HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Tinyyy

646 karma · joined January 12, 2015

submissionscomments
Tinyyy··on Cops are asking Ancestry.com and 23andMe for their customers’ DNA
That incurs a lot of R&D costs and costs of installation, and people might not be okay with such a thing happening because it affects everyone. On the other hand, querying a DNA database doesn’t face much resistance because it only affects a small number of people.
Tinyyy··on Braess' paradox: adding a new road to a city can slow down traffic
My understanding of this is that you have a highway and a road (with a low speed limit). The highway gets congested if many people use it so they’ll all move slower. If everyone takes the highway, it’ll still be faster than the road, so everyone chooses to take the highway. On the other hand, if everyone spends half their time on the highway and the other half on the road, all of them will be able to travel faster (But there is no incentive to do so).

At Nash equilibrium, the highway is over-utilised while the road is under-utilised. So stripped to the core, this is an example of tragedy of the commons where if every single individual works for their sole interest, they will all lose out and yet nobody has an incentive to make a change.

Tinyyy··on A protocol for storing up to 1277 bytes in the Bitcoin blockchain
Doesn't that defeat the whole point of it?
Tinyyy··on Mathematicians find 'magic key' to drive Ramanujan's taxi-cab number
So, what’s the deal with K3 surfaces?
Tinyyy··on How IBM Stacks Up Power8 Against Xeon Servers
Hey, I wanna know more, can you elaborate?
Tinyyy··on Embed Linkedin profile page to see who visited your website
That's one more reason to use extensions like Ublock and Ghostery.
Tinyyy··on [dead]
Wasn't this already on here recently?
Tinyyy··on YouPronounceIt: Search for a word, get videos of YouTube speakers pronouncing it
http://xkcd.com/1425/
Tinyyy··on Twitter Expected to Begin Layoffs and Stop Headquarters Expansion
There's a popular meme "If you're not paying, then you're the product". I think an exception is " or they're just not making any money".
Tinyyy··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Haha every single one of the comments on the blog is negative.
Tinyyy··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Honestly if you're a security / privacy company, can you please just not get acquired? You can't 'transfer' your customers' trust to a third party like you transfer cash.
Tinyyy··on Chinese University Tops MIT in Engineering Rankings
You know what? That's a pretty reasonable argument, and I agree with it.
Tinyyy··on Chinese University Tops MIT in Engineering Rankings
You talk a whole lot, but you've never addressed his point that "it would rock being rich in China". (I am not taking a side).
Tinyyy··on Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name
But technically if you write your own browser, these are just guidelines and you don’t have to respect them, right?
Tinyyy··on Free resources made by designers at Facebook
What's the economics behind many tech companies sharing their tools?
Tinyyy··on Verizon revives "zombie cookie" device tracking on AOL's ad network
Does anyone have a positive experience with ads on mobile?
Tinyyy··on Show HN: Download any song without knowing its name
Is the browser obliged to clear the cache?
Tinyyy··on Amazon Snowball
But the end user probably trusts the machine 99%, so what if you load it with something malicious, send it back to Amazon and wait for it to be sent to another customer and thus hack their network? That is if Amazon does not completely wipe their drives (Hide it somehow?).
Tinyyy··on 100M games played
I wonder how these kinda models work. I think that over time, while the userbase / costs increases, the donations won't increase as much / decrease. Is this true?
Tinyyy··on Paradise
I loaded the website but can’t do anything - is this game online multiplayer?

Edit: Apparently I was right, but we can’t play the game now because it is only going to get DDOSed more.

Tinyyy··on Show HN: New interface for Reddit – What do you think?
What about all those mobile Reddit apps? They run ads too!
Tinyyy··on 402: Payment Required
Yea but even looking at an aggregate score of a site before deciding to pay to read an article adds a lot of friction to the process.
Tinyyy··on 402: Payment Required
If I already know that I can’t get a refund if the newspaper sucks, then I will stick to the known / reputable newspapers and avoid paying for small time newspapers.
Tinyyy··on Gigabytes of user data from hack of Patreon donations site dumped online
What if you use the email as extra bits of entropy? Like you can append the password to email then hash it. Of course you lose the ability to send emails and account recovery, but its an okay tradeoff for people who want more security.
Tinyyy··on Noteslate
That's pretty interesting, but it is very difficult to execute perfectly since there's always some thickness to the screen.
Tinyyy··on High-Speed Trading Firm Deleted Some Code by Accident
I don't know much about stocks trading, can someone ELI5? Thanks.
Tinyyy··on Tesla’s $140,000 Model X SUV Does 0-60 in 3.2 Seconds
And back? You'll definitely have to charge or risk running out.
Tinyyy··on Google Nexus 5x and 6P
I wonder if its possible to counter this through obscurity. Since the sensor is on the back of the phone, you can use your ring finger to unlock it instead. If >3 attempts with any other fingers are made, then the phone will be locked with a password. That way, you still keep your right to protection.
Tinyyy··on New gadget on Indiegogo aims to kill roaming charges
> The campaign uses a Flexible Funding model, meaning Strone will still receive all money raised if the USD$50,000 goal isn't met. As such, backers will also receive their units.

Or it means that you could not receive anything at all if they don’t have enough money to produce at a certain scale?

Tinyyy··on Signs of Liquid Water Found on Surface of Mars, Study Says
Youtube Live link, works reliably: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDh4uK9PvJU
← PreviousPage 7 of 9Next →