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Cracking Passwords on an Intel Celeron CPU | [
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"text": "This was my 3rd year as a one man team. All the historic results and my source code can be found online. I'm not sure what else I could do to prove anything.Efficiency is just so under-appreciated these days and many people (even experienced programmers) don't realize just how easy it... | en | 0.982518 |
Are Logo Design Contests Even Legal? | [
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"text": "Illegal? How is it different from Verizon putting out an RFP saying \"We have $250,000 to spend on advertising in the social media space, show me what you've got\". It's the same thing but on a smaller level. The Wikipedia page describes it accurately: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... | en | 0.909834 |
The Brutal Ageism of Tech | [
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"text": "As a 38 year old who doesn't need to be hired:I am infinitely more useful as a programmer now than when I was 18. I started when I was about 6, I had put in my 10,000 hours by around 18. I lacked so much.I play on-line FPS to relax after a day of coding, I get to see the speed at... | en | 0.988677 |
Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please) | [
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"text": "I'm not a violent person. But patent trolls make me have visions of dungeons and medieval tools...They're like parasites that try to find the optimal amount of blood that they can suck out of healthy businesses without killing them.Novartis having the moral high ground in a lawsuit is... | en | 0.979621 |
Show HN: Synapse - Universal API for remote system administration | [
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"text": " You don't have to know about yum, apt or whatever package manager your hosts use thanks to synapse-agent's abstraction layer.\n\nExcept, of course, that a sysadmin who doesn't know this is not a sysadmin. And someone who tries installing the same package across different operating ... | en | 0.954788 |
Ask HN: Why are you proud of your species? | [
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"text": "All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laug... | en | 0.952186 |
Learning Haskell/Python makes you a worse C# programmer | [
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"text": "I think the author is simply inexperienced in C#. Here's the right way to express his code: string.Join(\"\\n\",\n from elem in myList\n where elem.Description != \"\"\n select elem.Description);\n\nNote how mind-numbingly close this is to the Python: \"\\n\... | en | 0.914075 |
Tips for Overcoming Shyness at Conferences | [
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"text": "I co-chair O'Reilly's Fluent conference (JS/Web Platform/etc) and we're always trying to come up with ideas to help ease interactions between attendees. I don't know if I should, but I feel a little guilty if I think attendees are not connecting and getti... | en | 0.848007 |
MessagePack - Extremely efficient object serialization library | [
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"text": "Why not just use Avro if you want a packed encoding system that's schema-bound, or Fudge if you want one that's schema free and self-describing?Link to Avro: http://hadoop.apache.org/avro/\nLink to Fudge: http://www.fudgemsg.org/\nCouldn't do hyperlinks for some reason. Perhaps becaus... | en | 0.777492 |
Fancy Input - CSS3 text typing effects for input fields | [
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"text": "As an interaction designer, I implore you: do NOT screw around with forms. Your conversion rates will fall through the floor. The CSS specification itself says that browsers can ignore styling for forms. This is by design. Overriding it with a bunch of unsupported animated nonsense th... | en | 0.934817 |
Creative demo of HTML5 canvas | [
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"text": "Was posted here a few days ago."
