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by A1kmm 13y ago
It is depressing that 'the solution' to finding clients was basically to send spam (highly targeted spam, but nevertheless it was commercial e-mail sent to large numbers of people without prior consent of the recipient - where I live, that
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Maybe it was a tax evasion scheme - in some places governments don't tax lottery winnings. Of course, in many jurisdictions, the concert organisers probably would be liable for sales / income tax for the scratch cards, but perhaps they beli
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by A1kmm 13y ago
Many small non-tech businesses don't know much about IT project management, so it can be worth trying to educate them and convince them to have reasonable expectations. I would start by explaining that there are 6 project management variabl
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by A1kmm 13y ago
I think that given Snapchat's advertising ('the snap disappears') they should really be doing more on the client to make sure third parties don't get access to the picture, for example, by not storing it on the device at all.
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by A1kmm 13y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL, this is not legal advice. Inducing someone to infringe a patent valid in the US by importing (downloading) your product into the US is itself an infringement of the patent under 35 USC 271 (b). Even with the banner, plain
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by A1kmm 13y ago
For a certain subset of problems, it is possible to do this. For any finite number of clock cycles N, in a Turing-complete language, I can write you a program which terminates but takes longer than N cycles. There is therefore no value of N
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by A1kmm 13y ago
How the project outputs will be produced (the supplier in PM lingo) is only one aspect of the project. Projects typically have an associated business interest, and users who will use the products produced by the product. Certain resource ro
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Disclaimer: IANAL, talk to a lawyer if this is more than a hypothetical question. Under US law, the 9th circuit held in a criminal case that an employee who violates employer computer access policies with intent to defraud and by that actio
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by A1kmm 14y ago
You can run a Bayesian filter over pairs (or even triplets) of words (although this could cause the probabilities to be a bit off, because pairs like "although this" and "this could" are not truly independent). The downside is that as you d
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The set of strings is isomorphic to a Cartesian Product of sets of the same cardinalities as the set of options (for example, if the template was "{I,We} like {HTML, CSS, Javascript}", you can make a set {0,1}x{0,1,2}, where each element in
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by A1kmm 14y ago
IANAL, but I believe that in most jurisdictions conspiracy requires two or more co-conspirators (i.e. the crime of conspiracy to commit a crime means two or more people agree or plan for a crime to be committed). Attempting to commit a crim
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Even limitations legislation will allow stolen Bitcoins to eventually re-enter legal circulation. For example, under New Zealand law, if someone (party A) stole BitCoins from someone else (party B), kept them for 6 years, and then used them
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by A1kmm 14y ago
http://spar.isi.jhu.edu/~mgreen/ZerocoinOakland.pdf , which is the fundamental piece of new cryptography which enables it to work, doesn't make any sense to me. At the very least, the authors have made the formulation so unclear that you c
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Part of the problem with 2.4 GHz in big buildings is that it passes relatively well through building materials, so that in a large building you get a lot of noise from equipment owned by other residents. Someone measured the difference in t
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by A1kmm 14y ago
A protocol fix that meant that the server serving the content needed to opt in to no-script through a new X-Frame-Options header would mean that legacy content like vk.com wouldn't send a X-Frame-Options header, and so wouldn't be able to b
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by A1kmm 14y ago
The circumstances under which a clickjacking attack could be introduced to an otherwise secure site are quite narrow: 1. Attacked site use Javascript anti-framing protection (otherwise there is no benefit to the attacker in
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Can I suggest you also share what parameters you use with scrypt? Scrypt is parametric and you can choose weak or strong choices for parameters depending on how long you want to spend validating passwords.
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by A1kmm 14y ago
This was an April Fools joke (and presumably a dig at obesity in Samoa) that refuses to die. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samoa_Air ceased operations in 2003.
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Wouldn't it be better to feed the RSA public key into an existing message encryption system like gpg? There are a few things you could improve that way: * No message integrity - it would be good to be able to sign and encrypt. * Encrypting
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by A1kmm 14y ago
Whether or not the software is secure from Apple is a moot point if Apple can, at any point in time, deploy an arbitrary software update that only affects a single device. I presume Apple has the ability to send a backdoored update to iMess
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by A1kmm 14y ago
I'd love to see a patent troll lose a case, but their breach of contract case seems a bit weak (without seeing the actual contract, since they didn't include 'Exhibit B' in the PDF). As I understand it: * Parallel Iron owns IPNav. * IPNav a
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A cautionary tale: Change reverse DNS before switching web hosts
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Show HN: Cookie Audit Tool - A web app to see if your app does cookies securely(lanthaps.com)
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The legal precedent if the case is reversed on appeal potentially extends beyond just Java; the article is essentially about the ruling that APIs can't be copyrighted, and that numerous amicus curiae briefs argued in favour of APIs being co
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> were recruited and received course credit for participation I think it is ironic that a research into morality was conducting by coercing student participants into the research. In academic courses, it is common for students and lectu
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Unfortunately, many resources are finite; for example, there is a finite amount of land, and in many places, society has for quite some time been about extracting more value from the same resources, rather than being a case of the resources
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The problem with the theory around mid-range-λ-jobs is that people with a non-zero t can compete for jobs as well - for example, they may have increased their skill level through training, volunteer work, formal education, or there could be
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The M-Expression in the post is rather limited in what it can do; if anyone is looking for a system for use in practical mathematical modelling, during my PhD research I created a system for expressing ODE / DAE models in Haskell, and a sol
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I agree that there are some things they could have done wrong that aren't explicitly ruled out in http://www.atheistberlin.com/study : Were the packages the same weight or were some of them heavier? Were the packages given over to the same
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According to http://www.atheistberlin.com/study they got a significant Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test at p < 0.01. The Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test is nonparametric (i.e. sacrifices some statistical power in order to not make assumptions abou

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