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All bitcoin private keys leaked | [
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"text": "This is why it's a joke: this page is a generator of keys. Every time you load a new page, it gives you another set of possible keys.If you look at the top of the page, when it says "Page 1 out of 904625697166532776746648320380374280103671755200316906558262375061821325312&qu... | en | 0.900478 |
A tcpdump Tutorial and Primer | [
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"text": "It is not only useful for security professionals. Anybody doing any kind of network programming should have it under their belt. Application level debugging only goes so far. Sooner or later you'll hit a problem like a network card sometimes sending super jumbo frames which the switch... | en | 0.95466 |
Dropbox (YC S07) Announces 4 Million Users, Hires A VP From Salesforce | [
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"text": "I Love Dropbox. I got in as an early beta tester and have been a paying customer since the day the option was offered.Dropbox helped me convince my old boss that I could work from home.I use Dropbox to back up my iTunes music library...for some reason I used to lose a lot of my music... | en | 0.970628 |
Remind HN: iOS 6 Beta 4 has expired ("Could not activate iPhone") | [
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"text": "Would have loved to get a \"push\" notification from AAPL regarding this..Seems like Apple is no longer signing the iOS 5.1.1 ipsw -\nthis is ridiculous..I was hoping on downgrading to iOS5 before hawking my 4S to Google Maps grovelers.On another note..I cannot restore to my iOS6 (bet... | en | 0.963204 |
Show HN: Who is hiring refugees? Or, hacking visas to help refugees | [
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"text": "Nice idea!Some of your icons aren't showing up for me on Firefox, as FontAwesome is being loaded from a different domain without CORS enabled: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote \n resource at\n http://support.hirerefuge... | en | 0.735721 |
Solar-panel "trees" really are inferior | [
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"text": "I didn’t find it that harsh. He was direct and took pains not to ridicule a thirteen year-old for making an entirely age-appropriate mistake in measuring the results. Instead, he asked the perfectly valid question of how this becomes news without critical thought.In that, the critique... | en | 0.977257 |
Investor Herd Dynamics | [
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"text": "This is spot on. When I found out that a fellow entrepreneur had been pushed and pulled around trying to get funding for months without any solid commitment I put two of the angels involved on the spot in a meeting and asked them if I committed a certain sum of money for how much we c... | en | 0.985752 |
Rock Star vs Rock Solid [programmers, and the difference] | [
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"text": "For me, this is the key phrase:\"A joy to manage as they typically do 99% of the job for you\"I don't doubt that managers prefer employees that are easier to manage. But is it really in the organization's best interest?I don't know thte author, but I've learned not to underestimate w... | en | 0.990476 |
Screenhero (YC W13) Gives WebEx And Screen Sharing Apps A Run For Their Money | [
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"text": "What are the chances you would make this an app work for UX research usability testing?With the following needs:2 users:UX researcher (myself)UX study participantRequirements:- Easily send the app to a participant (via an email link) - (you do this?)- Share my screen with the particip... | en | 0.874679 |
Show HN: NoobNinja - get and give help for specific coding or design tasks | [
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"text": "Sorry to be negative, but I've personally found that people who offer me prizes, money, etc to help others result in my choosing not to. I have people who are willing to pay me real money to help.But places where I get involved in discussions, I'm willing to offer valuable advice on.... | en | 0.960957 |
Ask HN: I probably live next door to a drug dealer. Help? | [
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"text": "I don't know whether or not they are drug dealers, but if they are, then unfortunately, I would say that you should be worried about your family's safety.When I was in college I lived in an apartment next to a drug dealer. While my then-boyfriend/now-husband was out of the country, s... | en | 0.994176 |
Google Chrome now works on iOS | [
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"text": "But, Chrome on iOS will still be a \"second class citizen\" the way Opera mini and the other browsers on the AppStore. If you want to open a link in Chrome, you will need to copy/paste the URL, no \"Open in Chrome\" functionality like Safari has. For better or for worse, Apple has n... | en | 0.948701 |
