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Re:GNU hackers discover HACIENDA government surveillance on Thursday August 21, 2014 @01:46AM (#8206064)
Why would they need to use a botnet for a simple portscan?

Ask HN: How do I find a job in Switzerland?

Hey HN, I am wondering if anyone can give me some insight into finding a job in Switzerland as an english-speaking(States) developer. Is freelancing an option?I currently work as a web developer at a large media corp in NY and will be moving to Switzerland in the next month or two, but, any sort of tech-job-seeking advice would be appreciated. I actually have an undergraduate degree in...

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite TED Talk? on Sunday June 20, 2010 @09:43PM (#1447635)
There are a couple the deal with choice and happiness that I found very enlightening. Matthieu Ricard's may be one of them, and was already mentioned. There is at least one other and maybe more on that general subject though.
Re:Boy or Girl paradox on Thursday June 03, 2010 @11:35AM (#1401587)
I actually had an argument with my statistics professor about this...

The question she gave was basically this: 'The king has one sibling, what is the probability that it is a boy?'

I actually took an opposing view to her initially and then came back the next day saying that it is ambiguous and depends on what we assume about the king, but she wouldn't even agree with me on that.

Is this in San Francisco?
Re:George Carlin - Saving the Planet on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @01:31PM (#1298928)
George Carlin is a clear thinker and very funny, definitely one of my favorite comedians. I like heady comedy. He simplifies things though, and this is a good example. Humanity is causing geological-scale effects on the planet and we need to address that.

It's not as if the planet were being damaged already and we just came along and tried to stop it, we're the ones causing the damage. He's correct to say that '90%' of species that have existed have already gone extinct(actually, I believe it's much, much higher than that, I think 99.9%). However, if Bill Bryson is to be believed, the rate of extinction has risen dramatically due to humanity, I believe Bryson said that it is 5 times greater than what it would be sans-humanity. There are times in the earth's past where there has been a much higher rate of extinction for a short time, the most recent event like this took out the dinosaurs. I believe the first one occurred when the atmosphere was 'poisoned' with oxygen from the first plant-like bacteria. As thinking entities, it's our responsibility to not allow our effects on the planet to have such a catastrophic outcome.

Wow, you're both douchy and wrong. The article doesn't say anything about the techonology which I linked to. Did YOU "bother to read it"?

The article says that Newtonian physics does not allow any randomness, which is fairly obvious and has nothing to do with the hardware I'm asking about.

The article also discusses 'pseudo-random number generators', which, I'm assuming since this is HN, you know are purely software-based.

The Wikipedia page which I linked to, claims that currently used hardware uses 'thermal noise' and 'other quantum phenomena', which you might have realized "if you had bothered to read it".

If you don't mind now, I was really hoping to learn something about a technology which I am sincerely interested in.

Re:Unity game engine 3.0 will support Android, PS3 and IPad on Tuesday March 09, 2010 @04:58PM (#1179506)
I use SVN with unity pro... it's a bit of a pain but it works, you just have to ignore conflicts in .asset files.