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by DevX101 15y ago
Susceptibility to lung cancer due to smoking is at least partly genetic. If you have certain variants of a specific gene (don't have time for the lit search right now), smoking won't significantly increase your chances of lung cancer. The
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by DevX101 15y ago
On the most recent TechStars/Bloomberg startup reality show, a couple of investors tongue in cheek talked about investing in the career earnings of one of the entrepreneurs whom they thought had a lot of promise. Although the investors pro
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by DevX101 15y ago
How did Universal get GrooveShark's internal emails?
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by DevX101 15y ago
Hey girish, Can you write a post in a week to let us know how many customers you gained from this? If you can find out how many came from ZenDesk, even better.
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by DevX101 15y ago
It's worth about $52 million USD. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1+metric+ton+of+gold+va...
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by DevX101 15y ago
I'd be willing to bet that self-made wealth from non-politicians correlates strongly with intelligence.
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by DevX101 15y ago
:noh
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by DevX101 15y ago
Great point. The 10s of GB was anecdotal data from a CarrierIQ recruiter. If we go by the official letter you've posted and assume conservatively CarrierIQ has only 1 Petabyte of data, and that they've been collecting since 2006 (when they
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by DevX101 15y ago
A ${NERD_FREAKOUT} is what led to the enormous backlash against SOPA which very well may play an instrumental part in defeating the bill. Principles matter, meta discussions like these matter. The technology we work on don't operate in a s
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by DevX101 15y ago
Myself and almost every other mobile phone user have the reasonable expectation that third parties should not have the ABILITY to read or modify my private and personal information unless I explicitly give you permission to do so. This fund
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by DevX101 15y ago
Whether they are sending a full log report of my actions TODAY is beside the main point. I do however know two things. 1) That their local software processes almost every key stroke made. 2) And that they do send at least some portion of
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by DevX101 15y ago
There are a handful of comments here giving CarrierIQ the benefit of the doubt, because the video did not show CarrierIQ sending the logged data over the network. If you're still inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt, just read the
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by DevX101 15y ago
It IS odd. English makes many inconsistent and arbitrary rules.
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AT&T, Telekom to Press Ahead With T-Mobile Deal (abcnews.go.com)
2 points by DevX101 15y ago|0 comments
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by DevX101 15y ago
OK, so I've learned from this paper that this sort of paid postings to influence public opinion occur systematically by trained teams in China. But my praises end there. I don't trust much their machine learning detection approach. But be
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by DevX101 15y ago
Universal doesn't want a settlement or share of ad revenue. They want Grooveshark gone. A Universal insider was quoted as saying the label has declared 'legal jihad' against the startup.[1] This was 1 year ago. So they've had plenty of
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by DevX101 15y ago
Here's an interesting long bet: Warren Buffett has bet $1M that the S&P500 will outperform hedge funds over a 10 year period. http://longbets.org/362/
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by DevX101 15y ago
I don't disagree with your diagnosis of the prevalence of armchair CEOing around here, but Yelp is indeed concerned about Google. Yelp and a couple other companies forced in Google to a Congressional hearing where senators attacked Google o
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by DevX101 15y ago
Unfortunately, the sad truth is that market forces will dictate that there are few competent programming instructors for high school. If you're good enough to teach and critique real programming projects, you're also good enough to get a j
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by DevX101 15y ago
The founders of Diaspora were in a really unenviable position. They started off with a wave of national press as well as solid financial support from grassroot users. As time went on, it became increasingly clear that they would not be ab
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by DevX101 15y ago
That's a very important point. I wish it had been noted on the graph. That being said, do governments buy bonds of other countries? Or is it just financial institutions and individuals buying them?
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by DevX101 15y ago
I don't think the intent here is to put others out of business. The intent is to force the legal system to clarify the rules for playing in a new disruptive game. In fact, if his plan succeeds, he will surely have many more competitors tha
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by DevX101 15y ago
FWIW, I don't think you're right, but that your point presents a reasonable argument, and thus shouldn't be downvoted. As to the police doing their jobs, you have to keep in mind that the drug organizations in Mexico columbia are heavily ar
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by DevX101 15y ago
The unix console from jurassic park is finally brought to life! 3d works for me on chrome (Windows 7). It creates a 3 dimensional representation of the file structure.
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Ask HN: Is there an ethical approach to tracking users?
6 points by DevX101 15y ago|4 comments
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by DevX101 15y ago
This is bad for the startup community. There isn't much reason for a great hacker to join startup if he/she thinks you might want to play 'take-backs' if the company succeeds.
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by DevX101 15y ago
I hate to sound harsh here, but I'm not sure you're going to be of much use at a HACK-a-thon.
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by DevX101 15y ago
It's the same guy. He creates an account, makes a comment, but doesn't know how to submit his own story? Bullocks.
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by DevX101 15y ago
It'd be nice to have a list of modules affected by the change. I probably won't update until I know what it'll do to my existing system.
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by DevX101 15y ago
You're absolutely right. And I think the reason people don't talk directly about the issue enough, is because we really don't know what to do about it. There are many jobs that are now obsolete, or will be due to technological progress. N

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