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by drakaal 13y ago
Author apparently didn't read the article from Merril Lynch https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/885843-banks-researc... What it actually says is that if BitCoin is to be viable it has to be used as Currency ex
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by drakaal 13y ago
FERPA is the big one. http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html
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by drakaal 13y ago
But you can't have your girlfriend sign for your package.
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They are generally accessible 24 hours a day. You don't have to be the person the package was sent to, just the person with the key code.
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by drakaal 13y ago
I love the idea of having packages delivered to a locked location near my home. Being able to have expensive things delivered to some where safe that has 24 hour access is awesome. (No Mailboxes ETC isn't a bad idea but it costs money
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Swapbox Lands $800K To Take On Google’s BufferBox And Amazon’s Lockers(techcrunch.com)
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by drakaal 13y ago
It is an off premise, out of state, third party, Internet based solution. Having worked with a lot of schools you can't even do this for Backups of data legally. eMail through Google, or Microsoft technically can get you in trouble if
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by drakaal 13y ago
Summary: I hate Go, So Go Lost this race. I love D, So it won or tied with C which I don't like but everyone knows is fast. I wanted to learn Erlang, so I made sure it did better than Go. I didn't share my SourceCode so you can&#x
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by drakaal 13y ago
I work with several schools as part of my volunteer work. And while it's a neat idea, but it is an EdTech startup that doesn't understand the legalities of school data. In the 49 states that Clever isn't sitting with servers
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by drakaal 13y ago
Yeah. And being told by doctors that I shouldn't have picked up an infant without a Hazmat suit was eye opening. The Doctors and Nurses barely touch anything, they swear, and I believe them, that a scrape from a railing, or a fall on t
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by drakaal 13y ago
I volunteered in Sudan. People tell me how bad they have it here. They complain about things. They tell me how their job sucks. How hard they have it. Sudan was hell. I can't imagine places worse. I saw infants clinging to their dead m
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by drakaal 13y ago
Good case study, but wrong conclusion. There is only profit if you always have volunteer workers. I think that it would be false to say you were cash flow positive. Since the revenue split between the team would not make minimum wage I can&
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by drakaal 13y ago
If you have $30k worth of pre-orders on Amazon. Anyone. Bank Of America, Friends and Family, An Angel VC.
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by drakaal 13y ago
This is a watch I might be willing to wear. I hate the cheap look of all the smart watches. I'm not a Vertu phone kind of guy. I want my phone to be a phone. But a watch is Jewelry to me, and I want it to look nice. Omega like. Not ne
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by drakaal 13y ago
Kicktrolling is becoming pretty common. Others have written about having users dispute the charge after the funding was complete and wrecking the goal. Kickstarter is interesting in some ways, but it is a bad deal for a great many kinds of
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by drakaal 13y ago
Minimum Viable Product. The idea behind an MVP is that you build the bare minimum of what it takes to prove their is demand, and then you build out the rest of the features to make it awesome. If you don't build an MVP you might never
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by drakaal 13y ago
If you have one employee and 4 users, it is easy to lose $300 per user per month. This isn't an issue. If you have 1000 users and 10 employees This is a bad thing. If you have 10k users this is a really bad thing. Most startups in the
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by drakaal 13y ago
Nothing to do with prime numbers? http://www.femto-second.com/papers/SHA256LimitedStatisticalA... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4634.txt http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/548.pdf htt
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by drakaal 13y ago
Not an admin, so I can't tell you for sure. Lots of times they edit titles they feel are designed to "game" the HN audience. Posting "why hn doesn't need a new algo" if you aren't part of the HN team likel
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by drakaal 13y ago
You don't attack Sha with the miner, you generate prime factors. Those can then be used to attack any encryption. Not convinced this is what is being done. Just saying it doesn't matter about the salt for this to be worth while.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Yes. Sorta. Depends if you believe that the NSA is responsible for creating bitcoin as a means to get millions of CPU resources for free, which could be used to crack SHA and to track the comings and goings of criminals. It is not so far fe
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by drakaal 13y ago
Been there. Done that. http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/25000
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by drakaal 13y ago
I am guessing someone who is deaf could win at the challenge. I have spent time in Anechoic chambers for doing noise level and vibration testing on equipment. They are disconcerting for sure, but I have to imagine someone who never hears an
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by drakaal 13y ago
The Internet is all about free exchange of information... Copyright be darned. :-) Worse it isn't really even a good copy paste. I don't even like WikiPedia, and it is a much better explanation on this. http://en.wikipe
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by drakaal 13y ago
I predict this could be more popular than Node.JS Already has a good install base. Hardware is proprietary, but it is cheap. There are emulators/VMs to run on more commodity hardware. The demographic is young so it will have time to ma
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by drakaal 13y ago
I will get a blog post up soon, and will update this thread. I think part of the problem is Wolfram named it poorly. Think "Ultimate Mashup Tool with a relatively easy interface for building the mashups" I'm excited because w
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by drakaal 13y ago
The ability to create insane queries that leverage multiple data sets seamlessly and provide a visualization. I gave some examples in my comment.
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by drakaal 13y ago
I am really excited about this. Combining their API with the NLP stuff we are building cool things would be even simpler. Our engine turns things like "How many people are living in China right now" in to { "action&quot
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by drakaal 13y ago
You are correct. A lot of stuff is licensed under v2 since Linus didn't like v3 with good reason.
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by drakaal 13y ago
Sorry that was a change from V2 of GPL. I had forgotten that GPL changed in v3. I try to avoid V3 because several bad things came from that change. The Free for Noncommercial use change being among them.

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