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Inside the Anonymous Hacking File on the Steubenville 'Rape Crew' | [
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"text": "I'll never understand the idolatry of athletes. Football in America, soccer in Europe, hockey in Canada. If sports fans spent as much playing sports versus watching it, the world (especially America) would be in better health."
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"text": "The big pain point ... | en | 0.970938 |
H.R.1981, the end of online privacy as we know it. | [
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"text": "> Bill H.R.1981 contains legal responsibility for any Internet Service Provider to keep detailed records of \"your Internet activity for 12 months, your name, the address where you live, your bank account numbers, your credit card numbers, and any IP-addresses you've been assigned... | en | 0.974098 |
Puzzle: Count from 1 to 10 in base negative 2. | [
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"text": "My first reaction is to simply write all the powers of -2 (1, -2, 4, -8...) and simply brute force each of 1-10 to find a solution for how to write a particular number. I think this is what the OP replied below as \"looks right\", but I think thats actually simply one form of base 2.T... | en | 0.884233 |
Ask HN: How do you convince your bosses to use the right tools? | [
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"text": "I find the \"saves money\" routine a bit transparent. It deprives your boss of the satisfaction to have contributed something important. Let your boss save the money, get the tools you want or need.How? Simple, compare two solutions, write up advantages and disadvantages and present ... | en | 0.93008 |
Screensiz.es – reference chart for device screen sizes | [
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"text": "This is a terrific resource, especially the \"Device-W\" column. Thank you.For the tablets though, I'm finding the table's usability diminished by the inconsistent width/height relationships. For most of the devices width is smaller than height, but for a number of them it's the oppos... | en | 0.958607 |
Hoodie: very fast web app development | [
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"text": "Unlike a lot of comments here, I don't need to be sold on the concept. As luck would have it, I am actively building an app that runs mostly in the browser using CouchDB, Kanso, and PouchDB. It's a pretty amazing tech stack; I get a local DB in the browser, which I can sync with the... | en | 0.958976 |
Polyglot extension for Chrome - Learn a new language | [
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"text": "I just tried it with French (a language I already know).. and I don't think that it's a good tool. In my opinion, you should always avoid seeing incorrect usage of language when learning. This extension does not properly translate the words in context, it does not provide the proper... | en | 0.960227 |
How to sleep on a long haul flight | [
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"text": "I fly short distances quite a lot which have no meals and require no preparations. Over the years, the experience has gotten so boring that I usually fall asleep during taxing or takeoff.Long-haul still has me going giddy with excitement at how this massive metal construction can ever... | en | 0.982517 |
Poetica | [
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"text": "This is a really neat idea. Poetica could fare very well as a service that facilitates web copy proofreading, I think.[0]The only thing I've noticed from the start—and I've been thinking about before—is long onboarding process. Perhaps it's better to walk the user only ... | en | 0.95254 |
Syncing and merging come to Bitbucket | [
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"text": "This seems like a really nice feature! At work I maintain an open source project but also have a private fork containing customizations just for our centre. This should make it very very easy to keep my private repo in sync with the public version.BitBucket has been pushing a lot o... | en | 0.981391 |
Focus. Focus. Focus. | [
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"text": "The reality is that none of those things (except 8 and 11, which have strong offerings already) listed are billion dollar ideas.This is just a reiteration of the current Internet strategy:1. Target a niche.\n2. Create a strong base.\n3. Grow like mad.\n4. Move into other offerings.Thi... | en | 0.952663 |
Loomio – Crowdfunding a better way to make decisions together | [
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"text": "Crowdfunding web applications? Is this becoming a new thing?Send us 100k, and we'll finish our beta application, and give you rewards, like your name in the code, or for $500, you can have a coffee with us on video chat. Or for $25,000, fly yourself here, and we'll give you ... | en | 0.923153 |
Ideas | [
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"text": "Playing devil's advocate:\"Pick the one thing that is of burning importance to the customer then delight them with a compelling solution.\"\"Customers will only buy a simple product with a singular value proposition.\"What about iPhone, probably the most profitable product of the last... | en | 0.982766 |
Realtime web app architecture with Thoonk: a series of tubes, not tables | [
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"text": "Awesome. When I first heard of Thoonk, I failed to grasp its utility, but after reading this I can't wait to try it out.The ease this will afford in isolating features is really exciting. Anybody else think this after reading the article about Williams, master of the comefrom?"
