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Y Combinator presents 26 new startups | [
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"text": "I'll take the contrarian stance and say I'm not really impressed with the list. There are some that may be good, but there's not much new. Mostly me too products.Perhaps my expectations are too high."
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"text": "There are a few gems in there that I'd like to... | en | 0.976924 |
The Art of the Landing Page – Tips for Increasing Conversions | [
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"text": "By the way, what are good landing pages you can recommend to study? Ideally, with proved above average conversions."
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"text": "I do a lot of landing page designs for clients. Here are some successful pages I can show:http://www.codedpreview.com/previews/68c... | en | 0.833976 |
Ask HN: Can a liberal arts BA who can write code break into the tech industry? | [
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"text": "I don't have a bachelor's degree at all (I have an associate's) and I am working as a professional software developer for a startup, so yes.I recommend you do some freelancing as it's potentially the easiest way to break into the industry in your situation. Look a... | en | 0.891131 |
Introducing Yahoo Stores | [
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"text": "I saw this headline and my first thought was "what is this? 1999?""
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"text": "Congrats, Amit!I met Amit at Yahoo (he was in Search; his Outlook entry read "Amit (Web Search) Kumar" and I still think of that sort of like his middle name.H... | en | 0.991021 |
CDE: Easily run a program on any linux without thinking about dependencies | [
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"text": "Reposting the comment of chbarts, which has been killed despite being entirely appropriate. Moderating has gone completely out of hand lately:chbarts wrote:\"\nI think the potted example on the web page is somewhat poor, as it seems to be a problem existing package management systems ... | en | 0.98036 |
Ask HN: How do you perform penetration testing on your webapp? | [
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"text": "You can use Netsparker Community Edition (free) http://www.mavitunasecurity.com/communityedition/. It will scan your web application against SQL Injection and Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities."
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"text": "ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team – www.whitehat.rois probably... | en | 0.89678 |
Payments Startup Balanced (YC W11) Is Processing $370M a Year | [
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"text": "The guys at Balanced are doing a great job. I'm using their service for a product I've built to manage gyms [1] and it is working great. This is cool b/c that wasn't the original intention of how their product would be used (i.e. not a marketplace) but it support... | en | 0.96416 |
How a mathematician constructed a decision tree to solve a medical problem | [
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"text": "Even if I don’t know much about the medical aspects of the problem, I could try to learn his methodology following his decision-making process, and then I could use this knowledge to come up with a set of rules.”As the song says, "everything old is new again":https:/&#x... | en | 0.899582 |
The FCC is so swamped with net neutrality comments, it’s extending the deadline | [
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"text": "Note that comments to the FCC are a little different than a letter to your Congressman, in that they have legal significance. The comments become a part of the record that may be reviewed by a court if the agency's rules are challenged. The Administrative Procedure Act allows cou... | en | 0.93922 |
Ask HN: Linux on Windows? | [
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"text": "Could this perhaps be your answer: http://www.colinux.org/ ?"
