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Here's a little script that does something similar with some features that make it more useful (for hackers at any rate): https://github.com/jtmaher/Passwords

It's actually a bit worse than this -- basically this is analogous to putting the $12k in a storage locker and then posting on the internet the exact location of the locker. Given …

Note that ths is just an API - to use it you still need to be a subscriber, and nothing they offer is cheap. In the tradition of their Excel APIs, this doesn't even come close to g…

There's a grey market in "zappers", which are POS devices that keep two sets of books automatically. Lots of small retail businesses rely on this type of tax fraud to stay in busin…

I get what you're saying, but the guy in the article is talking about renting an "extra bedroom in a nice neighborhood". Look at that guy's place -- he's got a duplex penthouse in …

If you've already got a nice pad in NYC or SF, is it really that likely you can't come up with $10k? At most that's only a few months rent...

The TVs delay the sound to match the latency in the video processing. Very annoying if you have a computer attached with any sort of real time audio (microphone, guitar, etc).

Looks like a very interesting project. Does the JVM environment have any tools that would facilitate building a better R debugger? That's one area of the R ecosystem that could use…

I also don't think that what the article describes is "gaming" the system, except maybe for the part about pretending to have not heard the questions before. Generally, the reason …

The total variation distance is an upper bound for the absolute difference in probability over all subsets of permutations. In particular, we can consider the set: U = {all permuat…

It's actually pretty easy to make an employee friendly "deferred compensation" program in the U.S. as evidenced by the way most financial firms structure stock grants. Under these …

Bezos started out on "Wall St", working at D.E. Shaw in NYC.