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Is There Anything Good About Men? | [
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"text": "First, let me just say this paragraph alone made the article worth the read...Seeing all this, the feminists thought, wow, men dominate everything, so society is set up to favor men. It must be great to be a man.The mistake in that way of thinking is to look only at the top. If one we... | en | 0.947832 |
ASCAP seeking donations to oppose Creative Commons, Public Knowledge, and EFF | [
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"text": "This type of fact misrepresentation annoys me. Painting the EFF CC and PK as organization promoting pirating is down right dishonest. I just hope the artist are smart enough to not fall for this crap."
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"text": "They can bully their users and pirates for al... | en | 0.974165 |
Epic Pull Requests | [
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"text": "My all-time favorite commits (not pull requests) are the first few at http://github.com/diiq/Tainted-Oyster/commits/master. Navigate through to page 1, and read in chronological order.Eventually the compiler design problem got so hard it took up all the author's neurons :/"
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Show HN: just released our beta, please give us feedback | [
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"text": "Some honest feedback:Get someone to thoroughly proofread your site copy. I'm unsure if it was done in a rush or by someone who speaks English as a second language,<br /> but there's a lot of odd phrasing and ambiguity (more below).The tagline doesn't make the... | en | 0.928618 |
The trouble with Steve Jobs | [
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"text": "This line worries me:\"...chafe at his insistence on setting uniform prices for their songs and videos on iTunes...\"because it ignores keen business insight by presenting it as another example of Jobs's mercurial nature.Joel does a good job of explaining why this is important. It is... | en | 0.973743 |
Google Censors Guns, Ammo & Accessories from Shopping Results | [
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"text": "Google has long been unfriendly to firearms related websites. They don't allow their ad server to be used by them, or for adsense to be shown on them.For example, my own site, http://bisonballistics.com, cannot use adsense because it links to sites that sell firearms parts. I dare you... | en | 0.961273 |
Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind | [
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"text": "While Dawkins has some good points, I don't think attacking religion is a way to go, it leads to hatred and tribalism (us vs. them). The better way is to educate people better and let them decide what to believe in.In Denmark where I live there is little belief in God and religion isn... | en | 0.97942 |
Clay – A language designed for generic programming | [
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"text": "In case anyone else is interested in C-replacement type languages, I've been collecting a list: ATS: http://www.ats-lang.org/\n BitC (seems to be dead): http://www.bitc-lang.org/index.html\n Tart: https://code.google.com/p/tart... | en | 0.222279 |
Vigil: A programming language with eternal moral vigilance | [
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"text": "The underlying idea here is a contract system, first pioneered by Bertrand Meyer in the programming language Eiffel[1] and then augmented with the ability to describe higher-order functions by Robby Findler[2]. PLT also strongly advocated the use of blame with contracts -- the ability... | en | 0.927694 |
Computer Science Unplugged | [
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"text": "Reminds me if the time I was in as CS teachers office at uni getting course changes approved. Wasn't till after I left his office that I realized what was wrong with it.He didn't have a computer. He taught mostly post grad stuff, how to build a Turing Machine etc. that I never took so... | en | 0.993356 |
Show HN: Live Bitcoin Transactions from around the globe in WebGL | [
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"text": "There's no way to geolocate bitcoin transactions. Blockchain itself doesn't store IP addressees. Well-connected nodes like blockchain.info can only detect the IP address of a node that was first to relay a transaction to their (blockchain.info's) node. That might be IP ... | en | 0.906413 |
Ask HN: What Programming Languages/Tools I use to teach a 6 year old | [
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"text": "I suspect there are people on HN who were introduced to computers at that age. I know there are people with children who have an interest. I've read about them. Invariably, their children become interested when that's what a parent is doing at home. Their interest lets them share the... | en | 0.99319 |
Dear Congressman Gutierrez, Please Lift Your Hold On Silicon Valley | [
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"text": "Unfortunately this is not going to be resolved without our federal government going through the painful gyrations of partisan politics.The OP mentions the Democratic Party (and the Obama White House) and its opposition to HR 6429, which basically \"trades\" 55,000 'diversity' visas fo... | en | 0.935931 |
Facebook value drops $11.25bn | [
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"text": "You're worth whatever someone will pay for you. If no one will buy you, you're worth discounted future cash flows.Edit: I like volida's methodology better."
