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   by api 13y ago

   "They say that great athletes make bad coaches. Why? Because they can't explain what came instinctively." Thank you for finally explaining to me why mathematicians are such famously bad teachers of math. They just start scrib
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   by api 13y ago

   My thought exactly: Is it now very dangerous to combine compression with encryption? Is there a general mitigation strategy or are the two mutually exclusive?
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   by api 13y ago

   If there's a "India == bad devs" stereotype, it's more the result of cheap American outsourcers trying to get bargain basement prices on Indian dev labor and then being unsatisfied with what they get. Sorry but you give
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   by api 13y ago

   Ahh... long live the creepy voyeur state.
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   by api 13y ago

   My favorite: "The clearest example I remember from this was, the "ballerina incident" was what we called it , when someone actually kept querying detail information and all we could determine is that the women involved (never
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   Reddit thread with damning real-world examples of surveillance misuse(reddit.com)

   3 points by api 13y ago|3 comments
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   by api 13y ago

   I'm getting seriously irritated at the "I have nothing to hide" crowd. For starters, here are a few ways this can go horribly wrong: * Industrial espionage -- it's big business, and I'm sure it pays better than be
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   by api 13y ago

   At what point do the mathematical limits of data mining kick in here? How useful is all this information? I'm not an expert in this area of mathematics, so I could be wrong, but my impression is that as the haystack becomes larger the
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   by api 13y ago

   I've always been quite impressed with how fast, low footprint, and solid Dropbox is given that it's in Python. The problem with VM languages (Java, Python, Ruby, all of them) is that the VM itself and its libraries constitute an e
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    Elon Musk: The Case for Mars(youtube.com)

    2 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    How to use time-traveling anthropologists to tell good from evil marketing(flourish.org)

    1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy page shows landing legs(spacex.com)

    3 points by api 13y ago|0 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    Nope, no chance anyone will abuse that.
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    Cryptographically Secure Bloom Filters [pdf](tdp.cat)

    59 points by api 13y ago|20 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    I dislike the modern neo-positivist tendency to call everything an "accident." To place everything in a single set obliterates that set's meaning. If everything is an accident then nothing is. To me the money quote though is
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    by api 13y ago

    I actually think industrial applications might be the hidden killer app for augmented reality. Imagine walking around a power plant and seeing your environment annotated: last inspection time for each inspection point, what is flowing throu
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    by api 13y ago

    Just curious: why did you leave? Cost? Job elsewhere? Just for a change?
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    by api 13y ago

    /wacko conspiracy theory Maybe the media pushing all this anti-medical stuff is a way to get the middle class to willingly embrace sub-standard health care. Enjoy your new feudal peasant life. It's enlightened and sustainable! &#x
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    by api 13y ago

    Asheville - The good: It's gorgeous. Really. One of the most beautiful places in the country. The art and music scene here will not compare to a New York or a San Francisco, but compared to other half a million person small cities As
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    by api 13y ago

    Looks promising. I see that the schools are not quite as highly ranked as Palo Alto and similar, but aren't bad. They seem to be ranked higher than where I presently live.
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    by api 13y ago

    Currently in Asheville, North Carolina. Lived for six years in Boston, which is not as expensive as the Bay Area but certainly isn't cheap. Asheville is hugely cheaper than the Bay, but isn't particularly cheap by its local standa
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    by api 13y ago

    I was on IRC back in the 1990s, back when EFNet was a battleground for bot wars over taking over channels. I chuckle when I think back to this and realize this is what world markets have become: a place for k-r4d 31337 d00d3z to totally pwn
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    by api 13y ago

    I have a suspicion this could be the case. The cost of living in the Bay Area seems to me as if it does not permit experimentation or DIY anything.
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    by api 13y ago

    I've encountered this kind of sentiment elsewhere too. It's incredible... not even New York could make a solid six-figure offer almost look like a Wal-Mart wage. The school situation is puzzling to me. The tax base should be fine,
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    by api 13y ago

    An apartment initially, probably a lower cost (in Bay Area terms) one at first, but my thoughts are more long term. I would eventually like to contemplate renting something on a long term basis or buying. The latter seems almost unattainabl
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    Ask HN: Considering a move to the Bay Area with a family. Where should I live?

    4 points by api 13y ago|22 comments
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    by api 13y ago

    Yeah. One of the biggest things I've learned about startup culture is this: Even if you want to do a startup, avoid "startup culture" and the "startup scene" like the plague. Just build something, launch it, and mar
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    by api 13y ago

    Social media isn't bad per se, but there's definitely a lot of money going to a lot of ideas in that sector that are both unsustainable and boring as hell.
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    by api 13y ago

    Even great minds need to eat. The problem is that truly daring, innovative work simply doesn't pay that well. It's an uphill battle at best, and a vow of poverty at worst. There is very little funding for hard, long term, daring p
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    Cybercultural Mindstyles circa 1993 and 2013(webcultures.org)

    1 points by api 13y ago|0 comments