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by pessimist 15y ago
I'm worried seo spammers will start adding them to this circle. Does HN support some OAuth you can use to verify that those who add themselves are actual HN users? If you could require minimum karma points that would be awesome.
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by pessimist 15y ago
So what happens when spammers start adding themselves to the Hacker News circle?
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by pessimist 15y ago
When the Queen asked Michael Faraday of what use his funny experiments with magnets would amount to, he is reported to have said - "Of what use is a new born baby?" From another angle, during some collider hearings in congress, the physicis
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by pessimist 15y ago
Its disappeared for me for the queries [browser], [internet browser] etc. The change probably takes a while to rollout everywhere. Probably fair that it still shows up for [chrome].
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by pessimist 15y ago
The first time I read Christopher Hitchens was his takedown of Mother Teresa - "The Missionary Position". It was emblematic of his writing - shocking, irreverent, but beautifully written and argued. The most intellectually honest pundit I h
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by pessimist 15y ago
In all honesty, I'm surprised people are surprised by these actions. Its routine that when companies like Google acquire smallcompanies, tons of people in the smaller company are fired. I know for a fact that this happened in the Admob acqu
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by pessimist 15y ago
I see, this must be why the iPod has improved people's lives so much whereas Google search and maps were merely about pointless technology.
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by pessimist 15y ago
I've had success with Monkey Math, Math Bingo and Rocket Math, and later Grow Your Garden. I should say its not that you let your 4 yr old unattended with these games, but you work with him - teach him methods but dont give him solutions, s
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by pessimist 15y ago
“The idea that an app on an iPad can better teach my kids to read or do arithmetic, that’s ridiculous.” In my experience this may be empirically false. My 4 year old could barely count, but after spending 2 months in the summer playing a co
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by pessimist 15y ago
I don't think this is the correct way to think of things. I think there are 2 different cultures that have contributed to the computing world today. The first is from academics and big company research. This is the legacy of IBM and AT&
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by pessimist 15y ago
Well, if I get fired, my unvested stock options certainly dont suddenly vest. And I dont get any severance pay. So yes, I propose that CEO's get exactly that treatment.
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by pessimist 15y ago
The really disgusting part is that these CEO's have absolutely nothing to lose. If Meg Whitman gets this job she is basically guaranteed 10's of millions of dollars - whether or not she ruins the company. Carly Fiorina, Mark Hurd, Leo Apoth
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by pessimist 15y ago
I'm a happy T-mobile customer, and I hate AT&T, but IMHO the government has no business blocking this deal. Maybe the law allows it to block on nebulous competition grounds, but if it does then the law is an ass. Business should be allo
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by pessimist 15y ago
According to Tyler Cowen - http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/01/the... - the earlier massive productivity increases were chiefly due to plucking of low hanging fruit: 1. Big scientific discoveries on 19th century took
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by pessimist 15y ago
Meta: sad to see Hacker News dominated by so many pointless G+ stories. One story a day would be about right.
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by pessimist 15y ago
https://plus.google.com/104560124403688998123/buzz?tab=mX looks legit based on the people he's following. Mark doesnt look very happy :-).
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by pessimist 15y ago
Facebook will integrate Group Video Chat from Skype in a few weeks - bet on it.
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by pessimist 15y ago
These projects seemed set up for failure from the start. I wonder if this is a systematic problem at big companies (or at least Google). They launch "experimental" projects, dont give them enough resources, and consequently doom them to fai
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by pessimist 15y ago
No different from showing snippets below results, as far as I can see. Nothing that any competitor cant copy easily.
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by pessimist 15y ago
The article claims that this is the reason Russia has so little innovation. Is this really true though? Yandex is a great company. VKontakte is dominating social networking there. Russian investors (or at least Yuri Milner) appear to be doi
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by pessimist 15y ago
Sad. But I have to say - climbing Everest when your wife is due to give birth - not cool. Overall death rate for Everest climbers is pretty close to 3% - pretty high (although its been falling). Edit: 3% is for climbers above base camp - fo
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by pessimist 15y ago
Would runtime optimization or profile based optimization help here?
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by pessimist 15y ago
Maybe I'm foolish for responding to a troll but I dont understand why Google is being considered a monopoly? Its not even a bit-player yet in payments, file sharing or social. It has high (~2/3) but not not monopoly share of search in the U
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by pessimist 15y ago
Any estimate on how [un] reliable a phone is vs a piece of plastic with a magnetic stripe? Also - this is not clear to me - what new pieces have to rollout for this to work? New Point-of-sale machines AND new phones with NFC? COuld this int
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by pessimist 15y ago
I'm pretty sure Facebook employees have been provided some rationalization about it - for example, "Google is pushing a creepy feature and stealing our content, we are just trying to make it public". Believe me, when you have $$$ riding on
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by pessimist 15y ago
Today there are over 100 million consumers using linux, 99% of them on android. All other linux distros are rounding errors.
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by pessimist 15y ago
After all this, so-called aesthetic considerations make it impossible to find a name you are looking for.
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by pessimist 15y ago
This is frankly not the time to push ridiculous conspiracy theories about the CIA being in bed with Osama.
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by pessimist 15y ago
Oil falls 1% on the news, stock futures up by 0.5%, dollar up also (expectation of reduction in war expenses?).
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by pessimist 15y ago
From wikipedia: "The city is well-known throughout Pakistan for its pleasant weather, high standard educational institutions and military establishments. It remains a major hub for tourism ...", "50 km from Islamabad" Just amazing - harbore

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