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Access to knowledge through things like open courseware and one laptop per child. These movements are in their infancy now as they get bigger the 00's will be known the decade they were born. Mobile phones (and the related communications) h
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I prefer http://www.joesgoals.com/ - it allows you to set up multiple chains and manage them from a single page.
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This is a very depressing post because the fatalistic premise rings true. The high school hotbox can be very hard for some people. It's a good thing status starts depending on other things (expertise, success) later. When it comes helping a
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If you are waiting for the decade to end, you have already missed it(iloapp.quelsolaar.com)
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This is hardly a new business strategy. Pandering to the lowest common denominator is the m.o. of a large portion of Hollywood. Tabloids have been in print practically since print was invented. Variations of the same complaints have been ma
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It's the standard here in Australia. Many major intersections and highways have permanent speed cameras, hooked into a vehicle registration db, to automatically post speed tickets (with photos :) to the offender. A new camera pays for itsel
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We've done that by using RPX ( https://rpxnow.com/ ). It's awesome - users with Google/Facebook/Twitter/Yahoo accounts don't have to remember their URL and more savy users can use whatever OpenID they want.
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Would you give any weight to a testimonial from 'anonymous'? Email is probably a toss up. Are there legal requirements if the business wants to use the reviews in, say, advertisements? Perhaps some contact information is necessary.
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I suppose the assumptin of the article is that you're selling a something that could be considered a commodity.
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It is because of our web-centricity that we are so ambivalent about ChromeOS. We're much more aware of how far HTML and Flash can go, in part because those limitations are our opportunities. Web-only may be enough for some consumers - but a
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The self-importance of the IT industry astonishes me sometimes. Twitter is awesome, but it's only a couple of years old, has just started taking it's first baby steps into the public consciousness, and is built on minuscule short-lived soun
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Thanks. A blog post or something when you guys were ready would be great. But this link is a bit premature and not very interesting.
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How is a signup form meant to be interesting? Perhaps I'm just out of the loop, but the only thing I know about Atlas now is that it's associated with Heroku and it will cost more than $20. That's not enough.
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He seems to be criticizing Go for not being Python. My understanding is that Go is designed with an obsessive need for speed and concurrency in mind. It's a little silly to compare it to Python without accounting for that.
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What did you end up using instead?
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One of my college professors put that suggestion like this: Write to an audience of intelligent 17 year olds. Ignorant of your topic and unwilling to put up with confusing writing, but curious and capable of understanding complex ideas. Whe
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Howcast actually seems fairly good. I'm optimistic about eHow (and the rest of those). A mining company is happy to get 6 grams of gold out of a ton of ore. The world's internet community will collectively sift through the sewage looking fo
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Jira Internally - 10, bespoke project stakeholders - up to 100 at a time, community developers - 100s (we've open sourced our core framework).
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A tangent from normal HN news, but fascinating for the dedication from those involved and the awesome thoroughness of the data compiled.
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Altruism (i.e. wanting to support the model) is given as the reason for 1 in 5 payments, and comes up as a factor in a lot of the 'other' responses.
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This reminded me of the game "Creatures". The artificial lifeforms the game revolves around use complex neural networks (with a few interesting twists). "Creatures can learn a simple verb-object language, either via keyboard input from the
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The technical terms and researcher's names pass the Google sanity check, e.g. http://cg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/prof_hu.htm , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kadir_Brady_saliency_detector .
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I was reading this and thinking ... I wish someone had submitted some of these companies to HN. Some of those apps are very interesting and I think the discussion would have been too. Why haven't I heard about these apps before?
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Actually the meaning is not that specific. To someone who hasn't had the "official" meaning explained to them, the new one is much more natural. If you're relying on this phrase to convey that idea then you're communicating badly, because m
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Want.
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Blog spam. Actual post at http://ourmanintirana.blogspot.com/2007/07/diy-traffic-calmi...
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Maybe I've been spoiled by all the good blog posts I'm exposed to here, but the writing style of this article is atrocious. Some parts are broken up into single paragraph sections (which are frequently much too long), the headings add no va
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They're trying to be clever and witty. It is starting to look like they're trying too hard. Phrases like "Uber-Productive" and "Super-smart" make it worse.
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The packaging isn't the most important part - it's just his value-add. The packaging makes that stuff viable as a collectable, but the real draw is the nostalgia value. For example he's selling "Opening Day at New Yankee Stadium" garbage, w
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Yes - but those people didn't realise they had the need. The potential demand only mantifested after he created an imaginary supply.

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