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Why I Canceled My Facebook Account | [
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"text": "I would love for a company that collects personal information and shares it or makes predictions or generates advertising based on it to expose ALL of it to me.Don't just tell me what you're collecting, and what you do in abstract terms, show me exactly what you have and how you use i... | en | 0.987633 |
Why Gnip Will Displace Google - Push Model | [
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"text": "This is not the core problem of search. The problem with search is that nowadays, google rarely finds what I'm looking for. When I search for the same terms I used to search for earlier, google always shows me 'likely' results. I.e, if I search for example for 'window handle', a few y... | en | 0.970824 |
Reverse-Engineering Xkcd's 'Frequency' | [
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"text": "I am trying to apply the Chinese remainder theorem to solve the time required for all of the events to occur simultaneously. I am ignoring the GIF timing bug. 1. Normalize times to integers.\n 2. Assume congruence at x = t mod (t+1).\n 3. Solve congruence system.\n 4. Denormalize ... | en | 0.702806 |
How Sleep Deprivation Drives The High Failure Rates of Tech Startups | [
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"text": "Once upon a time I did the start-up, sleep-deprived, living at work thing, and frankly younger me thought it was awesome. Older me looks back and things younger me was sometimes an idiot.Recently I had a kid and got to experience the sleep-deprivation effects all over again except thi... | en | 0.990287 |
Jury foreman says Apple patents valid due to different processor architecture | [
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"text": "This whole case genuinely scares me for our legal system. It seems like once they found a jury foreman who had his own patent and played to his fears of \"what if someone did this to my patent\" put himself in Apples shoes and did all he could to make sure they won. Kind of feels li... | en | 0.994511 |
Shorter .uk Internet domain proposed by Nominet | [
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"text": "I don't think the benefits are worth the cost of the need to duplicate .co.uk/org.uk/me.uk/ac.uk domains in the .uk space plus the disputes over who should get it.Suspect its a Nominet money grab having seen the recent TLD process."
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"text": "This reads lik... | en | 0.976852 |
An 11.88” Retina MacBook Air | [
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"text": "It frustrates me more than it should when these high profile articles make mistakes about basic Mac hardware facts. >.<> Recall that Apple made the discrete GPU-less 13.3” Retina MacBook Pro thinner last year, but not the 15.4” model. These facts would match up nicely with a ... | en | 0.936108 |
Mathematics in Movies | [
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"text": "Since they are including TV shows, how could they have missed Futurama? Episode 6ACV10, "The Prisoner of Benda" involved a machine that could swap the minds of two people. However, it turned out a given pair could only be swapped once. So if A and B swapped, and then wanted ... | en | 0.981247 |
Sustainable Micro Home that Costs Less Than $30,000 | [
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"text": "Pretty pictures.() open steps over the food preparation area is not particularly sanitary due to what can fall off the bottom of a person's shoes, socks and feet...neither is using a food preparation surface as a tread.() Considering falls are the principal mode of fatal and seri... | en | 0.916035 |
Ask HN: Bank 2.0. How would you build a better bank? | [
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"text": "Marketing Idea - Make checks \"Viral\":\nAdd \"Deposit this check into a new account at X bank and receive an additional $100\". is for the disclaimer on back with legal requirements. $100 or $50 or whatever you think your new customer acquisition costs should be.Different way of bank... | en | 0.96385 |
Open science: why is it so hard? | [
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"text": "It's not hard, it's that most researchers just don't care. Most researchers have access to all papers they need through their universities, and if they don't, most papers are only an email away. Publishing in those journals for which you need to pay (which is only a minority) is paid ... | en | 0.991038 |
Hamlet – Simple and powerful reactive templating | [
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"text": "Oh, I thought this was the already existing Hamlet language.Of which there are at least two.http://www.yesodweb.com/book/shakespearean-templateshttps://github.com/gregwebs/hamlet.rbIt does look pretty cool though."
