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by plg 13y ago
I'm not bitter that when bitcoin was ~ $1/btc I almost bought 1,000 btc ... no not bitter at all :|
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by plg 13y ago
Apple's Pages (iWork) can no longer open .rtf files!? In fact Pages can no longer open some of my "old" Pages files. I just get an error msg. Has Apple plain given up on word processors? Or is this a sign that they have given
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Apple iWork, lost features and iOS
1 points by plg 13y ago|1 comments
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by plg 13y ago
The day we fight back against privacy violations run amock. Now enter your phone number and email into this JavaScript banner.
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by plg 13y ago
notable in the "Apple technology at the center of it all" panel: no Mac Pros
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by plg 13y ago
As is the case with FB, Twitter, and the other social networks, young people will not see a problem with this, at least while they're young. As they grow older and live their lives, and have medical problems, have brushes with the law,
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by plg 13y ago
nice!
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by plg 13y ago
I think what I'll do is send a list of all grades listed next to the SHA256 hash of their student IDs They have access to SHA256 so they can privately find their own student ID hash and then look up their grades
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by plg 13y ago
mainly I use plain text editors like sublime text, emacs, etc if I happen to use something with a spell checker I usually don't even notice it, and if I do I turn it off now it's not that I never make typos, or I never make spelli
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by plg 13y ago
yeah it's a question of whether the university would still consider posting these altered IDs as private information... after all each student can still decrypt all IDs by dividing them by 2 (since the same encryption rule applies to a
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by plg 13y ago
yeah I like that one if my university were paying attention they would complain that sending me the passwords would be insecure... but I suppose each student could hand me a piece of paper
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by plg 13y ago
nice idea but it would still violate the rules... student ID numbers are no different than names (so says the university) I could ask each student to send me a password and I could post a symmetric encryption of their grade using their pass
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How to securely distribute student grades?
7 points by plg 13y ago|27 comments
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by plg 13y ago
thanks for the pointer, done
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by plg 13y ago
context: my students were shocked to find out that I don't use a spell checker (I never have)... well apart from the one between my ears of course
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Ask HN: Do you use a spell checker?
4 points by plg 13y ago|7 comments
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by plg 13y ago
The underlying assumption at FB seems to be that people are interested in (something like a) magazine but one curated not by professional journalists, designers and advertisers but rather curated by uncle joe, grandma bessie, etc. I know wh
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by plg 13y ago
In principle this could be true but I don't think it will be. A simply example: right now speech recognition happens in the cloud. Could be that a future device has a dedicated chip for speech recognition (or some kind of preprocessing
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by plg 13y ago
I agree with what you say. More and more though as I get on in my career as a scientist I realize though that the details turn out to matter, sometimes a great deal. Anyway I'm all in favour of an open, fast MATLAB alternative
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by plg 13y ago
A lot of the comments I see about Julia (and other trendy high level languages) are of the following form: "I can do things I needed C to do before, and almost as fast" which leads me personally to ask, If you could do this in C b
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by plg 13y ago
usernames & pws have to be stored of course... but I though the whole appeal of snapchat was that messages would self-destruct? i.e. communication between users is not permanent? (except in the brains of the sender and recipient, i.e. j
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by plg 13y ago
it has all the benefits of social media (instant, low-friction communication) and none of the privacy concerns of faceboob, g+, etc. unless of course we discover one day that snapchat messages all live on in some secret db ...
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by plg 13y ago
"he took it upon himself to create a new kind of communications system for Facebook that could relieve some of the pain, bringing project management and communication into a single application" There are tons of these things float
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by plg 13y ago
It's worth re-reading this wonderful book every couple of years. Every time I do, I see something new, either in the story itself, or in the writing craft, or in the story's context in society, as our world changes. It's also
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1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell(theguardian.com)
47 points by plg 13y ago|63 comments
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by plg 13y ago
Do something for the fun of it and/or the challenge, or to see "what if", without worrying about whether you can monetize it. This is of course assuming you've paid your bills already ;)
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by plg 13y ago
It sounds crass but modern academia is becoming like most other professions, i.e. simply getting credentialed (i.e. getting your Ph.D.) does not mean you can count on a tenure track academic faculty position. These positions are highly comp
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by plg 13y ago
re: the risk of insurance companies using the data to reconstruct identities: Mark Davies, the centre's public assurance director says "I think it is a small, theoretical risk" this guy is either (a) a liar or (b) horribly na
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by plg 13y ago
man, you guys/gals have no sense of humour
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by plg 13y ago
Maybe you're holding it wrong. #antennagate

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