ORMs vs SQL: The JPA Story | [
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"text": "I've been using Hibernate sans Java EE for about four years. I started using it under JPA (again, without Java EE) about two years ago. Only in the last few months have I been able to deploy a Java EE environment, and there, only for a very small project, and the Java EE aspect w... | en | 0.971063 |
Ask HN: I am a PHP Newbie, Why do most developers hate it | [
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"text": "I would keep an open mind. PHP is a stepping stone in the natural progression of a web developer and is a good skill to have.If you are working with websites you will naturally learn HTML and CSS, then javascript, then jQuery.Next you might move to wordpress based websites so PHP and ... | en | 0.941317 |
Why Yahoo Keeps Killing Everything It Buys | [
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"text": "I cant recall a luckier, more overrated CEO in my career than Marissa Mayer. She shows up right before Alibaba (and wild valuations) takes off. Dan Loeb gets involved to turbocharge the stock, which has done well solely because of Alibaba. She makes a bunch of expensive, terrible acqu... | en | 0.950584 |
Y Combinator Dataset Of Posts | [
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"text": "> so only download it if you need it\n> This dataset may be removed in the next week or sothe latter cancels the former."
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"text": "I've set up a mirror, should be quite a bit faster ;)http://weblava.net/ycombinator-news20080424.tar.gz"
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Show HN: ABBA - Beautiful, open-source A/B test calculator | [
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"text": "Great explanations. For people, who prefer excel we have a calculator as an excel sheet: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test...We also have a blog post that explains mathematics of A/B testing: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/split-testing-blog/ab-test..."
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Tethr: Getting online in a crisis | [
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"text": "I have this functionality in a backpack. The problem is the BGAN satellite link is about $5-10k for the equipment and $3-12/MB for data, so it is effectively short text message and IRC only for me.If you are in specific areas, it probably would be better to use a vsat like wildblue, ... | en | 0.96608 |
Simple - An Obtvse clone written in Python | [
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"text": "I'd like to see one of these clones that more closely resembles the static site generators like Jekyll (http://jekyllrb.com/) or Hyde (http://ringce.com/hyde). Basically, the CMS would just be the interface to create new and manage existing content. It would have the standard static p... | en | 0.905294 |
Twss.js | [
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"text": "Now I'm just waiting for someone to make a Twitter bot that randomly samples tweets and responds to them with this..."
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"text": "I think your negative sample set is a little biased. Since all the phrases start with verbs like \"was in the car\" or \"went to... | en | 0.941873 |
Quick Look plugins for developers | [
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"text": "Enabling text selection in Quick Look through "defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool TRUE" has been very useful together with QLStephen."
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"text": "One more that I like is: http://www.mothersruin.com/software&#... | en | 0.881427 |
Weebly (YC 07) Launches Whitelabel Platform for Designers | [
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"text": "Weebly is the most under hyped YC company."
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"text": "Wow, this is pretty huge. There's a big gap between designers and developers particularly in the smb market. Youll have designers that don't know how to develop make brochure-style sites that business ow... | en | 0.977015 |
10 Reasons Why "Band" Is Better Than MySpace | [
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"text": "By the way, these guys are going through the HECK of startup right now through bootstrapping and really going garageband with this. I think there's an awful lot that the people floating around here can learn by what they're doing.BRAVO GUYS AND GIRL. You're really doing a great job w... | en | 0.980357 |
Don't Worry, Time Warner Cable Is Just Having A Massive Outage | [
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"text": "See here for more: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6576399"
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"text": "Time Warner, like, the movie company? I would never want internet from the guys that are trying to break the internet to enforce copyright."
