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by mistermumble 11y ago
Not to mention that once this is done in the US, what is to prevent other governments in countries where Apple does business to compel Apple to do the same? China (or Russia or Germany or whoever) could force Apple to backdoor phones used b
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by mistermumble 11y ago
He knows. His question was not a question, it was an aggressive statement of FUD. He is backpedaling and now saying that "innovation" can be controversial. https://twitter.com/JohnLegere/status/6852367693
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by mistermumble 11y ago
What they did to Peoplesoft was evil.
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by mistermumble 11y ago
The surveillance state machinery has been a long time building, under the aegis of both parties. I think the Republicans push this with more vigor than the Democrats, but Democratic administrations such as the current one keep the machinery
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by mistermumble 11y ago
In addition, the product which is marketed as "unbreakable" and "unhackable" technology, appears to be a rebranded version of someone's free product. Further, it introduces a security flaw (the company hardcodes its
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by mistermumble 11y ago
Yes, the original article is much more informative. For convenience: http://gizmodo.com/almost-none-of-the-women-in-the-ashley-ma...
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by mistermumble 11y ago
Haven't looked at this closely, but I would think corrections officers would care about keeping their jobs and increasing their pay, and perhaps reducing their work (by lowering the prisoner/officer ratio). Those incentives seem b
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Bitcoin payment processor EgoPay has ceased trading, millions in funds stolen?(cryptocoinsnews.com)
5 points by mistermumble 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermumble 12y ago
I remember going to RS stores to buy a 99 cent part and the clerk having to write, in long hand, on a triplicate form, my name and address and the item, before entering the amount on a cash register. I refused to give my info, and he said h
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How not to write an API: How Amazon got it wrong(medium.com)
7 points by mistermumble 12y ago|3 comments
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by mistermumble 12y ago
Agree. The article's main argument is that the Sony attack is similar to one that happened last year -- but provides zero proof that the previous attack came from North Korea. And a key similarity between the two, according to the arti
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by mistermumble 12y ago
> education health care and the arts flourish Yes. Music also. THIS is the Cuba I'd like to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tozhe0yTAqo
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by mistermumble 12y ago
What does getting basic primary care to the population (vaccinations, preventive care, well baby care) have to do with how many research papers get written? I have worked in one of the top medical schools in the US, with world-class researc
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by mistermumble 12y ago
I highly recommend travel to those countries so that you can observe it for your self. The picture is different than the book.
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by mistermumble 12y ago
yes, good points. It seems that Cuba has become something of a health resource for other countries in Latin America, where there is much less access to doctors (and NPs) than in Cuba. Middle-class people in those countries travel to Cuba fo
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Are parents on iPhones endangering their kids?(qz.com)
5 points by mistermumble 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermumble 12y ago
Plus, as mentioned earlier, this was not an off-the-record conversation.
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by mistermumble 12y ago
Problem is that you may test the system now and it all works fine. But the day after you deploy, somebody named Murphy adds or updates a proxy somewhere in your topology that breaks things. Or your organization gets a new customer or partne
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by mistermumble 12y ago
It seems to me the other way around. I am a high volume user and I have relied on Gmail for almost 10 years. I signed up for inbox (because I am always looking for something better). I found it slowed me down. It was pretty but superficial.
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by mistermumble 12y ago
so Kivin is taking the fight to the streets, or at least to the front door of Amazon HQ, with a daily protest vigil. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/protesting-outside-amazon-hq-fo...
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by mistermumble 12y ago
ESR's post provides a link to a long but worthwhile article by Jelmer Vernooij on the history of Bazaar and why it lost to Git. The key paragraph: We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features that were nice but pe
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by mistermumble 12y ago
This is the first time I have read some of these criticisms of Angular on HN. Can you point to threads where there was discussion of these issues? Would like to get more info on these. Thanks.
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by mistermumble 12y ago
This was introduced at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. here's some additional info (because the IamPuls.com does not have a lot of information): http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/15
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Will.i.am introduces Puls smartband(iampuls.com)
2 points by mistermumble 12y ago|1 comments
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by mistermumble 12y ago
That may well be. For me, it sounded like an HR (human resources dept) term: "employee on-boarding" (something that sounds like employee water-boarding but not as bad).
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by mistermumble 12y ago
According to the article, the robot can only run for 10 seconds. Wondering why that is. Is it that computation errors accumulate so that it is no longer balanced? Or the robot outpaces the treadmill and external camera in that time?
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by mistermumble 12y ago
I agree. Especially if the language is named something that implies high performance. When Golang first appeared it was quite fast. Swift is not, apparently.
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by mistermumble 12y ago
I think he's talking more about the language, rather than the book. You can have a book on APL or Forth that starts out in the first chapter targeting people new to programming, but that does not mean the language itself is the best ch
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$50,000 in Dogecoin Rumoured to Have Been Lost in Recent Hack(coindesk.com)
1 points by mistermumble 12y ago|0 comments
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by mistermumble 12y ago
In the case of the "hand of god" goal, it is not just the player, but the (unseeing) referee that allowed that goal. A complete predictive model would not only have data about players, coaches, weather conditions, etc but also ref

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