albertsun

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by albertsun 15y ago
Sign-up is super easy. Doesn't require an email address.
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by albertsun 15y ago
It is. Corporations exist for the purpose of maximizing their own profits. Government policy making should be about maximizing the people's well being. These might sometimes be related ends, but they're far from being the same thing.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Sad testament to the state of the policy making process in this country that the most we can hope for to stop one terrible piece of legislation advanced by corporations to further theirs interests is for another set of corporations to oppos
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by albertsun 15y ago
It sounds like you're responding to the headline and not the article. Taleb didn't say anything about bankers being paid too much (or "so much"). His argument was that bonuses encourage risk taking and that having bank compensation be less
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by albertsun 15y ago
David Brooks has a really terrible track record of horribly misinterpreting social science research and drawing completely unfounded conclusions from it. He's been taken down by academics many times over it, most memorably (for me) here ht
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by albertsun 15y ago
Do the Times tech/media reporters and editors stand to personally gain or lose from this investment? I'm guessing as editorial employees they're completely separated from any kind of investment decisions made by NYT corporate.
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by albertsun 15y ago
There's a lot of privacy implications to that as opening up truly raw data could, depending on the form, allow people to track other's movements through the system.
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by albertsun 15y ago
So TechCrunch really isn't a news publication anymore, it's just a company blog now.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Wow. It's really impressive how responsive the interface is and how much it feels like a native IDE.
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by albertsun 15y ago
I think because the request is asking for content type JSON but the Facebook response comes back as javascript with a for (;;); at the beginning. The content types don't match so jQuery invokes the error callback.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Pull requests do seem to accumulate changes if you push to your fork while there's one open.
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by albertsun 15y ago
But does higher liquidity lead to more efficient allocation of capital? Or does it only lead to more productive markets up to a certain threshold?
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by albertsun 15y ago
This is great. I was just thinking about how much more productive I am while without internet (like at a cafe without wifi), except that I can't refer to documentation easily.
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by albertsun 15y ago
That looks like it's an iframe that normally has no content but which can be updated by commenting in the sample bits to put a breaking news headline onto the homepage. Because the CMSes that run newspaper websites are often terribly crufty
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by albertsun 15y ago
Link to a deeper analysis http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/07/these-tables-show-ho... Claims using regexes to match patterns in a piece of text is infringing. By way of example, the functionality within the Nexus One include
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by albertsun 15y ago
Here's a guide to FOIA requests from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. You don't need a lawyer to file a FOIA request, there's even a handy letter generator tool linked to from that page.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Are you depending on users to input all the different types of beers? Would be nice if you could scrape together an extensive list that I could pick from. Was imagining a grid with pictures of bottles/logos and easy one click to select. I s
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by albertsun 15y ago
I really hope they preserve the Classic view. I can't stand how spaced out everything is. I went from being able to see 10 or so contacts in Gchat without scrolling down to just 4. Edit: That's with the "Dense" view. Regular is even worse.
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by albertsun 15y ago
It kind of does but it doesn't work nearly as well, at least in part because it clutters up the list of options with suggested searches.
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by albertsun 15y ago
I like the search box because the URL history autocomplete of the main URL bar is so much better in Firefox than any browser. I can type any part of a page title or URL (not just the start) and it goes through and finds pages from my histor
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by albertsun 15y ago
It appears to just make each face smile more.
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by albertsun 15y ago
Take a look at this too http://www.patrick-wied.at/static/heatmapjs/
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by albertsun 15y ago
Pretty stupid move as companies could actually use this knowledge of consumer behavior to adjust their pricing and increase their profitability. See Bakos, Brynjolfsson and Lichtman (1998) http://digital.mit.edu/erik/sig.pdf and Varian (1
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by albertsun 15y ago
I tried it with Iraq, but the page parsing is slightly wrong. Got this result. Iraq Arabic_language Languages Human Precambrian Eon_(geology) Chronology Time Measurement Magnitude_(mathematics) Property_(philosophy) Modern_philosophy Philos
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A Week on Foursquare: Data visualization and analysis(graphicsweb.wsj.com)
3 points by albertsun 15y ago|0 comments
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by albertsun 15y ago
1. "Ruby" for your "Rail." Haven't let the Python out of the cage in a while Ugh. Terrible quotes. 2. Ignoring the fact that there ARE female engineers and hackers. 3. Your "request an invite" only has one corner out of four rounded. 4. The
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by albertsun 15y ago
Why not have a (high) karma threshold, above which you can choose whether or not you want to see vote counts? I think respected, established members of the community would know themselves well enough to decide for themselves whether it's go
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News is to the mind what sugar is to the body(dobelli.com)
3 points by albertsun 15y ago|0 comments
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Apple, Google Receive Phone Users' Locations (online.wsj.com)
6 points by albertsun 15y ago|1 comments
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by albertsun 16y ago
bit.ly does not always shorten the same URL to the same code

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