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by ndl 9y ago
Also interesting: if you look at the acknowledgements of Hauptmann's paper (at the end, just before references), he says, "I would like to thank Norbert Blum for carefully reading preliminary versions of the paper, for helpful rem
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by ndl 11y ago
Having worked worked in both quantum information and biology, I have a few things to say about this article... 1) The 1st paragraph really annoys me. Quantum computers don't solve NP Complete problems by trying every solution. This is
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by ndl 14y ago
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by ndl 14y ago
I recently had some ideas about how to use the concept of locality-sensitive hashes with thread/worker pools that share locking resources. Basically, it's useful when want things which are going to take write locks on the same resources to
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by ndl 15y ago
Hopefully, the hashes are physically secure and accessed in a way that would require a great deal of human effort to steal. If that is the case, then yes, you can control the login process. The technique in the article is relevant when one
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Linux patent suit ruled against Google(news.cnet.com)
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by ndl 15y ago
These terse responses are always open to misinterpretation, especially by non-technical users who may not fully understand open source. That's the problem. "We have a backlog, but you're welcome to contribute to speed things up," or "I do
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by ndl 15y ago
For paying a bounty, yes, assuming it can be arranged in a timely fashion. For the latter, probably not. Assuming that for whatever reason I cannot write the patch myself, I do not have the time to start a new organization every time I enc
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by ndl 15y ago
"Unfortunately, I don't have time to learn this system and work my way through your review process. I think I'll have to buy [insert (possibly proprietary) alternative] for now. Best of luck with the project." For the record, I have writt
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by ndl 15y ago
Compounding this problem, conventional security wisdom is that you should never acknowledge unsolicited email, because the spammer might be using a fake unsubscribe link to confirm your email address is real. So a system that requires manu
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by ndl 16y ago
I have Firefox "3.6.16pre," through Ubuntu. When I try to access the app, it tells me that my browser isn't supported and sends me to mozilla.com to download... Firefox 3.6.15 Version check bug?
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by ndl 16y ago
You should still check this carefully. It would suck to find out after you have started making money that you're about to get slammed with litigation.
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by ndl 16y ago
You can build stuff. In this economic climate, that gives you an advantage in cofounder negotations, as there's a huge supply of unattached business people floating around. I've been in a vaguely similar position. Don't freak out, and don
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by ndl 16y ago
From my time as a volunteer high school tech support helper, I remember the first year that Dell shipped us laptops without the external floppy drives. This was annoying to many of the old-timers who had established techniques around booti
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by ndl 16y ago
With the huge amount of publicity and increased likelihood that more older entrepreneurs will apply, the probability of acceptance for some teams may decrease so much as to reduce the average return on investment. $150k seriously opens the
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by ndl 16y ago
I've never sold a company, but I've dealt with a couple of pretty questionable cofounding/employment contracts lately, and making a deal seem "very much like a standard-fair offer" seems to be an old trick. I had someone tell me they'd bee
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by ndl 16y ago
I applied for internships at both companies. Google actually mentioned in their rejection email that I should feel free to ask questions - so I did. No answer. With Facebook, I at least had a phone interview and could run post-mortem on w
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by ndl 16y ago
I'm still not sure why I upvoted this. I think because it was surprising - high entropy. I'm not sure if I consider this "right," but you have definitely made waves.
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by ndl 16y ago
My first hypothesis is that it's a question of comparative opportunity cost, rather than absolute cost. When a company gets very large, it usually struggles to keep innovating under inertia. Trying to build in completely new directions bec
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by ndl 16y ago
What surprises me (and makes me most skeptical) is that they can remember days by date. Did these people actually know what the date was every year of their lives? This implies to me that it is not just a camcorder-like memory that these
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by ndl 16y ago
This is an attitude that some recruiting startups like us all to believe, but even as a naive and inexperienced 22 year old, I think it's dangerous. I've had a startup implode, and it's nasty in ways one never expects - joining a startup i
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by ndl 16y ago
1) Many of the students probably received the test from their peers and did not know that it had come from a private test bank. I seriously doubt 200 people independently and individually broke into the same test bank, unless it was actual
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by ndl 16y ago
Some other threads (and news articles) mention a video clip in which the professor claims he will write the test himself. By doing so, this professor implicitly declared the test bank (and everything else on the Internet) fair game for stu
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by ndl 16y ago
I'm a huge fan of Scheme. Not so much because of the language itself as for its ubiquity. You can find a Scheme interpreter for almost any platform, and for those that don't have one yet, it's actually tractable to implement an interprete
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by ndl 16y ago
Adding seemingly trivial things to code can sometimes throw off performance entirely, by disaligning cache tables and such. It's not always cheating. That said, if this is a pure bug, it seems pretty pathetic. For one, it proves that the
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by ndl 16y ago
"If my apology to Monica seemed shallow it was because I was angry about the harm she has inflicted on others on behalf of her own agenda." This is neither an a letter of apology nor an admission of wrongdoing, it's a statement of blame. "T
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by ndl 16y ago
I have a few things to add to this. Know something I don't. Plenty of people seem to operate under a false dichotomy between code and business, where "not programming" gets treated as a business skill. I consider myself a hybrid hacker/b
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by ndl 16y ago
Desktop - Unknown ABS model. AMD Phenom 9500 quad-core, 2.0GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 3850, crummy old IDE HD. I found this computer half destroyed at a junk sale and spent a few hours and about $50 refurbishing it to usable condition. Wouldn
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by ndl 16y ago
Hmm, where shall I begin? I turned down an offer of admission from MIT. Granted, I had my reasons, and had I accepted, there's an inappropriately high probability I would've had to discontinue halfway through. I guess what I really regret
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by ndl 16y ago
Couldn't he have just rigged the algorithms to put this post at the top? That would be the backdoor equivalent of the "sticky" post. It would actually be more interesting to me if pg had some quantitative way of knowing that this post woul

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