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by bthomas 13y ago
No new information (and personally I'd prefer not to see this on Hacker News) but...this is a really remarkable article. It reads like a spy thriller in a way none of the short form reporting has. It also introduces a new protagonist t
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by bthomas 13y ago
One side effect is that this would accelerate the adoption of Python 3 in the scientific community
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by bthomas 13y ago
I've always thought this was an interesting dynamic too. The Boston Globe recently had a front page article about who is buying the Boston Globe: http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/06/27/least-
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by bthomas 13y ago
I'd normally agree with your rules for an apology (eg. after a breach) but in this case I think their aggressive tone creates a Streisand effect. I for one had never heard of this guy. He certainly seems to be gaining some fans among c
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by bthomas 13y ago
There's a large subset of that intersection that puts a bizarre halo effect around the NSA (everything they do is good) and the opposite for the IRS. So I do think this will wake them up.
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by bthomas 13y ago
7 days is a fine maximum, but not necessarily a target. A malicious 3rd party script should be removed in an hour. Are there any independent groups that rate a firm's response to an exploit? Other than HN comments and (rare) legal recourse,
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by bthomas 13y ago
Might just be tired but I don't get this...care to explain?
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by bthomas 13y ago
This seems like such an obvious thing for Facebook to do - any guesses as to why they haven't?
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by bthomas 13y ago
If anyone from the site reading this, didn't work on my nexus galaxy. A dumb share popover took up the whole screen and didn't scroll away.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Implicit in all the discussion about his site is whether it could signify a major industry shift - that's what I thought the question was getting at. I'd have preferred him to take a position: "I think I have a better way for the industry t
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by bthomas 14y ago
I thought it was a good question, and probably the only part of the article that's relevant to Hacker News. (FWIW I think it does matter and didn't like his answer)
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by bthomas 14y ago
Are there any estimates for if you put $1k into every company from a batch?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but Command-Shift-R refreshes a page ignoring cache
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by bthomas 14y ago
Same. I suppose this is the lottery everyone is asking for?
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by bthomas 14y ago
Something won't keep me signed in. I'm all signed in, go to "waiting for an available ticket", and there's a "Sign In" link at the top
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by bthomas 14y ago
This is really fantastic behavior, but content - the actual list items they show - is much more important for user experience. Why should "Amazon Cloud Drive" be a "Department"? In the wild, I suspect I would quickly glance at the top level
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by bthomas 14y ago
Is there a way to detect whether user has read an email with the standard Gmail image filter enabled?
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by bthomas 14y ago
> we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed This depends on how hard they looked - do people believe content wasn't accessed? Is it fair to ask them for a technical post about why they don't th
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by bthomas 14y ago
Those two aren't exclusive - does your father know what file a given email is stored in? (Good for him if so :) I think you need to give examples of important content which, at the same time , your father stores with files and your daughte
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by bthomas 14y ago
I don't agree with Gabe's conclusion that "post-touch, and we’ll be stable for a really long time" As you said: "where I'm looking", "where I'm gesturing", and "where I'm thinking" are all possible - but totally different. I think if post-t
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by bthomas 14y ago
Poe's law... can't tell if this is sarcastic or not
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by bthomas 14y ago
Tanks for responding. If curious, the hovers on the who we are page also caused me problems, and assets took a while to load.
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by bthomas 14y ago
Interesting idea, but site is not really usable on mobile...
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by bthomas 14y ago
I never knew him, but the Isaacson book claimed one of the reasons he was able to take a risk with apple was that he knew he had coding as a fallback, as he was a decent coder at Atari
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by bthomas 14y ago
I'd rather focus on ideas than personalities. What about "ask me anything about X", where X is a software package/device/publication/etc.
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by bthomas 14y ago
> the brain has fewer components influencing development What do you mean by that? I'd argue the opposite. In a sense, we already have discovered genes for high height with Marfan Syndrome. I think IQ is orders of magnitude more complex
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by bthomas 14y ago
Yes - (1) and (4) are extremely unlikely, though (2) and (3) are certainly plausible :) More specifically, this study may publish some marginal results about genetics of extreme IQ, but any single effect will likely be so small that nothing
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by bthomas 14y ago
I'd love to see a list of projects he started that didn't work out. Amazing list, but he must've had some duds at some point.
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by bthomas 14y ago
I'd imagine Google recognizes you're a programmer and modifies your results for "go" accordingly
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by bthomas 14y ago
Wonder how many use the same password for ssh and mysql though

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