Hacker News: gtremper

New comment by gtremper in "Raycasting in JavaScript and React"

gtremper — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 07:18:05 +0000

This is a very well written project. Easy to navigate through the codebase and a pleasure to read.

New comment by gtremper in "Google launches AMP for email"

gtremper — Tue, 26 Mar 2019 21:51:35 +0000

I've had this happen to me in Chrome when logged out over VPN

New comment by gtremper in "Bandersnatch Shows You What Depersonalization Disorder Feels Like"

gtremper — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 04:14:11 +0000

This reminds me of Westworld.

New comment by gtremper in "Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux"

gtremper — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:49:20 +0000

I'd say it more a textual encoding of LLVM IR. Which makes the s-expression text format of WebAssembly a text encoding of a binary encoding of a javascript encoding of a compiler intermediate representation of your program. Round and round indeed.

New comment by gtremper in "Wasmjit: Kernel Mode WebAssembly Runtime for Linux"

gtremper — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:29:57 +0000

WebAssembly is basically just a binary encoding of asmjs, which is the subset of javascript discussed in the talk.

New comment by gtremper in "NPM proxy users receiving ERR 418 I'm a teapot"

gtremper — Tue, 29 May 2018 09:18:34 +0000

Teapot Dome

New comment by gtremper in "Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages"

gtremper — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 01:00:36 +0000

But someone could pay you for your exported Facebook data (which can include data from friends such as your message history, etc). From my understanding, this is essentially what CA did. CA just obfuscated they were doing this by using the Facebook developer program to automate this process and Mechanical Turk to pay users to give them their data. I agree the Facebook developer program made it really easy to phish for this data.

New comment by gtremper in "Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages"

gtremper — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 00:45:33 +0000

As mwarkentin included, CA _did_ pay users via mechanical turk to install the quiz app. So they did pay the users directly for their data, but not facebook. It seems there is no way to completely stop this without facebook blocking people from exporting their own data. Since CA could just pay people to send them their exported facebook data.

New comment by gtremper in "Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages"

gtremper — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:24:29 +0000

My understanding is the "quiz app" was more of a phishing scheme to get users to share their Facebook data with Cambridge Analytica (including data that user had access to about their friends).

New comment by gtremper in "Facebook Data Collected by Quiz App Included Private Messages"

gtremper — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 22:11:44 +0000

Cambridge Analytica didn't pay to access this data. They got users to give it to them for free though Facebook's developer platform.

New comment by gtremper in "Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress"

gtremper — Tue, 10 Apr 2018 20:30:50 +0000

https://clips.twitch.tv/FantasticCrowdedDelicataPipeHype

New comment by gtremper in "Cow Game Extracted Facebook Data"

gtremper — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 21:14:48 +0000

Did it include information about a user's friends that the user themself didn't have access to? I think one can see one's friend's photos, checkins, and posts, so it makes sense that you would be able to forward that information (not that you should...). I think the grandparent was claiming that you weren't able to share any information about friends that you didn't already have access to.

New comment by gtremper in "How Justin Kan fundraises"

gtremper — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 00:06:09 +0000

A different justin.tv founder founded cruise.

New comment by gtremper in "A British couple who took on Google and cost it £2.1B"

gtremper — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 01:53:22 +0000

I immediately stop reading the comment and downvote whenever I see that phrase.

New comment by gtremper in "Jack White bans phones at gigs for “100% human experience”"

gtremper — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 21:29:27 +0000

Of course. The ones who didn't aren't able to comment here.

New comment by gtremper in "4D Toys: a box of four-dimensional toys"

gtremper — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 23:52:13 +0000

An xray is still a 2D projection, just with different wavelength light.

New comment by gtremper in "Snap Inc. S-1"

gtremper — Sat, 04 Feb 2017 05:22:20 +0000

That figure of speech is known as Synecdoche, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

New comment by gtremper in "Introducing Amazon Wind Farm Texas"

gtremper — Mon, 19 Sep 2016 00:17:12 +0000

The 12 hours here refers to the delivery window on the delivery day, not the time to ship the package. Though the total delivery time is certainly much less than 4-6 weeks.

New comment by gtremper in "Golang concepts from an OOP point of view"

gtremper — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 00:58:19 +0000

Technically, exported/unexported is different than public/private since its at the package level. You can access unexported fields of a struct from anywhere within the same package (not just from that struct's "methods"), which isn't true of a 'private' field.

New comment by gtremper in "Show HN: Chatible – Anonymously Chat with Strangers in Facebook Messenger"

gtremper — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 23:26:56 +0000

You can use Messenger without a Facebook account (just your phone number I think).