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by provost 7y ago
Well, that's just a clever PR lipservice move. They couldn't win the contract because they didn't have the ability to, so rather than failing embarrassingly, they blamed their exit on their brand-new AI principles to make the
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by provost 8y ago
I lived in Florida, and recall hearing that much of the state is actually below sea level. I saw some forests, but much of the state is swamp, or former swamps that were drained for suburbia.
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Third Person Ascent(blog.mattbierner.com)
2 points by provost 8y ago|0 comments
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by provost 8y ago
> Kicking the crap out of Google in the courts is the one good thing Oracle is doing. Could you elaborate on why this is a good thing?
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by provost 8y ago
Another example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piltdown_Man
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by provost 8y ago
Gains are only realized when they sell, so liquidity doesn’t matter if they don’t sell.
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by provost 8y ago
While smarts are generally useful, is not creativity a stronger influencer in innovation? But I’m not sure what kind of test could measure creativity.
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by provost 8y ago
> Hmm, who do I trust, the guy who figured out how to land rockets onto a barge, or some “analyst” ... This kind of comment is a disservice to all the engineers who actually figured it out. Elon Musk is certainly a visionary and a financ
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by provost 8y ago
> “Sorry, but..” So are you refuting that the missions were incremental? Because if you look at the mission outcomes, they certainly were..
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by provost 8y ago
Yes, it was very incremental. They even sent the orbiter around the moon on a mission before even attempting to land. And there were a number of other tests (manned and unmanned), and even ones without an official Apollo designation. More i
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by provost 8y ago
As you described, the default is to yield, and so the vehicle can always yield and signal its intention to do so by breaking slowly. And I agree, there may not always be a sign (a storm or driver could knock it over), so the default should
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by provost 8y ago
Yes, it is practically useful advice, especially when you’re on a flight with no WiFi.
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by provost 8y ago
> McAffee who announced a few years ago that they will happily turn a blind eye on NSA&FBI malware. Source?
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by provost 9y ago
As mentioned.. Libtin’s OpenSSL dependency can be avoided if you can do without WPA2 support. Not sure about libpcap though
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by provost 9y ago
With the ICO/coin ads promising 49,000% returns that I see here in the UK, I’m glad that they’re putting the brakes on it.
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by provost 9y ago
I agree, and I’m flagging this post as this user has spammed the same website repeatedly all day.
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by provost 9y ago
This is disgusting.
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by provost 9y ago
What a great list! I’d recommend adding “secure” too.
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by provost 9y ago
The iPhone already does safety, weather, and police notifications by default, and you have to opt-out. This is essentially the same thing, but users have to opt-in.
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by provost 9y ago
Meta: Alex, why are you linking to your own twitter and not the medium directly?
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by provost 9y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16506979
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by provost 9y ago
What’s your recommended method to make WP static? Have any of the other plugins broken for you from making WP static?
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by provost 9y ago
It was interesting to watch, but the presenter presents everything as truth, but aren’t many of his explanations still theories? I’d like to see what other competing theories there are..
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by provost 9y ago
> sounds like he could have used amazon turk. Could you clarify how mechanical turk could have helped?
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by provost 9y ago
I bought a couple 27-40 hour audiobooks, so I just put my audible subscription on hold while I caught up. Switching between kindle & audio can definitely speed things up
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by provost 9y ago
> The details are a bit sketchy. Ask "how many thousands," and you're told, ¯_(ツ)_/¯. Off-topic: I was surprised to see that journalists are doing Unicode art in articles now, and I don’t think that’s wise. Wouldn’t t
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Ask HN: What Security papers should I read?
2 points by provost 9y ago|0 comments
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by provost 9y ago
Dupe. Comments here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16137727
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by provost 9y ago
Thanks!
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by provost 9y ago
Also, they have had Hangouts, Messenger, Talk, Voice, Allo, and Duo... most with the same functionality. What is up with Google's product management? Is there a strategy?

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