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by martey 15y ago
Maybe it has to do with the fact that Reddit and Wired Magazine have the same parent company, Condé Nast? Space in the article spent promoting Reddit might cause interested readers to visit.
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While I think it's reasonable to ask reader to consider secondary sources, you have offered neither actual evidence that the article contains falsehoods or "Americanized opinions" nor alternative sources that contradict this article. I woul
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On the Importance of Per-File License Information(tieguy.org)
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It's not "incredibly suspicious", since the author is claiming that one of his media contacts was the recipient of the email. Also, I don't see how seeing a screenshot of the purported message from the TSA would be considered more valid evi
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by martey 15y ago
IANAL, but since the content in question is not a trademark, I do not think that genericization applies. Since Hyperbole and a Half is Creative Commons licensed (CC-NC-ND), it looks like its licensing requirements would be satisfied by attr
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The Daily Muse's About page [1] describes the website "community of women who believe that kicking ass and taking names is all part of the job". One could surmise that they are not showing female employees in the company photos in the hopes
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by martey 15y ago
" TLDR, it is the author feeling the content is lacking in a dense section of text more than the reader having a limited attention span that leads to TLDR's. " There is no evidence that "feralchimp" (who wrote the TLDR here on Hacker News)
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by martey 15y ago
From a Reuters article about a similar program by German security researcher Thomas Roth [1]: "Nothing in this researcher's work is predicated on the use of Amazon EC2. As researchers often do, he used EC2 as a tool to show how the securit
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by martey 15y ago
This is a difficult comment to respond to, because it is not clear whether you are trying to describe a specific ThinkPad model, or trying to justify the fact that some Apple laptops cost more. For example, I am writing this on a T500, whic
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by martey 15y ago
" Putting down hipmunk before launching when you are going to compete with them... " I argue that this is the main problem with the entire blog post. I would rather than Mozio actually showed why they are better than all of the social tra
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by martey 15y ago
This is not entirely true. A Facebook application can get an email address of an authorized user by requesting it [1] (in the authorization dialog, the user can choose to send the application either the email address they signed up with Fac
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The essay explicitly seems to suggest that are not Tier 1 support: "Yahoo laid off the highest level of Flickr's customer support, the people that end up filing bugs against the developers and helping the trickier cases get solved for the
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The CEO of Motorola recently suggested that phone companies pursue this strategy because of wireless phone carriers: http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/10/2697939/motorolas-sanjay-j...
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by martey 15y ago
This was already submitted earlier today [1] by Blake Ross, who is probably one of the original authors. It has been on the front page all day. The Hacker News guidelines [2] suggest submitting original sources, so it would have been better
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by martey 15y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globular_cluster : "However, they are not thought to be favorable locations for the survival of planetary systems. Planetary orbits are dynamically unstable within the cores of dense clusters because of t
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Source Code and SDK preview of Tizen(tizen.org)
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One of the listed changes is "Work with the DPC to identify an acceptable retention period of data from inactive or deactivated accounts". Another is "Continue devoting engineering resources towards improving the system that irrevocably del
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by martey 15y ago
It might be a good idea to email applicants (or at least the people who filled out the survey) about these results. I couldn't find any information about it on the website or Twitter account, so if I hadn't seen it here, I probably would ha
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by martey 15y ago
From the article: "Sprint waited until there were lawsuits to start removing Carrier IQ from their network, where previously they had been defending their use of the mobile intelligence service. This could possibly even be seen as an admiss
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SEEKING WORK - Washington DC - Remote is great I am a web developer (both frontend and backend). I am most proficient with Django, a Python-based web framework, although I also have worked in the past with a variety of other frameworks and
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by martey 15y ago
> The policy to not accept homosexuals as donors is created by some FDA(?) policy The language on marrow.org is unclear on this point, so I emailed them. The person who replied clarified that while their guidelines are "based" on the FD
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http://www.meetup.com/ ?
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by martey 15y ago
Personally, I think it's a huge problem that a service that claims to help protect my online privacy does not have a working privacy policy on its site .
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This was posted 22 minutes earlier at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3253920
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I think people might find this more useful if it did not rely on Highcharts, which requires a paid license for commercial use. http://www.highcharts.com/license
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Facebook allows multiple personal profiles to manage a Page. See http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=187316341316631
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This is a difficult question to answer, since you have not explained why the company is switching from .NET, and what it gains from switching to another language. If your developers only have .NET experience, then switching is a Bad Idea. I
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Is it possible that specific page of documentation has just not been updated yet? The linked thread has Jean-Baptiste Queru stating: > This release includes the full history of the Android source code tree, which naturally includes all
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by martey 15y ago
That's a poor analogy. It's difficult to get infected with Android malware without directly installing questionable applications on your phone, but it is pretty easy to get into an accident through no fault of your own.
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What about inconsistent privacy policies? For example, http://www.privacyparrot.com/privacy states that they never "share any information about you" but then has an offhand mention about the site using Google Analytics.

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