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by spikels 13y ago
One of the many mistakes by Adobe revealed in the recent hack was their use of ECB to encrypt passwords. The basic problem with ECB is the same input always results in the same output. And this applies not only to the entire input but speci
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by spikels 13y ago
My mistake, thank for the correction. The 16 node limit I was familiar with is not a hard limit. You can request more nodes. http://aws.amazon.com/redshift/faqs/#0080 It would be interesting to see performance com
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by spikels 13y ago
Glen Greenwald wrote a nice piece on drug decriminalization In Portugal back in 2009. http://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/drug-decriminal...
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by spikels 13y ago
The tradeoffs are both complex and evolving and are different for each project/product. In general Hadoop is more scalable and more flexible but much slower. For example as of today RedShift can hold a maximum of 256 terrabytes of comp
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by spikels 13y ago
The cartels can employ all the hackers and torture all the bloggers they want but it will still be very hard to find sellers on SilkRoad. You will need to break Tor, trace BitCoins, trace deliveries, or trick sellers. This takes national or
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by spikels 13y ago
There is also Shard-Query which is build on top of a cluster on MySQL servers. According to its developer, who works at Percona, running Shard-Query with MySQL using a column store (Infobrite community edition) give performance similar to R
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by spikels 13y ago
This is exactly what you should expect in almost all cases because you are kinda comparing apples and oranges. Hadoop/Hive was not focused on speed but proving it is even possible to do queries reliably on such large datasets. Once thi
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by spikels 13y ago
You are correct it was just a virtual video feed. I misread the article. I wonder how successful they could be with current AI technology. It seems that in this narrow situation and very "motivated" opponent it could be very succe
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by spikels 13y ago
Finally the the Turing Test has been passed! This does not seem as impressive as when imagined decades ago. Fooling perverts, even to the point of sending money, seems to be much, much easier than creating more generally useful artificial i
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Can Silicon Valley save the Obamacare site?(washingtonpost.com)
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Hyperloop Startup Lands Major Partners(mashable.com)
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by spikels 13y ago
This is a weak article. The headline exaggerates the content of the article as is often the case. Based on anecdotal opinions of two Berlin techies who probably have an incentive to promote Berlin's tech scene. The conclusion is that t
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by spikels 13y ago
This effect is biggest in low tax countries because of the credit US citizens end up paying the HIGHER of US and local income taxes (more or less - rules are complex). Also see relatively few Americans in Hong Kong and Singapore which have
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by spikels 13y ago
Unfortunately we don't live in the world you imagine but I would join you in trying to improve the world we actually live in. I don't see how a trade and travel embargo could possibly help - it would almost certainly make things w
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by spikels 13y ago
While I agree the NSA's conduct is outrageous you seem to be confused about how countries actually work. Every country treats non-citizens worse than citizens - fewer rights and benefits, more limited (if any) work opportunities, addit
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by spikels 13y ago
Where did you get the idea the "vast majority of citizens support these initiatives"? From the very start the polls have generally been against mass NSA surveillance except when the wording of the poll was misleading[1]. As more a
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by spikels 13y ago
That's one thing I never understood. The law was passed 3.5 years before they had to go live. Seems like they should have had plenty of time but it seems like almost all of the coding was done in the past year with little testing along
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by spikels 13y ago
A bone fracture that breaks the skin, known as an open or compound fracture, is a true emergency. You should go to the emergency room immediately. If you delay significantly you will almost certainly get an infection and risk the loss of li
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by spikels 13y ago
You misunderstand the absolutely beautiful concept of the The Invisible Hand. It refers to the self organizing (emergent) behavior of the economy and it's many benefits. The concept itself makes no assumptions about perfect information
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by spikels 13y ago
I don't think you understand how medical insurance works or how fire insurance works in most cases. With medical insurance you never receive payment without spending at least as much on the treatment and in most cases the payment is ma
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by spikels 13y ago
Thanks for the correction. I forgot about Udall. He has been very good on this issue.
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by spikels 13y ago
Dianne Feinstein last week: NSA’s mass collection necessary 'to protect the homeland from terrorism'.[1] Dianne Feinstein today: 'I am totally opposed' to NSA surveillance of US allies.[2] People talk a lot about economi
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U.S. Senate intelligence panel chair pledges 'major review' of NSA surveillance(reuters.com)
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White House says additional intelligence constraints needed(bbc.co.uk)
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by spikels 13y ago
A: Because our government prevents competition by granting monopolies in exchange for revenue and political support.
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by spikels 13y ago
Marie Curie lived to be 66 at a time when the life expectancy in France was around 45. It's true her husband and co-experimenter, Pierre Curie, only lived to be 46 - he was killed by a heavy horse-drawn cart! Perhaps we are a little to
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by spikels 13y ago
Guys like Bill Keller are a big part of what's wrong in mainstream media. In just one of many examples of Keller's flawed thinking in this article examine his logic in defending accusations of liberal bias at the NYT: "I once
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by spikels 13y ago
"science is a creative pursuit much like the arts" While surprising this statement gets at something missing in science today. Until relatively recently basic science was not dominated by a big institution monoculture but by curio
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Obama 'not told of Merkel phone bugging'(bbc.co.uk)
25 points by spikels 13y ago|29 comments
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by spikels 13y ago
I think the administration was worried if they didn't launch on schedule at the start of the shutdown/ceiling fight they might have to accept house republicans demands of a delay in the ACA. Apparently they were gambling the probl

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