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14 years of distributed prime number calculations lost with no backups(free-dc.org)
3 points by nstj 10y ago|2 comments
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by nstj 10y ago
Zdziarski's "iOS Forensic Investigative Methods"[0] is a free eBook which can be helpful if you're interested in native penetration testing. [0]: http://www.zdziarski.com/blog/?p=2287
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by nstj 10y ago
> Houston claimed that Dropbox has been cash flow positive, emphasizing that this milestone for a business “means you control your destiny. Instead of being funded by your investors, you’re funded by your customers. ” Accounts payable f
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by nstj 10y ago
I'm just impressed that someone still manages to be upset about a cellphone they had an antenna issue with 6 years ago. Dedication!
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by nstj 10y ago
Weird downvotes - I'm guessing the author is alluding to Facebook running audio processes in the background to keep their app alive. Which is pretty relevant.
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by nstj 10y ago
Nice tip!
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by nstj 10y ago
What is the Instagram shop section?
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by nstj 10y ago
It will just work itself out naturally.
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by nstj 10y ago
Instagram have left open the option that in the future the curated timeline may also adjust the content of your feed so even if you could fix the ordering at a temporal level, there would still be omissions. > As we begin, we’re focusi
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by nstj 10y ago
Without having a raft of data in front of me, you'd have to assume that many Large Development Shops had an Instagram API token and are being impacted by this change in addition to independent developers. The irony is that Instagram t
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by nstj 10y ago
Apple discusses who it uses for cloud storage when discussing iCloud in their security guide (valid as of May 2016): > The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage servi
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by nstj 10y ago
Thanks for the tip on Quandl, and for the great library!
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by nstj 10y ago
Luckily this project also has the option to pull in data from free sources like FRED[0] and Yahoo! Finance[1] making it quite useable without a Bloomberg subscription [0]: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ [1]: h
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by nstj 10y ago
You could just build it yourself from the source if you're worried about that. Does the SDK ship with any pre-built binaries?
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by nstj 10y ago
Yes. What I'm saying is that conceptually I understand Buffett's implementation of the circle of competence, it's just that his circle seems immutable, and I believe for many people they develop insights into new areas/
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by nstj 10y ago
Follow up to your edit - and I'm totally familiar with the "Circle of Competence" philosophy, but given Buffett has stated he won't invest in things which he doesn't understand, and he's said he doesn't un
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by nstj 10y ago
That logic works the other way also (ie: it could just be some huge long in the stock to arb an options position and therefore be a $0 exposure to Apple stock). Disclaimer: I am not an options market maker so I'm unsure if you can rea
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by nstj 10y ago
Does the Buffett "no tech" rule hold for Tedd and Todd, his investment managers?
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by nstj 10y ago
Buffett himself quite possibly had no knowledge of this investment
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by nstj 10y ago
And that it probably wasn't Warren Buffett who bought it (he has 2 portfolio/investment managers who he's gradually handing the reins to).
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Ask HN: Does Twitter sell Crashlytics app usage data to 3rd parties?
1 points by nstj 10y ago|0 comments
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by nstj 11y ago
> Amount of material recovered for reuse through take-back initiatives in 2015 > Gold 2204 [lbs] [0] [0]: http://images.apple.com/au/environment/pdf/Apple_Environment... So is the Vice story trying to c
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by nstj 11y ago
Scroll on the extreme edges of the page. But yes bad UX
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by nstj 11y ago
Well put
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by nstj 11y ago
Where does this show that "the iPhone tracks my location every time it discovers a wifi network"? Sure I can have given permission for tracking to an app but if I haven't where does the iPhone/iOS store my location data
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by nstj 11y ago
Which iOS? Link available?
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by nstj 11y ago
Don't rely on client side data. Pin certificates in mobile apps.
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by nstj 11y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by nstj 11y ago
Low cost of capital environments cause strange behaviour in corporate finance - as you've seen with many of these "huge" VC-co's
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by nstj 11y ago
Amen with respect to cycling contracts. Landing a great job is essentially about reducing information asymmetry, and this gives a great means of doing so.

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