chaosprophet

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by chaosprophet 17y ago
I personally would never trust google with something as important and all encompassing as my OS. I value my privacy far too much for that, and seeing as how google collects usage data for just about every action you perform on services they
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
> with HTML5 going forward the "flash is needed for videos" idea is going to vanish... Never mind the fact that you will have to go forward about 10 years before most browsers support HTML5 in it's entirety.
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
There's a greasemonkey userscript which automatically expands a lot of shortened URLs. Just search the userscript repository for Tinyurl decoder (it supports a lot of services including tinyurl and bit.ly).
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
The first thing that struck me was the clean, simple interface. The demo is quite nice, and viewing expenses as graphs is quite handy. Since you are aiming at making it extremely simple to use, I suggest you combine all those 4 text boxes (
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
So it shows videos corresponding to Twitter's trending topics eh??? Hmmmm, I didnt strike me as something I'd use. I can't exactly pin point why, but I think it's because it's going to be very rare that trending topics have any appropriate
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Well if you're interested in fleshing it out, I might be able to provide some help with the natural language parsing.
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
The problem is not how many different ways a rumor can be written, it's how many rumors can be written. Esp. considering the fact that you have websites which automate the process of rumor-manufacturing...
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
If you were going to create 100 different rules for that one sentence, imagine the costs of scaling up. It simply is not viable. The only way to make this possible is to maybe train the system for a corpus consisting of about a million twee
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
The idea is something I consider lame. Having said that you will probably make a nice little pile of cash from it anyway. So I suggest you spruce up that landing page. Listing 4 rules doesn't really give me an idea of what in hell your site
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Ask HN: Whatever happened to Internet anonymity?
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
I seriously don't understand all the hullaballoo on the browser issue. All MS would have to do is insert a popup which shows the first time you run windows pointing out the fact that Explorer (the file manager bundled which is part of the w
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Correction make that 20 in 4 weeks. Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Features/Indian-techies-... What is most disturbing is the attackers in atleast three cases have been kids aged about 15.
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
I suggest you provide a screencast or something first in order to generate interest in your product.
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
>Arrest the assailants and interrogate them. I agree. Curiously, a lot of people I know (Indians all of them), held the opinion that Australia was an extremely racially biased country, much before these attacks started getting publicize
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
FYI there were 14 attacks on Indians living in Australia in the past 6 weeks. Or do you intend to mean that such frequent attacks are just usual stuff in Australia??? In either case, I doubt it is stupid. EDIT: I am Indian. I do not live in
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Problem with an NLP parser is since twitter restricts to 140 characters a lot of people don't post proper grammatically correct sentences. This makes the parser much more complex since the parser will then have to guess the intended meaning
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Perhaps the only way you can accomplish this is to destroy the data on the drive after first use, but then it still can be copied before first use, and if you do destroy files after first use, nobody is going to be pleased. Your better off
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
You really should explain more about the app on the landing page. Maybe put a link to a screencast on the landing page. And since there is so little text, you should increase the size of the text. Computer monitors are designed to be read f
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Not to mention it would be an utter waste of a killer domain name.
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
You could build a twitter search app, which searches and returns real time news. It should be capable of categorizing tweets about an event as headline(MJ's dead), more info at(latimes.com), comments. In short it should search twitter for r
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
The first and only thing I noticed was the huge twitter login box sitting there. You're not going to get too many early adopters if you have that. I suggest you switch to using OAuth as an immediate do-it-now thing. After all its the early
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
I would agree with that. As an avid gamer, I don't see the point why anyone would play a game where everyone is equal. You get to progress in the game only because you are better than the others. A game where everyone is equal and reaction
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
In essence your trying to build a talent marketplace using twitter??? Something like an elance on twitter??? Sounds like an idea worth trying out. I havent worked with the twitter API yet, but I guess you should read through the API documen
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by chaosprophet 17y ago
Try gOS or the currently in alpha jolicloud. If you want a nice browsing and media playing experience go for Linux Mint. It has all codecs installed out of the box (including flash, divx etc.).