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by gmisra 11y ago
Honest question: how/why is it legal for Apple to ban any other "app store" from existing? I understand the motivation to require the presence of an intermediary to combat malicious software, but it seems blatantly anti-compe
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by gmisra 12y ago
Some more background and recent history: http://grist.org/article/food-from-motown-to-growtown-the-gr... https://www.guernicamag.com/features/food_among_the_ruins/
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by gmisra 12y ago
This looks great, and I would like to use it, but the pricing structure is frustrating. I help maintain a couple of static websites for small businesses run by friends. Since these are real businesses, the co-branding of the free tier is no
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by gmisra 12y ago
It's disappointing to see that the biggest "disruption" in the logistics space involves shifting risk further down the economic hierarchy. The most difficult part of last-mile logistics has been capacity planning, both human
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by gmisra 12y ago
My first thought was "I wonder what it looks like". It looks like this: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/tapestr...
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by gmisra 12y ago
Do you know what would really be magical? An on-demand service that provided a guarantee that all of the humans involved were beneficiaries of living wages, unemployment and workers comp protection, health insurance etc. I really enjoy the
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by gmisra 12y ago
This seems like a perfect opportunity to share some more reflections on death from those who are often closest to it, doctors themselves. It appears that many (most?) doctors choose to spend their final days differently than most of their p
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by gmisra 12y ago
Just a little history on what Dre and Jimmy consider "innovation": http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h...
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by gmisra 12y ago
I suspect there are some HN readers with experience with how electrical grids work. Can somebody speak to this increased night load and presumably decrease in variance between daytime load and nighttime load. How would those changes impact
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by gmisra 12y ago
Seconded. http://www.crowdflower.com/
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by gmisra 12y ago
Back in the day (1999) I wrote a data processing and archiving pipeline for a research satellite, and I was surprised to discover the specificity of their data archival requirements. Off the top of my head, these were decision points: * Pre
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by gmisra 12y ago
FTA: Like Uber, BlaBlaCar takes a cut of the fare, but crucially, prevents its drivers from trying to turn this into a job. In each of the countries it operates in, BlaBlaCar uses government guidelines on driving costs to set a cap on the f
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by gmisra 12y ago
Apparently I am one of those haters. I guess "Is this really a thing people have trouble with?" is not a valid question, but I really don't understand when/where/why this thread-splitter feature would be useful, let
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by gmisra 12y ago
My favorite thread splitting plugin is "editing the subject field when replying". Is this really a thing that people have trouble with?
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by gmisra 12y ago
Here in California, libraries are offering bigger selections of e-books on-line, which usually come with two restrictions: limited time of readability on your device, and limited number of copies available (and a waiting list to manage acce
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by gmisra 12y ago
Discussion point: "We’re pretty good at testing the kinds of things that intelligent tutors can teach, but we’re not nearly as good at testing the kinds of things that the labor market increasingly rewards."
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Will Computers Ever Replace Teachers?(newyorker.com)
1 points by gmisra 12y ago|2 comments
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by gmisra 12y ago
The strongest statement you can make to this effect is to preferentially take _my_ money over VC money. Words on this particular subject have been reduced to having no value with most people.
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by gmisra 12y ago
Are you in a position to request that these two videos are removed from the privileged access section of the GV Library? Definitely the top two videos I wanted to watch from there, and it seems like better security practices is a win for e
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by gmisra 12y ago
I am disappointed to see that the two security engineering videos are blocked by privileged access control. Improved overall internet security benefits everybody, and it's surprising that GV does not share that ethos. If anybody from t
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by gmisra 12y ago
This has been in place in San Francisco for quite some time (at least a year, I believe, if not longer). It seems like a great idea...for opening a giant MITM attack vector to anyone who chooses to use it.
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by gmisra 12y ago
Honest question: is this idea really something people courting investment are unaware of: "Investors are not in the same business you are" And if so, why are those entrepreneurs surprised? What are their expectations?
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by gmisra 12y ago
Arguably, the "pretty people" have been here for a few years now. But don't take my word for it: http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/go-west-youn...
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by gmisra 12y ago
The history of Beats is itself fascinating: http://gizmodo.com/5981823/beat-by-dre-the-inside-story-of-h...
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Simulation shows that dark energy and matter can reproduce the Universe(arstechnica.com)
1 points by gmisra 12y ago|0 comments
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by gmisra 12y ago
For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming
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by gmisra 12y ago
I don't think very many people thought RSS "died", rather the _opportunity_ for RSS to become the dominant, cross-source publishing standard has died. There used to be a world where all things on Twitter and Facebook were pub
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by gmisra 12y ago
I wouldn't go as far as to say they are "real" yet - they are still working on the prototype: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hellobragi/the-dash-wir...
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by gmisra 12y ago
This seems risky, but interesting. If the core foursquare app becomes focused on location discovery and exploration, they instantly become the most viable mobile competitor to Yelp, which is something I (and I think many people) would be in
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by gmisra 12y ago
What's interesting to me is that "last mile logistics" is essentially a commodity business. But there are two very common trends in the space that don't quite make sense to me: 1. Treating delivery drivers as "indep

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