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Ask PG: Can you do it again? | [
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"text": "You are confident that you can repeat "doing nothing significant in life" again and again? Whoa, you're really setting the bar high, aren't you? :P"
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"text": "[I am not PG]In the 1980's PG got a phd from Harvard - rumors that he als... | en | 0.961126 |
‘JFK Customs destroyed 11 of my instruments’ | [
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"text": "The biggest problem is that there doesn't seem to be any professional risk when customs agents "get it wrong". It seems that the agent could decided that your Sony Walkman is an agricultural product and take it from you and there will be shrugs all around.With no downsi... | en | 0.971967 |
Ask HN: Am I being paid fairly? | [
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"text": "Do some investigating into the temporary worker regulations for the country you are in.Here in the UK a recent law came into force where temporary workers have to be paid the same as colleagues in the same role after 12 weeks. They should also get the same performance related bonuses ... | en | 0.986392 |
ARM reveals little dog A7 processor | [
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"text": "This is binary compatible with the upcoming A15 processor, but lower speed and more power efficient. The intent is that a chip will have some A15 cores and some A7 cores and use them as appropriate to balance speed and energy consumption.It could also be used as a standalone processor... | en | 0.956952 |
Fun abstract image generator using SVG and hashes | [
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"text": "http://blotbot.co/#0ar00k00Whois thebatman.com"
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"text": "Wow, this is sick. I wish it had a \"Print to T-shirt\" or \"Buy Stickers\" feature. I would definitely rock a couple big, blocky tees from this site.It would be cool if you generated red, green, and... | en | 0.912961 |
UltraEdit text editor for Mac - Now Available | [
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"text": "Why I would take vim or emacs any day:- versions available for many platforms. Your editing skills on Linux are easily transferrable to Windows or Mac, and others.- Free, and Open Source.- Insanely extensible, with a rich collection of extensions and plugins already available.- Large ... | en | 0.835655 |
Huawei Says It Would Offer Access To Its Source Code | [
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"text": "I think it's a nice political move, but I will be surprised if it makes much difference in the end.It is impossible to demonstrate trustworthiness to someone who isn't willing to believe it.Some issues which would get raised by your friends if they didn't want you to buy Huawei:Firstl... | en | 0.97218 |
Editorial: Waiter, there's a Nazi theme in my Android Market | [
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"text": "The difference between the App Store and the Android Market is that the latter is not as actively policed. The Android Market has a fairly restrictive content policy, which (among other things) prohibits \"promotions of hate or incitement of violence\". While it's easier to slip pro... | en | 0.945246 |
AMD Posts A Horde Of New 3D GPU Documentation | [
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"text": "Direct links from http://www.botchco.com/agd5f/?p=58:AMD R6xx/R7xx 3D Register Reference:\nhttp://www.x.org/docs/AMD/R6xx_3D_Registers.pdfAMD R6xx/R7xx Acceleration:\nhttp://www.x.org/docs/AMD/R6xx_R7xx_3D... | fr | 0.378877 |
At Particle Lab, a Tantalizing Glimpse Has Physicists Holding Their Breaths | [
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"text": "This stood out to me:\"a spectacular last hurrah for Fermilab’s Tevatron, once the world’s most powerful particle accelerator and now slated to go dark forever in September or earlier, whenever Fermilab runs out of money to operate it.\"I don't know the backstory here, so I won't jump... | en | 0.902696 |
"Caffeine" - Google's new faster search engine | [
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"text": "Compare new and old Google Search side-by-side: http://tlrobinson.net/misc/googlecompare.html"
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"text": "Why is the sentence about Wolfram Alpha in this article?"
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"text": "Does this mean I have to change my username?"
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GitHub Merge Button - What Were they Thinking? | [
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"text": "That button is a convenience for the \"Hey I fixed a typo in your README\"-type changes. Of course for a major feature addition you'll still want to do it the old way, which is obviously still possible."
