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Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism(washingtonpost.com)
49 points by thedays 9y ago|17 comments
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by thedays 9y ago
Remarkably few comments on the actual linked article. I found most of the comments in the article calm, reasonable, nuanced and reflective. To me, this shows the benefits of conversation and long form text, which we often seem to forget in
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Microsoft Surface Laptop ($999) and Windows 10 S unveiled(bloomberg.com)
9 points by thedays 9y ago|16 comments
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by thedays 10y ago
This is great! I like how the filtering quickly lets you drill down and find phones that meet your criteria. My suggestions for improving this would be to add: - Dual SIM - many buyers, esp. in developing countries and frequent travellers p
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IBM blamed for Australian online census debacle(smh.com.au)
5 points by thedays 10y ago|5 comments
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by thedays 10y ago
The next generation of polymer banknotes in Australia will have a tactile feature to help visually impaired people - see http://www.rba.gov.au/media-releases/2015/mr-15-02.html These new tactile notes haven't
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by thedays 10y ago
This HN headline should be changed to "All top-selling diesel cars break..." as it is misleading. The Guardian article and the testing results it reports on are specifically related to diesel cars only. Combine these results with
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by thedays 11y ago
BBC has been showing ads on bbc.com since around 2007 - see http://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/nov/06/bbc.advertising
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by thedays 12y ago
How is this fuel cell different to some of the other products out there? e.g. http://bluegen.info/ http://www.flowenergy.uk.com/the-flow-boiler/meet-flow
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by thedays 12y ago
Tuffmail (has been rock solid IMAP hosting provider for my personal email for over 7 years) | Sanebox (helps keep my email inbox under control) | Sugarsync (solid and reliable file sharing and backup. More flexible than Dropbox - can't
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by thedays 12y ago
I saw someone go past me on a YikeBike in Sydney a few weeks ago - it's a small electric bike, with one large wheel at the front, a small one at the back and a seat and handlebar. It's unicycle in size but has a small wheel at the
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by thedays 12y ago
Great visualisation of the opening of IKEA stores - doesn't appear to show the closure of stores though which could be an interesting addition (perhaps by changing the dot to another colour like black and then extinguishing it?) The fi
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by thedays 13y ago
1) Agreed - allowing users to click on a column heading and then sort it by ascending or descending values would be killer. 2) Adding embed codes for these tables would also be incredibly useful for news organisations and non-profits.
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by thedays 14y ago
Great work - nice, clean interface. One small thing you might want to consider adding is geo-ip identification of the user to detect which country they are visiting from, and default the country selected in "I'm a _ citizen" to that country
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CommBank launches Albert, a portable wireless payment terminal based on Android(afr.com)
2 points by thedays 14y ago|0 comments