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How do you tell nicely tell someone their requests are not in scope? | [
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"text": "I suggest that your client's apparent anger is nothing more than a negotiation tactic - whether they are consciously aware of this or not.If you have agreed a list of requirements and a price, and you have this written down and signed off by both parties, then you should stick to your... | en | 0.983409 |
YC got a record number of applications this cycle | [
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"text": "Wouldn't the next cycle be a better indicator? I am guessing it took a while for folks to get co-founders, work on idea towards a prototype, etc. -- all of which took longer than the past few weeks."
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"text": "Could be that YC is being treated like Grad Sch... | en | 0.986903 |
Welcome Rakudo Star | [
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"text": "Some unsubstantiated ravings:* Everyone I've encountered online who has used both Perl 5 and Perl 6 says that they like Perl 6 (the language) better.* This first Rakudo Star release is not optimized at all, which is fine and not a surprise. Everyone by now should know that one of the ... | en | 0.981746 |
Hiring a Rails 'gangsta' .. Is this what its coming to? | [
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"text": "OK. please people, stop judging every fucking word people write. if you are going to submit a post just for using a word gangsta, please stop. we might as well start use the tag line \"we judge you for every word you say\" as tag line for hn now. should i say factorialboy is fucking o... | en | 0.939581 |
Not sure what to do with my startup idea | [
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"text": "hiring a coder is going to be very costly once programming and design are includedYou should start learning about coding now, not with the intention of building the app yourself, but with the intention of becoming more knowledgeable about what the developer's job entails. If you ... | en | 0.944435 |
Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global | [
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"text": "Aside from just what a solid company Optimizely is, I think that if you read Dan's blogpost you get a hint at the ultimate direction they may be going.\"We firmly believe that 10 years from now people will look back at today and be shocked at how generic, impersonal, and one-to-many ... | en | 0.960532 |
TechCrunch’s Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator Demo Day | [
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"text": "Interesting, has carsabi partnered with Craigslist? I always thought Craigslist didn't like scrapers and did their best to discourage and prevent them.Has that changed?"
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"text": "I actually kind of of don't like techcrunch's coverage of this event. Give u... | en | 0.97984 |
Wizard Modals for Bootstrap | [
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"text": "I really like this. I had done something similar in a project, but this execution really ignites my imagination. Really well done. I am curious if chosen.js would have to be modified to handle backbone style async, I know it's been strange in cases like that."
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Ask HN: Notice a jump in Page Rank today? | [
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"text": "Where is the definitive place to assess ones pagerank?edit:http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.phpLooks like Mibbit is a 7 :)"
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"text": "http://www.overcomingbias.com 7... we get a lot of random incoming Google traffic.Though it's worth noting that ou... | en | 0.919672 |
Sign to throw in the towel? | [
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"text": "> My idea was to use augmented reality to virtually show DIY interior design and move around furnitures in your room.It doesn't sounds like you understand the scale of the technical challenge here. You're talking about developing a product based on a technology that is in its infa... | en | 0.964622 |
Ask HN: Why do people not like news personalization? | [
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"text": "Personally, I mostly dislike news personalization. For instance, I always log out of reddit unless I'm actually going to post something or add a comment, because of the personalization issue. My selection of techy-related aggregators like reddit and HN are enough personalization for m... | en | 0.945885 |
Ask HN: I'm an idea guy. Apparently I'm worth nothing? | [
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"text": "> I hear something from someone and immediately come up with ideas about it. It's what I do. It's what I'm excellent at.That's not a rare skill. Lots of people do it. Many of them are also good at execution.The latter limits your market somewhat. You're competing for the attent... | en | 0.984812 |
Decoding the Deadpool: How to Tell When a Startup Has Failed | [
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"text": "Warning: Does not actually mention how to tell when a startup has failed."