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NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say | [
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"text": "It should be noted that their position on standing comes straight from Clapper v. Amnesty International, No. 11-1025 which the Supreme Court decided in the government's favor this year.The decision is that likely targets of surveillance who cannot prove that they were ACTUALLY su... | en | 0.983654 |
How to start building mobile apps? | [
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"text": "Go do 3 tutorials on http://www.raywenderlich.com/Now pick a super super simple idea (hit a button make an image appear type simple) and try to do it on your own.Then do 3 more tutorials on http://www.raywenderlich.com/Try to do your super simple idea bet... | en | 0.689031 |
The Programmers Before Us Were Better | [
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"text": "There are a lot of mediocre and flat bad programmers out there because we’re knocking down the barriers and letting everyone in, plus they have all sorts of crutches they can lean on now.This is an incredibly good sign. Jeremy's statement translates to two things.1. Factor productivit... | en | 0.937234 |
Anonymous intercepts confidential conference call between FBI and Scotland Yard | [
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"text": "The most likely explanation is that they didn't 'intercept' the call but simply dialed into the conference call system and recorded the call.The question then becomes how did they get the conference call dial in information? Perhaps they managed to get into the email of one of the pa... | en | 0.991654 |
Show HN: Analysis of how long do items survive on the "New" page | [
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"text": "Nice work, very informative. This is an issue that I feel has the potential to kill HN in the long run. It is steadily growing closer and closer to being impossible to hit the front page without gaming the system.The thing is that these submissions are coming in because there are more... | en | 0.965968 |
GNU Screen: an introduction and beginner's tutorial | [
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"text": "Stop using Screen. Switch to Tmux (http://tmux.sourceforge.net/). Screen is voodoo. Tmux isn't.EDIT: Compare my tmux.conf (http://pastebin.com/m2394d7a2) and my screenrc (http://pastebin.com/d7bb649a5). It was much easier for me to set up tmux the way I wanted from reading the manpage... | en | 0.869123 |
Silicon Valley is Hollywood for Startups | [
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"text": "- crushing conformity ? check.- love of me-too and sequels ? check.- living off the glory days of the past ? check.- patronage and network trump talent and originality ? check.- overwhelming sense of self-importance ? check.- lack of common sense economics ? check.Maybe Silicon Valley... | en | 0.796083 |
My Startup(s) Story. I hope it motivates someone. | [
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"text": "> This brings up a very unusual business model for aspiring entrepreneurs. Work in a domain that is technologically challenged until you understand it profoundly. Then start a business that advances that domain by empowering its actors.I wonder... is collaborating with someone who... | en | 0.940236 |
Waiting until the last minute | [
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"text": "I wait until the last minute to do laundry [business-suit-and-spandex mode.] My girlfriend hates this; when she did it, she would run it well ahead of time, in effect spending twice as much time and water as I do, with nothing to show for it (and no, she wasn't doing it to increase he... | en | 0.98329 |
Ask HN: How many companies did you apply to until you got that job? | [
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"text": "I'm a college student still.Apply for internships in my first three years, I typically applied to 20~30 companies, and would get 5-10 interviews, leading to 2-5 offers.In my senior year, (now), I applied to 4 (Google, Mozilla, Facebook, Inkling). Interviewed at all of them, and got t... | en | 0.973216 |
The Problem with App.Net | [
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"text": "\"You are seeing this page because website has reached CPU usage limit of the server, and it was temporarily disabled.\"One of the most annoying messages to be presented with on following a link. I wonder if there is a cache anywhere of this? I'm dying to know what the problem with Ap... | en | 0.944704 |
Authy: One token to rule them all | [
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"text": "Looks like the someone from Authy is reading this thread so here goes...Feedback:* Registration is a bit complex; all texts to my phone (with the exception of the registration code) are completely useless as the real info is sent to my email address* Why is my backup encryption key in... | en | 0.967606 |
404 page that lets visitors express themselves | [
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"text": "Ah I thought it was going to be a feedback form - which would be a good idea."
