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by sysk 12y ago
Is the copyright notice supposed to apply to the empty program?
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by sysk 12y ago
Yes but that's exactly what I meant. ASCII wastes 1 bit by character (the 8th bit isn't used). What if the source was encoded in such a way that it is "contracted" (the unused bit of the first character is the first bit
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by sysk 12y ago
Sorry my reply wasn't clear, I understood the question you were asking in your original comment. I was actually referring to your 2-edge protocol when I wrote that it seems the Verifier could not be tricked even in the simulated protoc
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by sysk 12y ago
I agree, the quoted paragraph is not clear. It seems to me that the Verifier could not be tricked even using the rewinding trick if it was allowed to use its memory (internal copy of the graph-coloring).
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by sysk 12y ago
> and is identical to the scheme outlined in this article Would you care to elaborate? In your example, the Verifier (line 2) already has a solution to the problem (the number 2). Therefore the Solver (line 1) can't possibly give mo
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by sysk 12y ago
I wonder if a few bytes could be saved by encoding the source in 7bit ascii, decoding and running through eval. Not sure if that makes sense.
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by sysk 12y ago
Wow, long time I hadn't seen the DHTML buzzword.
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by sysk 12y ago
Serious question: which book(s) do I have to pick up to begin understanding half of what they are talking about?
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by sysk 12y ago
UI/UX is a very serious thing of its own given that the most popular consumer OSes today are arguably not the most technically superior.
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by sysk 12y ago
I'm starting to believe (hard) AI should get the same status as politics and religion on HN. Those comment threads debating the true nature of AI are getting repetitive.
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by sysk 12y ago
Exactly. All the benefits Nevada gains from this deal would equally apply to a small business albeit at a much smaller scale. It's hard to blame Elon though, he is just playing the game.
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by sysk 12y ago
For anyone else wondering, CLRS refers to the "Introduction to Algorithms" book.
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by sysk 12y ago
> We also saw that the process’s heap size stayed fairly constant at around 1.2 Gb. > Something was adding the same Express.js provided static route handler 10 times an hour. Why didn't it increase the heap size? Maybe it was to
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Unicode Text Converter(panix.com)
908 points by sysk 12y ago|229 comments
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by sysk 12y ago
> this doesn't balance actual load As someone who doesn't have much experience with distributed computing, this part confused me a little. What do you mean by that?
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by sysk 12y ago
Yep.
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by sysk 12y ago
> risk his legal strategy Is that an euphemism for "risk a lawsuit"?
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by sysk 12y ago
They probably got hacked. This happens to the best companies and nothing much can be done about it. I don't think it's fair to call them "so negligent" yet.
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by sysk 12y ago
What do you mean by "web accessible"? Did Google decide to publicly publish all dropcam's customer pictures?
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by sysk 12y ago
I wonder if the receiving participants really felt "compelled" to move their hand or if instead they learned to recognise the "fire" signal over time and deliberately acted upon it. It could have felt like a more distinc
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by sysk 12y ago
This is probably the first time I really get what is happening during a build (despite having written a few C programs and Makefiles). Thanks for writing!
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by sysk 12y ago
Waiting for the Vim plugin :)
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by sysk 12y ago
I'm a 20-something white male and feel exactly the same. Maybe it's just a personality trait? Do you think it's possible that the feeling you don't belong is not related to your skin colour? I'm asking genuinely, no
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by sysk 12y ago
I studied algorithmic complexity and software enfineering. I don't think there was ever a mention of buffers or how to allocate them. I do remember there was a brief mention of dynamically allocated arrays and that the usual way to do
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by sysk 12y ago
Me. I rarely run out of battery.
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by sysk 12y ago
First, what comes closest to Orwellian total surveillance today is the NSA mass surveillance program which was created by government, not the free market. Second, I wouldn't personally feel OK with that outcome but I would also recogni
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by sysk 12y ago
> We can't leave it up to ignorant and fickle consumers. People like you infuriate me to no end. The fact is that a lot of consumers are willing to trade privacy for convenience, price, etc. Privacy just doesn't weigh much in t
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by sysk 12y ago
> It became a common right-libertarian view about the same time as the heterosexual-only marriage policy throughout the US came under serious threat. What were the right-libertarian views on marriage in the US prior to that? I'd be
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by sysk 12y ago
A common libertarian view is that marriage (gay and heterosexual) should not be the domain of government. http://reason.com/archives/2014/08/19/libertarians-gay-marri...
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by sysk 12y ago
Thanks for those links, they do a better job at explaining those various tools then most descriptions I've read so far. So if I understand correctly, the usual workflow is to create a distribution for your source code using setuptools

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