dominik

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   War erupts between Russia and Georgia(economist.com)

   3 points by dominik 18y ago|0 comments
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   by dominik 18y ago

   Patry's Copyright Blog ( http://williampatry.blogspot.com/ ) also discussed this case at length on August 2. Since Patry took the blog down temporarily and is now putting it back up, I'm going to copy paste the relevant post here. The Exec
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   by dominik 18y ago

   > What part of being a child prodigy or going through "hell week" summer schools makes you entrepeneurial? The working your ass off part. I can speak from my own RSI hell week experience, as well as that of the two RSIs at which I was
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   by dominik 18y ago

   Yay for RSI :-) Any other RSI alums read HN? RSI '00 here.
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   by dominik 18y ago

   I liked his honesty here: "my ability to do any serious mathematics fluctuates greatly from day to day; sometimes I can think hard on a problem for an hour, other times I feel ready to type up the full details of a sketch that I or my coaut
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   by dominik 18y ago

   CEO: If no one notices, we save money, which means a better bottom line now, which means a better bonus for me, since my reward incentives are strongly biased towards the short term. What to do...
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   by dominik 18y ago

   I agree, I love that quote.
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   by dominik 18y ago

   First: Congratulations on reaching this milestone! Second: No intro page. Keep the front page as functional as possible, so people can immediately see what the site is about it, what it does and why it is useful. You should already have a "
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   by dominik 18y ago

   The Mifare chip is used in transport cards (i.e. subway passes) around the world. It had poor security. Researchers hacked it. They published. The company, NXP, sued. A Dutch court wisely ruled: "Damage to NXP is not the result of the p
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    Schneier: Hacking Mifare Transport Cards(schneier.com)

    11 points by dominik 18y ago|7 comments
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    by dominik 18y ago

    The most valuable lesson: "By recognizing the changes in the world around us, we can reason our way into industries that will be appealing in the long run."
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    by dominik 18y ago

    It's falling, but not that quickly. IE6 still has 25.3% market share: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Why not add a 'search' link to the top navigation that just links to searchyc.com? Estimated implementation time: 1 to 5 minutes. Then, when HN's own search arrives, you could replace that link.
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    by dominik 18y ago

    I find myself wishing HN didn't violate 1 and 3.
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    by dominik 18y ago

    1. Bad Search 2. PDF Files for Online Reading 3. Not Changing the Color of Visited Links 4. Non-Scannable Text 5. Fixed Font Size 6. Page Titles With Low Search Engine Visibility 7. Anything That Looks Like an Advertisement 8. Violating Des
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Seems like a social enabled rehash of the old Bartle test. It's also really annoying it forces you to try to register before you can do anything. I gave a fake e-mail and fake name to registration and then it told me I could take the test,
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    by dominik 18y ago

    I've been working in Detroit this summer. I can confidently say: Detroit sure hasn't inverted.
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Is there a need for a such a phrase at all? I think it's pretty clear websites continually evolve, grow, etc.
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    by dominik 18y ago

    I think the stopgap might create a problem worse than the one it's trying to solve :-/
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    by dominik 18y ago

    We don't understand how humans "understand" chess, either. From what I've read, the latest research seems to indicate top chess players train their brain's facial recognition system to recognize tactical board positions. But it's not clear
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Pretty amazing to get $15m for a site not even out of beta... I don't see the point of Rupture. A social network for gamers, linking their real life identities to their game identities and keeping all their friends up to do date on their l
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Sorry. The site has different URLs pointing at the same links and thus it didn't come up when I posted :-/
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    by dominik 18y ago

    Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security rece
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    Border Security: We can take your laptop anywhere we want for as long as we want(schneier.com)

    52 points by dominik 18y ago|45 comments
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    Congress passes Higher Education Act: Tells Universities to Stop Illegal File-sharing(eff.org)

    4 points by dominik 18y ago|1 comments
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    Lessig: How the law strangles creativity(ted.com)

    25 points by dominik 18y ago|7 comments
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    by dominik 18y ago

    I disagree. It's far better to address the root of the problem rather than just treating the symptoms on the surface. The symptoms on the surface are that monopolistic broandband providers discriminate against traffic or websites. The root
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    by dominik 18y ago

    And there's nothing that politicians like more than a captive monopoly that relies on favorable regulations to continue to prosper. In 10 years: We can't deregulate the Internet industry because then they'd stop donating to our campaigns si
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    by dominik 18y ago

    I think the best quote in the article is: "[A] polar bear makes a great bodyguard, until it decides to eat you."
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    FCC Votes 3-2 to Punish Comcast for Interfering with BitTorrent(eff.org)

    9 points by dominik 18y ago|18 comments