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by spdustin 11y ago
Who exactly is "the defense" right now?
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by spdustin 11y ago
Imagine a later hardline: "FBI Ordered to Reveal the Code Used to Backdoor San Bernadino Suspect's Phone"
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by spdustin 11y ago
What if there's a bill like, say, Comcast, and your user only wanted to cancel one service (TV) and not another (Internet)?
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by spdustin 11y ago
I got pretty excited to read about this unified endeavor, and hungrily clicked the CTA to Get 5.0 Alpha . > Don't see a button? You may have to disable your ad blocker. What a shitty experience. You're pitching a product that
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by spdustin 11y ago
I wonder about the relevance of the case styled "United States v. Hubbell" (530 U.S. 27)† Specifically ( emphasis mine ): > ...the Self-Incrimination Clause ... may be asserted only to resist compelled explicit or implicit disc
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by spdustin 11y ago
I'm going to have to ask: is "scales like a squirrel carrying watermelons" your own material, or is that a saying invented somewhere else? The imagery is just so apt, the etymology of the phrase is suddenly piquing my curiosi
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by spdustin 11y ago
I don't think the safe analogy holds up, maybe someone can help me understand why it would, given: A safe is a container filled with physical objects: property. Property is subject to search and seizure with appropriate warrants, lev
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by spdustin 11y ago
The word "push" appears nowhere in their letter. There is no way (in evidence) of "pushing" anything to the locked phone OTA. Physical access as a requirement? Sure, there's likely some way to get something onto t
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by spdustin 11y ago
It would seem to me that the "fingerprint = key" analogy is flawed. Physical keys can be trivially copied, and even reverse engineered from the locking mechanism. A key is a physical object that is required to disengage a lock. A
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by spdustin 11y ago
XML is not meant to be a programming language representation. It's meant to be a predictable, simple set of grammatical rules for representing data that may be hierarchical/shaped/tree-like. XSLT is meant to provide a libra
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by spdustin 11y ago
If using JRuby, you can use https://github.com/fidothe/saxon-xslt
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by spdustin 11y ago
I think it's arguable either way, honestly. When you order a pizza, would you say it is a Pizza Request, a Toppings Request, a Transaction Request or a Request for Pizza with My Toppings Merged into the Default Configuration? Pull Requ
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by spdustin 11y ago
The "Gist" comparison isn't really apples-to-apples. GitHub Gists are actually git repositories themselves, and can be cloned/pulled/merged/pushed/etc. Gitlab Snippets are assets connected to the project.
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by spdustin 11y ago
I found it extremely misleading to call out Amazon.com when, in fact, most of the Amazon products listed are specified as being sold by "an Amazon seller", not by Amazon.com. This needs to be made MUCH clearer on the site. I'
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by spdustin 11y ago
Please refrain from suggesting I'm some "loud-mouthed" internet user. You do not know me. I, as well, do not know you, so I'm unable to accept a drive-by accusation that having an Echo means I'll "not ever have
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Ask HN: What hosted Virtual PBX/VoIP/VM service do you use?
2 points by spdustin 11y ago|0 comments
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Yes, that's definitely a more precise statement of the facts as we know them today. Please allow me to expand on it: Amazon has told us that this product we paid to have in our homes won't spy on us, and has (to my knowledge) give
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by spdustin 11y ago
I do, because I paid for it, and I have no reason to believe my data is used for any purpose other than Amazon selling me more stuff, and that they're not interested in poisoning the well by surreptitiously recording audio when I&#x2
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by spdustin 11y ago
Legitimately confused by the downvotes on this one... Is there another way I should express disbelief and request more information? A drive-by claim that Amazon is lying to its customers about what Echo sends to the Amazon mothership is a s
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by spdustin 11y ago
I do not believe you. Please elaborate.
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by spdustin 11y ago
The event planning topic is one I plucked from thin air, but I think I (and others) probably have a laundry list of fields in which we'd like to find someone who knows what they're talking about. Maybe that would be an interesting
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Ask HN: How do you find experts?
6 points by spdustin 11y ago|5 comments
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by spdustin 11y ago
Since you don't seem to be arguing, I would like to understand what you mean? Did I use such a pejorative? I'd sincerely like to know - if, that is, your query is sincere as well.
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by spdustin 11y ago
I'll take you at your word that you're not trying to be clever, and that you're genuinely curious, and thus not interested in an argument that must be won. And, so, I'll do my best to elucidate in an attempt to satisfy t
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by spdustin 11y ago
To counter the explosion of "fuck you" kind of comments, and as the father of a child with a developmental disability, thank you for pointing out this impolite and linguistically lazy behavior. People who use "retarded",
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by spdustin 11y ago
The hyperbole in the article title suggests a revolutionary advancement, or at least the next evolution of chat bots. Were you intending to channel a sarcastic chat it yourself? It's unclear. For earlier today, you said, "No, it&#
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by spdustin 11y ago
I've found that some silicone lube makes for easier handling, especially with robots doing the work. Not even a joke. A double entendre, okay, I'll grant you that. I bought this cube ( http://amzn.com/B008U6V50U ) a
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by spdustin 11y ago
He's not running a public safety institution, he runs a site that has live audio streams from police / emergency scanners. (incidentally, Lindsay, I've used http://www.radioreference.com to learn a great deal abou
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by spdustin 11y ago
> By stopping the ads in AdSense rogue advertisers would just change to a different ad network The sites that "everyday folk" browse are much more likely to be running ads from the AdSense network. Forcing the rogue advertisers
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by spdustin 11y ago
Here are some more proactive approaches that would support their desired perception of caring about the browsing safety of their users: * How about updating the radio buttons that appear when you "report this ad" to include "

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