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"text": "As long as you don't really need to interact with windows more than a shared folder I'd go with virtualbox headless.Since it is a laptop you can set it up to have one network card be NA... | en | 0.995002 |
Skype backdoor confirmation | [
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"text": "I'm not sure how this or the original article are \"discoveries\". Per the skype privacy policy, they are receiving and storing just about everything:(from http://www.skype.com/en/legal/privacy/#retentionOfPersonalDa...)Retention of Instant Messages, Voicemail Messages, and Video Mes... | en | 0.827349 |
Show HN: Emulos records how people use your app | [
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"text": "Bonus points from me for not using aggregated data from users for your own purposes apart from with regards to the use of your own services. Most of the the other mobile analytics services seem to require that they get access to general aggregated data.I wouldn't record the vide... | en | 0.941572 |
New Urbanism | [
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"text": "New Urbanism was one of the things that got me to take a hiatus from computers to get a degree in urban planning - I've read way too much about it and visited many of the featured communities. (My wife is a doll - \"You want to visit a neighborhood outside of Gainesville? O...K...\"... | en | 0.957444 |
Anonymous did not attack Stratfor | [
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"text": "It'd be funny if people started doing completely mundane things under the banner of Anonymous.For example, posting the receipt from a Coinstar machine.THIS CHANGE RECEIPT IS THE WORK OF ANONYMOUSTOTAL: $1.35We are AnonymousWe do not forgiveWe do not forgetExpect us"
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Wi-Fi–Hacking Neighbor From Hell Sentenced to 18 Years | [
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"text": "So let me get this straight, the guy hacked into his neighbour's WiFi and used it to mess with their MySpace page, e-mail coworkers, post a picture of 'pubescent girl having sex with two young boys' (I'd have gone for tubgirl, but okay), and threaten Joe Biden. And this gets him eight... | en | 0.953362 |
$100 in Google Adwords Credits | [
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"text": "These are expiring today Feb 28th. I have emailed to everyone who requested one...But here is a link to a list of the remaining codes that I have. If you use one, please mark down that you used it. If not allow the rest of the community to share.There are going to be almost 30 cod... | en | 0.966723 |
Ask HN: How have you dealt with corruption? | [
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"text": "Running an IT service business for 7 years, I've run into a number of dubious situations. Heres a couple.A client introduced me to a salesperson who works for a competitor company. We sat down for coffee, and his opening line was that he has a million dollars of deals in the pipelin... | en | 0.989023 |
Reinventing Git interface | [
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"text": "Sigh. "grow-only", "rebase is dangerous", "detached head state is dangerous". STOP. Stop it now.git is a bag of commits organized into a tree (a tree of Merkle hash chains). Branches and tags are symbolic names for these. Think of it this way and the... | en | 0.783719 |
Ask HN: How to know how good at coding you are? | [
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"text": "In doubt, assume you are bad. You will fare better with that.I guess I have to elaborate on that a bit :)At first, if you assume you are bad at programming, you will begin to look for reasons why you are bad. You will find them and then you can remove them, if necessary. This will mak... | en | 0.975756 |
Sane Async Patterns in JavaScript | [
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"text": " Next time you're about to define a function with a callback argument, don't.\n\nNo, do. It's the prevailing style in Node.js and elsewhere, and so there exist tools to transform them (syntactically or otherwise) into more palpable styles:https://github.com/0ctave/node-sync\nhttps://... | en | 0.86868 |
Our Solar System Isn't Normal | [
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"text": "I would argue the exo-planets we have found so far are a very biased sample. We don't have great technologies for detecting solar systems like ours. And at least the first few years of planet hunting we'll tend to find a lot of large giants orbiting close to their stars since they'r... | en | 0.968085 |
Xiaomi’s One More Thing | [
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"text": "There's definitely a cultural thing at play- based on how companies behave, I feel like it's more socially acceptable in China to copy. In the west, there's a huge stigma around it: for example copying in school is one of the worst offense you can commit- whereas I reme... | en | 0.956668 |
JamLegend is hiring interns this summer | [
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"text": "I like the layout of the JamLegend page on Snaptalent. The job is something I'm interested in and Snaptalent seems to do a good job aggregating info about JamLegend.One quick question though. What are the benefits to signing up? The sign up ad could be read as implying that signing u... | en | 0.962059 |
Amazon S3’s Business Model is Arbitragable, and the Future of Cloud Storage | [
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"text": "As far as I can tell, getting good 'de-duplication' technology is more expensive right now than just buying disks.Also, how much would de-duplication help? I mean, how much stuff is stored on s3 that is uncompressed? (or the same compressed file?)I mean, sure, you could sell compr... | en | 0.991753 |
Tresor Runs Encryption Securely Outside RAM | [
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"text": "Cool hack.Context: cryptographic keys are usually stored in memory, but that has lots of issues: you can read the keys via a Firewire port (or any other peripheral with Direct Memory Access), or you can time the CPU cache to figure out access patterns, or you can just rip the memory o... | en | 0.913413 |
Ask YC: Machine learning course recommendation. | [
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"text": "A great strategy that I've learned a lot from is to use a database like citeseer or ISI to find the author's of the most cited papers for a topic and then find their lectures on videolectures.netOther's already mentioned Jordan, Bishop and Friedman - \nthese are all greatI really lik... | en | 0.966634 |
Analysts say attack on Google is part of widespread spying effort | [
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"text": "Google's security team eventually managed to gain access to a server that was used to control the hacked systems, and discovered that it was not the only company to be hit.This appears to be new and interesting information."
