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386 karma · joined July 21, 2009

my public key: https://keybase.io/seanlinmt; my proof: https://keybase.io/seanlinmt/sigs/IiNGcDn3GD0W8jTlv2uf6ElRm-Mlgxa5rjfqilvr8Dk
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seanlinmt··on Mythbusting India's Mars Mission
There are other benefits too. http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/why-explore-space-a...
seanlinmt··on Sleepwalking into censorship
For those wanting to read more about dark patterns in design.. http://darkpatterns.org/
seanlinmt··on Bot wars - The arms race of restaurant reservations in SF
One could always use a Captcha to stop bots if it became a problem.
seanlinmt··on DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot
Hands? Being able to use tools like us humans would clearly be an advantage.
seanlinmt··on Improving the security of your SSH private key files
Or if you're running windows you can use group policy and windows PKI to get it done automatically. But I haven't found out how to do the same thing under a nix environment.
seanlinmt··on Unheralded Mathematician Bridges the Prime Gap
Wondering if this impacts the security of public key encryption.
seanlinmt··on Steve Jobs capped many of the teams in Cupertino
I would have thought the reason behind this was more along the lines of http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
seanlinmt··on Google CEO Is Tired of Rivals, Laws, Wants to Start His Own Country
Beta testing a new country? East Timor comes to mind. It's a fairly young independent country. Maybe the newest actually.
seanlinmt··on I'm a loser and I want to change that - now
That's what I thought too when I saw the name. No idea http://tortoisesvn.net/stefan_kueng.html
seanlinmt··on The Pull Request Hack
Cool. I believe this works on the same principle that employee stock options does. Empowerment.

In another situation, it is also generally good practice to let employees know you think highly of their work. Most people will try to live up to this expectation even though it might not necessary be true.

seanlinmt··on The best programmers are the quickest to Google
Even faster than googling it up is searching through evernote or whatever app you've used to organise your cheatsheets. Evernote has become my external and more organised storage for my brain.
seanlinmt··on Fluxcapacitor: spoof Posix time functions
For cheating in games? :)
seanlinmt··on Frosty attack on Android encryption
more details here https://www1.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/frost
seanlinmt··on 'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower
This reminds me of the presentation "DEFCON 18: Your ISP and the Government: Best Friends Forever" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0aQojDGSD4. I wonder if the "don't get involve in drugs and you'll be fine" advice still holds.
seanlinmt··on Coursera's Functional Programming - Cheating Discovered
Continue to award the certificate even to cheaters but then allow employers who are presented that certificate to verify whether the person has been cheating. :)
seanlinmt··on Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2
wouldn't that black spot just be the mount that's holding the camera?
seanlinmt··on How I attacked myself using Google and I ramped up a $1000 bandwidth bill
Or if you have the connections, contact one of the Vetted and get the attackers at the origin. Well that's according to http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_est...
seanlinmt··on Confirmed: He Who Sits the Most Dies the Soonest
What about lying down doing work on a laptop in bed?
seanlinmt··on A simple experiment suggests a way to encourage truthfulness
This seems to suggest that you would get a more honest reply through email than either phone or face-to-face contact.
seanlinmt··on We are sorry to inform you
It would be more interesting to point out who rejected them.
seanlinmt··on Linux gets IPv6 NAT
Without looking at the code to see what's going on, I'm wondering if this patch is actually about IPv6 NAPT, ie. protocol translation between IPv4 and IPv6. If it's really NAT, like IPv4 NAT, then has there been an RFC on this? I can't seem to find it.
seanlinmt··on Starting Your Own Company
Maybe that's a good thing. There's nothing arguable about the article.

That or hackernews is no longer the place to be for startup news and advice and becoming like another reddit. If so, then where's a better place for startup related articles?

seanlinmt··on Graph Theory: Part III (Facebook)
However, I don't think it is possible to built a proper graph from the API as you cannot obtain the number of friends that your friends have. Or... ?
seanlinmt··on How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru
Is this relevant now with the spread of the Internet? As long as a government does not filter or censor the Internet, no single entity can control information and the news.
seanlinmt··on China Is Already Blocking Google+
I reckon China is blocking foreign social networking sites for economic reasons rather than anything else. They have a market that everyone else wants to tap into. So why let others in when they can "innovate" internally and provide a made-in-China alternative.
seanlinmt··on US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation in New Zealand
A similar legislation was also passed in Malaysia not too far back. I would not be surprised if the same situation occurred there as well. However, enforcement would be another matter.
seanlinmt··on Java and C# "Comparison"
Here's a more exhaustive comparison of Java and C#. http://www.25hoursaday.com/CsharpVsJava.html
seanlinmt··on Airbnb leverages Craigslist in a really cool way
They could block airbnb IP's address if airbnb directly posted the listing. But since it's the user who actually does the posting...

However, craiglist could make life hard for irbnb by changing their form field names. Then again airbnb could probably detect the changes. Probably the best way for craigslist to deter airbnb would be to have a single field at the start of the listing process. :)

seanlinmt··on Nude.js | Nudity detection with JavaScript and HTMLCanvas
Also, you'll need to figure out if the person in the photo is a girl or guy. :)
seanlinmt··on Nude.js | Nudity detection with JavaScript and HTMLCanvas
Interesting concept.Scanning through the code, reading just the comments, it seems to base the nude-not-nude decision by the amount of skin shown.

Hmm.. I guess it depends on what your definition of nudity is.

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