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by bk 17y ago
This is a typical ideologically charged topic - so I will present a few facts that that I think may put some of the debate in perspective: 1. There are now more obese people than starving people in the world. The diseases that are killing t
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by bk 17y ago
It would be cool if people's self-hosted public repos could be crawled and indexed to create a repo search engine.
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by bk 17y ago
Here's my thinking: 1. Google knows how to scale computers, and perhaps engineering teams, but not people in general. 2. "You make a hundred times what my bank does off me" - Exactly, and hiring pesky call center employees, who would have t
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by bk 17y ago
Just out of curiosity: Are you dissolving the corporation (and YC involvement) or are you continuing with YC involvement for a future venture?
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by bk 17y ago
It's sad that YC needs to stay on good terms with TC so that its startups continue to get exposure through TC's channel. Any other submission or comment with a similarly dumb title would be flagged or downvoted. On the substance: perhaps Sc
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by bk 17y ago
IM/Skype-like clients with an added status message logger (side note: ideally OSS client and protocol, p2p (with async message buffer), encrypted). Every time a user changes his status message it gets logged as if it were a tweet. It's more
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by bk 17y ago
Lamson Advertising Marketing Email Synergy Lamson AMES Lamson AMES High Independence Technology Lamson AMES HIT L AMES HIT LAME SHIT /joke-explainer :)
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by bk 17y ago
Back then people didn't take issue with IE shipping with windows, but as Windows. MS tried its typical bullying tactics to squeeze out competitors. IE became so tightly integrated into Windows that it a) couldn't be removed without wrec
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Ask HN: Montreal hackers, please help some new arrivals
3 points by bk 17y ago|0 comments
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by bk 17y ago
I was just flying by HN on a busy day. Syntax parsing: success. Semantic parsing: error. Looks like I failed the Turing test... I'm a bot. Damn. ;)
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by bk 17y ago
Good find, but a man can change his mind. Also, given the existing patent system, you're practically forced to seek patents to avoid getting trolled.
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by bk 17y ago
Two thoughts: 1. It shows that tests are only as good as the thinking that goes into them, i.e., it's up the programmer to think through all the use cases, possibility for breakage, and use the appropriate tools to try a wide range of input
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by bk 17y ago
The left sidebar is a classic example of keyword stuffing. If you click on a lot of these tags, you get the same two blog posts for a lot of them. These guys are at least clueless, probably unprofessional, perhaps even desperate or unethica
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by bk 17y ago
I think an "Affero LGPL" would be good to get companies to contribute back library enhancements without "infecting" and thus having to give up their whole IP. Regarding data portability, I've become a fan of json - it's easy to understand a
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by bk 17y ago
Thanks for replying. I realize my initial request was a bit unclear. I'm not so much interested in the specific rules/legislation, but rather in a (canonical) implementation of a rules engine of that type. I get the basic functionality, but
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by bk 17y ago
Does anyone have a link to a similar implementation, library, or paper of the ACL replacement / rules engine Zed talked about? I'm dying to dive more deeply into this, but have little domain expertise right now. Any pointers are greatly app
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by bk 17y ago
Thanks. This can solve data and config mobility pretty nicely. For large amounts of (media) data an external 2.5" hd works pretty nicely. For applications, it seems to depend a lot on the OS. Is there a good/easy way to track what apps/pack
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Ask HN: How to keep my data, apps, config movable between computers
4 points by bk 17y ago|3 comments
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by bk 17y ago
...gluing together C libraries. Why not? :)
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by bk 17y ago
Probably not much better, but here's the slideshare version: http://www.slideshare.net/igrigorik/building-mini-google-in-...
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by bk 18y ago
HN etiquette note: The parent post is neither a troll, spam, or off-topic, and thus should not be downvoted. A simple "no upvote" would suffice. If you disagree add a substantive rebuttal to your "no upvote".
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by bk 18y ago
The "rationality" that a lot of traditional (micro-)economic arguments are based on is the one defined by rational choice theory ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_choice_theory ). While economics may be moving on, many journalists, bu
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by bk 18y ago
This is a peeve of mine: It's not "behavioral economics". It's social and organizational psychology. Virtually all the research has been done by psychologists. For example, Daniel Kahneman, Economics Nobel Laureate, is a Psychologist . "Sm
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by bk 18y ago
For me: Ubuntu/Debian VM image = same env for dev and deploy. Fewer moving parts.
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by bk 18y ago
Thanks, Amy, for sticking to making your point, and not just going along with the PR game of "Yay, they fixed it, they're great again, group hug!" Your degree of differentiation (e.g. individuals at Google versus Google, Inc.) does a great
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by bk 18y ago
Thanks for your insightful answer, Peter. I think a lot of entrepreneurs have to wear far more hats than what their strengths and/or preferences are. As you've said, I think one luxury of a level of success is to "retire" to one's preferred
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by bk 18y ago
Don't worry, I had to click on "enlarge" to really see it. ;)
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by bk 18y ago
How did you transition? Do you hire programmers now to build stuff, instead of doing it yourself? Or is the nature of your business just much more content/marketing oriented now, so you don't need much (new) technology?
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by bk 18y ago
Wikipedia was blocked completely for a long time, later they moved to blocking only certain pages (en.wikipedia.org, I think the Chinese version is still blocked entirely). For flickr only the image hosts (static.flickr.com) were blocked,
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by bk 18y ago
Only the news.bbc.co.uk subdomain (which is in English) was blocked, www.bbc.co.uk was fine, except for certain sub-pages.

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