michael_storm

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by michael_storm 10y ago
Yeah, a judge is not going to find "prior art" generated by an algorithm sufficient to invalidate a patent. As a political statement, this is fine (though hand-wavy), but silly as a practical solution. Edit: That said, we do need
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Again, if you have agreed to their terms and conditions, then you are under obligation to abide by them (within reason; there are limits on what can go into a T&C). The T&C almost certainly obliges you to pay them. Can anyone cite p
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by michael_storm 11y ago
What? You didn't "merely consent" to anything; you agreed to their terms and conditions, which state cancellation criteria. There's no "one could argue" here. Commercial law is well-established. Of course they
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by michael_storm 11y ago
This is the Internet of Things for code. This is wonderful. This is also probably a snarky shot at npm [1], for those who lack context. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Don't listen to the people here telling you to just "move on". You worked for half a year without salary; they don't get to screw you and get away with it. There is no "high road" that benefits exclusively them
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Spreading the story out allows the entire story to be told. It's not for his ego. Newspapers have X column inches to fill on a given day, and dumping it all at once would force it to be crammed into those X inches. And it's not ju
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by michael_storm 11y ago
There's no absolute expectation of privacy on the laptop. There's definitely a reasonable one, unless someone wants to argue that a layman independently verifying every bit of code and every silicon gate in it is "reasona
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Yeah, agreed that it's a shitty, though effective, rhetorical technique. I just think haroldp overreacted to it.
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by michael_storm 11y ago
RMS is a politician, dude; calm down. Let's look at the preceding sentences: > The Clang and LLVM developers reach different conclusions from ours because they do not share our values and goals. They object to the measures we have
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by michael_storm 11y ago
My other fear is that what happens when, with access to the facts or judicial procedure, I determine that the defendant actually is guilty. And when you determine that the defendant is innocent? If you were falsely accused of the same cri
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Why do you assume the defendant is guilty? What if he's innocent, but your refusal to help provide a strong defense causes him to be found guilty? Why do you presume to do the judge and jury's job for them, but with no access to t
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by michael_storm 11y ago
The lawyers say that because they're advising their clients not to set themselves up for a libel suit, not because they're buzzkills. In other news, doctors recommend you eat healthy, but don't they always say that?
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by michael_storm 11y ago
At first, I thought your comment was interesting. But then, I remembered that we're all going to die. What a boring philosophy.
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by michael_storm 11y ago
Which could be, as the GP said, a static site generator, blogging engine, ePubs, etc. If your one-line intro for anything includes the word "system", stop and rewrite. For example: Pollen helps authors create beautiful and functi
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by michael_storm 11y ago
The article (or the parts I've read so far; it's long and dense) assumes two things: 1) "An AI" should be considered a person. (This one is more subtle; I don't believe the author says it outright.) 2) "An AI&q
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by michael_storm 12y ago
They probably didn't mention it because formal, deterministic bug prediction may as well be on a different planet from probabilistic bug prediction based on hot spots in commit logs. When a blog post cites two research articles, it&#
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by michael_storm 12y ago
Well, I'm certainly not in favor of name-calling like that. HMACs don't provide any greater provable security guarantees than a database row in this scenario, so it comes down to implementation. HMACs are harder if you're not
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by michael_storm 12y ago
In other words: a maintenance nightmare, filled with security gotchas, difficult to scale, and hard to write. So is the alternative the author describes (except for scaling). HMACs for temporary credentials are clever and simple, if you&#
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by michael_storm 12y ago
Maybe their servers use UTC.
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by michael_storm 12y ago
Which has nothing to do with its validity. (And I don't necessarily agree with its conclusions myself.)
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by michael_storm 12y ago
For some reason, I thought that green usernames (like yours) meant you were the poster. Sorry! My mistake; you can't control when someone else posts your work.
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by michael_storm 12y ago
You might want to summarize that at the top of your post, then, if you're going to submit it to HN. When it contains such nuggets as: These masks are shadows of human beings as seen by the minds-eye of the machine-organism. These DATA
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by michael_storm 12y ago
He states that there is no way that a public IP would show up in a packet capture over a Tor network. No, he does not. He says that there's no way a public IP would show up at layers 3 or 4 of the OSI model. The author takes the posi
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by michael_storm 12y ago
Continue this for megabytes worth of bridges (xks-0001), and it'll totally mess up XKeyScore. It has no defense against getting flooded with information like this, as far as I can see. Yet it would be trivial to defend against trivia
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by michael_storm 13y ago
Looks like the poster copied Chrome's translation word-for-word. Although to me, "counter-espionage" == "counterintelligence", which means steps taken to prevent intelligence gathering. And that's close enough
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by michael_storm 13y ago
> And defaults cut both ways, I still can't fathom why `git log HEAD` would display the whole repository history. I don't know why that's part of the defaults discussion, but okay. > Why is a meaningless name better tha
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by michael_storm 13y ago
> There, I fixed it. GP's point was about defaults, not what you can configure. Even being somewhat familiar with hg, I didn't know about the "pager" extension. > `git show` does not show a patch by default[...] It