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"text": "What are the implications of Techstars under-reporting the deaths of their startups? Not to knock 100K in notes (and the other benefits of being in a reputable accelerator)... | en | 0.950385 |
WorldChat.io: Chat with realtime translation | [
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"text": "Due to the massive amounts of spamming going on right now I think there should be some sort of chat room system on there which allows you to create a room and send the link.Or you could even follow a similar idea to Omegle by pairing two people together but make it so it pairs two peo... | en | 0.975358 |
Accuracy of three major weather forecasting services | [
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"text": "The plot in the article is an example of a "reliability diagram" frequently used in weather forecast verification. See, e.g., http://www.bom.gov.au/wmo/lrfvs/reliability.shtml. \nReliability is considered separate from accuracy in meteorology -- the ... | en | 0.892542 |
How one guy turned his C&C skills into millions with online poker | [
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"text": "If he a.) plays at stakes where he can lose over a million in a couple days and b.) bases his decision to play someone (especially another pro) on emotion and recent short term variance, it's pretty much guaranteed he will end up broke eventually unless he actually has many many milli... | en | 0.980345 |
Microsoft is doomed, but first it’s going to make a ton of money | [
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"text": "This constant 'Microsoft is doomed' meme is really beginning to annoy me. Yes, their heyday has past when everyone had a PC running Windows in their homes, but that does not mean the end of Microsoft."Tablets and smartphones are the future of computing" to which I ... | en | 0.942747 |
12th Class Indian Student Invents Shoes To Charge Your Mobile | [
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"text": "I know I'll get downvoted by the Indian crowd here on HN, but I feel this needs to be said:This illustrates the characteristically Indian trait of mindless hero worship. Our media has a tendency to blow such things out of proportion, even if it's immediately apparent to anyo... | en | 0.974486 |
Ask HN: Why are airplane touch screens so poor? | [
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"text": "Let's forget the rants against airlines for a while: The big difference in touch screen technology is about resistive (old-fashioned, \"soft\" screens) vs capacitive screens (cf. iphone etc.). The last time most airlines installed their systems was when resistive technology was still ... | en | 0.97153 |
Phone call metadata does betray sensitive details about your life | [
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"text": "If it didn't, the NSA would not be so interested in collecting it. Paranoid people who believe they might be being listened in on are unlikely to reveal much directly in the conversation itself anyway, so in those cases the metadata is more important. Also, the metadata can revea... | en | 0.967636 |
Got 99 Competitors and Bit.ly is One | [
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"text": "I thought Referly was pretty cool and decided to sign up and created my own link for the new Apple MBP.But when I click on the claim rewards link: http://refer.ly/claimIt's telling me a different story (compared to on their main page - Earn rewards like whoa.)about getting the rewards... | en | 0.981275 |
On Cascading Failures and Amazon's Elastic Block Store | [
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"text": "Good post, but the tone of Joyent's posts so often irk me. Too much poking at Amazon while holding themselves on a pedestal.They're a competitor to Amazon, of course they think they're superior... just so smug.It seems like a bad practice, especially when you end up with pie in your ... | en | 0.982141 |
Using Haskell for the web | [
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"text": "There's much more info about Snap, Yesod and Happstack (the three competing systems in Haskell-land) on the Haskell Reddit,* http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/search?q=yesod&sort=top&...* http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/search?q=snap&restrict_s...* http://www.reddit.com/r/haskel... | en | 0.773326 |
Google's text-to-speech engine randomly inserts phrase "he now praises the ipad" | [
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"text": "\"Larry Page used to use an Android. But that is now at an end with\" works just great. :)http://translate.google.com.mx/?hl=en#auto/en/Larry%20Page%2..."
