philsalesses

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by philsalesses 10y ago
They use existing IED locations and layers of GIS data to determine where terrorists would be likely to place them. For instance, they use events as training data and then measure distance to light posts, distance from school, distance from
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by philsalesses 11y ago
Because they're cheap and management is inefficient?
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by philsalesses 11y ago
When trying to bring about a big change, his point seems to be that sometimes new simple thinking is more important than old complicated thinking. That's very much in line with the MIT Media Lab and their way of looking at the world.
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by philsalesses 11y ago
hahaha Have you ever lived there to have any sort of clue what you're talking about? Jeeze, I love the Internet sometimes.
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by philsalesses 11y ago
I wonder if this pattern could still be applied. For a NOC they'll setup a shell corporation called "Southern Electronics Corporation, LLC" or some other discrete sounding name and have a real website, office address and phon
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by philsalesses 11y ago
I'd be down to meet my doppelgänger., but if you want to meet at Window, we are not the same person. haha. How do I get ahold of you after my trip to the states?
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by philsalesses 11y ago
Aren't you snarky... Read carefully. I have a fourth. And that wouldn't fix it anyway. They detect it on the protocol level. They posison your DNS.
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by philsalesses 11y ago
I have 4 (ExpressVPN, VyprVPN, StrongVPN, and a fourth I'll never tell anyone where it is). They do not reliably connect, are prone to attacks from the government and even when they do connect, you'll be throttled into oblivion. B
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by philsalesses 11y ago
Not yet. Planning to write a small series of posts when I move back, but I do need some time out of this environment before I can judge things with less a biased mentality. Distance is great for that. Will post to HN when I do.
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by philsalesses 11y ago
Your comment is off base. You don't know me or what I optimize for in life. ...and xkcd doesn't suck. Randall does something he's passionate about and out its out into the world for millions to see. Good for him. Do you mind
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by philsalesses 11y ago
In terms of policy, probably nothing. They have however become more competent, meaning the firewall isn't easy to hop anymore and I went to MIT. I don't know how non-technical foreigners can do anything here.
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by philsalesses 11y ago
Essentially this. There have been entire weeks where I can't get a connection out I the country and as someone who can't speak Chinese that's a problem. I've learned the language a bit, but there's no way I can achi
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by philsalesses 11y ago
I can not be the only one whose faith in secure digital has been fundamentally and irrevocably altered in light of the past few years. In my estimation, anything that has been said or typed in the proximity of a connected digital device is
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by philsalesses 11y ago
As an American who up and moved to China on a whim and more recently started a tech company split between Boston and Shanghai, I can only greet this news with jubilation. Life here over the last two years has become simply impossible. Good
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by philsalesses 12y ago
Thanks for the offer, though I actually prefer to only ask for help when I need it. Otherwise, my apartment will fill up with cheap Chinese goods, like the Shanzhai iPhone 6 I bought 2 months ago for absolutely no good reason. :P
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by philsalesses 12y ago
As someone who lives in Shanghai, this is an interesting look at how it works. However, as an expat who can't speak Chinese yet, this website is one of the larger sources of my frustration. Need something simple and don't know whe
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by philsalesses 13y ago
It's not difficult language and I think what you really want to ask, without asking, is does anyone have a TLDR? At least that's what I'm asking because the PDF on my iPhone is on the fritz.
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The Small, Often Imperceptible Reasons Some Neighborhoods Feel Safer Than Others(theatlanticcities.com)
2 points by philsalesses 13y ago|0 comments
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Rio de Janeiro has more crime simply because it looks depressing(qz.com)
2 points by philsalesses 13y ago|0 comments
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A new web tool could help measure subjective impressions of urban environments(web.mit.edu)
2 points by philsalesses 13y ago|0 comments
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The Collaborative Image of The City: Mapping the Inequality of Urban Perception(dx.plos.org)
2 points by philsalesses 13y ago|0 comments
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by philsalesses 13y ago
I often find myself having to display a wildly unpredictable number of images on a page. The image size ratio is about 3 height x 1 width and I can have anywhere from 1-40 images. Carousel's do suck, but what other options do I have?
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by philsalesses 13y ago
Story from: http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/02/what-the-n-s-...
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Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life(immersion.media.mit.edu)
12 points by philsalesses 13y ago|1 comments
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by philsalesses 13y ago
Cesar was my advisor and I was his first student. I've never been happier to see someone make a splash.
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by philsalesses 13y ago
You can't confirm that Palantir's Prism is not the NSA's Prism unless you have complete access to both systems. Palantir could be correct in saying that their Prism was not designed for the NSA, but is it outside possibility
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by philsalesses 13y ago
I tried to post an iPhone but got stuck when I didn't post enough description. They emailed once reminding me but then that mail got buried and I forgot. They have an opportunity to fix that problem creatively, by maybe using different inte
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by philsalesses 13y ago
"so I hear..." I just corrected it.
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The Sex Degrees of Separation - The Hollywood STD Network(docs.google.com)
2 points by philsalesses 13y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Emergency, where can I find building footprints for Kent County, MI?
9 points by philsalesses 14y ago|4 comments

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