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by raquo 15y ago
Russia's largest social network vkontakte (vk.com) lets you draw "graffiti" on friends's walls, but I wouldn't say they have any design value whatsoever, let alone Apple-grade design.
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by raquo 15y ago
Or just have different QR codes for different replies.
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by raquo 15y ago
Early Macbook Airs are to blame for that weird power connector. Look: http://www.slashgear.com/gallery/data_files/3/macbook-air-ha... The industrial design division probably wanted a thin bevel on all sides, and there is no way a classic
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by raquo 15y ago
I agree, but I'm not asking for superhero rulers either. Even Medvedev with his limited powers has done tangible good to the country (I can see it most clearly from small business perspective). If Putin gets back to full power in 2012, Russ
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by raquo 15y ago
Here's another man who screwed up a country: Russia's Putin. In power since 2000, insane amount of fraud, perpetuating corruption, no free speech, no rule of law, police state and pretty much any other state-level deficiency you can think o
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by raquo 15y ago
I want to subscribe to HN posts filtered by points, submitters, keywords, openCalais data, etc. I'm building a web app for this, v0.1 due in several days. As a side effect of scraping HN it would also have a lot of data that I'd want to agg
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by raquo 15y ago
This assumption alone holds OP's argument from folding: > To determine the probability of not just one thing but of a whole bunch of things that are causally unconnected happening together, we multiply the individual probabilities You c
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by raquo 15y ago
Is it only US public sector that is so obsessed with pretty acronyms that seem to have more meaning than their unwrapped form, or is it common in Europe too? note: I'm not from US, honest question
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by raquo 15y ago
I've read a lot of your comments on HN, thank you for sharing all this. I know you probably have better problems to worry about than your website, but I think you can back it up in the wordpress admin panel and import the backup file to wor
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by raquo 15y ago
What I hate most in such cases is that the telco will just sit silent until it presents you an insane bill at the end of the month. How hard is it to implement a system that would compare each customer's last day's spending with their own 7
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by raquo 15y ago
Don't want to be devil's advocate here, but it clearly states on that page: "$2 per MB. You can add an extra 1GB Browsing Pack for an extra $10 a month." Not even in gray tiny text, and that doesn't sound overly expensive. // Okay I'll go w
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by raquo 15y ago
RosPil is not about whistleblowing, they're better. What they do is they analyze public government purchasing tenders and try to stop illegal ones by filing official complaints and trying to publicize the issues. There are many reasons a te
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by raquo 16y ago
A web app to get RSS feeds of HN filtered by keywords, points, etc. because I often miss valuable news in my areas of interest on HN. Was thinking about adding opencalais metadata too, but that's out of my MVP I think.
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by raquo 16y ago
Hm, this post is only 2 hours old and is already 14th on the front page despite having 600+ points. Do all local posts disappear so fast from the front page, or is this one treated specially? Or maybe its upvote/downvote ratio is low?
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by raquo 16y ago
If story points were to be hidden that would devoid HN of any feedback whatsoever. I already pretty much stopped voting on comments. Not to mention that it would simply make HN way more useless. I don't think groupthink on HN can be solved
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by raquo 16y ago
So the evident solution then would be to show comment scores after X (24?) hours since the news item was posted.
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by raquo 16y ago
I'm not here to defend Russia. But how is it fundamentally "worse" than any of say 100 other countries? Looking at most countries from the outside, they all look okay. Not perfect, but not barbaric either. Once you start digging deeper, how
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by raquo 16y ago
Absolutely no hate here. I myself wouldn't fly that thing without some considerable preparation. I just mentioned it because the aircraft was designed to fit into Europe's restrictions for the lightest aircraft category there, but it doesn'
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by raquo 16y ago
US definition of Ultralight requires that engine-off stall speed be at most 45km/h, and max speed at most 102km/h at full power in level flight. flynano's "landing speed" is 70km/h, and "cruising speed" is ~140km/h, so it's not going to hap
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by raquo 16y ago
I've been using MT's grid service for a about 2 years. About a year ago my websites started being unavailable for brief periods of time (<30 minutes) at increasing frequency. In november I moved away from them, at that time I had on ave
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by raquo 16y ago
Binny, I'd say avoid stuff like node.js and lisp UNLESS you're actually interested in CS theory. (is HN not the best place to say that). Learning these would be beneficial in long-term, but right now better go after lower-hanging fruit. jQu
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by raquo 16y ago
Depending on where you are, this plane may possibly fit in the Ultralight category ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultralight_aviation ) - i.e. none or very little paperwork required. Not sure about max/stall speed requirements - seems lik
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by raquo 16y ago
You know what's important here? Deliveries start Summer 2011. There is so much vaporware with small vehicle companies. Well okay, not vaporware, but years of delays at least. It's a great MVP, not perfect, but still awesome.
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by raquo 16y ago
Um, thanks, I'll check that! Still, I think it's unintuitive. There's no way I could figure this out from twitter's UI, if only somehow by accident.
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by raquo 16y ago
Does not seem right. See http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman for example I see a lot of Shaun's tweets starting with @someuser, e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/59266889741905920 http://twitter.com/#!/shauninman/status/5925447
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by raquo 16y ago
What I don't like in twitter is how non-obvious and inconvenient it is. E.g. the only way to communicate with someone without polluting your timeline (because who really cares what you @replied to someone) is DMing them, and even that is le
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by raquo 16y ago
There are ways to generate such returns if you fund illegal activities (being separated from them by an intermediary) – not necessarily drugs/firearms – stealing government funds (kickbacks, abusing authority, etc.) works even better.
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by raquo 16y ago
I peraonally would be happy with a day off. The other option is hard to make fun for everyone imho.
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by raquo 16y ago
A payment processing platform with no indication of who runs it? Anonymized whois info? Really? Unless this info won't appear before you market-launch and you're not US-only I don't really see your point, sorry.
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by raquo 16y ago
Comments are ordered by smth like comment_karma / log(comment_age) so that newer comments stay on top for some time

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