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by ac4tw 8y ago
Actually a fellow on HN the other day demonstrated that you could decompile their APK and inspect the code, so you can make a pretty solid attempt to verify product statements if you have the skill and the time. Also, I think we're cro
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by ac4tw 8y ago
I find the article interesting from a cryptographic perspective--specifically have they implemented searchable encryption or such a "encrypted environment" where they able to capture more than meta-data. These quotes specifically:
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by ac4tw 8y ago
I think this is my favorite quote for discussions that start out like yours: “Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different from saying you don't care about free speech bec
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Interesting--I'm trying Nord right now and while Google has been fine, Amazon blocks me regardless of what I do and I ended up having to add some static routes for Craigslist.
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by ac4tw 8y ago
That's terrible. The opacity of app store developer interactions frustrates me greatly. I was actually thinking something similar to your suggestion the other day for an entirely different reason. Specifically, trust based integrations
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Folks like yourself are one of the big draws of HN for me. It's awesome to hear the perspective of people who created aspects of the things I was in awe at growing up (in this case I'm thinking of the Jaguar).
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by ac4tw 8y ago
"It not being open source is a political argument, not a technical one." If I can compare the open source to the reverse engineered code to see what I'm really using/getting, that seems like a technical advantage. Also,
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by ac4tw 8y ago
myth_buster, lisper, & newscracker make interesting points. In researching WhatsApp a while ago, I came across this in a Quora post "But one more point I want to stress here is that, though whatsapp is allowing end to end communica
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by ac4tw 8y ago
After reading through the src for Dig Dug, I have to confess that I'm jealous of the awesome variable names in gaming. Didn't see a lot of things like 'DETHWISH', 'FLEE', 'ROCKDETH', or 'VICTIMX&
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by ac4tw 8y ago
My bad--I got so excited when I saw this, my brain forgot to check if it already made it here first. I also learned that the delete submission feature is not a thing. (Clearly I should spend more time on HN).
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by ac4tw 8y ago
While I love software, I was a LEGO head first. Seeing this today just shows what an awesome era we live in. Here's the URL where I found the video--it has more details on the car: https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutu
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Full-Size Lego Bugatti Chiron Powered with Power Functions S Motors(legoexternal.23video.com)
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by ac4tw 8y ago
It seems like a good solution to CryoLogic and your discussion might be for services to allow you to choose what you would like censored. For instance 'yzmtf2008' could simply say, don't show me content like this. Obviously
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by ac4tw 8y ago
I prefer projects that strive for "can't be evil".
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by ac4tw 8y ago
"It's got to be about the worst cost to utilization ration of any feature on the iPhone." I can't speak to whether you're correct or not, but that feature is a massive time saver for me. It's one of the most co
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Enjoyed your buttonless UX. The NLP engine worked well too. Your premise about improving meme search is inline with some of the comments I was reading about Line this morning (though their users mentioned problems with sticker suggestion).
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by ac4tw 8y ago
I don't think there are any 3 that are exactly what you ask about ("chat-on-blockchain thing"). However, from my understanding of Telegram's ICO and "leaked" roadmap, they appear to be doing a decentraliz
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by ac4tw 8y ago
I think @detaro says 'regrettably' because of the distaste many have about ICOs and the hype related to them. However, I too would like to hear from @detaro on this.
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Comments like yours are what keep me coming back to hacker news. Thanks for the perspective. Especially interesting about TP4 & traffic shaping. The even-numbered hour bug sounds like a nightmare--kind of like cold temperature timer iss
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Absolutely agree with you. Transparency in a messaging platform is important (it's sort of captured in EFFs criteria for a messenger too as regards open sourcing and inspection--not sure if you saw their recent 4 part series on messagi
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Indeed if one was observing the entire network, they might be able to piece together useful metadata as you both suggest. The kind of thing you might do with a NarusInsight. Tox and Zerocoin have done some interesting work towards this end
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by ac4tw 8y ago
18pfsmt, that's an interesting question. Do you have any specific examples you can point us to? When I think about a network drawn atop of say WebRTC connections, it's possible for a message to travel realtime via hops from person
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Good questions lawl. I'll try to address them in order: 1. "A blockchain, implemented using virtualchains [6], is used to bind digital property, like domain names, to public keys. Blockstack’s blockchain solves the problem of boot
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by ac4tw 8y ago
When Prabhaav mentions it's encrypted client side, we should elaborate and also mention that it's encrypted such that we can't see it, so we have no way of knowing if you are transacting illegal content. An interesting archit
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Answering your question to my satisfaction is difficult from a single source, but here are some key points and source links that may help: * "Can Blockstack control my data or ID when I use it? No. When you're using a Blockstack c
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by ac4tw 8y ago
The diagram at the bottom of this link, 'How Blockstack Works', has proven helpful to me for discussing and understanding Blockstack and dApps built upon it: https://blockstack.org/intro
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Thank you. I appreciate your concern. My understanding is that the Blockstack team has more development planned for GAIA, but to date have been focused more in other areas, as you discovered. We've been working on their platform since
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by ac4tw 8y ago
Greetings, I develop Stealthy with the OP. After reading a lot of the HN dApp posts, I want to address two frequently occurring topics from the comments: 1. How decentralized is this dAPP? Stealthy is decentralized in two main ways. The fir
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by ac4tw 9y ago
Done