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"text": "This is interesting:th... | en | 0.989331 |
Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors | [
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"text": "Representative Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, has introduced a bill that would, among other provisions, bar the government from requiring software makers to insert built-in ways to bypass encryption.What a useless bill. The government doesn't officially require it now - it&#x... | en | 0.935189 |
Thousand-robot swarm self-assembles into arbitrary shapes | [
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"text": "That locomotion system is really interesting. Using three rigid legs and vibrating them individually to achieve directed motion. Does anyone have any more information on how that works?Update: I found a paper that describes something similar. It is vastly improved by a vibrating table... | en | 0.906391 |
Distributed karma: an idea for fixing recommendation systems | [
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"text": "I and my cofounder used the same idea of users as nodes of a graph for http://oknotizie.alice.it (a system similar to reddit for italian speaking users) in order to indentify groups of spammers and users with very strange behaviour. This information is used in order to decrease the we... | en | 0.950566 |
Ask HN: First startup / cold feet. Any advice ? | [
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"text": "What you're feeling is the reason even people like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs needed cofounders. I'd recommend finding one. It will also greatly improve your chances of succeeding."
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"text": "Don't think about the worst case scenario if you start a business... | en | 0.973692 |
How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? | [
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"text": "Yes this is a problem. Occasionally I have to to resort to emailing authors directly and asking for a copy of the paper - in most cases they have been obliging.As far as I am concerned publicly funded research papers should (must) be freely available. If the public are funding it then... | en | 0.934191 |
Benchmarking Go and Python Web servers | [
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"text": "\"As you can see Go implementations of Web application wins in almost all test cases.\"That is pretty much what I would expect from a compiled vs non-compiled language."
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"text": "I'm mostly pumped that tornado is holding up pretty well against a compiled l... | en | 0.940693 |
Show HN: World Population with D3 | [
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"text": "Yo, I heard you like world population data:3D using WebGL -\nhttp://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/globe/By latitude & longititude -\nhttp://www.radicalcartography.net/histpop.png"
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"text": "This is the best population... | en | 0.53619 |
Ask HN: I want to transition from marketing to product. Where do I go from here? | [
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"text": "Product Manager or Program Manager, depending on the org, probably makes the most sense. There is a lot of overlap with marketing. I see people go into that role from the development side from time to time--people who don't really enjoy coding or have grown tired of doing it as a... | en | 0.981002 |
Gundo.vim - An undo tree visualization plugin for Vim | [
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"text": "About a month ago I wrote[1] that I wanted something like this. I got tired of waiting, so I put it together myself.[1]: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/#gundo"
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"text": "This is great, but would be even better with Git integration. To... | en | 0.926638 |
Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web | [
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"text": "I'm very interested whether fellow HNers consider AtomPub a failure? The article points to not so great adaption, but in fact AtomPub has been embraced by some major players—i.e. Google which uses their GData for every one of their dozens APIs[1] and Microsoft which is now pushing ODa... | en | 0.98344 |
IRC notifications via SSH and libnotify | [
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"text": "If you happen to be running ZNC for a persistent connection, another option would be to use my ZNC to Notifo module to send highlights and PMs to your mobile device and/or desktop:http://github.com/jreese/znc-notifo#readme"
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"text": "I used to do this with ... | en | 0.756069 |
Ask HN: 19, developer, burnt out, advice please | [
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"text": "An option:It's almost winter. Ski resorts are hiring. You can meet awesome people in a very low pressure work environment (hey -- a non-college ready made social scene that doesn't cost 40K a year) and have access to head-clearing, soul uplifting physical activity that beats the hel... | en | 0.95596 |
