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What is the point of responding to a casual HN comment with a blog post, besides PR opportunity?

This is a good thing, mostly because the concept of 'reputability' is not very viable. A third party is reputable as long as it is 100% objective. And there is no such thing as 100…

According to this logic, reporters should not lie about anything. Unfortunately, this phrase: "lose all of his credibility as a reporter" is already an oxymoron.

It is not misleading information, it is brilliant marketing. Gotta give them that.

I think the author is missing a point here: Macbook Air is a full-blown computer (I run several VMs on mine), while Surface is a freaking tablet. I am ok with 'wasted' space on a c…

Excellent explanation, thank you.

I though this was a pretty much standard legal procedure in this circumstances. How is that news?

2006 happened 7 years ago. Time flies.

Is it just me, or are they successfully killing a strawman in this article? Who the hell uses js cryptography for such things?

HBO is 11th on the list. Sounds legit.

align=center. MY EYES, MY EYES!

> Unless the article means that the key itself is a derivation (a hash?) of the password Why is this an issue? Other people call this 'issue' PKCS5.

20/20, although MATTEL was tricky. That pesky capital 'A'.

I, for one, would like to have more passwords in iOS. Like password-protecting my email app, file sharing app, and others.

Yep, right - fencing solution that relies on the network to stop the service. How could that possibly fail?

The person who did all this was not supposed to see the original picture. The whole thing happened because of sharing, tagging and mutual friends. It is a technological problem.

> To be fair to Facebook, figuring these kinds of nuances out isn’t easy God damn it, it is called ACLs. Not exactly a rocket, or even computer science.

High Availability strikes again. No surprise there. But I am mildly flabbergasted by the fact that GitHub uses STONITH. The technology is as safe as open-core nuclear reactor, and …

It is extremely confusing. - It does not work in the browser! - Which browser? - The browser! - I got that, you idiot. WHICH browser?!

I am pretty sure there is a huge potential to run machine-learning algorytms on the recommendation data to detect anomalies. It must be fun to be a computer science guy at Linkedin…

FYI: most SPAM feedback systems reduce your account weight ('trust score') if you tag your non-SPAM emails as SPAM. Although I agree with one-click-unsubscribe sentiment, clicking …

ActiveSync is proprietary protocol designed by Microsoft, and it has nothing to do with iOS or Android. Everybody is implementing it (and paying hefty license fee to MSFT), because…

I am sorry, but this is not true. IMAP as a protocol does not support push notifications. There are extension for IMAP that supports push, but they are not widely supported.

> No bike directions. :| Yes, what is up with that? Android app had that for ages. I guess I am not supposed to have an iPhone if I bike.

Looks like they have MX and TXT, but missing A. Weird.