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by leeber 12y ago
I'm always connected to a VPN that I set up on throwaway cloud servers from AWS, digitalocean, or whatever your preference is. Even on my phone. So all you'd see from me is encrypted stuff being sent to a random IP address.
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by leeber 12y ago
I wrote a program to solve chess once. After I realized that it would take a massive amount of computing resources to finish in my lifetime, I abandoned the project. Most interesting to me is that it really isn't that hard to create a
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by leeber 12y ago
I probably spend just as much or more time sitting, thinking, and staring at partially written code, than I do actually writing the code. It's frustrating when you have superiors who don't understand that time spent thinking is
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by leeber 12y ago
Also I never thought I'd be quoting scripture, but this is a fitting passage! "Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them" ... "So when you give to the poor, do not sound a trumpet before yo
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by leeber 12y ago
I've never been out of the country. Will I one day? Sure, but it's not like I have a burning desire to leave tomorrow and spend significant amounts of time and money at some tourist destination on the other side of the earth. I do
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by leeber 12y ago
Good job, you made a review site? Sorry I know I sound negative but you made a simple review site for domain registrars in an attempt to make commissions from those registrars, and then attempt to get people to refer others to those registr
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by leeber 12y ago
Relevant to who/what? Netflix didn't write the article. It depends who's perspective you're looking at. The article could have been titled "Yahoo's new CIO accused of accepting kickbacks at former employer&quot
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by leeber 12y ago
He forgot the last one: "to use python instead" That was my attempt at a joke. But seriously, I love python when it comes to manipulating data and doing anything statistical. You've got numpy, scipy, scikit-learn, etc.
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by leeber 12y ago
One more thing-- Would google publish data that shows how searches for porn spike during different times of the day or times of the year, as if it's some "cool and hip and edgy!" insight? I don't think so. And for the sa
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by leeber 12y ago
Comparing Uber to OKCupid is ridiculous. OKCupid is a dating website which deliberately branded themselves as further on the "edgy" and "hookup" side of dating websites. Then you have POF somewhere in the middle, with eH
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by leeber 12y ago
Imagine if Uber CEO made a comment like Elon Musk did about the "D" in P85D and having "velcro on the sides of his pants." The media would be ALL OVER that. Based on what I've read, Uber CEO sounds like a douchebag.
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by leeber 12y ago
I am working on a project that I need to incorporate soon, but I have no plans to take on any investors at all if I can manage it (i.e. and grow organically). Any reason to do a C-corp vs. LLC in that scenario? (Either way I was planning on
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by leeber 12y ago
A co-founder is not somebody you take on 2 years down the road.
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by leeber 12y ago
If (keyword if ) the CEO is as much of a douchebag as the media makes him out to be, he likely won't continue to be CEO for much longer.
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by leeber 12y ago
This is not really "news" at all. I stopped drinking dairy milk a couple years ago because I realized it offered no potential benefits, and only alleged risks that kept surfacing in these studies. There is literally no up-side to
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by leeber 12y ago
Strange, why not just have the user choose a password or a typical 4-digit pin? This would still be way more secure than using the CVC number.
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by leeber 12y ago
Hopefully they require a password or a PIN each time you send a message with cash in it. Otherwise anybody could steal money from you as long as they can get into your phone and open snapchat.
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by leeber 12y ago
How well does this work from the user experience standpoint? Is it a smooth fluid experience, or prone to lag?
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by leeber 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient
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by leeber 12y ago
Where in the world did you learn stats from? You would be correct if we were talking about a standard normal distribution with mean 0 and standard deviation 1. Very different. In the case of mean 100 and standard deviation ~15 or so, the
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by leeber 12y ago
Guys, we're programmers here not statisticians: def test(): ... n1 = numpy.average(numpy.random.normal(100,15,52)) ... n2 = numpy.average(numpy.random.normal(100,15,40)) ... return abs(n1-n2) / ((n1+n2)/2.0) ... &
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by leeber 12y ago
This may or may not directly apply to twitter, but I really don't understand how unprofitable companies with no direct revenue model get such large valuations based on: number of users, and "potential" to profit from advertis
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by leeber 12y ago
Can somebody explain what the use-case for this is? The site says it is a "PaaS that makes it easy to deploy and manage applications on your own servers". Most apps I've been making follow a similar recipe: run single ubuntu
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by leeber 12y ago
I wouldn't read into it too much. If he didn't put that in there, tons of idiots would go around saying how net neutrality will support all the crooks of the dark web, illegal filesharing websites, etc. Obviously that's ridic
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by leeber 12y ago
You have a great thesis. Period.
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by leeber 12y ago
Well you might as well go off the grid completely then, don't use anything that could be used to track you like phones, tablets, laptops, stay away from people in general because you never know who the spies are that are trying to catc
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by leeber 12y ago
Ok, let me re-phrase a little bit. I am asserting my belief that a large majority of people who voice privacy concerns over things like amazon echo are the same people who do in fact use many cloud services. I find it to be ironic if my
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by leeber 12y ago
I get your point, but on the topic of paranoia breeding paranoia, (1) I'm not sure if there is really a causal relationship there, and (2) the government's paranoia a fear of alleged domestic and foreign threats to our safety, wel
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by leeber 12y ago
What alternatives have you chosen that makes you feel more secure? I'm genuinely curious.
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by leeber 12y ago
Who cares about what the selling point is? Neither Amazon Echo or Apple is claiming to secretly listen to your most intimate and private conversations, so it can report everything you say over to the NSA. BUT, those are two devices that wou

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