Hacker News: nxzero

New comment by nxzero in "Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved"

nxzero — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 17:30:05 +0000

That would be the most obvious resolution in the case that another election was required, though might be exploited as a means to get around term limits.

Another option might be the delegation of responsibility to the voting population to force a timely resolution of the election, greater understanding of the issues at hand, etc.

New comment by nxzero in "Maine Ranked Choice Voting Initiative Approved"

nxzero — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 16:40:02 +0000

Has anyone seen analysis of elections nullified by vote?

For example, voters would be allowed to put the status of any and all candidates as null and/or a top vote as null. If the majority of votes cast as were null, another election would be run with all candidates from the prior election removed.

New comment by nxzero in "Why 30 is the decade friends disappear"

nxzero — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 12:17:11 +0000

>> "This has been shown in several studies"

Have links to these studies?

Google Daydream View: Mobile VR Done Mostly Right

nxzero — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:36:26 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13578012/google-daydream-view-vr-review-mobile-headset-pixel

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12920654

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Political Polarization in the American Public (2014)

nxzero — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:35:25 +0000

Article URL: http://www.people-press.org/2014/06/12/political-polarization-in-the-american-public/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12912450

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

New comment by nxzero in "Playpen: The Story of the FBI’s Unprecedented and Illegal Hacking Operation"

nxzero — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 11:28:43 +0000

Are there any examples of the FBI creating or enabling predators so they are able to hunt them?

If so, is this illegal, and if not, why?

New comment by nxzero in "Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature"

nxzero — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:45:05 +0000

While speculation, Moxie's projects appear to have gotten (deservedly) a lot of attention, which brings a lot of feedback that's unfounded and potential malicious; for example, the f-droid comment about in my opinion fails to reflect both sides of the issue, and build security is VERY IMPORTANT and often ignored.

I don't know Moxie, but we've exchange messages before and never got the sense that off the cuff he was discounting any feedback. At a very highly level we agree about what he's doing, though I get the sense that anonymity is something we don't exactly agree about, but do understand a little of why he feels the way he does.

New comment by nxzero in "Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 16:00:34 +0000

Do you feel f-droid's build security should be trusted, an if so, why?

>> ""F-Droid has received criticism for distributing out-of-date versions of official applications and for its approach to application signing."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-Droid

New comment by nxzero in "I Used to Be a Human Being"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:13:03 +0000

Always fun watch someone go cold turkey, since it becomes obvious to them their an infozombie really quick; reaching for a phone in their pocket that's not there every few minutes, going through withdrawals from not being able to read feeds/email, etc.

New comment by nxzero in "I Used to Be a Human Being"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:08:29 +0000

Just wait until machine learning gets really good at providing information that's of value that you "must have" to get through the day.

New comment by nxzero in "Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 14:54:26 +0000

Aware of that issue (asked moxie about it on HN) and other issues too, but it doesn't change that there's zero reason to believe Moxie's intent is malicious and it's a stretch by any means to claim his contributions are anything but positive in sum.

New comment by nxzero in "Google backs off on previously announced Allo privacy feature"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 12:55:30 +0000

Here's Moxie's related press release on doing E2E for Allo: https://whispersystems.org/blog/allo/

Curious if he'll comment on what happened:

https://twitter.com/moxie

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=moxie

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If you don't know about Moxie, highly suggest learning more about him:

https://thoughtcrime.org/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoughtcrime

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike

New comment by nxzero in "Will Coke Dissolve a Nail? (2003)"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:57:03 +0000

The pH level of most drinks are not low enough to eat metal, roughly a level of 2 depending on the metal and reactions: http://www.sheltondentistry.com/patient-information/ph-value...

Citric Acid will eat metal, which is why liquids like orange and lime juice are not stored in metal containers.

New comment by nxzero in "Search Results are officially AMP’d"

nxzero — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 03:04:58 +0000

As you likely know, AMP'd stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages Project; meaning AMP'd is for mobile traffic.

New comment by nxzero in "Chinese factories are lying and they don’t even know it"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:44:25 +0000

Might be wrong, but my understanding is that China currently leads the world in robotic labor; meaning all robotic labor preformed by robots own by Chinese companies regardless of where the robots are.

New comment by nxzero in "Search Results are officially AMP’d"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:39:17 +0000

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, believe you're talking about the search result redirects that Google does; which is different, because the user get redirected the the real URL.

AMD'd links never redirect, if you click the X you're sent back to Google's results, there's no way to get to the real URL that an average user would easily be able to do, if the link is bookmarked the link it's not the real link, etc.

New comment by nxzero in "Search Results are officially AMP’d"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:07:08 +0000

Super annoying feature, since Google hijacks the URL in the process.

There should be a way to opt-out that is simple and does not require the user to be signed-in to do.

Ironically, almost positive that Google hates when links are wrapped like this.

New comment by nxzero in "Dear Al-Jazeera: thank you for doing the right thing"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 19:01:01 +0000

Open Source Version referenced by AJ: https://github.com/codevise/pageflow

Given this is in fact the source code that the developer in question has admitted was the basis for their code, it would be interesting to know if they were correctly using the MIT License here: https://github.com/codevise/pageflow/blob/master/MIT-LICENSE

New comment by nxzero in "YC and Founders Pledge"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:48:20 +0000

It's a common term in this context, but would agree it's not completely Plain English either:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donor-advised_fund

New comment by nxzero in "What It Costs to Run Let's Encrypt"

nxzero — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 18:09:02 +0000

More to the point, if anyone truly believes they're able to do it for cheaper... Do it, don't comment about it.