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by uiri 14y ago
How exactly does self-hosting protect you from the government taking down the domain? Unless you run your own domain registrar, the government can just change the DNS servers for your domain. That doesn't give them the data but it takes it
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by uiri 14y ago
The link in the first sentence of your blog post points to http://akkartik.name/libraries when (I think) it ought to be pointing to http://akkartik.name/blog/libraries
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by uiri 14y ago
I know the warnings are in place for a reason, but why don't the affected people just bypass the warning. There is no reason to think that just because the date changed that Comcast's certificate is now compromised. If the certificate was i
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by uiri 14y ago
I made something similar to foobub which takes you to wikipedia on exact title matches: http://s.xqz.ca/ I use it primarily from my URL bar.
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by uiri 14y ago
It could have been something as simple as politely asking the ISP or the police. Given some of the circumstances which transpired and how difficult it may or may not be to get the ISP to give you the street address, I wouldn't be surprised
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by uiri 14y ago
The screenshot isn't exactly readable, but it appears that TexMate2's source code was put on Github on August 10th. Since then, there have been substantial changes as evidenced by release notes for changes being made several times a week si
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by uiri 14y ago
I think that it isn't about incentivizing intelligent thoughtful conversation but rather disincentivizing the dumb or mean comments. People dislike losing karma a lot more than they like to gain karma. What pg observes in his article on Tro
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by uiri 14y ago
At least for Facebook, I think it is possible to check if they have enough photos tagged of you that they feel confident that they can identify you in photos. Facebook → Privacy Settings → Timeline and Tagging Edit Settings → Who sees tag s
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by uiri 14y ago
Debian Squeeze is on 2.6.32 and, in my opinion, it is solid as a rock. If your hardware works, I don't see why you would want to upgrade the kernel (besides potential security fixes).
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by uiri 14y ago
I didn't write a search engine of any kind, I wrote a search front-end of sorts which redirects you to actual search engines (or Wikipedia if your query is an exact article title match). It doesn't handle not-ASCII text very well and there
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by uiri 14y ago
Don't discount Ruby as just being focused on Rails. I think the only thing which makes python more general than ruby is that python has a larger community than ruby does. There are GTK+ and Qt bindings for both languages. They are very simi
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by uiri 14y ago
Hackerne.ws points to the same IP address as news.ycombinator.com. Is the former blocked but the latter allowed?
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by uiri 14y ago
You're subbing in 1.00 for Bat when you should be subbing in 1.00 + Bal for Bat so that you have 1.00 + Bal + Bal = 1.10
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Show HN: View your Facebook feed with less noise(xqz.ca)
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Stop Wasting Your Time(compucrunch.com)
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by uiri 14y ago
I don't think a comparison between amount of space usable/user (like in Evernote) and max words/day (your freemium?) is fair. If Evernote limited based on bandwidth/day or something like that or your model was total # of words a free accoun
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by uiri 14y ago
I find it ironic how Open Source was originally coined to pitch the practical benefits of free [as in speech] software to business-types without having confusion between free-as-in-freedom and free-as-in-price and now Open Source has become
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by uiri 15y ago
I think that financial independence is the definition of retirement. It is only seen as a mismatch (and early if before the age of 60 or so) because the conventional path to financial independence is working for 50 years. Someone who has sp
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by uiri 15y ago
I use https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon/ in order to bring back the RSS icon in Firefox.
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by uiri 15y ago
If you want to maximize the painfulness of paying taxes, why not just have everyone pay their income tax as a lump sum instead of the current system where employers have to withhold an estimate of an employee's tax burden and then the emplo
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by uiri 15y ago
If you write the expression as a fraction without anything beside it being multiplied, it is ambiguous as to whether (1+2) ought to go above or below the fraction bar. The fact that parentheses/brackets ought to be resolved before anything
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by uiri 15y ago
I think that the solution is right there in your question — full-text search. xkcd takes this to an extreme perhaps, but even just transcribing the text in each comic ought to be enough to make it decently searchable. That and titles. I can
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by uiri 15y ago
The problem is: Where do you draw the line? How do you determine what should be left to us as individuals and what should be decided via the force of majority-rules democracy? Potentially everything could be left to the free market so there
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by uiri 15y ago
Ron Paul Not that he has a real chance at the nomination, but there you go. Most people don't actually want a small government. They want a government which fixes the problems that they perceive in society (whether that be porn, guns, abort
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by uiri 15y ago
Your assertion about intellectual property is inaccurate, libertarians only believe in intellectual property rights protected by contract, not government I don't think anyone who calls themselves libertarian (edit: should have been 'anyon
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by uiri 15y ago
The market down the street and Starbucks will decry the hippie for trying to prevent them from using his beans. But they are his beans and he has every right to set terms and conditions of sale. His goal is that those who do receive his b
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by uiri 15y ago
I don't think anyone has ever run into DRM on pictures. Once polaroids became popular, everyone had access to photography which meant that there were few large corporate interests to run propaganda campaigns. There is a clear line between H
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by uiri 15y ago
I think deactivation and small 'd' delete are the same, but I could be wrong.
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by uiri 15y ago
As a developer it wouldn't be hard to implement this. Create a Facebook Login button which logins in with facebook but doesn't allow the post-as-me permission. Create a separate button once they've logged in which says something like "I wan
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by uiri 15y ago
Yes, the logical conclusion of libertarian thought is anarchy (in the sense of no government at all, not communism or syndicalism). Some people might think that is a horrible state of affairs. But, no taxes, right? And without pesky immigra

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