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Re:First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
on Thursday May 08, 2025 @02:13PM (#43929370)
St Peter was the first Pope; all Popes after are successors to him
Re:Cargo airships could be big
on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:34PM (#34583313)
agreed, a huge, slow-moving target for a bad actor to try to shoot down
Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:57PM (#24839700)
> Are there any other examples of companies doing similar releases of valuable internal data?
the early OkCupid blog was really good at this
This one has always stuck with me (archive version: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...)
> It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com.
more archives: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_...
Re:Never Hertz to Ask
on Sunday June 14, 2020 @09:22AM (#23517469)
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...
Re:The death of corporate research labs
on Thursday May 21, 2020 @09:06AM (#23257851)
I mean, isn't that what Peter Thiel is doing? Giving college age people $100k to drop out and do a startup?
Re:Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:13PM (#18331539)
TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia from 2004-2011
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
on Friday July 21, 2017 @10:48AM (#14820945)
Acquired - history of (mainly) tech mergers/acquisitions/IPOs
Re:Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]
on Monday July 17, 2017 @10:01AM (#14788543)
I hope they call it Fauxbama.
Re:6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
on Sunday July 02, 2017 @10:26AM (#14682615)
There's a note in the text, but the infographic is way out of date.
Re:Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1
on Thursday June 22, 2017 @02:27PM (#14614256)
presumably they're storing the raw, uncompressed video? at the same time, I would imagine storing a couple extra terabytes of data isn't a significant cost in the scheme of a production.
Re:Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results
on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:08PM (#13495706)
Interesting the effective tax rate went from 5% last year to 22% this year.
What would cause that?
Re:A native Python IDE built for data science
on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:18PM (#10809449)
See also: Pycharm
Android Runtime Permissions – Facebook Case Study
fix the aspect ratio on the ipad screenshot
Re:More Boeing 787 issues – Generator controls shut off after 248 days
on Friday May 01, 2015 @02:19PM (#9473467)
248 days * 24 hours/day * 60 min/hour * 60 sec/min * 1000 ms/sec ~ MAX_INT
Re:A new team at Reddit
on Friday November 14, 2014 @12:02AM (#8605884)
Said statement: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...
Re:Facebook's git repo is 54GB
on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:28PM (#7649448)
With Android, ant makes naive assumptions.
For example, most open source library projects that you include in a project don't change from build to build, but ant dutifully recompiles them each time instead of caching the output until the files in that project are changed or I manually clean the build output.
Re:Google I/O Registration 2014
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @03:27PM (#7629817)
I think they absolutely wanted people to write crawlers and scrapers for codes.
Google was created by creating web crawlers that indexed the content to rank pages. This exercise was a tribute to those algorithms.
Re:The right way to ask users for iOS permissions
on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:17PM (#7532398)
Makes me wish Android could request some permissions at runtime.
It's painful to have a bunch of permissions in the manifest that aren't used by 100% of users, but 100% of them have to allow them if they want to install the app.
Re:Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps
on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @03:01PM (#5941647)
It'd be nice if the text were selectable instead of an image.
Re:The man behind Google Docs is now trying to reinvent the web app at...
on Saturday February 09, 2013 @12:46PM (#5193203)
Good. The Box web app really could use some work.
Re:JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz
on Sunday January 13, 2013 @11:21AM (#5051041)
They _can_ do it all for free. They should just start doing what JSTOR does, but don't charge for it.
Seriously, make a competing site if you think you can do it for free.