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by sh1mmer 17y ago
The question should not be who gives greater returns to society but the allocation based on need. It is probable that children with learning disabilities will always need more care (and hence money). I think the real issue is that we are fa
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I'd use one of the many search engine APIs available (BOSS, Bing, etc) to a build vertical search engine that enhances the basic results provided to me. Re-inventing crawling, relevance clustering, etc isn't worth the trouble or the cost. F
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
To point out, as someone always does, hacker news is news that is interesting to hackers. The best hackers tend to have a wide range of interests, including current affairs.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
The problem is your opponents would still slap up a bunch of ads saying "elai would let monsters take your children". Most people aren't following the debate they are being sensationalized by 30second editorials.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think it's a shame that you feel that way. The SF bike shops vary, but my experience with places like Valencia Cyclery and Mission Bikes has been the opposite. And heck SF has the excellent bike kitchen ( http://bikekitchen.org ) which is
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
You should note the security model here sucks. You embed your diagram with the same unique Id that is used to edit it. However, editing isn't authenticated. So anyone who can see your diagram can figure out the edit page and alter it.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I always wonder about the "reports" that smaller companies produce. At Y! the research group (as in customer insights) are proper statisticians and know how to do sampling, and discard outliers, etc. I'd be much happier if some of these com
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think you should read all comment without knowing the person's karama. You'll probably recognise some of our more illustrious users by username but really you should be evaluating each comment on it's merit, not the author's karma.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I love this. Having used UK plugs for most of my life I know how cumbersome they can be. My only concern is that many devices which change voltages such as computer power supplies often have some hefty capacitors in them. Even with the regu
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is a witty historical reference to Lord Kitchener or a slightly creepy chat up line (or both).
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I disagree with the article. If his point has merit it might be that the data for the Netflix algorithm is the wrong or, more probably, incomplete. That doesn't invalidate it, rather it means the factors are more complex. Netflix can't know
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City of San Francisco Opens Public Data(datasf.org)
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I was fascinated to see the bright streak of light tracking the Nile.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Having not read his book, was I the only person annoyed that he used the phrase "black swan" a dozen times in the first paragraph without qualifying it? He could have been saying "You and your party may be the only hope we have for a resil
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Shameless self-promotion: My YQL talk: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4620 My e-Gov talk with the fine folks at the City of SF: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/4607
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Can has Yahoo! mail support please?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
There are some jobs at Yahoo! e.g. ( http://careers.yahoo.com/jsearchresults.php?key=&jcat=8&... ) I've seen some awesome positions recently such as front-end developers for Flickr and engineering in our cloud teams. Feel free to email
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I don't see how this is shady. If I like the product and people ask me about it I don't mind evangelizing it. However if so many people ask me about it that it becomes a burden I can see why people want a little love back.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Lack of "register" totally threw me. Especially when I clicked save and there was only one password field, and no confirm. That's never a good idea.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I meant the User Experience rather than the code. I'm not sure I agree with your security analysis though. The concept is to provide a visual cue for the password that's hard to manually reverse engineer.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
After I'd seen a bunch of people with these who wholly recommended them I kept meaning to buy some. Last week I did. One thing I think is interesting, is that Vibram seem to be getting a lot of grass-roots evangelism but the company itself
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
If you aren't groking what this is about the example given in article is awesome. http://mattt.github.com/Chroma-Hash/ Mattt-triple-t was our intern at the Yahoo! Developer Network last year and sent us this a couple of weeks ago. It's a
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
It seems like the "location" field is just getting geocoded. So some people entered an actual address rather than just a city name. That said I bet there are a bunch of people stacked on "San Francisco, CA"
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I noticed I can scan checks in my wells fargo ATM. I wonder how much, if any manual checking, is involved since it asks me to confirm OCR'd deposit amount by hand. This seems like a really great logical next step.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Can someone who knows more about this stuff than me summarise?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
To summarise the brown M&Ms were a "canary" to indicate if all the details of the contract had been attended too. If there were brown M&Ms then the rest of the contractual points would be examined with more stringency. It's interest
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
80% of businesses fail Wasn't there an article on HN a couple months back showing this to be a myth?
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
Pay per tweet will never really take off just like pay per post never really took off. The main reason it people listen to two main sources of recommendations: figures in authority and their friends. Pay per tweet doesn't really pay enough
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
I think this is interesting but if you have enough physical access to the computer to install a keyboard that is compromised then you probably already enough access to compromise the computer in dozens of other ways.
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by sh1mmer 17y ago
To play devil's advocate. Are you a doctor? Are you qualified to know if a metabolic panel is required? While I have to admit since I moved to the US (from the UK) my physician seem more free conduct things like blood tests than the NHS the

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