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by gaika 18y ago
Anything more complex than hashing is not easy, as managing the keys is a pain (assuming you want to keep them secret).
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by gaika 18y ago
"You just can't buy that sort of entertainment" - https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/000959.html
363.
by gaika 18y ago
They should have called it flux capacitor, because that's what it is.
364.
by gaika 18y ago
Author is clueless: "changes in voltage, or flux" - in this case flux is not change in voltage, but magnetic field.
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by gaika 18y ago
Somewhat justified - it allows nano-scale analog processing elements and storage. More details here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
366.
by gaika 19y ago
Some local tribes think that orangutans are smart, just pretend to be dumb so they can slack off and skip work.
367.
by gaika 19y ago
Can I import the posts into jaanix so it is available for searching / tagging / saving / editing ?
368.
by gaika 19y ago
keyword is "quickly". Content based filtering is extremely expensive, just look at email. Reputation based filtering is quick and easy both for people and computers, but it has its own drawbacks, I agree.
369.
by gaika 19y ago
Simple: karma as a measure of your contributions to the community is not perfect, but it is much better than nothing at all. Do you know a better system?
370.
by gaika 19y ago
Take a look at my startup, we're trying to push a different system for ranking stuff. I personally think there's a lot more value in it. But sometimes people prefer simple algorithms that are easier to understand, there's value in it too.
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by gaika 19y ago
Easy, you just have to take time since you've joined and # of posts and comments into account: I can see that you joined a year ago but didn't gain much karma. That means that you're an old timer, but a lurker, who doesn't post or comment o
372.
by gaika 19y ago
Yes, I care, as a form of trust metric: For the person: it is a simplest way to see if you fit or not in this community. For the community: quickly judge if the post or comment is spam or not.
373.
by gaika 19y ago
beacon?
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FriendFeedFeed(friendfeedfeed.com)
36 points by gaika 19y ago|8 comments
375.
by gaika 19y ago
http://friendfeedfeed.com/ - Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of aggregator activity feeds!
376.
by gaika 19y ago
Everybody is keeping things quiet - any good solutions in sight? (not counting jaanix of course :)
377.
by gaika 19y ago
218 ssh 187 git 61 telnet (was troubleshooting random connectivity issues) 57 script/server 45 ls 45 cd (notice the same #'s as ls, should merge it into one command?) 44 firefox (crashes all the time :( ) 32 rsync (backup) 23 ./xgospel (the
378.
by gaika 19y ago
Protocol itself is ok, the problem is that it is tunneled inside TCP, so on top of TCP SYN/ACKs you have HTTPs certificate exchange and then cypher negotiation just to establish connection. Once established the cypher becomes another slowdo
379.
by gaika 19y ago
Latency and throughput of HTTPS is much much worse than pure HTTP, the original paper has more details on this.
380.
by gaika 19y ago
Thanks! Who needs "unconventional methods" when you can get feedback like this? :) Will be fixing the things you've mentioned, hope to see you on our site more often, let's continue the discussion there.
381.
by gaika 19y ago
You should change it to "honest and the most painful" way. I'm going through it right now, would not recommend it to anybody looking for a quick return.
382.
by gaika 19y ago
Hey, we can really use your feedback too (link in my profile)! Our site has not reached critical mass yet, but we're pretty close. Same space, different approach. Would be very interested to hear what you have to say about us.
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by gaika 19y ago
As somebody running a site very much like yours, let me tell you: Pick a place for your fight where you have an advantage: social news has clear leaders and network effect working against you. Pick a tool for your fight: web site that is l
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by gaika 19y ago
Oh, that's must be why they took it down.
385.
by gaika 19y ago
This is exactly how Microsoft did business: clone, acquire, or kill competitors that had any success running on their platform.
386.
by gaika 19y ago
Wrong in the sense that is not how you make your platform attractive to developers. What happened to "do not be evil"?
387.
by gaika 19y ago
Congratulations, I have written one too, what a coincidence (sarcasm directed towards situation, not the person). I bet most of the people reading this thread have done something around netflix results :)
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Fun with Unicode (and Ruby)(oreillynet.com)
1 points by gaika 19y ago|0 comments
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by gaika 19y ago
For that you can use http://www.aiderss.com/best/news.ycombinator.com , it is filtered based on popularity
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by gaika 19y ago
The biggest accomplishment is the algorithm - when applied to other useful noisy datasets, it can make all the difference between winning and losing (e.g. financial markets)

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