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Why care about anything?

This article explains the solution in much more detail, including how the instructions for what to do were given in an obscure way in the book: https://dreamsofgerontius.com/2016/1…

I'm afraid that is also not correct. Dunning-Kruger is defined as people with low ability in a domain overestimating their own ability in that domain – it does not require someone …

See the German TV show Dark for in interesting take on what could happen if they somehow became cyclic.

It's definitely a dilemma. I guess the sweet spot would be security systems that are well understood in house but built on existing, well understood and studied standards and theor…

That sounds like it would be a big win for law enforcement. If you can force your opponent to avoid some modern ways to communicate, you can put a big dent in their efficiency. It'…

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I assume wereHamster is referring to the value of the constant being changed, rather than the name.

One doesn't need to be an expert in a particular field to identify a weak argument. For example, the author of the memo presents some citations to back up the idea that there are b…

I've been using graphql recently and I have found it very productive. Providing a lot of flexibility to the client when querying the server eliminates a lot of server side work tha…

If I want to get all levels of an arbitrarily nested tree, I just query for all of the objects that are in the tree in a flat array and then reconstruct the tree on the client side…

I'm not sure I would describe the sources as 'from here to the moon' On reading many of the sources, it was apparent that they did not provide particularly solid evidence to back u…

That's what leads me to being reasonably sure the hypothesis is valid. As a scientist, though, I'm always going to wonder whether there is a way to subject it to a proper test rath…

I wouldn't take that bet either as I agree that is a very unlikely thing to happen. Note, though, that you are using the specific word 'algorithm', where as I am talking about 'met…

I am aware of the usual (and strong in my opinion) argument. Every time this discussion does the rounds, though, I do wonder whether the hypothesis could be tested. Most vulnerabil…

If you're telling me I can't develop and deploy my own rockets for fun (providing I don't cause risk to others) then yes, that is thought policing. (btw, I do develop and deploy my…

You find it fantastically unrealistic that a vulnerability could be found for a well known and widely used encryption method?

Game companies are also a great example of a situation where a large group of people with time on their hands (teenagers still in high school) are motivated to look for vulnerabili…

Have any studies been done on relative security of crypto algorithms that are either: a) Well known, well studied but also attractive targets for attackers to study b) Unknown (asi…

If a vulnerability is found for the outer encryption method, additional encryption of the inner message by a different method may provide some defence. If that is the goal, though,…

Following the earlier discussion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901566 ) about the malicious crossenv package, I've knocked together a quick tool that might help to spot …

I've knocked together a quick tool that might help to spot such typosquatting: https://www.npmjs.com/package/check-typosquatters (It's the first time I've published anything to npm…

I assume you want to represent all of the relationships on the tree in any case, so I think minimising the number of required parent-child lines would actually make representing mo…

I really like the overall approach - definitely a nice friendly way to edit a tree. The standard way for family trees to link children with parents is through the relationship of t…