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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Texas makes tesla direct sales illegal. Tesla bribes Texas governor with factory in Texas. Texas governor decides to change law. Perry runs for president in 2016 as a "job creator". Good old American corruption
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Random numbers don't always need to be cryptographically secure. In situations like games you might just want to use a function with low resource requirements. If you want a cryptographically secure random generation you should use Sec
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
"The company found some free surface 2's and are forcing everyone to use them. This is sign that Apple is losing dominance in the bring your own device market" Okay, sure, makes sense.
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Huh. This software is pretty handy.
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
I don't really have much to say about the rest of the article, but just thought it was funny they mentioned my startup and quoted one my cofounders. I will say though, based on my experience working with the LAPD, that there is signifi
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Haha, this is funny. I'm one of the co-founders of PredPol, the startup that makes the predictive policing software LA uses. I think it's a stretch to call anything I wrote in my dorm military grade, but I suppose I'll take t
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Nice title. "Email is broken. People are using it a lot."
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
So if I understand this correctly, he's written a program that can mess with the contents of a file such that when you run the file contents through some hash function, the resulting hash is an encrypted message you generated with some
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Santa Clara + Los Angeles REMOTE PredPol. We collect and process crime data and run it through a statistical model we've developed to try and predict where it will happen next. Right now we have a product we sell to police departments
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Cartoon Network probably tries to target certain demographic rates so they can have different options for advertisers. If you've got a product you're marketing to girls, or families, or ages 3 - 5, Cartoon Network could conceivabl
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
100% of web traffic isn't human, but some of the software listens to humans more than others.
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
PredPol. We make a web app that processes historical data for police departments (just time, place, type of past crime) and predicts where crime is going to happen in the future. Then cops go to the risky areas and try and stop a crime befo
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
The virtual machine node uses, V8, is very fast. It was written by Google for Chrome and is much faster and lighter than the ruby interpreter.
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
this is the most unappealing thing i've seen this year
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
California - Fulltime. Seed funded, generating revenue. Comp salary + benefits PredPol - Our software processes crime data through a model that allows us to predict where crime will happen. Then we give police officers access to this data t
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Scott Forstall?
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Looks like a shit on a plate
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Cool i've been looking for a site ugly enough to read while I cut myself
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
AWS is nice. You have a lot of control over your infrastructure and you can control it easily with APIs. The one thing to be careful of with AWS is that they have a lot of nice services that can be tempting to use but will lock you into the
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by omarforgotpwd 13y ago
Woah! I'm the technical founder of this company and I hadn't even seen this article yet. Pretty surreal to see it on hacker news.
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by omarforgotpwd 14y ago
Yeah, I got a phonecall from apple saying they had a ticket for me to buy and I should expect an email int he next 6 hours.
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by omarforgotpwd 14y ago
Funny to see that there is more than one company that was formed to go after the ".app" tld.
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by omarforgotpwd 14y ago
PredPol. We use statistical models developed by our founders at UCLA and Santa Clara to get police in the right spot so they can stop crime before it happens. Our website sucks, but we're doing great work. Some jobs ads linked below. Send a