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by blantonl 7y ago
If I was a betting man, I'd bet that there are some old dusty areas of NASA facilities where there are open NFS exports, NIS providing security, and Sun workstations doing work. I bet someone could fire up a SATAN scanning instance wit
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by blantonl 7y ago
I believe there are a few projects where satellites are actually providing this functionality directly from space.
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by blantonl 7y ago
This is great work. There are a lot of really impressive technology projects out there that focus on crowdsourcing data like this. ADS-B (for aircraft), $this->AIS, ATCS (railroads), radio communications etc. What's even more amazin
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by blantonl 7y ago
Yes, pihole has an easy to use Web interface that allows you to whitelist individual sites. You can also disable adblocking for 5 minutes, or 10 minutes, or until you tell it to start blocking again.
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by blantonl 7y ago
That, and Netflix. Apple truly would expand their footprint into the daily life of hundreds of millions of people.
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by blantonl 7y ago
That sounds JUST like USAA...
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by blantonl 7y ago
But the post never explained what the situation was... just that they "explained 'it'" to Paypal.. They also don't explain what they are accepting payments for, other than " receiving some minor payments and pa
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by blantonl 7y ago
PayPal doesn't know that. I highly doubt that PornHub would be allowed to run payments for a side-business based on data analytics through Paypal. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck....
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by blantonl 7y ago
I suppose that's just the nature of a developer's life. But I think many of us long for a "write once, run forever" world. Well, I think AWS developers are in the same boat right? Here we are. An architectural decisio
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by blantonl 7y ago
I'm kind of shocked at some of the responses here... everything from outrage, to expressing dismay at how many things could break, to how hard this is to fix, to accusing Amazon of all kinds of nefarious things. How hard is it for 99%
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by blantonl 7y ago
Maybe as the technical debt continues to come due with the current architecture, it's time to make the hard choices to keep a good customer experience?
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by blantonl 7y ago
I don't know about that. I've seen first hand, through close acquaintances, where some hedge funds will expend enormous amounts of financial and human capital resources when it comes to legal fights. Especially when it involves
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by blantonl 8y ago
It's not a popular idea here because: Capital is extremely cheap Markets are at record highs FOMO in tech right now is extremely strong I can't wait to see the sentiment in two years.
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by blantonl 8y ago
Exactly. Just look at IBM Watson. That project started as some machine learning technology until the huge enterprise marketing arm got ahold of it, and then they began repositioning what are essentially shell scripts and regular expression
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by blantonl 8y ago
Not to mention he's actually having a lot of fun doing this, and he specifically throws shade at what you've described above (and what we typically read about here on Hacker News) Them: We leverage automated machine learning to e
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by blantonl 8y ago
While the sentence of 26 months does seem extreme, never underestimate the lengths a scorned online community member will go to get retribution for being banned or moderated. I own and operate a community that specializes in radio communica
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by blantonl 8y ago
I agree. I get that when you build your business around someone else's API that you are responsible for any changes and you should be prepared when business models change, but this would be analogous to milk prices going from $1/
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by blantonl 8y ago
That, and they can steal the new API keys just as fast as we rotate them. And since these API keys are licensed to third-party developers we've got to manage business impact for that third-party. The problem is Google has no incentive
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by blantonl 8y ago
One of the things that is really troubling about the Google Android Play store is the ease that an app developer can develop an app and remain totally anonymous unless you are forced to file a lawsuit or subpoena to Google to reveal informa
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by blantonl 8y ago
About 10 years ago on Christmas morning, my wife was out for her morning jog and came across a full sized Yamaha keyboard stuffed in a trash bin placed at the curb... looking to be in excellent condition. Presumably the homeowners purchase
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by blantonl 8y ago
How are they gathering this data? Are they placing detection equipment at/near the target locations to monitor for cell phone signatures in the vicinity, or are they gathering from mobile apps who resell location data to aggregation fi
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by blantonl 8y ago
So, I wonder how much credence my comment would get if I proclaimed: "My guess is both pilots fell asleep right after takeoff but before they could get the autopilot engaged, so the plane plummeted to the ground because no one was awak
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by blantonl 8y ago
Way to early to speculate as to the cause. You could raise the possibility as to a number of reasons as to what happened.
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by blantonl 8y ago
Yes, Defined Benefit Pension Plans, 401K profit sharing, etc. There are an enormous amount of vehicles to use to legally lower your effective tax rate for wealthy individuals - especially small business owners.
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by blantonl 8y ago
Fun reading, however why not turn this into an authoritative source for something akin to a donotcall registry? If something like that got some traction, and you were able to secure some endorsements from big tech players, these irritants w
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by blantonl 8y ago
I've migrated much of our mapping capabilities to MapBox's API.. but we're still facing mapping bills in the hundreds of dollars. My next step is going to be to setup a caching Open Street Map tile server and using https:&#x
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by blantonl 8y ago
It the case of labrador retrievers, those without a tail have an extremely difficult time swimming, whereas those with a tail used them to provide propulsion and steering.
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by blantonl 8y ago
So is this must be the database that hundreds of relentless SAAS Sales Reps use to send me emails like " Hi there, wanted to bubble this up in your inbox and see if you'd be interested in a convo about your site and how we can inc
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by blantonl 8y ago
Yes it does, because until these organizations have the power to take things by physical force, it's not even in the same league.
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by blantonl 8y ago
Which basically means you are going to stay away from any car manufactured in the past 10 years.

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