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by sonoffett 12y ago
From the latest reports it seems that the advanced torture, cough ahem enhanced interrogation, techniques were designed and used partially to craft evidence to support an Iraq invasion [1], which seems even more sinister than what you had
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by sonoffett 12y ago
But surely the military industrial complex has the incentive to have the public's best interest at heart when it come to defining cyber warfare doctrine?
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by sonoffett 12y ago
there is much more to a hire than just technical ability (eg., personality fit, overqualified, will they stick around, etc.)
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by sonoffett 12y ago
they're using 200 bits. look at the generalized birthday problem section on your cited link--the number of samples for there to be greater than a 50% probability of a collision is > (3-2ln2)/6 + sqrt(2 (2^200) ln2) = 1.49 10^30
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by sonoffett 12y ago
I'm just going to leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition
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by sonoffett 12y ago
Perhaps I misunderstand your comment, but you actually don't need to sort to compute a median (see O(n) median of medians algorithm [1]). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians
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by sonoffett 12y ago
Do you find judgement and shame to be constructive communication tools for positive change?
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by sonoffett 13y ago
Someone already mentioned in a previous thread that this is an anti-dos method.
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by sonoffett 13y ago
As an interesting aside, it appears GCHQ had public key encryption almost a decade earlier (although not published until recently, of course).
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by sonoffett 13y ago
"...I am dubious about the actual epistemic value of the psychedelic experience; my interest, like William James, is in what I can learn from the experience about myself and religion." If the mystical trip is what one is shooting
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by sonoffett 13y ago
I've been seeing this recently (past month) as well on 237, along with another coworker.
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by sonoffett 13y ago
> As a wise man once said, they laughed at Galileo, they laughed at Einstein... and they laughed at Bozo the Clown. Exactly, "they" can't tell the difference between Bozo the Clown and Einstein. It's very hard to predict what ideas or t
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by sonoffett 13y ago
If a technology could self-proclaim anything then that would be pretty game changing :). Your point is well taken though (most technologies don't change anything). However I think Bitcoin _has_ already changed more than most.
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by sonoffett 13y ago
I misread the FAQ, it's the institution and not the degree that they care is accredited. > Why would I care about ABET accreditation for a CS program? I'm not sure why someone would care (some people do though). ABET does not offer accr
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by sonoffett 13y ago
I think you'll be surprised about what degrees are actually "accredited" and what ones are not. For example, UCSD, Princeton and Cal Tech do not have ABET accredited C{S,E} degrees.
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by sonoffett 13y ago
%s/{Bitcoin,finance}/{Internet,communication}/g . Not to say you're wrong, but the same rhetoric is used for every "game" changing technology.
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by sonoffett 13y ago
Right, because only the employees are purchasing the product.
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by sonoffett 15y ago
Me too. I consider myself technically well versed and I have setup mail servers before. Whenever I send an important email with an attachment I always include the phrase "Please reply on receipt" just to ensure that the other end gets it. T
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by sonoffett 15y ago
Used ebP963yNKtKhTBG5, thanks!
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by sonoffett 15y ago
The relevant paper, "Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees": http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.117...
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Quine (computing)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sonoffett 15y ago
I could definitely see it not as a replacement for a physician, but as sort of a safeguard to check if the physician's decision regarding treatment for a particular set of symptoms matches up watson's previously learned data. Watson wouldn'
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by sonoffett 15y ago
The OP has since changed the article but IIRC `buffer` was an array of `int`s, in which case the `sizeof` operator would return 512. Generally you'd want `(i >= sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]))`.
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by sonoffett 15y ago
I'm so glad they mentioned Philz, some of the best coffee I can find in the bay area and filled with hackers.
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by sonoffett 15y ago
Interestingly, this is still relevant today when doing large data transfers between hosts with long RTTs using TCP: the typical TCP congestion control implementations (i.e. bic ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIC_TCP) ) use ACKs to update th
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by sonoffett 16y ago
I found the article to be interesting and relevant--ad hominem attacks don't contribute to the discussion and I hope HN will eventually get over its self serving bias and discuss self critical issues at the same level as any other conversat
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by sonoffett 16y ago
I mentioned this in another article, but I have yet to see evidence that demonstrates that bing is parsing google's queries either from a) the url of the referrer, or b) directly on the google results page, yet many people on HN have assert
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by sonoffett 16y ago
I'm not sure why you are being voted down, the situation could be this. Also, Bing toolbar could simply be collecting tuples "(search_string_entered_in_toolbar, subsequent_href_clicked)" regardless of the search engine the user has specifie
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by sonoffett 16y ago
Cperciva is right, but I think you're mistaken when you say "many problems harder than NP are NP complete", NP complete problems are both NP and NP hard. NP hard is a class of problems such that every problem in NP can be reduced to any pro
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by sonoffett 16y ago
Perhaps you're right regarding the first point, I'm just going off what he states in the OP: "Also two independent versions of the algorithm in programming languages have been implemented." My point is that a constructivist proof that P=NP

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