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"text": "I've seen a lot of creative 404 pages. Some of them are intended to have some extra utility. This one, on the other hand, is intended to be merely novel and fun. And... | en | 0.970892 |
Ask HN: Who's Hiring... Students? | [
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"text": "It's too late for this summer, but if you are still a student next year, then Google's Summer of Code is a great option. Mentoring organizations are usually announced by mid-March (see timeline for this year here http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/program/google/gsoc...). For al... | en | 0.942507 |
Ask HN: Do web app yourself – is it relevant? | [
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"text": "I have some experience in this area, I'm the main author of 3 programming frameworks targeting this (two created for two failed startups ). Now, I got great results like doing 4 products in an year ( with hundreds of concepts, database tables, complex processes) with only 2 progr... | en | 0.958907 |
Ask HN: Is it possible for a third world country to have a Silicon Valley? | [
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"text": "1. Don't try cloning the silicon valley, if you're in that mentality you've already failed because that's not a leader mentality, it's a follower mentality.2. Start the change locally. Do a startup, try to hire people. Try to organize a small group of developers/hackers, bring books a... | en | 0.950271 |
Rework git core for native submodules | [
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"text": "I am not a git maintainer, but as someone interested in improving submodules I can try to summarize the thread.Submodules are difficult to use in practice for a wide variety of reasons. There are serious, complex proposals that have made it into git-contrib to build a \"better\" subm... | en | 0.970522 |
How to set up an Online Tutoring Business. A Programmer's Guide [pdf] | [
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"text": "Google just launched Helpouts which is a great platform for this, even if you find your customers elsewhere: https://helpouts.google.com/"
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"text": "Is this really "tutoring", or is it more akin to "being available to answer qu... | en | 0.87244 |
Pluto Mail – Unsend Emails | [
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"text": "The linked article claims that an e-mail can be deleted from the recipient's email in-box, regardless of whether the recipient is running a Pluto client.Earth to Pluto ... assuming the received e-mail is a classic plain-text e-mail, that's impossible. Either the recipient is... | en | 0.939373 |
Kiva.org: So sucessful it has run out of projects to fund | [
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"text": "I am absolutely stunned by the percentage delinquency for these loans. After going through the site for a while, I can't find a single loan that has been defaulted or delayed.I don't understand why a paraguayan store owner would need $1075 to stock her store (http://www.kiva.org/app.p... | en | 0.976625 |
Credit card data of 40 million shoppers stolen from Target stores | [
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"text": "I've seen it suggested that the breach occurred through malware installed in the POS (that's point-of-sale, not piece-of-shellgrit) devices:http://www.businessinsider.com/target-credit-card-hackers-20...On HN the main discussion is here:https://news.... | en | 0.783954 |
Yahoo Appoints Scott Thompson CEO | [
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"text": "I've met and interviewed Scott several times over the course of my career.He is the anti-Carol Bartz. He is extremely likeable, approachable. He's a consensus-builder, not a bomb thrower. And he did double PayPal's user base and revenue to 100+ million and $4+ billion respectively.Yah... | en | 0.975113 |
Introducing Moto E and Moto G with 4G LTE: Smart phones priced for all | [
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"text": "The big surprise for me was that they nixed the rear LED flash. Not because anybody would take pictures with that camera, but for a phone made for the developing world not having a "flashlight" is a huge knock against it.Seriously, flashlights are a big selling point even on... | en | 0.976547 |
Which programming language do you really hate? | [
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"text": "As expected, hatred is roughly proportional to popularity. Bjarne was right when he said \"There are only two kinds of programming language: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.\"Actually if we compare the Stack Exchange hatred list against the TIOBE index, then we... | en | 0.958061 |
Backbone.js Tutorial - by noob for noobs | [
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"text": "His model (Friends Collection) is doing view duty. Shouldnt the addFriendLi method be apart of the controller binding the Friend(s) model and AppView view?"
