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by rkaplan 14y ago
Question: is it possible for a malicious hacker to use this information for anything? E.g. sending rogue push notifications to a user, or tracking down a user's additional personal information by knowing his/her device UDID or APNs token? I
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A Geographic Traffic Visualization of Obama's Reddit AMA with WebGL(webgl.com)
1 points by rkaplan 14y ago|1 comments
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Out of the Software Complexity Tar Pit(shaffner.us)
1 points by rkaplan 14y ago|0 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
Looks very nice. My only complaint is that all the JavaScript code is in one file, which makes it a bit harder to casually peruse (I was curious how you implemented the ghosts' AI).
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by rkaplan 14y ago
I think the name "Filepicker.io" is severely limiting. When I hear "Filepicker.io", I think "easy-to-use library for handling user file uploads." That is rather narrower than their description of the service on their blog: "Filepicker.io he
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Explained: The Shannon Limit (2010)(web.mit.edu)
79 points by rkaplan 14y ago|15 comments
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Knight Capital Says Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million(dealbook.nytimes.com)
73 points by rkaplan 14y ago|90 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
Bots might be operated by competitors to increase the cost of advertising for Limited Pressing. This is the most likely scenario, in my opinion. However, though rather unlikely, the bots could be affiliated with Facebook itself, as all of t
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by rkaplan 14y ago
This article is very misleading. Here is the actual full statement, courtesy of http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/46416/samsung-statement-appl... : "In a ruling on July 9, 2012, the High Court of England & Wales sided with Samsung that
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by rkaplan 14y ago
All the economic talk these days is about Greece and Spain, but Argentina seems to be on its knees economically based on the kind of measures they've pursued as of late. A few months ago, they deployed cash-sniffing dogs in airports to prev
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DNA Blueprint for Fetus Built Using Samples From Parents(nytimes.com)
30 points by rkaplan 14y ago|6 comments
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by rkaplan 14y ago
From wikipedia: "An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot onboard. Its flight is either controlled autonomously by computers in the vehicle, or under the remote control of a navigator
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by rkaplan 14y ago
I think the most credible concern this post mentions is the general disregard in the United States (especially among those in charge of the military) for the long term implications of the indiscriminate use of A.I.-based warfare. Drones see
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by rkaplan 15y ago
Does anyone see this actually catching on in the next five years and becoming something more than a gimmick? I'm as excited about the prospect of viewing the world through a HUD as the next guy, but I can't imagine these glasses looking sle
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by rkaplan 15y ago
I'm interested to find out how this will affect car insurance in the future. Although the human operator of the vehicle is held liable for any accidents, even if he/she is not physically present in the car [1], the likelihood of an autonomo
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by rkaplan 15y ago
True, but those unsolved, more urgent problems often require more educated labor. Many taxi drivers who find themselves out of a job likely don't have the skills necessary to quickly reintegrate into the labor market solving the tougher pro