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"text": "They were probably thinking \"Let's make ou... | en | 0.980231 |
The Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial book (with PDF downloads) is out | [
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"text": "As a special thank-you to the awesome community here, the main story link above contains a Hacker News–specific code for a 20% discount on Ruby on Rails Tutorial PDF purchases, good for 30 days. Here is the code if you want to use it directly: hackernews01\n\nAs noted on the Rails ... | en | 0.913325 |
My embarrassing picture went viral | [
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"text": "(this comment got a bit long. tl;dr, the internet is full of insensitive pricks that don't get confronted with their own behaviour)A large percentage of the internet populace is running on autopilot: browse hundreds of random images a day for quick fixes of entertainment, and pos... | en | 0.926915 |
Ask HN: How old is your computer that you use regularly? | [
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"text": "My answer depends in part on exactly how you define "use regularly".If by "use regularly" you mean utilize for direct user interaction with the machine, then that would be a Compaq laptop from 2006 with 768M of RAM and an AMD Sempron CPU.If by "use regularly&q... | en | 0.923503 |
Chinese: Simplified, Traditional, Mandarin or Cantonese (The Simple Answer) | [
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"text": ">>>So, in an effort to boost literacy, the People's Republic of China attempted to make learning characters easier through a series of simplification rounds that took place between the 1950s and 1970s<<<The fact is that people in Hong Kong and Taiwan have a muc... | en | 0.960846 |
Product ＞ Strategy ＞ Business Model | [
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"text": "Seems to me like a somewhat empty bag of words. My general interpretation is \"walk before you run\"; I don't see the need for working hard to find a rule that applies everywhere. The obvious point is that you probably need to have something substantial (market wants your product, fan... | en | 0.973464 |
How Andy Dunn built a 9M/yr fashion business without a storefront | [
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"text": "[video]If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title.http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html"
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"text": "When I saw the front page of Grovo, I wondered why the Grovo logo was linking to Dropbox. They're ... | en | 0.962435 |
RIP Michael Jackson | [
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"text": "This is somewhat hacker-relevant: During a 30-minute window, 22% of all tweets mentioned Michael Jackson (with the correct spelling).http://twist.flaptor.com/trends?gram=michael%20jackson&s...It's the highest peak we've seen for a person since we started tracking."
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Microsoft's Lame New Anti-Apple Ad: Macs Are For Kids | [
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"text": "It's great to try and spin this as Microsoft being out-of-touch, but in this case they've hit the nail on the head. Their previous \"I'm a PC\" and \"Seinfeld\" ads have been terrible - trying to convince us that their computers were cool or every-day machines against Apple's bourgeo... | en | 0.991356 |
JSIL - .NET bytecode to JS compiler | [
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"text": "There are a handful of projects translating C# to JavaScript:- http://sharpkit.net/ (commercial)- http://scriptsharp.com/ (closed compiler)- http://www.saltarelle-compiler.com/ (open source)"
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Show HN: What colour is your IP address? | [
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"text": "People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment.I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]. They all use browser variables to generate r... | en | 0.941452 |
Algorithms as a Service | [
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"text": "This is where I usually draw the line at the \"everything is a service\" world view. It is much better to provide this as a library than as a service, particularly algorithms that run across large data sets.However, the exception I see to this is a service that applies the algorithm a... | en | 0.990455 |
[Show HN] Railsonfire - continuous integration for ruby apps in the cloud | [