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"text": "There is a lot of interesting code in here; I took the liberty to beautify the JavaScript here, http://pastebin.com/zVe5a1FiThis got me so excited I've decided to dedicate my spring break to getting acquainted with... | en | 0.954941 |
Generator (yield keyword) support in CoffeeScript for Node.js | [
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"text": "Lovely work, and it looks like it wasn't too difficult to add:https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/pull/3078/filesIf anyone wants to chime in on the pull request itself, input is welcome -- particularly about how to address the conflict wi... | en | 0.758836 |
My favorite habit: Write three positive things about today | [
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"text": "When I'm having an exceptionally bad week, around Wednesday or Thursday, just to get myself through the rest of the week I tell myself a couple of GOOD things that I could make happen, might happen or will happen that day. This makes the already bad week not seem so bad for the last f... | en | 0.99352 |
Ask HN: How do you find interesting stuff to read besides HN? | [
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"text": "I actually try to actively fight the urge to seek out \"interesting\" things to read. The content on HN is of fairly high quality, and seeking out more stuff to consume outside of it leads to diminishing returns on time wasted.I find if something is important enough, it will get to me... | en | 0.949538 |
Ideas Matter | [
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"text": "This is rather an attack on a strawman. No one thinks that ideas don't matter at all. Obviously you have to have a good one at some point.When people say that execution matters more than the idea in a startup, what they're really saying is something fairly complicated: that you need... | en | 0.981158 |
Niklaus Wirth: A Plea for Lean Software (1995) [pdf] | [
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"text": "I think one factor that leads to bloated, ruined software was missed... I don't know how common it is overall, but I have personally seen it ruin several very good products.And that is the simple fact that employers want their employees to remain busy. If a piece of software rea... | en | 0.975169 |
Germany is pressuring Neocities to censor a disclosure of their censorship | [
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"text": "It's interesting the German government publishes this list publicly in it's hashed form, but when someone reverses it they deem it illegal.Is there any legal basis to this?If I publish a list in pig-latin, can I deem it illegal to translate that into English?If I publish so... | en | 0.930081 |
Sharing my SEO tool, a mini startup? | [
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"text": "This is a neat service, but it will be much more useful to me if I can exclude ones from my own domain AND ones from my support forums (not on my domain) AND ones that I create by commenting on blogs. While they may or may not be relevant from an SEO ranking standpoint, they are not ... | en | 0.972215 |
This Place is Not a Place of Honor (2006) | [
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"text": "Good sci fi. Silly for the government to care about this. I mean, really, 10000 years?If future civilizations are technologically advanced, detecting radiation won't be a problem.If future civilizations have fallen back to the stone age, spatially localized buried nuclear waste is goi... | en | 0.949236 |
StickNFind – Bluetooth Powered ultra small Location Stickers | [
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"text": "I sometimes wonder why a big company that has been doing this for years needs to use something like indiegogo to get customers to pay up front for a product that isn't in manufacturing yet.Also. I think it's a really cool idea and I want one. I would use one to secure a suitcase on a ... | en | 0.973863 |
Why “Simple” Websites Are Scientifically Superior | [
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"text": "So let's talk about Facebook. Over the years the site and service has become bloated beyond belief.I think part of the reason people (especially younger audiences) are using Instagram/Twitter/Snapchat for key functionality over what FB provides is because of the simple ... | en | 0.914082 |
Xah's Emacs Lisp Tutorial | [
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"text": "If you write Lisp like Xah suggests, people will laugh at you. Just read the Emacs Lisp Introduction that ships with Emacs, that actually teaches idiomatic Emacs Lisp."
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"text": "I've been a fairly recent Emacs user, a year and half I suppose. I've found X... | en | 0.968127 |
Ask HN: What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? | [
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"text": "I couldn't fail. My current project could, but I have gained enough intelligence in a niche market segment while researching my startup that I could start working as a highly paid consultant NOW."
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"text": "1. Rob banks\n2. Date Supermodels\n3. Become a mov... | en | 0.93805 |
24 year old Ogilvy China employee dies from 'overwork' | [
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"text": "Sudden cardiac arrest can, in theory, happen to anyone at anytime, its just that its an extremely rare occurrence.Most of those cases can be traced back to a previously unknown heart disease though. In general, the probability of you dieing in an accident on your way to/from work is a... | en | 0.958385 |
Crafting the worst interview process in 8 easy steps | [
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"text": "I had almost exactly that happen to me as a college student. It was the worst interview experience I've ever had.I set up an in-person interview for a java developer position over e-mail. It was rescheduled a few times and I was given the address at last minute. It's the middle of sum... | en | 0.988229 |
