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by wheels 15y ago
This is a topic that I've thought some on in that my company is in the recommendations space, and some thoughts on what make news recommendations difficult: The function of news is to facilitate smalltalk. I am reasonably convinced of thi
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Most Smartphone Apps are Spyware(cacm.acm.org)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
Well, and even at that, $5k isn't really exorbitant. It basically sounds like, "Now that you actually have some money, how's about paying me for the work that I did?" Whether it was good work or not is another matter, but he basically l
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by wheels 15y ago
Wrong. While there are a lot of Canonical folks that don't have backgrounds in upstream projects (more so than at other major distros), Jonathan has been involved in KDE since long before he worked for Canonical and is old friends (and stil
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by wheels 15y ago
Sci-fi is only for geeks because when something gets accepted into the canon of good literature, we stop calling it sci-fi. The stuff that's left, that only geeks like, is "sci-fi". Brave New World, 1984, Slaughterhouse Five, Gravity's Rai
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Berlin Start-Up 6Wunderkinder: Hopes are High for 'Workplace Facebook'(spiegel.de)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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Should Angels break free from angel groups?(freddestin.com)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
728.
by wheels 15y ago
I'll qualify this with the fact that I don't own a car, nor did I have mine washed often when I did, but... Isn't having your car washed one of those things where portability matters least ? It really feels like the ultra-local meme tak
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PayPal Test Program Will Let Home Depot Shoppers Pay at Checkout(bloomberg.com)
6 points by wheels 15y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
Do you have the original tracks from the recording? The mix could use some help – the EQing of the vocals pulls the low mids out and makes them sound hollow and the reverb is overbearing (and low quality). This may seem like minutia, but
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by wheels 15y ago
There was one fellow on IRC that was suggesting a campaign to unlike SOPA supporting companies on Facebook. My response was similar to yours – it'd be utterly useless (as is the majority of "internet activism"). However, once thinking alon
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Democracy is not a truth machine(philosophersbeard.org)
8 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
733.
by wheels 15y ago
> Surely it'll be soon? I'm not sure how that follows. There are more than 5 times as many internet users in Brazil than Australia, and about 13 times as many in the whole of South America.
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by wheels 15y ago
> Netflix at a 74% discount The missing piece of data is that Netflix was massively overvalued before, and that now they've just jumped down to a very normal price to earnings ratio. Just for comparison: NFLX P/E: 15.49 AAP
735.
The Pirate Party Is Losing its Bond with Voters(spiegel.de)
2 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
> Nobody is looking for "human intelligence" on other planets. Maybe that's why you think it's impossible. I'd say dolphins are intelligent. One proviso there is that it'd be very hard to establish that there are dolphins on another p
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by wheels 15y ago
> [...] they'd probably be better off building their product and figuring out how to best meet the needs of their current customers That's nonsense -- a variation on the "Field of Dreams" fallacy of "build it and they will come". Cus
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Follow the Money: Global Capital Descends on Berlin Tech Scene(spiegel.de)
3 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
The conspicuous lack of a "Server:" header inclines me to believe that that's probably not the case (most web servers set one indicating the server software and version). Here are the headers that HN sends out from an old post (20 days ago
740.
by wheels 15y ago
Have you considered putting a caching reverse proxy in front of the arc app to keep the backend from having to render all of the old pages? It seems like the only dynamic element of old articles is the "$x days ago" bit and that'd be prett
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Monsters, Inc.: Gaming Firm Emerges as Global Player(spiegel.de)
3 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
742.
by wheels 15y ago
So, being pedantic, is Diaspora even a startup? I've thought of it more as an open source project. And even if we're willing to label it a startup, why jump to the conclusion that doing a startup was the trigger? Couldn't it just as easi
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Tailored for Success: Berlin Start-Up Aims to Revolutionize Clothes Shopping(spiegel.de)
7 points by wheels 15y ago|0 comments
744.
by wheels 15y ago
While we use tarsnap for our server backups, it's not something I'd use for frequent desktop backups. The main reason is that it doesn't have a daemon that watches file changes to keep a dirty list so it'd basically DDoS your desktop every
745.
by wheels 15y ago
Backups are naturally incredibly sensitive data. It's entirely possible that even if LiveDrive can decrypt the data, that they don't have the full set of authorization tokens that Backify was using. I for one would not want all of my back
746.
by wheels 15y ago
It should be noted that while the first Atomico fund was mostly an internal fund from the Skype founders, the most recent fund was raised like a typical venture fund from a group of limited partners. Also there are folks other than the Sky
747.
by wheels 15y ago
I'll preface this with the fact that I love Berlin. I'm a US citizen that has German permanent residence and has been in Germany for 10 years and Berlin for 5. But this post is full of fawning: 1) Incredibly cheap cost of living for a Eu
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Amazon.com to play tax collector for client merchants(internetretailer.com)
17 points by wheels 15y ago|2 comments
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by wheels 15y ago
The person claiming it is a hoax submitted the story to HN, but only after another account (nomoremongo) posted it in a comment. These do not appear to be the same person: http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nomoremongo http://news.y
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by wheels 15y ago
> Good programmers tend to enjoy learning new technologies and paradigms. You've stumbled onto a pet peeve of mine. I think it's rather that people who like learning new programming languages like labeling people like them as "good".

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