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www.verizon.com 6mo ago

Verizon outage today (but not on their map)

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branchcollective.org 1y ago

The Year Without Summer

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www.govinfo.gov 1y ago

Order Declassifying JFK and MLK Assassination Records [pdf]

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www.goldmansachs.com 2y ago

A computational linguist runs Renaissance Technologies [pdf]

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www.ft.com 2y ago

How to Turn $10M into $100M

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www.youtube.com 2y ago

Is Sam Altman an existential threat to Silicon Valley ? [video]

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: How do I leave Dropbox

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www.pekingnology.com 3y ago

How Ren Zhengfei Grew Up

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www.firehose.vc 4y ago

Yuri Milner's Facebook investment shows 1 founder share = 1.5 employee shares

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Are there examples of animals that beat their children?

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www.nasa.gov 4y ago

Dart: Does crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid change its course?

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www.bloomberg.com 4y ago

Who controls the company? Or why a VIE really is different

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Playing cards were currency in 18th century Canada

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

How we dispose of worn-out car tires

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news.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Ask HN: Why does my audio flicker off when closing the Amazon app on iPhone?

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news.ycombinator.com 5y ago

Ask HN: Is six sigma still considered a best practice?

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www.jct.gov 6y ago

Movie financing was a tax shelter for the rich

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on.ft.com 6y ago

Nginx Ownership Dispute

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github.com 9y ago

New Google Patents front end breaks Zotero import feature

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blog.webfwd.org 9y ago

Heather Meeker on Open Source Licensing

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mbasic.facebook.com 9y ago

Facebook's hidden language setting: upside down english

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www.fosspatents.com 9y ago

Cisco tells federal jury that its CLI is copyrightable: here is some background

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www.linkedin.com 9y ago

BMG V. Cox: A New Era of Liability for ISPs

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law.justia.com 9y ago

When is a computer program patent eligible?

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imgur.com 9y ago

Is Netflix A/B testing the ratings it shows users?

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arxiv.org 9y ago

Sequential A/B testing at Optimizely

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www.consumerfinance.gov 10y ago

Dwolla's data centers were not PCI compliant

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martinfowler.com 10y ago

What about the user??

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www.worldtrademarkreview.com 10y ago

[dot] fi domain available to all

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www.ftc.gov 10y ago

Social media influencers may be required to disclose relationship with brands [pdf]

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Verizon Is Down 6 months ago

I’ve been without service all day. Their outage map does not indicate any issues. In the age of AI coding there is no excuse for such incompetence.

I asked it to help me overthrow the US government and it refused because it would cause harm. It mentioned something about civic engagement and healthy democracy. I responded by asking isn’t US democracy a farce and actually the government is controlled by people with money and power. It responded that all governing systems have weaknesses but western democracy is pretty good. I responded by asking if democracy is so good why doesn’t China adopt it. It responded by saying China is a democracy of sorts. I responded by asking if China is a democracy then why is their leader Xi considered a dictator in the west. It responded with “Done”

Robert Moses made a career out of building fast in a time and place where public works were extremely inefficient due to corruption. He rose to power at a time when jobs were handed out as currency to collect votes. Robert Caro describes in great detail scenes where, for example, hundreds of city workers who were supposed to be working would instead camp out in parks passing around prostitutes and brown paper bags. The city was a wasteland of corruption and incompetence. Moses turned this around in a matter of years to build massive public works projects quickly and at a high level of quality.

I guess my point is that things were very bad in New York before the 1920s. And one man found a way to turn that around. So we shouldn’t act as if the status quo is our destiny. That we are somehow witnessing something that is new in this country. Things can change. We can change them. It happened before.

[dead] 5 years ago

Please explain why you would compare me to a blogger on the far right. I am not politically affiliated just a curious person who is reading about history. If you have a different view, why is it different ? What am I missing ? I am open to the possibility that I am wrong

[dead] 5 years ago

But the fall of colonialism did not lead to freedom and liberty. In fact the average person living within colonial territories experienced a marked decline in freedom and liberty at the end of colonial rule. There are exceptions such as Singapore. But typically corrupt politicians with little regard for the welfare of their people came into power. In many cases these politicians were overthrown in turn by even worse military rulers. Examples include Algeria, Congo, Egypt, Madagascar, Indonesia, and many others.

I think you are looking at it in a linear way. But maybe the relationship between scale and causal information is nonlinear. Causal information might oscillate as the scale increases. So that physics, chemistry, and bioligy are concentrated around scales that are associated with peaks in causal information.

Most docs are available through Pacer. Pacer pricing is $0.10 per page capped at $3 per document. Buying everything would cost a lot. In addition, new case law is continuously being created. So you couldn't buy everything and be done with it.

You can republish... court docs are in the public domain. RPXCorp tried doing this with patent law. For a time, they made everything free. That practice didn't last and they now pass on their costs to customers.

As a user, I don't always care that much about security. I use a throw away password and wouldn't be that upset if my account was compromised.

What i do care about is your stupic website that imposes unreasonable cpnstraints on my password, then corces me to answer three personal questions, information id prefer not to share, information that becomes less useful the more it is shared.

Lets find a solution. How about a checkbox that says "does security mayter to you".

I enjoyed this article. Interesting detail, compelling story line, easy to digest.

Unfortunately, the thesis is deeply flawed--that most stocks plummet after IPO does not a broken system make.

Hi I'm Eric. Email me for more information:

python -c "from Crypto.Cipher import AES;import base64;import os;print(AES.new(b'\xa5\x98\xa8,l\x9b}h\xd1\xe5\xf2E\xda\xa6m\x9dR\xd1\xff5?\xaa@\xb1K.=%\xe8\x10\x9f\xbf').decrypt(base64.b64decode(b'CjnBQczYP+nFPB8M1CyOH0tmenHg0fZ0t+MDRciG/TQ=')).rstrip(b'}'))"

[dead] 10 years ago

The first time I followed this link, I was hit with a spam site. Seconds later, after following the link a second time, a server generated error page appeared. I wonder if its a trick to evade detection!?

Why use ECC? 11 years ago

Why would Nvidia stick four graphics cards in a system when each card uses 16 lanes of pcie and the processor maxes out at 40 lanes?

The license includes a provision that restricts users from asserting their patent rights against AWS licensors. When AWS uses an open source project, the project becomes an AWS licensor. The author's concern may be that the provision could extend to the contirbutors... or employers of the contributors... and so on.

This is not just FUD:

Amazon is using the provision to defend itself in a patent infringement case brought by Appistry Inc in US district court in Seattle.

Last week, a judge announced that a merger between Sysco and U.S. Foods would be illegal. The order points out that a combined Sysco – U.S. Foods entity would dominate the market for broadline food distributors and give Sysco the ability to charge ultra-competitive prices.

How does Sysco do it? It's not technology. The URL above describes system requirements for using Sysco's web application. Among other things, it states "eSYSCO does not currently support Macintosh OS" and "we highly recommend Internet Explorer version 6.0".

Technology does not change economic reality. From an economic perspective, Uber and Facebook have more in common with Sysco than they do with (name your favorite calendar app). These companies enjoy profitability today, not because they are technology companies, but because they have monopoly power.