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Sure. I hadn't come across this kind of explanation and didn't think of checking Wikipedia. I thought it was an original idea by the author.

Right, this simple model is vulnerable. They are actually having a conversation in the comments about this. I just liked the way of explaining it to laypeople. Leaving all mathematics behind, taking a…

I'm a big fan of long, definitive plain text documents. Peter Gutmann's X.509 styleguide is another prime example. So much valuable information without any mental capacity wasted on bullshit…

I think that's right, but in another way Wikipedia does keep the plebes out: When you defend a reverted change on the talk page all too often you get something along the lines "I don't …

This article is an incredible string of bullshit. While there are aspects that are interesting and would have deserved some deeper treatment than just a throwaway sentence or two, most of the "ar…

The text on hilapeleg.io is nearly unreadable on Windows 7 with Firefox 30. The font is rendered strange, way too thin and uneven with gaps in the strokes. The link color is just as washed out as the …

I suppose in the American context with high costs of attending law school it's not very attractive. But I'd like to argue for going to law school in other countries where you don't in…

No, the girlfriend and family say it was suicide.

The "main" development site for HTML5 is the WHATWG. That's where all the browser implementors convened when they lost faith in the W3C. The WHATWG doesn't bother with versions, th…

That's the big guessing game everyone is playing here: is our intelligence community really as clueless and incapable as we Germans tend to assume? Or is that just a masterful deceit?

We do have SIGINT capabilities. I did my compulsary military service in one of those installations. Although what I experienced there was... laughable.

Let's just say that the attitude of IEC 61508 towards software development in general and programming languages in particular is not very spirit-lifting. At least us software guys have an advanta…

I think passing around real objects instead of character strings is cool. It's less brittle, and you don't have to have an ad-hoc and flawed parser at every step.

Sure, you're the best in the world. Nobody else has any kind of Freedom of Information Act. And nobody else but freedom-loving Americans would ever dare to direct such a request towards his own i…

Thank you!

Since cooking and foodstuff seems to be right on topic here at HN, can someone give me a short overview what the differences (practically drinking) between Darjeeling and Assam are? Beside the obvious…

Cool. I've never heard of them, but they are just a few kilometers away from me.

I'm certain that Swedish law does not use the term "rape", but some Swedish word. That may or may not have a slightly different meaning, or different connotations.

I cannot recommend the film "The Lives of Others" too highly. Go watch it.

No, I meant having unreadable parts. Sorry, I'm thinking too much about flipping bits and soft errors at work...