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by zoba 14y ago
It seems concerning that my personal information can be so easily summed up and displayed in easily digestible format. I'm not sure if you can view other people's Wolfram Alpha Facebook summaries, or what data they could be collecting abou
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by zoba 14y ago
I purchased this with a credit card and got an error that starts off: "The request signature we calculated does not match the signature you provided. Check your key and signing method." I waited a couple minutes and clicked the download lin
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by zoba 14y ago
ChromeOS, possibly?
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by zoba 15y ago
The AI pleading for its life, in a very convincing way, seems like something that could occur by a very intelligent AI attempting to manipulate humans... I imagine an AI could be able to give all the right body language, intonation, etc cu
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by zoba 15y ago
There are several parallels I see between the YC experience and college fraternities. A group of people (often men) with a similar interest, with a powerful alumni network. Unfortunately, I found living in a fraternity house very distracti
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by zoba 15y ago
This Chrome add on to "Invite All" of your friends could be useful, however, facebook is blocking me from inviting everyone. Advice welcome! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ofcnbnhefnmjancehe...
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by zoba 15y ago
There is also the NIST's Dictionary of Algorithms & Data Structures, which is formatted a little nicer. These are mostly 'textbook' algorithms though, probably not as specific as most of whats on StackOverflow http://xlinux.nist.gov/d
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by zoba 15y ago
I just got mine... didn't make it :(
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by zoba 15y ago
What is talking about are called more technically called second order desires. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order_volition ) From his example he "wants cheese cake" but he "wants to want to focus on his work" and instead he is "wan
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by zoba 15y ago
I think the population of atheists (and near atheists) is at or above 10% in the US. Judging from my perspective in North Carolina, the population of devout Christians is at least 10%. I wonder what this model would say about ideas that op
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by zoba 15y ago
Does anyone know if a monthly subscription is required to have one of these? I've already got laptops that work and I'm not interested in paying a monthly fee for something that doesn't do everything I want it to, when I wont even be usi
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by zoba 16y ago
I would be surprised if there were not points in your life where you "had" to do things you didn't want to do. Surely there was some required course you weren't interested in doing the assignments for or something similar. I am also consid
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Ask HN: How do YOU get done what you know you "should" be doing?
2 points by zoba 16y ago|4 comments
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by zoba 16y ago
If I were renovating, I'd wire speakers into all parts of the house. This way, the same music can be playing all over the house and can be controlled easily. In fact, I can't wait until I have a place of my own and the money to make this h
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by zoba 16y ago
As a graduate student, $50 seems like a lot of money to spend on anything except rent... Plus figuring out the return process and if its not super simple just seems like quite a lot of hassle.
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by zoba 16y ago
Same. $20 sounded worth the risk, but I'm not going to do it for $50, especially without seeing any evidence of past names generated. Perhaps a Hacker News special? Or perhaps a different price for those who don't mind sharing the outcome
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by zoba 16y ago
True, though you can't click on what people are currently doing either...or copy it (I mean kind of, but not really). I do agree that eventually email address harvesters could eventually be made to read them though, and that would be a big
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by zoba 16y ago
Not to self promote, but many years ago my site was the first to generate "email icons." Which are just an image of your email address, which does a good job of fooling most email harvesters. I'm surprised it hasn't caught on more. http
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by zoba 16y ago
I would agree that there are few people with even minimal conversational skills. It is fantastic though when you run in to someone who really knows how to have a good conversation! I've only run in to one or two of these conversation supe
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by zoba 16y ago
This service seems similar to another of my favorites: http://mailinator.com/ From the FAQ: "If I don't "sign up", then how do I create an account? You don't. Mailinator creates an email account as soon as email arrives for it. All you or
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by zoba 16y ago
As a former intern at Lulu I'm very happy to see a post on HN about it. Lulu has come a very long way, in many aspects, but specifically in print quality. The UX department while I was there was way more into testing users, and working l
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by zoba 16y ago
There is a lot more awesome stuff like that here: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ In fact, the thing you linked to is linked to from here.
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by zoba 16y ago
You would think they would choose a color other than yellow for the windows since it just makes the Hong Kong haze look worse... Or perhaps the windows aren't tinted...
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by zoba 17y ago
The only potential caveat to "There's zero evolutionary reason for aliens to behave altruistically" I can think of is that it may be quite improbable that species make it to long distance, space travelling status without being friendly. Pe
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by zoba 17y ago
Is a minder just the person who watches over you when you visit North Korea?
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by zoba 17y ago
I wonder if he is going to talk about "singularity" life forms outside of earth. It seems to me that eventually, we're headed towards a giant computer based "consciousness." Therefore, the idea of aliens living on ships seems a bit odd, a
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by zoba 17y ago
I think anything that "looks cool" will be good for getting a kid interested in science. Once you've got him/her hooked, then you can start on the actual scientific method. To that end, science things that look cool: Cymatics: http://www
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by zoba 17y ago
The IT administrator in question is female, evidently? Not was I was expecting for a number of reasons... "The lawsuit said the administrator, who has been placed on paid leave, “invokes the Fifth Amendment to every question asked of her,
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by zoba 17y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/11/spain.earthquake/ The depth of the quake was about 400 miles deep, so there was less damage than if it were closer to the surface.
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by zoba 17y ago
I promised HP I would be a thorn in their side when they completely screwed me over with two different laptops. The first laptop broke a lot and every time HP claimed to not know about my 3 year warranty. Therefore I had to fax in a pri

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