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"text": "I thought it would be interesting to create a comparable example of this mini-app with bas... | en | 0.92434 |
Skype does a clever trick when bandwidth is scarce | [
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"text": "I think this behavior comes from the webcam, and not Skype. I have actually seen this exact behavior with the Microsoft LifeCam, which often auto-changes the width of the video stream. The larger width will show "people on the sides," and the more narrow width does not.I bel... | en | 0.96295 |
Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release | [
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"text": "Snow Leopard uses base-10 units in some places, base-2 units in other places.It isn't really confusing because when I go check how much free space I have on my hard-drive I'm just looking for a rough value, it can be base-10, base-2 or just \"lots\", \"enough\" or \"almost out\". The ... | en | 0.971128 |
Boycott websites that send you email with your password in clear text | [
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"text": "> Anybody sending you back your password in clear text is also storing it that way in their databaseIncredibly ignorant statement. If it's encrypted in a reversible format then it's not cleartext. If it's being sent in a confirmation email, then it could even be stored as a one-... | en | 0.979004 |
MetaLab launches Flow Concierge personal assistant service | [
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"text": "As an avid user and supporter of Flow I'm pretty sure this is a step in the wrong direction. The effort it takes to launch another offer in this already competitive market distracts them from some much needed updates to justify their price.I was happy to pay the $10/mo for what looke... | en | 0.960697 |
Ask HN: Why are Macbook Pros so common in the developer/hacker community? | [
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"text": "They're brilliantly designed, well made, price competitive, and offer the opportunity to run OS/X along with Windows and Linux. Also, there's a point at which spec'ing out machines is an exercise in tedium, and with Apple, you pick the screen size, RAM, HDD/SSD, and sometimes process... | en | 0.962723 |
The Bitcoin Richest: Accumulating Large Balances | [
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"text": "To get better idea - I had my webserver hacked solely for a purpose to get on VPN and hack my desktop and laptop one night and all wallet files copied.Person(s), who did it 1) were definitely very good at it, since they got root permissions on all machines (all 3 running different ver... | en | 0.976141 |
Should we even offer a freemium product? | [
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"text": "My two cents:1) Never, ever describe customer feedback as whining dramatics, especially when it is whining dramatics. It is very easy to get teachers to see things as Us vs. Them and you are -- make no mistake about this -- Them.2) When reading comments from teachers about your pri... | en | 0.959035 |
A Statistical Analysis of the Work of Bob Ross | [
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"text": "I use this for inspiration throughout my day:alias bob="curl http://bobrossquotes.com/text.php""
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"text": "If you like this, you might also appreciate "Automated Landscape Painting in the Style of Bob Ross"https:/... | en | 0.718114 |
Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive | [
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"text": "So... to add a little bit more to this story.I have a copy of Chain World.I was having lunch with a friend of mine in NYC a few weeks ago, and he was telling me about all this. He said that he was talking with his friend who got the USB drive from Rohrer (I assume this is Ji) and that... | en | 0.99196 |
Google Maps goes where no one wants to go | [
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"text": "I really wish I knew the story behind some of these images, especially the SUV wreck, with the man sitting at the edge of the roadway hanging his head in a pose of ultimate dejection.On the one hand Google Street view is a testament to incredible technological power, giving us little ... | en | 0.965398 |
Stephen Wolfram: On Starting a Long-Term Company | [
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"text": "Wolfram gave a really great talk - you can hear the audio here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Ycombinator-StartupSchool/~3/...(For anyone new to the site, you can get all the available Startup School talk mp3's with this feed I put together awhile back: http://feeds.feedburner.com/yc... | en | 0.868439 |
Garth Brooks unveils iTunes alternative: GhostTunes | [
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"text": ""Brooks’ beef with iTunes is that it is grounded in selling singles, while Brooks says he wants his music sold as complete albums to protect the songwriters and music publishers who depend on income from tracks included on those recordings."In other words, he's concerne... | en | 0.971951 |
PandaBot: A friendly, affordable 3D printer | [
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"text": "The video mentions they've only been working in the 3D printer world for less than a year. So now they know how to fix \"all the problems\" to make 3D printing available to the masses? The leadership page doesn't give me a lot of confidence in that blanket statement.Regular 2D printin... | en | 0.955863 |
Apollo Moon flags still standing, images show | [
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"text": "I always wondered what kind of telescope one would need to look at the stuff we left on the moon (flag, cars, what was left of the rocket, ...). Anybody know or tried that? Is equipment like that even accessible to a regular joe like me?"
