tomerv

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by tomerv 14y ago
Specifically, for webpages there is the Wayback Machine: http://archive.org/web/web.php
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by tomerv 14y ago
It was pretty entertaining, but only until the audience applauded him at the end - that's when it turned sad.
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by tomerv 14y ago
Talks like this one are going to be a real problem for TED if they don't start curating the various TEDx events. The TED brand is basically a trademark representing high quality talks. If this continues, they'll lose all their credebility.
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by tomerv 14y ago
You're assuming that the GET request is the one being blocked, but it looks more reasonable that it's actually the response (the html results page) that's causing the problems. Probably the "Great Firewall" detects a page that includes freq
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by tomerv 14y ago
Given that the microphones are placed in a public location, and that they record noises heard in the street, one could argue that it's a reasonable level of surveillance. The real concern will be when governments start to identify their cit
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by tomerv 14y ago
As someone who lives outside of the US (I live in Israel), I would very much like to buy a new 32" LCD TV for $200. Too bad it's about $400 here.
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by tomerv 14y ago
As the article mentions: "That first one that worked (100011011) is the one used in AES" i.e., the polynomial that was chosen for AES (x^8 + x^4 + x^3 + x + 1) is the minimal irreducible polynomial of degree 8 (minimal in the sense of the n
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by tomerv 14y ago
Another explanation (a bit clearer in my opinion): http://bit-player.org/2011/the-n-ball-game
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by tomerv 14y ago
Point taken.
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by tomerv 14y ago
I think it has a lot to do with it. Maybe not directly, but at the heart of it, net neutrality is (in my opinion) about dividing resources equally.
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by tomerv 14y ago
Does this mean that Google has given up completely on net neutrality? This is a very bad notion.
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by tomerv 14y ago
That question is answered in the second part. Changing Chrome's UA string to anything other than default causes errors, so the browsing speed can't be tested.
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by tomerv 14y ago
I wonder if PCs will ever have non-linear memory. To explain what I mean, suppose you have a big 2-dimensional array in memory. As it works now, if you read a cell from memory, the area in memory around it is brought into the cache. Because
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by tomerv 14y ago
I'm not an Instagram user, so I may be off base... but why not start uploading the photo right when the user snapped it, i.e. before selecting a filter. Then apply the selected filter server-side on the original photo. That way you save a f
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by tomerv 15y ago
Wouldn't passing the Turing Test 93% of the time mean that the machine does a better job of pretending to be human than an actual human? I'd expect 50% success to be the target.
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Taxes and Cheating(danariely.com)
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