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by swolchok 16y ago
Oops! I meant that Google didn't turn up anything for TeX, not Perl. The Perl stuff is indeed well known.
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by swolchok 16y ago
> Microsoft, as it exists now, is a vehicle for selling Windows and Office licenses. What about the (rather successful) Xbox 360, which you mention in the very next paragraph?
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by swolchok 16y ago
A quick Google doesn't turn up any pages stating that parsing Perl and CL is undecidable. Can you provide a reference?
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by swolchok 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_conspiracy
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by swolchok 16y ago
It's impossible to do in O(1) in the worst case, because you have to at least examine all the input (e.g., if the input matches the regex AA*B.)
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by swolchok 16y ago
Microsoft.
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by swolchok 16y ago
I thought it was established on HN that that letter about safety had been properly addressed (it's from April).
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by swolchok 16y ago
This should actually mean I don't need to visit facebook.com anymore if there is indeed POP3 or IMAP access, because (presumably) they will send full messages to Titan rather than the current "you have a new message NOW CLICK ME", and POP3
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by swolchok 16y ago
Cached version, via Slashdot: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:EzsEFco... Make sure you choose "text-only version" in the upper-right. Looks like it's just hardware conditional breakpoints, nothing to see here...
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by swolchok 16y ago
C came from Bell Labs; it's not entirely clear to me that an industry research lab counts as academia.
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by swolchok 16y ago
I am not going to argue for the correctness of this position, but presumably it's because the "secure" icon (e.g., the little lock) is absent.
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by swolchok 16y ago
The warning isn't spurious, by the way. A man in the middle could inject evil JS into urchin.js (or whatever the equivalent is now) just as easily as he could inject it into your site's JS; the page is not secure.
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by swolchok 16y ago
Why is that good? It also doesn't solve: int *p = malloc(LOTS); int v = read_from_network(); int o = read_from_network(); p[o] = v; if that malloc fails, for example.
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by swolchok 16y ago
A secondary method for authenticating updates would also be wise. When Moxie Marlinspike's null-prefix SSL bug landed, people with vulnerable versions of Firefox were somewhat screwed: Firefox used only SSL to ensure the authenticity and in
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by swolchok 16y ago
I hate to be HN's resident word Nazi, but you want to s/reign/rein/. "Reign" is roughly "to rule", where as "rein it in" is a reference to the reins used to make a horse stop.
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by swolchok 16y ago
Is "close to 50%" the going marginal tax rate in general? I calculate ~30% federal + ~10% California + possibly ~6% social security & Medicare to get that number; did I miss anything? (current grad student with a marginal rate a lot clo
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by swolchok 16y ago
Still doesn't hold. Idaho is neither a separate country, nor, more importantly, is it home to established organizations with ties to the government of said separate country, overtly dedicated to terrorist activity founded on extremist belie
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by swolchok 16y ago
This is actually a case where "Cue", not "Queue," is correct.
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by swolchok 16y ago
Your analogy does not hold, as the guy was not prevented from doing anything. He was questioned, searched, and spied on by the FBI. As far as we know, no direct, material harm came to him.
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by swolchok 16y ago
It's not entirely clear to me that I don't want a person who crosses our borders in the circumstances that the author of the article did and carrying the things that the author of the article carried grilled to see if he cracks. Can you ima
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by swolchok 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche is probably the term, although the context in which "synecdoche" is used is generally analysis of literature / "English class."
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by swolchok 16y ago
You forgot the implied "...and then cross an international border while carrying said journal entry."
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by swolchok 16y ago
A flaw: I might vote neutral as "I agree with this comment's current point value." In that light, 20 up, 5 down, and 500 neutral is a fairly confidently ranked 16-point comment, but 20 up, 5 down, and 0 neutral is not. However, the less con
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by swolchok 16y ago
I think USB-based DMA attacks were used against the Xbox 360, but I don't have a source off the top of my head.
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by swolchok 16y ago
Congressman, n. A man who is a member of the U.S. Congress, especially of the House of Representatives. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/congressman
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by swolchok 16y ago
Senators are Congressmen. Did you mean your representatives?
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by swolchok 16y ago
Cython is not a bad story for C interop, though. See e.g. pyevent ( http://code.google.com/p/pyevent/ ), which provides Python bindings to libevent. Be warned: until there's a new release of pyevent (0.4), you should, in my opinion, use the
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by swolchok 16y ago
Despite the possibility of getting trolled: using two condoms increases the risk of failure vs. using one. Don't do it.
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by swolchok 16y ago
All the information is in the binary, sure, but IDA makes the process a lot less tedious. objdump doesn't give you the pretty "graph view," showing the basic block structure of the code. (In particular, this is really nice for switches and
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by swolchok 16y ago
IDA Pro seems to make the bomb lab considerably easier (e.g., by showing the basic block structure of the assembly); I imagine that the Hex-Rays decompiler would be even more so. Students willing to torrent that software would probably have

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