msherry

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by msherry 10mo ago
It wasn't originally -- it was created in Palo Alto, by people not affiliated with Russia. It's gone through changes since then, though, and I don't know the current ownership status. Source: I worked there a long time ago.
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by msherry 4y ago
That's why this is such an impressive achievement!
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by msherry 6y ago
"Ox is easier to use than Vim because it doesn’t have modes where the keyboard is repurposed, however it takes the idea of being a keyboard-only editor and being able to act just like an IDE after some configuration."
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by msherry 7y ago
> And contrary to most business owners’ beliefs, older buildings are not “grandfathered” into the ADA and are susceptible to these lawsuits.
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by msherry 8y ago
TFA says that Ernst and Young was the company to crack the laptop. Ernst and Young would not burn a zero-day exploit on an auditing job.
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by msherry 8y ago
This is answered in the article. See section 3, "They (probably) were a good investment."
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by msherry 11y ago
He's not claiming that you can brute-force the encryption key -- he's proposing another way to brute-force the PIN itself that won't trigger exponential timeouts or auto-wipe of the device. I don't know if he's righ
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by msherry 11y ago
Said bar was mentioned in the article, even.
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by msherry 11y ago
I remember doing this a few companies ago. Except we didn't have a modem, we just found a phone we could send commands to. It had some user interface that would pop up after every sent message, so we rigged up a terrible little hack to
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by msherry 11y ago
Q: What's an anagram of "Banach-Tarski"? A: "Banach-Tarski Banach-Tarski"
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by msherry 11y ago
It's true that the SEC makes this data available free of charge, but it's typically not useful without a lot of extra processing. XBRL( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL ) is a standard of sorts, but there seem
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by msherry 12y ago
Thanks, Steve! We miss having you around here :)
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by msherry 12y ago
Maybe. If you're just loading constants onto the stack, it seems like it would be pretty forgiving of optimizations and such, and even work across architectures (assuming the same endian-ness, at least). I'd definitely look for in
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Costco to ditch AmEx cards at U.S. stores next year(finance.yahoo.com)
17 points by msherry 12y ago|18 comments
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by msherry 12y ago
This swamp is the origin of author William Gibson's handle on Twitter: https://twitter.com/greatdismal
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by msherry 12y ago
They can only go so low. Here's a pdf of Visa's interchange rates: http://usa.visa.com/download/merchants/visa-usa-interchange-... . (Mastercard is similar, and Amex is even more expensive.) It's 10
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Do We Need Hundreds of Classifiers to Solve Real World Classification Problems? [pdf](jmlr.csail.mit.edu)
108 points by msherry 12y ago|7 comments
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by msherry 12y ago
I applied to work at a Radio Shack when I was 16. I didn't get a job there. The guy interviewing me spent most of the time making sure I knew the difference between being paid hourly, and being paid on commission, and making sure I re
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by msherry 12y ago
Just read an interesting article on boingboing (I know, I know) about this. http://boingboing.net/2014/11/20/for-god-for-country-and-for...
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by msherry 12y ago
That was really interesting, thanks. In particular, "The Enforcement Process. Congressional investigations often begin informally, with the interested committee or subcommittee first seeking information on a voluntary basis (i.e., by s
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by msherry 12y ago
Most states in the USA do exactly this already.
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by msherry 12y ago
I suspect that you might be taking this (again, not-even-released) game a bit too seriously :)
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by msherry 12y ago
That's the second time in this discussion that you've proposed paying money for an advantage over others in this not-even-released game. May I ask why you're so eager to win at this particular game?
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by msherry 12y ago
A bit off-topic, but why not make it a referral link? I clicked it (when it was still broken, unfortunately), and imagine others will, too. You have a popular blog with not-insignificant hn traffic, I believe -- I don't think many here
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by msherry 12y ago
You do realize that the second sentence was "I thought, and still think, that this would be bad for the quality of Nintendo’s games, and bad for their bottom line", right? Or are you trolling?
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by msherry 12y ago
My 2c is that R has a wealth of libraries and utilities (for statistics, machine learning, finance, etc.) that are not as easily available for other languages. Things like scikit-learn for Python close some of the gap, but looking at packag
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by msherry 12y ago
This is why I hedged with the word 'significant.' I completely agree that people were making and selling apps for mobile devices before the iPhone came along. Can we both agree that the ecosystem exploded in size and visibility to
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by msherry 12y ago
There was no podcasting ecosystem before the iPod was released, and no significant app ecosystem before the iPhone.
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by msherry 12y ago
Not sure I understand what you're saying -- is it that runs-per-game and homeruns-per-game are the same thing? Because they're not.
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Gittip depends on voluntary payments(blog.gittip.com)
2 points by msherry 12y ago|0 comments

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