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by oniTony 15y ago
At the "$150,000 per work infringed" valuation, I think one could claim a _much_ larger number. 34 individual songs would break $5 million claimed.
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by oniTony 15y ago
This isn't confirmed yet: http://www.therecord.com/news/local/article/630801--facebook... > "... but nobody at the city, Facebook, the company redeveloping the buildings or the high-tech community could confirm it." Besides, RIM has v
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by oniTony 15y ago
so how much is an affiliate payout on 1¢ phones? ;)
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by oniTony 15y ago
Not sure, but there are cases of jailtime. > "Drage was convicted of failing to disclose an encryption key in September." [1] Though it says that he "failed" to disclose a password when asked. Not clear if he was unwilling or unable, an
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by oniTony 15y ago
That might currently be the case for UK. Though it's quite reasonable to forget a password, especially in a high-stress situation of an interrogation. Extra hilarity ensues when there is actually _no_ password for a TrueCrypt volume that _d
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by oniTony 15y ago
any number of cores more than 1 is only relevant for parallel code (or multiple concurrent apps). Which, for this page, is probably not the case.
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by oniTony 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that the contest is hosted by the University of Waterloo's Computer Science Club; Google is a sponsor, UofT is definitely not a host -- http://aichallenge.org/faq.php
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by oniTony 15y ago
My resumes are typically tweaked to be job specific. Do I get to create just one generic apply-to-all copy? How about tracking metrics other than just views? Following http://paulbutler.org/archives/experiment-in-testing-my-resu... there
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by oniTony 15y ago
a citation from the article has an FAQ with just that question. http://tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/#Q2
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by oniTony 15y ago
It's a matter of physical security and not allowing random people with specialty tools near the sensitive hardware (which is applicable to all other side channel attacks). Depending on the amount of access and tools, an attacker could just
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by oniTony 15y ago
And soon you might be eligible to come up as a false-positive for all kinds of FBI lookups!
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by oniTony 15y ago
That's a legitimate concern though. People have unoriginal broad ideas ("I want to sell stuff through app/website") and supply over-reaching NDAs ("_everything_ mentioned is covered, with no expiration date"). Even if such is ultimately not
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by oniTony 15y ago
The advantage is that you don't need 1:1 ratio of tasks. You could have many mappers and just a few reducers, or the other way around.. depending on how the problem is broken up into tasks.
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by oniTony 15y ago
my RISC-architectured world has been shattered. Neat example.
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by oniTony 15y ago
lock-free data structures are also really really neat. Implementing such is another matter though...
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by oniTony 15y ago
Right. Those are stricter definitions. Although wouldn't Parallelism's multiple operations each be "in-flight"? That is, it's pretty clear that one can have concurrency without parallelism, but you seem to suggest that one can have parallel
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by oniTony 15y ago
Concurrency (single CPU context switching) is "easy". Parallel programming (multiple tasks on multiple CPUs) is _hard_. I'm currently studying the internals of parallel programming, I am amazed by how much magic MapReduce abstracts away.
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by oniTony 15y ago
It's easy to calculate dollar value opportunity cost of closing shop and getting paid Big Corp Inc.'s salary. It's really hard to calculate utility value of running a hipster gelato bar and hanging out with fellow developers all day.
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by oniTony 15y ago
> recommendations through friends and friends of friends So kind of like http://www.gigpark.com/ (which is arguably something like "Yelp for (Business and other types of) Services").
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by oniTony 15y ago
Does it have to be in U.S.? UWaterloo (Canada) has dedicated student residence as a startup incubator http://velocity.uwaterloo.ca/
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by oniTony 15y ago
Depends on what you plan on doing in the real world. Googling for code snippets will not help you with novel algorithm design/analysis (though here I'm thinking of Computer Science, not "programming").
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by oniTony 15y ago
Not sure on what's typical, but my University uses a "you get to keep your IP" as a selling point; so presumably there must be enough of other institutions where this is not the case. UMissouri's attempt to claim royalties for student's in-
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by oniTony 15y ago
Google's Kitchener/Waterloo office is growing rapidly. Google has been hiring many of us (UWaterloo students/grads) for intern/full-time positions. I, for one, welcome our new Android overlords.
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by oniTony 15y ago
.onion ? Technically not a real DNS entry, and is not present in DNS root.
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by oniTony 15y ago
At the very least, they will threaten to charge you with... whatever. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110303/ap_on_re_us/us_gps_track... > the agents who showed up to collect the device were "hostile," threatening to charge Afifi if he d
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by oniTony 15y ago
The article does not make any suggestions as to what to do if a tracker _is_ found on a car.
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by oniTony 15y ago
I had a very different experience. HR person was in Palo Alto, and went out of his way to set himself up with Skype (as I have no actual phone number) to talk with me at my choice of times. Overall I was pleased with their HR, although it w
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by oniTony 15y ago
Good point; though this seems to suggest that wifi/TOR is explicitly criminal.
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Ask HN: Viable to open LLC to run open wifi (or TOR exit node)?
4 points by oniTony 15y ago|3 comments
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by oniTony 15y ago
This was actually one of the April 1st jokes on Think Geek this year.

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