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by itafroma 13y ago
The City of Portland (Oregon) has a revenue tax as well, with a floor of $50,000, regardless of incorporation (so it affects freelancers as well). It was actually $15,000 until 1998, jumped to $25,000 for 1999–2006, then $50,000 since.
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by itafroma 13y ago
> https://drupal.org/node/8 While it was a long running thing that the Drupal product couldn't let users delete or disable their own accounts, the issue you linked was resolved[1] in 2009 (more than 4 years ago) and made it into Drupa
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Definitely, as well as check your repos for malicious code. Unlike GitHub, Drupal doesn't send out a notification when a key is added, edited, or removed.
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I agree that it does slow down brute force attacks (I did say as much in my comment: looks like I was finishing up the edits to my comment while you were replying), but not substantially, particularly when the password is already weak. The
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by itafroma 13y ago
According to the email (emphasis mine): > This unauthorized access was made via third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure, and was not the result of a vulnerability within the Drupal software itself. There
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Besides, they claim it was salted, so it shouldn't really matter at this point whether my password was "Password123" or "@DJDF*$@!(DGEWGIRGHdfhEWROighMMMM...PIZZA". Salting a hash isn't a license to use incredibly weak dictionary pass
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by itafroma 13y ago
Previous, very lively discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5777578
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Controversial, Harmful and Hateful Speech on Facebook(facebook.com)
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Report: Blizzard delays unannounced MMO until 2016, resets whole project(venturebeat.com)
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Django has supported python 3 since version 1.5 - the last major release Python 3 support in 1.5 was marked as "experimental"[1], with 1.6 being the release that was supposed to be marked as suitable for general use. I believe that's
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by itafroma 13y ago
Unshortened URL for the release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.6/
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by itafroma 13y ago
Note this is a fairly longstanding vector (offshoot?) of Reddit; it's been going on for at least a few years, and was featured on Reddit's blog in August 2012: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/08/university-of-reddit-explore-... Here are the p
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by itafroma 13y ago
> That's only the first part of the request. The highlighted part of the email says they need to remove all mention of them from the site, and specifically calls about that bit of text as something that needs to be removed. What I wrote
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> The NYT then came back and said even having the text "The NYT spent hundreads of hours hand-coding “Snow Fall.” We made a replica in an hour." on his site was copyright infringement. No, they didn't. They took issue with the fact that
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by itafroma 13y ago
Oh, I totally agree this appears to be prima facie nominative fair use: using a competitor's name for the basis of comparison has a strong history in US trademark law. It'd be interesting to find out why The New York Times thinks otherwise.
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The main reference I found to the amount of time it took came from a Q&A[1] that appeared after it was published: > [...]I spent much of the summer getting to know the people involved (sometimes with the photographer Ruth Fremson an
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by itafroma 13y ago
> It is not 'fair use', because it is not copyrighted in the first place. > 'Fair use' is a legal defense to make copies of copyrighted material. Yes, it is copyrighted, but it is a fair use anyway, if X, Y and Z. > Facts and fa
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by itafroma 13y ago
> 'nominative fair use' is a legal theory of _trademark_, and what you say may actually be more applicable to trademark, aha, okay. Important to be clear though. This part is the only part that matters here: the second C&D about the
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by itafroma 13y ago
It is definitely telling that it took them 30 minutes into a 60 minute presentation to talk about games, then another 10 to talk about a non-sports game. Yes, they're saying they're going to talk more about games at E3, but a reveal is a "p
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Note this story is from almost a month ago (date stamp on the linked article is April 29th). Previous discussions on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624163 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663072
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by itafroma 13y ago
What you're looking for is a payroll service; they generally will handle both regular wage earners and 1099 contractors and will do the check printing, direct deposit, and year-end tax reporting. We used Paychex for years to handle that typ
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Larry Page wants to 'set aside a part of the world' for experimentation(theverge.com)
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by itafroma 13y ago
> The source article is a much more complete and informative story http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-ki... . Indeed. From that article, it's not an unconditional dropping of charges: > The office of State At
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by itafroma 13y ago
> And this is why app stores - as implemented by Google, Microsoft and Apple - are evil. Evil involves intent, not capability. For example, a car can hurt or even kill someone, but it's not evil. Someone who intentionally and willfully
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by itafroma 13y ago
Let's say you're looking to buy a car. You go to your local dealership and you see a car that looks promising. You ask to take a test drive, but the dealer won't let you unless you provide your name and phone number for verification. No pro
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by itafroma 13y ago
Ignoring your users is one thing; sending a new user an email virtually every day for 8 days in a row (with a creepy, "we know exactly how long since you've logged in, down to the second" finisher) reeks of the stereotypical greasy salesman
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Not surprising that the drama bomb meta subreddits are the biggest connectors (TrueRedditDrama being the largest graphically). The meta subreddits that are prominently featured are only so because the subreddits that have a high degre
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by itafroma 13y ago
While it does give an incentive to stay, I'm not sure it makes it harder to leave. For Gmail and Docs at least, the export format (mbox through IMAP and Office docs, respectively) are the standard for anywhere you might want to go or anyt
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Google Apps users will also be getting shared storage, so visit the enterprise blog to learn more. This is a big deal. Previously, even though you could upgrade the regular version of Gmail, you couldn't upgrade your Google Apps Gmail
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NSCoding / NSKeyedArchiver(nshipster.com)
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