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by vladd 14y ago
See the discussion in this other thread: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=4368242
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by vladd 14y ago
(2): there are plenty of third world countries or foreign government agencies where placing a 80-meter dish is not a problem. Although the process seems a bit intimidating - http://deepspace.jpl.nasa.gov/dsn/features/dsnbuilt1.html
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by vladd 14y ago
I'm wondering how do they prevent non-NASA entities from sending commands to the rover - are they using some sort of cryptographic signatures when sending the commands?
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by vladd 14y ago
>> The bandwidth from Curiosity directly to Earth is about 8 kb/s. Curiosity has a high bandwidth link to the Mars Odyssey Orbiter, a Mars satellite, which has a 256 kb/s link to Earth. The early pictures are from a low resolution c
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by vladd 14y ago
This is old news, ICANN ended "domain tasting" via the 5-day grace period in 2009 by charging additional fees for those that engage in the practice: http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-12au... There are 104,419,043 .co
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by vladd 14y ago
> "100% failure on Captcha challenges" -- are captchas generally deployed on click-through ads? Cloudflare has a mode (used in general for DDOS protection) which you can turn on and get stats on how many users pass a Captcha test.
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by vladd 14y ago
The main technique is to notice a pattern that is only explainable by bot activity. Generally speaking, in addition to the patterns you mentioned (invalid user-agent strings, rapid succession of same-IP access) there are also other patterns
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by vladd 14y ago
> the fact that Apple didn't even think to solve it is, in fact, disheartening Probably Jobs would have caught it, his attention to such details was painful, probably both for him and the ones at the other end of the table. Simplicity i
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by vladd 14y ago
Part of an interview should test communication skills as well. In the real job's performance you'll get ill-defined specs; it's sometimes more important to know to ask the right questions rather than solve perfectly the wrong problems. Inte
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by vladd 14y ago
No, it's not bigger nor growing: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/digg.com/ http://siteanalytics.compete.com/reddit.com/
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by vladd 14y ago
It really depends on the market size. If you have 1M users which are 40% of the market, it's often difficult. (and expanding in a larger market often implies risks similar to a regular startup). But if you are in a 1 billion market, your gr
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by vladd 14y ago
Most of their small business owner clients lack decent knowledge in computers in order to be self-served by Groupon, otherwise they would have used AdWords or Drupal by now and would have had their own coupons. But in a couple of years from
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by vladd 14y ago
Notice the .co.uk ending.
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by vladd 14y ago
I would have liked to see the store locations on a map. I couldn't figure out how to do that easily from the homepage.
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by vladd 14y ago
Related links: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosiglitazone - http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AGSK
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by vladd 14y ago
You can use Amazon Mechanical Turk [1] or TryMyUI.com [2] (I even wrote a review about them [3]). [1] - https://www.mturk.com/ [2] - http://www.trymyui.com/ [3] - http://www.dailywebapps.com/trymyui-com-remote-usability-tes...
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by vladd 14y ago
Until now it has been the case that you could always sustain yourself via manual labor if you had no education and no assets to support yourself. Automation will change this, we've never encountered this before in our history (see my other
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by vladd 14y ago
In order to live and avoid starvation, people require a minimum amount of income. There are two things they can use to produce income: work and assets (i.e. house renting). As automation continues to elevate the standard of employable "work
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by vladd 14y ago
The problem is that you don't know if this cloud offering is priced at-cost, or it has promotional pricing to kill the competition (AWS) and a pending increase is coming once they get scale. People assume cloud servers are a commodity, but
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by vladd 14y ago
Yeah, the current price is ridiculous for: - jobs that can fit in 1.7 GB of RAM or less (Amazon's Small Instance has 1.7 GB of RAM and is about half the price than the cheapest Google plan). - reserved heavy utilization jobs (compared to Am
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by vladd 14y ago
Because most people fail to learn from the past. http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/03/07/234204/facebook-foun...
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by vladd 14y ago
According to the Extradition Act 2003 of the UK Parliament [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003 , http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/UK_USA_extradition.p... ], article 2.1, "An offense shall be an extraditable offens
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by vladd 14y ago
I don't know if you're from US, but that's not how things work: don't get me wrong, there's a lot of bullshit in the US regarding SOPA, how laws are made, how lobbying works, but legal-wise, the more money you have, more of a target you are
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by vladd 14y ago
Google has a registered DMCA agent, includes a DMCA dashboard ( https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-dashboard?hl=en ) and replies to take-down requests. I imagine good faith applies in Google's case and they are protected by htt
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by vladd 14y ago
> Except paedophilia isn't a crime, child abuse (and rape) is. The reasoning is similar with the reason why we ban even entry-level drugs: it's insurance , preventing weak people to become criminals about more powerful stuff. The line
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by vladd 14y ago
Today most US states deny the right of marrying the person you love. Which makes me wondering why are we feeling so strongly, as a human race, to regulate what other people are able to do (even in cases where it doesn't affect us) and to in
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by vladd 14y ago
> Bitcoin has value because it's one of the only few currencies with fixed protocols and definite "game rules". Yes, like I've said, the power of Bitcoin is solely in its marketing.
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by vladd 14y ago
People keep confusing the software and the currency. An open source distributed software system is available for free and is able to offer privacy, cross-border protection and prevention of asset seizure. But these characteristics are prope
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by vladd 14y ago
Facebook only shows the number of likes next to its content. Google doesn't have any kind of "like" number displayed in its search results (except the ordering of the results in itself). Either way, I wouldn't call any of it "statistics". I
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by vladd 14y ago
I think part of the confusion is due to the fact that you try to cover too many bases: in the tour the first thing is statistics, which implies that it's aimed at content publishers/writers that want to track metrics across social media,

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