valgaze

27 ms·

241.
by valgaze 12y ago
THAT is some clever detective work! To give 'em the benefit of the doubt-- perhaps perhaps perhaps they needed that particular domain in anticipation of some other instance where they dropped the ball but your conclusion is more compel
242.
by valgaze 12y ago
Very much the real deal-- costs $3. It also creates an entry in Newstand. If you can't read French, you buy the English edition and tap the text to see a translation: http://i.imgur.com/ETunCZv.jpg From what I understa
243.
by valgaze 12y ago
Heard a story on the radio this morning about a couple in Argentina that cooks meals for tourists in their home. They stopped processing areservations in pesos b/c they couldn't confidently predict the price even two months out. N
244.
by valgaze 12y ago
See line 17, https://github.com/Igglyboo/hn_collapse/blob/master/collapse... var currentRow = comment.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.parentNode.nextSibling; Lotta parentNodes!
245.
by valgaze 12y ago
Looks like this happened a couple months ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8401784
246.
by valgaze 12y ago
Watch Ng at 57 minutes discuss the "cocktail party" problem and present an amazing solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzxYlbK2c7E&t=57m0s
247.
by valgaze 12y ago
I heard an analyst say that Swift could be one of the last who is able to release a platinum album. The thinking is that the people who buy actual full albums are going the way of the Dodo. It'll be harder and harder to sidestep these
248.
by valgaze 12y ago
Bunch of photos from the late 80s: http://www.mascontext.com/issues/19-trace-fall-13/kowloon-wa...
249.
by valgaze 12y ago
That is absolutely amazing- thanks for sharing your story. I remember learning about an economist named Walter Oi. He was a Japanese-American who was put in an internment camp during WWII. He later wrote a famous econ paper called "A D
250.
by valgaze 12y ago
Sounds like a pretty good deal for Interscope: "At one point Thursday afternoon, 26 U2 titles charted simultaneously on iTunes top 200 albums rankings, Apple and Interscope Records representatives confirmed to Mashable on Friday. Meanw
251.
by valgaze 12y ago
This technique reminded me of BriefCam- http://briefcam.com/ They figured out how to "summarize" video surveillance footage by attaching a hovering timecode to any object moving through the frame and then later it
252.
by valgaze 12y ago
The rise of these sovereign wealth funds has been pretty extraordinary- if corruption is kept under control those resources are politically "out of bounds" for spending. This list ranks SWFs by size- notice there are several US
253.
by valgaze 12y ago
Their whole mapping scheme is pretty neat too on this "mobile" view. They'll use lat/long to determine if the user is in China or not and then pull up google maps or baidu. Beautify this ( https://d1a3f4spazzrp
254.
0 degrees lat, 0 degrees long(openstreetmap.org)
1 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
255.
by valgaze 13y ago
There was an interesting series of articles last year about how TurboTax/Intuit & other groups opposed a simple/clean "pre-fill" tax return arrangement http://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-m
256.
by valgaze 13y ago
Wow this is great stuff. I remember I had to use Lotusnotes with its main language set as Hebrew. That meant everything on the screen was "flipped" and since I was not 100% up to speed on the language- for the first little while i
257.
by valgaze 13y ago
Angry Birds soda for a time was said to outpace Coke & Pepsi in Finland too: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2012/11/21/rovio-angry-bird...
258.
by valgaze 13y ago
For anybody unaware, there is a whole network of sites like this that translate native language stories and commentary into English (depends on the editors, but the content varies from serious news stories like this to silly/interestin
259.
For a good (strftime) time...(foragoodstrftime.com)
1 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
260.
by valgaze 13y ago
A outfit like Yesware provides rough location data w/ their pixels. FWIW, they're partially funded by Google Ventures- perhaps there is some type of technical compromise that doesn't break geographic tracking completely: htt
261.
by valgaze 13y ago
He's Chief Economist at Google, starting on line 49 he begins by outlining big data challenges unique to Google infrastrucutre
262.
by valgaze 13y ago
Speaking of junky content: http://imgur.com/a/zUaPG
263.
by valgaze 13y ago
This is Adam Curtis you're dealing with, check youtube for some of his other brilliant (& kinda far-out) documentaries
264.
South Korea Delayed Stock Market Open for College Test(bloomberg.com)
2 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
265.
"You put in other details"(lettersofnote.com)
1 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
266.
by valgaze 13y ago
The unsuccessful partnership with Motorola (& Cingular wireless) mentioned in the article was probably w/ the "Rokr" See press release: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/09/07Apple-M
267.
How Google Makes Product Landing Pages(google.com)
2 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
268.
by valgaze 13y ago
Ian Ayres from Yale had a paper with similar ideas and they quoted a court case at the beginning that reads: "[T]he right of every person ‘to be let alone’ must be placed in the scales with the right of others to communicate.” - Rowan
269.
Struggling Division at Disney Pins High Hopes on a New Video Game(nytimes.com)
1 points by valgaze 13y ago|0 comments
270.
by valgaze 13y ago
Check these two ideas out: 1) Bezos said: "Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It's the absolute dollar-free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering m

More ›