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by eykanal 14y ago
Have any native english publications covered this story? Strange that the only new source to publish a follow-up to what was a very popular story would be some random Norwegian newspaper.
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by eykanal 14y ago
There have been many discussions here on Hacker News about the risks inherent in building your product—and hence livelihood—on top of someone else's platform, over which you have no control. Unfortunately for Tweetbot, this sort of complain
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by eykanal 14y ago
Try tumblr.com and stackoverflow.com after logging in; it doesn't deal with redirects for logged-in users well.
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by eykanal 14y ago
I have no idea who you are or what you do, so this comment includes a certain naïveté. That being said, turning off comments doesn't accomplish anything. As you see here, your article was posted, and there are comments, and you're reading t
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Drudge Report makes Matt Drudge possibly the most successful media entrepreneur(businessinsider.com)
3 points by eykanal 14y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 14y ago
One thing I love about the hacker culture is that it functions like a (somewhat dysfunctional) meritocracy. Software that is good will often gain kudos, and bad software will be torn apart in critiques. This fails when it comes to large com
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by eykanal 14y ago
I'm aware of the definition of superconductivity. My point is that these researchers have no definitely found superconductivity, they have found evidence that under controlled conditions they can possibly achieve short-term high-temp superc
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by eykanal 14y ago
This is an attention-grabbing headline, at best. As described in the article, the scientists found highly transient evidence of superconductive behavior in a tiny subset of graphite grains. While that is incredible, it's not the same as "ro
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Think of time as currency(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 14y ago|1 comments
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Legislative refactoring(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
1 points by eykanal 14y ago|0 comments
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by eykanal 14y ago
It's worth noting that you could replace every instance of the word "programmer" in this article with "banker" or "accountant" or "teacher" or any of a number of non-public-facing professions and the take-home would be the same. The program
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by eykanal 14y ago
For what it's worth, the best PCA tutorial I've seen online is this blog post, which uses plots to describe the technique: http://stats.stackexchange.com/a/2700/2019 PCA is nothing more than a "basis shift", or changing where the x and y
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by eykanal 14y ago
That's fairly common. 5.3 hasn't reached end-of-life yet, so bugs are still being fixed. 5.3.16 is a bugfix release, wheres 5.4 will contain bugfixes and may (I don't know, I haven't read the release logs) also contain new features.
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by eykanal 14y ago
This is where this whole thing came from today. Somebody submitted this earlier, but it never got to the front page. I suggest a detailed readthrough of the question and all the answers for a great overview of how this works.
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by eykanal 14y ago
iMac: 1998. Started a whole breed of computers with fancy physical designs. Original iPod: 2001. Completely destroyed the walkman/cd player industry. iPhone: 2007. Redefined the mobile phone. iPad: 2010. Defined what tablets look like. ----
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by eykanal 14y ago
Change that to "internet advertisers", and that is exactly my assumption. Personally, I think that is a fine assumption to make. I have never seen an advertisement add value to a internet-based conversation I was having or article I was rea
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by eykanal 14y ago
Following the model from the article: In the fee-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the users. In the ads-based model, the needs of the following must be met: (1) the company, (2) the advertisers, (3)
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by eykanal 14y ago
Your question was downvoted because it basically reads as, "I want to do X. Please do it for me." The site is supposed to be a replacement for a smart coworker. You wouldn't ask your coworker to do something like that, you'd ask him for hel
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by eykanal 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. Even more so, by "sticking to their guns", Microsoft is essentially creating user confusion over what Do Not Track actually means. It used to mean "advertisers, please do not track me". Now it will mean "advertisers, pl
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by eykanal 14y ago
They'll find out about software the same way that the "majority consumer" used to; reading magazines like Macworld, seeing advertisements in various places, and talking to friends. If anything, the App Store is the one trying to break into
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by eykanal 14y ago
One gem: > "I do occasionally take a free t-shirt from these companies, but my wife hates it when I wear them, as she considers them ugly." I like it.
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Walt Mossberg ethics statement - good sense of humor(allthingsd.com)
1 points by eykanal 14y ago|1 comments
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by eykanal 14y ago
At first glance, the site seems to be nothing more than an aggregator of tutorials. If there's a differentiating factor, I'm not seeing it.
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by eykanal 14y ago
Touche.
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by eykanal 14y ago
Computers are not tools. Computers are platforms for which you can build and use tools. The programs, such as MS Office and Facebook, are the tools. Most people are content to just use tools, not build them.
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by eykanal 14y ago
I've never seen a plumber upset that not everyone they meet knows how to do basic plumbing. Chefs don't get mad that people they meet can't cook a fancy souffle. Why is it that so many programmers expect the world to understand computers? Y
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Why I read The Economist, and why you should, too(shadyacres.tumblr.com)
11 points by eykanal 14y ago|7 comments
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by eykanal 14y ago
With respect to item #1 (huge time lag), it's worth mentioning that in some fields—I'm familiar with psychology, neuroscience, and biomedical engineering, but this likely applies to others as well—many if not most labs are in some form of c
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by eykanal 14y ago
Very good point, the degree to which they cheat is important, and they took advantage of the video to emphasize that. Smart of them.
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by eykanal 14y ago
I'll disagree slightly with tptacek... this is a genius piece of marketing by McDonalds. It does everything that we routinely see listed on this very site as Best Practices™: - Respond to customer feedback in a friendly and highly transpare

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