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by cyphunk 12y ago
The argument about criminals going dark with crypto is just fear bating and FUD. The criminals you "really" want to worry about are already dark. The only people iOS8 protects are your standard domestic criminals, which if they ha
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by cyphunk 12y ago
His argument for why Apple should assist the government in obtaining private information shows how easy it is to write the meaning of the constitution however you please, at least when a society is in the middle of intense technological evo
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Heinrich von Kleist wrote some 300 years ago an excellent essay titled The Expansion of Thought whilst Speaking [1]. Recommended read. Having to communicate with an external entity expands ones own understanding in ways that they could not
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by cyphunk 12y ago
There is the question of vanilla iOS being susceptible to attack from NSA and any other malicious attacker and then there is the question of is the security design sufficient such that even apple could not backdoor your privacy should they
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by cyphunk 12y ago
She’s found that little ones who are destined to do well in a typical 21st century kindergarten class are those who manifest good self-regulation. The first question is what determines "doing well"? This was not cl
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Can't access gsaadvantage.gov via Tor. hmm
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What a slippery balance. Apple typically makes products people replace once every 2 or 3 years. A watch has never fit this time frame of refresh. In-fact the whole attraction to a time piece is that it just works forever and is timeless. I
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by cyphunk 12y ago
I'm guessing the reason this topic gets any attention is because the company just secured funding. But, actually the proximity between this and that post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634 ) is pretty glaring
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by cyphunk 12y ago
shared pad for compiling patterns: https://pad.riseup.net/p/gO8Ng806lNnl
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I didn't see any zips. Though zip is not the only vector one should be concerned with. For downloadable files, handle with extreme care. Exploration of the database content however is static and i'm sure the Internet will thank yo
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by cyphunk 12y ago
it is definitely a great product. what I like about Show HN is that it utilises reputation systems but lets everyone submit creating less of a filter bubble experience. Anyway, as you said, its only 6 months old. i just get the feeling thou
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by cyphunk 12y ago
There are prejudices and racism in Europe, indeed. Segregation is a much an issue in the EU as in the US but in very different ways. I can speak for Germany with some certainty where segregation can be found starkly in the education system
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great. next to contributors.
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I have not looked at PH for months. too US/siliconvalley centric. hopefully the cash means they can deal with this problem now
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The only comment he made were to blame Snowden and brush off the massive surveillance and obstruction of civil liberties without a word. So rather than consider the problem that created Snowden he only blames the messenger. I can't t
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by cyphunk 12y ago
the idea of consumption as a stint to growth i could relate to from the perspective of: cultures more consumed with self give less reason for growth. From another perspective: in a society that worships the self child-bearing is a product o
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by cyphunk 12y ago
As an American living in Europe I'm surprised you could think that black-white separation in the US is so stark in comparison to Europe. Racism always felt like a European invention to me that the US just executes very well because it&
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by cyphunk 12y ago
Read, researched and took a break. The first impression of this being something quiet interesting and perhaps revealing obscure questions... faded into the impression that this is statistician hogwash. Q: All this data is from a datin
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> I think it's not mainly about money (why do Germany's academics have the fewest children?), but about creating a children-friendly climate and a culture where raising children is considered a good thing and not just a burden
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Just a reminder, Andreessen is the same person that says Snowden is a traitor.
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"fiddling" with "miscellaneous" input characters could be confirmed with server logs. i wondering if the defence will pursue this.
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yes
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Google, making the world a better place. together. http://youtu.be/J-GVd_HLlps?t=14s
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by cyphunk 12y ago
true. could also donate just as a sort of "hey thanks"
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by cyphunk 12y ago
you are probably right. it's a crime to abuse civil servants but wow what timing. right when the US is in the middle of a militarisation of police debate centered in part around abusive use of SWAT everywhere. In the end though this pa
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by cyphunk 12y ago
in general anything coming from a php developer should be ignored. even reading official php documentation when it comes to anything concerning security should scare the shit out of grandmothers everywhere.
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by cyphunk 12y ago
really HN? if you find yourself depending heavily on the recommendations in this article you are doing data analysis wrong. Shell foo is relevant to data analysis only as much as regex is. In the same light depending on these methods too mu
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by cyphunk 12y ago
A worthy cause. Also see this page for places to donate to Snowdens defense. https://wikileaks.org/freesnowden (scroll down to Other options) Location for Chelsea Mannings defense/appeal fund: http://courage
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just a reminder, this is the same person that says snowden is a trator
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What is missing from this article and the debate: some transparency can be a strategy to avoid broader leaking that would result when the public starts to converge on the idea that current levels of secrecy are harmful. this is something th

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