Don't use backbone.js... yet | [
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"text": "I don't always write trivial frameworks, but when I do I have a conference about it. Blows my mind, enterprisejs ftw"
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"text": "This doesn't look like a whole lotta free. This is also not achieving all that Backbone gives you. Interesting slides though, c... | en | 0.972558 |
Zynga Closes $180MM VC Round | [
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"text": "(Bias disclaimer - speaking as a native Russian.)What I think is not so obvious to many commentators is that this sort of juggling of outsized investments is an ego / megalomania play on the part of New Russian oligarch backers & small-time industrialists and financiers. The $180... | en | 0.935692 |
Introduction to ASP.NET Web API | [
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"text": "I'd like to propose a ban on all programming tutorials which utilise screenshots of a given IDE's magic, visual tools as an integral, required step in the process. I develop with Visual Studio myself, but that doesn't mean everybody does and it doesn't help to further anybody's unders... | en | 0.916455 |
Tin Can: WebRTC that uses Persona to authenticate the callers to each other | [
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"text": "Hi I'm the Mozilla intern that developed this and would really love some feedback! It's super-experimental right now, but feel free to try it out! I plan to release a more formal post later once some more bugs are squashed."
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"text": "Is there a s... | en | 0.96955 |
Go 1.1 RC2 is out | [
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"text": "I have been learning go for the past 4 weeks now and love it. Does anyone have any advice on a good GUI library that works well with Go? I have had a look at some of the Qt bindings but they are not that great sadly.Also is there a decent MSSQL library for Go yet?"
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Men Walk On Moon - July 20th 1969 | [
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"text": "We need to be reminded that once we did great things.I worked at MIT Instrumentation Lab on a compiler for the guidance software for the moon missions. My contribution was insignificant, but I am still proud to have been part of it. My only regret was that I never made it to Florida... | en | 0.98746 |
Entropy | [
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"text": "I see an evil DRM for games, you buy a game and textures will decay over time until you buy the game again to reset the decay."
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"text": "This reminds of the polymorphic viruses in MS-DOS/Windows era (very likely they still exist, but I didn't loo... | en | 0.952704 |
Google Glass Still Needs a Killer App | [
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"text": "A have wished I had Google Glass a few times when my infant child was doing something cute. It ruins the moment to go get a camera, or to fiddle with a smartphone. By the time you go get the camera, the baby has stopped doing the interesting thing, and is now wondering what you are do... | en | 0.981205 |
Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and Linux) IaaS | [
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"text": "My start-up actually choose to use Azure after we got their BizSpark Plus offer which provides $60k to cover computing costs.Just about every start-up I knew was using AWS or RackSpace. I was a bit concerned to go with them at first, but it was clear after investigating further that w... | en | 0.988198 |
Ask HN: What to read? | [
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"text": "The Economist has very high quality content and has the additional benefit of being a weekly newspaper.Be very aware of the lie that something important happens every day, as perpetuated by the "always-on" news industry, and the related trend to breathlessly consume news blo... | en | 0.957972 |
WAT Driven Development | [
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"text": "The ESC key in vi is idempotent. It's not doing it wrong to hit it thousands of times. It's doing it wrong to have to model the state of your editor in your head.I have a similar habit of typing \"git \" in my terminal, and then getting distracted while I think through what I'm trying... | en | 0.937581 |
Hackathon No More | [
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"text": "If you use that much Red Bull, you got 2 issues (at least): the sugar gives a rush, but the bloodsugar level will plunge. And each time you continue it plunges even harder and faster.Second, Red Bull or any caffinated beverage will attack your adrenal gland badly. Realy hard. Your adr... | en | 0.935122 |
Ask HN: Was Scoble compensated for blogging on G+? | [
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"text": "According to Scoble on Quora, no: http://www.quora.com/Is-Google-paying-influential-users-like...His contract with Rackspace forbids him from doing such compensated work."
