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by davi 17y ago
Nice to see your project! Agree w/ pclark about need for a designer. I even have a quote in mind ("the biggest danger of people doing bad things to you is that it will make you paranoid", http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192160 -- I t
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Greenspun applies a book of sales advice to his business(philip.greenspun.com)
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by davi 17y ago
The reason certain users or companies 'break through' to me on HN (i.e. achieve a long term identity in my brain) is because they change my model of how the world works. Two examples -- Posterous and Mixergy. Mixergy has gotten lots of vis
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by davi 17y ago
Do you have any more info on this? Even if so, this work seems interesting because they are showing the derived clusters to the users, thereby providing value. (Though I'm interested more in their approach than in this application -- it's a
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by davi 17y ago
Hm, looks like HN maybe sent too much load their way -- the service is not working for me now that this submission has made it to the front page. Too bad, I would be interested to hear people's take on this. The idea is to return a set of
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Eigencluster search engine(arc2.cc.gatech.edu)
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by davi 17y ago
First time in a while I've wanted to look up a non-technical or scientific book after reading an article.
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by davi 17y ago
Seems like VC/angels have a good set up: it is in their interest to have their brains picked by the people running the companies they invest in. Rather than ask for direct compensation, maybe this person should ask for a stake in an opportu
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by davi 17y ago
You can care a lot about animal welfare and still eat meat -- witness Temple Grandin, who optimizes meat plants to minimize animal stress [1]: "We owe it to the animals to give them decent living conditions and a painless death. People are
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by davi 17y ago
Flagged, in the vein of "They did it to me so I'm going to do it to you". :) (I concluded 'they' were right.) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=669741
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by davi 17y ago
Cool, but I kind of wonder if D&D has grown close enough as it is to being a board game. For people who want to emphasize storytelling and role-playing, I recommend checking out Burning Wheel: http://www.burningwheel.org/?page_id=2 Th
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Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people(sciencemag.org)
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Slumburbia(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by davi 17y ago
I remember Noah Everett talked about transitioning from AdSense to other options in his Mixergy interview. This from the transcript: "Andrew: When did you have that big leap, from making just a few hundred or a few thousand dollars to actua
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by davi 17y ago
See also this HN submission for the original article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1097567 Figure 1d in the linked-to paper illustrates the difference between high k-shell and high k nicely. To quote from the paper (where k = # of
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by davi 17y ago
Funny, I just started thinking along similar lines. I was underwhelmed initially by the iPad as well. Then I remembered this painting program I wrote back in the '90s for my Mac IIsi, and how cool it was (geometrical forms with palette a
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by davi 17y ago
"How much easier it is to distrust, to doubt, to fold the arms and say “Not impressed”. I’m not advocating dumb gullibility, but it is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being apparently cool, trendy, design
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by davi 17y ago
Former CIA director agreed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=414373 (Link to this speech has now changed to: https://www.cia.gov/news-information/speeches-testimony/spee... )
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by davi 17y ago
This is an interesting question, one I've been wondering about lately. When I was a little kid, I had a very strong (and I now realize, unusual) affinity for the truth . I would feel bad if I told someone a fact which I later learned to be
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by davi 17y ago
I skipped the intro and read the guy's words directly, and enjoyed the article very much. I think the insights he has about his world also have relevance to the typical HNer's world, e.g. the importance of getting rapid feedback from the au
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by davi 17y ago
Email the admins, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064973
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by davi 17y ago
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Computer... http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Lev... Stories from early in the personal computer era.
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The lost script: 1000-year-old African/Arabic writing system(boston.com)
53 points by davi 17y ago|17 comments
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by davi 17y ago
I know what you mean but HN has also been a place where like-minded people could identify one another for possible real world collaboration. That's much more than just a news forum.
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Also cool how it disseminates through the brain: "Researchers in Sweden report that the parasite fans out through the body by manipulating mobile cells that are part of the immune system." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/20/science/20toxo.h
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by davi 17y ago
Founders at work, literally.
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Mutation accumulation in modern humans(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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5 focal mechanisms(scienceblogs.com)
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http://searchyc.com/
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by davi 17y ago
I really like that by default OS X has basic emacs navigation and kill/yank keybindings in all text fields. (Ctl-A, -E, -P, -N, -K, -Y)

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