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by femto113 8y ago
The point is to screen out these people before they get to the investment stage. The scenario you describe is as likely (or even more likely) to happen with the system YC just put in place, since it will take at least two reports to trigge
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by femto113 8y ago
There's an entire industry of companies that perform background checks, this is not a novel problem. You can also require potential investors to sign a contract that they've never committed harassment, list any times they've
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by femto113 8y ago
Over 20% of female founders are experiencing harassment or coercion and the response is to implement a reporting system to identify serial offenders? This is absurdly inadequate, does nothing to prevent harassment, and leaves the burden on
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by femto113 8y ago
In most formats partners play as a team of two (or as part of a team of four or six) and are not mixed. Cheating at bridge has some interesting information theory elements. Communication between partners is explicitly allowed during the bi
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by femto113 8y ago
Which is about 25 days, or roughly a month, either of which would make a better title. I read the article hoping to discover how they ran a test that was 60 years long...
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by femto113 8y ago
Felt legit to me. Sites can, should, and do take steps to mitigate brute force attacks, his approach showed some shortcomings in those steps, e.g. they already only allow 3 bad PINs per call, but he showed that by hanging up immediately af
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by femto113 8y ago
Again, no, and IMO the cited case (eBay v Craigslist founders) is again more of a counter example. From the court opinion: > Having chosen a for-profit corporate form, the craigslist directors are bound by the fiduciary duties and standa
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by femto113 8y ago
Nonsense--there is no "legal duty to maximize profits". That concept isn't really meaningful: maximize over what term? In fact Amazon is probably the number one counter-example to that idea, they've never prioritized
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by femto113 8y ago
This is totally charming! Seems like it would benefit from having a clutch so you can disengage the servos while scrambling or attempting to solve by hand.
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by femto113 8y ago
Even more nonsense possible since the tag function doesn't have to return a string, it can return a function, meaning you could chain these, e.g. function tag2(string, ...keys) { console.log("tag2", string, ...key
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by femto113 8y ago
Worth noting also that there's nothing magical about the backtick being adjacent to the function, you can have whitespace inbetween, e.g func `123 ${abc}` or even func `123 ${abc}` Coupled with the vagueness
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by femto113 8y ago
Certificates don't "expire" the way say, milk expires. An expired certificate is just as valid the day after its expiration as it was the day before, and a signature that was made with the certificate is still just as trustwo
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by femto113 8y ago
Exactly. In fact in practice they do an even worse than random job since many people pick non-random numbers like birthdates or the number of kids they have. Any uniform purchasing strategy would probably have better EV from not buying an
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by femto113 8y ago
Because of the payout model (all and only winning tickets split a fixed prize) the EV for buying multiple randomly distributed tickets and uniformly distributed tickets aren't the same. Consider if you were the only one playing a lott
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by femto113 8y ago
Problem with this calculation it it assumes that exactly one person/group undertakes the buy-every-ticket strategy. As soon as there are two or more groups the chances of splitting the pot goes to 100%.
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by femto113 8y ago
In the spirit of the original article I think point is not whether it was too much or not enough abstraction--it was the wrong abstraction. His abstraction eases one potential change (changing the project folder, which would imply changi
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by femto113 8y ago
I experienced a crystal clear example of this about 15 years ago. I developed a prototype of perl script that read data from one folder, filtered and enhanced it, and wrote it out to another folder, where it was picked up by another proces
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by femto113 8y ago
One person committing voter ID fraud can feasibly vote a handful of times. One person hacking a voting system can feasibly alter vote totals by hundreds or thousands.
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by femto113 8y ago
This 13 minutes on 1000 computers number is really failing to impress me. Consider that someone on Quora calculated > the sum total of all the computing power produced by all of the Bombes during the entire war is about the same computi
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by femto113 8y ago
I was just forced to "upgrade" from a 2013 era MacBook Pro Retina 13" to the latest non-touchbar MacBook Pro, and so far I'm not finding any aspect of this to be an improvement. The new keyboard somehow manages to be lo
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by femto113 8y ago
Maybe they just want something to buy with the $100B+ cash they are sitting on?
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by femto113 9y ago
Interesting. My mother has worked on a similar system for awhile, embracing some of the more technical nuance of braille (like contractions and math and such) http://dotlessbraille.org/ which was inspired by her father&#x2
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by femto113 9y ago
They can be far more specific: just tell us how Model S drivers without (or not using) Autopilot do compared to those with and using it. This would control almost every variable except Autopilot. I find the fact that they don't relea
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by femto113 9y ago
For some reason I don't get ls wrong (right handed so maybe I reliably hit the l first) but I've had the following in my .alias for years # some common typos alias grpe grep alias gpre grep alias mroe more al
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by femto113 9y ago
Maybe just the death of the idea that self-driving cars were somehow integral Uber's business model. To the extent that vision was a major driver of valuations, and given their ongoing need to raise capital then perhaps it could lead
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by femto113 9y ago
This wasn't "5 million total viewers", this was "5 million incremental Prime subscribers specifically attributable to a desire to view these shows because it was the first thing they streamed". It would be analogou
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by femto113 9y ago
When I first started using vi in the late 80s it was on the (old even then) ADM-3A terminals in my dorm's basement computer lab. I still miss that layout, which had Control where Caps Lock usually is now and Esc just above it (where T
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by femto113 9y ago
I had the exact same thought about the "clutch" aspect of this, but am wondering if simply having a foot pedal that issued ESC when tapped could still be of value. On most keyboards the ESC key is the longest reach with my shorte
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by femto113 9y ago
Reasonable people may disagree about what counts as unethical, but I don't see any gray in this scenario: if you're convinced that something is bad enough that you need written cover from a superior before you'll do it then y
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by femto113 9y ago
Lesson to human beings - never do anything smelly/unethical. Period. Full stop.

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