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"text": "If going... | en | 0.958528 |
Some fun mathematical puzzles | [
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"text": "\"Age of childen\" is fun because at first you stumble over the hint with the oldest child playing piano and wonder how that could have anything to do with the children's ages.So, there are three kids and the product of their ages is 36. Assuming that ages are integers, this gives us ... | en | 0.942156 |
JPolite - is a lightweight front-end web portal framework based on jQuery. | [
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"text": "Sometimes I feel there are more frameworks than any useful implementations of them"
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"text": "Wouldn't it be nice to use this framework for business web apps! Quick and responsive interface, easy to construct layouts around complicated business logic...Not,... | en | 0.951772 |
22% of European citizens do not use the internet | [
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"text": "17.5% of EU's population is in the 65+ age brackethttp://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index...."
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"text": "I believe the number is around 20% overall for the USA.In the 65+ age bracket, it's much higher - arou... | en | 0.703825 |
Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use | [
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"text": "Primary care doc here. I have seen quite a few of these drugs started in acutely psychotic patients, post-operative trauma patients, chronic pain patients, etc, etc. These portraits strike me more as visual expressions of the preconceptions a layperson has about a variety of meds. Peo... | en | 0.963115 |
The Drag Coefficient Scoring System: what size startup is right for you | [
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"text": "I have to say, this is utter garbage. Or, it's an interesting concept poorly thought out and implemented.You get \"a point\" for having a significant other or a serious relationship? Well, what if your significant other (like my wife) is a very smart person you can bounce ideas off ... | en | 0.95209 |
Please give some feedback on my brother's startup | [
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"text": "1. Visually too 'busy'. My eyes don't know where to go, and the interface is probably too complex.2. \"Interact with others\" is an incredibly non-descriptive slogan, call it \"Realtime Digg\" instead. I don't 'get it' soon enough. Visitors should see what this is and why it is aweso... | en | 0.96708 |
A Federal Agency That Still Uses Floppy Disks | [
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"text": "I use floppy disks. To load programs on my CNC machine running NT 4. Its pre-USB. Not everything can be easily upgraded."
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"text": "I think this is great. For the sole reason that it implies the data being transferred fits on a floppy, or a series of fl... | en | 0.917157 |
Ask HN: Was everyone's first web development experience extremely difficult? | [
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"text": ""A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"It looks like you're starting out too big. If you want to get started with web development, I really would advise against using a backend MVC framework, a front end framework like Bootstrap AND interactive graphs ... | en | 0.936696 |
Ask HN: How many domains do you own? | [
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"text": "38.Of which about six are in use daily for email, blog, etc.10+ are names that I registered with a project in-mind which didn't take off, or didn't get started. I'd be happy to lose them when they expire, but feel no need to actively sell/offer them anywhere."
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Ask HN: Why do the majority of JS developers prefer spaces over tabs? | [
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"text": "Because spaces are rendered the same everywhere. Suppose I write this code, indenting using spaces. im_a_long_method(argument_no_1,\n set_indentation_true(...),\n no_string_cutoff,\n whatever)\n\nNow suppose I used tabs to... | en | 0.741849 |
Java finally open-sourced. Does anyone still care? | [
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"text": "Yes, lots of people care. Just because it's not trendy to program in java and it doesn't get as much hype as ruby/python/etc, doesn't mean it's irrelevant."