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"text": "Looks like the 'filled with so much drama' quote is from here:http://www.macnn.com/articles/... | en | 0.90208 |
Python API for Hacker News | [
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"text": "That library is in many ways deprecated and broken: At first, it uses only old-style classes because it doesn't inherits object explicitly. Furthermore, it uses print in a method; it would be more "Pythonic" to return a str object, which was formatted using str.format.I... | en | 0.965257 |
Methane Is Discovered Seeping from Seafloor Off East Coast, Scientists Say | [
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"text": "While this appears to be an alarming "discovery," I'm not sure what the news is considering Skarke and Ruppel were both included on a paper submitted in 2012 (and available in Spring of 2013) titled: "Evidence for extensive methane venting on the southeastern U.S. ... | en | 0.956248 |
Dennis Ritchie's first C compiler on Github | [
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"text": "Coincidences... I thought \"How come Warren Toomey (one of the guys of the Unix Heritage Society [1]), has never posted this?\"Turns out, this Github-repo is just a mirror/copy of his work, but with attribution [2]. Still worth reading through there, tuhs also stores some extremely ol... | en | 0.947798 |
Most Popular Programming Languages of 2014 | [
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"text": "Objective-C is less popular than Haskell? Java is less popular than Python?Doesn't pass the smell test: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2Cpython%2Cobjective-..."
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"text": "Does a really good job of showcasing what codeeval's... | en | 0.937045 |
The Interesting Number Paradox | [
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"text": "The Wikipedia Paradox: what's the most notable subject that's not notable enough for Wikipedia?Now, one could reasonably argue that merely being the answer to this question would not, by itself, be enough to make a subject notable. However, the act of arguing this point, if seriously... | en | 0.980519 |
Steve Yegge's foreword to Joy of Clojure | [
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"text": "Just a word.. not that it is really relevant but I wanted to share this with fellow hackers. To encourage the Clojure community/language, I've pre-ordered the book Joy of Clojure on amazon. On the book's website, it is clearly stated that you also get a free pdf of the book before the... | en | 0.958116 |
Is this considered creepy in all cultures? | [
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"text": "I think the issue is the lack of consent. The data is freely available and anyone who wants to use it to compile lists of Perl developers can do so, but if you're going to put up a list of female developers without a) asking them first and b) presenting it in a context that anticipat... | en | 0.952138 |
HN Request: A way to manage student loans. | [
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"text": "Consolidate your student loans into one loan. This is pretty easy -- you can do it online in a few hours. Companies used to throw themselves at students to get their consolidation business since it is practically risk-free (subsidized up the wazoo and nondischargeable in bankruptcy ... | en | 0.943423 |
Matz: I use Debian, I have no Ruby problems. | [
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"text": "It's great that manual compilation works for Matz. And his great work notwithstanding, it has little to do with the general user.As an occasional Ruby programmer, and frequent Ruby-based utility user, I do not want to compile and install Ruby or Ruby modules myself. If we go down that... | en | 0.938392 |
The Price of Free | [
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"text": "I'm getting a little bit annoyed with the argument that 'Internet taking over these businesses is BAD because it's replacing quality with quantity! You won't get quality anymore because people are flocking to quantity and we can't afford to subsidize it anymore!'On one hand, I am some... | en | 0.980446 |
12 Piano notes made visible for the first time | [
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"text": "For the first time in history individual piano notes have been made visible using the CymaScope instrument.Except for all the times someone fed the output of a mic amplifier into a scope and watched a Lissajous figure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve Not to mention Dudde... | en | 0.837017 |
Ask HN: Where to get ideas? | [
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"text": "Ideas are not 30% of success. The reason ideas are worthless is because literally any idea you have come up with many other people have come up with too. Almost nobody bothers to execute. My recommendation would be to pick something you are excited about.Here is one, real time product... | en | 0.974489 |
DuckDuckGo Regex Search | [
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"text": "Every comment here at time of writing is from people thinking that this is a way of searching the web using regular expressions. It is not.It is a way of taking a regular expression and an input and then applying that regular expression to that input. In this particular example it tak... | en | 0.843731 |
