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by ig1 13y ago
Article 10 has never been used successfully against a private company or individual for preventing free speech. The general interpretation seems to be that it only covers public bodies (for example Wikipedia describes it as such and it&#x27
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by ig1 13y ago
The second sentence of Article 10 of the HRA explicitly reads "without interference by public authority" (i.e it's a limitation on government).
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Popcap (who make Plants vs Zombie) had previously had an Android exclusivity deal with the Amazon app store for the first release of the game: http://www.fastcompany.com/1753671/amazons-android-march-pop... So it'
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by ig1 13y ago
Freedom of speech is about stopping the government from interfering with your speech. AFAIK there's no law which prohibits a company doing business with you because you made a negative comment about them. In this case it's slightl
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by ig1 13y ago
Google news sources as of 2011: http://img.labnol.org/files/Google-News.txt
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by ig1 13y ago
Anytime your reasoning is "we shouldn't do it because it will make them attractive to other companies" you're probably wrong. You want a company full of super-stars that everyone wants to poach. Otherwise you're jus
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RSA Issues Security Advisory over NSA Linked Dual_EC_DRBG(rt.com)
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It's about trading off reward and risk. Imagine two otherwise identical pre-revenue businesses, one aiming to become a $10m business and the other a $100m business. What's the difference in risk between the two ? - by and large r
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IRCCloud Open Sources iOS and Android Apps(blog.irccloud.com)
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by ig1 13y ago
You're better off asking the founders themselves. It would be inappropriate for YC to release the info without the founders consent in any case.
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You should absolutely do this, always speak to founders of companies who've raised money from a given investor before taking money from them. You can also ask investors about other investors (as in "have you co-invested with X bef
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by ig1 13y ago
"I don't know of a single VC investment that began with an associate cold-emailing a startup." I can vouch from personal knowledge that this has happened a number of times at a number of different European VCs, and at least o
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by ig1 13y ago
It wasn't the fact that they were hacked, it happens, it was the way they handled it. Their official statement read "We have found no evidence that any Linode data of any other customer was accessed. In addition, we have found no
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by ig1 13y ago
The University of Bristol has an entire Maths institute funded by GCHQ. There's a limited amount of use pure maths researchers can be to intelligence services.
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McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center only has dual EC_DRBG certified (despite the fact the RSA library they use supports others; strongly suggesting its what they actually use).
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If you look at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/drbg/drbgval.... you can see who's using EC_DBRG. Most notably apart from RSA is the "McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Cente
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by ig1 13y ago
You say that as if no-one clicks on ads. There's vastly overwhelming evidence that ads work, there's no dispute about it whatsoever. You might dislike ads personally but there's billions of statistical data points which demon
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It means it can bypass any automatic "javascript filters" which try and filter out malicious js code while allowing legitimate code.
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The Serious Fraud Office has said it's individual prosecutions will be announced in the next few months.
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Do you really want there to be a law on the books which means people can be prosecuted for making bad decisions, decisions which the people making them thought were perfectly reasonable and legal at the time ? The reason that CEOs haven&#x2
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by ig1 13y ago
The traceroute wouldn't show anything, they wouldn't be blocking all packets, just ones on port 80. Run "curl -v https://news.ycombinator.com" and post the output of that.
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by ig1 13y ago
As I pointed out in the previous discussion, your smartphone, whatever the brand, almost certainly has metals mined or processed by children in dangerous and unhealthy work environments. That has a much bigger impact on child health than so
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by ig1 13y ago
While most of these seem reasonable learnings, some of them still show major holes in understanding. For instance: "Within the first couple of years, we realized that, on average, any exit required between 5 and 7 years
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by ig1 13y ago
It's 31k after five years experience.
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I recently reported a security issue in an API to a major tech vendor (not Google) and was shocked to get a reply from a "security analyst" at the firm who basically said it was a non-issue because it didn't occur when they w
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by ig1 13y ago
Users expect to register. I've seen UX lab studies testing it, without registration users get really confused and don't understand what's happening with their data. Conversion can actually drop heavily with non-registration
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by ig1 13y ago
HNLondon has 5000+ members while it looks like you're an order of magnitude smaller, hence the HNLondon post is likely to be upvoted by a much wider range of people and thus less likely to be hit by the vote-rigging detector. Although
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by ig1 13y ago
FYI if you route your IP address through mexico, you can get Mexican netflix through your regular netflix account.
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With a cleaner you have greater insurance/liability issues. Both in terms of protecting you from theft, etc. and also in terms of protecting you legally if your cleaner has an accident on your property.
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by ig1 13y ago
Article 12. (The Universal Declaration of Human Rights) "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the

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