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DMCA(news.ycombinator.com)
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by martey 14y ago
The source of the image, an European Southern Observatory press release (mentioned in the HBL article, linked in the Wikipedia article) gives it a title of "Artist’s impression of the free-floating planet CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9". http:
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by martey 14y ago
that image at the bottom of the article is both professionally taken and unique to this article (I put it into Google Image search and TinyEye - neither had relevant results) It has been rotated. A Google Images search for "Patriot Magnum
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Stripe Upholds Free Speech, Reactivates Nifty Archives(eff.org)
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One of the HN guidelines is "please don't use HN posts to ask YC-funded companies questions that you could ask by emailing them." Similarly, I think you might get a more authoritative answer to your question if you contacted the author dire
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No. The first paragraph of that site states "the Ruby on Rails Tutorial book is available for free online."
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Braintree is named after the town in Massachusetts, because the founder liked John Adams: https://www.braintreepayments.com/blog/whats-in-a-name-custo...
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There are not many third-party clients for Facebook (mobile or otherwise) because Facebook's public API has several limitations that make creating and supporting such an application difficult. For example, users can change their privacy set
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I can't speak to the status of the Django Book, but Django's official documentation is up to date and just as (if not more) comprehensive. Version 1.4: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/
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by martey 14y ago
http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/tooth.asp suggests that submerging teeth in any acidic substance (e.g. orange juice) will soften and eventually dissolve them. Since this does not adequately replicate conditions in the mouth, it would not
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by martey 14y ago
Ubuntu pulls some packages from Debian unstable, so if you find Debian stable too conservative, and unstable too broken, testing might be a workable compromise: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting I personally have found that Debian un
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This article was already submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4635223 . I think that this is a good example of why people should submit the original source (as opposed to syndicated articles).
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If you are asking whether Facebook could ban your account, the answer is yes. Section 3-1 at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms states: " You will not post unauthorized commercial communications (such as spam) on Facebook. " If you ar
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by martey 14y ago
" By taking his personal views and his personal experience, Filip digs into each subject with a personal touch and by having real world problems at hand; we can look at how these problems could be tackled. " Aren't you the author, Filip Ekb
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SEEKING WORK - Washington DC or remote My current focus is with Django/Python, although I also have experience with WordPress and PHP. I can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by hand, configure and secure your Linux server, and optimize Apach
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One of the weirdest things about this article is the fact it does not mention wireless carriers once . If Motorola makes phones with stock Android, but no carriers decide to carry it in their stores and on their websites, it is no differen
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The article does state that you should not do version pinning with libraries: WARNING: don’t pin by default when you’re building libraries! Only use pinning for end products.
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The EULA for MSDN subscriptions prohibits using them in a production environment: http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/MSDN%20Subs...
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This is a misrepresentation of the Content Guidelines. See https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2TOZW0S... : We will not accept content that is freely available on the web unless you are the copyright owner of that conten
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by martey 14y ago
There was an earlier discussion on HN about why people should not use DropBox for backup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4411822 As far I can tell from DropBox's help pages, they claim that they are safe for backup [1], but they onl
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I use Debian, but the tool I use (DejaDup) is also available in Ubuntu: https://live.gnome.org/DejaDup https://launchpad.net/deja-dup It's duplicity, but with easy graphical configuration. I previously used command-line duplicity with a
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Besides being rude, this clearly does not follow Pidgin's security vulnerability reporting process: http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/SecurityVulnerabilityProcess
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SEEING WORK - Washington DC or remote My current focus is with Django/Python, although I also have experience with WordPress and PHP. I can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by hand, configure and secure your Linux server, and optimize Apache
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https://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answ...
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Torrone’s primary frustration was the over-reliance on the MakerBot trademark — the one way open source projects can protect their brand — and the good will that is associated with it. [Editor's note: Strong has since removed much of the "
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by martey 14y ago
Isn't this an ad hominem? It would be relevant if you could prove the commentators had a choice between purchasing devices made in China and identical but more expensive devices made in different countries, but there is no way that you can
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by martey 14y ago
Google does view URLs with/without slashes differently, but since Google follows 301 redirects and they represent permanent moves, you should be fine. For more information, see http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2010/04/to-slash-
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I think one of the most interesting parts of this is how they plan to ensure that people do not use it for transient backup: https://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/#How_am_I_charged_for_de... Deleting data from Amazon Glacier is free if the
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Your about page claims that you do not have ways for freelancers to ask questions about unclear project descriptions because "vague employers are unsafe anyway". Since employers are not paying anything to post projects, how can you ensure t
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I have noticed a lot of companies waiting a few weeks and then surreptitiously adding me to their newsletter. I assume that the idea is that I will not remember that I did not subscribe to it, and am more likely to re-visit the website.

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