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by ilyanep 11y ago
The largest currently active group is 2084[0,1] and the largest known group ever was somewhere in mid-4k[0] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/robintracking/comments/4czzo2/robin... [1] Also, I'm in it.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
NIMBYs would just fight both. CEQA has been used to block public transit options all over the state.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Only once the renters start actually voting.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Yeah, I had been doing that with other numbers, but somehow didn't trigger for that one. Must have been the timing pressure.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I got to 31 before I got tripped up on the exact same number. It looks prime!
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Seems like it'd be a pretty huge oversight if that vector were open, but I agree with you that it's not very confidence-inspiring if nothing about this is out there.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I am not a security expert, but my understanding is that the main problems for the FBI are: a) There is a timed delay for trying new passwords after enough unsuccessful attempts and b) The phone will wipe itself after 10 unsuccessful attemp
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I responded to a similar comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11015522 Is tourist helicopters really the biggest source of noise problems for you in the city? Why not instead focus on reducing the number of ho
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I've stayed in Downtown Manhattan several times and I haven't heard helicopter noise, but I have heard sirens and honking horns throughout the night. It didn't bother me much; I have a reasonably high noise tolerance and I pr
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I have to say I'm a little bit low on sympathy. Since when has anyone moved to New York City for the quiet?
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Related question: Has anyone ever experimented with taking a really strong engine for one of these games and then simulating the sort of mistakes that humans make (overlooking certain positions, looking ahead fewer steps, etc) to try and si
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by ilyanep 11y ago
For how much companies are clamoring for more engineers and whining about how little talent they can get, the engineers themselves sure are told to sit down and shut up an awful lot in places like HN and these kinds of employee agreements.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Somewhat related: Today, I noticed that the vast majority of the articles on my news feed are "X liked/commented on Y's post" where Y is someone I don't know and the post isn't very good. I hope this is only a
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by ilyanep 11y ago
You shouldn't confuse "getting a job there is hard" with "the interview process is random and skewed toward false negatives, with an especially bad job done with experienced candidates" --- "Second problem: eve
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I had the same thought as GP as well. Could you not implement some of the "disguise-as-honeypot" features (such as setting the name to "HoneyTrap" or "Error: rand...") in addition to the normal security feature
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I wonder what would happen if the National Ad Council just started producing billboards that said things like "LEAVE FOLLOWING DISTANCE FOR FASTER TRAFFIC" and "ZIPPER MERGE IS MOST EFFICIENT".
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by ilyanep 11y ago
> Stockholm suffers from extreme housing shortage. Is that much worse than Silicon Valley (legitimately curious, I've never looked into the housing situation in Stockholm)? 1brs go for nearly $3k (if not more) in many of the more po
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by ilyanep 11y ago
>Plus even if you could get your "gotcha" credit cards into the criminal's hands, the chance of law enforcement buying one back is tiny, since the stolen batch is mixed with other cards, and only then a small sub-set is so
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Man, is anyone else seriously bummed out by how cynically everyone is viewing this announcement? There's a rich guy who founded an organization, ostensibly with the hopes of doing something good with all that money that he owns. Maybe
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by ilyanep 11y ago
As always, a good reminder to treat all debug text as if customers will be seeing it :)
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I love these kinds of stories. They're like the programmer's version of a detective story, with the twist that you always somehow learn some weird obscure fact about people or the Internet: - A web browser plug-in loads Google&#x2
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by ilyanep 11y ago
El Camino always seemed to me like it has an absurdly low speed limit, then a friend reminded me that there are unsignaled pedestrian crosswalks along it in Mountain View. It's true that it feels like it ought to be a 45 road, though
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by ilyanep 11y ago
There are some of these in Palo Alto, as well. I don't think they tend to result in accidents, but I never really understood the point of putting a stop sign on a roundabout. If I remember correctly, the justification of these here is
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Are you older than me? I was class of '09 and already the kids who lived closer by went home on a fair number of weekends. I've heard the trend has gotten even more pronounced over time.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
I know brilliant people who live 5 to a 2br in SF despite being all on Tech salaries. As long as people think that this is the living arrangement they want, companies will be able to get away with hiring people in a housing shortage here.
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Is anyone compiling a list of the settings I'll need to check when I finally make the jump from Windows 7 to 10 in a few months? I'd like to be on a newer OS, but between this and Cortana and some sort of XBL overlay that apparent
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by ilyanep 11y ago
Other people can correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that Google now has a reputation for having quite compelling salaries, so maybe?
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by ilyanep 12y ago
You are implying that a few individual women you know being okay with a thing implies that it is alright / not sexist / shouldn't be offensive to other women. I'm not necessarily sure that that follows. (This is independ
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by ilyanep 12y ago
You are implying that one woman doing a thing implies that it is alright / not sexist / shouldn't be offensive to other women. I'm not necessarily sure that that follows. (This is independent of whether or not the term &
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by ilyanep 12y ago
I've never actually heard the term "mom" or "grandma" used in that case. Why not just "non-technical user," "less savvy user," "our average user," etc? I don't understand the point

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