A drug slows ageing in middle-aged mice | [
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"text": "Anti-aging/life-extension stuff is all very interesting, but I fail to see how such technology would ever become accessible to the public at large. For that to happen, I'd think that there would have to be a significant economic benefit.As it stands now, we have an overpopulation prob... | en | 0.97268 |
The Singularity is Far: A Neuroscientist's View | [
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"text": "I see a big parallel with the predictions for advances in neuroscience with all the predictions that were made prior to the sequencing of the human genome (the author touches on this a bit too). Lots of smart scientists really believed that once the human genome was sequenced, we woul... | en | 0.979004 |
New MacBook Pro series | [
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"text": "Didn't get as much coverage, but there are also new ThinkPads this week: http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/22/lenovo-trots-out-new-thin...The 14\" models look good: 30 hours (claimed) battery on the T420, 0.83\" ultrathin T420s with discrete graphics.Edit: Here's the official announceme... | en | 0.966137 |
A Look at the Bitcoin Economy | [
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"text": "With respect, the press is regularly quoting how many places now 'accept bitcoin' but it is all really a vanity metric. I know it is difficult to know how much these merchant accounts get used without internal information from the providers themselves, but from all internal ... | en | 0.97843 |
European startup scenes compared | [
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"text": "This is just an extract from the Telefonica startup ecosystem report that can be found here: http://blog.digital.telefonica.com/?press-release=country-hi...It's an interesting report, though unless there's actionable information in this for you (there is for me, actually), it's probab... | en | 0.937071 |
Seth Levine: Sick of start-up BS | [
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"text": "i work at a J2EE shop. We pivoted recently. We feel like a startup, we engineer like a startup, we work as hard as a startup, but we also have existing client relationships, existing revenue streams funding our pivot, and we already have a team of domain experts and strong engineers.W... | en | 0.976871 |
How do you guys protect your repositories? | [
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"text": "I had it password-protected with .htaccess and then accessed via HTTPS, but I switched to using ssh+svn. There were some odd bugs with the WebDAV interface to svn where it wouldn't update my working copy properly on 'svn update', leading to a lot of manual deletion of .svn/wcprops to... | en | 0.935237 |
Start-Up Chile opens a new application process | [
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"text": "I am currently participating in the 3rd round. I stay in Santiago. It's rated #1 on the NYT list of 41 places to visit last year. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/travel/09where-to-go.html?...\nMy experience with Chile and Startup Chile have been very positive so far. For me, it's th... | en | 0.957018 |
We'd lose our security certificate if we allowed pasting | [
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"text": "They probably hired the same security consultant as my bank, which requires your online password to be exactly six characters long. My hypothesis is that this is a technical limitation due to the password being stored as a char(6) in their database."
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My low-paying, early-morning, exertion-requiring job | [
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"text": ""Optimizing for 6 hours of sleep""every day, getting out of bed is one of the hardest things I do""Every night, when I crawl into bed, I’m exhausted by all I’ve done that day."Your body may be telling you that you need seven hours of sleep. Or eight.How w... | en | 0.901111 |
Leap second causing Linux server crashes? | [
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"text": "It appears to be fixed in Linux 3.4 [1]. According to the original commit [2] it's been broken since 7dffa3c673fbcf835cd7be80bb4aec8ad3f51168 [3], which appeared in 2.6.26.So, kernels between 2.6.26 and 3.3 (inclusive) are vulnerable.[1] https://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torv... | en | 0.924309 |
Face recognition + the entire original series of Star Trek (w/ vids) | [
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"text": "There was this one guy in The Original Series who appeared quite often as an extra. He was a roman guard in \"Bread and Circuses\" and also a red shirt in \"Trouble with Tribbles.\" He was also in other episodes as an extra. I'd like to see a full face index, including the extras, ... | en | 0.992702 |
Code blocks in Python | [
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"text": "This is a terrible idea, and ruby used the wrong implementation. If you want this behaviour, you should just define a higher order function/decorator, and put your \"block\" in its own function. This is a case where there should be only one way to do it."