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"text": "Though I am not a fan of Scoble I do not think that Google made Scoble and ... | en | 0.930476 |
Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom Released From Prison | [
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"text": "The judge violated human right of Internet access. Regardless, they should be disbarred and mistrial called until a replacement judge with technical competence to preside can be found.You'll understand that this right is inalienable if you can't pay your bills online, transfer money, ... | en | 0.981689 |
Google penalizes original content site because of scrapers | [
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"text": "I'm the guy whose site this is all about - iPadInsight.com. I only used that specific search in the forum thread because I discovered that was the single point on which the Adwords reviewer had judged that my site didn't produce original content. I sent back the results of the same se... | en | 0.970896 |
Reluctant Self-Promotion | [
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"text": "Nice timing for me. I'm writing a book called \"Self Promotion for Geeks\" inspired by about 120 upvotes I got a cpl years back on HN talking about such a project. The \"reluctant\" geek, like this guy, is exactly who I'm aiming at (because there are plenty of good self promotion book... | en | 0.961821 |
The Moment Of Truth For Airbnb As User’s Home Is Utterly Trashed | [
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"text": "> I spoke to Airbnb about EJ’s situation. They won’t reimburse her for damagesThis is bad news.They're going to backtrack on this. The sooner they do it, the better for them politically.I understand the problems of setting a precedent. And there really is no getting around the f... | en | 0.942775 |
U.S. spy agencies face big layoffs in government shutdown | [
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"text": "More than 70 percent of the civilians working for U.S. spy agencies have been deemed "non-essential" employees...due to great effectiveness of the recently deployed digital surveillance systems like PRISM and the help of big technology companies like Google and Facebook :)"
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A story about Miles Davis and the nature of true genius | [
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"text": "First.. I'm a huge fan of this stuff, and Kind of Blue is one of my favorite records.That said, I think that the author is making a mistake by taking Stephen Thomas Erlewine's review too seriously. When you read things like \"an album that towers above its peers, a record generally c... | en | 0.978312 |
Twitter knew about onmouseover flaw a month ago | [
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"text": "\"We discovered and patched this issue last month. However, a recent site update (unrelated to new Twitter) unknowingly resurfaced it. \"http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713391"
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"text": "Knew and published publicly without fixing? Oops.I'm taking this ... | en | 0.959493 |
We’re Apple. We don’t wear suits. We don’t even own suits. | [
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"text": "I don't normally like Apple, but I like their attitude here. Why should they wear certain clothes to a meeting with AT&T? Who cares what AT&T thinks of Apple!? If AT&T passes on Apple, Verizon or Sprint or T-Mobile would pick them up in a heartbeat. The only reason AT&... | en | 0.971462 |
Nexus 5 to be first smartphone with MEMS camera | [
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"text": "This may be a false alarm. The string they found - IMX179 - seems to be actually a Sony sensor part, which is in use on other phones also. (I.E. the Meizu MX3). It appears in the MEMS documentation which is ranked first in Google because their sensor package is based on the IMX179.How... | en | 0.985532 |
Show HN: Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail | [
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"text": "Nicely done. Two concerns: 1) exposure to breakage when Gmail changes, 2) potential introduction of protection against invasive integration.Google has three options: 1) turn a blind eye, 2) block deep integration (same game AOL played with AIM), or 3) introduce client-side integration... | en | 0.909761 |
Pew Study: The Economy is lagging because the middle class is broke | [
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"text": "I am not broke. I am unfortunately of the realization that the idiots in Washington aren't bothered to fix it. I love how this article completely ignores the real problem, instead it blames \"corporations\" who are also stuck because of government.Look, I have relatives with their own... | en | 0.960577 |
Facebook's Newest Problem: Being Boring | [
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"text": "Facebook is a social network. Being social, it is subject to the same laws of attraction, affection, excitement, and coolness that the hot new restaurant, dance club, and sports stadium are in your particular city.Step 1: the cool kids spot a new place and start hanging out there.Step... | en | 0.919007 |
Zombie Operating Systems and ASP.NET MVC | [
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"text": "Interesting write up, and a nice style.The filename limitation isn't the only problem. There's also a limit of 260 characters in the URL.http://stackoverflow.com/questions/265251/asp-net-url-maxpat...Boo-sucks if you suddenly run into that without expecting it!"
