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by num1 16y ago
I hope we can continue to coexist here, sorry to be one of the new voices that is taking your community in a direction you don't want it taken.
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by num1 16y ago
You are, of course, correct that upvotes do not "define" what belongs in this community. However if you will not accept that evidence, look at the other comments in this thread. I see people having fun and satisfying their creative curiosit
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by num1 16y ago
According to the official FAQ ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ) on-topic is defined as: "Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, th
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by num1 16y ago
As a big fan of Google Wave, I like this idea a lot. Although if I remember correctly it had huge performance issues with waves that had many concurrent users. That might take a little too much tweaking to fix for it to be worth it.
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by num1 16y ago
I completely agree with graceyang that the community is the important part. While it would be nice to have a custom tool, that adds months to the startup process full of debating how the tool should be made and what it should do.
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by num1 16y ago
Dance mode made my day. Well played.
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The Internet needs a do-over.(blog.briancloutier.com)
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by num1 16y ago
I stand corrected. Sorry for the argumentative tone of my comment and thank you for your polite responses.
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by num1 16y ago
I'm not sure I believe that this was posted by an innocent bystander. Marvin85 appears to have been created for the sole purpose of posting to HN, it's only submission and comment both belong to this thread (although I can't explain how old
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by num1 16y ago
Is there some deep analogy that I'm missing, or is he just giving an example of how to analyze things?
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by num1 16y ago
Why does every conversations about smartphones end up with an argument between Apple and Android? A) There are more than two options (you can't predict the future) B) That's completely unrelated to the article. Yes he mentioned an android p
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by num1 16y ago
I like this suggestion. Obtain dropbox-like features by leveraging dropbox.
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by num1 16y ago
Lookup Off-The-Record messaging. Doesn't cover the kind of log encryption you're asking about, but it's what you want (instead of what you asked for) I think.
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by num1 16y ago
I think the lesson to learn here is that free markets require maintenance and defending. A free market is by its very definition the natural state of affairs. In not only the modern industrial state, but every state America has known, we
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by num1 16y ago
I would personally list patent protections as legislative. There was an article posted to HN recently about patents and what I took away was that they do little to protect someone who isn't a large corporation. I believe this is related to
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by num1 16y ago
1) Technical advantages are welcomed, just not legislative. 2) Arguing from the perspective of the Cato institute, who are you to place restrictions on the phones carriers sell? The root issue is whether providers have a monopoly or not. Bu
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by num1 16y ago
Battery power is also a factor that comes into play here. These devices are "always on" for days at a time. Powering down isn't really the issue so much as leaving your perception. You can forget about them ("turn them off") and when you st
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by num1 16y ago
I see Instant On and Crash-Only Programs as being two very similar goals. Sure one is about turning on and one is about turning off, but both of them exist because we're attempting to fight the problem of complex software. It'd be interesti
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by num1 16y ago
I've always wondered how we have created the system within which we find ourselves. It is possible for someone to write this well about an argument and obviously be in the right. But somehow, their argument will either be completely ignored
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by num1 16y ago
For reference, the program he is referring to can be found here. http://catalog.usmint.gov/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductD... I love how that in bold blue letters the page says: "The immediate bank deposit of $1 coins ordered through t
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by num1 16y ago
And now that these are published you can rest assured that they will never be used in a Google interview again.
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by num1 16y ago
I am continually amazed at the quality of Google Translate. That translation was incredibly readable with maybe two or three errors. This used to be black magic just a few years ago!
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by num1 16y ago
I'm sitting a little confused here. The WHOIS for torrent-finder.com lists an address in Egypt. But comments that I've seen so far express anger, but are explicitly tempered by the fact that this is happening within the US and we haven't cr
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by num1 16y ago
Did the author or this article even read netflix's statement? There was no "lamentation" of the fragmentation of the Android market. Because Android doesn't enforce a DRM model on every android handset Netflix is going to be working with in
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by num1 16y ago
I know exactly what you mean. I have spend enough years interacting with people from Turkey that I no longer recognize any kind of Turkish accent.
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by num1 16y ago
Seems to be correct so far, 32.
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by num1 16y ago
Scratch my earlier comment. As found in the article: " The scientific literature has provided clear evidence that the ORE [other race effect] and the popular belief that OR faces all look alike are not accounted for by the paucity of anthro
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by num1 16y ago
There is no implication at all that this is a genetic phenomenon. The research simply states that we are better at recognizing people within our race than outside of our race. From the point of the experiment both genetics and "what we're u
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by num1 16y ago
I keep coming up with this idea once every month or so, and I always get stuck on the problem of compatibility. What would be great, is if there did not need to be a physical connection between the tablet and phone. I'm thinking of a protoc
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by num1 16y ago
This reminds me of the mixup a few months ago where a site other than Facebook was the top Google result for "facebook login" http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/02/11/facebook-login . I find it rather depressing that while we've built u

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