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... | en | 0.934746 |
At Apple shareholder’s meeting, Tim Cook tells off climate change deniers | [
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"text": "Oh my..."Too often investors look at short-term returns and are unaware of corporate policy decisions that may affect long-term financial prospects. After today's meeting, investors can be certain that Apple is wasting untold amounts of shareholder money to combat so-called ... | en | 0.914926 |
Why is it that EC2 prices are dropping, but not VPS? | [
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"text": "I think the simple answer would be economies of scale. As more and more customers sign up, they can drive their per-server costs down significantly. Their labor cost per customer would also decrease significantly. Meanwhile, your run-of-the-mill VPS provider is sweating decisions like... | en | 0.984452 |
Ask HN: Is 25 too old for Masters? | [
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"text": "No its not too late far from it.I finished grad school in 2010 (I'm 23 y/o) and most of my classmates were 25-38 range. Grad school really is alot better for mature students far far better. I felt I learnt alot more not from the subject matter/university but from the peers I was aroun... | en | 0.991758 |
Simplify your life with an SSH config file | [
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"text": "This overlooks ProxyCommand, the single most useful reason for using an ssh config file.e.g.: Host internal-*.example.net\n ProxyCommand ssh -T external.example.net 'nc %h %p'\n\n\nBasically, specify as ProxyCommand whatever command needs to be run to give you i/o to the rem... | en | 0.806535 |
Mining Bitcoin with stolen electricity == Money Laundering (says Dutch Police) | [
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"text": ""Theft Of Electricity" (on the basis that a computer doing something for an unauthorised user would consume more electricity than if that user was not issuing commands) was one of the first offences used in the UK to prosecute computer hackers in the early 1980s, before spec... | en | 0.961133 |
Ask YC: Favorite Philosophical novel? | [
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"text": "\"The Brothers Karamazov\" - Fyodor Dostoevsky.Perhaps the very first existentialist novel ever written. Dostoevsky was an existentialist before anyone knew what existentialism was."
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"text": "Albert Camus - The FallAll-time favourite. Heck, the fact that ... | en | 0.962736 |
ResizeMyBrowser | [
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"text": "On Firefox (and now Chrome apparently) web developer plugin.http://chrispederick.com/work/web-developer/ Tools -> Web Developer -> Resize"
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"text": "Just an FYI - the Web Developer Toolbar extension for FF and Chrome has this built-in."
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Were Intelligence Agencies Using Heartbleed in November 2013? | [
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"text": "I helped write this post. Note that we're very interested in anyone who has been keeping raw packet logs from before the Heartbleed vuln. was public. If you find 18 03 (01 | 02 | 03) 00 03 01 in them, please let me know or post pcap files. Contact info: https://www.eff.... | en | 0.946808 |
Show HN: Mjolnir, an automation/productivity app for OS X | [
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"text": "Congratulations on releasing Mjolnir!Here is some feedback: I have never heard of Mjolnir, or Hydra, before. I visited the page you linked and skimmed through. Here is what I learnt:- That it's a "Lightweight automation and productivity power-tool for OS X"- How to try ... | en | 0.88573 |
Show HN: fluent SQL – a minimalistic SQL builder for Java | [
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"text": "Very slick. My only suggestion is to allow a bit more terseness by adding static versions of all the calls that can happen at the beginning of the Query. The static versions would just create a new SQL object and pass the call on to the SQL object's call.Instead of: new SQL()... | en | 0.958479 |
SR-72 | [
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"text": "The SR-71 was developed using 20th century technology. It was envisioned with slide rules and paper. It wasn’t managed by millions of lines of software code. And it wasn’t powered by computer chips. All that changes with the SR-72.Oh oh."
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Getting users for the first time, ever. | [
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"text": "I will sidestep particular suggestions for a general comment.One kind of general background is taking (many) steps toward figuring out who your market is, and not assuming that you understand the target population, which translates into: \nWhat is the business model that will work for... | en | 0.938636 |
Ask HN: Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | [
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"text": "Don't let clients anywhere near their own domains and hosting.Before you know it, you're drenched in trouble, trying to get some hack-cheap-registrar to unlock domains or whatever, while the client is desperate because his e-mail doesn't work, or figuring out why the website broke, on... | en | 0.978169 |
Don't Get That College Degree | [
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"text": "If Bill can get 8% returns on his money every year, he might wanna start a hedge fund. Or at least borrow as much money at 5% as he can and invest it all."
