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by dcposch 11y ago
10B, not 10M!
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looks just like bro pages bropages.org
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Not a "movie pirate", someone who watched a pirated movie. He ran a business and made 8 figures selling other peoples content without permission.
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> Iceland is not a safe harbor from the NSA A lot of crypto nerds have this fantasy of "NSA-proofing" themselves or their information. That's near impossible. If the NSA cares enough about someone specifically to use, say,
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by dcposch 11y ago
Could this be mitigated w an Android patch that disables 2G entirely? There can be a switch in Settings to reenable (eg when travelling to a country w an old network) but by default your phone should not be so vulnerable.
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one car per 9.21 people, not 921
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You definitely don't have to write your own an OS. You use existing tools, for example FreeRTOS. It's surprisingly simple. With a microcontroller, you can have a pretty much complete understanding of the whole machine. All you nee
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by dcposch 11y ago
First, congratulations on shipping. Usable E2E encryption is something I care deeply about and Signal is the best Ive ever used. Completely agree fighting mass surveillance for avg users is highest priority. What do you mean by "the ve
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Nylas is a beautiful app and, by design, easily extensible. As a result, I think that it has a better chance than other open source mail clients of providing an experience that's as polished and complete as Gmail. Doing that requires a
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Protip: https://news.ycombinator.com/best
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I agree that competitive college admissions are a driver of "helicopter parenting". However, from what I've seen, that behavior doesn't work nearly as well as you imply. I'm lucky to have great parents. Not "he
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by dcposch 11y ago
LOL That reminds me of an old classic: http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt There are a lot of obvious problems with email. * It's hard to run your own mail server, as described in the original post * Your address is
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Besides, your actual risk of dying in a terrorist attack is nowhere close to 1% / year. It's actually 0% per lifetime, rounded to many decimal places. Statists and authoritarians like to overstate external threats as an excuse to
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Not the case at Stanford. Stanford doesn't separate undergrad admissions by department. When I applied, the application didn't even ask what my intended major was. All Stanford undergrads start out as "undeclared", and m
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Working on it! Front-end is gorgeous. Using it to try out some ideas re: email encryption.
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by dcposch 11y ago
Anywhere on the internet where you can post an image today, you can already choose an animated GIF. If the site doesn't want animations, it will only show the first frame. For example, try uploading an animated GIF to Facebook.
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by dcposch 11y ago
Why is the top post on every single HN story negative? We have to stop chugging the haterade. Disclaimer: I have no affiliation w/ Asana & have no strong opinions about the redesign
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Many of these suggestions here sound really complicated. At Addepar, we use plain Java. A REST API can be served with Jetty + Jersey. We have zero XML configuration of any kind. JOOQ for DB access. HikariCP for connection pooling. Use Postg
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by dcposch 11y ago
I use the shell every day, and I have mixed feelings. 1. The core concepts are beautiful. Pipes are elegant. Simple programs that read and write text are one of the most enduring abstractions we've come up with. I've used a single
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by dcposch 11y ago
> People value cash differently than they value electronic money, even though the two have the exact same value. Except when they don't. To a Greek, 100k EUR in the bank today is worth some percentage of 100k EUR. His account is i
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by dcposch 11y ago
The first half of this talk is excellent. The story of air travel--how the engineers of the 60s thought that we'd have supersonic jets and flying cars within a few years--that's a great cautionary tale. Evolutionary biologists cal
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I watched the launch live this morning. It reminded me of one of the best interviews ever. Elon Musk after SpaceX's first three launches all exploded: http://archive.wired.com/science/space/news/2008&#x2F
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by dcposch 12y ago
Many of us learned a short, sanitized history of human rights in school. The story tends to focus on progress. We once had Inquisitions and witch burnings, and then the Enlightenment put an end to that. We had slavery and Jim Crow, and then
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by dcposch 12y ago
I think this illustrates one reason why Go doesn't have generics. Generics add a lot of complexity to a language. There are two main ways to implement them that I know of--the Java style, with type erasure, and the C++ style, where y
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by dcposch 12y ago
I don't see how this gives additional security. When you run curl https://project.com/script.sh | sh ...you're relying on three things: 1. That the people running the project are trustworthy 2. That the serv
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Chicago police are running a horrifying CIA-style black site out of a warehouse(theverge.com)
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> While its fair to say the U.S. lost Vietnam, I think its fair to say the U.S. won in Iraq and Afghanistan as their are now governed by friendly democracies... No. Iraq is fractured into halves. The northern half is controlled by ISIS,
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by dcposch 12y ago
That's a false dilemma. It's not about our current government vs no government, it's about complacency vs reform. Most libertarians are not "anarcho-libertarian", whatever that actually means, nor are we anarchists.
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People here are talking about complicated, difficult solutions, like using a library to create text in multiple languages from an AST(!) I think the moral of the post is simple: don't try to generate natural language. It won't sou
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Interesting, and of course I love the mission. They are trying to move beyond PGP and protect metadata (who talks to whom) instead of just content. The spec strikes me as complex. Why are there three modes (Trustful, Cautious, and Paranoid)

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