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Skydiver shatters world record with 24-mile leap | [
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"text": "Two funny insights from Neil deGrasse Tysons twitter:«The \"Edge of Space\" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.» [1]«I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good balloon from 23-miles up. The theory of gravity... | en | 0.915794 |
HackMIT Puzzle Guide | [
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"text": "I’m pretty sure the “Give it a try first.” in the intro should be a link :-P"
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"text": "Does anyone have a breakdown of how many people made it to/through each part of the puzzle?"
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"text": "In part 1 you need the sound turn... | en | 0.9822 |
Geneva drive | [
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"text": "Original poster here. I thought you good people would find the Geneva drive interesting. It is so simple and elegant; similar in spirit to the elegance of a beautiful algorithm.For further reading on the Geneva drive... don't miss the spherical Geneva drive design, illustrated in... | en | 0.902371 |
Women's underwear gets an upgrade | [
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"text": "This is pretty amazing. I spent grades 5-12 worried about bleeding through to my pants in school. There's already so much going on at that age, dealing with 'learning to be a woman' was just more anxiety.Even as an adult who can typically tell when my cycle is about to ... | en | 0.980258 |
Armenia is the first country in the world to make chess mandatory in school | [
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"text": "The kids will love chess when they have to get good grades in chess class and wake up early, in the winter cold, to attend it.“I suspect that many children would learn arithmetic, and learn it better, if it were illegal.” — John Holt"
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Agile Ruined My Life | [
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"text": "As a young software developper, what really bores me with Agile, is the name, the shiny box you put things into, where it should just be named \"Good practices for software developement\". It's the mentality of selling things as products, with some kind of prebuilt ideology and aesthe... | en | 0.96634 |
PlayStation 4 Tops One Million Units in First Day | [
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"text": "Very impressive. I have one but I haven't opened it yet. For me, none of the launch titles were particularly compelling. But I missed out on a lot of console games last gen because of the transactional inertia of not owning a system to play them on. Super stoked for Deep Down and... | en | 0.973998 |
Show HN: Simple and free Russian doll app (iOS/Android/Kindle Fire) | [
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"text": "Reminds me of 'Towers of Hanoi' somewhat...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGlt2G-DC8chttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Hanoi"
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"text": "downloading it now. the video looked good.great idea - super simple and mirrors the fun kids have with the real thin... | en | 0.895363 |
Show HN: Hackernews for Mac | [
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"text": "I wrote Hackernews for Mac. Feel free to ask me questions :)EDIT: Quick shout out to Grant Paul who built the fantastic newsyc app for iOS (http://newsyc.me) which this is partly based on and inspired from."