Ask YC: Real World Applications of Machine Learning? | [
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"text": "Basically any topic where you know what hypothesis look like, and there is lots of data floating around.Medical diagnosis is an area where ML should be used, but isn't. It's been discovered that a decision tree beats a cardiologist for heart attack triage, but no one will touch it (1)... | en | 0.972093 |
Nginx Inc. raises $10M in Series B round | [
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"text": "I've been using nginx for a very long time, but I am getting a bit nervous about it. As an example, the nginx Plus feature of "Application health checks" has me concerned. This is the feature that performs an HTTP request on a backend server to determine if it is health... | en | 0.959646 |
Code that will only execute once | [
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"text": "On POSIX systems, this challenge is trivial because you can unlink ("delete") an executable while it's running. The file is then actually deleted once the program exits.On Window, you can muck around with child processes that delete their parent. Perhaps more interestin... | en | 0.953788 |
Citymapper is what happens when you understand user experience | [
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"text": "Citymapper has this bizarre flaw (in London at least) where it relies on average times to give you journey times.So, for example, if your train takes 10 minutes to reach your destination, leaves your local station every 30 minutes and you've just missed one, CityMapper will show ... | en | 0.909183 |
Why Everyone Eventually Hates or Leaves Maven | [
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"text": "This is very eloquent distillation of the thought process underlying the evolution of my toolset over the last 5 years.After having jumped into Rails and shifting from BBEdit to TextMate as my primary editor overnight back in 2005, when TextMate started withering on the vine I became ... | en | 0.980912 |
Fundraising from... you - Need $5,000 from 500 people, each giving us $10. | [
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"text": "@jgrahamc 1. How do you compare with all the other book swapping sites out there?We offer faster swapping. In the presentation video we called it \"Instant Swap\" but didn't explain in detail. Here's how it works. At our site, people don't have to wait to swap their books. Just send y... | en | 0.974904 |
New Google+ is beautiful? | [
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"text": ">> \"First, images are out-of-proportionally big. They steal the attention away from the texts... You eyes will inevitably look at Larry’s face and the new Android Studio but did you notice much of the text at all?\"I think this is the point. I can immediately tell what these... | en | 0.968293 |
Ask HN: What will people pay money for? | [
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"text": "Cold emailing people and asking about their pain points is probably not the best way to go. That said, you're on (sort of) the right path by understanding that you need to find potential customers and talk to them early on, so that's a good step.What I'd recommend is this:1. Network,... | en | 0.981739 |
What would do you need to see before joining an early stage startup? | [
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"text": "I was a technical cofounder and I have joined several startups as either the first employee or the first technical employee. This has evolved over the years, but the big thing that I look at is the person or team that I am going to join. It's cliche but true. That manifests itself ... | en | 0.989589 |
Amazing chat bot developed by a startup claiming to have made a significant AI breakthrough (vid) | [
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"text": "That was altogether pretty lame. Having done some NLP and chatterbot development in the past, I don't see anything here out of the ordinary. In fact, it seems as though they're just trying to impress folks who don't know any better.People like them (Cognitive Code) give AI research a ... | en | 0.983676 |
Don't learn to code. Learn to think | [
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"text": "I feel I must disagree with this. In my personal experience, a computer science education will teach you algorithms, yes. You will learn how a computer operates a a low level. You will even learn logic.However, for the vast majority of people, this is not enough to build the mental mo... | en | 0.953076 |
If Switzerland is attacked, it is literally rigged to blow up. | [
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"text": "Here's another interesting bit: Up until now it is still required by law that apartment buildings are built with a nuclear proof bunker underneath, including air filters. There are in fact more bunker places than people in Switzerland, i.e. >8M. These bunkers are mostly used a... | en | 0.989808 |
Google Bans Online Anonymity While Patenting It | [
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"text": "Walking on the Internet with your true identity is somewhat similar to wearing your religion on the sleeves and walking outside of your house. I could never understand why people do that .... However, just as we don't and shouldn't live in glass house in the offline world, we shouldn... | en | 0.987156 |
Mobile Frameworks Comparison Chart | [
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"text": "\"Feature Supported\" isn't well defined here. jQuery Mobile's persistant footers are anything but persistant on iOS. That's a big feature for most UIs, and something Sencha Touch got right a long time ago. That poor support for viewport manipulations is lost in the rankings.Instead... | en | 0.94619 |
Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON Gem | [
