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jscon Faster Space-Efficient Algorithms for Subset Sum, K-Sum and Related Problems

This is actually slower than previous art, but with proven complexity. Namely the algorithm in http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/474.pdf runs in time 2^0.72n and constant memory, but is heuristic only.

jscon Periodis Web – A Historical Atlas and Gazetteer of Europe from Year 1 to 2000

Frontiers of Europe from -500 to 2013.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id543207391

jscon An implementation of Fully Homomorphic Encryption

see Table 3 in http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/440.pdf

jscon Divisibility by 7

This is essentially Montgomery reduction, widely used in cryptographic implementations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_reduction

jscon Ask HN: Best Philosophical Books?

Actually Jean-Francois Revel did not have a PhD (he explains why in his autobiography "Le voleur dans la maison vide").

jscon Why RSA encryption padding is critical (cool RSA implementation flaw)

A generalization of the attack (and many more attacks) is given in: http://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/papers/RSA-survey.pdf

jscon You weren't meant to have a boss

Great essay.

I work at university (as assistant prof. in CS, not in US), and it feels a lot like working in a big corporation.

The difference is that we are free to do what we want. But this is because nobody cares about what we do, so it might be even worse in the long term.