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by dictum 13y ago
>Turn Online Debates Into Shopping Advice When I read the headline, I imagined a service that crawled forums and discussion boards and used NLP to determine useful shopping advice. If that happened, all those non-slept nights spent battl
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by dictum 13y ago
Love it, I hadn't seen it yet. I've been trying to handle links to tutorials, links I find while reading tutorials, resources that might be useful later when I'm already familiar with what I'm trying to learn, and it was
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by dictum 13y ago
It's useless to ask "how can I help you" unless they already know how you could help them. They can learn that if you first introduce yourself, tell about your life and your business, etc. From Christoph's post: > Aft
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by dictum 13y ago
It reminds me of the aesthetics of "enterprise" and "big serious business". You know: generic stock photos of server rooms, smiling businessmen https://www.google.com/search?q=smiling+businessman+hand&amp
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by dictum 13y ago
The idea is interesting, but I want to understand something: how do you get sure that your customer has finished the task? Do you contact the person, requesting proof that the work is done? Handling big deposits that you'll have to ref
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by dictum 13y ago
I wouldn't call it Swiftian irony, but I was trying to expose how the USG has to spy on Americans if it wants to end or prevent terrorism through surveillance. To play with the idea of Swiftian irony, destroying the privacy of non-Am
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by dictum 13y ago
Suppose you're a Foreign Terrorist. If you're planning an attack on the US, can you do it entirely from your country? At some point you have to contact some people in the US to carry out the attacks. But oh, the Americans you hire
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by dictum 13y ago
As someone who gave depressing feedback, I'd like to defend my actions: I've learned that attention is more important than appreciation. When you introduce a project, it's better to get people thinking about it, nitpicking an
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by dictum 13y ago
What is the point of tracking inflation if you're not going to account for what's actually reducing (or increasing) the purchasing power of your currency?
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by dictum 13y ago
Sorry, I misread your comment. I had understood it as "work more as you get closer to 80", and not the inverse, which is the premise of his suggestion. Maybe wanting to stop working at 65 and step into full retirement is particula
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by dictum 13y ago
>he suggested people should work to age 80, but work proportionally less in all the years up to there. At 70, your body is generally not able to do the same things you were doing at 20/30, at least not with the same ease. A 75 year
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by dictum 13y ago
Or a cool hundred billion https://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals...
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by dictum 13y ago
There's no problem with banning products that use your service but violate your Terms of Service; it just doesn't jibe with what is usually understood by "open". "We're open"/"we encourage openne
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by dictum 13y ago
To anyone who is interested in implementing this in a product: don't. To be fair: do it if you must. But don't let the user see the gender field as it changes . If someone has a name that's associated with the opposite gende
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by dictum 13y ago
>> Is this going to be open source? >Arc will not be The project is certainly interesting and I respect your right to license it as you will, maybe for commercial reasons, but a closed source black box with relatively low-level acc
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by dictum 13y ago
>And if you really want it, it can probably be contracted, in a way the first two roles never can. HN (rightly) bashes "idea guys", but there is really only one thing in a startup that cannot be contracted: what the startup is
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SORM: Russian surveillance of Internet and telephone communications(en.wikipedia.org)
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by dictum 13y ago
SaaS Sextant? SaaS Map? :) A product's name is a reflection of its marketing (and just as the rest of marketing, naming seems easy, but it's actually hard to get to good results without overthinking it). Perhaps your experiences w
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by dictum 13y ago
>The only thing that matters in software is the experience of the user. That is true, but the experience of the people developing the software matters too, as it informs the care that will be put into creating a better user experience. L
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by dictum 13y ago
Again, a Google Apps account for a single user now costs $5/month ($50 if you pay annually). I made an account (with multiple users so I could have different emails for certain services and needs) when it was still free. If I were to s
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by dictum 13y ago
Apple propagandists have a way of acknowledging the wrongs of Apple while telling readers to not use Google's products and services: Google says they like open things. Google had "Don't be evil" as a motto. However, Goo
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by dictum 13y ago
>The cost of preparing to switch can be relatively low - pay $8/year for your own domain and it's possible to keep using the same systems you choose today. Domains are not the only thing you need to take into account. There is
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by dictum 13y ago
1. Someone goes to the first link that was posted 2. They see links to other articles from that site (e.g. "Most Popular on FP") 3. They decide to post that article to HN
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by dictum 13y ago
I'm an advocate for not living in perpetual fear too, but I couldn't find specifics of how unexpected passenger behavior would be handled. Assuming it's as cheap and easy to operate as it seems, I really want the Hyperloop to
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by dictum 13y ago
Yes. By "newsletters" I meant "marketing email you've subscribed to". Personally, I'm okay with receiving a newsletter from a service I've subscribed to (but only from the company—no "special partners
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I'm impressed, but I'm afraid Hyperloop's operation is modeled after airplanes, while the actual use of the system would be closer to a city bus. >All capsules would have direct radio contact with station operators in case
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by dictum 13y ago
This is HN, where some people run small businesses and know how hard it is to acquire customers. Newsletters aren't spam and most cold callers only call once, or will stop calling if you ask them.
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by dictum 13y ago
>it has no "troops" with which to engage foreigners. It has no troops, but it has the CIA, who can assemble a makeshift covert "troop" in no time. >You might not be part of those groups, but how do we know if we do
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by dictum 13y ago
As far as I'm aware, the country of which I am a citizen does not take an adversarial approach to other countries. If I learned that it's spying on people of other countries, I'd be just as concerned as I am about the NSA&#x2
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by dictum 13y ago
>us vs. them bullshit Surely not an appropriate point to raise when defending an agency whose raison d'etre is to acquire and analyze all foreign communications. Its existence comes from a us vs. them mentality. What's happenin

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