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by wfn 13y ago
This is kind of hardcore, pity there was no discussion about it here. r/netsec: http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1eqh66/0day_windows_...
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What's wrong with Mochizuki's 'proof' of the ABC conjecture?(m-phi.blogspot.com)
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by wfn 13y ago
I think it's also notable that HN is written in Arc, a Lisp dialect of pg's own devising. [1] All those "?fnid"s in the URL are pointers to functions.. Some sample code (HN might have morphed quite a bit from it - no idea) linked to in one
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by wfn 13y ago
The slang is very common in crypto* newsgroups of these sorts, I didn't find anything unusual or un-parseable in the message.
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by wfn 13y ago
I've stumbled upon Brian's website before and have enjoyed many a writeup, including this one. I recall particularly enjoying `A Monovocalic Sonnet on Dante's "Inferno"` ( http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/infirni.html ) - the essence
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Erlang factory layered architecture - slides ('Robustness and efficiency')(slideshare.net)
3 points by wfn 13y ago|0 comments
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by wfn 13y ago
The essence is here - pasting the (whole) source code: /* file: minunit.h */ #define mu_assert(message, test) do { if (!(test)) return message; } while (0) #define mu_run_test(test) do { char *message = test(); tests_run++; \
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MinUnit - a minimal unit testing framework for C(jera.com)
4 points by wfn 13y ago|1 comments
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by wfn 13y ago
> Personally, I don’t think they [Bitcoin, Tor] can be effectively banned at this point. Iran and China, for example, are actively trying and failing. That is, unfortunately, not quite true in regards to Tor. Iran has on multi
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by wfn 13y ago
While I see the gist of what you are saying, and the rumour / credibility thing is realistically always an issue in such cases AFAIK, I do not think it is true that "Free speech only exists with attribution [...] you advance nothing in an e
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by wfn 13y ago
> Your concerns seems to be with the right of free speech, which is valid, but has nothing to do with being anonymous. Oh but it does! See, if I were to reside in Syria and to simply post antigovernmental sentiments online, I very well
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by wfn 13y ago
And the man pages. [...] This first thing I had to do was learn to NOT google for how to accomplish something, but just read the man page. I'm only learning, but I've had a very similar experience setting up and hardening a FreeBSD
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by wfn 13y ago
Say you live in Syria and one of these days wake up to find the other side of the street where you live completely smashed down by shelling. Oh, there's been a civil war going on (or so the media calls it; "public uprising" maybe?) for some
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by wfn 13y ago
As a matter of fact :) : for me, it would actually be more easy to ping one of the local miners in my online contacts (I've traded coins before via localbitcoins), meet with them, hand them the cash, get the coins to a bitcoin wallet, and s
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by wfn 13y ago
"Web-based [...] using Unity3D " If you didn't have a Flash player and the game was made in Flash (surely that would meet one's expectations for a "web-based game", or at least until very recently) and you didn't have a Flash plugin, would
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by wfn 13y ago
As I take it, it's not really possible yet. In any case, we're talking about 'multi-signature transactions' [0]: A multi-signature transaction is one where a certain number of Bitcoins are "encumbered" with more than one recipient add
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by wfn 13y ago
As Radim noted, there might be better approaches to using SVMs. One example may be Restricted Boltzmann Machines (see Hinton's google tech talk [0]). Some folks have tried using them to detect spam (or at least using RBMs as a part in anoth
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by wfn 14y ago
For what it's worth, the protocol is/was not 'bulletproof' [1]. As far as I understand the basic architecture of the protocol, none of the crypto parts used are to be considered 'novel' (public/private keys+signature schemes & hashes) -
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by wfn 14y ago
Another finely written newspaper article about indie game development / mindsets involved, titled "Where Do Dwarf-Eating Carp Come From? / The Brilliance of Dwarf Fortress", centering around the two brothers, mainly focusing on Tarn Adams:
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by wfn 14y ago
If the application in question is using WSGI to serve the content, I would e.g. advise to use nginx's built-in uwsgi protocol support (here 'uwsgi' denoting protocol and not the popular application server uWSGI itself) for performance rea
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by wfn 14y ago
> No I didn't change the password. Instead I rebuilt the machine from the base OS image. Probably not strictly related (it would seem the attack in question was via a compromised (on whoever's end) ssh password), but in any case good pr
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by wfn 14y ago
FWIW I think one is helping the Tor network even if they decide to only run an internal Tor node (not an exit). I believe Tor hidden services might become more popular in the months to come, and a lot of resources that the users were initia
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by wfn 14y ago
That's a very good lecture by the way, basically explaining RBMs in more detail, and showcasing some interesting applications of deep unsupervised learning.
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by wfn 14y ago
Just as I thought, the Kimsufi line is really popular (at least for these kinds of things)! :)
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by wfn 14y ago
Perhaps simply multiple network interfaces / assigned IP addresses - all could actually reside in the same physical machine. (That's probably not good practice Tor-wise, of course - the nodes should be as dispersed as possible..) edit now
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by wfn 14y ago
On that note, Alan Turing's SEP entry is also worth a mention: it's a nice intro to his profoundly influential (CS + cognitive sciences + philosophy of mind) ideas as well as a (very interesting) short bio on him. http://plato.stanford.edu
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by wfn 14y ago
I do actually think there's some merit to the idea of just "plunging in" - going ahead and attempting to read it! Sure, it will be a wtf experience in the beginning, but if you persist for a few hours, you'll start to build up a conceptual
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by wfn 14y ago
(If anyone's curious to take a glance at (a nicely formatted version of) Wittgenstein's Tractatus, a "side-by-side edition" (three columns: original German and two English translations), here's a very nice source for PDFs of various sizes (
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by wfn 14y ago
Not really: the parrot must have an internal representation of 'color' as something (a concept / quality) that can be had and shared between things. It (hm, s/he) must therefore understand that it is (it must represent it as) an abstrac
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by wfn 14y ago
I referred to this NGM article in another sub-parent comment here, but I think it contains very relevant on-topic animal intelligence language-related insights, so posting a link and a couple of short excerpts from it here: Under Pepper

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