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by nxzero 10y ago
AJ is a professional company. If you read the other comments, which were posted after my comment, it's clear the developer made an agreement a freelance journalist, not AJ; which isn't even mentioned by the developer in the blog e
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by nxzero 10y ago
Companies going out of their way to help the blind is not the norm.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Horrible idea, are you serious?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Right, that's obvious, just like it's obvious you'd call them up and sell them on paying you to use it, not tell them to stop via so legal notice that might not even legally apply to them.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Something feels off about this whole post, but can't put my finger on it. For example, appears the company makes money selling their code to online newspapers, but when a major media company uses their code the response is to tell them
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by nxzero 10y ago
There's definitely locations listed online that should not be, though as areas become less populated, best way to find secret location is visual analysis of satellite maps, or call a local social hotspot, claim to be from a major newsp
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "ask Sebastian what he thinks about simulation" Thanks, appreciate you addressing the questions. If you wanted to ping Sebastian and let him know about the AMA, I'm sure there would be a lot of interest beyond just m
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by nxzero 10y ago
Why do it if "it isn’t the core focus of Udacity’s business" as the founder, Sebastian Thrun, said? Seems like creating free and open source simulator would be of more value than trying to get students to build hardware based vehi
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by nxzero 10y ago
How can something be "too good for the sport" is beyond me. I get that it makes comparing the past to the present, but it literally based on the description in the story made it seem like the changes were improving the "sport
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by nxzero 10y ago
Only restaurants I've known that did well owned the real estate they were in or were super cheap high margin places that were popular with a good location. Lots of restaurants are just fronts for money laundering.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Maybe short-term, but long-term, it's a wise move.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Results of the book's sells aren't that shocking if the sells per new book from her past books are accounted for: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/15/us/politics/clinton-boo... Is shockin
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by nxzero 10y ago
It might help kill Intel though, which would make it harder for someone else to enter Apple's core markets.
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by nxzero 10y ago
There are a lot of places like that, just Google something like: (secret OR sensitive) (facility OR building) INSERT-LOCATION-NAME
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by nxzero 10y ago
Sounds toxic. Imagine this was created by someone that sees art as a collection of objects. Art is about artist, not art - and no one wants to directly be told they are not producing "quality art" by some system.
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by nxzero 10y ago
There's a big difference between being availability being predictable & unpredictable - it's called consistency. Picking a pattern, and sticking to it is fundamental to systems flow. Yes, have "randomness" is importa
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by nxzero 10y ago
Thanks, really appreciate the effort to provide your take on the problem. While I could easily see this working with friends, it not really what I'm looking for. Here's so far here's the best expression of why I don't si
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by nxzero 10y ago
Maybe it's just to protect the antennas from weather.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Thanks, aware of the email, but I believe in public exchanges about matters that impact the community.
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Ask HN: HN Content Filter Stats
2 points by nxzero 10y ago|2 comments
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, same DHS agent, his father is a federal judge in Chicago.
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by nxzero 10y ago
As someone that lives a largely anonymous life, not that I'm engaged in anything that would interest law enforcement, bullet proof operational security is impossible, and at some point mistakes happen. If you think it's easy, it&#
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by nxzero 10y ago
This is not news, here's a report from 2007 covering the topic in detail: https://fas.org/nuke/guide/israel/nuke/ ("Updated 2007" is in the footer of the page.)
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Ask HN: Declining NDAs
3 points by nxzero 10y ago|2 comments
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by nxzero 10y ago
Most people would not mind wireless power that's not dangerous, but that is not a pragmatic reasoning behind why it will happen soon, but didn't happen in the past. Right?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Work on wireless power transfer has been going on over 100-years, even Tesla worked on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_power_transfer Hard to imagine this being mainstream anytime soon. Is there any reason
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by nxzero 10y ago
ID fraud already makes a lot of SSN non-unique; one in seven SSN has been used more than once, though the SSA doesn't report this to the owner of the SSN.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yes, that was an odd DARPA RFP though, since amoung other paradoxical that RFP wanted to be able to delete parts of the blockchain after the fact. NATO is also looking into blockchain uses: https://www.ncia.nato.int/NewsRoom
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by nxzero 10y ago
Redirected link from bitly link above: https://media.voog.com/0000/0036/0235/files/Black_Lantern_da...
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Assuming the appliance remains secure" Makes me wonder what mathematics would prove this, or if it's assumed to be out of scope, and if so, what else is out of scope too.

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