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"text": "I thing Java took a wrong turn with 1.5 and especially 1.6. Introduced new complexities t... | en | 0.980308 |
Correa: U.S. asked Ecuador not to give Snowden asylum | [
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"text": "If this is accurate, Snowden might have to start shopping for a new country.As an aside, I didn't know Correa was a U of I grad. His adviser was Werner Baer.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Baer"
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"text": "I read this on BBC earl... | en | 0.974707 |
Ask HN: Where to get business cards made? | [
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"text": "I'm half wincing because this seems like a shameless plug, but it does fit the context. (I would have sent it directly, but there are no contact details for you in your HN profile.)Anyway: the latest release of http://leanpub.com/freelancedeveloperbook/ has a ... | en | 0.912132 |
Operation Troll The NSA | [
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"text": "Oh look, it's Jam Echelon Day again. https://www.google.com/search?q=jam+echelon+day"
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"text": "Who comes up with these? Do you really think they won't check the sha of that text against something? Imagine the 100 billion dollars of... | en | 0.945427 |
1TB Hard Drive Prices up 180% in a Month | [
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"text": "This is a pretty good concrete example of why Kryder's law[1] and related laws are phenomenological observations rather than laws of nature. Good to cite in a slide deck if you need an explicit example of when exponential progress was stopped.It took something pretty big, and it took ... | en | 0.97944 |
Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released | [
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"text": "Debian's website also received an upgrade[1]:> On the occasion of the release of Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the Debian website team is pleased to publish a new design for Debian's web presence. After roughly 13 years with nearly the same design, the layout and design of many of the websi... | en | 0.933305 |
We'll Develop Your Idea Into an Android App in 24 Hours | [
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"text": "Co-founder here. We got really, really good at building pretty decent apps in a hackathon timeframe. That's what we're offering - nothing more or less.I'm going to offer a freebie for HN users - the top reply to this comment which is a project we can take on and build, ... | en | 0.888035 |
Symas Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) | [
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"text": "Recently deleted from Wikipedia as being not notable by a former Oracle employee.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...edit: that page refers to a deletion that happened a year ago but lmdb had a page much more recently than that - even a m... | en | 0.950991 |
Ask HN: Alternatives to HN | [
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"text": "Slashdot, if you don't mind a heavy dose of Internet Meme along with your Interesting Discussion.There are also sites which focus more on specific topics... if you're into server-side Java stuff, there's http://theserverside.com, if you're into programming language research, there's h... | en | 0.940915 |
Console.fm - New social music site | [
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"text": "Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past.For example, where on earth does this fit?http://soundcloud.c... | en | 0.94199 |
How to safely generate a random number | [
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"text": "So rather than using a function in the core library of the language that calls /dev/urandom, we should instead write our own wrapper around /dev/urandom? And this is supposed to be less prone to error?"
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"text": "Use urandom, but that&#x... | en | 0.843296 |
Apple Tries To Acquire Dropbox for $800 Million, Dropbox Refuses | [
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"text": "Dropbox would really not be a good fit for Apple anyways. I can't see Apple allowing them to continue offering their current product, considering that (a) Apple likes to brand things as Apple, (b) they are very focused on cross-platform capability, which includes Apple's primary compe... | en | 0.986664 |
Video of Google All-Hands Meeting Circa 1999 | [
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"text": "To this day; Googlers still find tiny bits of string tucked into the corners of their otherwise immaculate office space."
