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by colins_pride 17y ago
For now
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I just did a totally typical thing (for me): wrote half of this, deleted it because I thought it sucked, went away for a while. But this time it really stayed inside me, so here it is. The problem is not a financial one. Money is not the co
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Yet in a blog post last week on the future of newspapers, he concludes there may be only one way to save the industry Hint: if you have to change the law to protect an industry, the industry is a dinosaur. You are not really saving it, me
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by colins_pride 17y ago
My environment shapes me far more than my genes. I know this because I'm not the same person who woke up this morning. Sure, my genes may predispose me to Alzheimers or Diabetes or cancer. They drive my physical characteristics, and maybe m
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I love this idea; how does the sponsoring site ensure the quality of the user supplied data?
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Why hasn't that study been done? I think it's because this is something that is very hard to stick with. After the physical adjustment, one has to be willing to organize one's life in a way consistent with this, and that is tough when every
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Using an aggregation of the per-user lists to guide the evolution of the site-wide list would probably resolve that concern. It's also conceptually very similar to how submission flagging currently works here.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Yeah, it's a smart move; motivating the HN community to research your competitors for you is very resourceful
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by colins_pride 17y ago
At least this is just an app, I shudder when I think of the guys who are trying build businesses around Twitter. Good for Twitter, not so good for them.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Almost all of life is arbitrary and meaningless. Denying this is not particularly enlightened, and ultimately tends to get rejected by the intellectually curious. On the other hand, seeing absolutely no meaning results in wasted time. Th
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Fast Bikes, Slow Food, and the Workplace Wars(newyorker.com)
14 points by colins_pride 17y ago|13 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
There may not be many people who are explicitly or publicly opposed to freedom, but consider certain elements of our system: government bailouts, payroll taxes, immigration law, sales taxes, teachers unions, Social Security, eminent domain,
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The Mind is Not the Brain(opendemocracy.net)
4 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
With friends/acquantainces/family, I know who is likely to approach me with certain types of ideas/questions/concerns. Similarly, as I go through life, and problems come up, I know who to go to with different situations. Here, I come to lea
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Playing video games can make you a better person(economist.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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A machine for testing nuclear weapons opens for business(economist.com)
4 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
It's a good idea, I wouldn't try and do it on college campuses, though. You can lose some serious coin trying to sell good but expensive things to broke kids.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Maybe that's part of their plan for managing userbase growth
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by colins_pride 17y ago
My issue with the 10% rate is that the population of startups is not homogenous. Put differently, many startups are essentially doomed to failure at the time of the founding, and others have much better chances. At least, that's the main th
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by colins_pride 17y ago
What do you mean?
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by colins_pride 17y ago
There have been syndicates put together to do this: to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets in lotteries were the expected value is positive. There are a few problems with this approach, though. One is that there is a real risk of split pot
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by colins_pride 17y ago
They're going to make 30 billion on the enterprise licensing deals ...
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I thought the insight about the relative costs of labor and energy spurring the Industrial Revolution made it worth throwing in the pot here ...
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Challenges for the Next Wave of Innovation(dailyspeculations.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|1 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
After reading this review three times in the last half hour, between several different small mundane tasks that were best completed with distractions, I found myself coming away with three distinct impressions. The first time, I latched on
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Or do something like k/(n+10)
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What Makes Us Happy?(theatlantic.com)
1 points by colins_pride 17y ago|0 comments
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by colins_pride 17y ago
If they could vote your submission down, they would. They can't, so they're voting your comments down. If that doesn't make sense to you, just give it a few more minutes and the submission will probably be flagged dead.
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by colins_pride 17y ago
I think I remember PG mentioning that with the new server everything fits in memory ... I see your point about speed, but I think that there are a bunch of shortcuts you can take (like your top 1k idea) that mitigate the issue, and if it is
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by colins_pride 17y ago
Yeah, when you think about it the general form is also true: it doesn't make a lot of sense to hard-code the sorting algos

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