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by squigs25 12y ago
Flagging posts and downvoting are important pieces to improving the content here on hacker news. Interestingly, I think this one of the few forums where "trolls" appear to be relatively absent. One problem I have noticed is innapr
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Drones and Cool Transportation Concept in Ok Go's “I Won't Let You Down”(youtube.com)
1 points by squigs25 12y ago|0 comments
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Seagull learns to prey on pigeons(bbc.com)
5 points by squigs25 12y ago|0 comments
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by squigs25 12y ago
Thanks - I appreciate that you're sticking up for healthy debates. While I understand that my view might not be universal, I think all too often the average HN'er is feeling that it is ok to downvote someone they disagree with. It
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by squigs25 12y ago
By the way, I do 100% love Apple products - all my electronics are Apple except my work computer. But there is a definitely a good reason behind why they don't let non-Apple users watch the keynote.
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by squigs25 12y ago
This creates a social class system surrounding Apple products - only those who are privileged enough to be on the Apple ecosystem are allowed to watch Apple events. While they could definitely make all of their events streamable on a wide v
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by squigs25 12y ago
Option 1: Listen to the words of 1 successful business Option 2: Listen to the words of many successful businesses Yeah, I guess you're right that thinking is too hard and we should simply listen to a population with a sample size of
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by squigs25 12y ago
A large population of diners in this country do this when trying to find new eating establishments: 1. Searches google for a restaurant name 2. Checks the number of stars Yelp gives it in the Google result or 1. Searches "dinner"
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by squigs25 12y ago
This is cool, and it definitely raises some interesting ideas about geography and our online hacker news community. But I do think hackernews should consider making some articles locality specific. For example, a user logged in from Berlin
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by squigs25 12y ago
There are currently approximately 50 locations, so that's a value of $20M per shake shack location.
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Shake Shack Filing for IPO at Valuation of 1B(bloomberg.com)
1 points by squigs25 12y ago|1 comments
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by squigs25 12y ago
I want to point out a few problematic components with this article: 1. For KPCB to exit, they need to find an investor that values the company more than they do. To find an investor who values an unprofitable picture sharing company at over
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by squigs25 12y ago
sort before you uniq!
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Mac Users: /Applications/Pages.app/Contents/Resources/Apple.txt
11 points by squigs25 12y ago|3 comments
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by squigs25 12y ago
The implications for this extend beyond backing up your database. Imagine a world where daily time-series data can be stored efficiently: This is a lesser known use case, but it works like this: I'm a financial company and I want to st
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The Trouble with Statistical Story Telling(youtube.com)
1 points by squigs25 12y ago|0 comments
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by squigs25 12y ago
Everyone who down voted this: 1) I know this would NEVEEERRRRRRR happen, but if there was a website that didn't hash a password, the timing attack would be applicable. 2) It worth mentioning that a timing attack can be frequently foil
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by squigs25 12y ago
Another reason to hash your passwords!
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by squigs25 12y ago
Cool, now just add a TransitSchema package for every scripting language and we can use it in place of protocol buffers
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Scenic Routes for Maps(arxiv.org)
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Top 100 companies by US sales, Amazon cracks top 10(nrf.com)
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Instagram – Technology and Infrastructure blog post (2012)(instagram-engineering.tumblr.com)
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by squigs25 12y ago
just add an extra node to their cluster
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by squigs25 12y ago
Confidence is the name of the game. I understand that it's tough not speaking English as a native language. I understand that you don't feel like you have a lot going for you socially. At the end of the day any one person can come
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by squigs25 12y ago
Soooo... this is basically just persistent memory right? HP has been working on the memristor since 2008. Memristors have already been produced in labs by U of Michigan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor This art
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by squigs25 12y ago
Adapt or die I guess putting technology in the hands of the non-visionary executive with a strong business sense is basically asking for your [tech] company to die. You need engineers or at least visionary product people in management posit
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Hacking Victim Becomes Attacker(geek.com)
5 points by squigs25 12y ago|1 comments
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Parallel Linux (2013)(rankfocus.com)
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by squigs25 12y ago
Most people out there are going to be nay sayers. A truly good idea is good because it's a secret. PayPal's secret when it was founded was that people might want a secure way of making payments over the internet. Facebook's s
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by squigs25 12y ago
This really shows how much humans are creatures of habit.

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