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"text": "I highly recommend anyone who likes this to get a hold of \"In the Plex\", which talks about Google's history. It's a very in... | en | 0.965973 |
New YC clone planned in Philadelphia | [
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"text": "This sounds very methodical: They have \"innovators\", \"strategists\" and \"gurus\". What they'll be lacking, though, is access to the entire nation's talent pool. They have no desire to attract people from all over. Unlike Boston or Silicon Valley, PHL is not a desirable place to mo... | en | 0.972313 |
Show HN: Selfie Ticket | [
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"text": "It's probably just me, but it took me so long after visiting the site to figure out what they actually DO. Wording like, "BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO Share Your Passion" and "IT STARTS WITH AN IDEA" is vague and gives me no idea of what the product or service was... | en | 0.95996 |
Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth | [
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"text": "I really like this article. There are a lot of unconventional candidates out there that could do great work if any established business or startup would give them a chance, but since they're not the perfect resume candidate, or close to it, they can't get in the door to show their cho... | en | 0.982061 |
Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress | [
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"text": "Why, when something becomes politically animated, do standards tend to be lowered?HN is a community of very smart individuals and, when it comes to argument, has had several very good discussions about Paul Graham's piece on the merits of logical argument, entitled \"How to Disagree\"... | en | 0.984504 |
REIA language designer on Twitter/Ruby/Scala discussion | [
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"text": "I like Tony Arcieri, but this is a weak and somewhat unseemly argument, easily knocked down:(1) Most urgently, Alex isn't bashing Ruby. He's at pains to point out that Twitter continues to use and like it. Pointing out the relative strengths of other languages isn't \"bashing\".(2) Th... | en | 0.955957 |
Top Developer Skills That Will Get You Hired or Promoted | [
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"text": "How could I read/skim that entire article and not take home anything? Seems like linkbait."
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "It's important to note there IS a difference between smartbear.com and asmartbear.com"
},
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"score": 2,
"text": "Mostly fluff, non-actionable a... | en | 0.928628 |
How should we price our startup? | [
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"text": "Some time ago I wrote a blogpost about how you can maximise the profit in your pricing using a bit of hacking.http://www.maximise.dk/getting-product-pricing-right/If you use the idea I'd love to hear about it."
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "This is an interesting problem for a... | en | 0.970219 |
A +Pool in the East River | [
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"text": "Off-topic, but why do traditional print companies always stubbornly insist on ignoring the fundamental differences between print and web media?All that text, and not a single link to the +Pool Kickstarter page. It doesn't even have to be in the article text itself, having it at ... | en | 0.953609 |
Ask HN: Please Review My Webapp | [
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"text": "I'm not sure if this is a bug but the tabs (All, Movie/TV etc.) are all empty for me.The design looks appealing at a glance (nice colors) but I have absolutely no idea what the service does and why I should register.From the blurb on the right I can guess that you're somehow tracking ... | en | 0.95778 |
David Cameron's Internet porn filter is the start of censorship creep | [
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"text": "I'm really disappointed with this whole situation. The government. The parliament. The people & the media. I resent all the apologizing and explaining and the "don't attribute to malice…" excuses. I also think that it's very possible that unrelated "s... | en | 0.907523 |
Ask HN: Where to buy men's suits? | [
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"text": "Nordstrom. Most of the sales reps are trained to know a good deal about suits and are extremely helpful in helping you find the right suit (YMMV base on location). They also usually have a place that can hem and do tailoring in most locations. Some even have a dry cleaning center loca... | en | 0.97655 |
How Earbits is Changing the Way We Share Music | [
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"text": "I love the idea for this feature and I can definitely tell you not only thought about fans, but also bands (only allowing listeners to play a song once). Unfortunately, this can easily be circumvented by hopping onto YouTube and listening there (unlimited and free). Better yet, what... | en | 0.956704 |
Deletionists slowing Wikipedia's growth | [
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"text": "Currently the entries for Hacker News, Jessica Livingston, and Trevor Blackwell are all flagged as insufficiently notable:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Newshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_Livingstonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_BlackwellTrevor's entry is a particularl... | en | 0.905877 |
Anatomy of a Compiler Bug | [
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"text": "I used to work on compilers, C/C++, COBOL, PL/I, Java, a whole bunch of them. This is actually somewhat similar to my favorite bug I encountered while implementing some stack mapping optimizations.The compiler itself was crashing out while compiling a SPEC2000 test case (per... | en | 0.964193 |
Show HN: Customised meal plan to boost yourself | [
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"text": "As a European I am curious whether measures of meals, ingredients and weight will be in imperial or metric units, or both."
