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by timsally 6y ago
This is a step in the right direction but my question is what information derived from your data do they retain? Getting rid of the raw data is great but there are still serious privacy implications if they retain highly sophisticated model
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by timsally 6y ago
Thanks for chiming in. I would also add that he put aid workers and activists at risk [1] and caused potential harm, torture, and death to dissidents in Afghanistan and Iraq [2]. Indiscriminate doxing to accomplish a radical agenda is not j
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by timsally 6y ago
Tracy, I haven't participated in HN for about two years. This article hit me so hard I had to log in to say thank you and express my sincere appreciation. I remember seeing an interview with you when you first started PlanGrid and it w
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by timsally 8y ago
Incorrect. He (1) had more than one extramarital relationships at work with people under him in the power structure, (2) repeatedly lied about it, and (3) was given a second chance by his board after he was caught the first time but did it
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by timsally 11y ago
> We should pay them every dollar we owe them. It isn't their problem if they paid in every year and the government did not meet its obligations. It's a lot more complicated than that. School districts can unilaterally give rai
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by timsally 11y ago
> Moreover, the public can't be forced to raise taxes to bail out underfunded private sector pensions, while courts are doing just that with public pensions. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (a government agency) explicitly
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by timsally 11y ago
Can you be more specific? If you have a partial piece of data (say because the data was streaming and a rocket exploded), the parser for that data is unlikely to work out of the box. Hence the use of a hex editor.
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by timsally 11y ago
How about we both draw out our positions more explicitly? I present two scenarios where someone is selling a harmful product to people-- one in which someone is selling a product that US citizens have an unassailable right to in an illegal
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by timsally 11y ago
Interesting, I stand corrected. That said, to legally carry out the act with a car that might actually hurt someone else (driving it), you need to be both licensed by the government and compliant with a suite of regulation (insurance, etc).
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by timsally 11y ago
Do you apply this logic to alcohol as well? It's a drug and there are many addicts, so similar to other drugs I don't think it should be sold online. Where do you come down on that? I only ask because many people implicitly omit a
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by timsally 11y ago
> Cars and guns also hurt people but pretty much anyone can sell those. The following applies only to the US. Since 1968 you need a license granted by the federal government to sell guns ( https://www.atf.gov/firearms&#x2F
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by timsally 12y ago
I can't say whether the metric in the article is good or not. What I can say is that Chicago being comparable to UIUC in CS theory is not an unreasonable position. Across CS it would be false, but Chicago's theory faculty are cons
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by timsally 12y ago
It's absolutely terrible. I have used 4K and 5K displays in the last year on Windows, OS X, and Linux and the only OS that currently handles these well is OS X. In general, handling high resolution displays requires a really tightly bo
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by timsally 12y ago
It wasn't just the USG; the United Nations listed al-Awlaki as a terrorist in 2010, one year before he was killed: http://www.un.org/sc/committees/1267/AQList.htm . The UN isn't exactly known for bei
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by timsally 12y ago
From the equivalent location in Boston (Beacon Hill) your a 15 minute or less Uber ride away from the gate at BOS. For flights that have dedicated security lines or if I get pre-check I'd leave downtown Boston 1 hour and 15 minutes bef
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by timsally 12y ago
The situation with flying is a bit more nuanced than you make it out to be. I fly to NYC and DC from Boston pretty regularly for business. With TSA precheck and dedicated security lines for the regional shuttles, it usually takes me 2.5 hou
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by timsally 12y ago
I fly to Montreal once a year from Boston and 1.5-2 hours on either side is a gross exaggeration. The Air Canada flights to Montreal have a dedicated security line at BOS and it takes roughly 7 minutes to get through it. I've also neve
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by timsally 12y ago
> For the opposing view, Google "mosaic theory." As with many debates, this one comes down to a conflict between people who think the Constitution means what it says, and those that believe in "living constitutions" w
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by timsally 12y ago
What about Supreme Court justices? The impact of an individual appointment is only getting larger: http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No3_Cala... . And when you compare the justices Bush appoi
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by timsally 12y ago
Sorry just saw this comment. Work your way through the 6.828 course because the presentation of concepts in that course is as fundamental and bite-size as it gets. Then when you get to real operating systems (which are much uglier than xv6)
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by timsally 12y ago
> Amdahl's law explains why this is wrong. Amdahl's law doesn't mean what you think it means; it specifically refutes your position. To spell it out: a 100% reduction in 1.7% of the cost is irrelevant to the total cost des
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by timsally 12y ago
Money and time aren't always fungible, but since you consider them additive in your argument lets assume they are for this discussion. Starting software engineers bill out at $100 an hour. If you spend 5 hours a week reading the news,
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by timsally 12y ago
> If you stop jerking your readers around and give them a good deal, you may be surprised by how many would be willing to subscribe. If you don't think $450 is worth unlimited online access and home delivery for the Sunday edition,
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by timsally 12y ago
> Yes. It is astonishing how institutes with huge budgets put videos like these (it is quite common with such big names as MIT). Yes if only MIT spent some money and made high quality videos available for free to millions of people... h
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by timsally 12y ago
I wouldn't presume to answer for Terry Tao but such a foundation certainly included the usual topics covered in qualifying exams at top departments. For example, Princeton: http://web.math.princeton.edu/generals/to
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by timsally 12y ago
Yes I work professionally in the field.
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by timsally 12y ago
If you're interested in this type of stuff I can personally recommend MIT's 6.828 course (Operating Systems Engineering) as an additional resource. Specifically, you'll want to take a look at xv6, a teaching OS implemented fo
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by timsally 12y ago
The job offer is a pretty obvious lie. Full government jobs don't pay $150,000+ until you get to an extremely senior level [+] (private contractors do pay that much, but DHS certainly can't extend job offers on behalf of a private
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by timsally 12y ago
Not every technical person is (or even can be) an expert in cryptography or goes into a technical field for their career. It's just not practical. This is why our legal system reaches conclusions collaboratively with experts in both th
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by timsally 12y ago
It seems more than one HN user finds it amusing that this guide covers "rudimentary" things like predicate logic and word problems. Keep in mind that these are the skills the Secret Service wants their applicants to actively get b

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