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   by beams_of_light 10y ago

   That aspect is frustrating. I took all of Dr. Chuck's "Python for Everybody" courses, and have lost access to the videos. There have been times when I would have liked to have reviewed the videos, because while I did learn t
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   Yep. The phone has still not been cracked, I'd bet. This is all posturing.
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   We already have the technology needed to be much better at remote meetings, but people don't use it.
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   What if the government and Apple (and/or other tech companies) have colluded on this issue, and ARE providing the FBI with the information they need, but publicly fighting what appears to be a winning battle, all so that criminals and
5. 185.▲
   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   Those are news-worthy things.
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   ""Even if the N.S.A. was listening in, they couldn't get his credit card number," said Daniel M. Kohn" Oh boy.
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   Ranchers are breeding animals for food. Humans are omnivorous, and it relieves us of the burden of hours of hunting. Elephants are not poached for food, they are poached mainly for their tusks. One could reason that this is an egregiousl
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   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   What differentiates S3 from FTP, WebDAV, or other file transfer technologies?
9. 189.▲
   by beams_of_light 11y ago

   2 questions: What is Slack? What is Meteor?
10. 190.▲
    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    I figured that might be the case. Would it help to have password reset policies in the time frames of years, I wonder? A stolen password might be used inconspicuously for some time. I'd prefer two-factor became more ubiquitous.
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    Please, don't tell my boss about this.
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    Ask HN: Do password reset policies really prevent security issues?

    3 points by beams_of_light 12y ago|2 comments
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    You forgot nearly the entire Bush Jr. administration.
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    Lenovo.com hacked by LizardSquad(lenovo.com)

    9 points by beams_of_light 12y ago|0 comments
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    It's odd that all of the very smart people of the world feel AI is a threat to humanity. Couldn't we just like, not allow it to _be_ a threat in the first place? One would think that morality gates would be one of the first hurd
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    These are failures to parent. At the end of the article, Dad laments his kid being the same after Wilderness Camp (which should have fixed everything!!!). What his kid really needs is some involvement.
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    Can you provide an example of how this might work in practice?
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    I work at a Fortune 50. Eventually, it'd be great to have something like x.ai "watching" emails fly through an internal SMTP server, and then decide if parties external to the conversation ought to be involved. There's
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    I don't feel that competition would be healthy between students. Some kids are simply not going to be as smart as others, due wholly or in part to genetic, socio-economic, or emotional parameters. Making them feel like garbage on a d
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    Anecdotal I know, but it's strange that so many responses in this thread find Siri more useful than Google. I use an iPad and a Galaxy S3, and when I ask Siri questions, more of than not, she fails to give me an answer or provide mean
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    I really don't want to hear another fucking word about "karma" on this site, ever again. "Karma" is what ruined reddit, with spam and reposting rampant only for the sake of stupid fucking Internet points. That is
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    I'm guessing other encyclopedias have similar weak points. Wikipedia is a truly fantastic resource, not just for academia, but for the world, and we need to hold it up instead of beat it down.
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    The search function was far better prior to the new Google Maps, IMNSHO. Also, I have an IP based out of Dallas, TX, and for some reason, Google Maps insists that I live in San Francisco. I have even set my default location (in Chrome, no
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    by beams_of_light 12y ago

    What a strange blog post. Contrarian for the sake of being so. Matt's first sentence sets the tone: he clearly harbors disdain for Tyson's "followers". I will admit that the recent aggression in the "science is tru
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    by beams_of_light 13y ago

    Blogspam. These are clear SEO attempts, svbtle is a clone of so many other blogging platforms, it's irrelevant.
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    by beams_of_light 13y ago

    I would never have known about this had I not read this article and the comments here, and have been running SSH servers for a very long time. The solution I'm particularly fond of is mentioned in Daniel's blog comments, which is
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    by beams_of_light 13y ago

    Agreed. Years ago, I might not have been able to sympathize with her very well, but I have daughters of my own now, and I cringe at the thoughts of things the future males in their lives will do. It's easy to see women as sex objects