Single-block collision for MD5: Two different files, each only 64 bytes in length, have exactly the same MD5 signature (008ee33a9d58b51cfeb425b0959121c9)

mepper · 6 days

MD5 is 128 bits, that's 16 bytes

fmaasnt · 6 days

A vegetable is a plant or part of a plant used as food. Claiming a tomato is fruit, so it isn't a vegetable is like saying a square isn't a rectangle. All fruits are vegetables, many vegetables are not fruits.

quikjl · 8 days

Not quite a contrary argument. The question is not "does spending influence election outcomes?", it's "does the perceived need for spending influence political behaviour?".

quikjl · 8 days

Here's Levitt's paper. I'd love to hear comment from someone more skilled at this sort of analysis than I.

The conclusion that campaign spending has a very small impact on election outcomes may be true without fully countering the argument that campaign spending undemocratically distorts politics. The overwhelmingly widespread belief that campaign spending is critical to winning elections motivates elected officials and candidates to cater to the concerns of their donors over those of their constituents regardless of the efficacy or necessity of those funds.

hongminhee · 8 days

You need a better editor. Indent/Unindent should be actions distinct from insert/delete character.

sin666 · 9 days

Typically a package named <lang>-dev includes header files and tools required to build extensions for the language runtime, but which aren't required or supplied by the core language package or standard modules/libraries.

You can see a package's declared dependencies with apt-cache show. Looking at python-pip, you'll notice the above apt-get redundantly named python-setuptools, but did need to be explicit to get python-dev:

$ apt-cache show python-pip | grep Depends
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python-support (>= 0.90.0), python-pkg-resources, python-setuptools (>= 0.6c1)
$ apt-cache show python python-support python-pkg-resources python-setuptools | grep Depends
Depends: python2.7 (>= 2.7.1-1~), python-minimal (= 2.7.1-0ubuntu5)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.8)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), python (<< 2.8), python-pkg-resources (= 0.6.15-1ubuntu1)
Depends: python (>= 2.5), dpkg (>= 1.14.19)

slaterhearst · 1 month

TIL Iran's population of 75 million includes about 20,000 Jews, the largest community in the Middle East outside Israel, and they face no restriction on their religious practice, though they must follow Islamic dress codes such as head scarves for women. They have one Jewish representative in the parliament under the constitution.

fap_on_it · 1 month

GoDaddy's revenues are in the $700-800M range, not multi-billions. Any business is hurt when a significant number of their customers leave.

EquanimousMind · 1 month

We need to be calling and writing our media reporters, not filling out do-nothing petitions that get ignored anyway.

FIFY

thetorpedodog · 2 months

He started out as a corp and securities lawyer for WSGR. He was an exec at $100M failure RealNames, and cofounder at Achex. He was not a VC until after TechCrunch.

B0TTiG · 2 months

I did not miss what you said. It obfuscates the real thing you are trying to describe. There is no need to behave as if karma is real, because it is not. Behave as if acting well to your fellow beings promotes your personal and communal wellbeing and you will discover that such behavior and belief is supported by fact and experience.

heybigpancakes · 2 months

Such sophisticated repartee! I am in awe of your command of the English language. Your bon mot is quite resonant -- truly the epitome of a biting rejoinder. This indisputable argument has left me crushed and humbled.

B0TTiG · 2 months

Karma is a concept from Hinduism and has nothing to do with payback in this life. The goodwill you receive and/or foster for acts of kindness and goodwill in this life is the real social force, not the superstitious nonsense of karma.

B0TTiG · 2 months

People are welcome to have their beliefs while I retain the right to mock them when their beliefs are superstitious nonsense.

B0TTiG · 2 months

Regard polite correct PM, rectify situation, acquire real life goodwill for being a good person and correcting the situation.

FIFY. In real life, "karma" is superstitious nonsense.

mardix · 3 months

So, when you think of not-ACID, do you expect (!A & !C & !I & !D), or !(A & C & I & D) ? "NoSQL" data stores will typically relax one or two of those attributes but not throw the whole thing out. Durability is probably the worst thing to relax if you want to store anything someone might care about.

heybigpancakes · 3 months

false arrogance

Nope. In science and technology there are actual correct answers. Bullshit doesn't cut it. If we require that you actually demonstrate the ability to comprehend and work with the fundamental concepts in the field, then you get to to keep working on mastering the field. If you fail to grok the fundamentals, then it's a poor allocation of resources to have you filling a spot that someone competent and interested would like.

Every degree should have weeder classes. Fail early so you can redirect and pursue something more fit for your interests and abilities.

Orangutan · 3 months

not forgetting that black soldiers made up the bulk of the US infantry in Vietnam

The Vietnam War saw the highest proportion of blacks ever to serve in an American war. During the height of the U.S. involvement, 1965-69, blacks, who formed 11 percent of the American population, made up 12.6 percent of the soldiers in Vietnam. The majority of these were in the infantry, and although authorities differ on the figures, the percentage of black combat fatalities in that period was a staggering 14.9 percent, a proportion that subsequently declined.

amsellie · 3 months

The criminal legal system has already wiped its hands of this case with a $42 fine. The civil suit which the family should be pursuing will have different standards. It would be entirely appropriate for them to enter studies as mentioned above as evidence supporting the reckless culpability of the driver in wrongfully causing the death of their loved one, regardless of handsfree or not, and they should have the power to subpoena the call records in discovery.

Given the scientific evidence of the effect on driving aptitude, the law should be changed to make it illegal to conduct a phone call while operating a vehicle, with penalties equivalent to current DWI laws for alcohol.

amsellie · 3 months

he could have been using a hands free headset or blue tooth connection.

Which wouldn't have helped: "Driving while using a handsfree cellular device is not safer than using a hand held cell phone, as concluded by case-crossover studies. epidemiological, simulation, and meta-analysis. The increased "cognitive workload" involved in holding a conversation, not the use of hands, causes the increased risk"

funny_falcon · 4 months

Why isn't loaded_features a constant time lookup data structure, like, oh, I don't know... a hash table?

Make the thing a Set and it will be fast and still respond to all the methods the old Array did. Does anything care about the order of loaded_features? Should it?

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