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by 394549 8y ago
> HN tends to want to avoid political flamewars. Articles about China tend to devolve into political flamewars. If HN has an algorithm that spots flamewars (and I think they do), that could explain some of the behavior you're seeing
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by 394549 8y ago
> Is that actually true? Or is there another nuance to the formula that determines what ends up on the front page? I doubt it. I've noticed that China stories similar to this one are pretty consistently down-weighted once they hit
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by 394549 8y ago
There will be confusion if you have a 100% naming conflict with a more popular software package, regardless of how little overlap you think there is. If you want to keep the word "signal," rename it to "Signal Analytics&qu
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by 394549 8y ago
I wonder, what will the reaction of the "respect local laws and regulations" crowd will be to this development?
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by 394549 8y ago
This story is getting suppressed from HN. As of this writing, it has 25 points and was posted 1 hour ago, but it's already off the front page. In contrast, there's currently a story on the front page about mosh pits that only ha
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by 394549 8y ago
The name "Signal" is already taken by a popular open source application: https://www.signal.org/
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by 394549 8y ago
> The assumption that MBAs do not have domain experience is often incorrect. Stereotyping is supposedly frowned on in the comments here. Obviously not. I think the critique is about MBAs who don't have domain experience and don&#x2
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by 394549 8y ago
> MBAs are used as straw man punching bags on HN. Anything that goes wrong with a company where there’s the perception that the “obvious technical solution” was ignored, is blamed on this nebulous cabal of MBAs, who are apparently hired
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by 394549 8y ago
The site is down for me, but this works: https://web.archive.org/web/20181009200058/https://lauren.vo...
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by 394549 8y ago
> It may soon be that the only companies who can sell hardware outside of their own country are those who sell Open Source Hardware which can be 100% verified as true to its published design. That would be a very, very good outcome , IM
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by 394549 8y ago
> The US cannot force those companies to lie. They can force them to stay silent, in which case they'd just say "No comments". If those companies are lying, they are committing security fraud. Would the US government have
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by 394549 8y ago
The old Gmail is dead. Slow and ugly are the future. If you want something clean and fast, you're going to have to switch to something else. That's the magic of SaaS. I've noticed the "return to the old interface&quot
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by 394549 8y ago
> For example, why place a detectable piece of hardware onto the MoBo, instead of just installing malicious firmware? Because the supply-chain may be verifying the integrity of the firmware? Firmware is "detectable" too. It&#
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by 394549 8y ago
> Once again, this is easy for Bloomberg to prove: X-Ray or it didn't happen. Fake news. Surely the factory produced more than a few of these mobos. All the world needs is an X-Ray of one board with the magical chip. That's not
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by 394549 8y ago
The notification don't need to be email. If there's no evidence of a breach, I think it would be reasonable for them to disclose into some kind of vulnerability database. Maybe someone could later determine if the vulnerability
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by 394549 8y ago
> Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. That's not true. The logs show that it has never been used by anyone the two weeks they had logs for . It looks like the v
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by 394549 8y ago
> The worst part of this was that the for the longest time some policy violation (like your name not being "real") could lock you out of your entire account. Whoever made this decision needed to be fired. Deciding someone'
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by 394549 8y ago
> The PR piece by Google (currently at spot #1) is apparently what these stories are being "duped" to. I feel a PR piece shouldn't be the only post if there's subtext like "a security/privacy flaw" that
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by 394549 8y ago
> I'm curious, who was your intended audience for this comment? The only motivation I can think of is she probably expected to be applauded for how "logical" thinks she is.
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by 394549 8y ago
>> They did this with Google Reader 5 years ago. I don't think you can trust the longevity of Google services beyond GMail and Google Search. > Well, hardly anyone was using it. How long should a company maintain something for
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by 394549 8y ago
> Erm, Facebook did implement something like this. Shortly after Google+ came out. You can still assign friends to different groups. IIRC, Facebook never really promoted those features or tried to make them easy and intuitive to use. Re
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by 394549 8y ago
Wasn't Orkut massively popular in India and Brazil?
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by 394549 8y ago
> I just wanted to say that I walked away from Facebook about a year and a half ago now. I didn’t delete it, I just logged out and uninstalled the mobile app. It’s all been totally fine. If you do this, change your profile pic/cover
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by 394549 8y ago
IIRC, the original XBox made the assumption that the main bus was secure due to its high-speed, which turned out to be false. That was one of the few things that was unencrypted, and it offered a way in.
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by 394549 8y ago
> I had a reply written for that poster, but decided against posting, but yeah, look up the USS Cole. The ship was ruined, people killed. Not talking about some military exercise, but about reality. I think the GGP had that covered: >
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by 394549 8y ago
> Amazon offers the exact same product for the exact same cost, I don't see the problem. It's not much of a problem, but not much of an advantage either. So, the question I'm confronted with is: why pay the same for a wo
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by 394549 8y ago
> I cancelled mine a few months ago. Tomorrow is my last day. They've been harassing me on their site constantly with popups and notifications on every single page since I cancelled. It's gotten to the point where the harassmen
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by 394549 8y ago
> I'm curious if you have any examples. I have been very happy with Amazon. Even though every now and then I look up competitor's prices and selection Amazon is usually better at one or both. When they aren't it's not
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by 394549 8y ago
> I am slightly cautious that this hoax is itself a hoax and no actual hoax papers were published by actual academic journals. This is apparently the original account of the hoax. They had to call it off prematurely because they started
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by 394549 8y ago
> Yeah, I didn't quite know what umbrella term to use for the fields of study they hoaxed. Gender and Identity Studies?

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