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"text": "Do you currently support any database? Because according to your FAQ you don't, that makes testing an app a bit hard.But it does indeed look very nice if you can get at least some native extensions working, that would make it very simple to test an app.Are there plans for an web based... | en | 0.972939 |
New AWS region coming soon: eu-central-1 | [
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"text": "Honestly this is great news! As the article says, many German companies insist on their data being hosted in a data center in Germany when buying SaaS (for whatever reason). So far, there haven't been any viable options when it comes to "full-stack" IaaS service provide... | en | 0.923162 |
First sign this NDA | [
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"text": "Three words important to business types: Sustainable competitive advantage.Two words important to technical types: Working code.For \"pure\" tech ideas -- where the product primarily consists of software with unique functionality -- these two things are equivalent, and staying in \"... | en | 0.910659 |
Pay in Oil Fields, Not College, Is Luring Youths in Montana | [
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"text": "Didn't everybody else know about this in college? In Washington, it was Crab Boats and Canneries in Alaska that people would disappear off to for the summer and come back $40k richer. In the South, I had heard it was Oil Rigs.But the story is the same: Trade a few months of your li... | en | 0.990573 |
Moon Express Lunar Lander Program | [
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"text": "> "Moon Express engineers have combined the latest exponential technologies in micro-avionics with advanced propulsion and materials to create an innovative approach to spacecraft design and fabrication, empowered by leading edge Autodesk digital design tools to help make the ... | en | 0.891057 |
Inkless metal pen will write forever | [
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"text": "A case study in solving a problem that doesn't really exist? Maybe this is just me, but it seems mean time to lose a pen is much smaller than the amount of time it takes to run out of ink. And replacement is hardly a pain - it's not onerous to keep a few spares around (and... | en | 0.96311 |
SSH Brute Force – The 10 Year Old Attack That Still Persists | [
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"text": ""As for protecting your self against these, you need to use strong and good passwords..."I went back to the top to see when this was posted...today. I'm no expert on securing a server, but I thought the common thinking now was to just turn off password auth. The post it... | en | 0.966488 |
Mike Arrington: Turning the drama down on Y Combinator v. Google Ventures | [
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"text": "There's something ironic about combination of \"Mike Arrington\" and \"turning the drama down\"."
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Homemade thermal camera | [
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"text": "Posting this because some people seem confused about IR.I'd just like to point out here that infrared is a really wide chunk of spectrum. It goes from 0.74µm to 300 µm (according to Wikipedia), which is a factor of about 400. By comparison, the visual spectrum has a width of about a... | en | 0.970077 |
The Creative Commons of Privacy Policies has come, 5M end users from day one | [
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"text": "It would be absolutely great if you also added icons, color coding or some clever visual convention to make them understandable at a glance.I'm thinking about something like this http://goo.gl/9g7jx or - possibly - even simpler (e.g. like the CC icons)!That would absolutely make it a ... | en | 0.958383 |
Ask HN: Who keeps you accountable and on track with your startup? | [
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"text": "Along similar lines, I had thought of a slightly strange idea for a web app where people could sign up to get a \"virtual boss\" to encourage them in whatever way to be productive (whatever \"productive\" may mean). A lot of people do much better when there's somebody pushing them.The... | en | 0.976599 |
Linus Torvalds on userspace filesystems | [
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"text": "\"That's like saying you should do a microkernel - it may sound nice on paper, but it's a damn stupid idea for people who care more about some idea than they care about reality.\"He just had to sneak in a dig at Tanenbaum."
