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I'm convinced part of Cambridge's challenge ahead lies in zoning. As someone who has lived in Cambridge the past five years, I've watched sections of Kendall Square (and even parts of Central, really) go from post military/industrial ghost
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If successful entrepreneurship just required proper spirit, then Mao's policies in 20th century China would have all worked [1]. There's a lot that's good about your advice and intention, but don't forget that large companies tend to be lar
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From the business standpoint, what are the risks/hurdles that need to be overcome for Quantopian to offer a "Operationalize Algorithm" button that starts running on real money? Surely there could be some structure in which Quantopian gets i
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This is great work! How do you plan on allowing people to add new elements? With a toolbox on the side?
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You should report the bug (or upvote it, if that's the kind of bug tracker Gdrive uses). And convince everyone you know to, as well. The best way to get a bug addressed is to file it through official channels.
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If you de-focus your eyes from the TV part of AppleTV, Apple is developing an interesting competency in making "pucks" to bring devices around your house into the fold of computer management/interaction: With AppleTV they've done TVs. With
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It doesn't matter if some people do slash normalizing. It's not how the web works at the standards-level.
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Yes. It's shocking for Americans from other parts of the country as well.
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I have this reaction every time I visit a west coast city. So far, that includes San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. I've always assumed it has something to do with the climate being more amenable to homelessness. But thinking about it no
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As a native Virginian, I can tell you we are proud of our Viogniers -- it's one of the kinds we do best!
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How is this on the front page with 5 up votes? There's nothing interesting here...
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This is an interesting statement to think about. At first, I nod in agreement. Upon second thought, I realize that it points right at the age-old debate about what makes art "art". Is good art that which sells, or is good art that which con
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From the article: TANDY: This is it? This is where all the tech billionaires decided to live? LANGDON: It can't be. (stops a passerby) Excuse me, is this Palo Alto? Hilarious :)
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It seems to me pagination is one of the big things keeping HTML back from being a replacement to LaTeX[1]. Would others agree with that statement? I know academics aren't exactly the major "customer" of W3C standards committees, but it woul
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This is very true. But if you buy into the "browser will become the runtime for most things" argument, you'll be able to do this within your browser-based HTML editor, too, one day.
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I'm happy any time I see web design/development moving into the web browser and out of text files. It feels like the natural progression of things. Some comments: - The example email (Weekly Summary) made me think "SPAM!" as soon as I saw i
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Trying to think creatively here... Could you try to capitalize on the fact that you're right in between two enormous populations of PhD students and professors who are eager to both give talks and learn more? Maybe you could support micro-p
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You know what they say, Works Slowly > Breaks Quickly
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Question I've always had for WP Theme businesses: is there any need / common practice to prevent plugin piracy? Or is the market so big and pirates such a small portion of it that it isn't really something worth worrying about?
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Woah. When I went to comment on this post it was on the front page. When I submitted my comment it was nowhere to be found. There should be a required comment when YC folks bury a story. Otherwise it's pretty sketchy.
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It's too bad we don't have a culture/ecosystem of instrumenting our browser to perform mass surveillance on company behavior. It would be interesting to collect data like this across many advertisers and do a proper study. Seems to me that
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No, they stand because that part of the world is used to squatting when they go to the bathroom. The "toilet as throne" model is from the west. Over there, historically, toilets are built into the floor. The toilet bowl is a rounded-rectang
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w1ntermute - That's a great question. We'll have to hope someone with better knowledge of Japanese habits and culture will respond to answer it.
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It's not a reasonable default because every visitor to your house would make a comment requiring you to justify having "fringe" bathroom habits. Edit: Not every, of course. And the number would vary by region of the US. Excuse the universal
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Americans, by and large, are quite bizarre when it comes to discussing anything that takes place below the belt. When I mentioned working at Google, I have had multiple people say to me, "I heard the founders at Google are OBSESSED with toi
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Ask HN: Let's talk about voting machines [seed topics included]
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Not-voting may be a form of protest from a philosophical standpoint, but it's an objectively awful one from a practical standpoint, since the political mechanism in place to affect change is precisely through the act of voting. It's like tr
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Legality of this aside... I assume the best in people. So I assume this is a person trying to call into focus the blurry spectrum between experiencing an event, documenting an event on paper, drawing, pictures, and video. And he's probably
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Given that Eric points to the bottom-of-page placement of the TOS as further evidence of its inadmissibility, it's a bit ironic that the first paragraph of his article says "This post will make some suggestions" and the last paragraph, pa
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As a heavy LaTeX user (phd student; can't escape it), I'm convinced that there is a small enough subset of LaTeX that actually gets used day-to-day that someone could figure out a way to shim it into something like Markdown. And then, for t

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