},
{
"score": 1,
"text": "How do you plan to compute that based on studies? If you could implement a nice way to do that based on actual study result... | en | 0.960083 |
Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases | [
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"text": "We know that a number of very high-traffic, high-volume startups in Silicon Valley have gone great distances with CDB... OpenDNS included. :-)"
},
{
"score": 1,
"text": "Unless you are just storing a couple entries that rarely change, you should really consider http:/... | en | 0.934824 |
Why I love Common Lisp and hate Java, part II – code examples | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "This doesn't feel like the author is trying to actually help Java programmers, but rather is just an excuse for him to patronizingly describe a language to those he considers less fortunate.I also don't understand the reason for writing the code in an intentionally non idiomatic style... | en | 0.979175 |
Zurb Foundation 5 Released | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Changes of note:"Interchange uses media queries to dynamically load responsive content that is appropriate for different users' browsers.”http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/interchange.htmlOffcanvas Javascript (Originally bolt-on, not bundled... | en | 0.655976 |
20 minutes to subvert 10 year old minds... | [
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"text": "I'd probably go with Feynman's 1974 Caltech commencement address concerning cargo cult science."
},
{
"score": 1,
"text": "> Dawkins letter to his 10 year old daughter (already vetoed by the teacher - this one I felt compelled to get prior approval)Why would that get v... | en | 0.986768 |
Remote exploit found in all WooThemes | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Reposting my GitHub comment:Thanks all for your comments. Regarding responsible disclosure, I'm aware of the concept. I did Google around and looked on the WooThemes site for a security notice address or similar and didn't find one. Even as a paying subscription customer, which I have... | en | 0.978206 |
How the opening scenes of Blade Runner were made (video) | [
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"text": "I agree entirely with the various posts as to why Blade Runner has held up so well - the keen visual style, the incredible craftsmanship of Trumbull, and least of which - Ridley Scott's brilliant directing.There is one other thing that I pointed out 10+ years ago in a film class that'... | en | 0.987761 |
Samoa to jump forward in time by one day | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "For some historical context, losing one day is minor (as long as your birthday isn't 28 December) as compared to the 11 days that were 'lost' in the transition from Julian to Gregorian calendars.And lest you think that's an historical artifact (to be fair, they didn't worry about sysa... | en | 0.978314 |
Code is indeed poetry: Van Gogh's Starry Night comes to Life | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "This is amazing. He could easily turn this into a best-selling iPad app. Starry Night was painted in 1889, so copyright shouldn't be an issue."
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "Reminds me of the Van Gogh from \"Heretics of Dune\" (written in 1984).> The Ixians had been at t... | en | 0.985189 |
When to Hold Out For a Lower Airfare | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I poked around a bit on 538 on the day it relaunched, but hadn't read anything from there since then. Is this representative of the quality of articles? It seems just embarrassing as an example of data-driven journalism. They are evaluating the quality of a "big data" p... | en | 0.928213 |
Three Types of Acquisitions | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "The 3rd type of acquisition (Business) is a lil generic and should be broken down into a few more parts.IMHO, in the tech industry, I observed many times that if a company acquires another purely from a business perspective, it is either:(a) Customer/Market - The acquired company has ... | en | 0.962732 |
Find your health plan on Health Sherpa | [
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"text": "I'm legitimately confused. Is this supposed to compete with or replace healthcare.gov? I just ran an insurance search for a hypothetical Californian couple, late fifties, with an income of $60K. CoveredCalifornia found me plans with a monthly premium of $127/month (including... | en | 0.941515 |
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