albertsun

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by albertsun 13y ago
How do you feel about metaphors with obvious flaws?
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by albertsun 13y ago
There's no point in trying to assess any privacy claims they make — it's not a technological thing. The only value they offer is violating people's privacy.
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by albertsun 13y ago
This is a privacy nightmare. Perhaps wifi devices should no longer provide constant MAC addresses....
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by albertsun 13y ago
It's possible that genetic factors count for more than everything else for certain people. The family history profiled here http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/health/seeking-clues-to-a-... sounds ext
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by albertsun 13y ago
"In one case, after the government learned that a foreign intelligence target had ordered new computer hardware, the American manufacturer agreed to insert a back door into the product before it was shipped, someone familiar with the r
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Gerrymandering Jigsaw Puzzle(slate.com)
2 points by albertsun 13y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 13y ago
Sounds like the plot to this 1997 Bond movie. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_never_dies
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by albertsun 13y ago
While I'm sad that Nate Silver is leaving the Times (I work there), I'm also really excited to see what he's going to be able to do with all the sports data that ESPN has. I'm expecting incredible things to come.
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by albertsun 13y ago
Fantastic article. Reading it felt like I was reading a guide on how to become a better coder. Sidenote: I'm sure to want to reread this in the future. What terrifies me about Medium is that if I'm flipping through my notes, say 5
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by albertsun 13y ago
That's odd, I'm looking at my calendar and it doesn't say April 1st.
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U.S. mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program(washingtonpost.com)
7 points by albertsun 13y ago|0 comments
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Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken [pdf](isotropic.org)
67 points by albertsun 13y ago|47 comments
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by albertsun 13y ago
Well it's not true that there was no existing relationship. And I'm not sure what anyone gains by your wild speculation.
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Violating a site's TOS is a crime under the CFAA(forbes.com)
3 points by albertsun 14y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 14y ago
Published 2008? Hacker News seems to be developing a strong interest in fitness and weight lifting.
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Dragonflies, Nature's Deadly Drone(nytimes.com)
12 points by albertsun 14y ago|0 comments
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The Law Everyone Should Hate(informationdiet.com)
5 points by albertsun 14y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 14y ago
Right now single page view is the default and I believe that is the plan. (From an NYT employee who has access to the prototype but did not work on it at all.)
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by albertsun 14y ago
Keep reading.... "From there they snooped around The Times’s systems for at least two weeks before they identified the domain controller that contains user names and hashed, or scrambled, passwords for every Times employee."
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Reading the first paragraph of this article has earned you a badge(codingconduct.tumblr.com)
1 points by albertsun 14y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 14y ago
There's a whole bunch of us (Times employees) who read/submit/comment on HN from time to time. I didn't have anything to do with Snow Fall, but I did frequently walk past the people who were working on it late at night. We don't have anythi
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How ProPublica’s Message Machine Reverse Engineers Political Microtargeting(propublica.org)
5 points by albertsun 14y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 14y ago
The way Google is building out its maps data is way more sophisticated. Good look inside here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-go...
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by albertsun 14y ago
IFTTT seems like a perfect case for something that should be an open source project that anyone can install and run on their own servers, not as a centralized service, specifically to prevent things like this. Then anyone could contribute r
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by albertsun 14y ago
This is a problem I've been thinking about a lot. The trick is the audience we have comes to us through the channels we've created. It seems unrealistic for us to get them all to use the human.io app.
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by albertsun 14y ago
This looks very intriguing but I have a bunch of questions. Do all the end users, the "humans" have to have the human.io mobile app in order to run "apps"? Is there a way to embed the human.io app/task UI somewhere else? Is the intention to
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by albertsun 14y ago
That's the story with the calendar app I use, http://30boxes.com/ I don't think a new feature has been added in about 5 years and it barely seems maintained, there have been a few day-longish episodes of downtime but other than that it wo
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by albertsun 14y ago
If only some tech billionaire could set up a SuperPAC to defeat this guy in 2012. Here's his Democratic opponent in 2012 https://candaceduval.nationbuilder.com/contribute
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by albertsun 14y ago
People realize that most professional news publications now have social media editors or social media teams whose job it is to make that publications content popular on social media sites and in online communities right? Seems like Jared Ke
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by albertsun 14y ago
https://github.com/kaepora/cryptocat That's the second Google search result for Cryptocat.

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