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by unreal37 12y ago
Seems like a hard battle for sure.
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by unreal37 12y ago
I don't understand. You leave the magic band in your hotel room and need to have it replaced? Why not go back into the hotel room and retrieve the original?
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by unreal37 12y ago
I thought that too at first. But the NYT op-ed does a better job of explaining.[1] Basically, they think that the NSA has the ability to index anonymous readers with pages visited, and anonymous editors with pages changed. Then if the NSA i
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by unreal37 12y ago
For those wanting someone to bring this back, there seems to be a lot of projects on Kickstarter and Indiegogo relating to robots and AI. For instance, the famous one JIBO.[1] Actually, JIBO calls itself "the world's first family
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by unreal37 12y ago
My take from the article was that they just broke out the average entry SAT score of each race. Which concluded Asians needed 50 points more than whites to get into Harvard while Blacks needed 200 points less. But as said elsewhere, Harvard
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by unreal37 12y ago
He wants to enforce a @dnalounge.com for all internal emails rule, but have the underlying tech be more flexible. Actually, makes sense, because he can then save those emails on the server, back them up, and they'll be in his control i
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by unreal37 12y ago
I didn't take the article as anything negative against YC. The founders were thrown off their confidence early in the interview, and the interview is only 10 minutes, so it was impossible to recover. They left the room feeling like the
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by unreal37 12y ago
This is a great response. I can totally put myself in their shoes, going in with something I'm proud of, and being thrown for a loop when the person I am talking to doesn't even seem to want to understand it. 10 minutes is no time
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by unreal37 12y ago
It's understandable. They love their product. It's on their mind all day every day. At 7am, they're fixing bugs they discovered the previous day. Haven't looked up from it to see "you (the user)" yet.
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by unreal37 12y ago
On an $/hours-taught basis, yes, I'm sure! Not judging, but I see the appeal of this to the university.
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by unreal37 12y ago
I see a parallel in the advertising agency world. The ad agency has an interest in "winning awards" with their work to increase their prestige in the industry and win more clients. Winning awards is about innovation or art, and no
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by unreal37 12y ago
Surely, the age-old fight between "contract workers are cheaper than full-time employees" is at play. Easier to hire and fire a contractor, and no benefits to pay. I don't know the numbers for sure, but I wouldn't be sur
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by unreal37 12y ago
That may be true in some cities, and not true in others. As a car driver in a big city, I've rarely seen a bus pass another bus, but I have seen buses all bunched together. I suspect there is no incentive for a bus driver to pass anoth
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by unreal37 12y ago
It's marketing advice, not solutions. It's not "increase my business 10X", it's "I'm trying a bunch of Facebook ads, why is it not working?"
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by unreal37 12y ago
The poster has claimed to make $150/hour on a freelance basis. [1] So this pricing is not out of line with that as a reference. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8460101
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by unreal37 12y ago
I thought the "estimated time of arrival" was based on GPS tracking of the trains and not the pre-defined schedule. At least here in Toronto, the displayed time to arrival system is tied to the actual distance of the next train fr
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by unreal37 12y ago
If buses don't generally pass each other (for reasons of both practicality of doing so the way stops are laid out, safety and policy), bus 2 making their schedule is dependent on bus 1. So if bus 2 is late, it can be bus 1's fault
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by unreal37 12y ago
Also, the original article mentions a contractor who committed suicide by taking down the Chicago ATC system. Isn't suicide a leading cause of death in air traffic controllers as well? Perhaps the systems aren't working so great n
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by unreal37 12y ago
But that's the way it currently is. And so little 12-year-old Janie gets a $3,000 "demand to pay" letter for downloading a Britney Spears song with the threat of a lawsuit that will take her family's house away if she re
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by unreal37 12y ago
I didn't get that impression from the mailing list post. They were exploring ways of adding more security depending on context. That's a long way from "https only feature". Perhaps the user just needs to acknowledge the
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by unreal37 12y ago
I think holding the position "the United States should not be spying on anyone, ever" is perhaps too far over on the spectrum of idealism. You do need some spying on countries that pose genuine threats such as North Korea, Iran, C
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by unreal37 12y ago
It's better to keep the good parts and reform the bad parts than to throw the entire baby out completely. Let's draw a parallel to something more tangible than the cyberwar we don't see. Recently there was a number of high-pr
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by unreal37 12y ago
Has there been anything official from Apple that they plan to sell a $10K smartwatch other than as a novelty?
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by unreal37 12y ago
The other difference is that Rolex doesn't sell a $200 watch. I can't think of any legitimate luxury brand in the world that successfully sells to the common man and the uber rich. There's no $20,000 Rolls Royce. There's
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by unreal37 12y ago
I don't get the argument here. Climbing Everest is dangerous, yes. Launching a rocket is dangerous. Going to the bottom of the ocean is dangerous. Putting your head inside a alligator's mouth is dangerous. Walking a tightrope acro
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by unreal37 12y ago
I see the point you're making. I've been to the Grand Canyon, and it's difficult to get to. Even off the main road, it's 30 slow miles over unpaved dusty, bumpy road to get to the Western rim. If night falls, you're
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by unreal37 12y ago
Moons? It's a planet after all! Reinstate! Reinstate!
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by unreal37 12y ago
Possibly the farthest away two things have ever been from each other where the word "buzzed" was used to describe their proximity.
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by unreal37 12y ago
I think what he's saying (although he didn't say it) is that 100 calories of a nice quality meat is better for you than 100 calories of sugar. (And high-GI carbohydrates are easily converted into sugar by the body.) People fear di
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by unreal37 12y ago
Or the program continues uninterrupted because even once exposed, it still works. All major hard drive makers have been infiltrated. Where's everyone in the world going to buy hard drives?

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