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by samspenc 8y ago
I think the comments on HN are missing the point his tweets are making, noticeably that Huawei phones are: (a) Sending info over plain HTTP to non-secure sites based in China (b) Sending all your browser and other online activity to a site
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by samspenc 8y ago
Yeah I'm getting the following error: 500 Internal Server Error Sorry, something went wrong. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation. If you see them, send them this information as text (screens
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Ask HN: YouTube down?
31 points by samspenc 8y ago|3 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
No private property rights in China, correct, it's 99 year leases. This is why rich Chinese use their money to purchase assets (including real estate) overseas. I'm curious about the no property taxes comment though - does that re
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Infosys Built a Global Machine with Indian Workers. Can It ‘Hire American’?(nytimes.com)
1 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
So, did the team (formerly) at Bump give us Google Photos? If so, kudos to them, it's one of the best Google apps I've used recently :)
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by samspenc 8y ago
> We saw an unusual spike of activity that began on September 14, 2018, and we started an investigation. On September 25, we determined this was actually an attack and identified the vulnerability. I'm unclear why it took 11-12 days
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by samspenc 8y ago
TL;DR from the GitHub discussion: had to do with an integer overflow related to oxffffff hex string lengths and unsigned ints, introduced in one of the Node 10.x versions. This is the pull request that fixes it: https://github.co
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by samspenc 8y ago
This was interesting: > found a tunnel that emerged among weeds in a vacant area near Otay Mesa after 30 people, most from China and a few from Mexico, appeared out of it early one morning. Are tunnels from Mexico being used to transport
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Why Microsoft may be relinquishing billions in Android patent royalties(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
I've always wondered: these clunky Excel sheets are used at billion-dollar companies. Why don't they invest in building a sane web application (or similar) that can do all the validation and calculations in a much better looking i
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by samspenc 8y ago
> “In 2015, we were made aware of malicious manipulation of software related to Supermicro hardware from industry partners through our threat intelligence industry sharing programs,” Facebook said in an emailed statement. “While Facebook
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by samspenc 8y ago
Not OP, but wonder if they are talking about the ongoing persecution of Christians [1], Uighurs (in Xinjiang) [2] and Falun Gong practitioners [3] [1] Chinese officials burn bibles, destroy crosses and force Christians to renounce their fai
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In leaked video, Google co-founder said Trump's Election was “Deeply Offensive”(arstechnica.com)
4 points by samspenc 8y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Thanks for your analysis. Just to clarify some of your points to readers who may not be that familiar with Chinese politics. * Zhu Rongji is the more reformist leader in the late 1990s, and seen as one of the few leaders (maybe along with Z
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by samspenc 8y ago
I actually did some freelance website development for a local newspaper website around 15 years ago. I can't speak for larger newspapers, this was my experience with a much smaller one. The biggest challenges I found were: 1. Lack of a
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by samspenc 8y ago
Thanks for posting these. These numbers and loss margins seem typical for a company in this line of service (cloud or self-hosted distributed databases or data services.) See similar recent IPOs for MongoDB, Cloudera and Hortonworks. Anothe
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by samspenc 8y ago
I applaud Buffer for sharing these challenges and financial details, as they have done openly in the past (such as with salaries etc).
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It’s Getting Harder to Pump Up Cryptocurrency Prices(bloomberg.com)
1 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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For Gmail Safety, Google Recommends Chinese Product with Government Connections(chinachange.org)
3 points by samspenc 8y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Unfortunately, from later in the article: > Kim Hyon-jeong, a 45-year-old teacher and mother of one who lives on the outskirts of Seoul, said she put about 100 million won, or $90,000, into cryptocurrencies last fall. She drew on savings
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After the Bitcoin Boom: Hard Lessons for Cryptocurrency Investors(nytimes.com)
127 points by samspenc 8y ago|134 comments
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The Universe Is Disappearing, and There's Nothing We Can Do to Stop It(forbes.com)
3 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Back of the envelope calculation: Avg of 30 min conference calls x say 1 million users per month = $1.2 million a month, or $14.4 million a year
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by samspenc 8y ago
TL;DR: Bill Gates reviews one of his new favorite books, "Capitalism Without Capital". The book extends economic principles to measure value of intangible goods (such as software and online services), which were previously not cor
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Cryptokidnapping, or How to Lose $3B of Bitcoin in India(bloomberg.com)
3 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Revenue missed expectations (even though it grew in absolute terms), and user growth has slowed down again, and that is making investors nervous.
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After a single day, Facebook is pushed out of China again(theverge.com)
4 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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Visualizing the Best and Worst Paid Jobs in the Tech Sector(howmuch.net)
1 points by samspenc 8y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 8y ago
Is REST perfect? Probably not. But it certainly does its job, and that's why most middle-tier APIs these days, whether it be those that power web applications or mobile apps, are in REST, with the backend itself being written in a vari

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