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by Lxr 9y ago
On average, people actually do have fewer friends than their friends have (also works for sexual partners). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship_paradox
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Ask HN: Sources of historical HN-type discussion during past tech bubbles?
2 points by Lxr 9y ago|2 comments
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by Lxr 9y ago
Is their goal to annotate everything or just the non-obvious things? Also how would a tool like this handle cases where the “correct” type is a generic base class but at runtime it only sees a certain subclass? To be pythonic, a function th
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by Lxr 9y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by Lxr 9y ago
Instagram would disagree with you. Seriously, Python is an absolute pleasure for managing large web projects and the lack of static typing has never been an issue for my company (spend the time writing tests instead!)
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by Lxr 9y ago
Related: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
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by Lxr 9y ago
This is exactly the problem with advertising as a business model. You necessarily have to make your product worse to make more money, and it becomes a balancing act. Subscription SaaS services on the other hand are free to make the product
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Ask HN: Is there an E2E encrypted team chat like Slack?
8 points by Lxr 9y ago|2 comments
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by Lxr 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrebird
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by Lxr 9y ago
> I made the proof-of-work difficulty ridiculously easy to start with, so for a little while in the beginning a typical PC will be able to generate coins in just a few hours. If only I had given up “just a few hours” back in 2009...
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by Lxr 9y ago
The desktop flash happens regularly to me when simply attaching an external monitor to my closed locked machine.
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by Lxr 9y ago
> Historically, search engine royalties have been the main revenue driver for Mozilla. Back in 2014, the last year of the Google deal, that agreement brought in $323 million of the foundation’s $330 million in total revenue. So basically
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by Lxr 9y ago
Python requests + lxml, with Selenium as a last resort.
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by Lxr 9y ago
I just want to say that I absolutely love this no-frills type of page - tapping the link on mobile and instantly getting nothing but content is such a pleasant surprise!
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by Lxr 9y ago
Please don’t do this. I have used sites that do this and the inevitable 30 second delay in receiving the email is infuriating.
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by Lxr 9y ago
Do we know for sure that people are completely unconscious while preserved? It would be unpleasant to be stuck upside down in a vat of liquid nitrogen unable to move unless you were... People in comas feel and hear things, it sometimes happ
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by Lxr 9y ago
Visual weight is not just about number of non-blank pixels. The author has a few good examples of how strong colours add weight to otherwise identical icons, and so dark icons look better being a bit smaller.
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by Lxr 9y ago
From my observation living in Singapore lifestyle is an important factor. People are generally active and there seems to be little obesity. Among young guys at least, national service and the associated mandatory fitness requirements seem t
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by Lxr 9y ago
I imagine when you get old, sick, weak and lose your ability to think quickly and argue properly things become more challenging.
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by Lxr 9y ago
Petrov's story is a really good example of why employing smart people and trusting them beats procedures and metrics every time. May he rest in peace.
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by Lxr 9y ago
What is the actual motivation for doing these searches?
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by Lxr 9y ago
What happens when wrongly configured servers or frameworks with default settings implement this too aggressively? Browser vendors want their product to work as expected when the user hits refresh, so will be forced to either voliolate the s
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by Lxr 9y ago
Cool idea! I would love to see some more opinionated product-oriented values, eg large js frameworks vs minimal client side code, tracking vs privacy, etc.
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by Lxr 9y ago
This is relevant because otherwise companies can just claim they have all of the above.
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Ask HN: Secure chat for teams?
3 points by Lxr 9y ago|0 comments
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by Lxr 9y ago
This looks really cool and is badly needed. Our company would kill for a PDF to semantic HTML algorithm (or service) too, using machine learning based on computer vision. Existing options just vomit enough CSS to match the PDF output, rathe
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by Lxr 9y ago
I think it's important to keep in mind as with all things, correlation doesn't automatically mean causation - less healthy people are probably more likely to be drawn to less active jobs, for instance. Maybe there is a randomised
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by Lxr 9y ago
Seems like thinly disguised affiliate link spam.
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by Lxr 9y ago
There's no mention of how they sort correlation from causation. Does being physically healthy perhaps also lead to happier relationships?
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by Lxr 9y ago
A major difference is that you can pay any other person with Alipay. If a friend buys you lunch, you pay them back by scanning a QR code on their phone.

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