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by ytpete 8y ago
They could be pretty interested in shifting it away from Chromium an V8-based Node to something that uses platform webviews (Edge on Windows) and a platform-specific JS engine backing Node (ChakraCore on Windows). I believe they have posted
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by ytpete 9y ago
This is one of the problems with cryptocurrencies though. Consumers are unlikely to accept a system where they can't contest charges, either through a trusted large institution (e.g. Visa) nor through the courts. I haven't heard
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by ytpete 9y ago
The poster's point is that the link between that and the actual object of value is a huge weak point. Let's use expensive art as an example since it's such a commonly cited use case. Blockchain says I own an original Picasso
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by ytpete 9y ago
That sounds like you're arguing against the idea of the government having a judicial system... If I steal someone's car, and the police catch me and have proof it's stolen, the justice system can take the car away from me an
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by ytpete 9y ago
Are you sure the information about his search history came from Google, as opposed to IT network logs or forensic examination of his computer? The complaint makes reference to "Ying’s internet browsing history" which sounds more l
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Atlanta government just beginning to recover from ransomware attack(nytimes.com)
15 points by ytpete 9y ago|0 comments
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by ytpete 9y ago
> either you start showing a lot of really crazy things to people who wouldn't otherwise see it, or you need to start taking an editorial position that some issues are "settled" and one side is just "wrong" Or yo
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Music Modernization Act may change digital music licensing and royalties(variety.com)
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by ytpete 9y ago
With cases like the current one, or the leftpad incident in 2016, I'm surprised package registries still allow recycling old package names after a package was deleted. Really seems like deleted packages should be frozen forever - if th
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by ytpete 9y ago
Couldn't you do something like have a separate chunk of "speculative cache" which you only commit to the main cache once the speculatively-executed instructions are retired? Sounds complex, sure - but it seems like that would
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by ytpete 9y ago
> Will there actually be a serious court case? ... In the case of repealing one of their prior rules, instead of making a rule, is there really a plausible litigable issue? Yes - just like creating a regulation, repealing an existing reg
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by ytpete 9y ago
Except we have seen cases of blocking before in the US, so even by that interpretation he's misleading people: in 2005, North Carolina-based ISP (and phone company) Madison River blocked customers from using Vonage. More recently, Ve
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by ytpete 9y ago
Federal agencies can't just reverse existing rules by fiat, though. They have to provide an explanation for changing conditions based on real hard data, which has to stand up in court. I found this article to have a good explanation of
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by ytpete 9y ago
Some of what you're saying is false. Investment has increased since 2015, not fallen. And these policy changes were made in response to real - not imagined - abuses, such as specific ISPs blocking VoIP, AT&T blocking Skype on iPhon
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by ytpete 9y ago
Isn't that basically Google Fi? See post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15769192 above for some examples of entrenched landline ISPs like AT&T interfering with this approach...
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Kaspersky Lab software may be a threat to national security(nytimes.com)
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by ytpete 9y ago
I think many people are well aware of all these news reports, and the general desire of terrorists to smuggle bombs onto airplanes. But can you explain how moving those same bombs into the cargo hold makes us any safer? Don't we need t
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by ytpete 9y ago
On top of that, if screeners can't tell the difference between legitimate devices and bombs in a carryon, why would they be able to do any better for checked bags? Bombs in the cargo hold are still bombs. One explanation I'd heard
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by ytpete 9y ago
If the payment goes to them instead of the original authors, how could the new hijackers of the virus offer to decrypt the data? I'd assume only the original authors have access to the private keys needed for that. If someone was reall
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by ytpete 9y ago
San Francisco is the second-densest city in the US, mind. That's not to say new residential construction isn't hard in SF - though there have been huge increases in high density construction in just the last few years.
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by ytpete 10y ago
> bad information that people passionately believe has a way of rising to the top That's the money quote for me. Certainly relevant to contemporary politics... but I bet most of us can also think of cases where this happens in the w
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by ytpete 10y ago
"Faster rate of recharge (minutes rather than hours)" sounds like a big win for some applications. It's such a shame that these batteries are so heavy, because IMHO fast recharge is one of the things still holding back electr
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by ytpete 10y ago
I wouldn't assume so: a larger company can afford to sink a lot more money into litigation, so they could effectively bleed the small company dry defending even a frivolous lawsuit. Patent trolls are one example of this - where they ma
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192 Atoms Long: The Tightest Knot Ever Tied(nytimes.com)
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by ytpete 10y ago
In case you missed the recent news: they did hack the RNC too, but chose not to release any of that information. Presumably either to influence the election by making one side look worse than the other, or to have leverage over them by th
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Have career conversations, not performance reviews, says Russ Laraway(fastcompany.com)
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by ytpete 10y ago
> Oh well, the world will go on. The world will go on, but I really wonder what America's place in it will become. Will America be diminished as a leader among nations? How powerful will our economic engine remain if it becomes more
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by ytpete 10y ago
"Audio logos" - that's a fascinating concept I've never really thought about. Any recommended reading about that field?
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by ytpete 10y ago
The Slack desktop app works pretty much the same way - native wrapper around an HTML UI that is almost identical to their web UI. (I think they may use the platform's native webview though, not Electron). It has its pros & cons...
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by ytpete 10y ago
Duplicate of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12855291

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