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I would rather worry about bad guys pushing a harmful update to all the Tesla cars. Rather than hacking all the individual cars, hack the Tesla server and push the updates. Happene…

Yes! Thanks for a correction!

I would put it the other way around. Docker+Vagrant is best used for deployment and hopefully it will be stable and battle-tested enough so I can use it in production. I love the f…

What I find fascinating about the conspiracy theories is that the moment you start believing in one you will start believing in most of them. As if the logic gate in the brain sudd…

It won't be contained in China, that of we can be sure of in todays global economy. If things will continue in the same direction we can expect at least a mild recession in China. …

I don't understand this big mystery around consciousness. Here is my take. The brain simulates the reality. That is we don't see or hear directly but instead the electro-chemical i…

The most anticipated PC release is already here: Elite Dangerous: https://www.elitedangerous.com/ Edit: Disclosure - I am not playing it anymore, although I did disappear to realit…

May I ask which public records did you use? Thanks, this looks awesome!

Do they get paid by shares or salary? I mean is it a viable alternative to having a "job"? I see many people around sitting on multiple boards of companies.

While you will hear many negatives here I believe there are few positive outcomes. The needs of HFT are such that technology barriers are pushed to the limits. Some of the technolo…

Great story. Glad you managed to get out of the street.

I wish there would be a maven for R. Hope the "Reliable R code" (RRT) can achieve a similar effect. Currently CRAN is heavily broken. Installing exactly the same version of the pac…

Any idea as when can we expect 1.6 being shipped?

Usually with cross-product applications you have some central domain that stands behind all of them. Just use that central domain. Eg. gmail, calendar, etc. are all behind google.

I thought I will share my idea of unique, memorably passwords. I have a custom in-head hash function that I use to create a unique password for every single website where I have an…

MtGox certainly benefited from these attacks as it proved the problem is real. The real question is who was behind these attacks?

Very interesting. Let's not forget that butter production in Bangladesh and U.S. cheese production, and sheep population in Bangladesh correlates hightly (99%) with the movements o…

It is worth noting GCE is more expensive now that AWS was back in 2011. According to Netflix article the AWS experiment did run at a cost $561 per 2h, that is ~$280 per hour. Perha…