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by utnick 13y ago
OOps, sorry then, I guess I mis-remembered or mis-understood your positition.
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by utnick 13y ago
> It provides NSA with a technical capability they do not currently have, enabling them to shoot first and answer questions for a court later If I remember correctly , you don't have a problem with the NSA phone metadata collection
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by utnick 13y ago
Start with the tutorials on the django site, then purchase the 2 scoops of django book
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by utnick 13y ago
Yes the initial idea may have started on reddit, but then comedy central, moveon, afl-cio, and other large democratic groups started promoting it and thats when it got big. If those groups don't hop on, your just not going to have a bi
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by utnick 13y ago
Yep pretty unfortunate... Its hard to build a large protest using just reddit. You really need large organizations to get behind you, MoveOn, Unions, A.N.S.W.E.R, but all of these groups are of course very quiet because its a democrat in t
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by utnick 13y ago
Interesting article As an outsider, it was surprising to me that seed investors don't have access to a company's revenue numbers. I would think there would be some kind of quarterly report that goes to all investors.
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by utnick 13y ago
I bet this exposure brings more than 23 million $ in tourism to the country. Heck, journalist alone will probably spend a million over the next several years following Snowden around
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by utnick 13y ago
Even if its true, there is a long American tradition of people working undercover to expose wrongdoing. Upton Sinclair took a job at a meatpacker so that he could get the information to write The Jungle. Its totally different than the scena
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by utnick 13y ago
Please write a blog post about this!! Like how you found a job, how you found schools, how the kids are liking it etc
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by utnick 13y ago
Ah interesting, I haven't heard of blueJ. Will download it today to check it out. I agree logging will be cool, just need to find a way to cleanly display it in a way that is not confusing.
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by utnick 13y ago
clickable: http://grids.cavecode.com
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Show HN: Opensource webapp that aims to teach beginners to code
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by utnick 13y ago
Didn't he also leak the verizon metadata story which was confirmed true by various senators?
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by utnick 13y ago
Funny how similar it is to the alcohol situation. Its illegal for a brewery to sell beer directly to the public in Texas, they have to go through a middleman (distributor) that doesn't really provide value. Although in the last legislative
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by utnick 13y ago
I see a few threat models where its useful. The government can subpoena your emails on gmail, but I think they might have a more difficult time convincing google to change their javascript to add a $.post to steal your decrypted emails. Als
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by utnick 13y ago
Strangely, the article really glossed over his past and made it seem like he was just an everyday programmer. He is the same person who goes by the name of 'the unix terrorist' and was pretty active in the hacking world: http://www.phrack.
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by utnick 13y ago
your 3rd example would not be an ideal use-case If one member of your affinity group gets arrested, the police would have access to all of your files plus all of the IP addresses of everyone in your affinity group
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by utnick 14y ago
Is it sharing if you are getting payed for it? Isn't that normal commerce? Sharing economy to me means sites like freecycle, couchsurfing, and your neighborhood listserv .
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by utnick 14y ago
It's not excusable really, but I'm not too surprised. It was only a day or so from when a patch was available to when a public exploit was everywhere. Maybe they were on vacation, maybe the site was built by contractors who have since moved
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by utnick 14y ago
Thats pretty much the point that the Author makes People in the top tier will always be fine > "We're in a bubble for people with a non-Ivy League, non-technical education," says Andreessen, who studied computer science at the Universit
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by utnick 14y ago
This is not true, FISA warrants certainly target people who reside in America. That is the whole point of them. If Bob in afghanistan is talking to Sue in pakistan, no warrant is needed. The USA can spy on that all day. They only need to go
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by utnick 14y ago
In related news, we are trying to get a reddit group started for startup related stuff in austin: /r/austinstartups
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by utnick 14y ago
The big thing that rails has that .NET doesn't are the vast number of open source engines and plugins available. For examples see here: https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/ , nothing like this really exists in the .net ecosystem, especially some
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by utnick 14y ago
can you elaborate on the quirks around returning JSON with asp.net MVC? its a pretty common usecase.
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Austin passes new rules for short-term rentals ( AirBnb, Homeaway, etc )(statesman.com)
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Doesn't this approach seem kind of backwards though? For example, weed. If they want to prevent enemies from blackmailing their employees for past weed use. They should come out and say we don't care how much weed you smoke, we're not going
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by utnick 14y ago
I think you would need to limit the scope from an entire decentralized , anonymous 'network' to just a decentralized anonymous website or discussion forum.. Something like an anonymous decentralized HN or reddit with mods that have the abil
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DOJ investigating BazaarVoice over antitrust violations(bizjournals.com)
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Controversy: Solution sharing in Facebook's Kaggle recruiting competition(kaggle.com)
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by utnick 14y ago
> "security for the 1%." And it makes the rest of us less safe. Actually it seems like the opposite. The chances that the government or other entity with a purchased exploit is going to hack you is very small. The targets there are the

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