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by logn 12y ago
He's been on the right side of history and the rest of us have been on the wrong side. I think the Snowden leaks solidify that view. After Microsoft Windows how could you disagree with him on concerns of proprietary software lock-in? A
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by logn 12y ago
> The same argument would imply that you shouldn't do computing on VPSes or similar services that other people own. By my reading of the argument, they might not have a problem with VPS. First, the software on a VPS can be completel
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by logn 12y ago
Needs HTTPS. Nice design. But I don't like how scrolling adds entries to my browser history. I'm curious why artists/labels would use this rather than soundcloud. It seems you have features to make deals happen easier?
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by logn 12y ago
If you're focusing on policing a subset of people, that subset will be charged with a disproportionately high number of crimes.
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by logn 12y ago
To clarify my above comment, I was referring to just my own experience and that focusing more on a traditional sales process worked better for me. And I liked your blog a lot because it talked about the sales side, which we don't hear
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by logn 12y ago
The day the Senate torture report broke, NPR referred to torture as enhanced interrogation.
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by logn 12y ago
What if instead of scraping, customers use the JS injection features for spamming? How are you approaching the liability issues involved, given that potentially anyone can sign up, create workloads of varying levels of evil, and without you
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by logn 12y ago
Most businesses solve this by charging a premium for paying monthly and then don't have any sort of termination fee. I think at ringcentral.com I get about 50% off by paying a full year in advance. What your customers want from you is
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by logn 12y ago
In short, sales. Marketing and publicity don't really provide benefit unless you're offering a free service to end users. My own startup reached front page of HN. Total sales resulting from that: about $0 (or negative dollars if y
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by logn 12y ago
This discourages people from dissenting, moves their opinions to the end of the thread (or deletes them), and suggests to commentators they're not welcome in the discussion. PG is not the pope; I don't think we're bound by hi
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by logn 12y ago
The original discovery this recent news pertains to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6784383 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6766097
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by logn 12y ago
Marginal Effect on Marriage Probability Porn Site -0.6310 Finance Site -0.5889 News Site -0.5877 Education Site -0.5823 Health Site -0.5744 Sports Site -0.5928 Religious Site +0.5399 A natural public policy option is
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by logn 12y ago
I think you need to consider more specifically what you want. Another possible regex would be /name2?@(?:som)?e(mail|thing)\.com/ or even /(name@email\.com|name2@something.com)/ I was able to find this: https:/&#x
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by logn 12y ago
http://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/index.html
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by logn 12y ago
https://github.com/reddit/reddit
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by logn 12y ago
A big military response would just escalate this whole issue and probably encourage more of the same. I don't like how everything gets framed as a military problem these days. I hope that this incident only inspires new standards for b
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by logn 12y ago
I'm sure this will be the argument in Congress for 2015. I think these attacks could be reduced by holding companies financially responsible. First, insurers shouldn't be allowed to exclude terrorist attacks in their policies. Sec
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by logn 12y ago
"Now we want you never let the movie released, distributed or leaked in any form of, for instance, DVD or piracy. And we want everything related to the movie, including its trailers, as well as its full version down from any website ho
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by logn 12y ago
This just blocks targeted ads from appearing. They make no promises about disabling ads in general or the collection of tracking info. Tor Browser is the easiest way to get privacy from marketers. If you use non-Tor: - disable 3rd-party coo
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by logn 12y ago
Why?
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by logn 12y ago
I've been to trials and also worked as a runner for a law firm. And I've never worn anything but business casual in a court. The judges I've seen only get upset with the audience talking, handing things to attorneys during se
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by logn 12y ago
This is hardly paranoid. That's the type of thing neo-cons publicly wrote about before the Bush/Cheney presidency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C... Also note that CISPA passed t
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by logn 12y ago
There are lots of open source tools for these niches. For sentiment analysis, I'd recommend: http://nlp.stanford.edu/sentiment/code.html For web scraping, a popular option is Scrapy: http://scrapy.org&#
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by logn 12y ago
When can we expect legislation mandating that the NSA secure all corporate networks?
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by logn 12y ago
Meta comment: Original article spread over 5 pages. Forbes offers single page view but they tied the page onload event to call up the print dialog. Archive.org is not able to display the single page article, but textise.net is able to show
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'Fast Track' to Nowhere: Congress Shouldn't Give Obama Power to Ram Through TPP(textise.net)
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by logn 12y ago
Mentors who aren't in management and can meet regularly to go over tasks and offer one-on-one customized training. Also, the mentors themselves can benefit from this in terms of people skills.
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by logn 12y ago
Yes, this is actually one case where as a privacy conscious user, I would be ok with browsing data being used for job ad purposes. Also job ads are probably the only ones I click on. And if the ads are intra-site I don't think AdBlock
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by logn 12y ago
Maybe this is re-assuring if you're bothered by the possibility of determinism.

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