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Re:Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @05:09PM (#2384492)
Did you wonder why they have their address in that page as an image?

Apparently it is also near an air force base http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1533674

Re:Introducing Amazon Cloud Drive on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @01:34AM (#2381498)
If you are paranoid^, you wouldn't use TrueCrypt. http://brianpuccio.net/excerpts/is_truecrypt_really_safe_to_...

^ good sense of the word

Re:This Perfect Day on Friday March 11, 2011 @11:38AM (#2313896)
Whoa! 100 to 200? How do you manage? How do you choose? Any tips / suggestions? I'd like to do it but I have no idea how I can without making it my full time job.
Have you tried Favbot? http://www.favbot.com/ I like it a lot.
Re:PlayStation 3 Hacker Must Allow Sony to Inspect His Hard Drive on Saturday February 12, 2011 @02:59AM (#2209627)
52 comments. tptacek has made 48 of them.
Re:YoFile - Have your friends create your social network profiles on Thursday February 10, 2011 @04:55PM (#2203980)
How about messing with your friends?
Do you see a causation there?
Re:Collaboration just got a lot easier, see how... on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @03:34PM (#2194704)
People who complain about a product that they have no intention of becoming a customer of are really annoying, especially in a startup focused community. Invite method is needed to ensure smooth rollout and scaling. Bugs can be fixed as reports come in, without getting the same bug report from 1000 people.
Re:Update your timezone defs: Russia abolishes winter time (DST) on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @03:20PM (#2194637)
Farmers work whenever they want.
Re:Help wanted: Google hiring in 2011 on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @12:45AM (#2142317)
Re:Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it on Wednesday January 19, 2011 @05:15PM (#2121493)
I think he means that the nginx reverse proxy is just a part of the infrastructure, like the server, OS, MzScheme etc they use.
Re:What Went Wrong at Borders on Thursday January 13, 2011 @02:36PM (#2101037)
"corrective capitalism" - awesome term.
Re:Alien life form ‘is here on Earth’ on Wednesday December 01, 2010 @12:41PM (#1958696)
Goose goo
A big part of engineering is about making the right trade-offs at any given point. His straw-man engineer shows nothing but his misunderstanding of engineering.
I don't know how you don't see the problem. Facebook is censoring.
Re:Ask HN/PG : Why are comments ordered like this? on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:05PM (#1923704)
Re:Ask HN/PG : Why are comments ordered like this? on Friday November 19, 2010 @10:04PM (#1923699)
sum(pg's thread) = 80 points

sum(brh's thread) = 130 points

What has that got to do with introspection?
Re:Security researcher: I keep getting detained by feds on Friday November 19, 2010 @05:17PM (#1923035)
Hasn't it always been that way?

(for some values of always)

Did you notice that you framed your statement as a question and thereby made it more persuasive?
Re:Ask HN: Has HN been slow/spotty loading for you? on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @04:02PM (#1915733)
He is saying that there are HN pages that take minutes to load.
Re:Thank PG: For reclaiming the word 'hacker' on Wednesday November 17, 2010 @12:06PM (#1914844)
The unfortunate side effect of reclaiming seems to be dilution. Any programmer nowadays is a "hacker".
scares the bejeezus out of me

as it should.

Re:Ask PG: Why dont you hire someone to run HN? on Monday November 15, 2010 @04:09PM (#1907860)
Then where would he go to do his share of procrastination for the day?

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