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by oreilly 14y ago
The judge has also: Ordered details on any other subjects caught in the illegal surveillance, allowed for Dotcom and his co-accused to sue the New Zealand police and spy agency for damages and allowed for those damages to include a copy of
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Echelon spy network required to reveal all info recipients in Dotcom case(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by oreilly 14y ago|1 comments
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by oreilly 14y ago
Current politics in New Zealand are unlikely to see this a terror or hacking issue. This is the agency responsible for the jobless, and they are a very low priority mainly used for political diversion.
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by oreilly 14y ago
Keeping in mind governments can screw up this badly.. the security errors some startup's launch with don't seem so bad.
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Massive data leak in New Zealand government servers(publicaddress.net)
97 points by oreilly 14y ago|38 comments
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DjangoCon 2012 Videos(youtube.com)
1 points by oreilly 14y ago|0 comments
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Seth Godin - The curse of incremental improvement [and MVP](sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by oreilly 14y ago|0 comments
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by oreilly 14y ago
A lot more information on this can be found in the NZ Herald (Major newspaper) here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
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Ghetto: Continuous integration server with source on github(opensourcehacker.com)
1 points by oreilly 14y ago|0 comments
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Lessons Learned from a Software Developer’s First Attempt at Launching a Startup(softwarebyrob.com)
74 points by oreilly 15y ago|14 comments
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by oreilly 15y ago
Working out the licensing for this is quite the challenge. It uses a duel licensing (AGPLv3 / Commercial) setup. How AGPLv3 applies to web applications is a significant grey area, and could imply an expectation that all javascript code of t
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NZ Three Strikes law will likely kill internet access in libraries(nzherald.co.nz)
1 points by oreilly 15y ago|0 comments
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by oreilly 15y ago
As opposed to removing the hard drive and reading the data directly...
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by oreilly 15y ago
This can be very useful http://freelanceswitch.com/rates/ It'll let you know what you can charge based on your circumstances - consider it a bottom line figure. Markets are such that supply and demand will alter this (if your skills are s
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by oreilly 15y ago
It wasn't done in the same bills related to Christchurch. Rather, during the 'overtime' to deal with the aftermath of the Christchurch quake, this bill was promoted quickly also. Doing this speeds up the process and avoids a huge amount of
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Three strikes law rushed through NZ parliament(geekzone.co.nz)
2 points by oreilly 15y ago|0 comments
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by oreilly 15y ago
NZ does have a major point of difference from the US - the courts will often "award" the costs of the case from a successful defendant to the originator. This tends to discourage abuse of the legal system for intimidation, as there is a ris
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by oreilly 16y ago
If we lack discussion, it is only because there are not enough good questions, or those questions are too hard to detect. Maybe we could get better results by identifying unanswered questions.
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by oreilly 16y ago
Change the ratio - rather then 1:1, give less points for an article submission and more for meaningful comments. Jasonkeste's idea for tying reputation to comments could be done with an icon. Our (New Zealand's) equivalent of ebay does this
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Somali pirates offer discounts to increase turnover(wired.com)
4 points by oreilly 16y ago|0 comments
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Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Sues Over Airport Arrest(wired.com)
11 points by oreilly 16y ago|0 comments
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The spyware model of technology(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by oreilly 16y ago|0 comments
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A brief history of lost civilizations(floobynooby.blogspot.com)
4 points by oreilly 16y ago|1 comments
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by oreilly 16y ago
Anyone got this to work? My attempt ended up with an encrypted packet size over the 1500 byte limit.
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by oreilly 16y ago
To log in via SSH, you (should) have a key, and a password for that key. To sudo on the server should require a different, complex password for the paranoid admin. (So 2 long passwords and a key to gain sudo priv's)
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by oreilly 16y ago
For platforms where an older version of python is standard, can that not be worked around by using virtualenv?
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No one plays the lottery if there are no winners(sethgodin.typepad.com)
2 points by oreilly 16y ago|0 comments
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Evil Genius (Game) to join Facebook(rockpapershotgun.com)
1 points by oreilly 16y ago|0 comments
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by oreilly 16y ago
Use the same system that decays a post's weight on the front page to decay a comments weight on a thread. This will balance out the uneven distribution of karma that is talked about above, as new comments will be seen and given a chance to
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Ask HN: If you were teaching web apps, what would you have your students build?
51 points by oreilly 16y ago|30 comments

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