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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Most non-English versions of Wikipedia have dramatically less content than the English language version, and even the more common language versions like Spanish seem to be significantly less accurate. Make whatever claims you want about wha
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I was also somewhat skeptical of the author's claim that the barrier to entry for Wikipedia editors was the editor itself. I've read a few papers concluding that Wikipedia contributions are declining because of the community pushi
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I read somewhere that getting it to go through the Peninsula (with affluent homeowners fighting such construction) would be a non-starter. I don't recall how Caltrain factored in (it may be a little quieter but it's still certainl
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
That's an interesting idea. For what it's worth, I would cite the publication which prompted the idea behind my approach, so I don't think this is the answer to your question. That being said, I think you're onto somet
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
The more I look at these measures, the more I wonder whether Apple has a plan for all of this or if they're just throwing spaghetti on the wall and seeing what sticks. Some of these seem like there's tie-in (body measurements can
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm not seeing anything indicating that it's limited. You might be referencing the list of universities at the bottom of the page, but my impression is that that's just a "leaderboard" representing which universitie
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is really neat. It's a shame that they didn't take a look at this through an anthropological lens (even in their conclusion), because "Dunbar's number" [0] would have given some perspective on the limits of sma
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
As seen 2, 2.5, and (more famously) 6 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7920116 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7897173 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7299658
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
(like caycep said,) from everything I've read, the venom spat back and forth between Microsoft and Apple sounds a lot fiercer than this. This is probably the fiercest rivalry in recent history, and I may be remembering history with mor
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm pretty sure you can find a suit for $40 and a hoodie for $200. Put the hoodie on a pedestal as the symbol of "hacker cred" and you'll inevitably see hoodies for far more than even that as designers capitalize on foun
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
What you're describing (a mobile device that docks into a workstation environment and powers the KVM) sounds like the dream mobile product designers have been having for well over a decade. I remember Canonical recently coming up with
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm not sure what the budget for most mobile app startups is, so I'm not sure if it'd be more reasonable for a startup to find some friend with a DSLR to take some shots for lunch or coffee (essentially getting something 80%
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm not sure why this is here. I don't see any recent substantive changes on the RecentChanges page[0], and there's nothing on the page really indicating why this is HN-worthy. Unless this is supposed to be illustrative of qu
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is a pretty neat idea. I tend to think of and use my calendar to look forward, but every view I have of my calendar shows me some past content. Why not put some useful information there? I considered what my calendar would look like if
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
- I'm sure your intentions are good, but imagine the interpretation of someone for whom most interactions of this nature are bad (or at least unrewarding). Who says you're not some lazy pervert hoping to get lots of women to con
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
A couple thoughts: - +1 to minimaxir's comment; this whole thing sounds creepy. Are you offering a supportive tweet? 1-on-1 mentorship? An inside track at hiring at your respective companies? (is that last one even legal in your jurisd
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
If you figure out a more intuitive way to communicate confidence intervals visually, please post it here :)
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Ah you're right, sorry about that. That post is really interesting. I know ggplot2 does quite a bit of it, but the visualizations are really nice. You mention significance a few times but I don't see alpha levels or significance t
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This is cool (although unless something has changed recently on that page that I'm not seeing, it's kind of old). In the HCI group at Stanford we recently had a talk about massively online open courses (MOOCs), how Harvard and MIT
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Agreed. This makes it easier for programmers who write bad commit messages to hide in plain sight with messages that might look (at a very cursory glance) like they're substantive. I'd rather have a tool that automatically caught
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I actually feel like Vimium is nice even if you're not familiar with Vim. Or that was my experience. And when I later made a conscious effort to learn Vim's commands and use it more frequently, the navigation controls I had learne
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
Based on Cammi Pham's story[0] it sounds like auto-liking profiles en masse is not all it's cracked up to be. Summarizing her post (and probably forgetting a detail or two), you end up with tons of worthless results you don't
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm skeptical about the longevity of a site that operates entirely on donations, but seeing that you offer the source code for free (and it runs on PHP, which is arguably pretty well-supported), and your license is reasonable (if cra
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
It depends on your understanding of the invitation. I agree that this is contentious, but I could see how Postmates would argue that the invitation only incidentally states that the orientation begins at 6:00pm. The time you are requested
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
As seen previously on HN... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7221530 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6861343 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944223 And the first and seemingl
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
This should say "an incrementally newer version of Github for Mac is here!" but that wouldn't be nearly as click-baity as the author's title ("Github for Mac is here!") I like the new design, especially the UI
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
There are a number of other (albeit rudimentary, but equally free) collaborative coding sites out there. What does this offer that the others don't? Or is it not about features, but execution instead? It's also been about 45 minut
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
If I gave someone my real name for a reservation and then flaked, there's nothing they could (practically) do about it anyway. The name is just the key you use to associate yourself with an otherwise secret list of reservations.
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I'm actually not that concerned about CS jobs being outsourced particularly soon. I think the impulse to do it will be there - it seems like a readily outsourced job, right? just committing boilerplate code, right?! - but the reality i
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by alialkhatib 12y ago
I wouldn't actually recommend getting the kind of whiteboard marker pictured in the article. They're generic and easily mixed up in the sea of crappy markers you're trying to get away from in the first place, so you'll i

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