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2x time new yorker. 1x time brooklynite. xx global citizen. Startup guy who admires simplicity.

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Way to Hold a Virtual Meeting

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Why remote work initiatives fail and how to fix it

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Why Remote Companies Are More Diverse – Important

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Remote Leadership: Why a Distributed Team Needs a Different Approach

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Game Changing Collaboration Software to Watch in 2021

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remotehq.co 5y ago

The Remote Training Tools You Need for Effective Onboarding

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Troubleshooting Customer Problems in Real-Time Remotely

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remotehq.co 5y ago

You Won’t Need Screen Share in 2021

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Best platforms and tools for freelancers to make more money

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remotehq.co 5y ago

Tips for an Interactive Sales Demo

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blog.ieeesoftware.org 10y ago

Has empiricism in Software Engineering amounted to anything?

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Training a deep neural net on a quantum computer

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medium.com 10y ago

Driving will be the new smoking

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medium.com 10y ago

Why I Will Never Buy a Self Driving Car Out of Choice

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www.wsj.com 10y ago

Is the Tech Bubble Popping? Ping Pong Offers an Answer

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www.wired.com 10y ago

Ellen Pao Has a New Site to Push Greater Diversity in Tech

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howwegettonext.com 10y ago

Without an Address, You’re No One

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cs.stanford.edu 10y ago

Stanford created a name generator using deep net. They sound like hipster names

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www.natureworldnews.com 10y ago

Satellite That Hunts for Black Holes in Space Is Missing

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medium.com 10y ago

I recreated the “text decryption” effect from the 1992 movie Sneakers

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www.reuters.com 10y ago

Facebook revenue smashes expectations as mobile ad sales surge

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money.cnn.com 10y ago

Facebook's reach gets even bigger: 1.65B monthly users

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readwrite.com 10y ago

New flexible, wearable transistor as powerful as some of the fastest computers

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www.ncsl.org 10y ago

Status of legislation on self-driving vehicles across the 50 states

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money.cnn.com 10y ago

Apple has worst quarter in over a decade

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www.zdnet.com 10y ago

NSA mass surveillance so overwhelmed with data, it's useless, says whistleblower

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money.cnn.com 10y ago

Mitsubishi: We've been cheating on fuel tests for 25 years

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www.untapt.com 10y ago

A Neural Network That Dreams in Resumes

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techxplore.com 10y ago

Authenticate through your skull with SkullConduct

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One more interesting take-away - Uber has both Adjust and TUNE(Mobile App Tracking)'s SDK. Lyft has both Kochava and TUNE(Mobile App Tracking)'s SDK. All these SDK's do Attribution analytics (where are my app installs coming from). I wonder if app installs are so importnat to Uber and Lyft that they need 2 SDKs each doing the same thing to keep each other's data honest?

Super difficult. We recovered 40% from banks who were willing to look at our evidence. Turns out there was no international banking law that deals with stuff like this. Banks basically make their own decision whether who's right/wrong. The banks in Dubai and Far East basically told us to pound sand. We ended up threatening to sue our regional bank. They covered 20%. So we ended up losing 40%. The funny thing was FBI was involved. You'd think these guys are hot to trot. The guy we spoke to basically sounded like a local policeman whom you just told you lost your bike. "Oh yeah, we are tracking down leads". Net net, don't hire dumb people who can easily get phished. Once the money is gone, it almost always never come back. We counted ourselves lucky that we only lost 40% instead of 100% which is common from what we learned.

I suspect there's a lot more successful attack that resulted in monetary loss than meets the media. When I was at a venture-funded startup back in 2011, we had just raised $15M and on a fri late afternoon, our CFO received an email that looked like it came from our bank. He clicked on it and was immediately phished. Between 4-5pm they transferred $3M out of the account in multiple chunks. The company hasn't set up alerts and the bank, which was a regional one, did not have sophisticated filters to catch them. Long story short, it quickly went Dubai, Hong Kong and London. By the time Mon comes around, some of the money has been re-tranferred again to Asia and Eastern Europe.

My prediction - AAPL stock will repeat performance in late 2012. Management just needs to be more aggressive like FB in M&A instead of sitting on the $100B+ cash pile which investors will punish them for. Apple should have bought Oculus. Not FB.

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The LLVM point is a great call out. I didn't realize some many were based on it.