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by arikrak 14y ago
I submitted this, but not because of any upvoting deal~ Some sites, such as Quora, use algorithms to rank submissions and comments. They also avoid anonymity to the most part, so people can notice if there's a conflict of interest with a co
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U.S. Explodes Atomic Bombs Near Beers To See If They Are Safe To Drink(npr.org)
6 points by arikrak 14y ago|2 comments
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by arikrak 14y ago
It sounds like it could be dangerous enough to lead to lawsuits. I think there's a reason why electric scooters are much more common than electric skateboards: people can stay on them.
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by arikrak 14y ago
I think you should spend a paragraph giving a more clear explanation about what it does. The superlatives should be separate from a clear explanation.
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by arikrak 14y ago
It doesn't work very well yet. The text in the calculator cannot be changed, and it thinks 180! = Infinity. Compare with WolframAlpha: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1800%21
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by arikrak 14y ago
How could it have always been infinitely big if there was a big bang where everything was once?
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by arikrak 14y ago
Was it instantly huge after the big bang or did it expand much faster than the speed of light?
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by arikrak 14y ago
But people might be able to create a wifi alternative without them. E.g. projects that blanket a city with wifi or that share people's routers with others in a secure manner. Then the carriers will be cut out of the picture.
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by arikrak 14y ago
As the article mentions, the carriers are focused on cellular because that's what they control and can get people to pay $30-80 / month to use their cellular data plans. The carriers' worst nightmare would be if more cities provided quality
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by arikrak 14y ago
I signed up for the site and got the error message below. I really like the idea of what they're doing, but if they're going to be teaching rails, shouldn't they know better than to show all that information to users? ActiveRecord::Statemen
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by arikrak 14y ago
They deleted it, but it can still be seen in Google's cache. Someone needs to tell Wikipedia and StackOverflow that they're going a bit overboard with all this deleting. Why don't they just demote stuff to show lower down in searches or som
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by arikrak 14y ago
It froze up Chrome on my PC for a few seconds also.
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OpenShift Launches Instant Wordpress, Rails, Drupal(openshift.redhat.com)
1 points by arikrak 14y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 14y ago
Microsoft also launched something like Ifttt for Windows http://mayhem.codeplex.com/ but this looks much more useful.
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by arikrak 14y ago
Great article. Most students would probably prefer practical programming experience but they get CS degrees since that is all that is being offered at their college. The schools meanwhile couldn't care less about what's practical and they
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by arikrak 14y ago
Its quite impressive, but will they actually be able to write "real" articles, or just convert stock or sports data into paragraphs? Since its possible that data is easier to look at in table form. http://zappable.com/2012/04/algorithms-wr
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by arikrak 15y ago
I doubt YC would be interested in this, and there's no reason to tie such a venture to one news site, like HN. However, the JOBS act will allow for many crowd-funding ventures to get started, and SecondMarket, WeFunder and maybe Kickstarter
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Bringing self-driving cars to NASCAR (googleblog.blogspot.com)
4 points by arikrak 15y ago|1 comments
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Mayhem - IfThisThenThat for Windows(mayhem.codeplex.com)
8 points by arikrak 15y ago|0 comments
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Michio on the World of Tomorrow and too Many Investment Bankers(online.wsj.com)
1 points by arikrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 15y ago
I think the solution needs to be more ambitious. What if the "invention" is not prior art, but other people can come up with the same idea on their own? Does that deserve to be patented so that the company that was one week late will need t
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by arikrak 15y ago
Don't all To-do lists keep a record of what you checked off? I guess the article is saying that list should be emphasized more? A good webapp for that might be http://Trello.com . It seems to be made for dragging tasks from Todo to Done.
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Updating the Educational Curriculum for the Information Age(zappable.com)
1 points by arikrak 15y ago|0 comments
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by arikrak 15y ago
Excellent, if lengthy, article. The lecture model of education offers little interaction and isn't much better than a video, just much more expensive. People learn much better by being active participants in learning, as the article discuss
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Twilight of the Lecture (harvardmagazine.com)
4 points by arikrak 15y ago|1 comments
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by arikrak 15y ago
People like being paranoid when there's little reason. Even the end of this article was a slightly paranoid. I don't thing Gmail is shutting down anytime soon, it will probably last longer than any random domain a person buys.
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by arikrak 15y ago
Why don't they send an email "class cancelled" so people know what happened to it?
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by arikrak 15y ago
It's interesting that many of the points raised in the article demonstrate the opposite point - that computers should have a greater role in mathematics, and that the current system needs to be changed. Currently, despite what they claim, s
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by arikrak 15y ago
Q: Why did Apple launch so many patent wars, aren't patents just supposed to be used like nukes? (Don't sue me, or I'll sue you, and we'll both lose tons of money.) A: Maybe because Apple has so much money, patent lawsuits cannot threaten t
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by arikrak 15y ago
Investors are often bothered by talent acquisitions since they get small returns when they're hoping for big winners. So that article's claim is probably false. However, I wondered why it was worthwhile for the big companies to acquire f

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