Hacker News: bl4k

New comment by bl4k in "Tech Journalism is Broken"

bl4k — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:50:41 +0000

the pando daily sock puppets need a lesson in subtlety

Frictionless: read Facebook social news stories without installing apps

bl4k — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:46:51 +0000

Article URL: http://nikcub.appspot.com/frictionless-browser-plugin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3315307

Points: 31

# Comments: 6

New comment by bl4k in "Watch a VC use my name to sell a con"

bl4k — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:53:10 +0000

when I re-read it I can see that is it more that he doesn't give a fuck. and thanks for clarifying with him.

New comment by bl4k in "Watch a VC use my name to sell a con"

bl4k — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:14:05 +0000

wait, does jwz really expect us to believe that he doesn't know who arrington is? I mean, the techcrunch conference afterparty two years ago was at his night club .. and I am pretty sure i saw both of them there.

New comment by bl4k in "Noah Kagan shares stories from Facebook, Mint, AppSumo (live, 8pm PT)"

bl4k — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:58:12 +0000

if 'the social network' ever becomes a trilogy you might see him in the background of a scene or two.

New comment by bl4k in "The Rumors Are True. I am Leaving TechCrunch."

bl4k — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:52:34 +0000

ok, we get it, you are awesome and important and now need a job.

New comment by bl4k in "Google X"

bl4k — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:14:38 +0000

It is purely a "I knew about this story, just so you know" pissing contest between tech 'journalists'.

New comment by bl4k in "How I would create a couple of million jobs--for $53B"

bl4k — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 19:22:08 +0000

very naive assumptions about what it costs and what it takes to train the unemployed (which isn't the problem to begin with, but that is a separate issue)

put simply, if it only took 3 months and $4k to train people to be ready for startup tech jobs, then everybody would already be doing it

New comment by bl4k in "See how many times a URL has been shared on Facebook"

bl4k — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:24:59 +0000

who the hell shares a link to facebook on facebook?

"hey guys check this out"

New comment by bl4k in "RIP Digg"

bl4k — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:49:26 +0000

the diff is that groupon is a cash machine. digg never was

New comment by bl4k in "Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms"

bl4k — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 18:00:06 +0000

I wonder why anybody from HN here read that article and decided to submit it and not the original source

New comment by bl4k in "Overview of Text Extraction Algorithms"

bl4k — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 17:58:36 +0000

dump it on github - someone will come around and clean it up for you

what is it written in?

New comment by bl4k in "I think tumblr has a huge security hole"

bl4k — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 13:14:36 +0000

there are dozens of pages that have been exposed on this one server. I have no idea how the opening tag can get mangled in so many different files

New comment by bl4k in "RSA hit by targeted attacks, SecurID 2-factor auth possibly compromised"

bl4k — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:13:49 +0000

"Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)", gimme a break

Too much corpspeak, not enough real information.

New comment by bl4k in "Airbnb"

bl4k — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:55:56 +0000

you will face the same obstacle in all marketing

New comment by bl4k in "Is This The Girl That Hacked HBGary?"

bl4k — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 02:17:57 +0000

so she goes to extraordinary lengths to coverup her online activity, but grants an interview to a national news outlet where she divulges a large part of her personal history?

obvious troll is obvious

New comment by bl4k in "Airbnb"

bl4k — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:01:41 +0000

post it as a separate thread and a show hn

New comment by bl4k in "Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant"

bl4k — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 08:17:02 +0000

Is it true that there is no japanese word for 'looting'.

This all came up from a joke, we were watching the news broadcasts, and my friend said 'you know there is no looting in Japan' and I said 'that is because they don't have a word for it'. I ended up looking it up, and it seems true - can you confirm?

New comment by bl4k in "AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down"

bl4k — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:49:09 +0000

depends, do you as a reader want to know if public relations people are attempting to manipulate the sources of your news?

New comment by bl4k in "AOL Asks Us If We Can Tone It Down"

bl4k — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 06:43:11 +0000

were you expecting the moviefone/AOL email to say "CHANGE THE FUCKING ARTICLE"

off course they are subtle about it, it is so they can deny it later - but the recipient and the sender (and people reading it now) all know wtf is going on and what was being asked