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by spartango 8y ago
While there is extensive infrastructure for detecting active transmitting devices like Stingrays, there's no discussion (or tooling) around passive IMSI grabbers. These devices are significantly more limited (no IMEI or MSISDN, GSM-onl
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by spartango 10y ago
For what it's worth, PBS has an app[1] for Apple TV, and it has much of PBS' content. With that said, the general problem of certain services being restricted from/to specific platforms is extremely frustrating, and will only
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by spartango 10y ago
I'm not convinced this localization argument holds so much water. Consider the following: Case 1: If you're using a search engine not based in the US, and you're not a US person, then the NSA probably can't use any legal
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by spartango 11y ago
Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but the author doesn't make it clear what exactly is objectionable about Palantir with respect to privacy issues. That's not to say that there isn't anything, but just that it would be hel
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Rayger: Music-Sensitive Party Light System(kickstarter.com)
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by spartango 12y ago
Neither the F-35B nor the F-35C carries a gun. The USAF's F-35A is the only model affected by this issue. Also, the Marines want the STOVL F-35B for operation on LHA/LHDs, as well as small island bases with short/limited runw
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by spartango 12y ago
If you find the work in cancer interesting, it's worth looking into a few commercial outfits that are doing this type of testing: * Genomic Health ($GHDX) with OncotypeDX * Foundation Medicine ($FMI) with FoundationOne Both of these co
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by spartango 12y ago
An email version of this would be quite useful for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contacts.
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by spartango 12y ago
Cool, thanks. I hadn't seen this before. For those wondering: CRIU is Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace. http://criu.org/Main_Page is the project, and http://criu.org/LXC is container support. From
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by spartango 12y ago
Your explanation is clever and could account for most of the behavior of the product. Certainly the environments, rapid booting, and even hot resizing. What's missing, however, is how they do machine state snapshots (not supported in a
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by spartango 12y ago
Xen/VMWare also support hot resizing of CPU and RAM. What's interesting is that neither LXC nor Docker support memory snapshots (machine state), which Terminal.com has demonstrated. Xen, KVM, and VMWare do, but I can't really
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by spartango 12y ago
Your demos show impressive speed in booting, machine resizing, and snapshotting. Kudos. With that said, several hypervisors do support hot-resizing, snapshotting, and cross machine migration. Xen has excellent hot resize support, where VMW
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by spartango 12y ago
That 15 years of experience at one of the world's top software companies is seen is a negative disgusts me. It seems disrespectful to judge an employee based on the negative perception of an entire company. For all the broken things wi
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by spartango 12y ago
While I am aware that this is the reality, I find the attitude underlying this reality rather unfortunate. As an interviewer assessing a candidate, I would like to believe that I'm thoughtful enough to see that corporations lay people
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by spartango 12y ago
In the US this doesn't make sense (for most people), unfortunately. Employers offer group plans which tend to be much cheaper and offer substantially better benefits than individual plans. The larger the company, the better the arrange
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by spartango 12y ago
The SA-11 'Buk' TELAR (9A310M1) was indeed designed to be used as part of a broader system including C&C, dedicated launchers, and the 9S18M1 radar. It certainly requires trained personnel to operate. With that said, the Buk w
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by spartango 12y ago
When you say that national intelligence communities are secretive, you're absolutely right. So much so that they would certainly not share any sort of information with commercial/multinational airlines. It sounds ridiculous, given
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by spartango 12y ago
AWS definitely dogfoods, to the point where people have to be careful internally to not create circular dependencies (this nearly happened to me once). I think there's a notion of persistence in AWS' leadership that propagates thr
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by spartango 12y ago
Webhooks would address this challenge for a certain class of applications (those with their own server component), but if you imagine building a solid desktop email app (APNS/GCM not used), then you have a problem. I'm glad they&#
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by spartango 12y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but: Flipping through the documentation, the RESTful API seems to only allow for polling for new messages (deltas via the sync protocol[1]). While I'm glad that there is a delta-API, I'm concerned
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by spartango 12y ago
I filed a patent at age 16; there are no laws governing how old you must be to file, and rightfully so. While you may stereotype young people as being unready to write and file patents--and perhaps many are--at least some have developed the
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by spartango 12y ago
Excellent product; I've used ExpanDrive in the past and it works remarkably well. Curious--any chance you can put together support for OneDrive for Business? Microsoft currently lacks a proper client for that service on the Mac, and it
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by spartango 12y ago
I imagine there's a bit of a selection bias based on the group of selectors; if you are exposed primarily to software, it is easier to comfortably judge software applicants than biologists, for example.
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by spartango 12y ago
Based on previous years, it would likely be difficult to make the comparison with Harvard/MIT (or similar), given a good number of the fellows spent time at either of those institutions. Those who did have had access to the resources o
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by spartango 12y ago
As I understand it, TF tries to pick good people even if they are working on not-so-bulletproof projects at the moment. That's likely the justification here. Keep in mind that the funding is a grant (rather than equity/royalty&#x2
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by spartango 12y ago
You want the serving pc to have hardware accelerated video encoding (e.g. Intel Quick Sync), otherwise it runs terribly. Similarly, the client should have hardware accelerated decode, but that is very common.
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by spartango 12y ago
While it is true that the SR-71 & A-12 were spy planes, and that the GP makes a slightly asinine statement, the pedant (and aviation geek) in me feels obliged to point to the YF-12[1]. The YF-12 was a twin-seater derivative of the A-12
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by spartango 12y ago
There is an entire mechanism for this, from consenting individuals in early stage trials to accelerated approvals. If you're curious, checkout the FDA's programs ( http://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/byaudience&#x2
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by spartango 12y ago
While you may be right that there exists a price point at which posh people will pay for this type of delivery service, the example of Tartine is a poor one. Tartine has been regarded as one of the best bakeries in SF for a number of years,
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by spartango 13y ago
Thank you for reading and citing the law in detail. For those who haven't read it[1], I'd encourage you to do so. Unfortunately, the author of the blog post is reading it rather selectively and linking to another report. Reading t

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