mkeyhani

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Twitter ‘gave Saudi Arabia information about journalist who ended up dead’(metro.co.uk)
12 points by mkeyhani 8y ago|4 comments
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
I am not sure if I understand your argument. If whoever develops and hosts the service gets to limit what is allowed, then why Google shouldn’t censor its search results?
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
Because Facebook, unlike say a subreddit, is not a a community formed around a certain topic. There is no 'we' in particular.
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
They don’t quite know: > We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we cannot confirm which users were impacted by this bug. However, we ran a detailed analysis over the two
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Facebook to Circumvent Cross-Site Tracking Block with New First-Party Cookie(news.softpedia.com)
3 points by mkeyhani 8y ago|0 comments
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
I really like the idea behind Brave. However, I think a fundamental issue arises if you are going to pay people to see ads: What if someone forks Brave, and creates a browser which blocks all Brave ads, while pretending to click on them? Ne
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
Eliminating all bots is not desirable. Many of them are useful and interesting. Eliminating the bad ones with few false positives is hard.
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
May I suggest that problematic speech is often simply what people don't like to hear? Of course, I think it's their right to choose what they want to hear. But that does not mean I defend censorship. How to filter the content they
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
The backwards induction argument assumes the time of execution is a discrete variable. However, at least as far as we know, time seems to be continuous.
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
Thanks. You are right. I stand corrected.
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by mkeyhani 8y ago
> It added it had received the microphone data only as code rather than audio, and that it could match that code with audio data from a match. That sounds funnily absurd to me. By that line of argument, even sound is not really audio. Af
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Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure (2011) [pdf](usenix.org)
1 points by mkeyhani 8y ago|0 comments
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GoQL: A query language over Go code, in Go(github.com)
1 points by mkeyhani 9y ago|0 comments
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Cops Are Unlocking iPhones with Dead People's Fingerprints(forbes.com)
2 points by mkeyhani 9y ago|0 comments
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by mkeyhani 9y ago
HSTS is trying to protect against a specific kind of Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack: when the man in the middle pretends that the website you are trying to access does not support HTTPS. I believe trying HTTPS first wouldn't help: the
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Financial Industry Pushing for a Weakness in TLS 1.3(cyberscoop.com)
5 points by mkeyhani 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Why do computers use a fixed word size?
7 points by mkeyhani 9y ago|2 comments
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Build a Modern Computer from First Principles: Nand to Tetris Part II(coursera.org)
154 points by mkeyhani 9y ago|35 comments
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by mkeyhani 10y ago
Here's Feynman's take on learning algebra: Around that time my cousin, who was three years older, was in high school. He was having considerable difficulty with his algebra, so a tutor would come. I was allowed to sit in a corner