catch the Half Life 2 hacker back in '04, although granted he bas
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by sgentle 12y ago
I wonder if this would be an interesting application for Homomorphic Encryption. True FHE is still wildly inefficient, but there are some interesting applications like CryptDB where sort-of-Homomorphic-Encryption is feasible for certain res
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by sgentle 12y ago
This all seems kind of silly. Why doesn't C have a type qualifier like called "secure" to inform the compiler that it should avoid security-compromising optimisations and maybe even automatically zero the memory when it falls
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by sgentle 12y ago
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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by sgentle 12y ago
Why is he a member of this union if he finds their policies and their management so unsatisfactory? I feel like I'm missing something.
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by sgentle 12y ago
I believe it is. You say one of your problems is "we’re not doing well enough at engaging with people about our product". Perhaps I am part of the group you would like to engage, I'm not sure. I read a lot of Hacker News and
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by sgentle 12y ago
That's a really interesting point, I'd never thought of that. Worse still, you could do some trickery with app cache manifests to prevent cache cleans/page refreshes from fixing it, maybe even forever. I spent a bit of time m
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by sgentle 13y ago
I definitely remember there being moving walkways in The Robots of Dawn, one of Asimov's later robot-themed books. I only learned just now that they're all part of one series. I think that's what gizmo686 meant by "I Rob
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by sgentle 13y ago
Hm, good point. I suppose there are two parts to my assertion: 1. When you think of yourself as talking to an actual person, you are less likely to be dumb and/or mean. 2. As HN has grown, the degree to which the average commenter cons
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by sgentle 13y ago
Thank you for a very clear and thorough explanation of a complex concept. Comments like this make me wish HN had some form of super-upvote equivalent to Reddit's gilding. Assuming I can summon dang just by using his name, I feel like p
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by sgentle 13y ago
"Thee tape in question that was thrown was also bullshit. If anything, it actually made the SFPD look bad" "I didn’t hit her 117 times, injure her, or cause any trauma as the UCSF medical reports clearly document" "
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by sgentle 13y ago
No, the performance was great. The UI is not unusuable, but pretty frustrating, and as far as I know there's no CEC support in Android (or, at least, their Android build). So as a set top box I don't think it works. Worse still, y
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by sgentle 13y ago
Whoa, that's great. Thanks! For some reason I could only find forum posts saying it couldn't be turned off, but searching for that specific path says it works: http://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?f=77&t=3377
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by sgentle 13y ago
I have one of these, and there are a couple of notable things I found out while setting it up. * It has CEC support, which is rare among similar devices. (The only other one I know is RPi. Thanks for nothing Ouya.) * The extra CPU and RAM i
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by sgentle 13y ago
Are there any situations where you wouldn't be able to find bash in /bin/bash? I haven't ever seen such a system, but I'd like to know if it's something I might run into... The other thing is, if you're ta
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by sgentle 13y ago
Blimey is right. Although I would guess for most people their first encounter would be something like this: var foo = function(callback) { callback(); } for(var i=0; i<=10; i++){ setTimeout(function() { console.log(&qu
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by sgentle 13y ago
Unfortunately I think this particular review is missing the point of Keybase. In the same vein as attacking Twitter for not making the follow relationship symmetric or attacking Instagram for ruining the dynamic range of pictures, this auth
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by sgentle 13y ago
"But at that point, Dunham says, who knows if the spacecraft would still be alive." Something about this line struck me. The story is about an "old satellite"; an "old friend", and it needs "old equipment&
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by sgentle 13y ago
Ouch. What a terrible situation. I'm holding out for the other side of the story, but unless you're willing to assume the entire thing is invented this is a major fuckup for GitHub. I think this is a classic problem with companies
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by sgentle 13y ago
Maybe he's very good? I have no idea who Colin is, but surely it's up to him what he charges. If it's too much then nobody will hire him. What's the problem?
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by sgentle 13y ago
And this is one of a couple of reasons why, despite my generally pleasant experiences with the US, it would take an extraordinarily good opportunity to get me to live there. I am scared of your seemingly unaccountable quasi-military police.
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by sgentle 13y ago
I've always wondered about this. I can buy the idea that a judge would compel you to fake a written canary like this. But how far would they go? What if you recorded a monthly video of yourself naked singing the national anthem with &q

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