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by mixmax 15y ago
We (the support organization) only do financial and moral support :-) But Copenhagen Suborbitals is pretty software heavy - uplinks, sensors, communications, ballistics, etc. require a lot of software. They're extremely busy right now prepa
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by mixmax 15y ago
Although it's a bit of an apple to oranges comparison Copenhagen suborbitals are on the trajectory to launching a human into space in around three years time. In a months time they'll have their first testflight from Bornholm in the baltic
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by mixmax 15y ago
If the Yellowstone supervolcano erupts leaking nuclear reactors will be the least of America's worries.
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by mixmax 15y ago
isn't herd mentality exactly piling votes onto something that's already popular? If so, then herd mentality has been growing while we haven't had visible votes.
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by mixmax 15y ago
In this particular forum I think votes are a fairly good predictor of accuratese. They're definitely better than nothing. For instance, I know nothing about security - without votes how am I to know that tptacek is an expert at security and
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by mixmax 15y ago
I absolutely agree - and since it's impossible to know whether a top comment in a thread is there because it was just posted or because it has a lot of upvotes the sorting of the comments doesn't really give me any information. This begs th
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by mixmax 15y ago
That's simply not true - "Comments with high scores seem to have slightly higher scores than they would have, but comments with low scores seem to have about the same. Probably because the -4 limit on displayed comment scores was already c
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by mixmax 15y ago
This is a minor detail that might or might or might not be significant. I personally don't see a lot of comments with negative votes that weren't deserved, but maybe you frequent other threads than I do. On the other hand, I agree with the
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by mixmax 15y ago
At first sight it may sound reassuring that the credit card security codes weren't stolen, but the devil's in the numbers. If you have one million credit card numbers, then you'll on average get a thousand succesful transactions if you try
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by mixmax 15y ago
I kinda like firefox, but this might make me change to chrome though. And welcome to hacker news :-)
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by mixmax 15y ago
I wasn't backing up my bookmarks because I trusted delicious. Lessons learned...
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by mixmax 15y ago
around 14 days ago I updated my browser to firefox 4, and all my delicious bookmarks that were in tag clouds on my deliciousbar disappeared - silently deleted. They weren't to be found anywhere, not in my tagcloud, not in my history not on
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by mixmax 15y ago
It seems pretty obvious, so I didn't think it needed elaboration, but try looking at the budget of the US military.
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by mixmax 15y ago
History does indeed have a tendency to repeat itself, and if you go a little further back than the eighties you'll se that the way empires usually fall is by overreaching, and trying to control and colonise beyond their ability. In the end
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by mixmax 15y ago
http://www.iconfinder.com/
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by mixmax 15y ago
Somewhat unrelated - but who do forensic analysts work for, and what do they look for? Are they only working for government agencies, or is there some kind of private work as well? Are you looking for terrorists, kiddie porn or something en
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by mixmax 16y ago
I think you're missing the point. On their website it says " Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)
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by mixmax 16y ago
unfortunately no - he's trying desperately to make it work and grow without having much success.
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U.S. credit outlook cut by S&P on deficit fears(reuters.com)
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by mixmax 16y ago
around 9 years ago I started a startup with three other guys. One of them left pretty quickly because he'd rather keep his daytime job, the three of us presed on. After around two years two of us thought that this particular startup wasn't
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by mixmax 16y ago
This comment thread is a pretty good example of what I'm talking about: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2438577 Do people here think this is a forum for entrepreneurs? Do people think it's OK to link to the HN thread and not the post?
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by mixmax 16y ago
from this users inspection things don't. - I spend substantially more time wading through comments because I can't pick out the good ones. This is particularly true of nested threads. - I often vote based on the current score. If the score
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by mixmax 16y ago
Innovation isn't necessarily inventing something new, it can just as well be taking something existing and making it better. Pagerank, adwords and gmail are examples of this. They all took something existing and made it much much better.
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by mixmax 16y ago
It seems that I'm one of the only people here who thinks the author of the article is on to something substantial. Here's why. First of all, wanting to get into social is accepting to play second fiddle to Facebook - google is not a leader
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by mixmax 16y ago
I'm Danish, and unfortunately this story doesn't surprise me. My brother's Australian girlfriend was unable to get a residence here (He's an engineer, she's a lawyer), one of my good friends' girlfriend from Brazil couldn't get a residence
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by mixmax 16y ago
If the badges are only shown on a users profile page I think you'll see a very different reaction.
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by mixmax 16y ago
That's actually a great idea!
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by mixmax 16y ago
The comparison photo of Steve Jobs is from 2004 though, so the analogy he is making still holds IMHO.
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by mixmax 16y ago
You, and other users both in this thread and in similar ones before it, are only looking at one side of the equation. The problem is only partially too many bad comments, it's also too few good comments. Your proposal is targeted at lower
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by mixmax 16y ago
I used to be a big contributor to this site, but for the last months I've found that my interest in the site has waned. I've thought a lot about why, since I used to really enjoy HN - now it's just one of a few newssites I visit every day

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