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by sdrinf 9y ago
A bootstrapped company somewhere in the Midwest takes about 3-5 years of bootstrapping to be heard about on the east coast. A capitalized startup can hit the PR drum immediately. As put earler at https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by sdrinf 9y ago
This sounds an incredibly useful capability to have. May I ask which data connector did you used to pull data, and how did you made it available in that format from the app side?
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by sdrinf 10y ago
If you're using chrome, a strong recommendation for CryptUp: https://cryptup.org/ <- which does seamless gmail integration for pgp, compatible with all major external keyservers & other email encryption apps; wi
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by sdrinf 10y ago
* Yes, these are native, ELF binaries. Yes, you can compile it on your linux server, cp it across to windows, and run it. * No, it is not an emulation. The win10 kernel + compatibility layer just happens to be able to also run ELF binaries.
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by sdrinf 10y ago
IANAL, but this has been discussed a couple of times, most prominently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3641312 . Short version: comments are copyright @ their owners, HN has an implied license to republish; other
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by sdrinf 10y ago
| In the meantime Dropbox's core offering of syncing and sharing files seamlessly as well as providing more security minded options for businesses is something that no one else has quite gotten right. There is absolutely no mention wha
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by sdrinf 10y ago
Extra creditz just published an excellent video on why auto-generated vendor-sellable items lead to hyperinflation under most circumstances, and a few ways to avoid it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sumZLwFXJqE | When bu
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| Finally, understand that your contribution is not "free" for the project. It takes time and consideration to even look at your PR and even more to code review it. The more popular the project, the more true this is. Understand c
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by sdrinf 10y ago
What you're looking for is called the symbolic grounding problem : | But as an approach to general intelligence, classical symbolic AI has been disappointing. A major obstacle here is the symbol grounding problem [18, 19]. The symboli
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by sdrinf 10y ago
Strictly from an insurance business perspective, there are two major problems with this: * Netsec events are black swans: it's very, very hard to model how often a security breach will occur. One could checklist all the ways by which w
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by sdrinf 10y ago
This thread might be as good as any to point out: * There is an enormous quantity of culture locked into Facebook posts * Since Facebook's graph API have been shut down, there exists no API-based way to export _other people's data
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by sdrinf 10y ago
> There are disciplines that have been teaching concentration for hundreds of years that produce people who can concentrate at will under pretty much any circumstance. To teach beginners they choose a very quiet, distraction-free environ
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by sdrinf 10y ago
| Note that outbash.exe listens on 127.0.0.1, but validates that processes that establish a connection are running as the same user as outbash.exe (this check is implemented starting with version v0.7). Therefore, it can be used on multi-us
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by sdrinf 10y ago
I suspect that might be conemu, and compatibility thereof. Specifically, running the bog-standard bash prompt (with conhost.exe) makes this a no-repro; all keys / arrows works in MC & htop
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by sdrinf 10y ago
Screenshot: http://imgur.com/a/5Fcr9 Short summary: * Ubuntu, and all children apps run under current user's credentials, but are launched under an Lxssmanager servicehost process (as opposed to explorer.exe) * Pr
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Optimizing and Securing Windows 10(cyberpunkforums.com)
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Do we have secondary sources confirming this, specifically, lawyers in the case confirming this being brought up as evidence? If so, where is the public record of that? What are CBSLocal's incentives? Can they push fearmongering withou
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by sdrinf 10y ago
Writing an open, and distributed web crawler / indexer is a nice programming exercise. Writing an "objective" ranking function (for any values of "objective") in an open, and distributed manner is structurally not f
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by sdrinf 10y ago
Ask the consultant to perform (or at least implement) LTV measurement across 3/6-months stage. Price sensitive bank-account-checking users will act as a canary, and at least in the Boston Globe case, I suspect tactics like these to inc
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by sdrinf 11y ago
| Selling BCC was going to pay for living expenses while we built Starfighter’s first game (Stockfighter) and also pay for some development work to assist with the sale of my other SaaS business, Appointment Reminder. ^^ - you're sell
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by sdrinf 11y ago
IPv6 usage is steadily increasing, currently hovering at 10% globally, and 23% in the US. [1] This is driven partially by mobile deployments, partially by some ISPs rolling out support. Note, that the IPv4 address exhaustion referred to in
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by sdrinf 11y ago
Script injection (see Comcast a few weeks ago), page manipulation (eg. pointing at download links with malicious side-load), keyword-based filtering (HTTP inspection). If you're using non-default DNS servers, you also get privacy on w
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by sdrinf 11y ago
From the bottom of the page: | Our goal is the creation of a nomadic ultra small graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. The desktop boots extremely fast and is able to supp
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by sdrinf 11y ago
Cost of customer acqusition. States have to be bagged one-by-one, each with an insanely long sales cycle, your profits have to cover those nice salespeople's salaries, while leaving you with sufficient profit to cashflow expansion. Thi
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by sdrinf 11y ago
Is there a checklist available on the settings people might perceive as privacy violation, their operational implication, and howto disable it?
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by sdrinf 11y ago
There are very few pieces of information really worthy of deliberate broadcasts across star-systems in the hopes of someone catching it. One of these few might be a full dump of neural vector-states (or functional equivalent thereof), at an
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by sdrinf 11y ago
A handful of reasons (disclaimer: painting with very wide brush here, in the hope that you get the strategic picture) * The desktop market is fragmented. Pick your poison: walled garden with crappy devtools, OSS fanatics who will not pay fo
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by sdrinf 11y ago
On the same general line: given a shell, which could analyze frequency of commands & make intelligent guesses for non-executable / invalid commands ("do what I intended, not what I've typed), I would toss my bash so hard
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by sdrinf 11y ago
Mirror for Database Error'd: https://archive.today/D33zV
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by sdrinf 12y ago
Chrome.exe ,no, srsly. Specifically, when doing deep infodiving, it's not uncommon to juggle (that is, actually apply ops within 30-min intervals to) 80+ tabs; 2 visual studio in the background; local number crunching: large-ish data &

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