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by brfox 18y ago
Have you seen this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=214028
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by brfox 18y ago
this belongs on reddit
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by brfox 18y ago
As long as they are just inferring what type of ads I am interested in, I wish that someone would just ask us what we are interested in. Or at least rule out the things we are NOT interested in. Like, stick a little button on their ads wh
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by brfox 18y ago
These days, if you get NIH funding, then any publications have to be freely available within 12 months of publication: http://publicaccess.nih.gov/ It doesn't take care of these older studies, or work done without NIH funding... but its a
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by brfox 18y ago
I think it is more ironic that an article talking about how people like to read things online does not actually explain in words what it is that their tool does - you have to watch a video to get that info.
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by brfox 18y ago
I really dislike these abbreviated URL services. I prefer a moderately sized and human readable one. I always type URLs into my address bar, also.
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by brfox 18y ago
Yeah, he should run a couple thousand simulations like he did with the election and see the range of values. I agree that it is far fetched to make those long waves based on only the last two recessions.
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by brfox 18y ago
Well, if it really, really hurts when you put your foot anywhere below your heart, then its not a problem to stay laying down.
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by brfox 18y ago
I bought an Eee PC when I had to stay horizontal last month with a broken leg. That's a fun little computer to keep on your lap.
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by brfox 18y ago
Its not just a "blessing that the biggest classified ad site in the US is run by a guy who cares more about user-experience than money," it is the main reason why it is such a success. If someone tried to make gobs of money doing this or d
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by brfox 18y ago
A common mistake by small plane pilots is to try and make a U-turn and glide back to the airport. It usually doesn't work since you lose so much altitude during the turns. This pilot seemed to do an amazing job of finding the best glide r
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Ten steps to save newspapers (using the Seattle PI as an example)(techflash.com)
1 points by brfox 18y ago|0 comments
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by brfox 18y ago
How about at least filtering the online ads. Just put a little link in the corner of the ad that allows you to say "no thanks, I never want to see this ad again."
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by brfox 18y ago
Great rationale, and it has served you well. I am a happy smugmug user. I have a question about data security. If I wanted the data to be safe (in terms of intellectual property and corporate secrets), what do folks here think about using
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by brfox 18y ago
Yes! Here is more agreement: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/question-is-wrong.h... (and also my own comment from earlier:) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416576
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by brfox 18y ago
http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/question-is-wrong.h...
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by brfox 18y ago
I think that people are debating between 3 choices: (a) 100% chance that there is a boy and girl, (b) 2/3 chance that it is a boy and a girl, or (c) 50% chance that it is a boy and a girl. It depends very much on the exact wording of the pr
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by brfox 18y ago
I think that we all sound alike.... at least compared to the rest of the web. Actually, I think if someone really tried to do what the original question asked, then it would end up with under 100 different "people" who all seemed to cluste
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by brfox 18y ago
Try http://www.ceiva.com My grandma loves the frame! it only needs dialup and just cycles through the pictures all day. Youu can control which pictures are on tthe frame and it updates every night. she absolutely loves it. EDIT: woops,
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by brfox 18y ago
lame, it doesn't do CAPS
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by brfox 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I have changed the column names. I'm not sure which chart you are referring to when you say "cluster chart" Are you talking about the bar chart? If so, then that is just the popularity over time, which each bar b
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by brfox 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback, I have made those changes, and I think you're right, it looks better: http://www.babynameclusters.com/d/hn-feedback and http://www.babynameclusters.com/map/Male
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by brfox 18y ago
That's interesting... I seem to intuitively think that brighter/lighter is more popular and darker/dimmer is less popular. I wonder what the ratio is overall of people's perceptions. Upvote this comment if you think lighter is more popula
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by brfox 18y ago
Thanks for the feedback about features vs value. When we picked out baby names, the first letter was really important (to name the kid after an older family member) for browsing names, but I guess some people want to search for a specific n
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by brfox 18y ago
Yes, Baby Name Wizard is very popular. I reviewed that site and other on this blog article: http://www.babynameclusters.com/d/review_of_baby_name_websit... But, I think those charts are really confusing... I don't know why everyone likes
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by brfox 18y ago
I built my site a few months and have been tweaking it and trying to get more exposure. There are some really bad baby name websites out there - and lots of them are in the top 10 search results for "baby names"... grrrr. I thought I could
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Ask HN: Review my website, please.(babynameclusters.com)
12 points by brfox 18y ago|23 comments
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by brfox 18y ago
Protein sequence alignment implemented (open source): http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/9/S2/S10
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by brfox 18y ago
Sorry, but those are quarter to quarter growth rates - which, for seasonal industries, need to be year-to-year instead (unless he shows what these same quarters did in the previous years). He said that it is 18% higher in 2008 Q3 than 2007
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by brfox 18y ago
Sorry for the political posting... I just wanted to share my project with fellow HNers

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