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Is Heroku down?
10 points by frisco 15y ago|11 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
> Capitalizing a letter, substituting a symbol, moving your hand's position on the keyboard, or repeating a letter are common things to do. A dictionary word that has had one of these things done to it, for purposes of password strength
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by frisco 15y ago
Yes it does. A priori, P("freeeedom") << P("freedom"). This decreases the probability that an attacker will stumble across your passphrase using anything other than a pure brute-force approach (more on that below). Further, thoug
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by frisco 15y ago
It seems to me like medicine has had trouble saying "I don't know" since the beginning. Throughout the ages we've had "default" diagnoses to fall back on when we couldn't figure out anything else better. And we don't seem to learn. Medicin
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by frisco 15y ago
I... I just don't get it. So you can send 30 "full quality" photos at once? Is there anyone who's really thinking, "you know what I need right now? The ability to send my friends higher resolution photos in parallel!" I can already MMS h
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by frisco 15y ago
I don't think that's what it's parodying... Also, why would one need to be "really careful" looking up an organic synthesis of Sudafed?
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by frisco 15y ago
I realize it's meant to be funny and the journal title is fake, but is the synthesis valid? I'd be curious to know if this is good organic chemistry in service of the joke or not.
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by frisco 15y ago
If you're serious about converting any significant percentage of current MATLAB users (which would be the vast majority of the scientific community), either a JS mcode interpreter or a code translator should be near the top of your list. W
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by frisco 15y ago
First of all, I think this is a great idea. It's something I've thought a lot about myself for several years now -- with the name 'cloudlab', even! -- but ultimately decided to work on a different set of problems in science. Anyway, the k
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by frisco 15y ago
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The title made me think it would be specialist coverage, but it's actually widely-applicable tools just taught in the context of robotic cars. I'm pretty sure you could teach such a class either way.
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by frisco 15y ago
I mean, I agree with you in principle. I think programming a robotic car would be really cool. There's a difference between a foundation (FS, OS, algorithms, etc) and lots of random specialist exposures, though. I consider myself a genera
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by frisco 15y ago
Honestly, the class, "Programming a Robotic Car" sounded pretty lame. When am I going to program a robotic car? Never. As cool as it sounds in principle, I figured it would be pretty domain-specific and relevant only if you were doing au
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by frisco 15y ago
PS: Hacker Dojo is a hacker space in Mountain View. "Hacker space" is the word you're looking for.
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by frisco 15y ago
Throughout this case, I've felt like the charges are just a pretext. They wanted to get this guy for something, and they used this as a justification. I find it really hard to believe that someone in the Iranian Justice Department-equival
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by frisco 15y ago
Meh, it's more than just synthesis. Synthesis costs are falling faster than Moores law, too; but you don't get things like epigenetic modifications or packing for free, and that tech basically doesn't exist yet.
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by frisco 15y ago
I remember reading a comment a long time ago -- maybe here or Quora, I think -- talking about how people don't usually realize how much trouble organized crime gives small and midsize businesses. You'll start getting DDOSed and then an ema
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by frisco 15y ago
This is one of the most frustrating article to read I've ever seen on HN. The proposal is completely ridiculous. Ellison and Jobs never selling shares has so much less to do with avoiding taxation as it does with maintaining control and u
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We Solve For X(wesolveforx.com)
2 points by frisco 15y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
These are two different kinds of moats. Yes, Facebook has very strong network effects that create an advantage. However, it's a mistake to underestimate the strength of Dropbox's engineering complexity and strong product design. It would
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by frisco 15y ago
> Anyone can clone Dropbox Right. Okay. I think you don't quite understand why Dropbox is Dropbox.
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A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors(youtube.com)
6 points by frisco 15y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 15y ago
The 500 stockholders rule says nothing about going public. It says that they must adhere to the same onerous reporting requirements as public companies. Therefore, many companies choose to go public at that point and get some of the benef
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by frisco 15y ago
Re-reading your post, I just realized: did you mean "synthesizer" where you wrote "sequencer"?
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by frisco 15y ago
Who is 'we'? (I'm curious!)
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by frisco 15y ago
Why is Stripe for ACH payments necessary? Why isn't that Stripe?
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by frisco 15y ago
While they probably won't support a rogue currency, they may or may not support a rouge one.
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by frisco 15y ago
OpenPCR is totally different from "read/write cells" much less "read/write cells for under $1000". A truly useful "BioCAD" isn't an engineering problem yet: there's a very substantial amount of basic research required. Synthetic gene circ
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by frisco 15y ago
I assume nothing; they're a YC company, and that link has been there essentially since they launched.
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by frisco 15y ago
I thought this was the point of the Sectera Edge, which has been around for a long time.
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by frisco 15y ago
You are mistaken. Most industries are highly complex and nuanced. Predictably, the details may not be obvious to outsiders who only see the fluffy summary of how it works.

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