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by pacemkr 16y ago
As if anyone can actually get a good enough signal to pull 100GB off the AT&T network. You have to be masochistic to use a AT&T 3G exclusively. Also, you don't need to jailbreak to tether. I forget the details, but basically you go
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by pacemkr 16y ago
This is nonsense. I enjoy HN primary for how quickly posts that add no value are down-voted into oblivion. I enjoy it because commenters are generally blunt, measured, and to the point. I could care less about swearing as long as the commen
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I could not agree more. I am also dependent on a single platform and am acutely aware of the fact that this is not a good long term (6 mo +) investment of my time. However, building for a popular platform is a good way to make some quick ca
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I have lived in the general area of what is now the Lux bar for over 10 years. I see this sort of thing happen every single summer in New York City. "J1" is what people call these girls and the story goes like this: They come here on work s
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I can't help but think that this is completely ass backward. If you are worried about your privacy, close your FB account. Facebook is not a necessity or a utility, it's still just a free service. I disabled my account years ago for privacy
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by pacemkr 16y ago
"It's just an interface, though, and this is a tool you are going to use every day..." This summarized, for me, why I use hg. It is a tool I am going to use everyday and it's not ok for this tool to have a crappy interface. My hard drive sp
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by pacemkr 16y ago
I have a Palm Pixi Plus on Verizon and can turn it into a wifi router by launching a built in app. It works absolutely flawlessly. Verizon has recently made this feature free for webOS devices (ie. Pre/Pixi Plus).
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by pacemkr 17y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of an aide to existing human moderators. If you start with a clean slate for each particular website and then use the moderation queue information to slowly train the system. Maybe, just maybe that would
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by pacemkr 17y ago
I've actually seen my share of this type of spam as well. Lucky for us all of it came through Indian IPs, while our users were all from the US. They are really getting creative. They WILL post several messages to "gain your trust" before th
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by pacemkr 17y ago
It is quite sad that we have to use actual people (Mechnical Turk) to simply filter out the garbage. We've more or less figured out how to train spam prevention systems. How is "troll prevention" a fundamentally different problem?