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by avner 17y ago
Know when 80% is good enough I consider this an important strategy when executing most tasks. It is an on field guideline in the Marine Corps to aim for a 70% solution to problems in some cases. It is sometimes a better strategy to i
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by avner 17y ago
This is security through obscurity. To quote Bruce Schneier: Security is both a reality and a feeling. The reality of security is mathematical, based on the probability of different risks and the effectiveness of different countermeasure..
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by avner 17y ago
I'll withhold any and all judgment until I can hear both sides to the story. In the meantime, we should let this drama unfold over the course of the week.
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by avner 17y ago
I'm not Indian but have dealt with contracts from India. It really comes down to two things. 1) Work culture - Indian work culture, for the most part is not same as the work culture in the US. From what I've seen, Indian bosses are a lot mo
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by avner 17y ago
Penn Stater here! I've thought of organizing something like this for some time. I know a few of you Penn Staters are regulars on HN. Lets do this sometime next weekend.
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by avner 17y ago
Basically, it automatically adjusts the RGB elements of your display to be more subtle on your eyes depending on what time of day it is and lighting conditions in your room. It does a fair job at it. I highly recommend it.
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by avner 17y ago
Likewise.
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September 25- Celebrate Rajeev Motwani's Life. (techcrunch.com)
2 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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by avner 17y ago
The very omission of the camera from the Ipod touch makes me wonder what their design team was thinking. Sticking a camera on the ipod nano adds no value to it than the camera on my old samsung cell phone. A camera on the touch would have p
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by avner 17y ago
Sounds practical. I'm down if accepted.
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Arduino- Open Source Electronics Prototyping (arduino.cc)
3 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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by avner 17y ago
Having seen combat and being exposed to some of these bots as a soldier in the recent past, I can confidently say that the mobility and situational awareness provided by some of these bots superlatively increases the operating effectiveness
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The Razor Blade Business Model(thehopkinsonreport.com)
19 points by avner 17y ago|16 comments
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by avner 17y ago
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by avner 17y ago
"Apple doesn't have any responsibility to the people who buy them" I beg to differ; I believe any company providing a service or a good has an obligation to its customers. Granted that Apple can afford to ride the high horse at the moment b
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by avner 17y ago
Apple and AT&T are allowed to do this in the US because of ludicrous FCC overwatch that allows operators to do almost whatever they want after they have paid the obligated billions in spectrum licenses. Such practice along with things
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by avner 17y ago
The hits are a result of an OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) procedure that every investigative agency or department typically follows as part of an investigation. The modus operandi being that personnel scour public sources for a given set
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Medieval Mosques Illuminated by Math(npr.org)
1 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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The Salesman And The Statistician(ateupwithmotor.com)
1 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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by avner 17y ago
Immoderately cluttered and labyrinthine to mensurate.
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Ask HN: Macbook Pro and Windows XP?
2 points by avner 17y ago|4 comments
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by avner 17y ago
Processing
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by avner 17y ago
Good post. The other end of the spectrum: I used to write code for autonomous UAVs back home (commercial and military). After completing my second degree in the US, I made it through to 90% of the interviews and selection process at the to
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by avner 17y ago
I've been using GV ever since its early GrandCentral days. I should highlight that the biggest hurdle was to pass the new number on to my contacts. Even then, the biggest hole in the concept is that when you call your contacts without going
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by avner 17y ago
For the free market beacon the US projects, it has one of the least competitive mobile markets in the entire world. How are contracts such as Apple-AT&T not against consumer choice? Why do I have to have a ridiculously priced contract
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OECD Data Visualization(stats.oecd.org)
2 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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by avner 17y ago
While I am sympathetic to the cause, the biggest problem with routing anything tor is that you will almost certainly, rapidly lose control over the traffic and its content. The average geek should really know what sort of repercussions a
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by avner 17y ago
If a close friend of mine, in all seriousness presents me this form in the casual manner the author suggests, I wouldn't be able to help but think that he's the one being the "douche" by ridiculing the trust in our friendship with this poor
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Game Theory, Salary Negotiation, and Programmers(gandolf.homelinux.org)
4 points by avner 17y ago|0 comments
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by avner 17y ago
Privacy and their modus operandi aside, I'm intrigued as to how they expected to survive such a high overhead cost operation with only $100 an year/customer, without any economies of scale or federal govt. support.

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