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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% objectivity in human world. Everything is relative. Reputation of third party will be questioned and tried every time third party publishes questionable information, which is every time.

I would rather have two distinctly biased parties with clearly established interests publish their stories, and then I will be the judge on whose story is right.

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 computer, because first, I expect OS to have a substantial footprint, and second - I can see, touch, and actually 'consume' the OS files.

I am not ok with wasted space on a tablet, because to me it is a glorified book reader/mp3 player; I expect to use all the available space for storage.

Wait, you are saying Surface is actually a computer (although a shitty one), not a tablet? Well, then MSFT completely failed to communicate this message. Which is pretty regular problem for MSFT.

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.

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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 works reliably only in very simple conditions.

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 SPAM on an e-mail you subscribed for is not very productive.

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 it is the best and most-widely supported sync protocol.

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.

Either you do not get sarcasm, or very, very good at it yourself.

> People criticize c++ because you can overload the operators to mean anything you want

By the same people who struggle to read math, I guess.

BMW has been making ActivE (all-electric 1 series) for a while now. They are not released to general public because, well, the technology is not good enough yet - and BMW is not under pressure of bankruptcy.

Main function of a car is to move a group of people from point A to point B. Tesla is getting good at it, provided point A and point B are not too far apart, and pint B has an electric charger available. And that is a pretty critical limitation so far.

Jumping on your slightly irrelevant analogies, it is like iPod 5 with a batter that can only hold charge for 30 minutes, and can only charged at Apple store.

Yes, if you do not travel, it is a perfect car.

I would not take Tesla on my camping trip, or my ski trip, or my ~700 miles road trip. And I honestly do not want a car I cannot use outside of my commute.