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   by y7 8y ago

   While there is usually some notation that is implicit, and where the meaning depends on the particular field, most papers should explicitly define their notation. Are you sure it's a problem of notation, and not just that you're n
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   by y7 8y ago

   What does Shamir's (or any) secret-sharing scheme have to do with the fundamental theorem of algebra?
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   by y7 8y ago

   You're welcome! It also works in Thunderbird, if you're using that.
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   by y7 8y ago

   While it's not as conveninent as desktop-wide fractional scaling, note that in particular Firefox has already had HiDPI support via the layout.css.devPixelsPerPx config variable, which you can set through about:config.
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   by y7 8y ago

   Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370446
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   by y7 8y ago

   Python has a convention for "private" functions, which is to prepend "_" to the name. > It's hard to make a strong case just in words, but once you really understand the power of the fat arrow syntax for anonymou
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   by y7 8y ago

   I also have this problem, and it's a reason not to use Firefox for me. Maybe you only have 4.7% of users on MacOS precisely because of problems like these?
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   by y7 8y ago

   Interesting, I just queried the WHOIS records of a .im domain which used to display my personal information, but now it displays: This information has been redacted to comply with European Union General Data Protection Reg
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   by y7 8y ago

   Not a complete answer to your question, but at least if you hold the copyright to the source code (including all modifications), you're of course free to re-license it.
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    by y7 9y ago

    Basically, every good scientific math publication does just that (on the level of the Trachtenberg system). What makes the Langlands program stand out is that it connects entire branches of mathematics previously thought to be unconnected
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    by y7 9y ago

    If you're using it mostly for development work, can't you register as a single-person business and deduct the VAT?
12. 192.▲
    by y7 9y ago

    How is this related?
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    by y7 9y ago

    That there is one instance of two photographers choosing the same "best photo" does not show anything general. And even if there were some universal consensus for "best photos", whether machines can do it is an entirely
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    by y7 9y ago

    The author mentions the substitution !:1-$ to insert all the arguments from the last command (like !$ substitutes the last argument and !! the full command). Note that !* does exactly the same thing, which is a bit easier to type/remem
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    by y7 9y ago

    More haughty than snarky. If you'd said "I wrote on here before, that I had a feeling this was going to happen because [summary of your main point]. See [link]" then you'd probably have upvotes.
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    by y7 9y ago

    > when it's clear there is [...] danger Shouldn't they at least verify for themselves whether there is actual danger?
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    by y7 9y ago

    He is not just a mechanic operating on inanimate objects, his "handiwork" was the insides of a person . Letting vanity get to your head and signing your initials inside of them is a gross violation of the autonomy of that person
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    by y7 9y ago

    You can use Git for things other than open source software development.
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    by y7 9y ago

    I don't know. The introduction of Python 3 caused massive headaches and fractured communities, but the alternative of dealing with unattractive warts in a language until eternity is also not very attractive. I quite like Python 3, and
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    by y7 9y ago

    One problem with this type of "trial by media" is that the bar for convicting someone is set quite arbitrarily, and is influenced more by rhetoric and media attention than hearing of all parties involved and carefully weighing evi
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    by y7 9y ago

    I agree with your main point, but would like to add that apt does have additional signature verification with gpg, so it's a bit more secure than just https (e.g. anyone with access to a trusted CA and your network can mount an active
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    by y7 9y ago

    I think the "self-service" passport gates in the EU already do this.
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    by y7 9y ago

    According to a Reddit user [1] they sent the following email to all device owners: --- Dear [...], This is an important update regarding your Harmony Link. On March 16, 2018, Logitech will discontinue service and support for Harmony Link. Y
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    by y7 9y ago

    This will also be very useful for censorship and trolling, tagging images as your nudes to prevent them from getting shared or having others get banned. That might be why the images are transmitted to Facebook first, to check whether it&#x2
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    by y7 9y ago

    I found the blog post [1] by Dan Bernstein and Tanja Lange to be an interesting read, since it is written from the perspective of someone in the process of trying to reverse engineer the vulnerability, rather than the Nemec et al. [2] paper
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    by y7 9y ago

    I don't know PlantUML or dot very well, but it seems to me neither of them are visual editors? Also, tikz diagrams are used a lot in mathematics writing and presentations, which seems to be a very different use case.
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    by y7 9y ago

    This is awesome! Creating tikz diagrams by hand is a pain.
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    by y7 9y ago

    HN thread on the linked blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15496745
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    by y7 9y ago

    Note the full tweet (that comes without any further info, so is this even worth discussing right now?) says: > A 2nd major crypto vulnerability being disclosed Monday involves millions of 1024- and 2048-bit RSA keys that are practically
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    by y7 9y ago

    WhatsApp enables everyone to communicate in secret, including the >99% of people who are not criminals. This is an equally valid way to frame the debate.