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by swolchok 17y ago
Hmm. What evil could you wreak with a service for making the HN server connect to whatever website you want?
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by swolchok 17y ago
This seems to rely on pkg_resources, which isn't a standard module but rather part of setuptools. There's a rejected PEP for including it in the standard library: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0365/
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by swolchok 17y ago
Made me realize how weird I am for being Googley and using single quotes in all my Python. It's bad enough that I can't type double quotes quickly any more.
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by swolchok 17y ago
1) That's not a multi-dimensional array, that's a one-dimensional array simulating a multi-dimensional array. 2) Why not arr[n1 + i][n2 + j][n3 + j] = calc_foo(i,j,k) ? It's a bit more work to write the proxy classes, but a Suffici
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by swolchok 17y ago
We've also left out the new code that also has to match things against js2 line endings. That said, this does require some taste. It is horrible to spread a single logical operation across multiple functions, classes, and files just for t
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by swolchok 17y ago
The title could really be better -- the article isn't about Dropbox users, it's about your feature. Calling for attention in a title rubs me the wrong way.
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's OK to ask. You may not get the extension, but given the amount of unannounced lateness teachers often see, asking for an extension in advance with a "how can we work this out" attitude looks like an attempt to be responsible. Contras
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's not timely at all, but I maintained the 64-bit patch for Gears for a few months. Upstream didn't want to support it and wouldn't release it as "unsupported" for whatever reason.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Is that actually illegal?
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by swolchok 17y ago
I got the article by searching for the title on http://news.google.com/ . I thought Murdoch was spinning in his grave^H^H^H^H^Hoffice chair about that?
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by swolchok 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen says he didn't return to the company after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's in 1983. Surely you and gp didn't mean that MS stopped being one of the best companies in 1983?
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by swolchok 17y ago
"May I help you?" is definitely less hostile than GTFO. I just recently used it on a group of people who turned out to have a legitimate request. I didn't trust them enough to let them fulfill their request by themselves, so I did in fact h
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by swolchok 17y ago
You mean "financially incentivize people to cheat", right?
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by swolchok 17y ago
If it looks like noise, it deserves to go. In other words, if, after reading a comment, I feel that my time was wasted, I should downvote the comment.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Without reading the article: this follows directly from "Twitter is typically reached via HTTP and does not require users to type https:// .
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by swolchok 17y ago
Why will performance go up when shifting from compilation targeting C to CPS-style compilation to assembly without compiler optimizations implemented? C compilers are crammed full of optimizations, so I would naively think that writing your
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by swolchok 17y ago
The password prompt is for a passphrase to unlock the private key. It's standard to encrypt the private key using the passphrase to provide some protection against the loss of the key.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Ditto. I'm a grad student studying security, and I'm not convinced that this is deniable. How will you deny the DV box (or even unlabeled camera & microphone) in your meeting area when the feds suddenly raid the place? How will you deny
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by swolchok 17y ago
I was about to post a puzzled disagreement, but they did waive inbound bandwidth charges a week ago. http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/aws-price-reductions.html
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by swolchok 17y ago
Your claim appears to be false -- genital HSV can be transmitted whenever the virus is being shed, which can happen in the absence of symptoms. Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex_virus ) disagrees at the end of the firs
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by swolchok 17y ago
I feel kind of obligated to mention that you can also solve the same problem if the machine is sitting around fully unlocked (not idle and thus cluing the disk encryption in) with a cold-boot attack -- http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/ .
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by swolchok 17y ago
Can we have a title on this that indicates that it's physics, not tech, please? I wouldn't have clicked if I had known it was physics. EDIT: um, I'm not commenting to complain that the post is on HN; I'm commenting to complain that the post
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by swolchok 17y ago
http://mbusreloaded.com/umbus -- several hundred people use it every day, all of them cheap/lazy college students who aren't going to pay for the privilege. The value of advertising on the system seems to be barely greater than costs (a f
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by swolchok 17y ago
> How would the dispatch table get corrupted? If the dispatch table is compiled down into an executable in exactly the same manner an if/else would be, then I can't think of a reasonable corruption vector that would corrupt a compiled-i
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by swolchok 17y ago
That has nothing to do with the semantics of passing parameters to functions. def swap(a,b): a,b = b,a does not work.
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by swolchok 17y ago
Yeah, and your interest will be satisfied if you actually visit their website and scroll down.
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by swolchok 17y ago
I'd worry more about all the bogus tweets, Facebook status posts, flickr pics, etc. that the motivated will be spamming the world with tomorrow. Seems like the best way to win is to stealthily compromise the websites and computer accounts o
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by swolchok 17y ago
No one seems to care .
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by swolchok 17y ago
There's a non-TC version that appears to be the primary source already on the front page.
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by swolchok 17y ago
It's unusual to peer review software in computer science research as well. There is no requirement that you release the source or even the binary of your shiny new system, especially in time for review. I've recently reviewed a paper that

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