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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is a really great point. In fact, _any_ survey with self-selecting participants is highly susceptible to selection bias. What surveys like this are good for is measuring the opinions of a group of people, weighted by degree of explicit
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That is what I get in Chrome when I tab to autocomplete "n". At some point I must have typed in "news.ycombinator.org" out of curiosity, and Chrome decided to favor it.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I posted this after being really inspired by the HN post about John Carmack's .plan file[1], and then doing some research to discover what exactly a .plan file is. [1] http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3367230
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by jpadvo 15y ago
If anybody else was wondering what a .plan file is... it is part of the Finger Protocol[1], put together in 1977: > The program would supply information such as whether a user is currently logged-on, e-mail address, full name etc. As we
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Background of .plan files: the 1977 Finger Protocol(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by jpadvo 15y ago|7 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Hi Nick! Thanks for making this, I'm going to add it to a project right now. One quick note -- it'd be cool if you had a big "find me on Github" button near the top, just for convenience. And so that people understand right away that it is
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I was hoping that this turns out to be something really classy like Deck ads[1]. Turns out the underlying technology is provided by the Federated Media[2], the same company that provides ads for AppleInsider[3] and Boing Boing[4]. There's s
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by jpadvo 15y ago
The first comment on the post explains that the account in question appears to be set up by a spammer. It is an impersonation by a bad apple, not something Facebook did. Reporting it should result in its removal, hopefully. If that doesn't
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Interesting find! About Google, I'm pretty sure they have methods to detect hidden content that simply exists as SEO spam.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
For reference, there is another discussion about this here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3277661 A few people from Google, including Matt Cutts, are taking part in that discussion.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is addressed in the article: they used many replicated objects. They stored one rock, then rendered it a gajillion times. They claim they were able to do this by applying something like a search algorithm to the objects being rendered.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This looks amazing -- I've been needing something like this for a while. The one piece of advice I'd give is to create some kind of backup and or export feature. It's a little scary to think about putting so much valuable information about
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I skimmed through the comments and was surprised to not see anything about Project Implicit being done at Harvard. This is a research project that is being done using actual, real science. We don't need to armchair speculate about this stuf
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by jpadvo 15y ago
You should still do it This is a big world, and there is lots of space for people to take different whacks at similar ideas.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I don't think they plan to. From their website: "At Nest, what matters to us are homes and the people inside them. We’re changing the way you think about your home and the way your home thinks."
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by jpadvo 15y ago
I love it, but downvote for lack of substance related to the article. :/
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That is a fascinating claim, and it certainly sounds possible. Do you have any evidence or sources to back it up?
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing that out. That completely invalidates one of invalidates one of the alternate headlines. My reading-comprehension-fu must be weak right now.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is not a story about Apple Computer, this is a story about analysts who mis-predicted something. Apple had predicted revenue of $25 billion, and they actually had revenue of $28.27 billion, their second best quarter ever. So why did th
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by jpadvo 15y ago
> ...you're very much a net negative. Not he spends his life inspiring and educating people about how to control their finances, and make money serve them instead of the other way around. That would be a very valuable social contributio
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by jpadvo 15y ago
The issue is not at all with his opinion. It is that he expressed it in a horrendously, gratuitously crass and offensive way. Here is a transliteration into humane language of what he said: "My heart goes out to Steve Jobs' family in their
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Same here, except for the surprise. I've only ever owned two Apple products, but I am constantly inspired by Steve Jobs. No one else has had more of an impact on how I work as a designer and developer. And somehow it wasn't just because he
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Flagged -- HN can do better than this. That was a terrible article, and does more to damage VentureBeat's credibility than anything else. Here is an excerpt from the now-deleted article: "Of course, we have no proof whether TechCrunch was r
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by jpadvo 15y ago
You have a good point. If the movie making was just a charade, you are probably right -- it might have been some kind of fraud. If he actually was producing a film, even if it was just a short one or an advertisement, he probably was okay.
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by jpadvo 15y ago
What is so impressive about the story is that he didn't break the rules, he found a clever way to work within them. He was confronted with a brick wall most people would have seen as non-negotiable, and he found a way around it. This requir
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is probably from somebody domain camping the url, and for some reason powering it with Google App Engine. Nevertheless, the irony is striking.
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Google 404 screen appears on facebook.co.uk/ root(facebook.co.uk)
18 points by jpadvo 15y ago|2 comments
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by jpadvo 15y ago
That is really cool, gkoberger. Thanks for sharing. :)
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by jpadvo 15y ago
This is really nifty. One nit that I'd pick, however. The urls break without the hash. With the demo, for example, these urls produce two different results: http://cmpolis.github.com/Pagify/#about http://cmpolis.github.com/Pagify/about
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by jpadvo 15y ago
Here is a page that takes care of the "comprehensive" piece: http://www.quirksmode.org/compatibility.html It's readable enough, but a little dense on information. :)

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