An interesting bit of computer science, the knapsack problem has been studied for over a century, and according to Wikipedia, seems to be quite popular - as these sort of things go. For the first post in this series I’ll present a solution to the 1⁄0, or binary version of this famous problem I designed in 2015. I was immediately intrigued by it when I first read the problem statement. It’s application to anything requireing optimal resource allocation was very clear, and my mind started obsessively thinking of how to solve this efficiently. Read More...
“He began to copy one of our tables, which contained partial user information, including email IDs, hashed passwords, and last tested URL. His copy operation locked the database table, which raised alerts on our monitoring system. On receiving the alerts, we checked the logs, saw an unrecognized IP, and blocked it right away. In that time, the hacker had been able to retrieve only a portion of the data.” – From the postmortem of the Browser Stack hack of 9th November, 2014 at 23:30 GMT Since relational database management systems (RDBMS) have been used in production environments since 1970 (Micro DBMS), and the theory on which they run was developed in the preceding decade,and perfected in the three remaining decades of the previous century (long ago), it was not surprising that, as a subject, it received very little attention in our curriculum - at least where I studied. Read More...