Hacker News: narrowrail

New comment by narrowrail in "Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook"

narrowrail — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:59:58 +0000

If you think you are safer from the NSA because a server is located outside the US, I've got some bad news for you: outside of the US, the NSA can do whatever they want as the US Constitution has no jurisdiction. Whether or not they are abusing the law within the US is up for debate, but outside the US there is nothing to stop them except technology.

New comment by narrowrail in "Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook"

narrowrail — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:50:28 +0000

Owning the domain makes for great email address portability. If I hadn't read so many of your comments here over the years, I probably wouldn't suggest this, but I think a good strategy is to buy 2 domains, one for trusted entities (i.e.people you know or your bank/ credit union) and one for non-trusted entities (i.e. Amazon or commercial entities in general). Use your domain registrar's email hosting for trusted entities (add PGP for extra goodness), and use a commercial provider (e.g Google, Fastmail,etc.) for the non-trusted entities domain.

New comment by narrowrail in "Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook"

narrowrail — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:31:13 +0000

If most people you email with use Gmail, what's the point of an "encrypted email" provider? Why not just use PGP and stay with your current provider? Thunderbird+enigmail is the way to do meaningful encryption and it is provider agnostic.

New comment by narrowrail in "Google Pixelbook – A High Performance Chromebook"

narrowrail — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 20:25:02 +0000

Well, given the question asked, we need to be clear that the legality of downloading copyrighted content varies by country. Also, the DMCA[0] has been around for 21 years, so it's not exactly a recent change. The last time the industry went after a torrenter, it was Hunger Games (2010), IIRC; I always attributed to the Streisand affect[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

New comment by narrowrail in "Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects"

narrowrail — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 06:36:55 +0000

The distinction being made that I see is that a CEO of an organization has different expectations placed upon them than any other employee. So, this home vs. work separation makes sense in most cases, but not when it comes to the CEO role.

New comment by narrowrail in "Can Anyone Beat Jeff Bezos?"

narrowrail — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 12:58:41 +0000

>Amazon beating Walmart

Let's not get carried away here. In the most recent quarter, Walmart had revenues of $123B vs Amazon's $38B. Walmart still has time to figure out the ecommerce game.

New comment by narrowrail in "At liberal tech companies, those who disagree on politics say they’re isolated"

narrowrail — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 15:42:09 +0000

The guy is a pathological liar, there is not one proposal I've seen that would, "restrict the rights of gay people" or "ban all Muslims."

New comment by narrowrail in "Love it or hate it, truckers say they can’t stop listening to public radio"

narrowrail — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 12:35:07 +0000

As a 20+ year listener of NPR (and Terry Gross), I always thought Gross was the best interviewer without a doubt. About 2 years ago, I stumbled upon a Howard Stern interview and was blown away. Never thought much of the shock-jock before, but you should check out his interview with Letterman from last week.

New comment by narrowrail in "Snap's share price sinks, trades just above IPO price"

narrowrail — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 02:53:43 +0000

The idea, I believe, is building camaraderie among your users as they teach each other how to use it.

IMO, Snapchat should be the easiest to decentralize and federate b/c the ephemeral nature allows expectations to be set for simple hosting like Digital Ocean. Who cares if data gets deleted?

New comment by narrowrail in "Ask HN: How do I find boutique US consulting groups (for employment)?"

narrowrail — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:52:42 +0000

I don't think I'd throw away remote opportunities if they are available.

New comment by narrowrail in "Telegram founder: US intelligence tried to bribe us to weaken encryption"

narrowrail — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:39:46 +0000

Many prominent and respected HNers have laid out the case for why Telegram has security issues. If you use the search function at the bottom, you will easily find these issues raised. I don't personally possess the knowledge to determine the soundness of Telegram's crypto, but there have been enough red flags raised on HN over the years to merit skepticism.

New comment by narrowrail in "Pistol sights"

narrowrail — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:01:14 +0000

HN is a news aggregator. A blog is short for web-log:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

These words have meaning, and your idea of a 'blog' is even worse than those people that don't know the difference between a blog post and a blog (a collection of posts).

New comment by narrowrail in "Are Google, Amazon and others getting too big?"

narrowrail — Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:14:07 +0000

Wal-Mart's Q1 revenue was $117.5B vs. Amazon's $35.7B ought to put that into perspective.

New comment by narrowrail in "Colorado doesn’t need to replicate Silicon Valley"

narrowrail — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:42:28 +0000

I like the BBQ at KT's out on 75th (good while on a bike ride). There is also good BBQ in 'downtown' Louisville that is owned and operated by Texans.

New comment by narrowrail in "Colorado doesn’t need to replicate Silicon Valley"

narrowrail — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 00:40:22 +0000

Sushi Zamai on Spruce St. in Boulder is also good (or it was 10 years ago). My understanding at that time was Sushi Den and Zamai shared the same cargo plane for their daily fish deliveries.

New comment by narrowrail in "MusicBrainz: an open music encyclopedia"

narrowrail — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 00:05:38 +0000

>In theory MusicBrainz already has metrics

What does "in theory" mean here? Do those tables exist in whole or some part? Is this a matter of indexing an existing data set or hoping some data was acquired by accidental consequence?

New comment by narrowrail in "Theresa May says the internet must now be regulated after London terror attack"

narrowrail — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 14:28:44 +0000

While not religious, the reasons look similar to gangs in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_United_States#Rea...

New comment by narrowrail in "The Slow Criminalization of Peer-To-Peer Transfers"

narrowrail — Sat, 03 Jun 2017 09:25:24 +0000

In the US, civil asset forfeiture laws are state specific. Wikipedia has a good break down by state if you're interested.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

New comment by narrowrail in "Trump quits Paris climate accord, calling it a “bad deal” for the U.S"

narrowrail — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:36:44 +0000

Occam's Razor says this is a simplistic view. It causes more divisiveness and demotes discussion to ad hominem attacks.

New comment by narrowrail in "À La Carte Television finally makes financial sense for TV networks"

narrowrail — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:39:43 +0000

Couching the discussion as a la carte channels instead of a la carte shows is some kind of jedi mind trick by studio execs.

Apple Season Pass should be like $3/season, not $5/episode.

Edit: Netflix didn't negotiate certain seasons or episodes of Breaking Bad, nor did it negotiate all of AMC's content. Netflix negotiated rights to specific shows.