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by sfifs 8y ago
So I used to think the same until one day I dramatically learned the utility of wireless charging. I was traveling on a 30 hour journey with two airplane changes from Asia to the US. Some combination of temperature and humidity changes led
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by sfifs 8y ago
Python is ideally suited for data science and machine learning because 80% of the work tends to be data exploration, transformations and feature engineering and 19% of the work is iterative development of models. In such workflows the lack
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by sfifs 8y ago
Not at all. I very much prefer vanilla Ubuntu front end of my personal laptop to MS Windows. I am still on Win 7 on my work laptop so it is tolerable but I'm definitely going Mac instead of Win 10 abomination next upgrade.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Doesn't protect you. Google co-mingling of inventory. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13926015
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by sfifs 8y ago
Sooner or later mass scale technologies become commodities accessible to all. The question is can competitors stay solvent for longer than tech takes to commoditize
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by sfifs 8y ago
A reasonably dense geo, timestamp and IP address event stream over time (ie. Multiple apps sending over time reasonably frequently) should have sufficient information to associate ids. However most ad tech companies including I believe Go
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by sfifs 8y ago
To a non-american, the promptness and lack of even thinking or hesitation with which Michael Cohen answered and the swift "results" it produced make it seem almost certain that the questions from AOC and others were were pre-coo
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by sfifs 8y ago
Maybe they feel they're building products that are actually adding value to people's lives? A decade ago, we hardly kept in touch or were aware of lives of people beyond the immediate circle but now we do? Maybe their products gav
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by sfifs 8y ago
Very unlikely. "My way or the highway" is ingrained in their corporate DNA. Can't think of an attitude less suited for server side work where optimization to custom workloads makes massive cost difference
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by sfifs 8y ago
I wonder if the fact that serial anything criminals exist at all indicates that the criminal justice system might be broken? I wonder if the deterrence aspect of law enforcement is actually working in Western countries.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Password managers largely assume that you personally own or control all the devices you login from. The problem is what if you want people to be able to login from multiple devices or your colleagues devices? This frequently comes up in bu
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by sfifs 8y ago
This looks really interesting! I actually love browser/html/javaScript as a UI significantly over "native" but creating Electron based stuff always has me worried shipping a gigantic bloat and keeping it updated.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Which are also freely available correct since all decisions are freely available?
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by sfifs 8y ago
They actually got off very lightly :-) Merely civil bankruptcy, no jail time, no career ruination and inability to find employment for the ahem "journalists" involved.
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Show HN: SnippetFu – store and copy to clipboard snippets of text quickly(github.com)
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by sfifs 8y ago
Nearing forty and feel (and am told) I'm doing the best work of my career. I think the same of my boss who's in his fiftys. One of the keys has been developing deep expertise in complex subject(s) I like and keeping up with the cu
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by sfifs 8y ago
GPL very explicitly refers to the right to distribute source code. It is not concerned with binaries. That was an explicit choice since the license spirit is about user freedom which concerns access to sources and modifying sources. See cla
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by sfifs 8y ago
Possibly cultural but the Dark Forest (second book) is definitely worth the read whatever your experience with the first book. It is quite remarkable the breadth of the ideas that were explored.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Not likely because the Apache 2 licence version they are compatible with includes an explicit copyright and patent licence grant.
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by sfifs 8y ago
>> The fact that the phone spying case was even accepted by the Supreme Court should be enough to confirm that the law wasn't clear. That's not actually the way legality works. If the law is unclear, the justice department w
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by sfifs 8y ago
Because we largely don't carry multiple digital devices around and can work off the phone a lot of the time. I don't use any tablets and don't carry my laptop to meetings since OneNote on mobile works perfectly well. When I d
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by sfifs 8y ago
If you are doing that, you might as well use Go and get green threads and little or no undefined behaviour in a modern actively developed language for free. Go is practically C without the undefined behaviours.
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by sfifs 8y ago
> The Android platform API should simply never allow apps to obtain global system identifiers When the revenue stream of the creator of Android fundamentally depends on being able to tie devices to identity and behaviour, it's highl
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by sfifs 8y ago
> worked with said Britain after WWII was in economic ruin because of the WWI and WWII. Yeah for the rest of us, WW 1/2 was absolutely the best thing that happened in history. Europe burning the wealth and power of ages in a short o
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by sfifs 8y ago
> Describing an electron app as “doesn’t suck” is pretty rich on its own, That's an opinion many people hold. I personally however find the shoe-horning of "function fits form" that "native" UI on desktop forces
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by sfifs 8y ago
Never heard of any of these phones actually but have personally used the top of the line Galaxy S series phones for many years and the older ones still get regular security updates. S7, S8 and S9 in particular have been distinctly superior
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by sfifs 8y ago
Samsung flagship devices get frequent security updates. In my experience, the hardware integration and service center support is far superior to Pixel and on the software side, Android even with Samsung's add on crap far and away super
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by sfifs 8y ago
> He could have written an if statement Yes that's where the article lost me. It's almost as if the author is trying to intentionally use non obvious syntax in JS to show the other framework in a better light.
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by sfifs 8y ago
Nothing direct from what I've read but I'm extrapolating from various "decline and fall of X civilization(s)" - all great societies have been through a phase where the society no longer produces enough defenders and the
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by sfifs 8y ago
Looks like the original publisher (a company called Abelard Schuman Inc) is owned by Harper Collins. Maybe you could consider reaching out out to them? https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/Watch/fob_search_results_next....

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