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Number Theorists use a different definition of "almost all" from the one you see in measure theory. They use the limit version shown in the video.

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13년 전discuss

A society with a massive surveillance dragnet that everyone has access to is not necessarily totally transparent.

Public access to the dragnet data would make it easier to evade the dragnet.

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13년 전discuss

Bitcoin is also unusual for a collectible in how much it can be subdivided.

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13년 전discuss

If we want the captcha to be accessible outside the target demographic, we should scrap the whole chess thing as well.

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14년 전discuss

It bothers me that in some months, the 27th is 3 days from the end of the month, but in some months, the 27th is 4 days from the end. Could this mess up the graph?

The 27th appears in every month, but the time remaining to meet your (possible) quota would be different for different months.

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14년 전discuss

If there really is a smaller barrier to developing for Ouya than other consoles, there will be Ouya exclusives.

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14년 전discuss

In the US, judges rewrite the law with every ruling. Since the precedent established by a case is used in future decisions, the "real" law (the one which your actions will be compared against in court) is the base law passed in congress plus all of the precedent that has been piled on top of it.

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15년 전discuss

It seems like most of the commenters here are treating the evidence of Google's wrongdoing as conclusive. It isn't. A comment on the post by Richard Wooding demonstrated how Joe Random can make requests from a Google IP address:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sclient=psy-ab&...

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15년 전discuss

By rescaling the numbers, the two questions can be turned into:

- "Would you pay $900 for a 90% chance to win $1000?"

- "Would you pay $100 for a 10% chance to win $1000?"

So the distribution of results really is different. It's not just a phrasing trick. I would still say no to the first and yes to the second. I like positive outliers more than negative ones. This doesn't seem irrational to me.

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15년 전discuss

Every monad solves exactly this problem.

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15년 전discuss

Between refreshes, the number of signatures needed jumped from 3 to 16. I wonder what happened.

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15년 전discuss

This power is reserved for those secure enough against legal backlash to perjure themselves. Just like DMCA takedown notices.

Copyright holders with lots of resources can issue as many bogus DMCA notices as they like, safe in the knowledge that they can fight out or settle the (unlikely) lawsuit if it comes. Most people issuing fake takedown requests would expose themselves to a lot more risk.

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15년 전discuss

This was written as a series of blog posts before being compiled into a book. The original is here:

http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/02/24/fine-wine/

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15년 전discuss

At least two differences between software and music:

- no malware

- possible online updates or other interactions

As long as these differences persist, your distribution method can easily add more value than the pirate copy.

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15년 전discuss

No more than keeping your encryption keys a secret is security through obscurity.

Even if you're transparent about your overall scheme, you need to keep some execution details hidden.

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15년 전discuss

When picking a password, you don't just care about the entropy. You also care how far down the password guessing order it is.

People who want to guess a password don't just brute force at random. They use a guessing order that goes through more common classes of password first. So if correct horse battery staple becomes a popular password scheme, these will end up attacked before other password schemes. (See http://www.schneier.com/essay-148.html)

Unless you're going to use a password safe full of nasty passwords, you should pick your passwords using an unpopular method.

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15년 전discuss

Finding the convex hull of a collection of points is a studied problem, so you can use an existing solution:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex_hull_algorithms

Alternatively, willvarfar's approach is faster for large n, but the polygon won't be as pretty.

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15년 전discuss

To implement a usable if, you need to tie it to some form of logical branching. Haskell can tie it to pattern matches. C compiles them to conditional jumps in asm. The asm jump instructions are implemented in hardware. The meat of the if definition lies in how you tie it to whatever form of conditional behavior your language has. This is missing from the article.

Smalltalk (presumably) has a form of logical branching in it somewhere. To finish the if, just pick one.

For a satisfying conclusion, you want to use one that doesn't already look like an if statement.

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15년 전discuss

  equals: other
  ^ PTrue new

The implementation of ifTrue isn't done. The branching was just deferred to the equals function, which has to somehow choose between PTrue and PFalse.

Will it take advantage of the ifTrue function you're building? Will it resort to some nasty arithmetic? Will it call some baked-in feature of smalltalk? Without an answer here, the "implementation" of if is just an illusion.

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