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by neilk 8y ago
In my opinion it’s brilliant. He spent very little time on this experiment. Assuming that the creator really is a data scientist - or even if not - this is practically the default hypothesis to test. Do people click through, given these cla
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by neilk 8y ago
If I’m coming across as accusing that he made the wrong decision, I don’t mean to say that. The story he’s telling suggests he made a difficult decision under the impression that it was urgent and important. What I am saying is that in hind
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by neilk 8y ago
The 1990s were the era of the cypherpunks, the Clipper chip, and, as the author alludes to, some fairly inane export restrictions on cryptography. This was not some innocent time. If you want to go further back, there's the Church Comm
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by neilk 8y ago
Assume the 411 call is legit, and this really was the NSA. The author has no evidence there was a ticking time bomb scenario underway. Other than the fact that he was called late at night. Calling him at his parents’ place late at night see
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by neilk 8y ago
~$1.5K, circa 2003 This is the one startup I worked for that exited. I was only there for a little over a year. But for a few months, they couldn't make payroll and issued stock instead. Ironically it was the project that I was working
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by neilk 8y ago
> “it’s super hard to know whether people really believe this, whether they're just going along" If only there was some way for people to demonstrate their political preferences in a way which was costly, but not something that
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by neilk 8y ago
I think it's parallel construction iff they submit a false line of evidence to a judge. It's not illegal to tell tall tales to the press. Maybe they want to protect an informant. Or, maybe they just want to protect some technical
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by neilk 8y ago
I'm not saying they are script kiddies. I make no claim about their skills. I have no idea what it takes to pull of a conspiracy like this. I'm just saying I don't believe sensationalizing journalists or law enforcement. Pret
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by neilk 8y ago
Good catch. Either it's a misstatement from the author, or law enforcement don't want to reveal how they actually caught them.
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I've learned to be skeptical when I see law enforcement praising the l337 skillz of their targets. > “This guy is in another league, he’s like Rafa Nadal > playing tennis,” Yuste says. “There are few people in >
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by neilk 8y ago
Are you saying that MacOS will execute malicious code? That is not possible with the bug described in the article.
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Pros: - accelerated responsibility, especially early in career - making something new - little bureaucracy - credentials matter less - can be more fun Cons: - typically inexperienced, inept management - longer hours, higher instability, an
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by neilk 8y ago
When you couple services together, you decrease the potential user base. For example, Github issues are underpowered for many people. But at least you can ignore them and use your own service. Many source control systems tried to offer all-
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by neilk 8y ago
It’s far from a perfect fit, but I think Marx’s theory of alienation comes close to what you’re talking about: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienatio... I don’t think “existential angst” fits. As
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by neilk 8y ago
Citation needed.
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Wikipedia is not the sum of all knowledge. It's an encyclopedia. Many people seem confused about what that means. Primary source: I say $foo! (blog, YouTube, opinion piece) Secondary source: neilk said $foo. (The New Yorker) Tertiary s
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by neilk 8y ago
Outdated info - many CPAP units are happy running from batteries, and there are lots of solutions available. I use this. You probably don’t even need a dedicated CPAP battery solution these days, but this can be bought with accessories to c
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How raising a $2+M Seed Round really, actually went(medium.com)
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And in the other timeline, they're saying "Phew! Can you imagine what would have happened if we hadn't taken discrimination, bias, and harassment seriously back in the 1960s and 1970s? We would never have had the brilliance o
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by neilk 8y ago
There are a number of other projects that used the same concepts, so, fame was definitely a factor. But I think it was more important that Torvalds was the leader of an important software project, could mandate its use, and recruit maintain
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by neilk 8y ago
At least under capitalism as we know it, no one workplace can supply the meaning of your life. You could have a personal mission for what you want to do with your professional life. But in any workplace, you and your employer are only commi
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by neilk 8y ago
Love, defined widely. The classic dyad, caring about someone deeply and having them care about you, is a great way to do that. But even if you’re unpartnered, or partnership isn’t your thing, the best parts of life are often when you’re car
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by neilk 8y ago
Do I have this straight? - Please don’t record me in a public place. - Chill, it’s not a very good camera! The fact that Google sold it as a prosthesis didn’t help. I have a friend whose roommate invited over a guy who refused to take his G
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Ask HN: How much difficulty have you had switching frontend frameworks?
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by neilk 8y ago
I’m no biologist but this seems to blow a lot of things wide open. Since these vesicles resemble viruses, is it possible for them to be a form of organism-to-organism communication? Accidental, or intentional? Might there be pathogens that
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by neilk 8y ago
People say that a lot but I'm not so sure. Half of my American friends had to move to the SFBA not just for a job, but because nobody understood them back home, or they'd be literally persecuted for being who they were. And these
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by neilk 8y ago
Canadian here who worked in the Valley for ~7 years, and currently works for a US-based startup remotely. You're absolutely right that the culture of respecting changemakers is not as present in Canada. But the SFBA is the world leader
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by neilk 8y ago
The formula for me seems to be: high impact combined with how ingenious I personally judge the project that be. I guess I want to be a wizard, casting benevolent spells for a grateful public. I’ve been lucky enough to have been paid to writ
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by neilk 9y ago
This really didn’t make sense to me. Every 10x increase in precision surely causes a huge jump in price. I don’t know anything about mechanical engineering but this is one of those things that is true across disciplines. This blog seems to
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by neilk 9y ago
The technical reasons why blockchain is overhyped are well-described by others, including this succinct presentation the other day: https://twitter.com/ncweaver/status/980485587827224577?s=21 . But I suspect what

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