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by jimmybot 17y ago
Is it me or does it seem that Facebook is working hard to generate a lot of news/publicity these past few days? What are they looking to accomplish?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
It's not a bash tip, but if you want something that generally makes command line navigation easier without the need for heavy amounts of customization or memorization, you might consider using the Friendly interactive shell (Fish shell). Sm
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Some nice features: 1) Advanced tab completion 2) History-based autocomplete (type and press up) 3) Optional cd (.. to go to parent directory) 4) Syntax highlighting 5) Simplified and streamlined syntax There's also an overview in the Wikip
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Fish Shell: A User-Friendly Shell or Like a Heavily Customized zsh(fishshell.org)
23 points by jimmybot 17y ago|8 comments
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Since a couple aggregators were listed--the thing that troubles design for aggregators in my mind is that they are all just lists. You can put some color, some thumbnails on a list, but in the end, it's still a list. What I find much more
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by jimmybot 17y ago
"In the grand scale of things, the number of people likely to die from it seems miniscule compared to other threats." What are other threats are you thinking of? What other diseases are estimated to cause half the US population to be infect
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I totally agree; it's a problem I've thought about as well, and it's not just HN either. People scan news headlines (whether on news media outlets or on news aggregators) always looking for something shocking or moving or hilarious or desp
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by jimmybot 17y ago
It's stated in the article that tables of facts/data are not copyright-able. But additionally, aren't publications of the government by law automatically made a part of the public domain?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Really? Is MSNBC still owned by Microsoft? When it comes to the Internet, Microsoft seems like one of those companies that really doesn't mind investing lots of money for a long time as long as they hold a glimmer of hope.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Contradictory things are being advocated. Health care reform at least intuitively looks pro-small business. But mandatory vacation days and high unemployment benefits? If they are paid out by the hiring company? I doubt that is helpful
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Agreed, but it's not just a motivation problem. Deletionists get an upper-hand over inclusionists when the article is deleted because the history is not available, and you have to start all over. You can't just revert to a previous state
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by jimmybot 17y ago
If you want, you can delete your flash cookies using the BetterPrivacy Firefox Add-On: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623 Should delete globally so you can use it even if you don't use Firefox.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Okay, I didn't think of the funding aspect, which would be a reason they were limited to that group, but again, regardless of why they were limited, the fact that it was a limited group still casts some doubt on the broader applicabilit
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by jimmybot 17y ago
What the heck? I didn't misunderstand the study by only looking at the headline. The full paper confirms what I said in my comments. My criticism of the study as possibly being of limited applicability (older, white women) still stands
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Wha...? Wait a second. The title for the link submitted is: Vitamin D slashes risk of cancers by 77 percent (2007) If what you're saying is true, that calcium + vitamin D confers the greatest benefit, then the link title is still wrong.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Can it? What evidence is there that the placebo group or the calcium group were vitamin D deficient? One group taking vitamin D beyond their normal daily requirement does not mean the other groups were deficient.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Sorry guys, don't get excited yet. Bad, misleading headline. What? "Subjects were randomly assigned to take daily dosages of 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium, 1,400-1,500 mg supplemental calcium plus 1,100 IU of vitamin D3, or placebos
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Might have something to do with not respecting nofollow.
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Agree about the bad title; but it does resolve an important question, which was whether the script was a language at all. Establishing that it has the regularities of human language was a necessary first step. Here's another interesting ex
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Modern statistical machine translation works by training on large amounts of already translated data, called parallel corpora. Monolingual data is helpful and can help you fix grammar, choose words that are more likely, but it won't work w
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by jimmybot 17y ago
They also mentioned Facebook. Are payments really big on Facebook? With tons of customers and experience with processing payments for real-world goods, I would think Amazon would have a better shot at it than Facebook. Also, out of Apple,
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I get what you mean, but if they were priced correctly, they'd just be internalities. Internalities?
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Is this some kind of mis-channeling of PG's last essay? Did you see the photo of the car? It's not targeted at the Hummer crowd. It's also being sold in Europe. I'm not saying it's a great name, but I can see the association between leaf
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I find it great that on HN, new links are often relevant to recently, previously discussed links. You can almost see the collective mind digesting new information and putting out new conjectures. Still, I wonder if there would be a good sy
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Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work(nytimes.com)
3 points by jimmybot 17y ago|0 comments
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by jimmybot 17y ago
I agree with your point, but I do want to point out that mail theft (by postal workers, errant receivers, and malicious thieves) is not so uncommon. I have had a few things mailed without tracking numbers that I strongly suspect were stole
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Let me rephrase that for you: "Just use a new workflow that you're not used to--mount your Pre as a USB drive and drag your MP3s on-- even though you like and are invested in iTunes."
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by jimmybot 17y ago
Well, you're right about it being formal sounding because almost no one uses anything but the common name, 英國. And even in your example, the Eng part of England is still in there and not in the English. So that's my point--in English, the
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by jimmybot 17y ago
There's always time lag for this kind of thing. In English, there are even multiple borrowings of the same French word into English with different spellings. This phenomenon exists in Chinese as well. How for, example, do you say UK in Ch
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by jimmybot 17y ago
A more serious problem is the expression of a sentiment I think few of us here share: "...not what someone on the internet tells you to." Really? Is it really so bad or so unreliable to read what someone on the "internet" said? In fact, I

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