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by slapshot 15y ago
Letting politicians decide which startups get funded and which don't seems like an inevitable way to let politics get in the way of merit: - Politically-connected startups get funded first - Political goals other than merit (diversity, "soc
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Pentagon: U.S. to respond to cyber-attacks with conventional force(volokh.com)
2 points by slapshot 15y ago|1 comments
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Visualizing Wikileaks' data sources(datavisualization.ch)
1 points by slapshot 15y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 15y ago
Be wary that in many cases, paying money actually _reduces_ effort, especially when the money is small. I'd hate to see a FOSS project slowed down because people started thinking "I'm only making $1 an hour on this" rather than thinking ab
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by slapshot 16y ago
In the Reddit thread, another MeFi administrator sums it pretty nicely: MetaFilter has rules about that sort of thing because it wants to encourage a certain kind of community. Other sites may have different rules. "On Metafilter, specifi
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by slapshot 16y ago
tl;dr: An innocent MetaFilter user posted about Scott Adams's writing. A flame war broke out about whether Adams was right, is self-promotional, is a nice person, etc. One of the users defending Adams was "plannedchaos." After a series o
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by slapshot 16y ago
tl;dr: There was a prize offerered in the 1950s-1960s for the first person to build a human-powered plane that could run a short course (call it the X-prize of human flight). Lots of people tried to win by building planes that looked like
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How to pick a co-founder(blogs.hbr.org)
1 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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Epsilon data breach is the Exxon Valdez of privacy(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
Some of this aricle reads as if the author is a little naiive as to how container ports work, and just assumes that the cargo industry hasn't thought about these problems. There's plenty of room for innovation in cargo, but don't pretend t
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by slapshot 16y ago
> until end users pony up for the service, then they're the product. Exactly. It should come as no surprise when any free site that accumulates a massive amount of data turns around and starts selling that data -- even if users feel li
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by slapshot 16y ago
That is one definition of a "lifestyle business" -- usually a boostrapped small company that reaches a peak that balances the founder's financial interests with his/her interest in free time. Unfortunately, once you've taken VC money it's v
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by slapshot 16y ago
Etsy has a huge UI challenge right now: as the volume of listings increase, it becomes harder to find things that I'm interested in. Even text search is quickly overwhelming, because it's hard to describe new and quirky objects that are Et
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by slapshot 16y ago
The real question is: why were you searching for comic sans?
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Youtube 1911 mode (click 1911)(youtube.com)
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by slapshot 16y ago
A purpose other than "my boss wants his name on a language." Once you identify a specific type of problem that is not solved by today's programming langauges, you have the basis to go create a new language. Maybe you find that it's hard t
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by slapshot 16y ago
> many linguicist consider IM and texts as verbal communication All linguists consider IM and texts as verbal communication{1}. The same for books, magazines, and websites: the word "verbal" generally just means "using words." Non-ver
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by slapshot 16y ago
I'm still waiting for my browswer plug-in that will generate computer transcriptions of online video. Bonus points if it crowdsources corrections. The video looks really interesting, but I can't watch it at work. Somebody please build a
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by slapshot 16y ago
Is it just my copy of Firefox, or does everyone have to manage to hover over and click on a 1x1 dot in order to change the images? Not very easy on a touchpad. Seems like a "Previous | Next" UI would have been much easier to use.
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by slapshot 16y ago
How do you feel about GNU?
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by slapshot 16y ago
Looks similar to uProtect.it (Facebook tool that allows secret messages): http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2011/01/24/blocking-your-faceboo...
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by slapshot 16y ago
I forward job emails to my friends if I think its' a good job, regardless of the fee. That's a very low percentage of headhunting letters I get, but I'm far more interested in giving my friends relevant info than spamming them in the hopes
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by slapshot 16y ago
Instead of ordering on Amazon, I just printed my own hardcopy calendar (starting this week) at http://www.pdfcalendar.com/12-weeks/ I set it to start this week and to put the next 6 months on the calendar (I don't need a full year). Mine
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Consumer group wants to tax Netflix to pay for rural broadband(thehill.com)
2 points by slapshot 16y ago|0 comments
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by slapshot 16y ago
Also see Conway's Game of Life for an interactive system of complex emergent behaviors from very simple rules: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
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by slapshot 16y ago
He has a point that the long tail of middlemen is getting crushed. There's no reason to order routine consumer goods from anywhere other than Amazon.com or a handful of other sites. He gives a shout-out to retailers that offer improved sho
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by slapshot 16y ago
The equally big flaw is that it focuses on the _average_ employee rather than the _marginal_ employee. If you want to decide to hire another employee, your concern is not how productive your average employee is. Your concern is whether th
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by slapshot 16y ago
More of a web app than a startup. It's the sort of thing where this app can be part of a business, but doesn't appear to be a complete scalable business by itself. You need a professional copy-editor and designer. The design is good for a
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by slapshot 16y ago
> Why wasn't "Lawyer Up" the first thing she thought of? It's not clear that a lawyer would matter. Facebook would plead immunity under CDA 230 [1]. Facebook would claim that CDA 230 grants complete immunity to hosts for user-created
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by slapshot 16y ago
Obligatory, especially when all of HN is being called in to correct it: http://xkcd.com/386/

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