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by charlieok 12y ago
I just tried searching this entire comments page for the string “batman”. Incredibly, there were 0 occurrences. So I'll just add: this sounds kinda like that batman movie where they turned every cellphone in the city into a remote list
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by charlieok 12y ago
In that a WebDAV implementation wouldn't make use of them? I assumed that a WebDAV implemenation would use them, but the WebDAV spec doesn't need to define them because the HTTP spec it references already did...
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by charlieok 12y ago
huh, it worked for me just a minute ago. Wonder if they just took it down? (edit: looks like it's back up now) Here's the text of the page I got: At Open Whisper Systems, our goal is to make private communication simple. For the p
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Open Whisper Systems partners with WhatsApp to provide end-to-end encryption(whispersystems.org)
506 points by charlieok 12y ago|147 comments
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by charlieok 12y ago
I remember reading through David Macaulay's “The Way Things Work” as a kid, soaking up the illustrations until I understood each one. It was life-changing. However, I remember having trouble with one page in particular -- the one descr
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by charlieok 12y ago
I'd like to be able to use something as a universal scripting language. I'd much prefer javascript to something like bash or batch files. Recall the “Joel test”. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000
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by charlieok 12y ago
That's probably best addressed by the “security considerations” section of the JWT spec: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-json-web-token-... My short answer to “How secure are JSON Web Tokens?”, though
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Visual explanation of Markov Chains(setosa.io)
2 points by charlieok 12y ago|0 comments
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by charlieok 12y ago
I have a compulsion to remove the unclean crap at the ends of urls that seem to be for somebody else's benefit besides my own. Query strings usually, with various tracking ids or unnecessary preferences. It bothers me when that stuff i
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Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras Returning To U.S.(huffingtonpost.com)
6 points by charlieok 13y ago|0 comments
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by charlieok 13y ago
Tried putting the rss feed in feedly, but the entries don't link to pages on the site :(
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by charlieok 13y ago
I've started using Pocket for this. They need a better browser UI, since they seem to have been focusing much more on their mobile apps, but their recently-added "highlights" features accomplish the "bring them back to t
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by charlieok 13y ago
beat me to it :)
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by charlieok 13y ago
Something I can put in my feed reader (rss or atom)?
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by charlieok 13y ago
but can you trust what's in it after it's gone through airport security?
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by charlieok 13y ago
For me the point is that inserting the word “just” is diminishing or belittling the person's contribution, even as you are asking them to make that contribution.
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by charlieok 13y ago
Agreed. A while ago I went back and read a bunch of news stories from the 90s about similar battles, and Wyden was playing more or less the same role in those stories too. I'm happy to say that one of my state's two senators, Mark
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by charlieok 13y ago
A designer I worked with had lots of interesting stuff taped to his door, and rotated it regularly. My favorite was probably the following: “Can you just...” no.
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by charlieok 13y ago
The “Knowledge Maps” used by sites like Kahn Academy [1] strike me as immensely helpful in deciding what to teach someone next, given what they've already learned. I think it would be cool to replace the one-size-fits-all required read
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by charlieok 13y ago
Well that didn't take long, did it. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-admits-lis... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5886686
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by charlieok 13y ago
I like this because I'm interested in creating more cross-platform projects. By that I mean, not only does this webapp work on recent versions of Internet Explorer, but a developer can easily get up and running on it using windows (as
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by charlieok 13y ago
Not if that country is China...
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by charlieok 13y ago
The worst part is we had no real choice, at all. In Bush's case, at least he could say, “I'm the tough-on-terrror candidate. In the tradeoff between security and liberty, I favor security.” That's how he was positioned. By el
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by charlieok 13y ago
Suddenly a phone conversation is looking like the most private way to communicate (short of self-hosting, encrypting, and being an all-around crypto-anarchist). At least then it's apparently just the “metadata”.
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by charlieok 13y ago
I'm actually surprised that it's only metadata and not a complete capture of the contents. Or will we learn later that there's another more secret order for that?
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Google Reader API replacement, powered by Riak(blog.superfeedr.com)
70 points by charlieok 13y ago|18 comments
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by charlieok 13y ago
A couple use cases that I'm still waiting for on mapping applications: - I have a bike, and a pass that gets me on any local bus or light rail car. Busses and light rail cars can carry people with bikes. What are the best two or three route
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by charlieok 13y ago
If you follow many blogs of people in the data visualization community, you'll see right away how often they talk about an iterative process in drawing out a story. There's a big exploratory component, where they investigate possible approa
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by charlieok 13y ago
I knew a guy who got a perfect standardized test score, went to a pretty nice, selective college, and then got in some trouble there for making napalm. Not like felony trouble, but trouble.
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by charlieok 13y ago
My impression is that he came up with a design successful enough that it has well-known imitators. Can you say a bit about what you mean by “iteration”?

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