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Re:Thoreau 2.0
on Saturday September 28, 2013 @10:15PM (#6463842)
persevere
Re:"Search" on Google Search
on Friday June 28, 2013 @12:26AM (#5956249)
Well, it would be redundant to send a user back to the page he or she just came from, i.e. back to the Google home page.
DDG is similarly self-effacing: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=search
Re:Teaching linear algebra
on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @07:21PM (#4662427)
btilly has come full circle! It's still a great post.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=850485
Coincidence that I should see this; I'm not really active on HN anymore, and just happened to click.
Re:How Mendicant University Works
on Thursday December 01, 2011 @10:03PM (#3302492)
VaporEdu?
Re:Giving the F.B.I. What It Wants
on Sunday October 30, 2011 @02:52PM (#3175084)
Sounds like someone always wanted a big brother.
Re:The Pathological Altruist Gives Till Someone Hurts
on Tuesday October 04, 2011 @11:31AM (#3071321)
A relentless addiction to indignation
Those are exactly the words I've been looking for to describe my boss.
Re:New Ubuntu in 9 days, 18 hours, 51 minutes and 29 seconds
on Sunday October 02, 2011 @03:10PM (#3063670)
For those of us using NoScript, it's 00 days, 00 hours, 00 minutes, and 00 seconds. We get it first. Win!
Re:How to camouflage yourself from facial recognition technology
on Saturday September 24, 2011 @11:25PM (#3034978)
So Mike Tyson, the boxer, with his crazy facial tattoo, was just way ahead of facial recognition technology.
Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
on Saturday September 10, 2011 @01:36AM (#2980923)
I'm going to be that guy:
"as a compliment to this paper" --> complement
"no higher complement." --> compliment
Thanks for a cool post.
In 1994, it Was Easier to Imagine the iPad Than Gawker
Re:Why you can't search for phpBB on Bing
on Monday August 01, 2011 @11:26PM (#2835607)
I started using Bing recently and I noticed that I was getting error pages intermittently, and then pretty frequently.
phpbb and topic view are returning error pages for me (on latest ff, cookies enabled).
Another way I'm reliably getting an error page is adding parameter &first=201, e.g. http://www.bing.com/search?q=stuff&first=201
This is the paging parameter, indicating you're at the 20th screen of results.
Re:Android SDK has the Gravity of the Death Star as a Constant
on Monday July 18, 2011 @12:37AM (#2775138)
I'm sure there's some perfectly good explanation for "Gravity on the island", but I don't know what it is.
World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data
Re:Chevy Volt: Is This Our Future?
on Wednesday June 29, 2011 @01:31AM (#2708517)
I want to love electric cars, but I see two big issues: (1) if they go mass market, all that electricity will still have to be generated somewhere. Coal? Nuclear? (2) The batteries need rare-earth minerals, which are brought to market through environmentally-degrading open pit mining. Furthermore, at this point, most rare-earths are available almost exclusively from China.
Re:A year of non-Latin script domain names
on Sunday June 12, 2011 @11:46PM (#2648045)
It's been a year already, and still I don't think I've ever visited a non-Latin-script URL. You would think the web would be the end of parochialism.
Re:The Dangerous Mr. Khan
on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @12:29PM (#2633787)
Interesting. Do you now see yourself as deeply engrossed in history and doing the real work necessary to become a competent historian? If so, then your example is a counterpoint to my argument. If not, then we're talking about two different things :)
Re:The Dangerous Mr. Khan
on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @11:53AM (#2633631)
Yes, good point. Now that I look over the comments, everyone seems to say the same thing. That's enough to lead me to believe it should be re-examined. Truth is, I once watched half a video but got bored.
Re:The Dangerous Mr. Khan
on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @11:37AM (#2633553)
+1 for the idea that history is more than an "incoherent torrent of factoids"
I heard Khan say recently on the Colbert Report that he read the Wikipedia article on the French Revolution as his source before making his video on the subject.
That's fine for his purposes, but somewhere up the information food chain someone must actually read the sources, weigh them, interpret, compare, and do all the other work of understanding and transmitting history. It's hard to imagine that those 'educated' by Khan can take up this work, or if they do, that by the time they become competent, they will regard his videos as anything other than inconsequential in their effort.
However, I do think it's overblown to say that Khan is any more dangerous than Cliff's notes or similar supposed shortcut to education. And I suspect his math and finance videos might be quite good, based on the response, and on the fact that he actually spent time in school learning math and finance. (But I haven't watched them.)
Re:Ask HN: Do Americans stand a chance on freelance sites?
on Saturday June 04, 2011 @09:54AM (#2619496)
I'm still trying to make a go of it on vworker, but have no ratings. However, this guy seems to be successful with it:
http://tbbuck.com/winning-your-first-freelance-job-on-vworke...
Re:This Guy Has My MacBook
on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @11:48PM (#2605867)
When you've activated the Hidden app, and the computer is taking pictures, does the little green light turn on when the camera is on?
Re: The men who stare at airline passengers
on Monday June 07, 2010 @12:08PM (#1410900)
This reminds me of part of Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man, which talks about "trained" employees at Staten Island (or other points of entry for immigrants) in the nineteenth century, who could spot mental deficiency by looking at the shape of the head (craniometry, but without measurement, just eyeballing). I'm writing this from memory, so I can't go into detail, and I don't have a link to this particular passage. But a significant number of immigrants were put on boats back to Europe just because of the snap judgment of these spotters.
Re:Twitter Updates, the 18th Century Edition
on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @09:56PM (#1263924)
Enjoyed this article.
A similar theme (modern communication technology prefigured in earlier practices) can be found in Victorian Internet, by Tom Standage.
Re:Project Euler
on Tuesday April 13, 2010 @09:54PM (#1263919)
Similar site (loosely similar):
Re: Gladiators' graveyard discovered
on Saturday April 10, 2010 @05:06PM (#1255690)
Similar theme:
Re:I want privacy because I break the law
on Monday February 01, 2010 @03:07PM (#1093310)
I recently watched The Judge and the General, a documentary about the bloody rise of the Pinochet regime in Chile (link below), and the recent legal action against it. I recall a particularly chilling moment when Pinochet declared (paraphrased): if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear. Of course, thousands and thousands of people had everything to fear, and thousands lost their lives for the dubious crime of being left wing supporters of the ousted Allende regime. Some things only become 'crimes' in retrospect.
Re:Locations of Ancient Woolworths Stores follow Precise Geometrical P...
on Monday January 18, 2010 @09:00AM (#1059896)
If you like this (as I do), you'll love Nacirema.
A Replica of an 18th-Century Organ Rings Clear and True
Re:Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again - Sign ou...
on Friday December 18, 2009 @02:02PM (#1003703)
That's the same idea as in this David Brooks' editorial, in case anyone's interested: