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by vilda 13y ago
I'm not taking the route of personal insults as I believe this type of comments should not be in HN in first place. Yes, I read it very well. Schmidt indeed mentioned holding the wages down, BUT from the context it's clear they me
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by vilda 13y ago
If I read it correctly then they are not holding wages down as such, but are trying to avoid employee poaching. Raising wages might be a result of active competition, the question is how much. My guess it would relate to only a small set of
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by vilda 13y ago
Those tests smell fishy. If they use classic disks then typical average seek time is 8ms. Yet they measured 0,2ms which is ridiculous. My guess is that they used small virtual disks and measured page cache of the underlying host. 128MB limi
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by vilda 13y ago
Cryptographically speaking you are completely wrong :) You need both: good algorithm and enough entropy. Ad absurdum if you read 1 one byte and feed it into your CSPRNG, you may get up to 256 random streams of 4096 bits, which is easily enu
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by vilda 13y ago
To add: not only you test for primality, but also for common attacks. Not all primes are equally strong http://www.uow.edu.au/~jennie/WEB/WEB99/1999_07.pdf
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by vilda 13y ago
Once you get enough entropy into your crypto-random generator you are fine for a very, very long time. They basically use the same algorithms that are used for encryption itself (AES, etc.) and are of equal strength. That means if you can&#
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by vilda 13y ago
Just after the first world word, cigarettes were used as currency in Germany. Currency is simply anything that is accepted as a medium of exchange. That's all what makes currency a currency - doesn't matter if someone doesn't
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Distrtibuted systems are hard (vnodes don't scale to hundreds of nodes)(issues.apache.org)
1 points by vilda 13y ago|0 comments
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by vilda 13y ago
It might not be NSA itself, but learning that US is willing to implement backdoors in their interest is a big deal - especially in defense industry. You either have the trust or you don't.
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by vilda 13y ago
Edward doesn't know what money is. Whether it is issued by a government or not is a matter of convenience (or legal issues) and not a condition. Everything can be a currency satisfying these criteria: (1) enough quantity (2) l
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by vilda 13y ago
I was looking into that a while ago. There are multiple categories based on balloon size, weight of equipment. They are mostly concerned and the strength of the string between them. Away from airports, the smallest balloons as completely un
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by vilda 13y ago
The whole article is flawed in one major point. They assume that women are buying women's magazines because they are for women. In reality they are buying magazines that are of interest for them. Thus women's magazines are women&#
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Why Stockholm Syndrome Could Be A Total Myth(businessinsider.com)
1 points by vilda 13y ago|0 comments
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Was iOS 7 created in Microsoft Word?(youtube.com)
18 points by vilda 13y ago|6 comments
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by vilda 13y ago
Note that the actual number of registers is considerably different than the number of registers you can access through instruction set. They are used via register renaming and optimizations of complex instructions.
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by vilda 13y ago
This won't be first or last movie that wrongly depicts history :) Braveheart is one example: the section "Historical inaccuracy" takes good 1/3 of the whole Wikipedia article. Amadeus by Miloš Forman is another example.
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by vilda 13y ago
Please please don't use greylisting. It's not cool. There are too many broken mail servers around and you'll loose emails. I was unfortunate enough that I had to use mail server with greylisting enabled. As a result I regular
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by vilda 13y ago
No. In fact it's a matter of trust. You can trust Skype that calls are encrypted and cannot be eavesdropped, you can trust Verizon that your cellphone metadata are not passed to government automatically, and you can trust Intel that th
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by vilda 13y ago
That's why Linux distros save the entrhopy pool when rebooted. /var/lib/urandom/random-seed in Debian
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by vilda 13y ago
Few points: (1) Chaining rnd generators is fine as long as they are not correlated somehow. If there is any correlaton, the output may be weaker. (Consider chainig two exactly same generator as a corner case.) (2) In this case we don't
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by vilda 13y ago
A friend of mine worked for defence research center. He had two computers on the table, one with Internet access and one for intranet access. The intranet was a completely independent network with separate cable wiring. Even cables have dif
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The Visual Patterns of Audio Frequencies Seen through Vibrating Sand(thisiscolossal.com)
105 points by vilda 13y ago|37 comments
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by vilda 13y ago
It's a good tradition in math that you as the author have to convince others that your theorem is correct. If you cannot convince other fellow colleagues then you can't claim you have a proof. That's why a lot of mathematicians are sceptica
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by vilda 14y ago
Just in case you're wondering how a price for energy can be nagative: It is not. Someone else is paying full price for it. The producer is guaraneed to always sell the enegry into the grid at a fixed price. The market is broken.
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by vilda 14y ago
That's the point. Loudness defines the address.
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by vilda 14y ago
My impression is that Adria Richards is not that kind of a person to apologize.
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by vilda 14y ago
I'm sorry to say that, but you have to take academic papers about gender eq very carefully. There's a lot of money in gender eq and where's money research follows...
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by vilda 14y ago
Not sure how's that in US, but posting someone's picture publicly is in many European countries illegal.
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by vilda 14y ago
"Private" does not mean "noone can hear us". Private is more about the limited "address" of your conversation.
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by vilda 14y ago
Throwaway one-day account?

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