mayneack

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   Palantir CEO Says Data-Mining Company Is Positioned to Go Public(wsj.com)

   119 points by mayneack 10y ago|56 comments
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   Not saying it's the same or that anyone should be fired for their beliefs etc, but YC has taken some political stances in the past. https://techcrunch.com/2011/12/22/paul-graham-sopa-supportin...
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   As far as I can tell the only upsides to car navigation (embedded or a standalone TomTom or something) is independence from live data link and battery constraints. Unless I'm going somewhere without a data connection, I think the phone
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   BestBuy allowed me to sign up with a trailing "+bestbuy@gmail.com", but their unsubscribe interface rejects it as invalid, so I can't unsubscribe from their promos. I just filter/mark as spam and move on.
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   Maybe they offer discounts to payloads on test flights
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   here's my facebook filters. I don't really do this systematically, I just use the ublock element picker until I'm happy. I think you probably want the trending topics one. ! 7/5/2016, 11:08:51 AM https:/&#x
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   I actually created a custom adblock filter to block the whole news section. They already show "news" about stuff like prime day sales, so it might as well be advertising.
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   Ever since switching to getting the transcripts of voice mails, the "don't want to have to deal with voicemail" part isn't even a problem anymore.
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   by mayneack 10y ago

   Did tweetdeck remove this feature? I can't seem to figure out how to do it there.
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    Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol(whispersystems.org)

    633 points by mayneack 10y ago|295 comments
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5321564
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    Does anyone know what the total paid by BP was for Deepwater Horizon? I can't seem to find a total anywhere here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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    Palantir Tells U.S. Army It Intends to Sue Over Software Bidding(bloomberg.com)

    8 points by mayneack 10y ago|0 comments
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    Uber ran a promo recently when the expo line opened to discount uber pool to or from a station. Uber/Lyft has already beaten the taxis opposition to picking up at LAX. They don't seem to think of these transit options as threat li
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    Aside from taking China's approach to block external services, if a company doesn't have any physical presence in a country (shipping products, office, .fr domain), do they really have any recourse to force the country to do anyth
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    They're slowly making progress towards the purple line extension from Korea Town west as well. Won a lawsuit against Beverly Hills trying to block it in 2015 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Line_Extension
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    > I’d advocate that certain travelers, at TSA spotters’ discretion, be exempt from screening altogether. Personnel could be trained to choose certain passengers deemed lowest-threat, pull them out of line and allow them to pass. Bruce Sc
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    by mayneack 10y ago

    In the "don't delete my music" category - google music is pretty good. You can upload your files without deleting them and then stream from web or mobile app. I haven't tried playing offline from the browser, but caching
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    Beating Back the Patent Trolls: Repealing a Major Tax on Innovation(medium.com)

    9 points by mayneack 10y ago|1 comments
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tn-strava-dopers-20160...
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    Looks like there's a pretty steady stream of them https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=mitadmissions.org
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    most are mailman or moira https://ist.mit.edu/email-lists people just make filters.
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    THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS(seattletimes.com)

    8 points by mayneack 11y ago|1 comments
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    thanks
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    does this site have an RSS feed?
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    It's not really unrestricted. Given that this is forcing the password reset, you can't silently do it, right? So anyone exploiting it knows there's a limited number of uses before people notice that their passwords are being
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    My personal experience is that mode definitely counts even if time extremes might override it. My bike commute is the same time as my car commute (Los Angeles). I for one vastly prefer the reliably 20 min biking to the 15-25 minutes of driv
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    Off topic, but this is exactly the scenario that Twitter wants to replace by expanding the tweet size limit. Instead of a picture of text, we could expand to real (presumably searchable) text.
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    > "We're profitable in the USA, but we're losing over $1 billion a year in China," Uber CEO Travis Kalanick told Canadian technology platform Betakit. I didn't realize they were profitable here. When did this hap
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    by mayneack 11y ago

    What do you mean there's no way to go back? Uninstall carousel and it works like old Dropbox (in my experience on android).