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by larkeith 8y ago
TIL - that's really cool, though surprisingly difficult to find info about.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Personally, I just use OpenVPN on one of my DigitalOcean instances. I don't place a lot of reliance on a VPN for privacy (disabling JS, using Firefox's tracking protection, blocking third-party cookies, and avoiding most any socia
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by larkeith 8y ago
Given that you're able to inform us currently that you've not received any capability requests, would it be legal and feasible for you to set up a warrant canary? I don't know if Australia has the same protections against com
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by larkeith 8y ago
I strongly doubt that they would, but it should be noted that them doing so would be extremely difficult to prove, and even harder to identify in the first place.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'd taken that to be a commentary on the unusual shape and general uniqueness of the airship - especially for 1908.
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by larkeith 8y ago
It's a reverse engineering tool . The community is going to have plenty of ability to do network analysis on it. Also, it's trivial to sandbox it, even if it weren't going to be open-sourced.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I'm not sure how feasible throwing an error is - Type hints in Python can be arbitrary classes or instances thereof, in order to type hint for stuff like nested data structures (`Dict[str: int]`). You could disallow instances of specif
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by larkeith 8y ago
This is a weird article to me. There seems to be an implicit condemnation of Python for this new feature resulting in non-error, unexpected behavior under certain typoes, despite the fact that that is true for literally any typo that result
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by larkeith 8y ago
> The car is potentially proceeds of crime The car was reliably documented as being purchased from his father's life insurance proceeds. There was no question of it being potentially purchased by illegal means. Far more importantly,
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by larkeith 8y ago
Oops, good point. I suppose you could do by newline/paragraph plus character instead, but that would be even more vulnerable to text changes.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I must say I prefer the RFC version - while still vulnerable to rotting from text changes, at least it should still link to the same general vicinity.
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by larkeith 8y ago
Perhaps it could automatically expand the selection until it becomes unique, and support an index property for cases in which that would result in an unreasonably large selection (or hits EOF). Using indices alone would also work, but would
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by larkeith 8y ago
That's not great from a UX point of view - for most users, their experience with the feature will be trying to use it, selecting a phrase, and having it silently link to an entirely different area.
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by larkeith 8y ago
I suspect we could do much faster landing/takeoff in airships nowadays than before, with dynamic positioning and azimuth thrusters or similar (rather than relying entirely on tether lines and/or mooring towers). It might be possib
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by larkeith 8y ago
Okay, 'easy' was definitely an exaggeration, however it should probably be doable, given that Google already takes website age into account while ranking search results. I presume they have anti-plagiarism measures in place alread
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by larkeith 8y ago
My understanding was that the author isn't against static websites in general , but rather is against kludging together a functional equivalent to a CMS with backend scripts or third-party tools, when a RDB would be faster and simpler
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by larkeith 8y ago
I agree - humans are able to collate generally disparate, individually insignificant events to identify issues and unexpected events, but the entire idea behind ML is that AI is trained to react appropriately to the specific range of possib
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by larkeith 8y ago
I don't buy this: It's easy to verify a news site as legitimate by checking the content history - posting complex articles regularly for multiple years is a massive barrier against gaming the system, and requiring a certain update
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by larkeith 8y ago
Several books and quite a few short stories by Arthur C Clarke are more or less optimistic about the future - definitely not utopian, but better than today.
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by larkeith 8y ago
We desperately need another major video streaming site. Google has been consistently acting in an atrocious manner for users and content creators, with negligible cost due to their functional monopoly - even massively popular creators ar
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by larkeith 8y ago
Couldn't you just record the creating process and all ancestors?
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Evil by Design(evilbydesign.info)
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by larkeith 8y ago
By providing these services and features for free previously, they killed the majority of the competition, and only then removed the ability to use them without tracking. It's an interesting mixture of anticompetitive behavior and exto
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by larkeith 8y ago
Everything2 is still around.
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by larkeith 8y ago
One issue with this is brought up in the article: > “The fairly technical sounding ‘install our Root Certificate’ step is appalling,” Strafach tells us. “This hands Facebook continuous access to the most sensitive data about you, and mos
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by larkeith 8y ago
IMO this is by far one of the best features of HN - discussion quality tends to nosedive on such threads, or more accurately, be buried under unrelated (frequently political, emotionally-charged, and/or low-effort) comments.
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by larkeith 8y ago
(While this is almost certainly the case for Office, a well-known leader in its category, it should be noted that this logic is not accurate for all products - Increased opportunity cost to the legal consumer and lack of piracy externalitie
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by larkeith 8y ago
Also to note: status pages are, by their nature, transient. Having a record of what it previously said is helpful context for any discussion regarding those prior contents.
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by larkeith 8y ago
As another commentor noted, this is a matter of precedence for the Democrats. Trump has refused to accept continuing resolution proposals unless they include a down payment on the wall [1] - these proposals continue prior funding while the
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by larkeith 8y ago
The 2013 government shutdown cost 0.1%-0.2% of the annualized GDP growth rate per week [1]. If I'm understanding correctly and doing my math right, with a GDP of about 20t $usd and a 3.5% growth rate, that's a 350b-700b $usd reduc

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