selmnoo

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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I think it has public-interest value as a communications platform for certain non-profit enterprises like Wikipedia, etc, and maybe we need legislative protection of those functions. I think at some point the line between non-profit an
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by selmnoo 12y ago
On the whole, sure, probably non-profits have less resources -- but there are many glaring exceptions. MIT and Harvard are sitting on a shitload of cash, for example. NFL as well. You know that NFL charges customers something like $150 for
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> But why? I understand the rationale for websites that are political or educational non-profits. They need the public to protect them. By the way, to what extent? Here's a hypothetical to imagine: there's a next-generation Wik
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In Silicon Valley, Morgan Stanley Reigns(nytimes.com)
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Forza Silicon introduces 100MP+ (~18k resolution) for US surveillance (forzasilicon.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
All I can think of at your response is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_ . A few years ago I would have thought it to be be simply unthinkable that FCC would be considering such a proposition. Now, I'm
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by selmnoo 12y ago
What irks me about this is that services like edX are going to be affected. I didn't want MIT et al. being charged for the free video lectures they provide. Now people who used to provide high quality material for free are disincentive
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I think that's probably the rationale. Good engineers are hard to find. Quora actually has a lot of smart folks participating -- what better place to find people for your startups and companies than that?
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Tesla reports net loss of $50 million in Q1 [video](usatoday.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Speaking as someone who got owned even when using SSL client certificates (made mistakes setting things up, long story), I think patio11's suggestion is better. Put it on a private network, seriously it isn't that hard.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Do you know that the Koch brothers are actually pretty big philanthropists? The way you and I are going at this, we're getting nowhere. Of course extreme inequality and oil barons are bad (I'm all for highly progressive taxing sch
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> The categories in play here are wrong. It's not tech that leads people like Khosla to appropriate what should be public property; it's extreme wealth. That's just grossly twisting and simplying things to get a view that
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I think what 'forgottenpass was probably getting to was the idea that a regular joe doesn't know much the difference between the all-glorious tech company 'Google' and the tech guy 'Khosla'. Right now Khosla is
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by selmnoo 12y ago
A lot, when it comes to money. Because, it's all about the Money and Khosla has a lot of it. Also, as it happens, KV is an investor of YC startups: http://blog.ycombinator.com/khosla-ventures-is-joining-the-y...
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I've talked about this before -- one of the reasons is how it helped in changing sharing culture w.r.t. privacy. One example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530166
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> I'm certain when the next version( when under Facebook ) is released it won't have any facebook integration, and its protocols will be checked and revealed by the community anyway. That doesn't necessarily mean anything.
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> The reason why they might achieve a monopoly at some point is because of the network effects in the alumni. Aaaaand Hacker news :). No seriously, HN does a great job of reminding people to apply at YC, this probably helps them get lots
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I'm more of an Apple(/Jobs)-hater than most on this site, but even I have to admit the Lightning port is so much prettier and more user-friendly. You can put it in upside down or downside up -- it works both ways! Though, I vaguel
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Can someone comment whether this book focuses on getting Flask to run on Python 3? edit: Works on py3 so nevermind (although, I'm not sure if it's "py3-first", if you would). The book looks nice, and covers a lot of fun
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Music, games, movies alone easily take up like 3TB out of the 4TB. Big software (3d cad software, some gfx software, etc.) take up a TB. One of the NI instrument collections ( http://www.native-instruments.com/en/product
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Your mom should never be storing 200GB of data on a hard drive. Thats Wrong(tm) because baking up properly is difficult enough when you have a team of sysadmins. It is much thanks to me that she does not up it on the cloud. I don'
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by selmnoo 12y ago
Yeah, you are unusual in my view. :) My mom, who barely uses the computer - and has a laptop, was able to get up to 200 GB within 6 months. How? Simple -- videos and pictures she takes of the kids from her smartphone, that she insists be sa
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Sometimes people are actively looking to be offended. Take this one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc1zGRUPztc That reminds me of a conversation I had nearly a decade ago with a black (African immigrant)
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Ambient Proximity Is The Next Phase Of Location Sharing(techcrunch.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
This is totally and entirely deliberate on Facebook's part. It's kind of a mix between 'Zuckering' and 'misdirection': http://darkpatterns.org/privacy-zuckering/ - http://darkpa
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3d printing software: Something out of nothing(economist.com)
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> The cause of the current economic malaise is a factual issue, not a matter of public opinion. It also has to do with the popular feeling that the rich got rich at the expense of their labor and sweat (and hey, it's the truth - it&
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> If you want to implement a non-FB anon login, you basically have to implement a full account management solution yourself, assuming you want the anon account data to be persistent (that is, it's not truly anonymous in the sense th
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by selmnoo 12y ago
I'd say they've thoroughly wrecked any reason to be trusted, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6929705 -- they were other threads by other users too, dealing with transfer failures of 5-figure US dollars th
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by selmnoo 12y ago
> Remember, if it was actually anonymous, you wouldn't need Facebook's help to implement it. That sums it up nicely. And actually, the thing is I could totally see Facebook enabling truly 'anonymous logins' and whatno

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