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by logn 12y ago
I worked at a startup that was awarded SBIRs. We were developing e-learning software and our government client was an Air Force base. It's true that being able to retain copyright ownership was the reason the startup existed. However,
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by logn 12y ago
Should we have tried to reform the Gestapo or Stasi too? Also, we cannot confirm or deny that the NSA and CIA do anything important.
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by logn 12y ago
Regarding NSA and CIA, what do they have to do to get shut down completely? Do we wait until genocide? It doesn't seem like a re-org is the proper response to institutionalized torture, semi-automated assassination campaigns, and creat
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by logn 12y ago
This comment and your other top-level comment are copy-pasted in their entirety from http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-24/secret-black-site-r...
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by logn 12y ago
Or something like "movie with andre the giant". Google gets Princess Bride as result #2. DDG doesn't have a direct link to that in the first batch. I think Google handles ambiguity better (what users are searching for when th
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by logn 12y ago
> If that's the only difference, isn't Google-over-Tor a better option? No, DDG is better because they don't limit or captcha you over Tor. Also, brand names do matter. If DDG has staked their reputation on privacy, it&#x2
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by logn 12y ago
I think you can rate limit without tying it to IP address. If each page returns a session key only valid for the next page request, then you force bots to wait as long as you want and/or spend money on extra memory for parallel session
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by logn 12y ago
Why not just rate limit responses? That ends up costing bot makers about the same amount of money as captchas (which are often solved by workers earning slave wages). This arms race will never end and if the insistence is always to prove yo
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by logn 12y ago
They can fix most of this. Tor Browser has addressed some of the easier problems and makes fingerprinting more difficult. If you read the bug reports of major browsers, you'll see the maintainers will usually value compatibility and fe
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by logn 12y ago
Following up on my own question... Section 3 prohibits the election or appointment to any federal or state office of any person who had held any of certain offices and then engaged in insurrection, rebellion or treason. Section 3 was use
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by logn 12y ago
> Snowden 2016 Is there any legal reason why this couldn't happen? Edit: aside from age if we're talking presidency.
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How We Talk About Our Teachers(npr.org)
2 points by logn 12y ago|0 comments
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by logn 12y ago
Here is a somewhat heated and very informative 3 hour interview in which pundit Cenk Uygur talks to Sam Harris about these criticisms -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVl3BJoEoAU
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by logn 12y ago
Lenovo earns $600M/yr. Regardless of how small the damages are, the punitive damages if awarded would be in context of earnings, the severity of the situation, and what it would take to effectively punish them.
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by logn 12y ago
SAP has offices in Palo Alto. Like most large corporations, 40 hrs is the norm. When I was there, vacation was determined by tenure. 3 weeks to start, 4 weeks after 3 years, and 5 weeks at some point. And they definitely encourage vacation.
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by logn 12y ago
TDD is a subset of automated testing as a whole. You'll find proponents of testing who might not actually like TDD. It's more of an opinion about the best approach. Anyhow TDD is essentially writing the APIs, interfaces, and funct
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by logn 12y ago
I don't think it's that hard. Normally these are people with multi-generational wealth and power, top bureaucrats, board members, and politicians. Add to that corporations, governments, and other institutions as a whole. I think s
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by logn 12y ago
The Internet outrage beast is fearsome. I wish more people would focus the attention on those in power. For every Lindsey Stone there are people with real influence who are actually disrespecting or harming the military. I know that lots of
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by logn 12y ago
There's a directory with maybe 30+ exe's in this repo. So it's a black box to some extent but it looks like they're known browser utilities so presumably someone could verify them. https://github.com/leno
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by logn 12y ago
You can write anywhere to disk where user has privileges (at least in FF). Not sure if that's enough. But I don't think you need a CA at all since plugins can see the full DOM (whether SSL or not). Like if you "inspect elemen
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by logn 12y ago
Browser plugins can read SSL pages no problem. So why did Superfish not just present itself like a browser plugin? Then it's just normal bloatware and probably pulls in the same profit. Some people might uninstall it is the only reason
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by logn 12y ago
I reject this terminology. Anyhow junior developers should ask for help. And senior developers should ask for help too when they're actually stumped. Let's not suffer in silence and make a mess to clean up later.
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by logn 12y ago
I've not worked with it except as an end user. But my understanding is that you only need node.js if you're trying to test this locally, because browsers treat file:/// URLs differently than http://localh
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by logn 12y ago
The Firefox PDF viewer (pdf.js) can be used in any browser from any website. https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js See a demo: http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
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by logn 12y ago
I think it's mostly from developers trying to use their target deployment environment or to use a common dev environment image. Others might like it as a nice way to sandbox different workspaces and for convenient functionality of taki
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by logn 12y ago
Vague question and you risk derailing it by saying it's the death of Google. But do you mean something like Yacy? It's a p2p search engine. Or do you mean something like Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, etc where users turn to instead of
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Ask YC: HN No Longer Uses Google Analytics?
1 points by logn 12y ago|0 comments
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by logn 12y ago
The flip side is that there are genuine discounts for many products that save you money with no strings attached. It's just differential pricing: they want to sell their products for more money to people who want to spend more money. O
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by logn 12y ago
One of them should change their name then. It's confusing and starts to feel like a good cop, bad cop routine.
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by logn 12y ago
The thing is that programming is kind of boring on one level. And kind of easy sometimes too. So I think it's natural to not always want to do something boring and easy. The times I program continuously in longest stretches is when the

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