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by byoogle 12y ago
I missed the date (updated title).
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Requiem for a Dream: Aaron Swartz was brilliant and beloved. But … [2013](newyorker.com)
15 points by byoogle 12y ago|6 comments
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Kickstarter Freezes Anonabox Privacy Router Project for Misleading Funders(wired.com)
100 points by byoogle 12y ago|45 comments
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by byoogle 12y ago
First link to avoid paywall: https://www.google.com/search?q=Is%20Silicon%20Valley%20Pour...
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Is Silicon Valley Pouring Its Money Into the Wrong Stuff?(online.wsj.com)
2 points by byoogle 12y ago|1 comments
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by byoogle 12y ago
This attack isn’t new – the first proof of concept I know of that worked well is from 2011: http://lcamtuf.blogspot.com/2011/12/css-visited-may-be-bit-o...
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by byoogle 12y ago
Not true. You’re changing Ghostery’s default settings but not changing Disconnect’s default settings.
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by byoogle 12y ago
Ghostery’s results are (surprise) quite biased: http://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1kagfu/which_privac...
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by byoogle 12y ago
Cool project, OP (I couldn’t actually get things up and running but filed a bug with details). If you want to do a v2 (or somebody else is looking for a project), try extending Google’s autoupdater (Omaha): https://code.google.co
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Google X Spinoff Raises $8 Million to Simplify Sustainable Design(recode.net)
15 points by byoogle 12y ago|19 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
Money (literally) quote: And what happens next is precisely what is supposed to happen when companies don’t collude to defraud their employees of fair-market wages: Google coughed up more money to improve its retention.
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Facebook Refused No-Poaching Agreement With Google(techcrunch.com)
340 points by byoogle 13y ago|258 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
I’m the developer of Disconnect and agree with you, but … To back up the op and gp, I’m seeing more and more sites that don’t degrade gracefully when their analytics service doesn’t load. I do think devs should check that their site still w
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by byoogle 13y ago
Dev here. We do have a new Android app out (but focused on search rather than browsing privacy): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.disconnect....
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by byoogle 13y ago
The source is at: https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect
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by byoogle 13y ago
The mobile one is particularly good: https://soundcloud.com/a16z/a16z-podcast-apple-and-google
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Andreessen Horowitz Podcast(soundcloud.com)
1 points by byoogle 13y ago|1 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
This submission is in reference to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7439358
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Larry Page’s Homepage(infolab.stanford.edu)
11 points by byoogle 13y ago|2 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
To get around the paywall, you can: https://www.google.com/search?q=Mt.+Gox+Finds+200%2C000+Miss...
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Mt. Gox Finds 200,000 Missing Bitcoins(on.wsj.com)
278 points by byoogle 13y ago|236 comments
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Warren Buffett calls Bitcoin a “mirage”, says “stay away”(cnbc.com)
1 points by byoogle 13y ago|1 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
> That’s why at Facebook we spend a lot of our energy making our services and the whole internet safer and more secure. We encrypt communications, we use secure protocols for traffic, we encourage people to use multiple factors for authe
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by byoogle 13y ago
It sounds like you’re running at least Disconnect and Ghostery at the same time. You can’t do these comparisons with multiple filtering extensions running at the same time and get apples-to-apples results because if one extension blocks a r
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by byoogle 13y ago
We seem to be getting about 100K extra hits per day (and still going) since Sunday. (I have no idea if this is more or less traffic than one might expect.)
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by byoogle 13y ago
OP here. The differences between (and history of) these two extensions are a bit confusing :-): The parts of Disconnect that 60 Minutes showed actually started as a Chrome (from Firefox) port of Collusion that I did for a hackathon ( https:
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Show HN: A browser extension I made appeared on 60 Minutes(cbsnews.com)
33 points by byoogle 13y ago|11 comments
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by byoogle 13y ago
“Visionary leadership”: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2004-04-17/
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by byoogle 13y ago
Also encephalitis lethargica, the treatment of which even got turned into a movie (and book and play): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings . (Spoiler: The patients, unfortunately, developed a tolerance for the treat
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by byoogle 13y ago
Why? I believe that sentence refers to extra software/services that’d normally be paid.

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