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While there is extensive infrastructure for detecting active transmitting devices like Stingrays, there's no discussion (or tooling) around passive IMSI grabbers. These devices are…

For what it's worth, PBS has an app[1] for Apple TV, and it has much of PBS' content. With that said, the general problem of certain services being restricted from/to specific plat…

I'm not convinced this localization argument holds so much water. Consider the following: Case 1: If you're using a search engine not based in the US, and you're not a US person, t…

Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but the author doesn't make it clear what exactly is objectionable about Palantir with respect to privacy issues. That's not to say that there isn't…

Neither the F-35B nor the F-35C carries a gun. The USAF's F-35A is the only model affected by this issue. Also, the Marines want the STOVL F-35B for operation on LHA/LHDs, as well …

If you find the work in cancer interesting, it's worth looking into a few commercial outfits that are doing this type of testing: * Genomic Health ($GHDX) with OncotypeDX * Foundat…

An email version of this would be quite useful for team interactions with sensitive partners/clients/contacts.

Cool, thanks. I hadn't seen this before. For those wondering: CRIU is Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace. http://criu.org/Main_Page is the project, and http://criu.org/LXC is containe…

Your explanation is clever and could account for most of the behavior of the product. Certainly the environments, rapid booting, and even hot resizing. What's missing, however, is …

Xen/VMWare also support hot resizing of CPU and RAM. What's interesting is that neither LXC nor Docker support memory snapshots (machine state), which Terminal.com has demonstrated…

Your demos show impressive speed in booting, machine resizing, and snapshotting. Kudos. With that said, several hypervisors do support hot-resizing, snapshotting, and cross machine…

That 15 years of experience at one of the world's top software companies is seen is a negative disgusts me. It seems disrespectful to judge an employee based on the negative percep…

While I am aware that this is the reality, I find the attitude underlying this reality rather unfortunate. As an interviewer assessing a candidate, I would like to believe that I'm…

In the US this doesn't make sense (for most people), unfortunately. Employers offer group plans which tend to be much cheaper and offer substantially better benefits than individua…

The SA-11 'Buk' TELAR (9A310M1) was indeed designed to be used as part of a broader system including C&C, dedicated launchers, and the 9S18M1 radar. It certainly requires trained p…

When you say that national intelligence communities are secretive, you're absolutely right. So much so that they would certainly not share any sort of information with commercial/m…

AWS definitely dogfoods, to the point where people have to be careful internally to not create circular dependencies (this nearly happened to me once). I think there's a notion of …

Webhooks would address this challenge for a certain class of applications (those with their own server component), but if you imagine building a solid desktop email app (APNS/GCM n…

Maybe I'm missing something, but: Flipping through the documentation, the RESTful API seems to only allow for polling for new messages (deltas via the sync protocol[1]). While I'm …

I filed a patent at age 16; there are no laws governing how old you must be to file, and rightfully so. While you may stereotype young people as being unready to write and file pat…

Excellent product; I've used ExpanDrive in the past and it works remarkably well. Curious--any chance you can put together support for OneDrive for Business? Microsoft currently la…

I imagine there's a bit of a selection bias based on the group of selectors; if you are exposed primarily to software, it is easier to comfortably judge software applicants than bi…

Based on previous years, it would likely be difficult to make the comparison with Harvard/MIT (or similar), given a good number of the fellows spent time at either of those institu…

As I understand it, TF tries to pick good people even if they are working on not-so-bulletproof projects at the moment. That's likely the justification here. Keep in mind that the …