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"text": "I would argue that Facebook's value hasn't dropped - it just never was that $15bn. Micros... | en | 0.988537 |
The iPhone 4G Predictions | [
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"text": "Does the author have an iPhone? There already is an App Store Genius. It doesn't work with your ratings AFAIK, nor the number of times you use an app, but it is definitely there.Not trying to bash the guy for writing his thoughts but even he says it is conservative. Extrapolating what... | en | 0.991622 |
The Greatest Airport in America | [
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"text": "It's a little silly to compare LAX or JFK to something like the Tallahassee Regional Airport and then make a sweeping conclusion that America needs smaller, more regionalized airports. LAX serves a very different purpose from Tallahassee Regional. It's the #3 busiest airport... | en | 0.907164 |
How we use BitTorrent to improve our design sharing workflow | [
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"text": "Note that the author seems to misunderstand a few things about BitTorrent sync:1. Firstly, Btsync is not open-source (unfortunately), as he claims. [1]2. 24-hour secrets don't give someone read access for 24 hours. They must be redeemed within 24 hours after creation, but if they are ... | en | 0.97875 |
Show HN: Buy 1000 Twitter followers and 500 Facebook likes for $15 (AngelHack) | [
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"text": "What is unique about this? There are thousands of services online that offer the same. What makes your site any better?Moreover, this is not at all relevant to the HackerNews community.If you can share valuable insights as to why this is a good or bad thing for businesses to do, then ... | en | 0.964192 |
Will cashiers continue to exist? | [
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"text": "This is interesting because it is a great example of how technology is in the process of automating the world out of jobs. That is not a complaint mind you; it's simply an important indicator of the change taking place in the world at the moment. With every passing year, new, more adv... | en | 0.946958 |
Ask HN: Is computer science really a science? | [
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"text": "It is not a science. It is also not about computers. :)SICP lecture 1 -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQLUPjefuWABut maybe it is a science: there are certainly a number of things in CS that yield facts about things like algorithms (Big O, etc).I read other comments here that compar... | en | 0.940498 |
Ask HN: Is OS X Lion worth it? | [
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"text": "Lion is the first OS X upgrade where I've ever considered whether it was \"worth it\" or not. This coming from a pretty deeply-rooted OS X fanboy. End result: I upgraded, I'm not sorry I did, it was worth the $30. There are some quirks in the UI that I don't like but can live with, bu... | en | 0.989504 |
Estimate your English vocabulary size | [
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"text": "I'd be really interested in the percentiles of the non-native speakers. With an alarmingly low 10.700 words, there is not even a percentile for me... And I know that my fluency of English is at least above the median around here (edit: here = where I live).This also shows how extreme... | en | 0.963203 |
Flappy 2048 | [
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"text": ":/ The flappy number is bigger than the block/hole it's trying to merge with. This annoys me more than it should."
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"text": "Hey, I made one of these too!Flappy Doge 2048 (Nyan Cat edition): http://rawgit.com/boppreh/flap... | en | 0.86335 |
Implementing a HTML5 canvas-based, tilt sensing snow globe | [
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"text": "Nicely done!I recently made a snowglobe generator where people can create there own.http://www.snowglobecreator.com/It's very basic though and also in Flash so it won't run on iphone etc. =/ \nYet it was fun too watch what people did with it so far.\nLike my friend who did a series of... | en | 0.980756 |
How do you ask for equity? | [
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"text": "A couple of points:- Why do you want stock in this company? Is this \"marketing agency\" something that is going to scale 10-100X with the intention of having some sort of equity event [get bought or IPO] so you can make money on your equity? Is there any evidence that someone else th... | en | 0.954353 |
Federal Circuit reexamining whether software is patentable | [
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"text": "A few points:1. The CLS Bank v. Alice case, though raising an issue of vital importance, is not about \"whether software is patentable.\"2. Over the years, the Federal Circuit has notoriously broadened the scope of patent eligibility, most conspicuously in its 1998 State Street decisi... | en | 0.974462 |
Why women don't FLOSS | [
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"text": "We shall not rest until every subgroup of the population has perfectly proportional representation in every possible activity!"
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"text": "In my experience women are less involved in FLOSS because they gravitate more heavily towards institutional jobs where ... | en | 0.972254 |
iPhone, meet Haskell | [
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"text": "I would love to also run the interpreter inside iOS to learn Haskell from a tablet.I will support a crowdfunding campaign."