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Backbone has made me a better programmer | [
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"text": "Backbone is one of those libraries/frameworks/whatever that avoids magic. It's just a pile of reusable parts that make building big javascript applications easier. One can't say the same about, say, Rails. There's a lot of magic in Rails.Not that magic is a bad thing. Magic is wha... | en | 0.978492 |
Things web developers should know | [
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"text": "Sigh. Another fluff piece - n things crap, coupled with the know-all attitude.> I get CVs with people with computer science degrees, AI courses, various media and coding under their belt but there's still something missingYes, sure. If your job is making websites for local boutiqu... | en | 0.952271 |
Google just stole my employee #3 | [
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"text": "If someone's on the market, they need to apply to multiple positions to make sure they find something in a reasonable time. You should assume anyone interviewing with you is also interviewing elsewhere. Some of those other companies may make offers, and since they interviewed around t... | en | 0.980865 |
Why Startups Should Try to Hire Women | [
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"text": "This didn't ever really get to the \"Why?\" part. It just basically says that the opposite is stupid.My theory: humans behave differently, and generally more civilly, in environments where they (subconsciously) believe they have a chance of meeting a partner. Heck, part of the reas... | en | 0.991951 |
Opera embraces Google's open source JPEG killer | [
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"text": "Advantages:Theoretically better compression than JPEG (but ... so was JPEG-2000).Disadvantages:The encoder actually loses to JPEG in many tests and almost everything it encodes looks like a blurry mess.No support for any color format besides 4:2:0.Almost no support in image editing ap... | en | 0.94136 |
Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps? | [
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"text": "why not simply embed a web server and connect to the localhost ? That makes your application internet ready as well when the time is right as well as giving the user to connect to your application from other pcs on the same lan.I've built a music management system along these lines an... | en | 0.975913 |
DeepDB – High-performing transactional and analytic database | [
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"text": "So the team consists of ( http://deep.is/our-invention/ ): 1 CEO\n 1 CTO\n 3 Founders\n 1 Chairman\n 1 VP Product Management\n 1 VP Sales\n 1 Controller\n 1 Director of Engineering\n 1 Architect\n 1 Consultant\n 2 Engineers\n\nYeah... sounds like exactly... | en | 0.790884 |
Ask HN: Realization that i am not a "Programmer"... | [
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"text": "My advice: don't write off a potential career based on a few month's experience.It took me several years to decide that I enjoyed software development as a profession, and that I enjoyed it enough to develop an aptitude for it.Also, consider that it may be the environment - product, t... | en | 0.979544 |
Why a Dead Alkaline Battery Bounces [video] | [
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"text": "I think one of the bits I liked most was "Romeo (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Club" - looking at its website it seems like quite a large thing over there. I know that my Grandma goes to something similar (restricted to just tea and bingo), but it makes me wonder if a similar ... | en | 0.982726 |
Why did I reimplement Jekyll using NoFlo | [
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"text": "Didn't know about NoFlo before this, previous discussions here:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6139509https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6144951The UI looks neat, but the kickstarter video was a mixed bag. Did somebody tell a bunch of people t... | en | 0.941025 |
Ask HN: Review my startup, After the Deadline - Proofreading Plugin for Wordpress, TinyMCE, etc. | [
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"text": "I tried a sentence at PolishMyWriting.com. The sentence was: \"Onec upon at time, there was a potato.\" It found my misspell, but it: 1) Didn't capitalize the correction suggestions.\n 2) Ate the space between 'once' and 'upon' upon correction.\n\nAnd now that I've given it this rep... | en | 0.902996 |
As a VC, how is a $41 million investment in Color justified? | [
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"text": "I really enjoyed Yishans answer if for no other reason than it was positive about Color.I wish Hacker News members, who have zero vested interest in other people's startups, would be a bit more optimistic when it comes to publishing comments. Between Color, and various YC startup laun... | en | 0.986835 |
The 7 Habits of Highly Overrated People | [
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"text": ">What I'd like to hear from the OP is ways to counteract this kind of behavior, I suspect there might not be a way to do it if you're a peer, only if you're that person's boss.I think the article misses an important point - never attribute to malice that which i... | en | 0.929522 |
First Round Capital literally makes all their startups dance | [
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"text": "Startups are stressed. But, they are enjoying them!stress != unhappiness"
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"text": "Let's hope they code better than they dance..."
