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If a woman blogged unkind and sexist behavior at a tech company, but hid her name to avoid the backlash (like Michael), that would be unethical. I guess she'd be an "asshat", right…

That was a fantastic article! Thanks for linking that. It certainly gave me a lot of food for thought.

My honest hope when I first heard of Uber was that it would give a huge wakeup call to the industry. Let's face it, America is a service industry and many of its services suck. The…

No, taxi regulations are in place so this kind of nonsense gets your license revoked: http://www.theverge.com/2014/8/26/6067663/this-is-ubers-play...

And this, folks, is why taxi regulation is a thing. Of course, there is crime and corruption and they have their own variety of scams[1]. But what you won't see is a sweeping sense…

That's pretty bad. I think those get filtered before it gets to the inbox most of the time, but the phishing continues too. This one from 2010 is pretty similar : http://www.mcgill…

This is why PBKDF2 would have made more sense then. They can centrally authenticate, derive a secondary token from the original pass while specifying the max limit for each of thos…

The McGill Password length has also been increased from exactly eight characters to a variable length of eight to 18 characters. So they're not using bcrypt (usable length 72). Eve…

If the popularity of GoDaddy has taught me anything, it's that people use what they know; not what's good. The list of companies that should have gone out of business is as long as…

The registrar issuing cert solution would certainly speed up HTTPS adoption; you're dealing with one less org to secure your site. The down-side is that if you decide to move regis…

Privatoria.net is a service which provides secure communication, anonymous surf and secure file sharing for individuals and business. All security services are united together in P…

That's extreme. This is just a swing toward turning internet access into utilities like electricity and water which are available without being tied to your residence. You still ha…

> You can view something like 20 stories a month 10 stories a month. Also, even though you may only post one or two as you say from these sites, others do the same adding to that t…

Some context in the previous thread on Tollef's resignation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8615962

There are many reasons not to freely give out your address, or name for that matter. The validity of ideas need not be tied to an identity. If an idea can stand on its own, then so…

Amen. Actually that would have been the better outcome anyway since it adds entropy to the gene pool. Cross pollination of ideas could have benefitted both parties. And even if you…

"While these death threats and the like are in no doubt horrible..." Then let's stop there. No bridge is sacred enough to warrant physical threats when burned. No attitude poor eno…

The real story of the design is pretty interesting though http://creativebits.org/interview/interview_rob_janoff_desig...

It would still be acceptable for a large number of folks who do primarily browsing/downloading, but for Netflix et al (which is quickly becoming the primary means of entertainment …

Extremely difficult. There is plenty of technical expertise in networking, laying fiber, trenching, construction, equipment etc... around. Even with the local terrain. The problem …

In an ideal world, any traffic entering and leaving a private network would be encrypted, but the issue is with near-realtime services like VoIP and remote presence where latency i…

Bachelor’s degrees in physics and economics. Experience in engineering, consultancy and management while working at Tesla and Space X (particularly their engine design). Has a hist…

Because the foundations upon which AI shall be built aren't exotic. They're still programs. They still need an architecture to run on and they need electricity. Even if new archite…

That's awful! You should never even insinuate physical threats like that. You're putting yourself and others at risk by doing so and permanently harming your own reputation. Look, …

It was actually a credit union. And yes it is crazy, but then so are a lot of their other practices. Also, I was calling them internationally so even though the private questions t…