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by neilk 13y ago
You have a point, but one thing logo contests do well is they get a wide variety of concepts, from a community that knows what tarsnap means to them. Then you call in a real designer to look over the submissions and pick the one that inspir
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by neilk 13y ago
It was called Pathfinder, and it launched in 1994. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathfinder_(web_site) It was not sophisticated by today's standards, but it was one of the first real magazine sites on the web. Her
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by neilk 13y ago
Not the same result at all. You now have lost your phone and the cop has to argue that you smashed it yourself out of spite. There may be more witnesses or evidence after smashing a phone. Presumably there are even phone company records sho
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by neilk 13y ago
I think they're missing the point. The passcode on an iPhone defends against other people in your environment - family members, coworkers, roommates - getting your information opportunistically. It doesn't defend against hackers,
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by neilk 13y ago
"Attacking" - are databases people? Do they have rights? I'm stumbling around trying to figure out what the right balance is too, but I think the existing laws we have around fraud and privacy are all that we need. That is, w
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by neilk 13y ago
What's important about scanning the whole internet in three minutes versus thirty? Actual question, not trying to be snarky.
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by neilk 13y ago
JS 1.7, already available in some browsers and bleeding edge Node, has iterators and generators. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...
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by neilk 13y ago
Obvious objections - JS has no tail call elimination, no macros, and state-changing is managed with entirely different conventions in Scheme. Also the conceit of SICP (not really justified) is that they don't have to teach you syntax,
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by neilk 13y ago
Great - if you're just up front about that I would read this. Then again if I'm not the audience, well, I guess you know what you're doing.
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by neilk 13y ago
Better. That's practically the only thing that needs to be on the home page. You also need to explain who you are and why you're doing this, too. Right now it looks like you have an interest in selling something but you never expl
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by neilk 13y ago
I don't know what experimentation you plan for synchronizing browser state, but Chrome and Firefox already can sync practically everything, securely.
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by neilk 13y ago
Interestingly, "Murder" is a legitimate skill on LinkedIn. Not practitioners, but criminal lawyers advertising their expertise. http://www.linkedin.com/skills/skill/Murder The related skills sidebar is a
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by neilk 13y ago
Why include caps lock?
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by neilk 13y ago
But how do they release an ad campaign if it tests so poorly? Were they so reliant on Steve Jobs' design and marketing savvy that they have no culture of testing things first? This particular campaign seems almost like it started out a
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by neilk 13y ago
I think more people will be entertaining themselves by making things. We may see recreational product-making in the same way that today we have recreational programming. It's already happening among people who have sufficient resources
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TextSecure: Forward secrecy for asynchronous messages(whispersystems.org)
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I am frustrated with HN these days too, although I can't seem to break the habit. But for sites which rely on community moderation like this, the articles that rise to the top are by definition the right articles. We have a different s
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by neilk 13y ago
HN is a pretty negative place these days. Ellen Huerta, if you're reading this, I applaud that you decided not to accept the path that was laid out for you. Also, I suspect that most HN readers won't understand the maturity &
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by neilk 13y ago
Yes, it's called "JavaScript". Specifically, combining generators with promises. http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/how-yield-will-transform-node Definitely not as clean as a whole new language, but you can program l
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What SF's come to: 900ft² apartment, 700ft² of which is outside(sfbay.craigslist.org)
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by neilk 13y ago
Sorry. I was being pedantic.
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by neilk 13y ago
Hey man, I missed this, but I'm also in BC. I hope you are still following this. First of all, you should really contact professionals or a suicide line. There was a time in my life where I felt exactly the same way as you do. My life
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by neilk 13y ago
A strategy of 'escaping' assumes that the partner system does the right thing with its data. This is not always the case. For instance, it may be perfectly fine in my system to have a user named '<script>alert("ha!
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by neilk 13y ago
It is not democratic. Democracies at least involve periodic check-ins with everyone who is affected. The W3C isn't a town hall, it's more like the UN. At best they prevent the web from going back to the chaos of the mid-90s.
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by neilk 13y ago
There is no record of Thomas Jefferson ever saying that. http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/if-y... Improperly attributed quotations are a bit of pet peeve of mine. I don't want to beat a
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Stop asking users for their timezone – use per-device settings and JavaScript(trevoro.net)
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by neilk 13y ago
My browser fills in that password for me. My guess is that would be the same for most people.
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by neilk 13y ago
If I have access to your browser, I can get your credentials for Amazon by just going to Amazon.com . Either you already have a session open, and then I can do what I want (including changing your password), or the browser (or your passwor
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by neilk 13y ago
I thought it wouldn't happen for cynical reasons. I assumed that government agencies would want to guard their powers jealously, and given the potent justification of national security, the NSA could easily do so. Also, because they&
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by neilk 13y ago
Just a couple of days ago somebody on HN speculated this was happening, and I dismissed it as paranoia. Surely nobody is going to risk revealing the existence of a universal surveillance program over a few drug convictions, right? Twenty-ei

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