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by declan 11y ago
It's at the bottom of PDF page 3--search for "encryption." Excerpt: Unfortunately, changing forms of Internet communication and the use of encryption are posing real challenges to the FBI’s ability to fulfill its public safe
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FBI to Congress: Access to encrypted data “must be addressed” [pdf](judiciary.house.gov)
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by declan 11y ago
Well put. We tried to take a very privacy-protective stand when building Recent News ( https://recent.io ) because of the amount of personalization we do. This warrant canary is part of our privacy policy: As of [date], we have n
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by declan 11y ago
This is mostly good news. A few thoughts: * The FBI-NSA-etc. axis already tried to ban nonescrowed crypto. This was in 1997, when far fewer products relied on it, far fewer people used the Internet, and far fewer groups mobilized to oppose
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by declan 11y ago
The NeXT cube was often faster in perceived UI speed than my 2.3GHz MacBook Pro (this was after the 68040 upgrade). And the dock was more intuitive because it could be dragged into your desired position. And application menus were more usef
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by declan 11y ago
[a] Journalists using Zillow's site would likely be viewed as personal or editorial use, not commercial use. [b] Bloomberg probably worked with Zillow. [c] I'm not sure EFF would be interested in this. It's pretty standard TO
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by declan 11y ago
I suspect these kind of articles would be more useful if they were written by or summarizing advice by former CEOs who were in a similar position (multiple companies, lots of stress, regulatory uncertainty).
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by declan 11y ago
I just wrote this about how we're handling ad blocking with our news recommendation engine startup and the iOS version of our news app: https://medium.com/@declanm/the-right-way-to-block-ads-on-ne... TLDR: We&#x27
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What if there were a good way to block ads on news sites?(declan.io)
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The right way to block ads on news sites(medium.com)
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Amazon Confirms It Will Stop Selling Apple TV, Chromecast(variety.com)
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Google details Nexus Imprint fingerprint security(support.google.com)
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by declan 11y ago
Yep. I love the performance of Tesla's cars, but a humble minivan already has (far less attractive) sliding doors with very large openings. To be fair to Tesla, Elon Musk did address this around two-thirds of the way through his presen
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by declan 11y ago
Let's say that political polarization is in fact increasing since 1996. But there's this little thing called the Internet that went mainstream that year -- and had a far bigger impact on yet another cable TV station (that was not
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by declan 11y ago
It looks like the folks at Atavist did the right thing. As far as I can tell they created a publishing platform that lets folks format thousands of words of text and photos and videos, which is a very good use case for a web browser. Plus,
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by declan 11y ago
On point #3, I think we're talking about two different things. You mentioned "noncompete" agreements, which is an important topic but unrelated. What I was talking about is intellectual property assignment clauses. Excerpt:
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by declan 11y ago
I'm not familiar with any of the people involved and haven't read the pleadings. That said: * The lawsuit may make it more difficult for Shred Video to raise funding, but the linked writeup and YC's blog post don't exact
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by declan 11y ago
Are all your options vested? Did the company retain the right to repurchase?* Why exercise the options now? Can you afford to lose that cash if you the shares become worthless post-exercise? Can you sell or transfer your options or pledge a
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by declan 11y ago
This is disappointing. It's a move against the open Internet than Wired helped to popularize (I previously worked at Wired). It also is a slap in the face to Android and other non-iOS users. Disclaimer: My own startup released iOS and
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by declan 11y ago
(a) the plaintiffs in this lawsuit do not hold the copyright to the data dump on the mirror sites, (b) the data dump is probably not even copyrightable under U.S. law, because of (a) and (b) plaintiffs cannot avail themselves of the DMCA ta
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by declan 11y ago
I suspect this lawsuit will fail. If I were feeling more cynical I would say that plaintiffs' counsel knew that and filed it to intimidate some of the mirror sites into shutting down. In Bartnicki v. Vopper, SCOTUS held that a radio st
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by declan 11y ago
In many parts of the bay area you're not paying for the house as much as the land . In fact if the house is older and in a desirable location it has negative value because of the demo and related permits; a vacant lot would sell for m
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by declan 11y ago
Google expressly does not do that kind of retargeting. Its policies prohibit retargeting based on "health or medical information": https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/143465?hl=en I know th
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by declan 11y ago
Quite right. It's true that if you don't have a background using the native libraries it's going to be difficult, so one approach would be talking to developers who do and doing research like reading blogs and discussions lik
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by declan 11y ago
If you're going cross platform, the key is to know in detail the limitations of this approach, even if it takes longer to make that initial decision about what path to take. Different cross-platform tools have different approaches, but
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Recent News launches: Now publicly available for iOS and Android(recent.io)
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As others have said, objectively speaking you're in the top 0.25% or so of the world's population by income; the global median income is only around $1,300 a year. So objectively speaking you're doing well. Relatively speakin
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by declan 11y ago
>That was a claim made by the Eckankar[1] people, back in the 70's, I wanted to test. I take it you were unable to reproduce any psychic claims! :) If you could, it would be a trivial way to win $1M: http://web.randi.org&
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by declan 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I don't think either of us had thought of that. Inside the app, Home is a starting point that lets you see your news highlights at a glance. It does seem like the concept could be broad enough, as you say, to
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by declan 11y ago
My co-founder and I debated whether to use the hamburger menu for our iOS and Android apps (currently in beta -- https://recent.io/ ). We decided to keep the hamburger menu on both platforms for launch. Our reasoning was tha

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