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by joewee 8y ago
You’re right, they aren’t using it in real time, they are using people looking up at the sky to make a gut determination as to when there are “too many” birds. I expected there to be innovation because based on the article, light pollution
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by joewee 8y ago
The solution? Turn off the lights. Didn’t seem very innovative. Why not use drones that look like birds of prey to circle the lights? The innovation seems to be the analysis of weather data to identify the presence of birds, so someone know
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by joewee 8y ago
This sounds likely, and I wouldn’t be surprised if google had deals with publishers to send additional data, like your computer’s internal IP via webrtc. Alternatively WaPo could be using WebRTC to pull your internal IP and caching with you
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Ask HN: How many cloud / SaaS services do you use?
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by joewee 8y ago
The approach I’m trying now is to start at the destination and work my way backwards. It’s similar to how some people prep for test by starting with a test and then focusing on the weak areas. It feels similar to how I learn in the course o
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by joewee 8y ago
Isn’t meetup a good source for this? Or industry/society events. ACM/usenix/2600.
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by joewee 8y ago
Look to the largest employer in the USA, the federal government. The primary hiring criteria is on the job experience and certifications. Most cyber security certifications require prior work experience. In cyber security former government
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by joewee 8y ago
We are returning to an apprenticeship society and it’s about time if we want to keep pace with our need for knowledge workers. I wonder how long it will be before AI reduces our need for knowledge workers and we return to using things like
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by joewee 8y ago
This reminds me of the scene from the Matrix when they question whether the AI knows how to replicate the taste of human food “maybe they couldn’t figure out what chicken taste like, which is why chicken taste like everything.” https:&#x2F
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by joewee 8y ago
One Native American tribe killing another Native American tribe is still genocide. Africa is a continent, the slave trade was focused on nations / tribes within the continent. I think the appropriate application of ethnic group is appl
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by joewee 8y ago
genocide: the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group genocide - systematic killing of a racial or cultural group Kidnapping a single ethnic group from their homeland and accepting that some percentag
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by joewee 8y ago
Sort of like preppers who teach themselves to identify exits in any venue they enter and how to spot someone that looks out of place. With time you can teach yourself to identify details everyone else ignores, if you have good reason to.
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by joewee 8y ago
This explains why Japanese train conductors make a big deal out of delays of a few seconds. It’s very common to hear announcements like “sorry we were delayed by 20 seconds because someone was holding the door.” Because that delays the enti
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by joewee 8y ago
Well technically it’s a side project that generates more than $500 a month. Though I really should focus on this business or sell it.
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by joewee 8y ago
http://www.meetkaori.com multilingual virtual assistants. Right now the focus is Japanese / English but plans to add other tough to hire languages like Chinese.
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Credit card skimmers now need to fear the Reaper(arstechnica.com)
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by joewee 8y ago
I own meetkaori.com and we haven’t failed. It’s a small niche, bilingual Japanese assistants, but it’s an important enough niche that people find value in the service. Planning to expand to other markets soon.
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by joewee 8y ago
Sounds like you would be a valuable member of any company, especially a startup. I’d love to hear your thoughts on more ethical ideas for analyzing difficult to obtain data. Feel free to ping me directly.
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by joewee 8y ago
I’ve always looked at these systems as “if someone else built this, it would be worse.” Doesn’t the same moral conundrum exist anytime you build a system that dehumanizes people for profit. Ad networks? Drug trials?
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by joewee 8y ago
Makes me wonder why this is even possible...video of Oval Office argument... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ija-VZwcznE
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by joewee 8y ago
This doesn’t work anymore, if it ever did. There is free software capable of isolating audio like a single voice from background noise.
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by joewee 8y ago
There was a good thread here about scraping and the use of paid proxy services. Seems like free isn’t a solution for anything at scale.
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by joewee 8y ago
Not sure why this is of interest to this crowd. Must be a slow day, these are dangerous to build. Unfortunately no background on the persons engineering experience or mental health... https://www.washingtonpost.com/local&#x
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by joewee 8y ago
The interesting part of this article is that they are improving how data is tagged and implementing a new architecture as part of the migration to allow other agencies more access to what’s collected. The only thing that seems significant a
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by joewee 8y ago
I have never searched my message text history with the exception of trying to find images sent to me. Never content. Most companies I’ve worked at have a similar policy of not archiving text messages from internal chat. No reason to keep co
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by joewee 8y ago
The most important purpose of these exploding message capabilities is destruction of data that doesn’t need to be archived. The primary threat is compromise of a device. Keybase allows you to revoke keys but that assumes you are aware that
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by joewee 8y ago
I’d like to read the story about her. It seems like she was just a great self promoter. Being attractive does help, but that goes for both men and women. We tend to like attractive people, that’s why the big 4 consulting firms are full of y
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by joewee 8y ago
Which would do you have to re-write? Your deployment code or your application code. If it’s the latter you’re not using the cloud correctly. If it’s the former, re-writing deployment scripts is much easy than physically migrating a DC which
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by joewee 8y ago
I thought this was why we moved away from mainframe computing to general purpose hardware...now the best practice is to go the opposite direction, this time we are calling shared compute resources “cloud.” Some cloud providers will be bette
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by joewee 8y ago
Doubtful. If this was common we would have more female startups funded. Just because she is attractive and raised money doesn’t mean she had to use sex to get there. She did go to a Ivy League school which brings a network and credibility i

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