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by ajays 15y ago
I don't even know why I'm replying to this, but this sort of reasoning makes my blood boil. A lot of clueless people throw in the "p" word (privatization, or private competition) without really thinking things through. The USPS is based on
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by ajays 15y ago
... and is a prefix of "odious", a word which describes his behavior to the T.
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by ajays 15y ago
"He exposed the vulnerability." What 'vulnerability' did he expose, that wasn't already STARING everyone in the face? The card was no more 'vulnerable' than an unattended tip jar or an unattended farmstand. This was like taking money from a
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by ajays 15y ago
Now that's a great idea. Have a card that is limited in certain ways: max purchase of, say, $5 (I don't know if $5 will buy anything in $tarbuck$, since I haven't been there in many years). Limit purchases to coffee (or tea) only. No transf
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by ajays 15y ago
If the BART police go around calling themselves "police", carrying side-arms and shooting people, they better be under the state. Plus, they have a ".gov" domain name. Despite the Republicans wet dreams, we aren't at the stage (yet) where p
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by ajays 15y ago
Thomas Hawk is a well-known Flickr hater. He keeps bashing Flickr at every chance he gets. And then he continues to use Flickr. I've been reading his "Flickr is dead" and "I hate Flickr" rants for years and years. He tried to start a compet
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by ajays 15y ago
Who cares if it was actively RC or not?!? It's still quite an achievement that the plane could fly autonomously across the Atlantic. Imagine that: in less than 100 years since the Wright Brothers took off, we have a hobbyist autonomous plan
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by ajays 15y ago
"He's talking about shutting out individuals who are planning crimes - I have no problem if he arrests those individuals,..." Really? So if I were in London and joked about rioting, or "setting stuff on fire", in a private communication wit
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by ajays 15y ago
If that is the case, then why did the company delete its graphic of the clients? http://mobiquityinc.com/clients/ Apparently, Starbucks is a client of theirs, and Stark is a VP: Mobiquity Vice President of Application Architecture.
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by ajays 15y ago
Put on some sunglasses.
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by ajays 15y ago
I've been doing the "no-carb diet" (or whatever it's called) for 3 weeks now, combined with some exercise. I've lost 8 pounds so far. There's no "hacking" here; it's just sensible advice. Cut out the beer, the rice, the snacks, etc. Eat mor
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by ajays 15y ago
A long time ago, there was a startup called Digital Island. They were a small(er) exchange (or is the term "market maker"?), but they handled about 20% of NASDAQ's daily volume. The good thing was, they would let you buy their data post-fac
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by ajays 15y ago
I've been critical of AirBnB in the past, but I liked the tone of Chesky's post. If only they had done this on June 29, instead a month later. But: it's never too late. I hope this is the penultimate word in this saga (EJ's would be the las
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by ajays 15y ago
As an ML/AI guy, I'm curious about the problems encountered by HFT systems. What I would love to see is some data, along with the desired outcome. Maybe also include the amount of time available to make the said decision. One could go furth
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by ajays 15y ago
Are you kidding me, or just trolling? I live in San Francisco. There are tons of people who live _and_ work in San Francisco. From AirBnB's page: "Airbnb HQ is located in the heart of San Francisco, CA."
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by ajays 15y ago
The article was fairly devoid of the necessary details. One of the main ones being: how many events are we talking about? 10 events/sec? 100/sec? 10_000/sec ? And what is the size of these events? How many event emitters are connecting to t
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by ajays 15y ago
EJ's incident happened a month ago. The other incident (referenced in GP) happened 2 months ago. So EJ's can not be the "first of its kind". If the quoted comment is true, then AirBnB is lying.
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by ajays 15y ago
Here is something I don't understand. San Francisco is a tiny city (heck, I've walked from one end to the other; it's just 7 miles x 7 miles, or 11km x 11km for the rest of you). Most of the principles in this sad tale live in San Francisc
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by ajays 15y ago
I disagree. Giving EJ PG's details, and putting the onus on the victim to reach out to PG, is (IMHO) the kind of attitude that got us here. I think this is what happened with AirBnB too: they probably gave her a number to call "if you need
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by ajays 15y ago
The solution for AirBnB is (or was...) simple. 1. Make this person whole, at least in terms of material possessions and safety, to the extent possible. And do it FAST 2. Ask them to take down the blog, and replace it with something alon
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by ajays 15y ago
Since this is the third story on this topic on the FP today, I figured a wisecrack is in order. EJ's blog has the tagline: I leap, the net appears. Every time. Apparently not this time...
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by ajays 15y ago
It's interesting that he quoted the positive parts from EJ's post; but not the negative parts: My next call was to airbnb.com - I tried their "urgent" line, their email address, their general customer support line. I heard nothing - no resp
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by ajays 15y ago
The solution to that is for AirBNB to offer a compelling value, so that people don't feel the need to bypass them. They can do this by vetting properties, background checks, offering insurance, etc.
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by ajays 15y ago
But an insurance policy would further cut into their revenue stream. A credit card number doesn't help much when you're dealing with anti-social elements (they'll just use a stolen one).
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by ajays 15y ago
It wasn't inadvertent. It was by design. Lets get that straight. If, for example, you're running tcpdump(1) with a packet capture size of 1500 (I don't know if G was doing that, but I'm giving an example), then you can't claim that you capt
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by ajays 15y ago
And even that was a dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1807527 And more such discussions: http://www.google.com/#q=yoshinorimatsunobu+site:ycombinator...
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by ajays 15y ago
Me too. All I need is the following: a command that will take a marked-up file, and generate a beautiful HTML out of it. It will support multiple files, and automatically link to the next/previous/etc. (using the filename as the date/time s
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by ajays 15y ago
Many years ago, I used to work on grants from the Postal Service. The goal was to read addresses and sort mail automatically. The metric we wanted to minimize was 10*E+R , where "E" is the fraction of errors (where the system returns an inc
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by ajays 15y ago
Wow. A bunch of Google fanboys voting me down for stating something rational, but that just happens to be anti-Google. I just started using G+ (mainly because I'd like there to be a strong competitor to FB), but Google's antics give me caus
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by ajays 15y ago
Even assuming the OP pulled some stunt with AdWords (and this is just an assumption that you're putting forth, without any evidence whatsoever), does it justify wiping out that guy's entire online existence? His photos? His emails? His docu

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