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"text": "This is great. Stop groaning and start living! Yes, startups are stressful, a roller co... | en | 0.983321 |
Email exchange between Edward Snowden and former GOP Senator Gordon Humphrey | [
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"text": "Everyone's focusing on the fact that Snowden claims he is torture-proof, when in reality he never said that. He said that he "cannot" be tortured into revealing information he is protecting.For example, Glenn Greenwald may hold a private key which must be used IN CONJU... | en | 0.963986 |
Ask HN: Please Review My Startup -- a SaaS for Local TV Stations | [
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"text": "Most stations in the US are now posting content transcribed directly to their own websites with clips of the appropriate story already. Promotion is the then directed to twitter/fb on an automatic or selective basis. Is this basically what you are talking about? In the scenario a... | en | 0.921415 |
The Pixar Theory | [
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"text": "Category: Entertaining B.S.Reminds me of Leonard Nimoy in "The Simpsons":"Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that th... | en | 0.896465 |
Facebook Revamps Friend Lists | [
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"text": "I always wondered why they didn't just apply a clustering algorithm on your friends to auto-generate friend lists.If you ever ran one of those \"friend wheel\" apps, it was easy to see that data about interconnections provides an almost-perfect way to group connections from different ... | en | 0.979202 |
Reasons not to buy from Amazon | [
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"text": "Most of these are problems with any large company, not Amazon per se.Yes, companies want to kill competition by any means and do all sorts of bad-for-the-consumer and bad-for-workers things. We didn't just wake up yesterday into the industrial era. That's all of capitalism. Amazon isn... | en | 0.981486 |
Rate my startup: SwipeGood - Roundup every purchase you make & donate the change | [
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"text": "The idea sounds like it might be interesting, but I can't imagine how this works and neither your website nor the facebook page linked at the bottom tell me anything about it.I might suspect that if I signed up with Facebook Connect that there might be more information, but it's not c... | en | 0.982125 |
AMD Is Fighting For Its Life | [
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"text": "I'm a regular HN community member (under a different account). Coincidentally, I also work for AMD. Everything I say here is my own words and none of this is endorsed/backed by my employer.\nFrom what I can tell, AMD's strategies are more long-term than some people would like. For i... | en | 0.975807 |
Ask HN: How do I get programmers into the college newsroom? | [
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"text": "Treat them like you treat your reporters.Partner them one on one with a reporter to create one off stories.Young programmers dream big, find a way to limit them, have them complete something in a week.Not all people who know how to program work in the CS dept. Cultivate those already ... | en | 0.964128 |
Video: Linus Torvalds on git | [
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"text": "Albeit an old video, a fun talk about the merits of git, I was never really bothered with git before this. Haven't looked back."
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"text": "Circa 2007. Still a classic though."
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"text": "This is the video that convinced me to swit... | en | 0.981736 |
"Please take this down and write your own book." | [
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"text": "This is a good illustration of how tone doesn't come across well in writing. Reading the comment by the original author, it sounded like a friendly request to please take the content down.The guy whose site it was clearly didn't see it that way and responded as though he'd been visco... | en | 0.990405 |
Nine Billion Names of God | [
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"text": "You know, when I first read this story years ago, I thought it was great and quite clever. I must confess that rereading it now, it strikes me as really dumb. Not only does Clarke spend the interminable first part of the story in crude exposition—'Surely you mean two!' 'I mean three. ... | en | 0.973395 |
Ask HN: Review my startup: Cashier Live | [
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"text": "While I understand the Flash hate etc. that some people have below, before you start doing anything about it do prioritize your features.Who is your real customer, I'm assuming it's small business owners etc. Do they real care about Flash/AdBlock etc. Do they even know about those thi... | en | 0.968738 |
Most Popular Programming Languages of 2013 | [
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"text": "Dunno what to make of your bubblechart. On the one hand, I should be absolutely ecstatic that I am firmly sitting inside the 0.6% bubble and still making ~200k per year, with complete, total and utter ignorance of the rest of the bubbles that make up 99.4%. On the other hand, I wonder... | en | 0.904854 |
Show HN: Like SmartGlass, deMobo turns phone into a second screen for browser | [
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"text": "Nice! With DeMobo it seems like even physical objects can have it's own interactive instant app... so long as it has a QR code. I love how you do not have to install anything else once you have the platform up."
