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by tg3 12y ago
Here is an article giving high level overview of a few of the experiments: https://decorrespondent.nl/541/why-we-should-give-free-money...
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by tg3 12y ago
I was going to say that his VORP [1] was -$1b, but since they won't be replacing him, I think your original assessment is correct. And extraordinarily depressing. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_over_replace
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by tg3 12y ago
but detecting spam is really just a way to filter out "legitimate" popularity from "illegitimate" popularity - it's still relying on popularity as a signal for quality.
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by tg3 12y ago
GIFs are a nice compatibility fallback, but HTML5 video should be used where possible. I think that http://gfycat.com/about does this well.
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by tg3 12y ago
I personally use ~=tilde, and *=asterisk.
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by tg3 12y ago
It seems primarily because his comments aren't adding significant value without mentioning his product. Take out the product, and it's basically "Awesome!". A low value comment + product mentions = spammy smell.
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by tg3 12y ago
The same thing that prevents dishonest bitcoin miners from rigging the blockchain to say that coin X went from A->M instead of A->B. As long as there are more nodes who would not benefit from this particular rigging as there are nodes
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Show HN: Signups.io – Turn any web page into a sign up form(signups.io)
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by tg3 12y ago
I think the difference is that with Mod you have to use their notebooks, whereas with these guys you can send them any notebook. That makes a huge difference for me personally.
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by tg3 12y ago
I noticed that jQuery is required for Intercooler. If the purpose of the library is to enable nice UI interactions without writing jQuery, consider distributing a version of Intercooler that has jQuery bundled with it, or better yet just th
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by tg3 12y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious, so I'll assume that you are. One google search led me to this study: "gender diversity generates significant gains in high-tech/ knowledge intensive sectors". http:/
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by tg3 13y ago
Homo Sapien. The article uses Human to refer to the Homo genus (Homo Erectus, etc).
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by tg3 13y ago
What's the main reason I would need to send files from the command line? If this is for person-to-person sharing, the person on the receiving end has to know the url that I sent it to - how is that normally accomplished? Usually the wa
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by tg3 13y ago
I agree that's their strategy, and I also agree that it may be their only play. However it feels like they're going all-in a little bit early. With a $23m/quarter burn rate and a raise of $250m, they only have a few years to
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by tg3 13y ago
They copy-and-pasted from Google and then changed one of the characters in their ID? Possible, but Occam's Razor and all.
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by tg3 13y ago
Rational investors don't sell shares punitively, although if they believe that they'll continue to be diluted at a rapid pace, that could account for some of the downward valuation.
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by tg3 13y ago
It's probably pretty difficult to do OCR/digitization for a bunch of different types of notebooks efficiently, but I totally agree. I personally use Field Notes because of their soft backs and small form factor, but I would love t
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by tg3 13y ago
Yeah, there's pretty decent open source consumer-friendly(ish) PGP/GPG software available. The difficulty tends to be convincing all your friends to use it (which OP took as a given).
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by tg3 13y ago
I agree with this. I know "for the modern man" is an idiom, but I think it's better to be overly conscious about this stuff. Would you lose anything by saying "for the modern dev"?
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by tg3 13y ago
What would you expect the behavior to be there? [5, 5]? I know that JS has its quirks (to say it nicely), but once you understand it (type coercion, equality, scoping, etc) it doesn't seem to be a huge burden to me.
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by tg3 13y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but what about a dynamically-typed language makes an application inherently less secure?
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by tg3 13y ago
I'd say yes. If you took the time to independently evaluate every tool that was ever produced, you wouldn't have time for anything else. So instead, people rely on crude, biased, but effective heuristics, the author's past ac
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by tg3 13y ago
I think the logic is that the current way isn't a big problem now that there is a standard of how you add your username to the file, and has allowed for some flexibility on the membership. The old saying, "don't fix it if it
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by tg3 13y ago
Or perhaps it will be a sparkling clean codebase, as I'm sure a lot of the low-hanging fruit will be re-factoring existing stuff and improving clarity/readability.
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by tg3 13y ago
Misaligned incentives are a powerful thing. If you make it easier to do the right thing, more people will do it.
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by tg3 13y ago
> When the FBI first seized the coins in October, they were worth about $6 million
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by tg3 13y ago
I'm glad he clarified that. For non tech-savvy users who are using an application, I think `target="_blank"` is a really helpful way to avoid "I've lost my work!" support emails. Auto-saving their work is helpf
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by tg3 13y ago
Do you consider advertising to be work? As in, people who work for Pepsi or Coke, convincing consumers to purchase their brand of sugary water over their competitors'. Is that producing wealth? Is society as a whole enjoying a higher l
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by tg3 13y ago
I (obviously) don't know your business, but the fact that the clip art / images question is part of your standard operating procedure gives me the impression that it would be used by quite a few of your customers. You may be right
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by tg3 13y ago
I think it maps decently well to the concept of a currency. It has no intrinsic value, and the amount of it in circulation is controlled by a central authority. In the case of the US, the Fed constantly adjusts the dollars in circulation to

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