danohuiginn

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by danohuiginn 12y ago
you don't eliminate #1, it just has less consequences for the hosting provider. Bitcoins can still be stolen (albeit perhaps not as easily as credit cards). But since there's no chargeback system, the victims don't have much
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Here's a classic piece of data journalism on the topic: 'This problem came to a head when in 1894, The Times newspaper predicted... “In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure.”' http:/
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
greggman's usage is pretty common. e.g. wikipedia: "In common usage, the term is often used in the context of professionals or skilled workers sent abroad by their companies,[1] rather than for all 'immigrants' or '
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Wow, that is one of the craziest lists I have ever seen. Several of the places there would be interesting to live (I have a soft spot for Georgia, for instance), but I wouldn't recommend them to somebody coming from the US and lookin
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
It's the first link under Sources May 2, 2014 English Wikipedia Archive http://dumps.wikimedia.org/enwiki/20140502/enwiki-20140502-p...
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Start with freebase. But you're going to have a serious problem with missing data. Date of parent's death will only be there (in structured form) if the parent is themselves notable enough to have a wikipedia article. Otherwise, i
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I am surprised; I would have expected the over-weighting of recent births to be far larger. The graph shows 1920s births and 1970s births as about equally likely to be notable. That doesn't fit with my experience that every minor 30-so
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I'd advise against Pitmans, unless you plan to take it very seriously. Pitmans is one of the more complicated forms of shorthand, and relies on differentiating between hard and gentle lines. I found Teeline, for instance, much easier t
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
RollerCoaster Tycoon: Trolley Problem Edition
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Stefan Wehrmeyer tried this for Germany: http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2012/12/13/bundesgit-german-laws-on... It's a solid idea. The problem is there's so much fiddly data-munging work, so it's
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
That is the most excellent thing I have seen in weeks.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
It was only when I opened the link that I realised how much I'd been dreading the experience of reading it. I'd semi-consciously been expecting small-print text surrounded by confusing navbars directing me to enterprisey product a
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
This relevant Monty Python skit is worth hoisting out of Stross' comments and posting here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fNvi6xG-5Y from about 1:00
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
It is pretty ambiguous. But I think the reason to believe in religious sacrifice is because there are also animals and other valuables there. The arrangement of the bones should tell you whether an animal has been killed and buried whole, v
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
This is, of course, ridiculous. Still, there's logic to it: find some mass-market component that is used in a luxury service, and provide a high-end alternative. The kind of idio^H^H^H^Hcustomers who want luxury certainly don't wa
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
There isn't one clear-cut legal definition of a journalist, but it's a topic that has been extensively hashed out in different jurisdictions and contexts. In any given situation the argument over who counts as a journalist will de
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I also like them to keep myself familiar with languages I'm not currently using for real work. I find that syntax slips out of my head very quickly, but that even writing fizzbuzz keeps it from falling away.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
It can also be worse. Some useless activities aren't fixed amounts, rather than proportional to the number of hours worked.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
I like this, but I think it would work best as a subreddit. The work of building (and persuading people to use) a separate site would be a big distraction without real benefits.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
The kindle versions of these will be £3.99, half the price of the paper edition. The lower price point makes good sense to me -- it encourages impulse buys, and the e-books have no significant marginal costs.
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
You could likely better understand this by looking at electricity consumption data. i.e. people use less electricity when they are asleep. I know a lot of this data is publicly available for the UK ( http://www.gridwatch.templar.c
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
for real. I briefly worked at a Russian news agency, where one guy's entire job was keeping track of the correct transliterations for people and places. I imagine the internet makes it somewhat easier now, but it's still a night
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Neat idea. It's a bit like that facebook auto-generated video, but for github. Include a decent plugin architecture, and you could get lots of contributions to add in data from everyone's pet CI system, bugtracker, download counte
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Chemical weapons dumped in the Baltic sea (2007) [pdf](mir.gdynia.pl)
83 points by danohuiginn 12y ago|7 comments
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
Thanks for adding this. It's much, much more informative than the Economist article In fact, I think it deserves to be posted by itself, so I've submitted it as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620544
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by danohuiginn 12y ago
The shelf life of most chemical weapons is fairly short -- and tends to be shorter the nastier they are. We're mainly talking mustard gas. Germany did use nerve gases tabun, sarin, and soman [1]. But nerve gases degrade after a period
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by danohuiginn 13y ago
Weekly is good. But I'd prefer it to be posted a bit earlier in the day, for the benefit of those of us in Europe.
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by danohuiginn 13y ago
This idea has a /lot/ of use cases. I'm not sure how easy it would be to make a business out of it -- maybe you allow public collaborations free, and charge to take it private. It'd sink or swim on the details of the UI,
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by danohuiginn 13y ago
that's a great idea. get together a community who will each publish an update/demo on their project each week on the same thread. I'd certainly be up for joining in; it might shame me out of letting side-projects sit untouche
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by danohuiginn 13y ago
that's quite an achievement, considering it was only released 4 years ago!

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