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by jjguy 12y ago
ElasticSearch and Solr are both search engines built on top of Lucene. ElasticSearch just has all the hipster hype these days. Maybe update the description to include all three.
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Security startup Carbon Black merging with Bit9(carbonblack.com)
1 points by jjguy 13y ago|0 comments
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The Design of Everyday Things Online Course Launches(blog.udacity.com)
2 points by jjguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 13y ago
you consider that an appeal to authority? how about your complete disregard for his point. thanks for re-enforcing my point.
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by jjguy 13y ago
HN, I'm ashamed of you. The comments in this thread (and every other Snowden-related revelation in the last six months) have made it clear you are incapable of appreciating the magnitude and complexity of this scope of issue. The comm
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by jjguy 13y ago
If you liked this article, you should read Show Stopper. It's out of print, but there are ample used copies via Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0029356717/
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by jjguy 13y ago
People spend money to solve problems. If the problem you solve is not clearly defined, you cannot define your customers and cannot target your marketing. The validation you need might be "that's cool!" The validation your
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FAA to Allow Airlines to Expand Use of Personal Electronics(faa.gov)
9 points by jjguy 13y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 13y ago
Looks like the Guardian got hacked. I clicked, saw the article header, but was then redirected to a NSFW ad for Teen Party Sluts.
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Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden: What Edward Snowden did(cnn.com)
7 points by jjguy 13y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: my startup - a "distributed process monitor" for the enterprise(carbonblack.com)
2 points by jjguy 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Announcing New Bounty Programs(blogs.technet.com)
6 points by jjguy 13y ago|2 comments
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by jjguy 13y ago
Every USG veteran knows to be skeptical of mission briefs, regardless of important-looking classification markings. That deck was put together by a mid- to low-level government program manager who owned the program. He is playing politics,
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by jjguy 13y ago
Cute, but unlikely to be Snowden's job. * The KRSOC is about 35 minutes outside Honolulu, far enough to not be "Honolulu" http://goo.gl/maps/R2vYe * The position clearance requirements are just SECRET, N
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by jjguy 13y ago
The referenced story: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of... ; declan submitted his story https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844091 but it languished. It's a shame, beca
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by jjguy 13y ago
+1 for a well-grounded response, declan. I'm ashamed this didn't make it to HN's front page.
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by jjguy 13y ago
I still have original install media for Wing Commander III, but bought it again just for the modern OS remastering.
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Blackstone invests in enterprise information security startup Carbon Black(carbonblack.com)
1 points by jjguy 13y ago|0 comments
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LinkedIn is down; java stack traces(linkedin.com)
1 points by jjguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Nate Silver's NCAA Final Four Bracket(nytimes.com)
2 points by jjguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Exponential decay as an alternative to circular buffers(awelonblue.wordpress.com)
2 points by jjguy 14y ago|0 comments
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Google Hacking Database from Johnny Long(hackersforcharity.org)
2 points by jjguy 14y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 14y ago
I read it as evidence of the erosion of state's rights. Perception is reality and those folks clearly thought they needed Daddy DC's permission. We nationalize too many issues on which our nation is deeply divided. If, instead of bickerin
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by jjguy 14y ago
"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it well enough yourself." -- Einstein In other words, express your command of a subject by how simple you make it appear, not by demonstrating how impressive and complicated
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by jjguy 14y ago
My experience shopping on Amazon - a bit like browsing in a vast, chaotic and disorganized third-world marketplace - is not one I'd like extended to my computing platform. Amazon and others can tout narrow features as much as they want, but
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by jjguy 14y ago
If you re-read the early cyberpunk scifi from Gibson and Stephenson, one of the characteristics of their vision we're still missing is execution at the edges. There was a strong concept of "my virtual space" in which space owners control n
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Inappropriate Use of Adobe Code Signing Certificate(blogs.adobe.com)
84 points by jjguy 14y ago|13 comments
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by jjguy 14y ago
Android O&M is a disaster is not changing anytime soon. Quibble on features out of the box if you like, but in end-to-end support the iPhone is still the hands down winner. See http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orp
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by jjguy 14y ago
The words "donors" in that wikipedia page have remained unchanged since the original page shell in May 2006. Considering also the NYT article explicitly discusses donor vs. donors, I view the wikipedia characterization more as editorial co
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by jjguy 14y ago
What you're referring to is called cultural relativism [1], and is willfully ignored in most media reports of working conditions in foreign countries. By not providing any context to the local norms, we tend to compare conditions to our n

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