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by drats 16y ago
Friendly reminder: this post does not appear on classic HN.[1][2] [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/classic [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke
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by drats 16y ago
There was an Android update in September 2010.[1] Edit + N.B.: The vertical axis on the graph is a "how to lie with statistics" one and makes it look like a bigger climb than it is. It does indeed overtake the iPhone but it's only a move fr
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by drats 16y ago
Your page doesn't function well as a landing page or give enough information straight away about how it all works. The comment from Ben Thacker (facebook comment) is the kind of thing you need to get to the user quickly: "For US bank-accoun
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by drats 16y ago
Another great way to reach your boss is to fund a Cisco Professor of E-Democracy just like Cisco actually do, right?
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by drats 16y ago
Last I checked there is an identity management authentication system you can use, for example Twitter has verified accounts (I don't know how they do it, perhaps by mail) or Bluehost asks for people to fax them a copy of an ID/Passport to g
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by drats 16y ago
Remind me again of why we "need" a solution such as this? All this screeching reminds me of the people wanting a centralized solution to spam in the 1990s via government control or micropayments. We don't hear from them anymore because of s
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by drats 16y ago
Ad Hominems are a-ok now are they? Well here's Zed's thought process: a) Read Greenwald Salon article accusing Wired of having shady connections. b) Roll that basic premise into a set of wild accusations and things we already know about Tor
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by drats 16y ago
As far as I am aware Ruby has no real equivalent to Numpy and Scipy for Python. This is why I swapped to Python from Ruby; the Ruby community gets extremely thin indeed as soon as you stray from web-related things.
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by drats 16y ago
My theory: Tons of supernodes (static ip with no NAT, broadband, constantly on) are in the 20s-30s age group and are on holiday. Plus office and university machines that are normally left on have been turned off. The people I know in univer
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by drats 16y ago
No. It was invented by Steve Jobs shortly after he designed the wheel.
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by drats 16y ago
Well I did ask in my last sentence, and you haven't answered. I didn't then but I have now gone to your projects; I see reocities, the ww/webcam thing and your blog. I don't see anything like bluehost or linode provisioning domains to users
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by drats 16y ago
Your definition of untrustworthy and shady may be a bit lower than that of ra if you are in the type of business that holds 50k domains. I mean seriously, what's your business model with 50k domains? Or are you like one of the hosting compa
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by drats 16y ago
I see people are saying use Hpricot or Nokogiri and you have gone on to choose Hpricot. Not a good choice. Hpricot was the work of the hacker _why who has now disappeared. But even before he disappeared nokogiri overtook hpricot in performa
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by drats 16y ago
If you read the thread JeremyBanks points to, you can see that pg thinks it's a waste of time to be hand crafting, to be optimising when it's already so small and to be following recommendations beyond what is needed from standards bodies.
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by drats 16y ago
HN works fine on my iPhone 3G, much better than those vile mobile sites which somehow disable zooming. edit: Another example, on reddit I have to use m.reddit.com to make it light weight enough to be tolerable whereas HN works faster and
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by drats 16y ago
Mark Shuttleworth would be a good choice in my mind. Rich, with connections to more money. Experience in space so he understands the issues and has connections to the right kind of people to manage the technical side. Plus he's an African w
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by drats 16y ago
I agree he's not selling it properly, but I would also say it's not actually that different to everything coming back to my email inbox and being remembered by my browser either. For me it's not a problem, perhaps for admins it is, which re
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by drats 16y ago
I don't think you are using the horizontal space well enough. Unless it's reserved for future adverts I'd like to see results in a table with colour coding of the table (i.e. all entity/special results in one column, "classic" style results
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by drats 16y ago
Surely people here are technical enough to decide what's best for themselves without a flamebait article rehashing ages-old stuff. I am personally extremely anti-Apple, I know a lot of people here are pro-Apple and couldn't live without the
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by drats 16y ago
I can't imagine at all what kind of people here are upvoting this considering how many points you need before you can vote. Might it be 18 or 19 first year comp sci students/whatever who have enough points for voting but weren't paying atte
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Kinect and object recognition [3 minute video](youtube.com)
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by drats 16y ago
1) The Chinese are not breaking new ground and are doing a lot of catching up. I am not saying that it's as easy as following in the path of an icebreaker that has gone before, but it is easier. When the Chinese overtake the USA in GDP ter
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by drats 16y ago
Naked Economics[1] is a good basic introduction. Hayek's Road to Serfdom[2] is also a key text if you want a historically embedded one. An interesting point about it is that Orwell reviewed it, with qualified praise, shortly before writing
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by drats 16y ago
While I see your point against those examples it's worth noting that Japan in the mid 19th century was a feudal society with hundreds of thousands of samurai, and by WWII they were fielding a massive navy with aircraft carriers capable of
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by drats 16y ago
Indeed. 25 megahertz and 8 megabytes of RAM for $6500 ($11.5k in today's dollars). And a machine with 2.5 gigahertz and 8 giabytes of RAM can be had for under $1000 today; as much storage as the NeXT harddrive can be found on a $10 usb key.
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O'Reilly discounts: machine learning, nltk, hadoop, sql, nosql, aws and appeng(oreilly.com)
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by drats 16y ago
>1) Most Ask PG questions are dumb, including this one. FTFY
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by drats 16y ago
Ok 134 tweets I can accept, but did 11,164 people really like it on Facebook in less than 24 hours or is that the likes for the whole site?
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by drats 16y ago
Whatever it is, it's going to be on HN tomorrow when it's released so posting a meaningless "teaser" is just that: meaningless. Flagged.
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by drats 16y ago
I was going to write up a rant on Germany's relationship to the euro but it appears someone else has done so: http://open.salon.com/blog/timinglogic/2010/10/25/germany_on...

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