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by pork 15y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but please stop this vapid series. Your last article measured HTTP throughput on a static file using localhost. I can't even begin to critique that benchmark as utterly unrealistic. And now that you've introduced a
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by pork 15y ago
Litlet.com is a nicer UI for aldaily.com content.
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by pork 15y ago
Interesting...you guys sound more and more like a hedge fund (and I say that in a positive light).
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by pork 15y ago
Not a good point AT ALL. LSD tolerance builds up over absurdly short times. If you take a dose today, and another tomorrow, you'll experience drastically fewer effects. Thus, you never hear of "LSD addicts". There may be other psychological
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by pork 15y ago
Nope, SOPA was another (succesful) attempt by user-generated content sites to deflect liability away from themselves. That's my point, these onerous terms are pretty much in the same spirit, from an Internet company's point of view, as the
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by pork 15y ago
Let me rephrase GP's comment, since I felt the same thing as them. Allow me to set out a hypothetical. You find that Pinterest's terms are awful, and stage a very successful revolt with your own site, sans the offensive terms. Users flock t
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by pork 15y ago
I think he was referring to the data manipulation capabilities of SQL, things like GROUP BY and WHERE and ORDER BY that can be offloaded to the client, not as a data caching benefit.
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by pork 15y ago
Flawed logic; A/B tests are hypothesis testing, the specific hypotheses can still violate one's privacy. If they could use a bit of retrofitted code to surreptitiously capture your text messages and geolocation, it would certainly help thei
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Show HN: dead simple weather with HTML5 geolocation(climat.us)
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by pork 15y ago
I think you might be ascribing too much to the marketing types. Regardless of the company, a "controlled leak" would probably be someone from PR (credible) talking to a single (or few) outlets. They almost certainly have no idea of (a) wh
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by pork 15y ago
Yes, we don't know, so lets pick the one that is expedient to our biases.
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by pork 15y ago
You can salt all you want, but an 8 character password with a single round is going to fall very, very fast. Salt, being public, has nothing to do with it.
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by pork 15y ago
I don't mean to be a hater, but does every acquisition story have to have a comment like this? If you want to congratulate them, use email or a phone call! If you want to show that you know them personally, please realize that bit of info
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by pork 15y ago
Seriously, neither can I, and you're right that it's a culture problem. I am genuinely trying to do my part to overcome that. Towards that, it would be nice to see more in-depth expositions of setups, and above all, an honest description of
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by pork 15y ago
I'd like to pose a Redis question to the community at large. On HN, I keep hearing about how awesome it is, how readable the codebase is, how efficient and well thought out it generally is. That's all fine, but there is incredible resista
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by pork 15y ago
Sure you can! Like everything else, you have to pick your sources. I go with NYT and the IHT for "American" sources, and the BBC and Al Jaz, and then occassionally the local newspapers if I'm bored. NYT is quite decent, IMO, although obviou
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by pork 15y ago
I agree, I tried it out and it was remarkably accurate.
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by pork 15y ago
This part stood out to me: > The app compares your Likes in common with Wikipedia listings to identify similar categorical interests. Examples I’ve seen: If the other person likes The New Yorker, a line of text might say “You like The E
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by pork 15y ago
Good point, but I think they want to go well beyond pretty girls in coffee shops. I like that they use your Facebook likes behind the scenes to generate connections that might be serendipitous.
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by pork 15y ago
Um, Grindr is for casual homosexual encounters, which is admittedly a big market, but not as big as "lonely in a new city and looking to meet new people". Glancee looks wonderfully polished, I'll give it a spin and see if it works.
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by pork 15y ago
Erik Demaine has some of the nicest algorithms lectures, and I would compare him to Gilbert Strang teaching linear algebra. EDIT: and closer to here, cpercival talking about cryptography and security, or tptacek when he's not grumpy and act
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by pork 15y ago
Strangely, qualified engineers and security experts keep turning down the consumer-facing support jobs.
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by pork 15y ago
PBKDF2 with a high iteration count.
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by pork 15y ago
FWIW, as a musician, this is a really good idea. If you do implement it, please do post a link back on Hn.
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by pork 15y ago
I hate to say this, but you're really starting to sound like you have a chip on your shoulder. You admit that GP has a good point, but then you go ahead and bash one type of person based on some ridiculously flawed notion that an "instructo
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by pork 15y ago
I can't speak to business, but I can about technology. When you're "on the job", you don't have extended periods of time where you have the luxury of studying a complicated topic in depth. Many tech jobs also don't give you the luxury of br
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by pork 15y ago
So people with Facebook profiles are somehow repulsive, while people with HN usernames are implicitly acceptable?
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by pork 15y ago
Cultures are different enough across the world that this might work somewhere, possibly in Holland since KLM is organizing it.
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by pork 15y ago
Wow, you're really asking for a lawsuit aren't you? I mean, MP3s available for download for free on a simple HTML website? What is this, 1998?
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by pork 15y ago
You made rookie mistakes, please don't write your experience up as panacea. Most people who are interested in art will not "like" the facebook art page. They might not even like any pages at all. Connection targeting is spotty unless you kn

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