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"text": "This is interesting. I've been keen on experimenting with FRP for a while, and now I can use it for 'real world&#... | en | 0.931762 |
Coelacanth: Lessons from Doom (2010) | [
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"text": " > Doom is about “maneuverability as defense”\n > ...\n > There’s nothing quite like it today.\n\nThere's one game i'm aware of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painkiller_(video_game)By default it also moves fairly slowly, but the player is stro... | en | 0.835882 |
Vim 7.4 is released | [
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"text": ":help version7.4 has all the details, but the two most significant ones cited are "New regexp engine" and "A more pythonic Python interface."Of the former, the help file says:What is now called the "old" regexp engine uses a backtracking algorithm. It tr... | en | 0.948218 |
Shopify POS | [
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"text": "Two years ago (October 2011) I submitted this idea to the first Shopify Fund (http://www.shopify.com/fund):"The second idea is to create a POS system that integrates fully into Shopify. Thus one can use Shopify to manage sales for all the store's inventory bo... | en | 0.942371 |
Ask HN: What would happen if HN was split into "sub-reddits". | [
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"text": "I really like how https://lobste.rs/ uses tags for easy topic filtering.I'd love to see a system that does automatic topic/trend clustering, along side the manual social bookmarking bits. That would be a killer app for attention economy management. Then give the topic or trend or what... | en | 0.937893 |
FoundationDB — Not Your Standard NoSQL Database | [
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"text": "I see a lot of snarky comments (maybe that has to do with the journalism of the article), but my recollection of FoundationDB is that it is interesting. It's trying to tackle the problem of enabling ACID, while also not being SQL-dialect oriented, putting it in a somewhat unique part... | en | 0.964065 |
Craft Cocktail Mixer Curated Box | [
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"text": "Its a subscription box with essentially everything you described. We're trying to keep the alcohol content as low as possible for now. Will definitely include recipes and not especially seasonal with regards to holidays but more artisanal, seasonal with regards to ingredients. Th... | en | 0.926201 |
YC has just closed a new $8.25 million fund | [
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"text": "I'm hoping we'll eventually see some experimentation with the model, now that they have more money to work with.I've always believed there's room for a YC-like company to do slightly bigger investments. Instead of $17k for 2 founders, it would be $80k for 2 founders. That way they cou... | en | 0.985532 |
Offline First – A better HTML5 User Experience | [
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"text": "So, in other words, the web is rediscovering client/server programming. Welcome to 1990, everyone!More seriously, though, I think a lot of the reason for the historical tendency towards server side rendering has been:* Clients were slow: remember, until V8 raised the standard for spee... | en | 0.979054 |
Paul Graham's On Lisp in HTML | [
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"text": "The original page for this is: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html and apparently it is available for download for free: http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html"
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"text": "Am I the only one in this whole world who prefers to download just one single htm... | en | 0.921004 |
Why Quora is in trouble | [
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"text": "I was once a heavy quora user. Here's what drove me away (I do still use it but I no longer 'hang out' there): the overwhelming pretentiousness and self-righteousness of many within the very early core userbase who, because I was in that early group, dominate my feed (don't know if th... | en | 0.981122 |
Tracing Ebola’s Breakout to an African 2-Year-Old | [
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"text": "The last piece of the article is painful to read. Anyone know how we can contribute to supplies, etc to fight Ebola?"A Desperate Call for HelpBy June and July, Sierra Leone was becoming the center of the outbreak. At the government hospital in Kenema, Dr. Sheik Umar Khan was lead... | en | 0.948861 |
Why would you want to own a car if you could avoid it? | [
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"text": "Because driving is a lot of fun. As someone who is 29 years old, I got my first car when I was 25, so yes I cared a lot less about cars then the ideal American 16 year old looking forward to his first ride. When I did get my car though, I realized how much I had been missing out on.Dr... | en | 0.992629 |
Ask PG: How to do marketing | [
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"text": "One of Paul's posts says he used these guys: http://www.schwartzmsl.com/client_coverage.phpI can't remember where it is, one second let me search...tadaa here we go: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.htmlI find this quote incredible: "we ... | en | 0.859882 |
Craigslist's Increasingly Complicated Battle Against Spammers | [
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"text": "It took me ten seconds to find this:http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/w4m/693380090.html...and this:http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Simultaneously+with+it+I+d...(27 re-submissions of the same thing all over the place.)Whatever craigslist is doing, they aren't doing it very well. Googl... | en | 0.86013 |
An Update on HN Comments | [
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"text": "I appreciate the changes. But while we're on the topic, could I throw out a thought?It should be easier for a late-arriver on a post to add a useful comment, and have it be promoted. Have you considered using randomization to adjust the score of certain comments?HN comments seem ... | en | 0.934204 |
GNUnet | [
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"text": "Does anyone know how this compares to Freenet? The FAQ talks about it a bit [ https://gnunet.org/faq/10 ] but for example, I don't understand what \"Economics\" means in this context?"