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"text": "Big companies like Microsoft and Ni... | en | 0.964156 |
Ask HN: Site is growing over 500,000 users/yr, to VC or not to VC? | [
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"text": "Let's be clear, and correct me if I'm wrong, but you don't have 500K users, you have 40K uniques.When we say users, we mean people who have signed up for accounts. Uniques are unique visitors as measured by Google Analytics and such. Uniques are reported monthly, never ... | en | 0.918524 |
Weblog as Website for the Small Organization | [
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"text": "I don't understand why this is an 'OR' conversation - have your static website, then add a blog later if you want.Businesses need to ask why they want a website before they begin [1]. For many businesses, a static page is more than sufficient - it's a non-confrontational way for them ... | en | 0.979851 |
The Case Against Time Warner-Comcast Just Got Stronger | [
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"text": "Here in Brasil, the ISP must guarantee packet loss of at most 2% in 90% of measurements. [1]A public comitee manages servers located precisely at exchange points, and, thus at network borders. These servers are used by applications which anybody can run that are used to measure speed ... | en | 0.97526 |
Private justice: How Hollywood money put a Brit behind bars | [
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"text": "The UK has a spectacularly weak judicial system for an industrialized country.From the lack of judicial review of primary legislation ([1]) through a huge abundance of archaic haphazard laws, to lack of representative judges, to the ease with each political, police, partisan and priva... | en | 0.949526 |
A 20-Something Makes a Mint (and Sells It to Intuit) | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "My personal rule is I’m not touching anything I got from the acquisition. I’m just going to continue to live off of my income.Wonder what his plans are. Investing? Funding his next startup? Philanthropy?"
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "Wonder how things will work out for him in... | en | 0.962924 |
Instant Bitcoin Purchases at Coinbase | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Someone credible is finally trying to compensate for the abysmal failure that is Bitinstant (see http://bitinstantscam.com and basically any Bitcoin forum). That is fantastic.However, let's not get carried away. This is not instant for first-time users. You still hav... | en | 0.951142 |
Sarah, We Got Your Memo | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I can think of 100 things a startup founder should be doing before writing a public reply to something Sarah Lacey said."
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "Even Google didn't become Google until they hit upon the whole adwords/adsense idea which wasn't even an original idea of the... | en | 0.983947 |
What I Learned About Entrepreneurship From Watching the World Series of Poker | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "This is probably the dumbest article I've read in a long time. Rant with lots of poker terminology on the way:Where to start:> Both [poker and entrepreneurship] rely on acting strategically under conditions of extreme uncertaintyThis is true in a sense, but only in the shallowest ... | en | 0.935433 |
Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (December 2010 Edition) | [
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"text": "CHICAGO, ILLINOISWANTED --- Girl about 13 to help during day. Apply 238, Kilmore streetWANTED --- a general servant for the country. Apply T.B. Williams.SUDDEN CLIMATIC CHANGES give you \"that tired feeling.\" The real cause of rheumatism is disordered blood. Dr Williams' Pink Pills ... | en | 0.960159 |
Diaspora website redesign, now with more info about the project | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Here's the question I'm left with which has no answer on the site: how will a distributed social network keep my private data private?I understand how one can build secure communications. That part is easy. So, I have a Diaspora account with \"Awesomea\" and you have a Diaspora acco... | en | 0.958354 |
Worse Than Useless: Personal Security Images | [
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"text": "Security is not about guaranteeing anything, it's about making it more difficult to break in. The lock on your front door does nothing to guarantee a burglar won't enter your home, it just makes it more difficult to do so.The examples he gives either have the potential of alerting the... | en | 0.923157 |
A replacement for email | [
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"text": "What a dreadful idea.How could I prove that you wrote me what you wrote me in the first place if you could edit your email after I received it?Email is not facebook, people."
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"score": 1,
"text": "This is brilliant in its simplicity. It would be very feasible to implem... | en | 0.991978 |
Ask HN Air or Pro? | [
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"text": "I love my Retina MBP. I had a 13\" Air before.The Air was great for most things but too many tabs or certain websites with intense Flash movies or Javascript would send the fans spinning and really make it churn. This rarely happens on my rMBP.Also I spent close to $1800 for a top of ... | en | 0.971785 |
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