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by dotBen 15y ago
Tell us more about the "backend"... are you drop shipping this stuff or do you have inventory?
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by dotBen 15y ago
"Investing In Shares For Dummies" Just make sure your reading material matches your expectations. They're going to ultimately teach you the "buy low, sell high" basics. And that's fine if you are just hobbying. What other folks in this
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by dotBen 15y ago
Arhh, I didn't know you were part of the startup bus crew. Elias is a good friend of mine. I'm guessing you're Ausie too if you have a non-immigrant visa. As it happens, so do I so I have same challenges. To your point on CalTrain, and wh
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by dotBen 15y ago
Glad this got turned into a form, I'm really hoping this works out and it's something I'd even consider helping to organize if you need assistance. Two thoughts: 1) Have you considered getting sponsorship to help make this possible? I have
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by dotBen 15y ago
In your importance of features, "somewhat important" falls lower than "neutral", which in turn is lower than "important". I would have thought neutral<somewhat important<important, no?
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by dotBen 15y ago
When asking for the time I want to be picked up, was it really necessary to enquire down to the second? :P I'm guessing this is a pre-set "time object" in wufoo, it just made me chuckle. Hopefully humor isn't lost on HN for once
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by dotBen 15y ago
There are much more intuitive ways to play a downward market go on...
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by dotBen 15y ago
If they press, explain why. No, as a business person you just walk away. They're clearly not a prospect (ie, in the market to buy your services) because they've indicated a budget that is degrees of magnitude to yours. One of the wonderfu
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by dotBen 15y ago
They put the plane white plates in a specific place and so they project images of your order onto the plates - that was pretty cool. See the video - it's in there.
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by dotBen 15y ago
dude, it was quite cool honestly even though I could immediately reverse engineer what they were using software and hardware-wise into v simple units (flash for the UX, a normal projector, touch pads, standard x86 board strapped to the proj
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by dotBen 15y ago
So, I'm really keen to do something like this but with a dining table and a projector set above it. I had dinner at Inamo in London last week - their tables are essentially this kind of set up. The interface is projected onto the table and
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by dotBen 15y ago
I always find these cases strange given that in court you can overturn a speeding ticket if the police officer can't provide a certificate of calibration for his speed trap device. To apply the law equally, the driver can't provide a certif
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by dotBen 15y ago
the OP explains it all quite clearly - you should reread the post. But in a nutshell his point is that by its very nature GPS data collected over a constant time period cannot be anonymized. If your car is located >50% of the time in o
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by dotBen 15y ago
Of all the companies to single out as entities you wouldn't want GPS data to be acquired by, Apple and Google are an odd choice. I mean of all the possible companies that might acquire this GPS data, it's not like Apple or Google already ha
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by dotBen 15y ago
If they have the headroom to spin up 30,000 cores I wonder what their total headroom is in each availability zone - and what %age that is of their total cores. Sure, we'll never know - but it's an interesting thought experiment.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Amazon have GPU-based instances available - giving the customer the combination of GPU processing and the large RAM/backing store resources.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Yes I do work sometimes for free - its called Open Source - and sometimes I see my labor implemented into commercial projects. That's fine by me. I take from the well more than I give to it. I entirely agree that Apple should be compensatin
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by dotBen 15y ago
Ok, or any other user account then - you're right you should disable root login, I was just using it as example
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by dotBen 15y ago
Seems pretty obvious that the plan here is to sell the DVD business (perhaps to PE), raise capital, and use it to do a combination of original content creation and for leveraged with the main studios to get the same premium titles into the
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by dotBen 15y ago
Can't answer for peterjmag, but DNS spoofing is more prevalent than ever (certainly compared to when host key checking was built into the SSH spec) - I'm thinking about WiFi Hotspot login pages that pretend to live at any domain you type in
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by dotBen 15y ago
Ok, not techically part of SSH itself but I think SShuttle[1] is one of the most awesome SSH tricks around. [1] https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm always sad that OS X doesn't support ssh-copy-id natively.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Hmmm, surely 'Responsible Disclosure'[1] is the only responsible sort of disclosure - so named because it is, er, responsible. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure TL:DR of above link: "[responsible disclosure] is li
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by dotBen 15y ago
No, to quote from the article: "The odds of it hitting someone anywhere on the planet are 1 in 3,200. " Perhaps you are confusing "chances of any person getting hit" with "chances of you getting hit", which is not what the title says.
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by dotBen 15y ago
Compensation is irrelevant - if you bothered to sniff around a specific vendor's security and you discover an exploit then you really should disclose it. Such is the lore of white-hatism. Sure many don't do the above, but the OP author is
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by dotBen 15y ago
This feels a little bit like a naughtily published zero-day exploit. I'm disappointed the post doesn't mention any appropriate disclosure to Apple prior to publication. Sure, it's not an out-right crack of the shaddow password algo but t
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by dotBen 15y ago
I think the way the setup in the advert is achieved legally (ie not foul of COPPA laws) is that the father owns the account and then will hand it over to his daughter at a later date (eg when she is 13, thus COPPA doesn't apply). Therefore
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by dotBen 15y ago
No, it's not society that has become adversarial, it is the vague and far-reaching laws.
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by dotBen 15y ago
I'm a consultant and I get this a lot but I actually agree with it, esp where the client is a larger firm with numerous employees. When I was on the other side of the table, and an employee working in a dev team that also consisted of contr
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by dotBen 15y ago
You need to get 50% payment upfront. Or work in blocks of money on account (eg for a $50k job, you have the client send you $10k in advance and when that is near depleted you have them wire you the next $10k, etc)

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