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"text": "Does anyone else feel repulsed by the name itself? Every time ... | en | 0.98279 |
Launchrock for error pages | [
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"text": "Since there are not FAQ/About/Explanation pages can you explain what is the idea behind this ?Other than an online webpage editor that works in Chrome.Edit:\nI'm asking this because I only see a web editor and a save button that ask you to register and two \"sign in\" \"register\" but... | en | 0.949076 |
Dear Zed, please throw the bikeshedders a bone | [
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"text": "Is \"educate your boss\" no longer an option these days?What if someone edits the sqlite file via sqlite rather than the config file?Think of the sqlite database as a \"deployed\" configuration, not the configuration that you work with. Put together some process documentation for dep... | en | 0.930176 |
How to “Pick the Brains" of Busy People Without Them Even Knowing It | [
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"text": "Another thing that works great:Just email one specific question.Then a week or so later, email another specific question. Repeat.I've been saying no to all "pick your brain" requests, and even interview requests, but if someone emails a specific question, I answer it. ... | en | 0.902295 |
Government Denies That NSA Listens To Domestic Calls Without Legal Authorization | [
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"text": "Given all the misleading statements so far when you hear a statement like this:"the statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect"They are basically meaningless unless you can ask a few follow up ques... | en | 0.913751 |
Java lightweight framework - jodd | [
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"text": "Note to people that design pages like these: If you're putting a blinking cursor on your page, I'm trying to type things. The first key I will press is the backspace key, if this takes me to the previous page, I now left your webpage and it's unlikely that I'll return. Might be just m... | en | 0.896781 |
British Airways flies into privacy storm over Google identity checks | [
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"text": "\"We’re essentially trying to recreate the feeling of recognition you get in a favourite restaurant when you’re welcomed there, but in our case it will be delivered by thousands of staff to millions of customers.\"When I'm welcomed at my favorite restaurant, I know that the people the... | en | 0.959615 |
YHackers: Click that "New" link | [
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"text": "You know, I had a thought about this - why not make it an option to show me the 5 most recent new submissions on the bottom of the index page (e.g., the top 25 plus 5 latest). It's not a perfect solution, but at least I'll be aware it's there.I understand that could lead to some nast... | en | 0.969086 |
Golang overtakes Clojure in Goggle Trends | [
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"text": "Here's an interesting trio:golang, rust, and julia all about equal right now:http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...Also interesting that clojure is much bigger in the google trends "Programming" category.\nhttp:/... | en | 0.451221 |
Lay off W3Schools | [
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"text": "Except w3schools isn't approachable and it isn't for beginners. It's jargon loaded and filled with a bunch of information that means nothing to beginners.Let's look the page for explaining 'div': http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_div.asp\"The <div> tag defines a division or a ... | en | 0.858257 |
Feminist Software Foundation | [
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"text": "I know that this is satire, but after reading through some "code" on the bitbucket, I am disgusted. You'll never hear me say the word "privilege" in any kind of seriousness, but really guys? This is fucking awful.Some snippets: // The whole idea of ... | en | 0.893106 |
The future of computers: 3D chip stacking | [
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"text": "Xilinx's Vertex 7 FPGA uses a stacked design for the interconnects. The FPGA logic is all 28nm, but sitting under it is a completely passive 65nm interconnect layer.http://www.xilinx.com/products/technology/stacked-silicon-in..."
