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by ihodes 16y ago
Do you have an alternative idea? It seems to me that the only way to maintain quality and at least a little bit of objectivity is to charge a flat fee. Charging for use (including advertising) drives individual writers and sections to via f
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by ihodes 16y ago
I don't think that was the point of the article. Rather, Arrington was commentating on the state of taxes in San Francisco, and he used Twitter and Zynga as an example of high-profile companies which were facing these taxes.
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by ihodes 16y ago
It's a little bizarre how people are either 1) upset at Apple for not doing more 2) expecting all companies to do something like this, thus this isn't exceptional. Addressing point 1 first; there's still time for them to do more. Not only t
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Sidestep(chetansurpur.com)
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Rent Journal Articles With Deepdyve(deepdyve.com)
1 points by ihodes 16y ago|0 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
Is he wrong?
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by ihodes 16y ago
Mahalo is equated with spam in the eyes of many HNers (including me), and JC is seen as the promoter of said spam. EDIT: Why the hell is this getting so many upvotes? Because it's easier to read? Upvote, instead, some of the comments with a
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by ihodes 16y ago
The author is absolutely correct in regards to his central thesis: Apple's iPad has got the market cornered. However, he builds so many little strawmen that I fear that argument will be lost. For example, there is competition. The Xoom is c
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by ihodes 16y ago
It seems as though people may not know what exactly goes on in an exam room, and how exactly is the one taking notes. Often, especially with specialists, there's an MA or RN taking notes. Note only that, but this seems vastly superior to di
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by ihodes 16y ago
What a cool website: absolutely beautiful, if at times hard to see the information itself. I think, maybe, the issue is that the graphics move and are striking, but the information itself does not. Certainly, making the text large and bubbl
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by ihodes 16y ago
EDIT for history: [The original comment was by edw##, regarding the strength of his ancestor's sperm. It wasn't a bad post, I just felt it was inaccurate/confusing.] Though poetic, that's not at all how you should look at it. Those sperm ca
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by ihodes 16y ago
To be honest, I can read on my laptop for a long, long time without my eyes getting sore. I do think the iPad is better on the eyes, though, as I have read books on the iPad in few sittings without problems. My parents also report no eye
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by ihodes 16y ago
The thing is, nothing beats a tablet (well, I use an iPad) for reading. Instapaper (articles, news), iBooks (pdf, ebooks), Reeder (rss), Safari (everything else) are all excellent. I can't lay in bed with my laptop or desktop, nor does read
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by ihodes 16y ago
Right. The question is not whether or not there eist quantum effects in the brain, but whether they have any effect at all. Right now, there are only theories: no empirical data exists to prove or disprove the theory.
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by ihodes 16y ago
Oh there have definitely been studies on it (a good review: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2062484/ ), and without a doubt they communicate. It's just that this paper didn't really address that. What was remarkable about this
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by ihodes 16y ago
This article was from last year (don't know if it's the one you're thinking of), but the paper just theorizes that glia may be involved in the described mechanism. I think we can be fairly certain that glial cells are involved in neuronal c
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by ihodes 16y ago
Roger Penrose (among many others) thinks so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
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by ihodes 16y ago
Here's the Nature paper if anyone's interested (from Dec 2010) http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v14/n2/full/nn.2728.html We had known previously that the axons could send messenger proteins back to the soma (cell body), thus modulating
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by ihodes 16y ago
For those interested, I'd skip the baby-tutorials to the Y fpc and just look at the "math": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_point_combinator#Y_combin... Once you see that you just end up applying the function to itself repeatedly, it m
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by ihodes 16y ago
Also how it was done in the 50's by Americans. (Arthur Burks, Don Warren and Jesse Wright[1]). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation
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by ihodes 16y ago
Thanks, I was aware of that. My point was that not many websites do this.
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by ihodes 16y ago
I kind of agree, but this reminds me of "if you give a mouse a cookie…" Who else does this? I'd like everyone to, but it's great that GitHub does. They do great work.
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Using the Kinect to Build in Minecraft(orderofevents.com)
72 points by ihodes 16y ago|6 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
ZFS is really cool. The best things that stood out out to me when I researched it a bit a while ago (though there is so much cool about it) are 1) more storage than you could ever possibly use–you won't run out. 2) you can add and remove dr
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by ihodes 16y ago
I'm not worried, I was merely clarifying what the OP didn't quite understand. The article (and sentiment) is good though, and I've read it before, but apparently there's some interest in a product like Autho.me. Time will tell.
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by ihodes 16y ago
You missed that you're not going to be using the same password for each website. Autho.me isn't a spin-off of OpenID, it's basically outsourcing signing-in/password "storing" for websites that don't want to risk fucking it up. The point isn
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by ihodes 16y ago
Here's ( http://www.dana.org/news/brainhealth/detail.aspx?id=9854 ) an excellent article, but I'd think it'd be pretty common-sense that you cannot live on starches and fats alone. Your body does actually use vitamins, fiber and different
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Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search(marco.org)
327 points by ihodes 16y ago|178 comments
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by ihodes 16y ago
Or, you know, text smoothing. Antialiasing. Silly stuff like that ;)
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by ihodes 16y ago
He said that it was harmful to build a simple Lisp interp/compiler. Not only that, but apparently he cast off the entire Lisp family without anything other than a "Haskell is just better, kthnx". Seems like a troll in the vein of the previo

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