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"text": "\"How can that be? College degrees bring higher income, but at today's cost they can't mak... | en | 0.983866 |
Type checking in Python | [
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"text": "This module doesn't seem to make it possible to type-annotate map and filter, which are Python builtins.I believe that dynamic typing results from frustration over generics, rather than over static typing in general. (Type stuttering is another problem, but modern languages solve... | en | 0.924773 |
Why the US is #1 in philanthropy and how it differs by country | [
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"text": "The article touches upon cultural differences in how publicly flaunting wealth by openly giving large sums to charity is perceived. In Europe, from my perspective as someone living in the Netherlands, we find it hard to imagine to attend a flashy fundraiser dinner to finance good caus... | en | 0.968101 |
CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat | [
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"text": "In the beginning, there was Red Hat Linux[1]. It was sold in boxes at stores such as CompUSA (remember?) but was also available for free download from Red Hat.Then, Red Hat decided they could make more money by spinning off Red Hat Linux into a separate enterprise-only product called ... | en | 0.98656 |
Why American news coverage of the government shutdown is a failure of democracy | [
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"text": "This does not belong on HN"
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"text": "As far as I can tell as a non-American, Americans are getting the news coverage they want. Even ardent Democrats seem to be extremely reluctant to face the fact that this is not a matter of a major political divide, but... | en | 0.977337 |
The White Hat's Dilemma | [
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"text": "I used to work for Blizzard. The Chinese government requested that we modify the WoW client so that they could intercept all chat. As far as I know, no-one said anything, including me - and Blizzard, of course, was more than happy to comply, given the size of the market and the risk o... | en | 0.98423 |
The "I'm Linux" Video Contest | [
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"text": "\"Hi, I'm Linux. Lots of stuff will almost work, but not quite, and that's all part of the fun. I can sometimes do WPA but frankly it's going to be easier on both of us if you use WEP. I like to pretend I'm easy-to-use, but you need to be picky about which hardware you run me on - or ... | en | 0.972101 |
Why Purdue should remove 'This is Engineering' viral video | [
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"text": "Notes for the next time I want to make a fun video with friends at school:- Arbitrarily remove 1/4 of our male participants. Replace them with female engineers. If only one female engineer available, trim the team to four participants (3 men, 1 woman). If no female engineers, no video... | en | 0.945054 |
Answers.OnStartups.com -- StackOverflow for startups | [
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"text": "Ugh, that site makes me recall why I found stack overflow so annoying until you get a few points.\"Dave, I'm sorry, I can't let you (upvote|comment|put links in answers|do much of anything)\""
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"text": "Is this essentially the Ask MeFi for HN? I'm confused... | en | 0.980364 |
Ask HN: Does anyone have recommendations for a web based kb/help docs system? | [
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"text": "There's phpmyfaq which looks more like the specific tihng you have in mind, but I really think a wiki is a better idea.Mediawiki is the best choice if you don't need to do funny stuff like setting up closed groups.But like jacuesm said, the trac wiki is also nice but only if you inten... | en | 0.987265 |
UX Bloat Nonsense | [
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"text": "Quote of the day: \"This is where you stop looking at your startup as a self-masturbatory piece of UX genius and start looking at it as a business\"There was an article on HN the other day about expedia increasing revenue by removing a confusing form field on their booking process. I ... | en | 0.968984 |
Ask HN: What VPS are you using? | [
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"text": "I like TransIP[1]. They're also using SSDs, they're price competitive with DO, they're hosted in Amsterdam and they've never given me any trouble.Note: the discounted prices are just for the first month, and they don't include VAT (21%).[1] https://w... | en | 0.852002 |
The CSS3 Test | [
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"text": "Now there's a nice surprise, Nightly (Firefox-alpha build) actually scores one percent higher than Chrome Canary. I do hope Mozilla catches up in other areas, there needs to be more than one large non-Webkit browser out there to push the web forward."
