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eddington

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    Comment #10011096

    They "fixed" it. Well, there's still another. https://hulbee.com/?query=%3C%2Fscript%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dsdf%... It runs on Chrome and bypasses the filter. Edit: for context, the pare…

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    Comment #6261674

    There appears to be a bug. Here is the state I reached (notice that "white" now has two bishops of the same color). a b c d e f g h 8 ♖ ♘ ♗ ♕ ♔ ♘ ♖ 7 ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♙ ♗ 6 5 ♙ 4 ♝ ♟ ♟ 3 ♙ …

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    Comment #4906370

    Complete solution to today's problem in one line of python def gen(univ, n=5): return univ if n == 1 else [x+y for y in gen(univ,n-1) for x in univ if all([(x+y)[start:start+upto] …

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    Comment #4900582

    Please leave those elsewhere.

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    Comment #4850819

    One of the authors of that book taught a class earlier this year at Berkeley. If you learn best listening, the lectures might help. I found them a bit easy, but a nice overview of …

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    Comment #4121018

    It's worth noting that not every bug is a security-critical bug. Similarly, not every crash is a security-critical crash. Sometimes you can exploit a bug to give you something, som…

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    Comment #3985849

    I don't know why you're saying it isn't NP-complete. For an arbitrary set of coins, it's definitely NP-complete. You could easily reduce 0-1 ILP to it, or subset-sum. If you don't …

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    Comment #3930910

    You're correct, but the article makes exactly the same point as you. There's no reason to correct it.

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    Comment #3913163

    Why is this comment being downvoted? It's not aggressive, rude or otherwise mean. It's also not factually incorrect (because it's talking about a possible future). I agree that I d…

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    Comment #3738631

    You might want to fix this in case you ever decide to add a way to log on: http://scrib.in/m27dy7 (I added the text and went to view it.)

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    Comment #3663397

    It actually looks like the vulnerability is on Rails itself, which Github is built on...

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    Comment #3241648

    Previously, 2 points... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3207255

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    Comment #3241579

    It should be noted Solitaire is not secure for long messages. http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/

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    Comment #3213084

    Still doesn't work going end to start. src starts at 50, ends at 100 dst starts at 25, ends at 75. First we copy 100 to 75, then 99 to 74, etc ... now we get to copy from 75 to 50,…

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    Comment #2757864

    If you were to try to say "my friend's house" in lots of languages you have to use a gender-specific word. In spanish, for example La casa de mi amigo / La casa de mi amiga. If you…