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Hansi··on [dead]
This is clearly wrong as referenced by: http://isitbeeroclock.com/
Hansi··on I’m not a celebrity, why would I need a stylist?
Sounds like you have it set up like I'd want it. But I live in London so I guess I'll have to wait till you guys expand. Best of luck.
Hansi··on I’m not a celebrity, why would I need a stylist?
I think this is a pretty good idea, I really hate shopping because there are simply too many options and I don't really have an eye for how things look until I try them on. And after trying on the third sweater I'm just fed up. Also I didn't have any idea about clothes until very recently when someone suggested this book to me: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Details-Mens-Style-Manual-Ultimate/d... . Prior to that it was only suits at work and jeans and t-shirt outside of work, no variety ever.

Having someone knowledgable pick out something is a pretty useful option for me. I might use something like this but only if I could get a clear picture of sort of "prior projects" they've worked on because I'd like to match what I want with what they deliver.

Hansi··on Ask HN: Is anyone making money from garbage?
Iceland extracts methane to fuel cars from it's garbage but I think the yield is pretty low: http://www.or.is/English/EnergyandEnvironment/Methane/
Hansi··on R 3.0.0 Released
Correct, hence "all of the mirrors" :)

But it is a good point that it's surprising not to have Project landing page.

There was a mailing list discussion on it a while back, can't remember what the maintainers said was their reason for this.

Hansi··on R 3.0.0 Released
I don't think that applies in this case does it? On the front page for all of the mirrors it says: "The latest release (2013-04-03, Masked Marvel): [R-3.0.0.tar.gz], read [what's new] in the latest version." With the [] as links to the release and release notes.
Hansi··on Don't solve the solved problems
I don't think that's a viable solution. Some of these are quite complicated and replicating them in-house is not something you just up and do in a short time. That tactic might expose you to significant downtime.
Hansi··on Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm
Yes, a heap of firms have found these methods, they don't post them on HN :)

One would hope that most people would do that, unfortunately too few people pay attention to saving at all, let alone allocations that fit their needs/profile.

Hansi··on Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm
No look at the drawdowns.
Hansi··on Show HN: How I Used Machine Learning to Optimize My Trading Algorithm
Agreed, this is just silly.
Hansi··on Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform
Great, I recommend a live demo and screenshots too. Maybe a quick tutorial showing the process from creating a new note to publishing etc.
Hansi··on Substituting Google Reader for some IFTTT magic
If you "skim over 90%" you might want to just try unsubscribing for a week or two and see if those 10% really matters to you?
Hansi··on The Coolest Experience I Had as an Apple Store Employee
I agree, maybe he dramatized it a little bit to make the story more interesting but I can't see the story as a whole being anything other that plausible.

I worked for Apple for about three years a while back and served maybe five or six deaf people over that time opting for TextEdit or a small paper pad for communication in all but one of those situations where the customer's daughter came along and translated his signing for me.

Hansi··on Why There Are No Game Console App Stores
With the changed in PSN+ over the last two years and the inclusion of all the free games I'm sure in the next generation I'll just go for a PS4 and PSN+ yearly subscriptions and that will cover all my gaming needs.
Hansi··on I made the switch to Ubuntu
"... way back in 2006 but it wasn’t exciting to me on those times. Those were the days people were rocking dial up connections"

Really? Pretty sure almost everyone I know had at least a basic DSL connection by then.

Hansi··on SimCity-like visualisation of real-world cities in the works
Can you please add an about section with some more screenshots and a "mission statement" ?
Hansi··on Getting LASIK eye surgery
I'm assuming it's cheaper now in Thailand. I paid less than that for mine 14 months ago in Iceland.

Also surprised that the halo lasted so long for you, my light sensitivity was back to normal after 3 days.

Hansi··on The R learning curve
I've been working with R 90% of my time over the last two years and I agree it's a freakishly inconsistent language.

Me and the team I work with are still finding out weird completely illogical errors that effect the language but I think I've somehow started loving it despite all it's flaws and I did actually semi-enjoy the process of figuring out all those little wtf issues.

For those starting out with it reading this book + r inferno helps a lot with understanding the underlying weirdness and inconstancies of the language: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Programming-Statistical-Soft...

Hansi··on Xbox 720 to use always-on DRM?
I think that this is generally true about a lot of the opinion articles on extremetech.com
Hansi··on Girls Who Code expands across the US
But you don't need to identify yourself as either male or female on Stackoverflow so that shouldn't be much of an issue?
Hansi··on Try JavaScript macro expansion using Sweet.js in the browser
Agreed, this looks horrible.
Hansi··on P2P banks, 1 line of code
How is this different from saying that communication via Switft messages is really only one line of code at the end that's important?
Hansi··on Hack Design Teaches Design To Hackers
Good point. I generally don't care about the whole 'we must have women too' perspective but considering the number of people involved it seems surprising that not a single one is included?
Hansi··on Keep your New Year's Resolutions by starting small
I only made one this year. To finally solve a murder on a train!
Hansi··on What No One Told You About Z-Index
Agree, I remember that it took me a while to figure this out when I first tried playing with z-indexes.
Hansi··on Let your products be sold by the very people who buy them from you.
Am I the only one who hates videos? It takes me way less time to quickly scan features and descriptions and look at screenshots.
Hansi··on Adobe almost does something amazing by accident
Nope as per the latter part of the article they set up a new one: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html
Hansi··on An In-depth Review of Fitbit One, Fitbit Aria, and Fitbit Premium
Same here, I don't trust the clip it's flimsy. I opted for getting this to use while exercising instead: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008M6PA4A/

For day to day I just leave it in my pocket. Haven't lost it in the last few months.

Hansi··on Extraordinary support? You’d better blow my mind.
True, but it does act as a word of warning against using their services I guess.
Hansi··on A less cluttered whatismyip
I tend to use http://myip.is/ because it's the shortest url for these things that I know of and an intuitive url at that too.
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