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by zhemao 13y ago
I meant from a moral/ethical standpoint, not a legal one. Obviously people who are not US citizens or residents have no legal protection under US law. What I'm saying is that the effect of either action is more or less the same. T
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by zhemao 13y ago
So basically he's trying to get people in HK to like him so they'll fight his extradition. "Hey HK, the US gov is spying on you too! We're in this together! Please don't send me back."
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by zhemao 13y ago
Except these are civilian targets in HK. Collecting arbitrary data on US citizens is no different from collecting arbitrary data on HK and Chinese citizens. Innocent people's privacy is still being violated on a large scale. Of course
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by zhemao 13y ago
Like others have said, voice would be impractical over Tor or VPN. Text would be better. The thing that most comes to mind is DeadDrop http://deaddrop.github.io/ .
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by zhemao 13y ago
The system the NYTimes article outlines is still quite different from what the original leak suggested. According to the Times article, the requested data isn't placed into the locked mailbox until the FISA request is reviewed by someb
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by zhemao 13y ago
Is it really possible to completely anonymize an online purchase? Like others have said, the sheer act of buying something online which must be shipped somewhere is going to leave some trace. Unless both money and phone are transferred via
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by zhemao 13y ago
Exactly. They may not know what you're hiding, but if they see small portions of your internet traffic are encrypted using a scheme very different from your regular traffic, flags are raised. Then it's simply a matter of sending a
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, I find it very hard to believe that a large internet company would send internal traffic in an unprotected way.
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by zhemao 13y ago
"It gets at both our desire to be competitive in the global marketplace, but also to be more fair and equitable in the way we share our wealth. True libertarians would be repulsed at the thought." I don't think this guy really understands l
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by zhemao 13y ago
Yeah, I think the author is conflating the attitudes of parents in failing school districts with those of administrators and educators in failing school districts. The "new, experimental things" the author mentions are mostly institutional
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by zhemao 13y ago
Oh god, it's a recursive acronym where the first word can also be an acronym for something else. I'm not sure what you would call that. An ambiguously recursive algorithm?
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by zhemao 13y ago
Wait, are you trying to install it as an APT package? It's probably easier to just download the script and install it that way. If you do that, it will install all the libraries to a folder in your home directory.
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Show HN: Audio Player and FFT Visualizer on FPGA(youtube.com)
2 points by zhemao 14y ago|0 comments
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by zhemao 14y ago
"Numerically speaking, terrorism, especially homegrown terrorism, is a minor threat to public safety and public health. It pales in comparison to gun violence." Numerically speaking, mass shootings using semi-automatic rifles like the AR-15
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by zhemao 14y ago
I find that to be the most heartwarming part of his entire tale. The fact that his wife encouraged him to stick with his career aspirations even when he was ready to give up, and even when it was not in their family's short-term financial i
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by zhemao 14y ago
The problem with this is, how can we be sure that their opponents won't also vote for such legislation if they get into office?
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by zhemao 14y ago
You are making the BIG assumption that foreign languages, the humanities, teamwork, and learning other than rote memorization are useless. It takes more than knowing a lot of facts and being able to crunch numbers to be successful in a care
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Information Security in the Modern Age(zhehaomao.com)
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by zhemao 14y ago
Better standards are good, but without change in other areas, they won't have much effect. If kids are failing to meet the current standards, how do you expect them to meet newer, more rigorous ones? I am sure Massachusetts and Minnesota's
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by zhemao 14y ago
What I find weird is that there is no mention of Khan Academy hiring any educators. Even if your teaching methods are non-traditional, you still probably need someone with traditional teaching experience to tell you whether the lessons will
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Alsascope: Ncurses oscilloscope for alsa input(github.com)
1 points by zhemao 14y ago|0 comments
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White House Petition: Oppose attempts to give ITU control over the internet(wh.gov)
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Twilio Developer Blog: Lerner, a Webhook Notification System(twilio.com)
1 points by zhemao 15y ago|0 comments
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by zhemao 15y ago
My program, lerner ( http://github.com/zhemao/lerner ) does something similar on Linux using libnotify.
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by zhemao 15y ago
Farming in the developing world is very different from farming in the Midwestern United States. US agriculture is heavily mechanized. Developing world agriculture is not.
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by zhemao 15y ago
Freedom? Which parts of Asia were you in? Certainly not the PRC.
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by zhemao 15y ago
I think only Caucasians enjoy the benefit of being a privileged group wherever they go.
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by zhemao 15y ago
No, horror stories like infants dying of tainted baby formula because farmers tried to increase the protein count of their milk (by lacing it with a known poison). Like a child dying from being run over twice by cars because nobody thought
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by zhemao 15y ago
I'm pretty sure he has worked on compilers and OS kernels. They just weren't as popular as GCC or Linux. I don't think judging one's programming skill based on the popularity of one's projects is rather fair.
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by zhemao 15y ago
I concede point one, I guess I didn't completely understand the guys complaint. As for point two, just because she's more skilled doesn't mean there isn't a productivity loss. It takes a little while to get settled (back) into a job. If the

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