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Re:Inequality is exacerbated by the assumption that everyone has a mob...
on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:33AM (#20325072)
Simplifying creating an account on behalf of someone else could help, it seems. Then the author could likely have helped out the woman directly, leveraging the trust accrued by her own account.
But if the author had her own mobile phone with her, it seems she could have used this plus existing account creation mechanisms anyway?
Re:Things Everyone Should Do: Code Review
on Thursday July 07, 2011 @11:35AM (#2738872)
What are some examples of messy Python projects from Google?
Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @12:03PM (#2683726)
Re:Great People Are Overrated
on Monday June 20, 2011 @10:21PM (#2677124)
"Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance."
This sounds a lot like "regression to the mean", that is, people performing better than their "mean" performance level for a time but longer term trending back to it.
Re:Attaching UI Enhancements to Websites with End Users
on Saturday June 04, 2011 @07:02PM (#2620680)
Sounds pretty cool although the project's homepage doesn't give a hint of a publicly available version: http://dub.washington.edu/projects/reform
The main innovations seem to be the example-based scraper and the focus on having end users decide where to apply the transformations. (What are some similar projects?)
Re:Hacker News Search
on Saturday June 04, 2011 @05:00PM (#2620450)
Both Google and Bing seem to handle it:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom...
http://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombi...
Are there some particular cases where you see them screwing up?
Re:The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his argument...
on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:07AM (#2612263)
Having access to more wealth gives people more faith that the government will be around a long time, will not do crazy things with the currency. That's not the same thing as the currency having more intrinsic value. (Also, it would not seem to make sense to talk about backing a currency with taxes denominated in that same currency, would it? But I'm unclear what you meant by "provide value".)
(What I've heard about bitcoin makes me a bit skeptical, but I want to be skeptical for the right reasons.)
Re:The Quora post that killed Bitcoins. Please discuss if his argument...
on Thursday June 02, 2011 @09:56AM (#2611960)
It seems like this in particular applies to most government-issued currencies as well (except that they have very good marketing and market share). Each currency itself has no intrinsic value and depends on "marketing" (reputation of the government minting it) and market share (number of places accepting it). If people lose faith that a government will do a good job managing its currency or even think that the government will disappear soon, the worth of the currency (in terms of what people will give you for it) will probably fall.
Re:Everyone sucks at interviewing. Everyone.
on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:25AM (#2552806)
How do you decide who you're going to court?
Re:Amazing Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion between 1945 & 1998
on Saturday April 09, 2011 @12:28PM (#2427431)
Wired article with more details: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-07/6/japanese-artis...
The data set referenced in the credits: http://www.iaea.org/inis/collection/NCLCollectionStore/_Publ...
Re:Poll: Do you know C?
on Thursday April 07, 2011 @12:15PM (#2420018)
No objects = no structs?
Re:Why PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints
on Saturday February 05, 2011 @11:43AM (#2183369)
A couple people have mentioned the query plan changing in the middle of the night. Is the scenario a single query getting executed two different ways by the same running system? Or is it from upgrading to a new version of PostgreSQL and hitting different behavior? If it's the first scenario, would using prepared statements help somewhat with avoiding unexpected changes?
// Edit: Sorry for the naive question. I see that other people are saying that is the first one.
Re:Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?
on Saturday January 08, 2011 @01:55PM (#2083664)
Wave was developed inside Google.
Re:Debunking the Google Interview Myth
on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @02:44AM (#2070293)
That sounds like a paraphrase of a quote from Whistler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Abbott_McNeill_Whistler#R...
Re:Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide
on Monday January 03, 2011 @02:04PM (#2064245)
This basically exists for source code now: http://www.google.com/codesearch
Re:Selected questions from Quora and Stack Overflow regarding JavaScript
on Sunday January 02, 2011 @03:24AM (#2059738)
The Stack Overflow discussion points out that the patent hitting rollover menus was going to soon be (and is now) expired: "A long, legal way to say this patent is public domain on 10/5/2010 and these guys are probably trying to snag a nickel before it goes out."
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2609936/javascript-css-ro...
Re:Guile also supports the web at the programming language level
on Saturday December 18, 2010 @04:38AM (#2019228)
There's no irony in advocating using a richer array of types in a dynamically-typed language. In fact, static vs dynamic typing doesn't seem apropos here since it's also common in statically typed languages to use strings for everything, leading to the same problems.
Re:Why I Switched to Duck Duck Go Permanently
on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:24PM (#2001167)
"I prefer to uses dashes rather than %20 as it looks cleaner and is more easily understood by the non-technically versed visitor."
Isn't "+" the standard alternative, also pretty readable?
Re:The Atlantic Turns a Profit, With an Eye on the Web
on Monday December 13, 2010 @12:51AM (#1999509)
They do mention the conferences although not in this light. Interesting.
Generating Good Syntax Errors
Re:Has Craiglist Flatlined?
on Saturday December 04, 2010 @12:44PM (#1969703)
What does overall US internet usage look like over the same period?
Re:Has Craiglist Flatlined?
on Saturday December 04, 2010 @12:43PM (#1969698)
I guess apophenia's alway ironic when there really is a pattern because then you'd have meta-apophenia?
(It seems it'd be surprising if there weren't seasonal effects, eg, students looking for a place to live. I almost feel like you can see a peak each July -- I probably do really have apophenia here.)
Re:Joe Lieberman Emulates Chinese Dictators
on Friday December 03, 2010 @12:02PM (#1966576)
Parody of that site: http://whatinthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com/
Re:USPS sees $8.5 billion loss, warns Congress it'll be broke by 2011
on Saturday November 13, 2010 @03:46PM (#1901676)
Does the dip in NFLX around noon EST correspond to this?
http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:NFLX
Re:Ask HN Hackers: What's R's future?
on Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:47PM (#1894563)
Re:Offer HN: Friendship in the Valley?
on Thursday November 11, 2010 @03:55AM (#1893341)
Lots going on at Noisebridge in SF: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge
In particular, you might want to check out Five Minutes of Fame next week (8 p.m., Thursday). Could be a good opportunity to bump into some interesting people.
Re:Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected
on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @09:25AM (#1890300)
How about encouraging them to read by themselves?
Re:Ask HN: What are you reading right now?
on Friday November 05, 2010 @12:56AM (#1872097)
"Pattern Recognition" by William Gibson
"The Algorithm Design Manual" by Steve Skiena
Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge
on Monday October 11, 2010 @03:19AM (#1779046)
All the solutions posted here seem to involve generating all subsequences. Could you say more about your approach?