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rrtwoon Nokia phones sent identifiable data to Chinese server

How can I check if my phone is emitting these packets?

rrtwoon I started a one-man biz that's beating VC-backed startups

How did you get the music industry companies to agree for you to directly upload files to them?

rrtwoon Park.io – automating tasks to make $125k per month

The interview mentions parked domains as the major lead generator... are those domain names owned by park.io or by its clients?

rrtwoon The Math Myth

What is the generalised rule/case where small sample sizes are sufficient?

rrtwoon Top developers can have a life outside coding

Went through the effort to find the video, you are a very good presenter! did it come naturally or did you work on it? if so how?

rrtwoon Atlassian gets IPO share price of $27

Can someone please explain what would be the reasons for Atlassian to IPO? Is it to return money to investors? fund new things (such as?)?

rrtwoon The Macro

getting this error on other articles too (e.g., http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/articles...)

rrtwoon The Macro

http://yc-macro-redirect.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/index.ht...

This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. <Error> <Code>AccessDenied</Code> <Message>Access Denied</Message> <RequestId>...</RequestId> <HostId> ... </HostId> </Error>

rrtwoon The Story of BuiltWith

How does BuiltWith decides which sites to crawl? assuming it is too complex to crawl everything.

And how is the data/queries being sold without compromising it...

rrtwoon On the Pleasures of Not Reading

"when you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than ability. your tastes only narrow & exclude people. so create."

rrtwoon The magic of the Kalman filter, in pictures

Looks like a very good resource, however which prior knowledge does one need to have to understand this book?

e.g., do I need to know bayes' rule? bayesian inference? etc.

rrtwoon The Coder Who Encrypted Your Texts

Thanks, one of the best talks I have seen for awhile

rrtwoon Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, has died

Cool video with Dave about startups:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTtnSgQL-Bg

rrtwoon Probabilistic programming does in 50 lines of code what used to take thousands

Great project but very weird choice of language. How probable is it (pun intended) that the person coming to learn about probabilistic programming would already know functional programming?

rrtwoon A Career in Science Will Cost You Your Firstborn

ok, so I have done the 'mistake'* and now an epsilon away from getting my PhD in CS.

What would be the best came coming out of it financial?

* I did enjoy the process very much, and learned a lot, but like the gist of the article - you can't feed on science.

rrtwoon Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]

Thanks!

rrtwoon Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning [pdf]

Is there any example code available for this or a similar task being 'solved' using deep and reinforcement learning?

rrtwoon Should I Get a Ph.D.?

Any advice for someone who is about to finish a PhD in CS? Like pro/cons of doing a postdoc vs. going straight to the industry, or best way to migrate to the industry?

rrtwoon Shenzhen trip report – visiting the world's manufacturing ecosystem

Interesting to learn those details.

What brought you to Shenzhen? How were the first years there?

Would be happy to read a blog post on this :)

rrtwoon The Art of Profitability

Hi Derek, That presentation is awesome! Are the slides available somewhere? (the video doesn't capture them) Thanks

rrtwoon Remote code execution on Android devices

Thanks!

rrtwoon Remote code execution on Android devices

Care to share which App you found for the flash light, by chance looking for one too :)

rrtwoon Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR

Hi, how come the mailing address for Pen Japan is in Finland? Is it for tax reasons? and how do you actually get the mail? Thanks and good luck with the new venture!

rrtwoon Facebook without the News Feed

My feed in twitter (using tweet deck) always has missing tweets that were algorithmically filtered. It's only when I use the mobile app or web feed that I actually get all tweets.

rrtwoon Mac keyboard shortcuts

but you need to know apriori that it is minimised no?

rrtwoon ipython 2.0.0

Any idea when will it be available on Anaconda?

rrtwoon Amazon Is Downloading Apps From Google Play and Inspecting Them

What are common use cases for AWS in mobile apps? (where the app needs direct connection to AWS)

rrtwoon Free Startup Ideas

maybe a future idea should be a tool for timing HN posts ;)

rrtwoon Ask HN: How to save an offline copy of all bookmarks?

I want an actual copy of the webpage to be saved offline, not just the links.

rrtwoon Introducing OneNote for Mac

Same issue, installed and remove right after.