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by Nimi 12y ago
Can a malicious display install a rootkit on the device? If there's USB access, this seems like an avenue worth exploring...
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by Nimi 12y ago
When I was in a freshman math course, a professor started the semester with a warning: "Trying to learn math without solving exercises is like trying to teach a toddler to walk from physiology textbooks". Yet, I haven't found
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by Nimi 12y ago
Pardon the shameless plug, but I've recently used a similarly unorthodox approach for replacing the heap inside Dijkstra's algorithm, and got a speedup - I use an array indexed by the vertices' current distances, and scan it
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by Nimi 12y ago
I'm not sure what's going on here, and would love if anyone informed could chime in (looking at you there, tptacek :-) Google search for "operation cleaver" brings up mainly mainstream news, and few infosec websites besi
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by Nimi 12y ago
Are there other indications this is the hard truth? It could turn out to be just one genius' creative process, where others do "idle under the apple tree". I believe Feynman's results about quantum theory did stem from i
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by Nimi 12y ago
It's a bit hard to get a clear impression from this discussion about the amount of difficulty for transferring between employers on an h1b. Can anyone who has been through this process more than once (either as an employer or employee)
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by Nimi 12y ago
My answer: I have a cursor I can move to previous lines, copy-paste like I do in a code editor, and generally move around like I would in a code editor. My take is kind of the opposite: I don't believe we don't have these capabili
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by Nimi 12y ago
This is what we have in Israel, and it works nicely IMO. We have a duopoly of "infrastructure" providers, where the wires go from homes to the local Internet eXchange Point, and from there it's a free market of ISPs. We don&#
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by Nimi 12y ago
See here for a comparison of various build systems, including tup: https://github.com/ndmitchell/build-shootout#readme
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by Nimi 12y ago
Well, this sounds pretty much like an admission of the uselessness of his methods. Contrast this with Wins Produced ( http://www.boxscoregeeks.com/faq ), a simple statistical model, and it's hard to see the point...
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by Nimi 12y ago
Another perspective, if I may: you write that you've been taking care of your family since you were in school, and have made it through a rough life to be considered a candidate for both Google and AWS? You're Awesome! What do you
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by Nimi 12y ago
I did just that 2 years ago, when I was 29. So far, I don't regret the decision. But please bare in mind, I didn't really like my job as a software developer, and upon being cautioned about the drawbacks of academia by a tenure tr
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BuildZoom (YC W13) crunches data to pick home improvement contractors(venturebeat.com)
8 points by Nimi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 12y ago
Does this random value need to be unpredictable? And leaving this specific example aside for a moment, I was trying to prove a larger point: people write crypto code for a reason. Some people will write it for no reason at all, yes. A lot o
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by Nimi 12y ago
Yes, but what happens to the client authentication when it migrates between servers? Do I write a cookie to the client saying "authenticated as user X"? Encrypt the cookie? Sign the cookie? It sounds one would need to write crypto
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by Nimi 12y ago
"""Conventional wisdom: Don't write cryptographic code! Use SSL for transport"" Honest question here: suppose I have a webapp with multiple servers, being load-balanced through Amazon's ELB. This sounds ab
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by Nimi 12y ago
I wonder what will happen when the pool nears exhaustion globally, not just in Latin America and the Caribbean. A few scenarios come to mind, would love to hear more scenarios/insights: 1. The governments of the world push IPv6 legisla
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by Nimi 12y ago
A blogspam linking to this page also claimed the alleged "boy" was described as a Russian boy to whom English is a second language. The official report from University of Reading doesn't mention this, can anyone shed more lig
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by Nimi 12y ago
So if I understand correctly, the plan is eventually to become the "marketplace for food"? We have one here in the high-tech sector around Tel-Aviv (mainly for lunches), this is indeed very defensible. You might be interested to
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by Nimi 12y ago
One could argue that Yelp, AirBnB and Uber all fall into the "marketplace" category of defensibility rationale. At first glance, this doesn't seem (to me) to apply to delivery, as restaurants can always opt-out and build thei
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by Nimi 12y ago
Good luck! Would you mind elaborating on that defensibility claim ("if you look at any of these local businesses, whether they’re Yelp, or Grubhub, or whatever… once they’re built, they’re defensible")? Why wouldn't this be a
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The Year of Operations Startups(humbledmba.com)
4 points by Nimi 12y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 12y ago
Agreed. I have been looking now for a while for a rigorous treatment of how to deal with monopoly-related problems (hopefully this would be a summary of the current consensus among economists), are you by chance familiar with one?
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by Nimi 12y ago
"How do we craft regulation such that those companies are more profitable when they do what we want them to do?" Sounds like the U.S. already has such regulation - anti-trust regulation. As ChuckMcM noted above, the problem is tha
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by Nimi 12y ago
AFAIK, there are several experimental results supporting low carb diets, but all are refutable, as in someone can always come up with a counter-argument. Robert Lustig and his "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" lecture (available on youtub
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by Nimi 12y ago
Respectfully, I think the author got the reason wrong. In software, there are inherent problems, and non-inherent problems (as observed by No Silver Bullet). Scientists, when writing scientific code, can only encounter/create non-inher
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by Nimi 12y ago
Pardon if this is slightly off-topic, but you mentioned a slightly different version of HN - this is the first time I hear about this. Could you please provide more details? 10x
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by Nimi 12y ago
Google appears to have gotten into the CA game with their Certificate Transparency initiative: http://www.certificate-transparency.org/ As most of these Google initiatives go, this is open source, and they're encouragi
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What if Oculus Crowdfunded for Equity? 145x Return(wefunder.com)
1 points by Nimi 13y ago|0 comments
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by Nimi 13y ago
Here in Israel, we have a growing phenomenon of high school students studying for a B.Sc degree, especially in CS, during their last few years of high-school. Not only do they save a couple of years of their career trajectory, they also get

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