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Re:Quaise Energy – Unlocking the true power of clean geothermal energy
on Saturday April 09, 2022 @07:53PM (#30973262)
I cannot vouch for the quality of this model, but I remembered I had bookmarked this tweet, having wondered the same:
https://twitter.com/anderssandberg/status/145528744318439424...
Re:“We are considering adding an extension to restrict the use of WebRTC”
on Tuesday July 28, 2015 @07:05AM (#9960629)
Exposing the LAN address is less of a concern than exposing the real IP address of people using a VPN or proxy for anonymity.
Re:eBay user data for sale?
on Thursday May 22, 2014 @11:39AM (#7784368)
I assume 12000 iterations by the looks of that $ delimited string, I assume they're storing the parameters as,
hash_func$iterations$salt$derived_key
Re:Security At Coinbase
on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:24PM (#6458951)
I like the sound of most of that, especially the two-factor authentication on all accounts. One thing wasn't clear to me,
"Wallets (and private keys) are stored using AES-256 encryption."
Are individual users wallets stored with a key derived from the users password? Or, rather, could you act, under coercion say, to transfer my funds without my password? (i.e. in a "bank robbery" situation)
Re:Show HN: Etherpad meets Markdown for a minimal company wiki
on Monday December 17, 2012 @01:38PM (#4933588)
Oh and we just added a link to an email signup in the text:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDdGcHE...
Re:Glasgow Haskell Compiler 7.2.1 released
on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @10:01AM (#2868207)
There is some pretty cool stuff in there for a point release. It's cool that monad comprehensions are back in, but I'm most excited about Safe Haskell, which should enable enable some new types of application (safely running untrusted code).
Re:Why Haskell is suited to IO
on Monday July 04, 2011 @01:51PM (#2727234)
An amusing analogy, sure, but I can't help be reminded of this xkcd http://xkcd.com/568/ - "you'll never find a programing language that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas". Haskell just makes that trade-off more 'up front'. Obviously it's not the right tool for every job mind, of course sometimes quick and dirty scripts win.
Re:Why Haskell is suited to IO
on Monday July 04, 2011 @12:50PM (#2727016)
Yes, the argument presented for point one is pretty weak, but I do agree with it. Having the lazy I/O, and especially lazy bytestring option is great IMO. Although Oleg style left-fold enumerators as used by warp are superior in many respects, typically as a user you don't need to interact at that level; iirc you don't in Yesod, which is built on warp. As an example of approachability LBS approach, checkout this two line "wc -l" implementation, which beats "wc -l" by 64x, apples and pears no doubt, but shows fast enough,(from http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg18878.htm...):
> import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as L
> main = L.getContents >>= print . L.count '\n'
edit: actually it beats "wc", and is roughly same speed as "wc -l".
Re:Ask HN: On H1B right now, can I be a co-founder?
on Saturday June 04, 2011 @08:12AM (#2619370)
That's right, but your co-founder(s) can sponsor you, and indeed you them. Provided that you could in theory be fired (a three person board for example) then you can be classed as an employee for the purposes of the H1-B.
Re:Haskell’s Niche: Hard Problems
on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:18PM (#2324551)
I don't really see why you'd need that. In those sorts of circumstances I'd either add the new version of the function with a new name, or rename the function and add an oldFunc = undefined line to keep the type checker happy.
Re:Rubinius Announces Plans for GIL Elimination, JIT Improvements, Tar...
on Thursday February 17, 2011 @07:38PM (#2233619)
pypy also supports stackless style microthreads:
http://codespeak.net/pypy/dist/pypy/doc/stackless.html
but, yes, system level threads are GIL based.
Re:Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall
on Thursday January 06, 2011 @02:55PM (#2076876)
There doesn't appear to be any evidence of that being the case. Rustock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rustock_botnet) appears to be responsible for the bulk of the drop in volume, but several others smaller botnets have fallen silent too. There haven't been any reports of it being used for anything other than spam and isolated ddos attacks (http://www.joestewart.org/rustock-ddos.html) in it's 4 year history. It is a bit of a mystery as to what is going on, but my bet would be it'll resume with a new approach or upgrade, rather than a complete re-purposing.
Re:The rise of the dead: How many ghosts are on Facebook?
on Thursday November 18, 2010 @04:15PM (#1919282)
Well, populations are typically modeled as a sigmoid function, they only appear to be growing exponentially. I think it's fair to assume total population will stabilise whilst we are still resource limited to Earth.
Re:The Two Generals' Problem (wikipedia)
on Friday June 25, 2010 @05:15PM (#1462193)
There is also the Paxos algorithm:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paxos_algorithm
(Bigtable uses 'Chubby' - google's implementation of Paxos)
Re:The Two Generals' Problem (wikipedia)
on Friday June 25, 2010 @05:11PM (#1462182)
Commius and Vercingetorix had this problem at Alesia; Caesar's troops enforced a network partition!
Re:How does one get off Haskell?
on Friday June 18, 2010 @05:36AM (#1441757)
http://icfpcontest.org/
although "functional programming" is in the name, any language can enter. lots of Haskell and other FP winners in there. Although in '08 a Java team won..