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Maybe not anymore but at the time SCO was laying off employees (2007), there were a bunch of posts saying how whatever person/company wouldn't be hiring them or in general that they wouldn't get hired. It probably had an effect on some of them.

The interrogator can claim whatever he wants, he may as well have 22 years of computer experience and be absolutely incompetent.

From cryptocat front page: "Messages are encrypted inside your own browser using AES-256"

Link to source on top right: https://project.crypto.cat/

Mine was not in the list. It's also possible this isn't the entire file. I was also able to recover 225129 other passwords with a wordfile and some Python based on truncated and full hashes.

Robert Sedgewick's algo class is Java specific.

They did. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-18/facebook-underwrite...

It's a bodykit.

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/12/07/ebay-find-of-the-day-fast...

I used their language after reading terms on their site. They mention "establishing a connection" and outline terms their "protected" terms and logos. It may as well be an overreach but it seems they're an effective bully and the choices would be to either stop mentioning Olympics in ads or fight over interpretations of the various protections in court. I think most targeted vendors that would take on them would probably go bankrupt pretty fast.

Either way, I don't really know if they should be able to quash unauthorized ads but I do know they're going about it like assholes.

You'd still create an association between your ad and London 2012 in addition to using the term 'London 2012'.

The effect of a driverless car isn't necessarily that it drives itself. It's a car that's aware of its surroundings and provides feedback to the driver. Mercedes already implemented collision avoidance, driverless car can potentially prevent running over curbs, pedestrians or provide better control. In any case, lack of innovation is a pretty easy way eventually lose ground.

Because the classes are designed for people who want to take various tests, keep score, track progress and participate in discussion. I think downloadable video files are floating somewhere, not sure about lecture notes, etc.

I guess if anybody is to confirm that it's in fact a circus, it'll be the TSA themselves. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

It's hard to take the ads seriously or to discover things that I don't already know from somewhere else. Having said that, I do follow a couple of products and it's a bit more convenient to see what they're doing in my stream than look for that info elsewhere.

Just a way to make you feel good about not having a say.

You can get slides in PDF/PPT and it looks like subtitles are coming but you're right, the video is a bit annoying.

He's said on his twitter that Kindle version will be available later in the year.

https://twitter.com/#!/sgblank/status/162317687681318913

They have an API and devs need API accounts. I don't know much about dating sites but I'm guessing they don't have APIs because exposing the type of data they store would be pretty creepy.

One example, not built on top of a dating site but last.fm, tastebuds.fm is a social network/dating site based around music. Old discussion here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1992801

It's a bit strange that they can do that. FBI didn't have a problem grabbing Core IP/Croydon equipment when they investigated the Paypal attacks couple years ago, but here, they somehow can't find some legal justification to force Cogent/Carpathia to keep the data. Isn't it evidence? It pretty much seems like DOJ or whoever wanted to destroy Megaupload and they will have achieved that regardless of how they pursue it. No data, no company, they're still in jail.

And yet it took 2 years of law enforcement work to investigate that notoriety. I have easier time finding infringing (or is it?) content on Youtube than I ever had on Megaupload but you won't see them ever going down the same way. Agreed, however, that storing a single copy of important work isn't safe.

According to this post Google knows and will have a statement soon.

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/13/google-fraudulently-solicit...

It now appears that the seller did get the violin authenticated.

From a brief search, it looks like eBay had to pay large sums multiple times for selling counterfeit goods. $2500 violin, as sad as it is, is small fries. It seems that it's cheaper to operate under the assumption that if there's a suspicion an item is counterfeit, then that's more likely than not. Even if they messed up and lose a lawsuit from a seller, they'll pay a small fraction of what they'd pay a manufacturer.

The reason I said that isn't entirely because of the TOS but also because of the cost and logistics. Various courts could potentially decide that such clause isn't legal.

That's really shitty. It would be interesting to know what sole discretion or reasonable belief constitutes. I doubt ebay/paypal sent experts to 'investigate', they more likely said "If you, the buyer, believe it's counterfeit because of <whatever>, then it is. Seller won't sue anyway."

I've learned/am learning Python for about a year now mostly because I've always worked with C type languages, except Pascal and (TI) Basic long time ago, and wanted to try something different. It's so much fun to program with it, I'm having some trouble wanting to use anything else.

I've also played with OCaml and R, not to the extent of actually understanding them, and learned a fair (i guess) amount of Octave by doing ml-class problems.

I think actually learning R may be on the table next due some dabbling in machine learning.

The one I've enjoyed the most, was probably "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman" but additionally read a couple that kept being mentioned on here:

* A Random Walk Down Wall Street

* Predictably Irrational

* Black Swan

* Blink

and enjoyed those too. I've also read "How To Make Friends and Influence People" and started "Lords of Finance" but never finished.

That's right, I confused the final with the midterm.

I don't know the numbers for the ML class and the format is a bit different, however, for DB class from the many people that were signed up only 9180 took the midterm[1] and (only 908 got scores >= 18/20) <- That is wrong, final had 20 questions, midterm had 18. So that's 908 people who scored 18, 2082 with 17 or over and 3428 with 16 or over.

So if ML numbers are in any way similar to this maybe it wouldn't be so bad. That is if there was such a letter.

I'll add that Professor Widom's style is quite engaging as well.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLtUKf4Y99w#t=2m09s

Perhaps because they were earning their compensation and new employees would just be too expensive, since Pincus didn't want bait them with anymore (possibly no longer worthless) stock. Might as well try to squeeze it out of current employees knowing that finding a new job can be a bitch.

Perhaps I could have been clearer.

> Who adds these items to increase weight?

Private delivery companies add these items.

> Why?

Because due to the existing PMMS (Poczta Polska to be exact) monopoly on mail <50g, private companies would have to charge 2.5x the PMMS rate to deliver the same piece of mail. Adding the item allows a private company to circumvent the monopoly (by increasing weight >50g) and thus being able to deliver this piece of mail at a lower rate than PMMS. How this ends up being profitable is a bit of a mystery.

> If PMMS is adding this weight

They're not. They have the monopoly so they don't need to.

> they're wasting fuel delivering light items.

No arguing there...

This is what one of those metal plates looks like http://gfx.mmka.pl/newsph/222924/44881.3.jpg

Polish equivalent of USPS has, still until 2013, a monopoly on delivering mail weighing up to 50g at some low price, 1.55 pln i think, while private delivery companies would have to charge 2.5x that. So they attach metal plaques or small notepads to letters to increase weight.