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by nness 11y ago
I find it amazing that Ubuntu 15.04 is still under 700mb, but I suppose you have to install a lot of packages on first run anyway. I do doubt that it's 5gb worth though...
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by nness 11y ago
I think you need to do an import first, so it is faster to just rollback to a snapshot than re-import each time. I prefer snapshots so I can configure the network as needed for our corporate environment (saving me from doing that each and e
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by nness 11y ago
I wonder if the threat of continuous attack and litigation could hurt shareholders of the MPAA's partners more than Google itself. Particularly since the last decade of investment into anti-piracy campaigns and measures has not curved
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by nness 11y ago
This isn't one of those "change your passwords" moments, is it? Based on how this exploit worked, I would assume you'd already know if your account was breached and that there is no on-going risk after the fix?
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by nness 11y ago
You could be liable when disclosing bugs responsibly too, as some researchers have learned when investigating voting machine security.
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by nness 11y ago
> “As men often rely on aggression to maintain their dominant social status,” Kasumovic writes, “the increase in hostility towards a woman by lower-status males may be an attempt to disregard a female’s performance and suppress her distu
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by nness 11y ago
Vale Satoru Iwata.
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by nness 11y ago
Perhaps I'm being hyperbolic, but I generally found that most of the recent Reddit related submissions have served no real purpose other than give people another channel to complain about Reddit, the closure of the subreddits, Pao&#x27
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by nness 11y ago
I think I find issue with a hyperbolic title designed to get a rise out of people, followed by a dozen paragraphs describing a brief work history without any substantial self-realisation that ends with a contradiction of the original point.
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by nness 11y ago
"I never want a job again" Followed by: "Vox similarly paid me to write this article" Uh...
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by nness 11y ago
Matchmaking pre-Internet looked to be pretty expensive... Seems the product only lived a year before its rapid demise in 1995.
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by nness 11y ago
If you're a virtualenv user, I use this one-liner to start load a virtualenv named after the current directory: alias v='workon "${PWD##*/}"' Also, I really like the -p flag of mkdir (creating child di
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by nness 11y ago
I Google'd the phrase "Windows/Microsoft is Dead" (variations there of), since I feel like that cry is made every time a new version of Windows is released or layoffs announced, etc. One of PG's posts from 2007 came
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by nness 11y ago
There is already some interesting solutions posted here. If you wanted to try and tackle the issue with a stop-gap in the meantime you could add an image hashing step in the upload process to identify images that have already been flagged a
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by nness 11y ago
$229 million would probably be exceedingly punitive, despite their ineptitude. $229,000 in compensatory damages, seem to me at least, to be more than a suitable remedy.
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by nness 11y ago
I wonder if a 12-36 hour period is consistent with the frequency in which predators hunt. I can't imagine a lion eating every few hours. Anyone knowledgable on things like that?
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by nness 11y ago
Could be relevant for users on network connections which don't update state? But on the desktop explicitly, certainly seems odd.
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by nness 11y ago
It's all documented on Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/reddit Reddit isn't publicly traded, so they have no obligation to discuss their financials or leadership makeup, which is why nothin
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by nness 11y ago
The "Chairman Pao" comments, and all the imagery comparing her to the current Chinese government. Generalising and making comparisons based on a person's race is racism. Particularly so, since she was born in America.
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by nness 11y ago
120,000 people have signed that petition. I'd wager the same number posted comments, up-voted or posted similar threads about the topic on Reddit, Twitter or HN over the last few days. That's not to ignore those actually trying to
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by nness 11y ago
Side-point; there are many people who aren't actually allowed to leave their country. Its a very Eurocentric viewpoint to just assume everyone has complete autonomy and the resources necessary to relocate. "Don't like your Pr
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by nness 11y ago
For reference, Reddit raised $50m in Series B funding in Sept 2014. They also provided $40m in Series A funding to Imgur.
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by nness 11y ago
I'm tired of it. I'm glad most of these stories are being flagged for removal on HN.
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by nness 11y ago
Go through the comments left on the petition, and you'll see someone posting under Pao's name with the message "I'm a cunt." I don't think Reddit's management is the undoing of Reddit, its the immaturity o
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by nness 11y ago
Lets say, theoretically, that a similar ruling were found for some of the Reddit moderators. Wouldn't it be in Reddit's best interest to immediately terminate their employment and find a way to bring in more cost-effective moderat
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by nness 11y ago
The original poster saw this and thought it was relevant to the HN community. I called it out for what I thought it was. Stunts like this are obviously of more interest for you than they are for me. I don't think it is nitpicky, either
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by nness 11y ago
Probably their best bet would have been to build the tools which let the communities monetise themselves they want they wanted, then take a cut of the sales through that service.
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by nness 11y ago
Nothing more than a publicity stunt. I'd like to think there were goodwill behind this, but the timing and the public nature of it makes it all to obvious this is here to garner attention for their business more than altruism.
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by nness 11y ago
They're not exactly rich, Reddit doesn't share revenue but its expected that they have yet to get into the black.
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by nness 11y ago
Pretty much their only revenue stream is page advertising, which I would imagine is not that compelling for investors. Particularly since each community is bespoke, with mixed engagement. It'd be a nightmare to commercialise.

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