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4501.
by natch 13y ago
Nah, I'd go straight for: Please list the names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and any private information you may have access to (SSN, credit card number, banking details) of your mother, father, brothers, sisters, childre
4502.
by natch 13y ago
Kudos for putting something up, but I'm afraid this is ineffective. It's not apparent to an impatient visitor which side of the argument you are on, especially to an unthinking visitor, the kind who falls into the "nothing to
4503.
by natch 13y ago
Wow, so many weasel words. So what would satisfy me? "We minimize intrusions into our users' privacy by encrypting their data on the client side with good crypto algorithms and secure keys that assuming a secure client system are
4504.
by natch 13y ago
Palantir has hundreds of employees swarming around downtown Palo Alto. Hundreds. Somebody is paying that company a LOT of money for something. There is something very weird about the employees in Palo Alto: I never see them at local meetups
4505.
by natch 13y ago
Wow, thanks for the positive reaction to my comments. A breath of fresh air.
4506.
by natch 13y ago
Nice but I wish people wouldn't use names like "w", "tuple" or "string" for variables. Tuple of what? The analysis that is needed for the reader to figure that out, however short, is friction you are adding to the code readability. The sham
4507.
by natch 14y ago
Does this send our HN credentials anywhere other than directly to the ycombinator site? I see a bunch of https and some http URLs in the code and could probably verify one way or another with an hour or two of work, but what can you tell me
4508.
by natch 14y ago
The problem is this: say you are my friend, and you have such a (fuzzily defined) "employer provided" account. If I have trusted your account, without knowing that it is your business account, my expectation of privacy for personal informat
4509.
by natch 14y ago
Comes up completely blank for me. All white, no error, no nothing.
4510.
by natch 14y ago
I had upwards of 20 CFL light bulbs in my house and over time I noticed that they typically were cracking at the base, thereby leaking whatever was in them, after a few years of use. After you replace 20 with 20 more, and repeat a few times
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by natch 14y ago
Surprised that site has not done a teardown of the (more expensive) Phillips bulbs that have similar specs. They've been around longer and are the ugly oddly shaped yellow plastic ones. Mine have a bit of a buzzing sound when dimmed, even t
4512.
by natch 14y ago
But your comment only addresses part of the point. You had no problem, but you had to retain physical access to the key for long enough to get it to the store and back. With this service, that requirement goes away. I'm not saying it was im
4513.
by natch 14y ago
Interesting, but I noticed you write about your project, singular. Have you had any other projects?
4514.
by natch 14y ago
Look cool, I think this is going to get me to finally try trello out. Aside: As a silicon valley person, when viewing videos of people on the east coast I always feel like I'm watching people in another country. Such an odd, overly formal l
4515.
by natch 14y ago
Please make it more clear whether the results are round trip or not. The best way to do this is to put a big ROUND TRIP right next to the price, instead of making us guess. I understand the price is shown in a box that encompasses two fligh
4516.
by natch 14y ago
Not to defend everything Meetup does, but conference registration is not really what the site is intended for. Your usage pattern unfortunately just happened to look quite a bit like that something that they may think poisons the dynamic (r
4517.
by natch 14y ago
Even if he hadn't used the mobile app, it could also suggest people who have searched for him.
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by natch 14y ago
It looks great but like so many web sites focused on a tech project, it lacks a "what is D3" section. I read the preface, and I see that "D3 is a powerful tool" OK, and "D3 is really a beautiful little library" and it solves the problem of
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Ask HN: Any promising models beyond the ranking so many startup ideas rely on?
3 points by natch 14y ago|0 comments
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by natch 14y ago
Cool idea. One nitpick is: you're asking me to vote on whether a set of 30 or so jokes in a three and a half minute clip were funny. It's hard to do that, because some were funny, and some were not. Maybe with time addressing of the clips (
4521.
by natch 14y ago
Hate to even dignify this with a reply, but confusing spelling mistakes with grammar mistakes isn't cool either.
4522.
by natch 14y ago
Location/presence. It gives a reasonably strong indication that your device was probably in a location at that time (whether GPS was present, enabled, shared, etc. or not).
4523.
by natch 14y ago
Authentication mechanisms and they way they are implemented can have bleedover into the ability of a user to maintain control of their anonymity and privacy. Has there been any writeup that explains the potential impact of Persona on privac
4524.
by natch 15y ago
I'm not a hater, but am a skeptic. Enough with the demos, how about making an MVP?
4525.
by natch 15y ago
Strings (NSString) on Apple platforms are UTF-16. The Apple platforms are not exactly lagging behind in either multilingual, or text processing. I wonder what this team of three people knows that Apple doesn't? Or is it the other way around
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by natch 15y ago
I wonder what happened to that intensity when they were working on the speech recognition for Google Voice. What an utter POS. It can't even recognize long multisyllable names of people who are clearly listed in my Google contacts and have
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by natch 15y ago
Serious privacy fail, Facebook. You should not provide information on the friends unless their accounts are also subpoenaed as well (as John/Jane Doe if necessary). Without that, your response should be redacted so friends are listed only w
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by natch 15y ago
>compliment each other well complement.
4529.
by natch 15y ago
From the site: >Legit is a complimentary command-line interface for Git I do realize it's free, but I think you mean complementary.
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by natch 15y ago
That being said, Silicon Valley is very bike friendly.

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