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by finnw 13y ago
I had difficulty parsing that title. At first I read it as '"Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways" Say Drones Looking For Speeders' i.e. there are already drones enforcing the speed limit, and they are reporting (or being con
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by finnw 13y ago
Why would it freak them out any more than the helicopters which they have seen before?
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by finnw 13y ago
Except that many of us carry smartphones that are worth more by themselves than the amount of cash we would normally consider carrying and expose you to further online fraud if stolen.
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by finnw 13y ago
Maybe a script could be set to release a random subset of the documents and delete another random subset, i.e. if snowden_has_not_logged_in_for_7_days(): for doc in documents: if random.choice([True, False]):
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by finnw 13y ago
Can you give some examples? My experience has been slightly different. I have often found stackoverflow questions (closed as NC or NaRQ) from google searches and thought "This is interesting, but I would be embarrassed if my boss saw
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by finnw 13y ago
Parsing JSON is also a solved problem. And JSON is also easier for humans to read than XML.
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by finnw 13y ago
Unless your site is on cloudflare
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by finnw 13y ago
It passes the "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" test for me.
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by finnw 13y ago
Verbal irony rarely works well on HN
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by finnw 13y ago
I disagree. "fucking" (and directly-censored variants like "f*%$ing") suggest anger on the part of the speaker. "freaking" much less so.
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by finnw 13y ago
But presumably the female mosquitos will eventually learn to avoid the males with the modified Y chromosome?
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by finnw 13y ago
> I'm amazed that people are amazed by photo quality from two decades ago It's partly because the media (especially TV news) deliberately blurs and desaturates pictures to indicate what decade they are from. Which doesn&#x27
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by finnw 13y ago
Correct. (I have no strong opinion for/against remote working.)
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by finnw 13y ago
She seems to be good at getting nerds talking about Yahoo. I don't think I was ever in the target market for any of their products, and I almost forgot the company existed, until the recent controversy about the ban on remote working
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by finnw 13y ago
In that respect, is it any worse than being in possession of a copy of GPG?
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by finnw 13y ago
Don't forget that makes you more vulnerable to malware on the client, which now has easy access to your keys, and your known_hosts file (which gives the attacker a convenient list of servers to attempt to log into using those keys.)
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by finnw 13y ago
But you would be a hypocrite if you also complained about people speeding in the street where you live.
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by finnw 13y ago
"Ethnic" is not a synomym of "non-white."
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by finnw 13y ago
PC World the magazine. Not to be confused with the retailer of the same name ( http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/index.html ) Not that I would be too upset if that retail chain closed down.
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by finnw 13y ago
> ... without the ethical problems ... I think that is a bit too optimistic. Political battles over robots' rights are inevitable. Edit: I think this is also relevant: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/robotan
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by finnw 13y ago
This one is quite good at maintaining balance. It is demonstrated in the video.
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by finnw 13y ago
> Thousands are in Iraq and Afghanistan Those are not humanoid.
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by finnw 13y ago
A robot that drives a vehicle can be an integral part of that vehicle, likely far cheaper than a humanoid robot that fits in the seat (and also shares the human driver's disadvantage of poor peripheral vision.)
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by finnw 13y ago
Eventually (e.g. via targeted advertising) they convert that data to cash. If they weren't going to make cash from it, they would not be collecting it in the first place. And when they do convert it to cash, that cash will be taxed.
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by finnw 13y ago
I don't imagine many developers see hash(secret||data) as a replacement from HMAC. I made that mistake once, but I had not yet heard of HMAC at the time.
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by finnw 13y ago
Looks good. But how do you resync?
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by finnw 13y ago
> I know what is illegal today That is impressive, even if you are a lawyer.
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by finnw 13y ago
> You mean "pre-web blog" And just as importantly, pre-DNS. Its impressive that a domain expired a decade before DNS was invented.
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by finnw 13y ago
> You could imagine a more clever implementation of lexical environments that avoids this problem. Each closure could have a dictionary containing only the variables which it actually reads and writes; the values in that dictionary would
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by finnw 13y ago
Reminds me of one of mine: http://stackoverflow.com/q/137060/12048

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