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tdeitchon Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing

"Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful" has been posted on here and lays things out nicely, as e1ven mentions.

Here's the original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2935220

tdeitchon Ask HN: A story about a research adviser who automated himself

Was it Matt Might? He wrote "3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or 'My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash.'"

http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voi...

tdeitchon A “nationwide gentrification effect” is segregating us by education

The Economist published a chart in April showing some of the (American) colleges with the highest and lowest rates of return on investment over twenty years. The article admits that the study "surely overstates the financial value of a college education" because it compares college graduates to non-attendees without trying to adjust for differences in intelligence, etc., so take it for what it's worth.

http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21600131-too-man...

tdeitchon BufferBox: Amazon Lockers? We Had That Idea First

Did you end up getting your order shipped there? I was given the option ship an order to one of the lockers in SF on Monday, but when I tried to select it, I got an error. In any case, it suggests that they should be available in SF soon.

tdeitchon Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels

The violinist you're thinking of is probably Joshua Bell. There was an article about his subway performance in the Washington Post several years ago: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04...