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by plg 13y ago
I agree with what you're saying. I didn't mean to deride him at all. I was deriding the meme that is being promoted in the press that makes it sounds like someone with nothing suddenly created and released an app that suddenly sol
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by plg 13y ago
We are so insulated from our community. I guarantee you that for the vast, vast majority of San Franciscans, suddenly having $400,000 would be a truly life-changing event.
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by plg 13y ago
confirmed here as well, it's fixed https://gotofail.com
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by plg 13y ago
True
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by plg 13y ago
In what universe is having a $400,000 bank account not winning the lottery? Holy hell, dude.
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by plg 13y ago
Didn't he have a job, for many years, at Yahoo, before starting WhatsApp? Didn't his co-founder also exit Yahoo with what most Americans would consider a crapload of cash? (an amount one would think of when one thinks of winning a
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by plg 13y ago
Tim Cook had better make a public statement and make it soon. Think antennagate. It's one thing if your maps application is wrong ... but it's quite another if suddenly people feel like using your product puts their banking inform
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by plg 13y ago
this in itself illustrates one of the problems with hangouts... why are there these two different ways of running it? where am I told which to use? how do I explain to my grandma that she shouldn't be using an "extension" but
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by plg 13y ago
A really great start. Keep it up! Would be helpful to have a version that doesn't depend on internet connectivity... e.g. so I can read it on my iPad offline. Does iPython easily allow saving as a pdf?
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by plg 13y ago
Who is this product aimed at? If it's academics, students, etc, then it's doomed, the wave today is free open source software.
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by plg 13y ago
should include "posts about analyzing HN posts" as a category how meta
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by plg 13y ago
Ironically, the most cost efficient way of acquiring BTC today may well be to go out into the world and earn dollars (e.g. a job) and then use them to purchase BTC from an exchange.
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas (1971)(rollingstone.com)
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by plg 13y ago
These elite colleges (like the ivy leagues) will often place significant weight on "family legacy" factors when deciding whether to admit students. What more do we need to say?
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by plg 13y ago
I thought Apple's policy was to not release these sort of security notices until a fix was in place?
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by plg 13y ago
"If you're on OS X Mavericks or on iOS 7 and haven't patched" how do I patch on OS X Mavericks? Software update shows nothing to update
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by plg 13y ago
maybe the best nudity detector API involves the following: 1. attempt to post the image to google+ 2. if the post is there, there is no nudity; if it failed to post, there is nudity
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by plg 13y ago
not supported in Safari? (7.0.1)
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by plg 13y ago
on Charlie Rose (1 hr interview) http://www.hulu.com/watch/595859
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by plg 13y ago
Meatballs (1979) [1] was always a favorite of mine, although this will date me slightly (!). As a geek and an introvert facing many of the same social challenges as the main character Rudy (Chris Makepeace) it was incredibly reassuring to s
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by plg 13y ago
Does it bother anyone else that dropbox is "processing" files at all? whether video or otherwise?
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by plg 13y ago
true ... but often (as in the case of this article) the results are presented as if they are a surprise... which implies a null hypothesis anyway I agree with you, one doesn't need a null hypothesis to measure things on the other hand
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by plg 13y ago
Not to be too cheeky here, but what was the null hypothesis? That male and female brains would look exactly the same? Seems a bit like a so-called "straw man" (or straw woman?) hypothesis to me.
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by plg 13y ago
Is the real goal of these attacks perhaps to drive down the price temporarily, so that the attackers can purchase at a discount, and then sell shortly afterwards when the price goes back up?
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by plg 13y ago
I'm all for this (fighting back) ... but (and I sincerely don't mean to be cheeky) but how exactly is putting a banner on your website 'fighting back' ?
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by plg 13y ago
Is there anything like org-mode (emacs) with vim?
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by plg 13y ago
so the question of the day I guess is will Dogecoin do the same thing? (it's "cheap" now) I almost think that it will... in other words a bitcoin-like bubble will happen again, but maybe just once, and then not again (because
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by plg 13y ago
so here in my hand I have a $100 bill. How do I turn it into Dogecoin??
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by plg 13y ago
isn't this actually veiled advice-giving, i.e. "don't give advice" ?
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by plg 13y ago
true enough. that would be an even worse feeling

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