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Ask HN: Aggregator for interesting papers?
6 points by whughes 17y ago|0 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
What info is in their database besides these torrents that would be valuable? They don't touch the actual files being shared. I doubt they log anything interesting; if they do, no one's ever going to see it. It would be a huge mistake for t
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by whughes 17y ago
Compared to BeOS, Web apps that are cached are in no way lightweight and responsive. Maybe we're defining lightweight and responsive differently. I am thinking about the real-time media capabilities of BeOS which let you drag around videos
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by whughes 17y ago
To me, the idea of running applications in the "cloud" on JavaScript and HTML is the total opposite of a new BeOS. BeOS is supposed to be lightweight and highly responsive. The Web is not. That doesn't mean that ChromeOS won't have its us
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by whughes 17y ago
Apple makes hardware too, as its major products. They're as much a hardware company as they are a software company. The cash cache gives them a lot of flexibility. Microsoft was able to use its cash for the Xbox, and Apple can use its cash
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by whughes 17y ago
You mean, aside from the programming done on the 4 billion cell phones out there, all over the world. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of game consoles in developed countries. Over 10 billion ARM processors have been shipped, and you
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by whughes 17y ago
The Kindle does it too, and yet as far as I can tell there's been almost no outrage.
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by whughes 17y ago
Sorry, but Google Knol does not and probably will never match Wikipedia for sheer scope and variety of content. You can't outrank Wikipedia if you aren't even competing with it. Knol has ~300,000 articles in total, many of which are instruc
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by whughes 17y ago
Twitter wins for you . A critical distinction. I don't see the value in Twitter on its own, especially for a technical audience. Why not just use RSS feeds? Facebook's network is its major appeal, and that applies to everyone, not just tec
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by whughes 17y ago
They said that it was government data. For anyone who knows anything about China, that's a tip-off. Credulous reporting would leave that tidbit out and treat the statistic as fact.
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by whughes 17y ago
Kindle DX does perfectly well with PDF, although you don't get real zoom (if you turn it horizontal, though, it will fit the PDF to the Kindle DX's width). PDFs also lose the dictionary lookup and markup abilities that you get by using the
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by whughes 17y ago
In addition to the methods suggested here, make sure you're taking care of yourself. Eat well, get enough sleep and exercise, and so on.
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by whughes 17y ago
I don't think that people provide input so that the sites they like survive. I don't think people vote on Digg because they realize that if no one votes, Digg dies. I think people just like to share their opinions and express themselves. If
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by whughes 17y ago
It deprives the developers . If developers see the App Store as less desirable, that will put real pressure on Apple to change its ways. The gold rush has to end.
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by whughes 17y ago
You're looking at my comment in the wrong context. Here is what I was responding to: "Are they though? Openiness would be making their own open platform and letting anyone play. They're fighting for the ability to wedge themselves into a pr
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by whughes 17y ago
Just mount your Pre as a USB drive and drag your MP3s on if you don't like iTunes. Most music apps support that or can be made to support it anyway, since it's very common among other MP3 players. That's about as open as you can get. iTunes
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by whughes 17y ago
If you're getting paid to support that user, then it doesn't matter much what you want. That is the case with a commercial setup.
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New details in Foxconn iPhone suicide(newyorker.com)
1 points by whughes 17y ago|0 comments
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by whughes 17y ago
The rich wouldn't shop at Walmart.
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by whughes 17y ago
A few HD movies would fit well on it. It doesn't have to be important data, just big data. To the people of 10 years ago, a 16GB flash drive would seem similarly ridiculous, but we've found uses for them.
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by whughes 17y ago
If you want to separate yourself from the world, then you could still use typewriters. Typewriters can't receive e-mail. Similarly, a Pentium can't run modern Web applications at a reasonable speed. A ten-year-old cellphone won't have a cam
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by whughes 17y ago
Yes, I was. Online play is a significant improvement, and the gameplay is substantially different. Plus, the PlayStation doesn't have a catalog of new games. In order to continue playing new video games, you have to upgrade.
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by whughes 17y ago
No, you couldn't. You spend $10y on a computer or a cellphone made in Germany, it'll still be completely useless within a decade or two. Tech is different .
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by whughes 17y ago
It works for companies, doesn't it? I think you're putting too much stock (no pun intended) in the "democratic" aspect of the idea. I could see it working much better as a way of expressing support and vaguely influencing direction. The sta
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by whughes 17y ago
They didn't mention the word "GNU" once. Is it a deliberate snub? They said "General Public License" and "GPL," leaving out any mention of Stallman, GNU or the FSF. Seems like they're targeting this release more toward corporate IT that vie
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by whughes 17y ago
No, he said people would stop using Digg as a URL shortener. Granted, I don't know anyone who uses Digg to shorten links anyway.
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by whughes 17y ago
This is absolutely the right answer. If you've got test servers or a render/compile farm or something to test your work on, then obviously you only need a machine that can support your editor, server access and lookup needs. On the other ha
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by whughes 17y ago
More importantly, I have to tilt my head to read anything. Who decided this was a good idea? At least keep the text rotated right if you have to make a circle graph.
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by whughes 17y ago
You also have to note that the person will be in the dark. Their eyes will look different than they would in normal light conditions. There's no way to get pictures in the dark that look exactly like daytime pictures, only rough approximati
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by whughes 17y ago
What is your solution? The system, if you want to call it that, is massive, bureaucratic, and has checks to stop the right thing from happening. If the publisher's CEO decides he hates DRM, then what will the board say to him? There's no wa

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