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   by xux 13y ago

   At first I thought the article was a lesson about taking risks in life. But this was an amusing surprise.
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   by xux 13y ago

   Wow CSS is becoming more and more like a programming language. Good job on Firefox for pushing the boundary. One thing though. The calculations don't seem very semantic. To calculate something as simple as height/width, you need a
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   by xux 13y ago

   The highest correlation for censoring are these demographics: Average number of friends of friends 1.32, Group member count 1.29, Gender: Male 1.26, Gender: Male X Percentage male friends 1.11. The lowest correlation for censoring are these
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   by xux 13y ago

   If they wait until the user opens the email to cache the image, then it's actually BETTER for marketers. This essentially allows the marketer to track whether the email was opened by default.
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   by xux 13y ago

   Something that always helped me: "Most people are focused on themselves. So whatever bad interaction you have with them, is mostly a reflection of them, instead of a reflection of you."
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   by xux 13y ago

   For those interesting in messing around with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6815282
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   by xux 13y ago

   What's the point of having different quotation marks that are not ascii? Sounds like a formatting nightmare.
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   by xux 13y ago

   Really sorry to hear that man. We often stereotype startups as cool, exciting, explore-new-frontier crazy wild success. Sometimes (probably most of the time) they just don't turn out that way, and the failures have real, life-changing
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   by xux 13y ago

   Sounds cool! When you implement it, please let me know (email in profile). I'd be glad to feature your app on the website if it's using the API :)
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    by xux 13y ago

    Thanks! What type of fonts do you recommend?
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    by xux 13y ago

    Thanks! You can find out more about the tech behind it here: http://bitofnews.com/about.html Each sentence is ranked by using four criteria: - Relevance to the title - Relevance to keywords in the article - Position of the
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    Show HN: Bit of News – Intelligent news summaries(bitofnews.com)

    95 points by xux 13y ago|33 comments
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    Show HN: Find the invisible cow(findtheinvisiblecow.com)

    7 points by xux 13y ago|0 comments
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    by xux 13y ago

    I find this really disturbing: http://ipinfo.io/recent Might not want to display people's data like that.
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    by xux 13y ago

    It's using Typer, a very jQuery plugin. http://cosmos.layervault.com/typer-js.html
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    China to ease one child policy(reuters.com)

    2 points by xux 13y ago|0 comments
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    by xux 13y ago

    MailChimp
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    by xux 13y ago

    Not that I'm supporting login-to-unsubscribe system, but wouldn't requring just an email to unsubscribe allow anyone to unsubscribe you?
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    by xux 13y ago

    "//good enough for the demo, lol" Killed it. This is hilarious.
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    by xux 13y ago

    there's no shortage of sellers in the Chinese real estate market. It's a bubble.
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    by xux 13y ago

    Ok, so I just bought and finished reading this book... in 20 minutes. Yes it's that short. The whole thing is only about 20 pages. Some honest opinions about the book: - This isn't a book. It's a long blog post. The 20 pages
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    by xux 13y ago

    No, but they're the most vulnerable when a random article on their site gets attention (like this HN post).
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    by xux 13y ago

    I've only tried it in store, so my opinion may change after using it for a while. From the time I spent with it, it feels like a touch screen phone with a keyboard, which isn't what BB is _about_. Without the trackpad, you're
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    by xux 13y ago

    I really hope so. I'm a diehard BlackBerry fan; wouldn't trade the Bold keyboard for anything else. What BlackBerry needs to do is pull it's ass out of the touchscreen market. It entered late, and it shouldn't have enter
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    by xux 13y ago

    But maybe I'm thirsting to learn more about the juicy fruit. Do I get a page courtesy of Apple Inc too?
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    by xux 13y ago

    This looks like the same thing, except it's spinning in icy water (look at the last few seconds) in a bigger space.
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    by xux 13y ago

    While it may not be a banner ad, it's a foot-in-the-door technique. Display these branded search for a few years, so when they're ready to implement real banner ads, users won't be shocked. Just imagine the press release. &qu
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    by xux 13y ago

    You can't even generate any problems unless you're a Pro member.
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    by xux 13y ago

    Don't be so cynical. They're just hacking the press.
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    by xux 13y ago

    Site is slashdotted