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"text": "Hey, just thought I'd take a sec to tha... | en | 0.950373 |
Why developers should care about system packages | [
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"text": "I have never shipped unix software that used the system package manager, for a number of reasons. If you want it to be cross platform, you need to build/test/ship the fallback tgz manual install anyway. Packages don't save any work, they only increase the size of your build farm and... | en | 0.981048 |
Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone | [
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"text": "I've been a huge fan of Firefox OS for a long time[1], but here's something I think many people here aren't realizing: Firefox OS considerably lowers the barriers to entry for app developers.Firefox OS apps are just html pages in a zip file, so all you need to create on... | en | 0.940806 |
The New Funding Landscape | [
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"text": "Angel investing is kind of a fad right now. Everyone's doing it. My gut instinct is that it's at least a mini bubble. In 3-5 years a lot of angels are going to be unhappy about negative returns, the stock market is going to be looking stronger, and they'll shift their money back to st... | en | 0.963528 |
Slovenia gets transparent by revealing all government spending via Supervizor | [
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"text": "One project I always wanted to do is create a publicly searchable database which mined connections between public officials and their financial interests.It would kind of be like a Facebook which the users had no control over their profiles. All known associates of an individual would... | en | 0.97285 |
The Placebo Phenomenon | [
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"text": "From the article: \"Kaptchuk . . . doesn’t argue that you can simply 'think yourself better.' 'Sham treatment won’t shrink tumors or cure viruses,' he says.\"That's an honest statement and an important point, because many publications with Kaptchuk's name on them are overinterpreted t... | en | 0.95627 |
I am depressed and I need someone to talk to | [
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"text": "Advice from strangers is not going to fix the underlying mental health issues here. 10 pills every day implies a pretty grave situation, one that certainly will not be addressed by exercising or daily inspiration websites.Have you talked to your therapist unambiguously about the stagn... | en | 0.965545 |
Why podcasting is failing | [
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"text": "This was a better article than I was expecting.However, I'm not really convinced by the use of the word \"failure\". Podcasts may be less successful than their most breathless hype predicted... but what invention isn't?Podcasts are a modest success. They're modest, in part, because th... | en | 0.976225 |
Why is it so hard finding a technical co-founder? | [
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"text": "Let's clarify the implicit assumption you put in there: Why is it so hard finding a good technical co-founder? It's the same reason it's hard finding a good non-technical co-founder.With a technical co-founder you're looking for proof of skill - they've done an app on no budget, limit... | en | 0.984221 |
I've been rejected from Y Combinator 3 times. Here's why | [
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"text": "I wish people wouldn't treat us like an oracle that can predict startups' success. If only. The fact is we read applications fast and make plenty of mistakes.One thing YC has taught me is that this must be true of practically every application process. For some reason, both the peo... | en | 0.967945 |
Tiny Robotic Bee Assembles Itself Like Pop-Up Book | [
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"text": "Disregarding the engineering of the bee itself (which is equally amazing) the fabrication process is brilliant. 2 things come to mind when I watch this. A. I live in the future. B. There are people out there far more intelligent than I. Consider my mind blown.I wonder if they ar... | en | 0.919862 |
PayPal Mafia | [
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"text": "Elon Musk is missing from the famous photo (http://victorstuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/paypal.jpg) because he received an innovator of the year award in Chicago at the same time as when the picture was taken.The YouTube founders, Chad Hurley a... | en | 0.958745 |
So...what the hell's wrong with you, Shooter? | [
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"text": "I am assuming you are an American citizen. If you haven't already, you need to:1) call your Congressperson's local office (not DC) and ask for someone in constituent services who works with health care issues. Do this tomorrow. If your insurance company is denying you any care, and... | en | 0.940506 |
First, Let's Fire All The Managers | [
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"text": "I'm somewhat surprised that everyone is so anti-management here.First of all, Morning Star seems like a pretty well-run place, but the whole system works because they have the luxury of hiring the right people. This is, of course, the single most important factor in any effective... | en | 0.961377 |
Ray Kurzweil Is Building Your ‘Cybernetic Friend’ | [
