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Facebook Photo Tagging: A Privacy Guide(pcworld.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Corporations won't start taking computer security more seriously until they start facing serious business or legal consequences from being hacked.
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by jdp23 15y ago
It was a tough decision whether or not to sell Intrinsa to Microsoft back in 1999. I was the only one of the founders still at the company at the time, and the board was split. In retrospect, it couldn't have worked out any better. Combi
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by jdp23 15y ago
Nope. Security is primarily social science and engineering. Mathematical training can help [and of course is crucial for areas like cryptography] but it's far from the only way to get a security mindset.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Sure, but Djikstra's point in that letter was that the goto statement really was harmful. Do you really think the Startup Genome Project's report was harmful? If so, I respectfully disagree. If not, then a different title would be more a
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by jdp23 15y ago
Would love to see some compare-and-contrast between the two ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
On the one hand I agree with the criticisms on survivorship bias and the risks of hypothesis testing. There's also presumably a selection bias. And while Ron Berman's post on methodology [1] talks about how the goals of this stage of the
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by jdp23 15y ago
An excellent and very detailed discussion of a complex issue. I can certainly see why any copyleft supporters who had contributed to OpenOffice are outraged. From the legal perspective, wasn't the GPL designed to prevent situations like th
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An interesting data point: Quora vs. Hacker News vs. Stack Exchange(quora.com)
4 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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What communication tools work well for Startup Weekend?(answers.onstartups.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
I strongly disagree with this post on two different levels. For one thing, starting out on a relationship with a potential future investor by looking for ways to put them in the hot seat doesn't feel like a success path for me. They will a
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by jdp23 15y ago
One of the differences between now and the last dot com bubble is that these days, founders and early stage investors get their big paybacks before the IPO so have even more incentive to pump up unsustainable business models.
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by jdp23 15y ago
It's also very alluring to the the current investors and founders.
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by jdp23 15y ago
When Webvan when public in 1999, they were predicting by 2001 they'd be at $518.2 million revenue with a $302 million net loss, roughly where Groupon is now. So you're quite right: GroupOn's farther down the path of losing a lot of money.
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by jdp23 15y ago
From the article: 'Don’t expect profits anytime soon: Groupon hasn’t turned a net profit in any of its first three years of operations, including a net loss of $389.6 million in 2010. The company said it expects its “operating expenses will
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Ask HN: What communication tools work well for Startup Weekend?
2 points by jdp23 15y ago|2 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Private security firms at airports operate under the TSA's direction.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yes, licensing requirements generally protect incumbents. In SF (and I assume other large cities) it's very political.
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by jdp23 15y ago
While I agree with the headline I think his specific advice - not to give people feedback on their ideas in the conceptual phase - is bullshit. When somebody asks me what I think of their idea, I start by highlighting several things I like
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by jdp23 15y ago
seems like a great example of the line between "naughtiness" and "evil" being discussed yesterday in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2580458 ... if a law gets in the way of your innovative business plan, should you just ignore it?
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by jdp23 15y ago
Good description of how the LA Times staffs its social media effort: reader engagement editor Martin Beck "has one assistant to help him monitor social media, as well as an ombudsman and a customer service staffer who pitch in. But he also
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US CIO's proposal: FedSpace R.I.P., Data.gov Soldiers On but Spending Cut(techpresident.com)
3 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Great point. Although the YC universe has plenty of obedience-to-authority elements as well -- think of how many times people on HN invoke "the rules" to shut down discussions about the TSA.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Very good point about the economics of YC companies doing business with each other, and I would extend that to their investors' circles as well. It's worked so far ...
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by jdp23 15y ago
Dropbox lying about their security guarantees ....
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by jdp23 15y ago
A different way of phrasing this is that the discussions about the TSA 100-200 days ago revealed that many of the newcomers here _do_ want to talk about civil liberties and see it as a big part of startup life. Before Paul changed the rank
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by jdp23 15y ago
Two things, I think: 1) Increasing numbers of political stories are tightly integrated with startup life and technology -- so Fred Wilson et. al. are weighing in, and that leads to followon discussion 2) Many people on HN are interested i
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by jdp23 15y ago
The Knight Foundation/Mozilla 'Beyond Comment Threads' proposal has come up a couple of times already on HN -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2547607 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532371 were the previous discussions Thi
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Feedback on my "Beyond Comment Threads" proposal?(talesfromthe.net)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|1 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Freedom Box could be heading in exactly that direction ... http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/nyregion/16about.html

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