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811.
by biot 12y ago
This quote is great, but the visual ruins the context of a pale blue dot. From [0], the reference was to the Voyager probe taking an image of the Earth from near the edge of the solar system and the Earth appears as a dot less than a pixel
812.
by biot 12y ago
How are you different from Fixed? http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-... In terms of traction, you got 400 people in a quarter (and how many of those routinely get tickets?)
813.
by biot 12y ago
I don't know about math journals, but you could try getting that published as the world's shortest article in Playboy.
814.
by biot 12y ago
He could care a great deal less about it.
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by biot 12y ago
> I wonder why more people don't use hosting like macstadium? [...] > while I realize some of the benefits of cloud vs physical it still seems like > a huge premium to pay for cloud and not necessary for a lot of proj
816.
by biot 12y ago
You may be on to something. It's almost as if different people enjoy different things.
817.
by biot 12y ago
"FBI conducts search by disrupting Internet service, posing as repairmen"
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Interactive robo-calls from the cloud as cheap as email(arstechnica.com)
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819.
by biot 12y ago
The article states: Mr. Danev said his company was in talks with several car manufacturers to install a chip that can tell how far the key is from the car, thereby defeating the power-amplifier trick.
820.
by biot 12y ago
Or try the Groupon model: sell other peoples' dollar bills for 50 cents and give them 25 cents from the sale.
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by biot 12y ago
I'm only seeing a blog post from 2013. Site is busted on mobile? Chrome/iPad. Edit: Upon reloading, I briefly see an article about LinkedIn which gets quickly replaced by successively older blog posts. Scrolling doesn't seem
822.
by biot 12y ago
Maybe you ought to keep reading through 632.6 and 632.7. Once you've read those, keep reading the entire thing plus the body of case law which explores these concepts and their practical applications. You're really doing yourself
823.
by biot 12y ago
15 seconds of googling led me to section 632(a) of the California Penal Code. You could have done the same research yourself instead of promoting an incorrect understanding of the law and then asking that others do your homework for you.
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by biot 12y ago
All services should eventually be like this. Just as you don't want to deal with provisioning BTUs of air conditioning or watts of power needed for your cloud infrastructure, why should you concern yourself about allocating a certain n
825.
by biot 12y ago
Someone has already submitted a pull request changing the readme so that it says he'll accept nothing. However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.
826.
by biot 12y ago
Related, but without the stigma, would be something like classfoundry -- the .com is unavailable, but various generic TLDs are.
827.
by biot 12y ago
Good concept, but an unfortunate name. It reminds me of "diploma mill" or "puppy mill"... which indiscriminately pump out things just to make money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mill https
828.
by biot 12y ago
The points made here are covered in Coda Hale's post: http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ While it recommends using bcrypt, if you augment that with "or scrypt or PBKDF2" the same princip
829.
by biot 12y ago
Correct. If you store the scrypt hash directly, it effectively becomes a plaintext password and a compromise of your database lets the attacker login to any account.
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by biot 12y ago
iPhone model likely refers to iPads with cellular data.
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by biot 12y ago
9. Because it's just a freakin calculator
832.
by biot 12y ago
Yes, depending on the work factor chosen. See http://wildlyinaccurate.com/bcrypt-choosing-a-work-factor/#b... for a table of work factors and associated time to check a single password. The work factor is a trade-off i
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by biot 12y ago
If you allow flight software to override a pilot's decision, what happens when the plane's instruments malfunction? You could end up with a situation where a faulty airspeed indicator causes the flight software to nosedive the pla
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by biot 12y ago
This article is blogspam and references the original source which was submitted 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9256803
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by biot 12y ago
Similar to ZeroVM [0], where a VM is spawned and destroyed for each individual request. [0] http://www.zerovm.org/
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by biot 12y ago
> Descent’s frenetic and pulse-pounding action were > light-years ahead of its 1995 release date. That's about 10^16 meters ahead of 1995.
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by biot 12y ago
GP is suggesting that the spam might be a joe job[0]. Don't like your upcoming competition? Work with some foreign spamming company to send emails looking like legit emails from them in the hopes that their real emails are penalized. [
838.
by biot 12y ago
If my reading is correct, the neural network was used to OCR the image, extracting the text. From there, it is indeed a simple brute-force string search.
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by biot 12y ago
This is probably the clearest explanation of what a monoid is that I've seen. Basically, a monoid is a reduction function that takes multiple inputs of type A and returns a single output of type A. The only caveats on top are that type
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by biot 12y ago
I've had some interesting experiences. Years ago in addition to our internal IT infrastructure I had to support a third party platform (effectively an appliance in our server rack) which would constantly need to be kicked just due to e

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