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by SMrF 15y ago
"...creating 100% safe neighborhoods through smart surveillance. People are rapidly becoming accustomed to being tracked all the time, anyway." This comment shocks me. I'm not sure what to say. Are you being sarcastic? An apt metaphor for p
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by SMrF 15y ago
And then the article requires a Facebook account to comment. "Hey look, we're quickly aggregating all of our personal data into one centralized place creating an obviously appealing target for authority as evidenced by this recent trend of
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by SMrF 15y ago
This is indeed very simple. But I'm afraid this will evoke what I call the "crypto gag reflex" which in this case would be, "client-side javascript + crypto === BAD." How do you respond to this criticism? Is it valid in this case?
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by SMrF 15y ago
I feel like using localStorage to cache stuff that could be handled by http caching is probably a mistake. I'm in the process of caching a bunch of our application in localStorage because a quirk in our client-side architecture means I need
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by SMrF 15y ago
Doesn't the using the application cache (e.g. the manifest file you speak of) cause a user prompt? That's a deal breaker in many situations.
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by SMrF 15y ago
Here's a pretty good summary of the main point. "Therefore if we rely on consumers to factor in the total cost to society when making a decision, (which is what happens in a for-profit model), in most cases we will never discover the optima
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The Horrible Equilibrium that is Facebook Connect (nymbus.org)
1 points by SMrF 15y ago|1 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
I think solving this problem is just a band-aid. As sites like Facebook and Twitter have become mainstream privacy concerns are also becoming mainstream. We're going to have to develop better ways of working with people's data -- kind of li
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This Stuff Matters: Google's New Privacy Policy (with a few edits) | Nymbus(nymbus.org)
8 points by SMrF 15y ago|2 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
Question 2: Do you think there is big enough market for the service AND the market is easy to reach (without spending bootloads of money)? Isn't figuring out how to convert your market into customers without going broke the definition of th
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by SMrF 15y ago
"Google's ad revenue is best protected by them respecting their users privacy." Their economic incentives are aligned in exactly the opposite direction. The more they know about you the more money they make, ergo the recent privacy policy c
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by SMrF 15y ago
High karma on hacker news may not translate to a high reputation on a writer's blog, but it would pretty much guarantee a civil, thoughtful comment. In this way karma is pretty portable, you just have to give everyone karma somehow. Maybe s
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by SMrF 15y ago
I think sites like hacker news and slashdot have a pretty good handle on this problem but only in their own communities. A good start to a more generalized solution would be to make these currently siloed reputation systems portable.
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by SMrF 15y ago
Agree. I meant to put a note about this. I was quite financially secure and did not need the money. I would have doubled down on this idea if this was my only option for paying bills. But it wasn't and I could easily find a job that paid mo
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by SMrF 15y ago
The rapid iteration/pivot approach makes more sense if you start with something you are passionate about. That's the key. Maybe try only testing your assumptions about your market? Try to describe someone who would use your product and then
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by SMrF 15y ago
The landing page is nice. Nice enough for me to click on the button to try it and then find out it's invite only. If you were going to launch tomorrow, why not let us try it today? And of course I'm going to want to know how this is better/
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by SMrF 15y ago
It ended up here: https://github.com/sfioritto/lookout No license but I'll throw a BSD license on there later if anyone wants to use it. Update: It's been a while but I think when I left off I was working on a bug in the Bayes module. The
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by SMrF 15y ago
More like the last 1%. Implementing the billing system would have been trivial. It was a mental block. I just didn't want to completely commit to the business I created.
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by SMrF 15y ago
In theory I like this concept, in practice it blew up in my face. After two years and two ideas that failed, (executed poorly, no traction, no market, trouble in cofounder paradise -- you name it, I've failed it), I decided to try a differe
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by SMrF 15y ago
I admit, though I found the topic fascinating I only had time to skim. But I did notice something which may be of interest to others: CeroWrt is a branch of OpenWrt geared towards fixing the buffer problem on your home network. So I'm guess
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About CeroWrt(cero2.bufferbloat.net)
7 points by SMrF 15y ago|1 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
But what if additional authentication reduced fraud? Wouldn't that be beneficial? Are you saying it's impossible to reduce fraud rates any lower than where they are now?
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Ask HN: Why doesn't this exist? Signing ecommerce transactions.
4 points by SMrF 15y ago|4 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
There have been experiments that show we could probably make it without going insane. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars500/ Dying of other random space hazards is still something to think about.
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Public key encryption for web site authentication and identification(phoenix-web.us)
1 points by SMrF 15y ago|0 comments
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Is browser fingerprinting a viable technique for identifying anonymous users?(programmers.stackexchange.com)
5 points by SMrF 15y ago|0 comments
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by SMrF 15y ago
I was expecting infographics. :-( I've always suspected this to be true, but I would love to see some data to back it up. My parents have seen enough instability in their career paths to agree with my decision to actively pursue starting my
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by SMrF 15y ago
It boggles the mind that this was actually implemented. Some poor schmuck had to sit there and write the code to delete little kid's emails.
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by SMrF 15y ago
This was my first startup. We were going to use wireless mesh networks to "bridge the digital divide" and provide broadband to the (at the time -- 2005) 40% of Americans in rural America that didn't have it. I've always lumped this under th
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by SMrF 15y ago
Have to disagree with the second comment. My experience was that the partners were exceptionally good at their job, which is essentially sales. Perhaps they are mediocre along other measurements? Every single one of them was a workaholic, w

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