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811.
by retube 15y ago
> You don't have that - the owner first looked up the exchange rate to US dollars What? Any London store that accepts euros will check the rates daily to make sure they can convert back into the GBP price. Currency rates fluctuate all t
812.
by retube 15y ago
It seems that bank accounts are public: https://blockexplorer.com/address/1MTbKpYWnzqmsLvCjdTtwrvuX8... Why is this?
813.
by retube 15y ago
Yeah makes sense. Still, I'd be a bit gutted :)
814.
by retube 15y ago
I just feel sorry for the guy that answered. He's got +685 upvotes at time of writing and no dvs so he should have ~ 7,000 points from this, but apparently SO imposes a daily cap of 200.
815.
by retube 15y ago
Whilst yes the UK govt and/or LM are to be criticised for their lack of security, LulzSec or whoever don't need to actually go post all the data for the world to see. If they want to prove they've done it post re-dected samples. It's childi
816.
by retube 15y ago
Oh I'm not critisizing TC. They got to do whatever pays the bills. It's just that we all know this, and really that article didn't add any insight.
817.
by retube 15y ago
This is a pretty weak post, and states the obvious. tldr; much of techcrunch coverage focuses on the larger heavyweight firms.
818.
by retube 15y ago
They're going to piss a lot of people off if they do this. Like every single UK citizen. Exposing security flaws and embarrassing govt is one thing, but to put un-redacted personal data online is quite another.
819.
by retube 15y ago
Awesome, and thanks :) Also, see my other comment below for a suggestion re filtering out crappy posts.
820.
by retube 15y ago
Ha. I'm currently doing a (hypothetical) study on required revenues and profit margins required for a valuation of £xxx. Using a rev multiple of 4 and p/e of 17.5. Got to start somewhere...
821.
by retube 15y ago
I'm gonna humbly disagree. There are many potential ranking factors in a search result: how well the query matches the document text, how important that text is in the document, how important the document is (PR) and so on. What I don't nec
822.
by retube 15y ago
Yeah this is an important issue. Google apparently ranks results (for you personally) based on some 57 inputs, even when not logged into Google services. In short results suffer from a self-reinforcing feedback loop, forever constraining wh
823.
by retube 15y ago
Thinking a little bit more about this, there are of course lots of submissions that don't get voted up or commented on - spam, off-topic, not interesting etc. Maybe you should only use posts that have either at least one upvote or comment,
824.
by retube 15y ago
In that case I would do it by number of submissions (posts) + number of comments for each period (3 months I think, looking at your graphs?). I would normalised all quarters to the last complete quarter. So if say in q1 2011 there were 1m p
825.
by retube 15y ago
> Hacker News or Stack Overflow are good examples of very successful sites that have horrible visual design. Yeah, to my mind this is bullshit. Reddit is another oft-quoted "horrible" design. Yahoo, msn also. It almost seems as if all t
826.
by retube 15y ago
Came to say exactly this. The chart seems to start (by default anyway) at the beginning of 2007. I'm guessing the user-base and thus activity of HN has increased considerably since then. So yes it would be good to be able to re-normalise in
827.
by retube 15y ago
Apart from (annoyingly and without warning) playing the best matching track to your query/text line, how is this different from youtube search?
828.
by retube 15y ago
Oh man I hope you're joking!
829.
by retube 15y ago
Yes. Not only is this easier to break than a character captcha, it's more painful, fiddly for the user.
830.
by retube 15y ago
Ling: don't listen to these sour grapes. Your website rocks.
831.
by retube 15y ago
Well poywell research maybe, but not _this_ particular project. Actually as someone pointed out, this is dated 2010, and the guy has had to bin it due to lack of funds. Although quite how far he imagined he'd get on $500 / month I'm not su
832.
by retube 15y ago
I'm not sure I get this. Is this a joke? What's the goal here? What's the business model? Have I missed some fundamental development in nuclear physics that makes it possible to build a fusion reactor for $3,000. Is the $10bn being spent on
833.
by retube 15y ago
What is the motivation for this? Why would someone write a bot to add content to wikipedia?
834.
by retube 15y ago
Any idea what their rate of client acquisition is given their current sales force of 8,000?
835.
by retube 15y ago
Ha - so it did! I didn't check, assumed was good :)
836.
by retube 15y ago
Very interesting. I guess though that there is little data that the rest of the world _doesn't_ have right? Btw, The wikipedia link should be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queens_race
837.
by retube 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, what's the hardest data set in the world?
838.
by retube 15y ago
Yeah. This glorification of absurd hours is not a good thing I think. A balanced life is important. Perhaps a few people can handle these kinds of hours their whole life but most can't. It leads to burn out, stress, depression, breaks up ma
839.
by retube 15y ago
Yes. I meant to draw the distinction between Scotland and England.
840.
by retube 15y ago
Aye indeed, I was deliberately making the distinction between Scotland and England.

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