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by martey 13y ago
Upon reading this post, I immediately thought that your service was similar to Sift Science, so I am glad that you mentioned it in your TextUploader link. My second thought was about privacy and that the fact that you might be selling aggre
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by martey 13y ago
Being that they have not chose a license to release the code under, it should not be on Github. Github repositories without a license are generally covered by copyright. [1] [1]: https://help.github.com/articles/open-so
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How would that solve the issue of it not making money?
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SEEKING WORK - Washington DC or remote My current focus is Django/Python development work, although I also have experience with WordPress, PHP, and a variety of other technologies. I can write HTML, CSS, and JavaScript by hand, configu
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by martey 13y ago
The GPL Violations project works on cases similar to this. You could post to one of their mailing lists for advice/assistance: http://gpl-violations.org/mailinglists.html
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Power over USB(radar.oreilly.com)
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The upcoming generation of ThinkPads generally has better screens (either higher resolutions or IPS instead of TN) than before. In particular, the W540 is supposed to have an IPS screen with a similar (2880x1620) resolution: http:/&#x
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by martey 13y ago
> To be useful the article would have to expand on the person and it's ties to the aweful criminal organization who owns "air rifles" and "BB guns". While I am not a UK resident, it looks like some "air ri
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by martey 13y ago
I hope that the GMP's tests mentioned in the original article prove this. Ideally, the BBC would update their article if this occurred, but I assume they will not (based on previous articles that they have written that have turned out
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> Citing a "police raid" and making links to gangs is just a dramatization that doesn't bring anything. The article notes that the parts were seized as a part of the Greater Manchester Police's "Operation Chall
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by martey 13y ago
You have not provided any evidence that flagging is the reason that articles about the Nokia Lumia 2520 fell off of the front page. It is entirely possible that they disappeared because not enough people were interested in upvoting marketin
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Google cars versus public transit: the US’s problem with public goods(ethanzuckerman.com)
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At One of Tech’s Hottest Startups, a Huge New Office Aims Small(wired.com)
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> Perhaps you think that this attitude is somehow justified. I think it is a complex issue, and should not be dismissed as "not making any sense" or the government wanting to screw citizens living abroad over. As I have alrea
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> What you're not getting is that these people have to pay full taxes in the place they're actually living. In that case, they can claim a "Foreign Earned Income Exclusion" [1] which reduces or eliminates their Amer
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> It is as though your 'home state' continued to tax you (or make you file paperwork) long after you've moved to California. This is an imperfect analogy (since there is not really a concept of "citizenship" fo
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You might actually get more responses if you posted in the "Who's Hiring" thread for this month instead of creating a separate post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139927
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Do you have a link? The only GPL-related download I could find was for their RecoveRX data recovery software: http://www.transcend.de/products/RecoveRXTool/GPL.asp
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> After navigating the filesystem and downloading scripts, it is obvious, and not surprising, that this system is using busybox... Does anyone know whether Transcend provides source code [0] upon request? The EULA in the user manual fo
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> The only place this is likely to be an issue is when a site knows you but you assume you're anonymous. If you're using a web service where you want to be anonymous, connecting anything with your identity is a bad idea. Whil
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Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address(arstechnica.com)
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The article makes clear that large technology companies currently outsource moderation to companies that use human employees to detect porn and other inappropriate content. This is basically similar to your idea, regardless of the fact that
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by martey 13y ago
The other comments seem to suggest that this is unworkable, but services like this already exist: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/technology/19screen.html
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Travel Tips for Geeks: Preventing Theft(pydanny.com)
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Github has had mobile apps for a while: http://mobile.github.com/ Their official Android app was released a year ago, and is open source: https://github.com/blog/1187-github-android-app-released https
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by martey 13y ago
Do you have a source for this? Before Skype was acquired by Microsoft, several news articles suggested that it was possible for Skype to allow governments to monitor conversations. http://www.h-online.com/security/news&
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Controversial T-shirt destroys business(money.cnn.com)
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> This results in actual information loss The "History" subsection of the "Closed city" article acutally contains more information on such cities that the "Atomgrad" article did. The list of "atomgrad
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I merged the two pages, mainly because of znowi's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5843809 The "Closed City" article has significantly more information that the Atomgrad article did, and is a mor
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by martey 13y ago
"... there's nothing fake about the content of the message, ..." It has been almost 2 years since this story broke, so I think it is beneficial to read the original article and the HN comments that appeared at the time: https://news.ycombi

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