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by tveita 12y ago
> I cynically suspect the current concept of full-time work evolved to suit employers, The reason there is a difference between full-time employment and contract work is regulations put in place to limit the power companies wield over it
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by tveita 12y ago
The upstream patch is dated "Mon, 21 Jan 2013". Does this affect Redhat and Debian because they use older glibc versions and didn't backport this fix?
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by tveita 12y ago
The point of refresh tokens is not to be more secure than access tokens, but to make some implementations more convenient. - It's easier to change the format of short-lived access tokens, since you know there are no valid tokens hangin
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by tveita 12y ago
I bet you could find a fair number of statistics errors in machine learning and other empirical branches of CS.
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by tveita 12y ago
> "Machines should think. People should work" This dystopia has been envisioned for more than 80 years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q030WNZvXrA It's a good reminder that social and technological progre
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by tveita 12y ago
What is Docker's 'new' direction? I don't see any related announcements on their blog besides adding support on new platforms.
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by tveita 12y ago
Australia is under APNIC, which started rationing out its last /8 IP block in 2011. Australia has a decent number of allocated addresses, around 2 per capita (compare with India, with 29 addresses per 1000 persons)[1], but presumably t
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by tveita 12y ago
So has anyone besides Dave Jones managed to reproduce the issue? The article doesn't mention. This doesn't look like front page news until it is confirmed to be a widespread problem.
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by tveita 12y ago
Being functional has nothing to do with the language it is written in. http://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/html_node/Introducti... "The term functional refers to a specific package management
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by tveita 12y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how these pieces will fit together, but from what I can see, the file system part is a fragile implementation of master-slave replication, which isn't what I would describe as a "distributed file sy
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by tveita 12y ago
You have a list of requirements when generating an curve. Some of the requirements are needed so the equations you use have solutions, while some are there to prevent known attacks that take advantage of the structure of the curve. The numb
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by tveita 12y ago
"In total, Shavers took in more than 700,000 BTC - which at one point constituted approximately seven percent of all Bitcoin then in public circulation." I don't know how you'd define "the vast majority of the Bitco
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by tveita 12y ago
A truncated text log can still be informative, and I've never had a corrupted text log hang or crash my text editor.
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by tveita 12y ago
The particular mistake: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/51784845258024550... > So this reads as 'allow PHP files to be read from any IP', 'anything else is limited to 62.75.246.20&#x27
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by tveita 12y ago
How Americans die: http://www.bloomberg.com/dataview/2014-04-17/how-americans-d... This shows drug deaths as comparable to motor vehicle accidents. (This includes both legal and illegal drugs, and poisoning from p
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by tveita 12y ago
(This was in response to a sentence that has now been edited out that claimed Ulbricht has never been charged for murder for hire.)
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by tveita 12y ago
He has. Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance; Attempted Witness Murder; Use of Interstate Commerce Facilities in Commission of Murder-for-Hire; Aiding and Abetting https://ia601904.us.archive.org/1/items&#x2F
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by tveita 12y ago
I don't think this evidence would count as fruit of the poisonous tree based on exceptions 1 and 2. 1. This investigation couldn't have been the result of other, illegally obtained evidence. It started from the publicly known Silk
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by tveita 12y ago
It seems he was serving an embedded CAPTCHA from his real IP. http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/dread-pirate-sunk-by-leak... Maybe he used a CAPTCHA library that generates absolute URLs using the server host name
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by tveita 12y ago
They call it "production grade quality", but I don't see a test suite.
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by tveita 12y ago
Mining 1000 times more hashes doesn't maintain the integrity any better than the current situation.
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by tveita 12y ago
Moore's law is in effect right now, and yet mining keeps getting more expensive. The exact number of hashes per joule is irrelevant since the work being done isn't useful. This is purely a competition about spending the most. If h
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by tveita 12y ago
Yes? Going either by volume or number of transaction, Bitcoin transactions are currently ludicrously expensive, though this is somewhat hidden by subsidizing the miners. I don't know why you mention paper currencies and gold when most
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by tveita 12y ago
Git commits can not serve as "proof of work" as the term is normally used, because they are not much easier to verify than they are to generate. Proof of work is used to limit behavior by adding artificial cost - in hashcash they
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by tveita 12y ago
One advantage of Catch is that you can use native C++ expressions in your assertions, so instead of AssertThat(guitar->sound(), Equals(sounds::clean)); you can write CHECK(guitar->sound() == sounds::clean); And you'
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by tveita 12y ago
There have been vulnerabilities related to tel: URIs before, in particular this one that let you factory reset Samsung phones. http://www.techhive.com/article/2010562/reported-android-fla...
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by tveita 12y ago
Spending too much time sitting down is believed to increase mortality even if you exercise regularly. E.g. http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/too-much-sitting-linked-t... : “Even if you are doing the recommended amount
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by tveita 12y ago
There's likely some bias here because stories about hemp tend to get better media coverage than other similar discoveries. At any rate researchers can get it easily enough, so I highly doubt we're in some kind of lack-of-hemp-indu
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by tveita 12y ago
You don't need to push elevator buttons. Delivery robots usually have a central controller system that connected to to the elevator system, so it can plan routes and call the elevator when a robot arrives.
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by tveita 12y ago
It seems like a waste to use a robot for room deliveries when hotels have much more labor intensive things to transport, namely sheets, towels and laundry. I know some hospitals are experimenting with robots to assist staff by transporting

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