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Anonymous hijacks Syria's government pages | [
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"text": "The text loads slowly. It actually freezes if you're in another tab, which IMO is a poor implementation decision; it means you actually have to sit and watch it come on the screen word by word.For those who either don't want to wait for it to load, or didn't get to it before it got t... | en | 0.90205 |
Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?" | [
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"text": "You're welcome to try posting the thread. I think it would be interesting. For best results, it should probably be a separate post from the current discussion.Having it recur monthly, though, is another matter. Since there have been a lot of proposals for recurring threads lately... | en | 0.974497 |
Amazon Accused of Cheating Customers Through Shipping Costs | [
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"text": "I think the obvious answer is that this isn't FREE shipping. Nothing is FREE. "Free" shipping is nothing but marketing speak, and if this is illegal so is "Buy one get one Free" or "Buy one get one half price" since the discount is built into the bus... | en | 0.971491 |
Tell HN: Posting a link that's behind a paywall (ie NYTimes) is annoying. | [
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"text": "I disagree. Some information is worth paying for. If it was voted up, others agreed. You are always free to avoid it. How will we get high quality investigative content if none of us wants to pay for it?"
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"text": "NYTimes has selective access to a lot of t... | en | 0.963008 |
How do you manage a team of geeks? | [
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"text": "Replace \"geek\" with \"highly sought after, intelligent and talented employees\" and you'll be closer to the truth.The reason developers are \"hard\" to manage is that they're in demand, so they don't have to put up with bad or abusive management.That said.. I'd recommend reading Tea... | en | 0.962033 |
8-bit StarCraft | [
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"text": "This is very well done.As a fan of StarCraft I must say that a lot of detail went into the making of this parody. The protoss turret sound at 1:05 cracked me up.Here is the awesome 8-bit theme which could have been its soundtrack : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3in8Z-w-uHY"
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Spelling Corrector in 21 lines of Python | [
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"text": "Interesting that the shortest (and among the most readable) is the 15-line version written in old-school AWK:\nhttp://pacman.blog.br/wiki/index.php?title=Um_Corretor_Ortog...A surprise is that the Perl implementation weighs in at 63 lines. I would have expected much less. I expect a m... | en | 0.940092 |
What's a good way to find talented people to hire? | [
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"text": "Most companies seriously underestimate the level of exposure they have. We usually recommend applying inbound marketing techniques to your recruiting process to improve your exposure. A few tips:1) Open source one or more useful projects. Smart people will use them, fork them, etc.\n2... | en | 0.959855 |
Outlawed by Amazon DRM | [
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"text": "Could you ever imagine a local retailer in your area breaking and entering into your home, taking away all your books, and then not giving you a straightforward explanation as to why they did so? Me neither. Breaking and entering into someone else's physical property, and talking aw... | en | 0.967176 |
Linux.fm – Broadcasting the Linux kernel, one source file at a time | [
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"text": "This only makes sense if they were to "broadcast" it using Frequency-shift... | en | 0.930066 |
Zynga's Going Down. | [
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"text": "Tech stocks (in aggregate) have declined about 32% in the same time period. What this article fails to mention is that Zynga's stock price was at an all-time high when Zynga acquired OMGPOP. The stock has since floated around it's post-IPO price. OMGPOP is most likely unrelated to ... | en | 0.976362 |
Ask HN: What Python web programming frameworks and tools are you using? | [
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Tell HN: Read Maxim and other trashy "guy" rags. | [
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Behind a Backend-as-a-Service Provider: The How and Why of Our Architecture. | [
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"text": "Full disclosure, I'm heading up the backend development for Zipline Games Moai Cloud (http://getmoai.com/). We're targeting game developers so that lead us to some different use cases and language choices (like Lua).Thanks for sharing this, at first read through it sounds a lot like ... | en | 0.895451 |
The Choice of Work | [
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"text": "Power > Money.It's practically a hacker axiom. Money matters, but changing the world is what really matters. Money is just a way to be able to work on changing the world without having to worry about keeping the rent paid.Thanks for sharing this."
