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by yk 12y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5025211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4616704
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by yk 12y ago
How is this supposed to work? Does this create a temporary FB profile, and you can then log in via FB's OAuth?
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by yk 12y ago
The radius of the observable universe is the distance the furthest stars we could theoretically observe today.[0] So these stars were a lot closer earlier and we can see the light even though the stars are further away than the age of the u
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by yk 12y ago
"Silver plated plugs" Can someone remind me of the electric properties of Silveroxide? ( Or do I need to hire someone who polishes the plugs before each track?)
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by yk 12y ago
Ok, deeplinks work :) Just a quick PSA for Germans, since today wired.com redirects to wired.de [1] ( which as far as I can tell is just a crappy me-too journal with a Wired license, not a translation) and at least with noScript one gets o
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by yk 12y ago
Well, assume that time loops back onto itself. Then the electron goes forward most of the time and you see multiple copies. ( This is of course ridiculous, everybody knows that all electrons are just pointers to one const particle structu
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by yk 12y ago
Obviously not, there is not e that could be replaced with a 3.
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by yk 12y ago
Well of course this is possible. You can port a bug compatible version of a program to any other language. That is called Turing complete ( and may involve writing a x64 emulator in VB Script). /snark A bit more serious, I wonder which
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by yk 12y ago
So what I figured out so far: This is a quite nasty bug that may or may not affect everything that links against glibc (or eglibc). However the bug was fixed in glibc 2.18 and the advisory [1] includes a test program at the start of section
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by yk 12y ago
Most importantly, it contains a test program at the beginning of section 4.
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by yk 12y ago
My claim is not that C is just as safe as Scala, my claim is that the comparison is only valid if you do not think too hard about it. If you implicitly assume some web app, not too experienced programmers and a typical budget, then Scala is
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by yk 12y ago
Calling any Turing complete language "more secure" is probably nonsense. It is possible to write secure applications in C, and it is possible to directly pipe attacker controlled input to a shell in Haskell.
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by yk 12y ago
They can ( or more precisely into positron electron pairs), but only at much higher energies ( so for example gamma rays). Most likely here some effect, for example photo-electric effect, where you can reconstruct the original photon from t
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by yk 12y ago
As far as I understand the attack, the attacker brute forces his own DH secret, not the DH parameters. So attacker has the parameters for both connections, gets the public keys from both chat partners and then brute forces two secrets such
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by yk 12y ago
Well, Marx distinguishes between price and value. He then argues that price is a feature of the capitalist system, with the consequence that you can only build a theory of capitalism on price dynamics, not a more general theory that would b
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by yk 12y ago
This is not a attack on DH, it is a attack on the verification mechanism. So the trick is, the attacker does not need to break DH, he just needs to find two sufficiently similar DH parameters, that the verification still works.
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by yk 12y ago
You really should not ask Hamburg for some pointers on building such projects. ( The new concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, was estimated to cost about 250 M euros entirely financed by donations. The current estimate is, that the city will
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by yk 12y ago
The UEFI talk [1] and EFI bootkits for Apple MacBooks [2] are both really interesting. ( Both are about flashing firmware. ) And for a rather impressive demonstration how fucked the western IP law is, bunnie's and Xobs talk about the
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by yk 12y ago
My problem with the article is, it never explains the difference between "processing" information and "having" information. And I think that the entire argument hangs on this distinction. The author essentially claims, t
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by yk 12y ago
To the extend that AES is a good random number generator, only if you have a complete dictionary of all blocks. Simply because a random number generator should produce independent output even if you only have a small perturbation in the inp
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by yk 12y ago
Funny thing, I agree that Accelerando is his least good book, but still it is the book that should be on such a list. It is just a lot more influential than Halting State or the Laundry series.
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by yk 12y ago
Well, I am afraid that we are discussing semantics. The functions performed by the software, like facial recognition, are classical AI problems. Granted the software is certainly not any kind of general intelligence, and probably not even c
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by yk 12y ago
To generate this effect a program has to identify, that the photos are almost identical, that there are smiling people in them and then find a way to stitch the two photos together. I think that qualifies as AI.
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by yk 12y ago
So the problem is, how to get a cloud in the middle while keeping the green lock in the browser? Just yesterday I read Douglas Adam's phrase "technologies biggest success over itself."
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by yk 12y ago
You may be able to find a specific definition of genocide, which makes that statement true. But in a very narrow definition of genocide as targeted extermination policy, as well as in a very broad definition, where a large part of the peopl
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by yk 12y ago
Hindenburg was certainly not a socialist. He was a conservative nationalist, for 1920th values of conservative. That is, he wanted to reestablish monarchy and had the interests of the Prussian Junkers at his heart. In addition he got his jo
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by yk 12y ago
Does not matter, you will pick the wrong one. Thing is you will always regret not coding in X because of feature Y, when you actually have a project. On the other hand, you will not notice all the times that features A, B and C of your lang
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by yk 12y ago
You should either use TAB-completion or click on the file. There should be no reason to type the extension. ( Though in practice I sort of see your point. )
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by yk 12y ago
Call it "The Lovecraft experience: Beyond space time" and charge $10 per visit.
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by yk 12y ago
It's a typo.

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