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hotdox··on The case for ending Amazon’s dominance
It is stated many times, present monopolies does not price custmers more. They just pay their workers less in terms of money or benefits.
hotdox··on How to avoid cognitive biases when you get paid to think
It is very funny to read how he avoids pitfalls of bad decision-making in a role of a CEO. He has many priveleges which his employees doesn't have. Like not visit too many meetings, didn't answer some mails or choose time to make decisions. Yes, it works for him, but almost noone else can use these tricks.

EDIT:fixed my double negative

hotdox··on Schedule – Python job scheduling for humans
Not the author of previous comment, but my main problem is inability to limit time of job execution in APScheduler.
hotdox··on Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2
try https://developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc - andoid apps in chrome
hotdox··on Ask HN: Did pay-to-play games really ruin the gaming industry?
I dont know current state of things, so I speak in past tense. MTG was very balanced. Every uber-card had uber-cost and needed proper protection. Also, there was a cap on number of same cards in your deck. So you couldn't extensively abuse mid-power cards too. As a result, you can counter expensive deck by not so expensive one. Game was in most parts about proper tactics, not deck.
hotdox··on After your job is gone
Very strange article.

Before reasoning further you need to answer very simple question "From where wealth comes?". If your answer is "from employer", "from the bank" or "from the VC". Please, think again. I'll wait.

Money always come from customers. Who are the customers in this bipolar model of the world?

Jobless class cannot be sustainable customer. All the money they have comes from elite class. It is very strange from the side of elite to donating jobless. Jobless can pay for elite's product by elite's money. Oh, miracle, elite can has all their money back! It is stupid cycle. If there is no spoils in process, elite has no reason to start it.

Elite as a customer is a more gloomy variant.

hotdox··on Is It Cheating to Have a Side Project?
>The more you deliver above and beyond what your "contract" calls for, the more slack you get.

The biggest BS in this article. Your delivering does not correlate to slack you get.

hotdox··on Show HN: a blog search engine
some critics: http://sotosearch.com/search?query=android&ordering=best - results page is a mess of many languages, it would be better to detect language of page and user (by browser language) and use it for ranking
hotdox··on Chainsaw - Parses a log file and returns lines matching the time period provided
why not use awk?
hotdox··on Show HN: 51,000 6 character domains
there are no domain names in range of SK - SS. Is this some bug or this bigramms are not popular?
hotdox··on Why you should never, EVER use linked-lists in your code
Examples based on integers. This is lame, because moving integers in vectors is only memcpy call.

Linked-list is better for heavy objects. Inserting heavy objects into middle of container causes N copy-constructors calls. Here comes the pain.

Some kind of medium between vectors and lists is vector of pointers(or indexes) to objects (stored in another vector). You need to divide storing from ordering, and you get positives side of each variant.

hotdox··on China's minimum-wage increase will raise prices around the world
Is there some numbers about wage part in product price?
hotdox··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (November 2011)
Do you sponsor H1B? There is no data mining/algorithms in your jobs section.
hotdox··on Why Siri Is a Google Killer
This article is lame:

Siri has personality - it is usual AAPL bullshit.

It’s true Google has experience in the voice rec space and doing some simple voice apps but they do not have the personality and AI of Siri and that will be very difficult to copy - Main part of Siri AI is Wolfram Alfa(http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=who+is+lukes+father) back end. Everyone who can pay to Wolfram can copy this. Google has more competence and experience in AI than Apple.

Yet, the biggest advantage over any other voice application out there today, and the apps still to be developed, is the massive data Siri is now and will continue to collect in the next 2 years. - Google has google voice. Google voice works in many languages, not only in English. It works everywhere from browser since 2009

hotdox··on IPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers
You are not OS of your cell phone
hotdox··on Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (August 2011)
H1B?
hotdox··on Is your website hosted in a dodgy neighborhood?
My two cents:

-Trash out www. from urls

-Does not follow redirects

So it can not reach my app engine application on custom godaddy domain

-For big registers (as godaddy redirect server) top 1000 list is not so informative, as there are many trash hosts. It all starts from digits (and consist of digits). Showing hosts starts from letters, may help

hotdox··on Semantic analysis of text: demo of gensim over arXiv.org
Sorry, but there is no "semantics" of statistical type. You have semantics, or have not.
hotdox··on Semantic analysis of text: demo of gensim over arXiv.org
Does they correctly use word "Semantic". It may be OK for algorithm title(Latent Semantic Analysis), but results not so "Semantic", it is usual topic detection based on vector-space model. Usually "Semantic analysis" corresponds to next to syntactic level of analysis, some kind of understanding. We have no such analysis here. Also imho(not only my), word "Semantic" is marker for oil snake trader. Is there some quality measures? This algorithm gives 20% of other topic for random article in average.
hotdox··on Crowdsourcing, Linked Data, Humans, and Machines: Rediscovering a Lost Treasure
Cannot find mentioned Wired article.
hotdox··on Lulzsec: Have you been compromised? Check now
It's a trap!
hotdox··on Google.com has 35 W3C erros while MSN.com has 0?
It is all about bytes and connections. Google minimises bytes transferred to you and number of connections from your browser to their servers. In scale of Google it does matter.
hotdox··on Inaugural release of Apache Lucy, Version 0.1.0
>I'm wondering what these unique capabilities are.

easy bindings for every dynamic language. they start with perl

hotdox··on Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation
desktop innovation, do we really need them?
hotdox··on Kill Math
After killing math, this site kill my browser.
hotdox··on Why Facebook should Police their API
They can use design solution, folding messages from one app to single message
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