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by kmfrk 13y ago
Is it really a surprise that The Information is bad journalism? Forgive me for linking to Valleywag, but they don't mince word in describing her concept of journalism--- I'm sorry, "reportrepreneurship": http:/&#x2
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by kmfrk 13y ago
What's with the novelty account and username?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Don't ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to the usual clusterfuck that is Google's management of YouTube.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It was a great keynote, for anyone wondering. I think Greenwald can be a bit dull to listen to - probably the legal background - but he struck a nice balance and even included some ever-so-rare self-deprecation. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
People have tried submitting it a handful of times through the mentions of other sites, but they all get censored from the frontpage.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
This is like the old ImageShack and PhotoBucket days. The most important thing in deciding between all these competing services is figuring out whose links will still work five years from now. I guess the pg question here would be: What hap
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by kmfrk 13y ago
On the other hand, I often find that my reading position is reset, when I open Safari on my iPad, so the chance of me finishing a long-form article in Safari is not that great. Slate/Salon tend to put something like 100 words on a page
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by kmfrk 13y ago
You just used the term "making their tweets private". If we can't agree this constitutes a privacy feature - however small in scope - I think we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It took away users' ability to block other users from viewing their tweets? How is that not privacy?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It's been a pretty shitty week for privacy, hasn't it? First the Disqus hack, then the changed Block feature on Twitter, and now this?
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by kmfrk 13y ago
If you need a primer for this horrible corner of the web, this is a fantastic and compelling article: http://www.xojane.com/it-happened-to-me/charlotte-laws-hunte... .
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Glad I use separate e-mail addresses for signing up to sites and for personal correspondence.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Links: http://blog.app.net/2013/11/21/announcing-app-net-broadcast/ https://app.net/c/2wtz http://blog.ycombinator.com/subscribe-to-y-combinators-broad...
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Ask HN: Recommend some Broadcasts (by App.net)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Pixter ( http://pixter.in/ ), if you mainly deal with images. I, too, would like an app like the one you're talking about. Maybe something that plugs into Dropbox.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
If any of the Google people are in here, I would consider adding a feature that delays access to your new archive by 48 hours. As great as export features are, I imagine it's the thing hackers who compromise an account will go straight
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by kmfrk 13y ago
I can't find a download button for my YouTube archive for some reason. Looking forward to moving it to Pinboard, though.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
BuzzFeed, too. I believe the entire Gawker network is blocked.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Yes and no; an array of predetermined colours - say ones deemed to be print-safe - could address that. And even if it weren't perfect, narrowing it down to, say, a green domain of colours would still be valuable.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Privacy isn't exactly binary, though, so the point still stands that you should probably not leak to ValleyWag. Privacy is like a game of 20 Questions where the adversary intends to hone in on the full identity. Regardless of whether t
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by kmfrk 13y ago
My self-esteem is absolutely crushed, every time I encounter one of those everyday puzzles, which includes fitting a very tight cover on my mattress. I wish I could reduce it to some algorithmic problem, but by the end of the day, I look li
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by kmfrk 13y ago
The most compelling example of profiling I ever saw was Iconfinder's use with Django: https://speakerdeck.com/nickbruun/lessons-learned-defying-jo... . The best sales pitch for profiling there is, perhaps. :)
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It also gives them control of the conversation of drones, which, let's just say, hasn't exactly been in your favour, if you're a drone.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Don't worry, it gets worse: http://www.npr.org/series/133208980/post-mortem-death-invest... .
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by kmfrk 13y ago
>Another interpretation, one that I prefer, is that Thrun tried something bold and novel based on a perfectly reasonable hypothesis. It didn't work, he's learning and adapting. No garden paths or greek tragic flaws required. Th
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Indeed. You can't send a message to noname brands in the same way. I think companies like Abercrombie & Fitch are feeling the hurt as a result of this. I'm sure there are ways of making a point to companies on both the long an
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by kmfrk 13y ago
Numbers-based journalism still has a way to go, yes. I wonder why it isn't given more focus.
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by kmfrk 13y ago
HN users should be wary of cheap clothing the same way they are of free online services. They cut those costs somewhere .
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by kmfrk 13y ago
I am totally on board with you in terms of Spike Lee coming across as a total knob, but, unfortunately, and as evidenced by this thread, there are people who will never fail to latch on to these cases and use strawmen like Spike Lee as an e
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by kmfrk 13y ago
It is still possible to respect intellectual property rights, authorship, be against piracy, support the allegedly-wronged artist, AND find Spike Lee to be an idiot. The problem with piracy advocates is that they will seize any opportunity

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