Darkstryder

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by Darkstryder 7y ago
It's what I'm doing right now: I started a PhD in computer security after 7 years working as a software engineer in the industry. All of that in Europe. The answer to your questions is -of course- it depends. As somebody said in t
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Every country's law is a bit different in that regard, but mostly : exactly like how the United States Supreme Court defines obscenity [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Of course. But free speech is not absolute, even in USA (libel laws and all that). What I find interesting is how the threshold between the freedom of speech and the freedom of others people is set differently between US and most of Europe.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
> “Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” I find this sentence interesting because
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Not pedantic, thank you for this info. I was under the impression this tariff existed because of the trade wars. The bad news is that it is less likely to be removed once Trump is out of office :-(
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
The pricing is more complicated than that. There is no way to buy a Model 3 at 35K$ in Europe. In France for instance, the minimum price is a whopping 48K€. Source : I wanted to buy a Model 3 in France. - 35K$ is actually 39K$, excluding
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How to Live Without Irony (2012)(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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Aptronym(en.wikipedia.org)
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I was actually surprised by your choice of xkcd, even if it is a fun one. For me the most relevant would have been 1266 - 'Halting problem' : https://xkcd.com/1266/ which is one of my all time favorite.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I agree with you. However this claim could be true in the future if/when Encrypted SNI (ESNI) for TLS 1.3 is deployed. Although ESNI is at the draft stage [1] and to the best of my knowledge is not at a deployable stage yet. However it
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
Interesting article. I enjoyed it. I have two thoughts. ==== 1. Regarding the benchmark itself, I wonder out loud if CPU caching could have a meaningful alter on the results. The article says : > I randomly generate 4000 spheres, capsule
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
A wild dream of mine is to build a 1/4 scale replica of an Imperial Star Destroyer that would actually be a zeppelin in disguise. Just imagine that thing floating mightily in the sky like the actual starship from Star Wars. You could e
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Ask HN: Best medium for data preservation for multiple decades archival?
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Fsyncgate: Errors on fsync are unrecoverable (2018)(danluu.com)
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
As I said, the trial is not about these suicides, but about a company-wide harassement policy. I meant it as " alleged side-effect".
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
The suicide spike at Orange / France Telecom took place from 2007 to 2009. I happened to work there fresh out of school from 2010 until 2012, just in the aftermath of the suicide wave, which we discussed a lot with colleagues at the ti
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I fully agree. But I was talking about a (presumably not very tech-enthusiast) lawyer from 1998, not a software developer from that time.
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." You're right that open source had been a thing for quite some time in 1998. GNU was started in 1983 after all. But I respectfully disagree that open s
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
One could argue that 20 years ago there was little to no reputation (good or bad) for most open-source software, and that made using open-source software much more dangerous : it was more difficult to separate the good apples from the bad o
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French telecom giant Orange on trial over staff suicides(apnews.com)
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I mostly answered your question while answering the sibiling comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19738724
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I do these kind of activities, but mostly divided in 5 to 15mn chunks. (Notably, my commute to work is a mere 10mn walk and I have a toddler child at home requiring frequent attention) I would have trouble dividing a 40mn podcast into five
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by Darkstryder 7y ago
I hate podcasts too. Or to put it more lightly, at the very least they are completely alien to me. In my opinion the elephant in the room when talking about informational podcasts or video is... text. As a medium, text is just so much more
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by Darkstryder 8y ago
French here. Your description reminds me a hell of a lot of Valerian and Laureline "Sur les frontières" : https://www.amazon.fr/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?field-keywords=978220... You should check it out. (Not sure abo
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by Darkstryder 8y ago
I'm not necessarily talking about performance but mostly about features. For instance a lot of friends using Android phones are shocked about iOS lack of a global filesystem. But to me, this absence is a feature, not a bug. Having ever
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by Darkstryder 8y ago
Anecdotally, that's why I use PCs (on Linux and Windows depending on the context) and an iPhone. I want my computer to be an open system where I'm not dependent on a single company for either hardware or software. But I want my ph
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by Darkstryder 8y ago
Reading this tweet ( https://twitter.com/troyhunt/status/1085095504197779456 ), I've just donated the price of a coffee to Troy ( https://haveibeenpwned.com/Donate ), and you should too. HIBP
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by Darkstryder 8y ago
As the article concludes with "Legal has taken over, I did my part and the rest is over my pay grade.", I think the author is not allowed to disclose this publicly.
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Ask HN: Does anyone have strange behaviors with Google Keep reminders?
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Social networking and dog food(rachelbythebay.com)
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