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by bobbydavid 13y ago
don't forget to mention that Google is also the entity reporting that the information was handed over.
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
I'm not exactly sure what those photos have to do with anything, but what you say is true: there are situations where people stay in upsetting situations because there are no better alternatives. However, they key point is that they will st
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
There are a lot of comments about the awful working conditions in China and how we should push for better conditions, but none I've seen are by the workers themselves. I can't help but wonder: what is the sentiment on this issue in China it
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
since it happened... 100%? seriously though, it's a coincidence that could easily be explained in other ways. for instance, many people in niche fields tend to use the same phrases and discover things at the same time. were Alexander Bell a
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
As stated in the article, the "point" is to have the same functionality for a fraction of the cost. You can still run image editing software or whatever you'd run on your workstation using NX. That's somewhat inconvenient, but then it boots
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
This is an interesting point. What about a safe deposit box at a bank, can the government search it without a warrant?
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
To me, the scarier thought is a new conflict between hospitals and pharma. Currently, drug companies market directly to consumers. consumers ask for drugs from doctors, and get prescriptions health care companies have to pay for. Doctors ha
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
Even if that's true, there are still many other HN readers watching the conversation who may be more open to logical arguments from either side. So I think it's still "worth it" to respond in a meaningful way, even though you may not convin
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by bobbydavid 13y ago
What integration features are you giving up because of not having a Google+ account? It sounds like you want Google+ to _not_ be integrated, and yet you highly value the fact that other services are integrated. In the end, we can't have it
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Can anyone explain why this was downvoted?
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Google embeds march madness brackets(google.com)
3 points by bobbydavid 14y ago|0 comments
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I agree with ralph that these comments are annoying because I have to waste time reading them (what if they contain something important?) but they offer me nothing (I already know these flags). If you still prefer putting these hints in com
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Cults (the band) Website: scroll down to see a neat "perspective" JS trick(cultscultscults.com)
1 points by bobbydavid 14y ago|0 comments
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
On the other hand, you have Bayesian probability: even if it looks 99% like Aliens have landed in front yard, you would still be validly assuming it's your neighbors with flashlights. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_probability Put
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I like the design on your website, but one thing that bothers me is the big red icons on the top right. As soon as the page loaded, I couldn't help putting my eye over there, before I even saw the title. It felt like I had 3 or 4 facebook n
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
That quote always makes me uncomfortable. I'm 27. I spend a fair amount of time desperately trying to uncover what it is I'm wasting my youth on, or else determining what it is I've already wasted it on. Hah. Okay, maybe that was an acciden
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
This is fascinating. The question that immediately springs to my mind is this: can I look at the crappy failed projects of today, pinpoint the missing technology, and send a note to myself in the future to re-attempt building it when that t
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
The name immediately made me think of German. I checked, and DatenFahrt.com is still available.
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Not that I necessarily agree with you, but this is a great comment.
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
By my understanding of what scott_w said, your example is exactly what scott_w meant for his camp #2: A problem involving data that is easier to represent if one "relaxes" the constraints. In this case, the relaxation is the removal of tabl
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Yipe! I hope this is hypothetical, and we're not getting a glimpse into how you (would?) act as a manager. But even in my most pragmatic, cynical mindset, remove the gender from this entirely. Beautiful people get ahead, regardless of gende
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I like this article as an excellent behind-the-scenes of all the prep work that goes into a talk. That said, one key element is missing: the enthusiasm/delivery of the talk itself. What I mean is it's not enough to know the talk -- you also
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Sounds like bayesian probability. If the symptoms are 30% similar to a disease that 99.999% more common, and 70% similar to a disease that's 0.001% common, the doctor would still be correct most of the time by suggesting that the patient ha
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Google definitely benefits from free Gmail users, but that wouldn't be true if every free user got human attention when things went wrong, regardless of who was at fault. I guess I see OP's problem stemming from the existence of bugs/quirks
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
The vitriol regarding Google's services is unjustified. Gmail is a free service. Google allows you to use it for free, in exchange for being shown ads. You have access to the same infrastructure that paying clients use, and the same uptime,
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
I'll assume you simply ran your comprehensive test suite, inspected the five failing tests, and left in five minutes :-)
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Could you explain a bit more about the black hole argument?
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
In my experience, UL is "unambiguous log", decision problems that require no more than logarithmic space, and also have a single unique proof (if it exists). It seems like UL-computers would be optimized for finding the path through the maz
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by bobbydavid 14y ago
Here's some napkin math: Moore's law says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles approximately every two years. The Core i7 Sandy Bridge has ~2.3 billion transistors [1], and measures 434 mm^2 [1]. Silicon has a density of 2.4g/cm
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Show HN: easily embed Gists in your Tumblr blog.(github.com)
1 points by bobbydavid 14y ago|0 comments

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