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Quite a side note: If you're renting in SF, your landlord needs to provide you with heating ( http://sfrb.org/topic-no-257-minimum-heat-requirements )

Has Unu made any incorrect predictions? Their blog only seems to cover the big, successful ones.

Here's the latest blog post, which includes the link to the code: https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/open-sourcing-teletra...

Last time I spoke with geohot, he was "attending" CMU, which would explain the intern title.

Was on incognito and wondering why I didn't see any red squares...

I believe they are willing to make exceptions for certain titles: https://www.unrealengine.com/custom-licensing

Looking at network flows from rdio servers reveals that the mp3 chunks are actually 192 kbps.

In terms of sound quality, Rdio streams at 192 kbps and Spotify Free at 160 kbps.

This is where I stopped reading.

I believe there's a 60 or 90 day period before you can transfer a domain after you've registered it anyways.

The problem is that the judges didn't have time to do a background check on all the submissions. After all, UPSHOT only came under scrutiny after they had already won.

I wonder how much of this was actually parallel reconstruction vs "investigative research"

The first point, getting to know people online before meeting them, is super helpful. It's nice to be able to instantly know a few people right when an event starts off.

The fact that your targets need to be connected on the same wifi makes this tool itself not as 'powerful' as this article makes it (it's not much different than Wifi Pineapple). Yo…

Very cool project. I'm curious as to how you're getting all these robots - are you scraping them yourself?

I feel that not enough people realize that this has so many uses than just recovering a lost phone.