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by femto113 8y ago
I'll echo this sentiment, and while it may sound like a philosophical position it really is pragmatic experience: it is nearly impossible to realize a gain from proactively implementing a multi-vendor abstraction. I've found this
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by femto113 8y ago
I've always found it curious that this sort of tech is called "blocking", as if the browser has to proactively prevent websites from reaching into your computer and playing a video or displaying an ad or popping up a window.
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by femto113 8y ago
Even ignoring directly related apps like Messenger, Facebook is the main way I log into a large chunk of unrelated apps on my iPhone including games, food delivery, shopping, etc. Nuking the main Facebook app could cause harm to a huge num
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by femto113 8y ago
Credential stuffing attacks aren't a valid excuse IMO, and should not make this sort of fraud possible. Amazon for example instituted a very simple and effective policy years ago: if you want to deliver something to a new address usin
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by femto113 8y ago
It pretty clearly crossed the spam line for me: The parent specifically pointed out that doctors don't give you the PD to in order to force you to buy glasses from them, but suggests there are other ways to obtain it. Eric replies to
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by femto113 8y ago
A specific example--right now on disasterhousing.gov I get this message in Chrome Your connection is not private Attackers might be trying to steal your information ... This server could not prove that it is disasterhousing.gov
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by femto113 8y ago
A certificate is essentially a cryptographic key that one entity (the "issuer") asserts was issued to some other entity (the "subject"). Whether that assertion is true now, was true a day ago, or was never true does not
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by femto113 8y ago
I really wish browsers would deemphasize certificate expiry as a problem (say to just an ! on the lock icon)--it is literally meaningless from a cryptographic security perspective. I also think it is misleading users about the usefulness o
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by femto113 8y ago
David Cope (a professor at the college I went to) started working on that idea back in the early 80s, calling it "Musical Intelligence". His approach got the most attention for its ability to write new classical works that accura
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by femto113 8y ago
Welcome it or not we're probably on our way to living it... http://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/
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by femto113 8y ago
The Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson, 1995) had many eerily prescient visions but I've always liked some of the more subtle ones: the "Neo-Victorians" who put extra value on handmade goods in a world where anything can be printed
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by femto113 8y ago
Revenue != income. It's quite likely the profit margin on developer accounts is lower than the other types, and if this cuts the knees out from under the competition may well be cheaper than, say, paying for advertising.
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by femto113 8y ago
“Talent” I would say has been invariant with age. I’ve met very young (teens) and people in their seventies who show obvious talent. It also seems to hold, those young talents are still exceptional 20 years later. For knowledge and skill
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by femto113 8y ago
I note this script takes two existing PDFs as an input and produces two new PDFs that collide with each other as output, but they do not collide with either of the originals. Thus this does not enable the obvious attack of creating a PDF t
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by femto113 8y ago
> Dynamo didn’t support encryption at rest. This requirement made some sense in a world where a rogue employee might yank your database server out of a rack and walk off with it, but I don't understand why this is still considered r
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by femto113 8y ago
Cities regulate the use of public parking spaces, including what can park (e.g. RVs often can't), how long a car can stay, and charge fees for use (via meters and such). In Seattle car share companies like Car2Go are paying about $17
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by femto113 8y ago
I for one learned to program on a TI 99/4A, which I suspect my parents chose based on price. I didn’t really choose a career in software, it just grew out of summer programming jobs I had during college, so reasonable to say I at leas
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by femto113 8y ago
Plenty of companies prioritize margin over revenue. Owning a profitable niche is a much more defensible strategy in the long run than relying on investment dollars to grow unprofitably.
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by femto113 8y ago
Uber's been buying revenue at the cost of margin in at least two ways by shifting rides to Pool (where they can declare the entire ride's cost as revenue, not just their cut), and ramping up Uber Eats (where they take a percentage
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by femto113 8y ago
I think this is a misimpression. About half the funding came from various government agencies, and about half from a special assessment on property near the line. The main owner along the corridor was Vulcan (Paul Allen), who rented a lot
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by femto113 8y ago
Topf and Sons made ovens, it was the government that decided what to do with them. Amazon deserves no cover on this: when the buyer uses your products for evil and you know this it is evil to continue to sell them. If they want to stand
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by femto113 8y ago
The economies of scale are so great the margins are almost certainly fat. Other than cellphones I can't think of any electronic devices where that many identical units were being produced--millions and millions of indistinguishable bo
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by femto113 8y ago
I don't understand this as the image being transformed, "space" and "dimensions" seem to originate not with the visual features of the images but with the attributes that the CelebA image set is annotated with. The
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by femto113 8y ago
I think "generated" may be too strong a word for what this system seems to be doing. It feels more like it has found a bunch of averages among a large enough set of similar pictures of some fairly homogenous celebrities. When en
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by femto113 8y ago
I think the title is substantially misleading in that it suggests the bug is in the plugin itself. Maybe "Zero-day in PHP server sample code provided with popular jQuery plugin"?
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by femto113 8y ago
> we must rely on victims in order to bring justice and awareness Victims aren't the only possible witnesses, reporting should be encouraged by anyone who observes (or learns indirectly of) inappropriate behavior. > Not sure how
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by femto113 8y ago
Even before this survey I would assert harassment in this context was a well-known problem. _Only_ providing a means for them to report is _requiring_ them to take action to prevent the behavior from happening. I'm not arguing against
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by femto113 8y ago
Sure, but I don't see that as an argument against doing them. Even with an imperfect process I expect at least some people with a history of harassment would be deterred from even applying. If the potential penalties for lying about
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by femto113 8y ago
It's reactive rather than proactive, so yes, I view it as posturing. YC already controls access to the founders, they can leverage that to make sure that founders are kept safe. This concept is not unprecedented: I can't even ch
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by femto113 8y ago
I'll happily burn all my karma standing up for the idea that the victims of sexual harassment don't bear the responsibility for fixing it. Imagine that 20% of founders were getting straight up scammed by fake angels and VCs--woul

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