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811.
by Flimm 14y ago
If this site gets big, its neutrality will be questioned, and you've got to be ready with answers. I don't want to see good efforts like these go to waste.
812.
by Flimm 14y ago
Shouldn't "Defending your privacy in US Congress" be out of scope as well, then? It certainly isn't part of a website's terms and conditions. Plus, it's hard to judge how well those activities are going, and how committed the company is in
813.
by Flimm 14y ago
I understand that the project welcomes contributions, but who has the final say on the rating of a website? Are there any gate-keepers, and who are they?
814.
by Flimm 14y ago
I counter your anecdote with my anecdote: $ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' | wc -l 354 $ find ~/.local/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 3 $ find ~/.local/share -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 66 $ find ~/.config/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 108 $ find ~
815.
by Flimm 14y ago
They are plenty of cases where copyright enforcement is voluntarily handed over to a third-party: for example, Hollywood to the MPAA, or the BusyBox developers to the SFLC. Does anyone know what the difference is?
816.
by Flimm 14y ago
That just means that the users of Craiglist grant them an unlimited license. The users still own the copyright, though.
817.
by Flimm 14y ago
It's impossible to declare a work under the public domain in the USA. A creative work reaches the public domain only when its copyright expires, or if it's a government work. Read up on the rationale behind the CC0 license for more informat
818.
by Flimm 14y ago
So to be clear, you admit that WebM isn't proprietary, but future versions could be? That's true of every open source project on the planet, that's how copyright law works.
819.
by Flimm 14y ago
If you know what you're doing, you'd know how to get around this limitation, with the --ignore-certificate-errors option for example. Any knowledgeable front-end or back-end developer would know how to find this out by doing a Google search
820.
by Flimm 14y ago
It's not arrogant on Chrome's part to incrementally improve the user's security, while forcing companies to incrementally improve their security. It's incompetent on the IT department's side to ignore a problem that is both a genuine securi
821.
by Flimm 14y ago
Or fix the certificate issues. Don't train the staff to be blind to security warnings.
822.
by Flimm 14y ago
For Ubuntu, you can release closed-source software in the Ubuntu Software Centre.
823.
by Flimm 14y ago
I, for one, am happy with StackOverflow's moderation.
824.
by Flimm 14y ago
The webpage should suggest a website other than OpenPhoto, then. First impressions count. (I say this as someone who's really excited by Persona and who wants it to spread as quickly as possible.)
825.
by Flimm 14y ago
As explained in another comment, the second item is already part way there through another workaround. Ctrl-F "bigtent".
826.
by Flimm 14y ago
No. The fact that you had to click a link in an email is a workaround. If your email provider did support Persona, you wouldn't have had to do this. That's the great thing about Persona: it works even when email providers don't support it.
827.
by Flimm 14y ago
Mozilla Persona (AKA BrowserID) is exciting stuff. However, it doesn't seem to have changed much since the last time it hit Hacker News [0]. There are websites that have chosen Persona as an authentication method. We now need to see the fol
828.
by Flimm 14y ago
That's the plan. Mozilla are just waiting on Gmail to cooperate and implement Persona on their side. In an ideal situation, both your browser (eg: Firefox) and your email provider (eg: Gmail) would support Persona. In that case, you don't h
829.
by Flimm 14y ago
Having the web page fade in slowly gives the impression of speed. It's not just a fancy gimmick.
830.
by Flimm 14y ago
They didn't call it useless, they said it could be useful, if done correctly. From their point of view, if it were done correctly, the user ought to be able to block Windows. But since that will be difficult, it undermines the security adva
831.
by Flimm 14y ago
"unless the GIL is subverted via C extensions or similar." I would hardly call I/O with Python built-in functions to be a subversion of the GIL.
832.
by Flimm 14y ago
"They should work as advertised, using native OS threading primitives and taking advantage of the native OS thread scheduler." Just to be clear, Python does use native OS threading primitives, and it does make use of the native OS thread sc
833.
by Flimm 14y ago
Can't both Western laws and Ethiopian laws be bad? Why is it a must that the West fix their laws before Ethiopia consider fixing theirs? Isn't Hacker News for everyone, not just western readers?
834.
by Flimm 14y ago
I don't consider speculation and rumours of rumours to be news.
835.
by Flimm 14y ago
I just went to my first hackathon this weekend, and I quite enjoyed it. Doing a week-end project is much more fun in groups, and there is a final presentation to enjoy and aim for. For this particular hackathon, we had sponsors who offered
836.
by Flimm 14y ago
I wish more ads were like Wikipedia's: relevant, temporary and of great consequence. I don't see how they qualify for being "the worst".
837.
by Flimm 14y ago
The shell expands .* to all directories beginning with a dot, including the two special hard links "." and ".." . See for yourself by running: echo .*
838.
by Flimm 15y ago
I do.
839.
by Flimm 15y ago
I'm concerned about individual rights too. In fact, it's my concern for individual rights that leads me to reject overly restrictive copyright, (among other things). I find these rights to be valuable: freedom of speech, freedom of creativi
840.
by Flimm 15y ago
The Kickstarter model works fantastically well for creative people that already have a following/track record. For someone trying to connect with an audience the first time, not so much. The restrictive copyright model works fantastically

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