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Please Steal These webOS Features | [
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"text": ">(On task switching) \"Nothing else I’ve seen comes close.\"So true. It just feels SO much more like multitasking than any other platform.And notifications? I agree, amazing.I wish the article had covered the Gesture Area. I know the Touchpad did away with it, but the Gesture Area... | en | 0.948406 |
Ask HN: Rate my site (DebateZone) | [
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"text": "I like the concept.You should categorize because someone people wouldn't care about certain issues but will fight tooth and nail for others.Like us being entrepreneurs, we would have an opinion on \"fast fail\", so we would want to get to these topics more quicker than something relat... | en | 0.941492 |
Two Conspiracy Theories | [
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"text": "\"Our hedge fund is using existing technology to steal your money.\"This is absolutely certain to be true, also goes for mutual funds, and it happens in the plain sight of almost every investor.Hedge funds typically get two and twenty: two percent of your investment per year. Twenty ... | en | 0.94847 |
Scans reveal intricate brain wiring | [
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"text": "Raw data!http://www.humanconnectomeproject.org/2012/01/first-public-r..."
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"text": "\"Only 50 such scans have ever been done.\"\"The aim the $40m programme is to map the entire human neural wiring system by scanning the brains of 1,200 Americans.\""
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Scientists find treatment to kill every kind of cancer tumor | [
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"text": "What an irresponsible headline. I'm not familiar with the research in question but I've worked on cancer during my PhD and the headline alone is sufficient to discredit the article.Every kind of tumor? Really? Because we don't even know all the kinds of tumors that are ... | en | 0.96757 |
Ask HN: Best way to learn Python? | [
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"text": "The python tutorial is a good place to start.\nhttp://docs.python.org/tutorial/\nDive Into Python is also pretty good:\nhttp://www.diveintopython.net/"
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"text": "I'm a big fan of The Quick Python Book[0] and Dive into Python [1]. The former is especially go... | en | 0.831444 |
A Look at the Formula 1 Steering Wheel | [
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"text": "A Bit Off Topic: If anyone has interest in how it was before smart steering wheels, here is a vid clip of the master Ayrton Senna at Monaco in real-time as it happened.http://youtu.be/rh6bwZ4ooTIIt is deemed the best in car F1 vid of all times by fans. It is raw and not... | en | 0.913224 |
Performing Linear Regression Using Ruby | [
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"text": "We do regressions with rb-gsl. require 'gsl'\n x = GSL::Vector.alloc(array_of_x_values)\n y = GSL::Vector.alloc(array_of_y_values)\n c0, c1, cov00, cov01, cov11, chisq, status = GSL::Fit::linear(x, y)\n\nIt's not nearly as much work, and it's much faster than doing it in p... | en | 0.922573 |
Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should I build? | [
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"text": "You need to figure out who will pay you money. To do that you need to go talk to clients. Thats the hard part. Ie figuring out the problem.Implementation is straightforward because you already have a timeline for it. :) (Seriously!)Steps:\n* choose your best 3 ideas* create mockups fo... | en | 0.963137 |
Indian Scientists developed Insulin Pill for diabetics | [
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"text": "> the effects of the pill lasted longer than injected insulinA non-diabetic might think this was a good thing, but it's more likely to be a serious problem. The actual research article (http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bm401580k) is paywalled, ... | en | 0.858957 |
Unemployment in Silicon Valley higher than after dot-com bubble burst | [
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"text": "Not that it lessens the blow any, but it's worth mentioning that these figures are across the entire employment spectrum. Some of the commenters mention large hits in management, but it can also represent the freefall in construction and other especially vulnerable blue collar/service... | en | 0.950618 |
Why Sass And Languages Like It Will Triumph | [
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"text": "The demise of CSS seems a little dramatic. Sass looks sort of cool, and I'm glad it exists, but it seems more like a small nicety rather than a fundamental, web development game changer."