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"text": "You know, that friend who you're nice to and all but deep down you don't really trust, but you don't want to unfriend because that could set them off and you suspect they could do you great harm, and might just for the hell of it. Your, not quite a psychopath friend but with enough cl... | en | 0.979432 |
NY Times Op-ed: "USAF or NASA should reopen investigations of U.F.O. phenomena." | [
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"text": "I'm afraid you guys have missed the point on why I posted this:1. It's the NY Times Op-ed page.2. It's written by the guy \"in charge of U.F.O. investigations for the British Ministry of Defense from 1991 to 1994.\"I don't believe in UFOs but it makes me stop to think when I read some... | en | 0.976341 |
Trial by Fire: Extreme rituals forge intense social bonds | [
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"text": "I use this knowledge to build hyper effective software teams.In the military I learned just how much the cohesion of a group contributes to its success. Two major factors of unit cohesion that I observed were pride in the mission, and emotional bonds within the group. The two combined... | en | 0.971564 |
Tell HN: Idea: Time-tracking Code Editor | [
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"text": "I'm a fan of ManicTime on Windows. It does a great job of tracking how much time each app is active (i.e., has focus). I have rules set up so that it aggregates the time I spend with things like a terminal or IDE open as \"work\" time and things like VLC as \"fun\" time.It also has ... | en | 0.975878 |
Why Many People Perceive the Study of Human Behavior as Unscientific (2011) [pdf] | [
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"text": "18 pages of pure bullshit. I devoted 10 minutes to reading parts of it; I couldn't find anything of value.It goes as far as to compare the "highly probabilistic predictions" of psychology to those of quantum physics, and it even cites Richard Feynman. It's just lau... | en | 0.844849 |
Microsoft: No GPLv3 Software for Windows Phone and Xbox Apps. | [
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"text": "They aren't prohibiting \"Free Software\", they are prohibiting software that is under a license that requires the distributor to pass certain rights along to the recipient.Hence GPL like licenses that require distribution of source code, and that you grant redistribution rights to ev... | en | 0.961296 |
Ask HN: What is your news source? | [
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"text": "In terms of a personal newsfeed app, I've found Zite on IOS to be ok.Its main USP is that you can train it to provide a feed matching your interests, by liking/disliking articles, as well as selecting (or banning) sources and topics of interest,I find it does adapt moderatel... | en | 0.944961 |
Carrot Dating - Date people by 'bribing' them | [
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"text": "My pet theory is that to meet great people (dates or not), you need to apply an "antifragile" approach. Basically, lower the cost of an interaction (which is meeting face to face not messaging for days) and meet many.From this perspective, dating websites (and this one espec... | en | 0.92845 |
Ask HN: Linux on a notebook | [
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"text": "Well you could look here: http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/But your laptop is already certified there, the sleep thing has been around in linux for a long time and the only thing is to make sure it goes to sleep before you put it away or shut it down when you are done.Batte... | en | 0.981027 |
Reflections of a YC Dropout | [
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"text": "You're not worried that this reads a bit like you trashing your co-founders? I assume you mean well, but:* \"Lack of conviction\" reads like a moral judgement on the rational business decision to leave a startup that isn't working.* \"Fear\" is an emotional word that (to me) implies i... | en | 0.966164 |
Dead Sea Scrolls Now Available Online | [
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"text": "It confuses me somewhat how they can claim copyright over documents that are thousands of years old :Shttp://dss.collections.imj.org.il/terms_pgCopyright in the digital images of the manuscripts, created by the Israel Museum and displayed on this site, is held by the Israel Museum. Re... | en | 0.893118 |
Ask news YC: Your best sources to learn about design & usability | [
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"text": "Here are a few links from my bookmark folder on the subject, in no particular order:How to use contrast to your advantage- \nhttp://www.gomediazine.com/design-tip/rule-three-contrast-co...Use colors that have varying intensities, not just differnet colors. Focus on how it looks in gre... | en | 0.865594 |
Ask HN: what do you do when you're feeling unmotivated? | [
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"text": "You can try setting your goals lower for now, maybe just publish a smaller part of the application that has a more fun and experimental vibe.If you've got burn out definitely get some medicine for it and make some changes in your life, try adrenaline regulating vitamins with licorice ... | en | 0.957274 |
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