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Ask HN: How does your company record tech talks?
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by buss 13y ago
Aye, there's the rub. Lots of nice features disappear when you're only storing encrypted data. I suspect that it's not possible to create an index of the data (before encrypting it) that doesn't leak information and thus
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by buss 13y ago
> A commercial version of PostgreSQL server that has row-level security and natively replicates with SQLIte over HTTP(S). Easy offline mobile apps. This, if done well, could be awesome. How you would effectively guarantee row-level secur
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by buss 13y ago
Tesseract is really difficult to tune such that you get decent results from camera images instead of cleanly scanned text. Ocropus is really slow, but does seem to work better than tesseract out of the box. It's still quite bad with ca
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by buss 13y ago
Or go one level down - I'd pay for a good OCR library and a good summarization library. The current OCR offerings are too difficult to get working well, and summarization tech is way too specialized at the moment.
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by buss 13y ago
I agree with you, but I don't think it would be worth the effort to conduct this attack for such low value transactions. I'm certainly not an expert here, and clearly the blockchain is the only source of truth in the end.
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by buss 13y ago
> Are they ignoring the risk of a double spend and just going ahead once a transaction has propagated to the network for mining? After a majority of the nodes have seen a transaction it becomes relatively safe to accept it as valid befor
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by buss 13y ago
Yes, the Borowitz Report is (frequently quite entertaining) satire.
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by buss 13y ago
Oh wow, I wonder when and why they started using this design? If I saw this without already knowing about TrueCar I would have immediately closed the tab.
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by buss 13y ago
This is really a shame. I used them to buy my car a year ago and the process was fantastic. I ended up getting about $5k below the sticker price by combining the five or so offers I got from CarWoo with information from TrueCar and playing
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by buss 13y ago
> Even intuitively, it would make sense that different languages/cultures might distinguish or understand different concepts differently...since this is HN, imagine asking a trial of 100 people who have programmed in nothing but COB
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by buss 13y ago
And all it took was a single comment on HN to get it resolved. Thanks!
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by buss 13y ago
They've had some problems recently. I'm now at day 12 waiting for an "instant buy" to clear. The ACH transfer cleared over a week ago but I still don't have my coins. (Support #67989 for anybody at coinbase) It&#x27
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by buss 13y ago
The scripting language is the reason I'm betting on bitcoin in the long run. The scripting language lets you do so many interesting things with it (escrow, wills, and surely lots of things I can't envision). Check out this video a
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by buss 13y ago
> I hate hearing friends tell me that they don't squat because their knees hurt. Dude, your knees hurt because you don't squat! This is not strictly true. What works for you does not necessarily work for others, and hassling th
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by buss 13y ago
I'm working on an OCR project at the moment; I'd love to see which library they used.
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by buss 13y ago
I'm really excited to see Balaji (BSS) on the list. I didn't really know what "scary smart" meant until I joined Counsyl and talked with him. Fun anecdote: One of my first interactions with BSS was when I was driving him
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by buss 13y ago
Note this is from 2008.
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by buss 13y ago
You're right, making homelessness illegal would be unconstitutional. According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-homelessness_legislation#U... ): > The National Coalition for the Homeless reports t
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by buss 13y ago
> The points about Pinker etc are not that these aren't impressive people, but rather what do they have to do with the technology or business of Counsyl other than snob appeal? Ah, I see your concern. That's an understandable critique c
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by buss 13y ago
> Second, from the comments by employees on this thread, and the CEO's statement from the article, they are spreading themselves too thin by aiming to be the so-called "Apple" of genomics. Apple didn't start by trying to control the "fu
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by buss 13y ago
The primary difference is that we're performing a clinical grade test that gives our patients actionable information. We only test for autosomal recessive disorders that will affect the health of your children. Unless you've been tested bef
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by buss 14y ago
Yes, that is also how I interpreted the two phrases.
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by buss 14y ago
I wonder if one has to pay sales taxes on amazon coins. If not, then they have a successful way around that little nuisance.
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by buss 14y ago
Yeah, honestly it makes sense. Right now firms in CA are incentivized to provide perks as compensation to employees in lieu of cash because it isn't taxed. Implementing a tax on these perks will probably reduce perks, but it should have the
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by buss 14y ago
Being wrong once doesn't make you wrong forever.
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by buss 14y ago
Click. Click. Ad. Click. Ad. Click. Click. Ad. ugh.
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by buss 14y ago
> Turning terabytes of genomic knowledge into medical benefit is a lot harder than discovering and mass producing antibiotics Incidentally, if you'd like to actually turn terabytes of genomic data into actionable medical information, Co
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by buss 14y ago
I always thought it would be nice to instantly learn a product's provenance. An app that tells you where some product was made would probably go over really well in the USA. There are a lot of people who would pay more for a product if they
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by buss 14y ago
If you like manual, then the manual TDI will be very fun to drive. I can't be bothered with manual transmission, though. I have paddle shifters for the DSG but I never use them.

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