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"text": "I won't use Sass, Haml, LessCSS or things like that until ... | en | 0.967034 |
Ask HN: Interesting ideas for a weekend project? | [
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"text": "If you're looking to learn iOS, I'd suggest contributing to an open source application.An app requires a bit of setup so taking someones app means that most of the minutia is set up. Therefore you can take on manageable size chunks. Also, and maybe more importantly, you'... | en | 0.870556 |
"BadBIOS" features explained | [
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"text": "There are polite and impolite ways to express skepticism, and I'd encourage anyone to give Ruiu the benefit of the doubt as far as his motivations are concerned, even if you can think of an uncharitable explanation. "Here's some odd behavior I've seen and a possib... | en | 0.960053 |
Fargo, online outliner and more with Dropbox storage | [
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"text": "I've been using Fargo since it was launched and highly recommend it.I use it every day for jotting down quick notes, keeping a work journal, as well as planning out larger projects.There's already an active community of programmers and writers using it to do some pretty interesting th... | en | 0.956437 |
Computing with JavaScript Web Workers | [
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"text": "Javascript just keeps getting cooler and cooler. The more I learn about it the more I find myself loving it."
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"score": 1,
"text": "Web Workers look ugly to me :(\nSad that they thought of this as a good idea. It's just a horrible hack that'll lead to horrible code.Thr... | en | 0.943134 |
Microsoft Buying Adobe? | [
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"text": "Jokes aside, it makes perfect sense for both of them. Adobe's CS and Microsoft Office are naturally self-complementing desktop giants. Both companies make a ton of money selling desktop software to the enterprise, yet outside of Flash/Sliverlight battle they don't cross each other pat... | en | 0.970246 |
Italian and French jets escorted hijacked plane because Swiss AF was off work | [
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"text": "There may also just be a cultural difference. Dramatic & tragic as it is, a hijacked commercial plane is not an existential threat to a nation. "9/11" aside, most hijackings are resolved peacefully as fuel runs out and perpetrators discover surrender is the only sur... | en | 0.934488 |
Should I join CS major at college or start building my own startup? | [
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"text": "I'm in a very similar position myself. I'm about to enter my 3rd year at UT Austin, with a double major in Business (MIS) and Computer Science. I have gotten offers to co-found 1 or 2 startup ideas with adult founders that have had very successful companies in the past (that they star... | en | 0.988338 |
Free online CS courses from Udactiy & Coursera starting over the next 2 weeks | [
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"text": "I almost feel as if it isn't fair. My university offers none of these things at the undergraduate level -- compilers isn't even offered at all. Although I am an advocate of this paradigm shift taking place, and am happy to be alive during a time where radical changes to education are ... | en | 0.962576 |
Obama Discreetly Signs NDAA on New Year's Eve | [
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"text": "\"\n'The fact that I support this bill as a whole does not mean I agree with everything in it,' Mr. Obama said in a statement issued in Hawaii, where he is on vacation. 'I have signed this bill despite having serious reservations with certain provisions that regulate the detention, in... | en | 0.9809 |
What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 almost) | [
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"text": "The avg for the last YC batch was 24.5. Range: 19 to 35."
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"score": 1,
"text": "I think the better metric isage / (# of startups)\nin my case: 36/3 = 12\n"
},
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"score": 2,
"text": "This post is crying out for a bar graph based poll."
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"score":... | en | 0.960164 |
Could You See the Curvature of the Earth in This Airport? | [
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"text": "Offer the building's super the barometer, if in exchange he'll tell you how tall the building is. [1]Did the author of the article not bother to investigate the actual answer?[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barometer_question"
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"score": 1,
... | en | 0.606246 |
Will 2013 be the year Facebook becomes MySpace? | [
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"text": "It seems to me that Facebook has always been stuck with a damned lot: to make their product profitable, they have make their product worse. This is exactly the problem with \"social\" games. These games are lousy exactly because the lousy features make them money. With the direction t... | en | 0.989636 |
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