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Homophony Groups in Haskell | [
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"text": "This is not a bash on Haskell as I like Haskell, but is every Haskell article or discussion academic? It's all fascinating and interesting (especially the OP), but some of us would like to learn about Haskell's applicability in the real world, not just in computer science ac... | en | 0.917097 |
Ask HN: How do you detect liars? | [
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"text": "Well there's liars on both ends. \nOn the one end you've got the fancy vocab know-it-all smooth talker. On the other end we've got the I can learn quantum finance on-the-fly guy (perhaps quantum finance is not too hard, but you get the point).Honestly though - I don't think anybody wi... | en | 0.987156 |
Show HN: Pix.pe – Easily sharable pixel art | [
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Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve Performance | [
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"text": "So, technically, the software we've written is a distributed flash video distribution system, of the type one could use to run a CDN.But \"distributed flash video system\" is like 20 characters longer and a lot harder to say than CDN.It runs partly on EC2, partly on our own servers ri... | en | 0.958405 |
Measure the gravitational constant like Cavendish did in 1798 | [
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"text": "The first attempt to measure the value of the Gravitational Constant (as well as the Earth's mass; each would lead to the other given what was known at the time) was done by measuring the gravitational pull of a mountain. A site somewhere in Scotland was chosen, if I recall correctly ... | en | 0.991034 |
Robert Allen: Why the Industrial Revolution Was in Britain | [
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"text": "I've spent a lot of time studying this question. The high bit is that it would have been surprising if it hadn't been. Britain was already the most advanced country in the world by all the usual measures, like literacy, per capita income, etc.The question of why it didn't happen in ... | en | 0.980165 |
Ask HN: Don't want to steal an idea, but don't need 4 non-technical cofounders | [
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"text": "Walk away. You'll have other ideas at least as good as the one you're looking at now, and a dispute over ownership is no way to start a successful company.People will rush to tell you that ideas aren't worth anything and simply having an idea gives your erstwhile prospe... | en | 0.952096 |
Show HN: QR Codify, The Most Useful Snippet I've Ever Written | [
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"text": "I read through the comments, expecting to see a JS version of this, but I didn't find one so I made it: javascript:(function(){ var i = new Image();i.src = 'http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl='+ encodeURIComponent(getSelection());i.onclick=function(){i.... | en | 0.643732 |
"It seemed like a good idea at the time": Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes | [
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"text": "You need the slashes. Otherwise how do you differentiate between:\nsite:port/file (example.com:8080/myfile.htm)\nand\nprotocol:site/file (http:example.com/myfile.htm)\n?\nYou could guess, based on where the full stops are, what's a numeric, etc. But you wouldn't be sure. Having dots... | en | 0.875137 |
IOS Integration Testing by Square | [
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"text": "Ok, this might be somewhat dumb; I'm just starting to get into testing. How does KIF[1] compare to Kiwi[2]?--[1]: http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.h...[2]: http://http://www.kiwi-lib.info/"
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"text": "The best thing I got out of thi... | en | 0.933299 |
Engineer invents safe way to transfer energy to medical chips in the body | [
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"text": "Caveat - It has been more than decade since I worked in an optics lab, and I haven't looked behind the pay wall at the paper.----I'm pretty sure this works in a way analogous to "frustrated total internal reflection," which powers many fingerprint readers. (look up... | en | 0.927323 |
The Problem of a Lack of Downvoting. | [
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"text": "If you're worried about the signal-to-noise ratio, then I suggest you don't post things that have been posted and discussed about a gazillion times before, as this too is cluttering up the main page.You don't have to like every single article on the main page. Hacker News wasn't made ... | en | 0.973645 |
The Mixergy Guide to Building a Recurring Revenue Business From Scratch | [
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"text": "It seems a lot of these examples are from 'internet marketing businesses' or people selling info products on \"how to make money online\" or \"how to create an email auto responder\".I've been following the internet marketing niche on and off for a while now so maybe thats why I have ... | en | 0.971061 |
Silicon Valley aside, why are Americans more willing to risk a startup? | [
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"text": "American's love David and Europeans love Goliath. The British believed in their Empire. They believed that it was right to put Squash courts and Polo fields in far flung countries. They believed that Britishness was the most natural state of man. The French, Russians and eventuall... | en | 0.990314 |
Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint | [
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"text": "I take psychedelics on a regular basis. Usually a couple of times a month. Although I've done several hundred micrograms (there is really no way of knowing) of LSD at once, I also really enjoy experimenting with smaller doses and casually micro-dosing on work days.I happen to be a sof... | en | 0.968153 |
Ask: Read a book that changed your life? Title? | [
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"text": "Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" - linked lists, state machines.Carlos Castenada's Don Juan series (yes, I know it was fiction) - "one has no choice but to believe. What matters is what you believe".John C. Lilly's "Center of the Cyclon... | en | 0.831856 |
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