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871.
by brk 8y ago
Just finished this one and really enjoyed it. I will say, it would have been infuriating to read if I didn't already know the story ended with her takedown.
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by brk 8y ago
I was going to recommend Reamde as well. I think it is best to look at it as an interesting spin on the typical cybercrime story, and not as a "Neil Stephenson" book specifically. In other words, read it for the story, not for the
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A Dutch First: Ingenious BMW Theft Attempt – Ramblings of a Dutch Dev(mrooding.me)
1 points by brk 8y ago|0 comments
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How the “Be.” battery-free toothbrush faked a demonstration video(youtube.com)
47 points by brk 8y ago|7 comments
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by brk 9y ago
Doubtful. Several companies have already come and gone with solar-powered security cameras that never really worked as desired. If we can't power a simple low-res (720p) wifi camera reliably with a large (as compared to an image sensor
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by brk 9y ago
Curious. Why? Do you have no other plastic items or remotes in your house? Are wood accessories so core to you?
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by brk 9y ago
You should make sure to mention this on the Indigo forums ( http://www.perceptiveautomation.com/userforum/index.php ) given that it looks like an Apple-centric smarthome device. FWIW, the wood thing does not really seem
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by brk 9y ago
Here is how I have rectified this for myself (though I am not the hardcore developed of some on HN, I've hacked a lot of stuff together for fun and profit). Developers rarely know what users really want in advance. Hell, even users don
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by brk 9y ago
Yes. You are missing the viewpoint of a large part of the public who has heard that cryptocurrencies are the hot new investment. These same people have no clue where to start, how to get a wallet, etc. This looks like a turn-key way for the
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by brk 9y ago
Prodigy. BBSes. Usenet. /.. HN. Digg. Reddit. Gave up on /. around the time cmdrtaco got married. Gave up on digg sometime before the downfall. Have stuck with HN (was fairly early here). Reddit on and off.
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by brk 9y ago
Feet work well in cooperative climates. They do not always work ‘well’ in Boston, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Detroit, etc. Consider not just basic walking, but carrying groceries, children or other items.
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Schools safer than in the 90s, shootings not more common than they used to be(news.northeastern.edu)
6 points by brk 9y ago|0 comments
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by brk 9y ago
Given the size of the prize involved, it seems like she could have had a duplicate "winning ticket" made, sans signature on the back. This would have had to have been done before all the publicity about the signed ticket though.
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by brk 9y ago
Is there any « bathtube auto-fill/alexa » product in the US? Kohler was showing one at CES that seemed to be available (or available soon).
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by brk 9y ago
Cyber security issues are only recently becoming a point of awareness in the surveillance industry. Some manufacturers have hard-coded backdoors/authentication bypasses, any vulnerable devices spread across the US, and the rest of the
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Why Apple Fired an Engineer Over a Viral iPhone X Video(inverse.com)
3 points by brk 9y ago|0 comments
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by brk 9y ago
I agree with you. I think part of the problem is that the public perpetually feels like major corporations do things that prioritize profits over general consumer best interests. This leads to a knee-jerk opposition to anything not fully un
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by brk 9y ago
It does not seem precise enough to give you localized condition on that scale. I tried zooming in to see how it was reporting wind and waves I can see from my current location, and there was simply no data once you got down to a range of a
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by brk 9y ago
Wouldn't a decent load-balancer/proxy server (e.g.: haproxy) in front of the application servers be a good idea to redirect traffic to a graceful "Ooops" page/server when something like this happens?
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Brick-And-Mortar Stores Are Shuttering at a Record Pace(wsj.com)
3 points by brk 10y ago|0 comments
891.
by brk 10y ago
It is mostly applicable for taking data sourced at an endpoint (e.g. Mobile phone) and running what is essentially a refinement to the learning. A key component is that to analyze the data in the cloud for the same refinement would mean sen
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Cartapping: How Feds Have Spied on Connected Cars for 15 Years(forbes.com)
2 points by brk 10y ago|0 comments
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by brk 10y ago
The other company that was widely affected by this, Dahua (see my coverage here: https://ipvm.com/reports/dahua-ddos?code=hn ) also issued a statement that they would offer a trade-in discount for affected devices. It w
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by brk 10y ago
And at the same time, the company recalling those products is issuing threats against anyone who is defaming their "goodwill": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12778954
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by brk 10y ago
This is the company behind many of the cameras/devices used in the Dyn attacks. The linked article is mine, please feel free to ask questions.
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Chinese Company Xiongmai Threatens Legal Action Against Western Accusers(ipvm.com)
10 points by brk 10y ago|1 comments
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by brk 10y ago
I did something similar with LANtastic and some serial crossover cables. It was slow, but functional enough for simple things.
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Americans Vastly Underestimate Being Recorded on CCTV(ipvm.com)
2 points by brk 10y ago|0 comments
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At Tampa Bay farm-to-table restaurants, you’re being fed fiction(tampabay.com)
3 points by brk 11y ago|0 comments
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Niagara Falls is going to go dry – again(buffalonews.com)
2 points by brk 11y ago|2 comments

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