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by alialkhatib 9y ago
The original title was sufficient but not click-baity enough, so Quartz seems to have changed it. The URL reveals: uber-drivers-are-comparing-fares-with-riders-to-check-their-pay-from-the-company/
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
I'm not seeing the part explaining how guests are locked in their rooms. Is it that they don't feel they can leave or their belongings will be locked in a room they can no longer access, or is it some literal situation where the
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
one quick way that comes to mind would be to check a web archive for past versions of the page in question
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
That does trouble me a bit, but if they stick to the spec (and I assume the retina Macbook hasn't deviated in any way to suggest they will for future models), then I see no reason not to remain tentatively optimistic. I don't see
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
I'm about as heavily invested in MagSafe as a single person can semi-reasonably be, but I have pretty strongly mixed feelings about dropping MagSafe, so when I hear that people are upset (and I admittedly presume that those individua
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
five times: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12726970 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12728227 https://news.ycombinator.com
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by alialkhatib 10y ago
While the author of the post makes it clear that this is for developers, I think this kind of cheat sheet has some value for non-developers. Stuff like recognizing how to run a python script, how to enter the python shell, etc... all sounds
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
It's always interesting to see qualitative stuff associated with quantified self; it seems like ultimately the goal is to lead a (happier|better) life, which is a very qualitative notion, but we end up turning as many things as possibl
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I was similarly confused. While the HN title accurately reflects the Reuters title, I think it'd be reasonable to retitle the submission to something along the lines of "Apple: breaking encryption on devices running iOS 8 and newe
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I had some trouble with the arrow keys - it seemed like I would hit it 3 or 4 times and only move once. Dragging with the mouse worked pretty well though. Also, holding down the spacebar and creating a stream of pellets helped. What's
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Yep I did, my bad. Sorry about that.
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
For anyone that's curious, the article is here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu... I'd complain about the WSJ's practice of not properly referencing the s
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
This conversation has been had ad nauseam and these comments are no longer wanted on HN (according to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989 )
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I went more or less with option 2 (a pair of 4K monitors) and "drive" them with a hackintosh I bought/built for that purpose. At the time I had a 2012 rMBP, which didn't offer MiniDP 1.2/Thunderbolt 2, and driving j
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
It seemed more noteworthy to me that 8chan got sold to the same person. 8chan is infamous as a community too objectionable even for 4chan, with ongoing controversies involving child pornography, swatting, organizing harassment, etc... I ful
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Kentaro Toyama talks about education and the failed promise of the OLPC program and other technological endeavors in education in Geek Heresy . His thesis is that technology "amplifies" the characteristics in society and self. If
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
The title with quotation marks is a tiny bit misleading; I was expecting this to be a blog post or something where Paypal advised developers to handle user-generated urls with care, which would have made the paypal.me mistake (first discuss
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
If you Google(/Bing) the title and click on the wsj link from the search results, you can circumvent the paywall. I'd give a link, but I'm not sure that's okay (also, the procedure is just tedious, not complicated).
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
It's cool to hack around with APIs for general benefit (and Twitter's is as good as any, and provides access to lots of neat data), but fair warning: Twitter doesn't approve of using its API for automated retweets[0]. Chalk t
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
If you read this and want more like it, the author of the article (Gabriella Coleman) wrote an excellent ethnography on the culture around hackers and free software, which is also available through her site: http://gabriellacolem
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
>Wait, retard is a pejorative now? It's fairly well-documented[0], and the GitHub incident in particular has been discussed on HN at length[1]. I think I gave the exclusion that if you're talking about it in a context that&#x27
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Your thesis is that you have control and ownership of your content; misspellings tend to make it look like you don't take your own advice to heart. I'll grant that it would be unfair to evaluate everything under a microscope, but
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I was going to post something to this effect, but I'm glad you also brought up the bragging point. I think it's safer to argue that everyone could benefit from a personal site, and the arguments the author lays out are pretty co
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
I think since the premise of the author's article is that everyone should have a place where they can take more deliberate care of their online presence, it's pretty reasonable to infer that it goes without saying that one shouldn
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
The title seems a little misleading. The study seems to explore the social impact of explicitly declining to answer questions, which is very different from not volunteering something. If I'm telling someone about my work history, t
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
It's probably worth pointing out that the author is Don Norman - one of the pioneering thinkers in user-centered design and Human-Computer Interaction in general. He wrote The Design of Everyday Things , which I would argue is require
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
My sense of Graham's thesis - and I'm reading this really loosely here - is that he's saying a name's not worth sticking with if obvious metrics suggest it's a bad choice. The most obvious metric of whether you have
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Graham mentions this in a footnote, essentially not to assume such a thing unless the domain squatter has actually given an ask price. I'll extend on his argument by pointing out that Nissan and Tesla still don't own their .com na
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Oh wow jeez that's embarrassing. I was thinking of Circuit City and my brain just replaced it. My bad. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by alialkhatib 11y ago
Is there any documented evidence that Fry's is sinking(/losing money)? I don't doubt it per se, I just want to pin down that notion. I find it shocking that they outlived Circuit City and Radio Shack, so I'm beginning to

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