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by hmsimha 13y ago
Couchsurfing isn't just for finding hosts. Personally, as a long-time host I would choose to host people who seem to be more engaged with the community and have also hosted in the past, over someone who has a history of just surfing, a
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I agree with all your points (long-time couchsurfer with 6 vouches, 42 references, all positive from an even mixture of hosts, surfers, and friends). However, I will say from personal experience, it seems that women have a much easier time
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Forget vinyl, engineer produces the world's first records made from wood(dailymail.co.uk)
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by hmsimha 13y ago
Whether or not that is the trend, it still sucks for the people who used it daily, such as myself. Your reasoning is sound, but that doesn't mean those of us who used it shouldn't be upset, or that those who no have need for it and possibly
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by hmsimha 13y ago
See my response here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5688008
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by hmsimha 13y ago
On the google products forum, someone mentioned that in India, everyone was using this service because it's fairly uncommon to have a data plan. The study you just linked seems to show monthly 3G access at about 8% for urban India. Which se
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I'd like to know what you're basing this on. In the U.S. this may very well be true, though the fact still remains that lower-income people are less likely to have smartphones. But what about in developing nations?
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I just wanted to add that, to me, this is a more egregious shutdown than reader. While many on Hacker News (who I'm assuming are more likely to have a smartphone than the average working-class citizen) may not understand this, envision this
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I posted this when it was pulled a couple days ago, to no traction :/ Google says their mission is to 'organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.' To me (and several others who have posted in that forum)
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It allowed you to access services like yellow pages, weather, directions through text messages. For example I could text google (466453) "directions chicago, IL to San Francisco, CA" and it would text me a full list of directions in respons
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Google just discontinued SMS search(google.com)
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Ask HN: Is asking someone where they work bad etiquette?
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> It's now quite obvious to me (that's all I want to claim) that this period in human history is having a profoundly formative effect on the progress of the species and, should we collectively survive the immense challenges currently fa
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by hmsimha 13y ago
This (and the other suggestion by zerr) still leave the potential for someone to create multiple false 'minimum' datapoints, then target one of their coworkers to find out their salary.
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by hmsimha 13y ago
You could mention that kind of misuse on the page where users enter their code, and suggest they don't enter their salary information unless they are aware that the code was displayed somewhere publicly (yet anonymously) in the company (lik
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by hmsimha 13y ago
The only value lectures have for me that a textbook doesn't, is being able to ask the professor questions when I can't follow something (in a live lecture). I typically get way more out of a well-written textbook than a well-constructed vid
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by hmsimha 13y ago
Well there's the whole world of NoSQL but without understanding the relational model there's no guarantee that your choice of NoSQL is appropriate. From what I understand, many of the prominent advocates of NoSQL even recommend learning rel
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by hmsimha 13y ago
-Coursera and Udacity: platform and courses are proprietary -EdX and class2go: platform is open source, courses are not These are leagues ahead of platforms I've seen which are completely modifiable in content.
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by hmsimha 13y ago
What concerned me the most was whether the diameter of the spool with less 'tape' on it grew faster than that of the spool with more tape. It doesn't (but it should) Mathematical accuracy aside, while I think this is definitely a cool visua
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I was making a quip about data science techniques being more frequently applied and/or computers becoming self-aware, not a judgment on females in programming.. I apologize if this was not appropriately placed.
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by hmsimha 13y ago
My understanding of jury nullification is that it applies to a different scenario, typically that of when the jurors share the sentiment that the law the defendant is accused of violating is unjust (or is being unjustly applied). I don't fe
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by hmsimha 13y ago
I get that. I agree with you the article is making a big deal out of the fact that it was a girl AND a teenager. In an ideal world, they wouldn't have any reason to do that because people would have their merits weighed without contextualiz
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by hmsimha 13y ago
yet...
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by hmsimha 13y ago
do you have any plans to make this more than an iphone app?
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can we get a number of these airdropped into North Korea?
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by hmsimha 13y ago
This is about halfway through right now and I'm actually getting much more enjoyment out of this course than I originally expected. Really makes you think about how elements from gamification can improve design and customer engagement.
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by hmsimha 14y ago
You may very well be right, I had assumed more involvement on his part based on this article: https://medium.com/obvious/e74637f2fe22
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by hmsimha 14y ago
Roads like the california 1 coastal highway, and the 89A from flagstaff to Sedona, sure people are going to want to drive those and while it may make it marginally more dangerous, it would be hard to make a case for mandatory computer contr
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by hmsimha 14y ago
and Biz Stone, another twitter cofounder
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I saw this circulating on facebook and didn't have strong feelings one way or another about it's legitimacy (whereas my bullshit detector usually turns out to be spot on when I take it to snopes) because I try not to underestimate the abili

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