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by philipn 15y ago
I think you are being way too harsh here. They obviously get a lot of emails, and they're being pulled in a lot of different directions ("distributed social networking!", "privacy!", "a drop-in facebook replacement!") Maybe they won't amou
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by philipn 16y ago
Oh, oops! I was pressing "save" after I did anything!
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by philipn 16y ago
Probably worth noting that this editor calls their service for the image transforms.
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by philipn 16y ago
The big problem with this is your walls have to be really, really flat for it to work like a real whiteboard. What we found that works even better -- and cheaper! -- is to go to your local hardware store and pick up some tileboard (used for
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by philipn 16y ago
Python "jumped the shark" because more people have started adopting it?
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by philipn 16y ago
Looking at the py-bcrypt site, it looks like it has worked on Windows in the past. It should be possible to fix it to work on windows (I see a patch from a few months ago to fix a recent build problem on XP). py-bcrypt works with 2.4, too.
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Seed funding and non-profit startups(pbs.org)
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by philipn 16y ago
Most people being commenters on HN? Or the 500,000 people who have donated to Wikipedia?
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by philipn 16y ago
(I run a 501(c)3 non-profit startup) The Bay Citizen is taking in nearly all of its revenue from one source. As a 501(c)3 organization, you can't do that for very long or you'll end up being classified as a Private Foundation (and lose the
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by philipn 16y ago
Can they, though? I was under the impression that sniffing WPA encrypted traffic was difficult even if you know the passphrase.
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by philipn 16y ago
Except that this case is completely different from that in every way? This isn't evidence -- this is a rendered judgement of sorts.
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by philipn 16y ago
But the named domain's owners were not notified or provided the opportunity to even defend themselves! That's not due process.
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by philipn 16y ago
I wrote up an analysis that explores these sort of Kickstarter "product sales": http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2010/11/the-pros-and-cons-of-usin...
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by philipn 16y ago
This blog -- Arms Control Wonk -- is absolutely fantastic. The parent post itself is definitely worth reading, as is almost every post in the blog.
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Ex-Minuteman missile officer: I could have faked a global missile launch order(lewis.armscontrolwonk.com)
36 points by philipn 16y ago|27 comments
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Another Hacker’s Laptop, Cell Phones Searched at Border(wired.com)
174 points by philipn 16y ago|87 comments
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Is Kickstarter worth it? An in-depth analysis.(pbs.org)
9 points by philipn 16y ago|0 comments
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by philipn 16y ago
The downside is the person who's running the Tor exit node can't, say, upload videos to justin.tv.
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by philipn 16y ago
You shouldn't ask for a SSN for group accounts? Maybe an EIN?
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by philipn 16y ago
Citizen Engagement Lab ( http://engagementlab.org ) is in the David Brower Center and may be able to host. Reply if there's interest..
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by philipn 16y ago
That's what we're trying to do! If you see the message at the top of http://daviswiki.org -- we've just gotten a grant from the Knight Foundation (i.e. Everyblock) to do software development, and we're now trying to fundraise (in the int
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Residents catch on to local con artist..using a local wiki(nytimes.com)
34 points by philipn 16y ago|15 comments
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by philipn 16y ago
The DMCA doesn't apply to phones.
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by philipn 17y ago
The CEO of Whole Foods did resign after pressure. See http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2009/12/26/Mackey-resigns-a...
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by philipn 17y ago
Wouldn't $50/hr be pretty low for NYC software engineering?
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by philipn 17y ago
An empty, undeveloped website? Why should we care?
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by philipn 17y ago
I think the issues raised in the post are interesting but not the biggest slowdowns people face when using web-based rich text editors. The biggest issue is simply moving around in the text. emacs / vi allow you to skip almost anywhere wi
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by philipn 17y ago
These rich text editors have control keys for linking. It's easy to link text without leaving the keyboard at all. Select text with arrows, press control+L, enter url, press return. You can also jump through words by pressing control+arr
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by philipn 17y ago
Folks, if you're looking for an alternative that's run by a non-profit and completely open source, please check out: http://www.coactivate.org/
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How do we know CO2 is causing Global Warming?(skepticalscience.com)
15 points by philipn 17y ago|26 comments

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