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by sgk284 15y ago
That's the point. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean it isn't worthy of discussion. Only flag something if it violates an HN policy.
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by sgk284 15y ago
If electric cars take off and everyone starts charging them at home, you can be pretty certain we'll see a huge spike in the electricity usage of the average American home.
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by sgk284 15y ago
I suspect you're overlooking Guido's sense of humor. He was making a joke with his acceptance of the idea.
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by sgk284 15y ago
Vic Gundotra is the Senior Vice President of Social at Google. This anecdote is straight from his mouth.
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by sgk284 15y ago
Neo4j is limited to the ram available on a single machine. Cassandra can scale across many machines. You won't get nearly the same performance though as you would with neo4j.
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by sgk284 15y ago
By clicking 'unsubscribe', the implied intent is that the email is unwanted. So I can either mark an email as 'unwanted' by clicking 'unsubscribe' or by clicking 'report spam'. I'll always give the sender the benefit of the doubt and try
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by sgk284 15y ago
Microsoft actively restricts and controls what can be installed by OEMs now. That's why it's gotten so much better with Win7. The crappy first use experience was ruining Microsoft's image, because people associated the cruft with them.
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by sgk284 15y ago
So my question is, what if TurnItIn quoted a student's paper instead of the teacher quoting an email? I ask because these university's are effectively giving these student's papers to TurnItIn to use and make a profit on however they please
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by sgk284 15y ago
Use WolframAlpha instead: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24176%2C000+in+manhatt... More accurate and they give a lot more details to the data. *Note: I specifically stated 'Manhattan' in that query
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by sgk284 15y ago
The hacker tried to get this lawyer labeled as a sex offender and a terrorist. That would, in a quite literal way, ruin the lawyer's life. Not everyone has the resources or technical know-how to understand and log what was happening. Attemp
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by sgk284 15y ago
It is too short. This hacker tried to get his neighbor labeled as a sex offender and a terrorist, on top of trying to ruin his marriage, family, and get him fired. All of those things, especially the first two, would have screwed up the res
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by sgk284 15y ago
In Japan, groping women and taking pictures up their skirts is a very very common practice among men. That's why they have women only passenger cars on trains[1]. The camera sounds are there to deter this behavior. [1] http://en.wikipedia.
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by sgk284 15y ago
Any examples of how G+ is behind in UI? I find the G+ interface orders of magnitude more pleasant to use than FB. It's not perfect, but it handles all of the same use cases that I used FB for, and does so in a simpler more sensible way.
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by sgk284 15y ago
You really need to look at Coffeescript ( http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ ) and Emscripten ( https://github.com/kripken/emscripten ). I use coffeescript for all of my javascript development now and life has never been better. I'v
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by sgk284 16y ago
It's not so much 3 states, as it is two states and a superposition of both states, meaning that the qubit is effectively both a 0 and a 1 at the same time.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Really? There are plenty of southern towns that have their own currency in addition to the USD. I suspect the situation is more complex than you imply.
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by sgk284 16y ago
My understanding is that this has a lot more to do with Oracle representing Red Hat's work as their own to their customers.
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by sgk284 16y ago
The journey was more interesting than the destination. Damn programmers always trying to optimize away the interesting bits ;)
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by sgk284 16y ago
What does the latency between performing an action and seeing the result have to do with the FPS at which the game is streaming into my monitor? If OnLive is sending me 60FPS, but my latency is 60ms, is just means that everything I see/do w
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by sgk284 16y ago
I think you're trying too hard to rationalize Google's claims. With regard to the 1-in-1000 signals, clearly they have that many signals because not all 1000 signals are strong for every query. In Google's case, they "Googlebombed" Bing, bu
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by sgk284 16y ago
I suspect from the outside it looks like an arms race, but as a TS founder from Seattle '10, it is not uncommon for TS/YC founders to hang out, give each other discounts (or free services), and otherwise be generally helpful. It's never rea
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by sgk284 16y ago
Keep in mind selection bias when looking at these results (and location).
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by sgk284 16y ago
Just for those who don't see the error: 2(a^2 - ab) = a^2 - ab On this line, a^2 - ab is 0 (look at line 2). You wind up dividing both sides by 0, thus resulting in the false proof.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Why would that matter? HTTPS is about getting it over the wire securely... once it gets to the machine, there are no security guarantees.
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Google AppEngine
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Rackspace?
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It's my understanding that the amount of code is so small that they just have it all in ram (and maybe less accessed data goes to disk) and do a distributed grep.
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by sgk284 16y ago
Chrome constantly runs tests against thousands of the most popular sites to make sure they render right. It's not the developers' jobs to make their sites work with Opera (especially when it works in IE, Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). It is
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by sgk284 16y ago
Because then Sony and Nintendo could simply make their own hardware and use the drivers with it. The most interesting bits of Kinect aren't in the hardware... they're in the software, and Microsoft spent tens of millions of dollars and quit

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