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by jakelarkin 10y ago
Lmi and Paxio started a 1G fiber rollout but it only covers a few streets in West Berkeley. It took 5 weeks to get Comcast wired at my house in Berkeley. Terrifying that the next best options available to me were Unwired 10Mbps (burst &
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
On the topic of city meetings, there has to be a way to change this dynamic. Working people are just never going to be well represented at an weekday afternoon meeting and we end up with biased policy. There has to be another way that pol
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
I suspect for large companies most bug bounty programs are net economic positives, especially weighed against cost of probable breaches or the comparable spend required on in-house engineering to find all the bugs otherwise cheaply and quic
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
"But there's Twitter. All these years, it has stayed remarkably close to the original concept of microblogging." right, they only added photos, video, FB style profile pages, link shortening, location metadata, algorithmic ti
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
"Really, if I'm Twitter and want to stop my stock from tanking, I get a line of credit and buy SnapChat" Twitter's valued at only $10 Billion. Snapchat just raised at rumored $18 Billion valuation.
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
my two cents on Rails (as someone who's worked with Rails/Ruby, Node, Scala, Golang in some depth) - ORM is bad at any sort of scale/complexity. - Net IO that looks like property access makes it too easy for devs to do bad th
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
Should Europa really be a top priority? The surface temperature is -160C and it receives 5400 mSv of radiation. Enough to kill a most life in a few hours. We barely have the technology to operate a robotics in that environment for short wh
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
"infra-red cameras; microphones ... detection systems that can intercept the pings of mobile phone devices, and license-plate reading software that can process 300 license plates every minute" a surveillance drone for mall-cops. j
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
"the thieves used a form of malware that targeted a PDF reader that the bank used to confirm that payments had been made." PDF reader! bank infosec is a joke
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
I suspect if Oracle's wins the case ... 1) they will win a lot of money in the near term but it will greatly diminish the popularity of Java/JVM in the long run because most tech companies shudder at the thought of having Oracle b
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
I dunno, it seems pretty harsh given that drug doping cases on the men's side only receive 2 to 4 years for a first offense [1] and given it's not something she could have gone out and done on her own - coach and mechanics must ha
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
navigating high-grade descents are the wrinkle - truck air brakes seem very finicky. But I think there's no reason why long, sparse, flat freeway sections could not be run by automated cabs relatively soon, for example CA-I5 from Tej
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
the engine software update, applied in the recall last year, by itself made the cars pass emission thresholds in other countries, which had a lower bar than US. I wonder if VW's plan will be to buy back the cars and resell them in Eur
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
Analysis: non-programmers don't naturally code to the Von Neumann machine architecture. They instead declaratively define higher-level rules and operations with a naive grammar strongly influenced by human language and experience.
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
TL;DR non-programmers tended to define/use - declarative event-based rules over imperative flow - set manipulations instead of 1by1 iterative changes - list collections instead of arrays. ability to sort implicit - rule-based exclusion
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by jakelarkin 10y ago
yes and the US Air Force is too much in the pocket of defense contractors and out of step with forces that actually wage combat in the current conflicts. They drag their feet on effective and low-cost solutions like the A-10 and drones and
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
CPUC is the state regulator of "Transportation Network Companies" (Uber, Lyft etc.) since 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Public_Utilities_Co...
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
read the report https://transparencyreport.uber.com/ the 12M users are mostly demands from regulatory authorities - 6M is California, likely CPUC - 3M is New York, probably the TLC there that's how you get the data set
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
If you're in California, here is a form to email Dianne Feinstein your thoughts on this bill. https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
Another political solution is for the state government to step in. Growing regional housing and transit is a prisoner's dilemma in the sense that no individual municipality wants put up it's fair share of the cost and necessary ch
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
It would seem there's no where on the peninsula can you buy an average 1500sqft house for less than $1million, ~$700/sqft.
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
at a certain point, fast approaching, we should start optimizing road markings for electronic sensors over human sight. How costly would it be to strip the middle of every lane with a small magnet or RFID that could detected by vehicles an
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
Basketball has 5 person teams. Team performance is highly sensitive to the performance of individual players, for example if your team's injury-plagued point guard stabilizes and becomes in the later half of his career, one of the grea
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Consumers will pick the best cheap gadget regardless of origin. Investors want maximal profits in a 1-3 years time frame. The system unfortunately does not afford much wiggle room for ethical and national duty when working with those constr
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by jakelarkin 11y ago
That article, I believe, was a reaction to http://modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/san-franciscos-i... While an interesting "matter of fact" summary it doesn't really answer the question posed -