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"text": ">`JSON.load` should never be given input from unknown sources. If you are processing JSON from an unknown source, always use `JSON.parse`.This seems like poor method naming; I would not intuitively understand that \"load\" is far more dangerous than \"parse.\"Why not deprecate th... | en | 0.910998 |
Back by Popular Demand: All You Can Jet | [
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"text": "Dustin Curtis (dcurtis) and Alaska Miller (alaskamiller) took as many flights as possible in 30 days, the last time this deal was up. They used to have a page at http://dustincurtis.com/30dayflight.html but it's broken now. I can only find one story (which is really interesting!): h... | en | 0.962004 |
What Alan T. did for his PhD | [
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"text": "You know how sometimes on HN there's a conversation that's like A> X person is so epic and better than all of us.\n B> NO, that person is just a normal person like us\n B> there's nothing special about them.\n B> We're all capable of being that epic.\n(a recent one... | en | 0.985628 |
Micro heaters cut 87% off my electric heat bill | [
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"text": "OK, Paul Wheaton simply doesn't know what he's talking about:"I think that this does produce some savings, but not as much as you might think. If you set your thermostat to a constant 70, the heater works a little at a time throughout the day. If you drop it to 50 at ni... | en | 0.968466 |
Ask HN: How many of you are actually using Lisp in your startup/projects? | [
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"text": "I use Scheme (Bigloo, PLT/mzscheme) all the time, even if the project isn't in Scheme itself. If I hit a point where I know I don't fully understand the problem, I'll usually break out my Scheme stuff play around until I have a better grasp, and then redo it in whatever language/platf... | en | 0.934625 |
Project Tango | [
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"text": "This is essentially putting a Kinect in your phone and hooking it up with hopefully high-level APIs. It may take 2-3 years to make it into regular phones, but when it does it will be huge. Apple's acquisition of PrimeSense (the makers of the 1st gen Kinect) means they're als... | en | 0.925753 |
SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really) | [
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"text": "This is great. My (so far, only) experience with SOAP started when my boss asking me to investigate the new version of a (very big) vendor's SOAP API. Support for the old version of the API was being dropped in a few days.It turns out that our framework has SOAP built in, so I had it ... | en | 0.982992 |
Ten $50,000 grants for startups who move to St. Louis | [
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"text": "Things to know about St. Louis:The City of St. Louis is a separate entity from St. Louis county. When I last checked the employee map for a 150 engineer software company, there were two employees living in the City of St. Louis, (a receptionist, and a newly divorced man in an apartmen... | en | 0.915375 |
Hire based on interest, not credentials | [
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"text": "There would seem to be a pretty narrow range of companies that this would actually work for.If you're a pet food manufacturer that needs a website, you're probably not going to find anybody who's really stoked about catfood and also knows Rails.If you're Valve, you'll have no problem ... | en | 0.991987 |
Show HN: Monitorbook – Easily track anything on the web | [
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"text": "Copywriter here. Good writing is concrete. Instead of telling me that I can monitor things, give me examples (You can monitor prices online, etc.)"
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"text": "Result of a quick try:Tracking YouTube views doesn't work (shows "null")Tracking HN ... | en | 0.845982 |
HP Cloud offering Beta Signup | [
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"text": "I don't really understand how you can trust iaas from hp after the board has shown how willing they are to freak out and cancel projects that don't immediately get traction."
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"text": "Is it realized internally or are they using other cloud provider (Amazon... | en | 0.968297 |
Shell Scripting with Objective-C | [
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"text": "Decided to give it a shot in bash. #!/bin/bash\n set -eu \n \n curl -s "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/manbolo/appicon/master/mask.png" >"icon_mask.png"\n \n for app_id in "$@"\n do\n ... | en | 0.227957 |
Patent troll Lodsys sues 10 mobile game makers, despite Apple’s intervention | [
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"text": "Patent 7,620,565 is a good example of everything that's wrong with the patent system; it's vague and generic, nothing novel, and seemingly far reaching.They are using claim 15 to sue over interactive chat:\n\"A method, comprising: monitoring a product for an occurrence in the product ... | en | 0.884934 |
Ask HN: Glad the override feature is gone? | [
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"text": "Nope, I waited my requisite time and then turned the no-procast option off. So now it doesn't matter at all.I'm actually not too happy pg did this without some sort of warning. Last time I checked, he wasn't my mother. At any rate problem solved now."
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Review my startup onehub.com | [
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"text": "First of all, I love the look. clean and professional.\nThe domain name is great as well.The video tour does a great job of overloading me with information on what I can do with OneHub.The damaging part is that after viewing the video, I don't have any take-away on how I would use the... | en | 0.979597 |
Ask HN: Is coffee healthy? | [
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"text": "We don't know. My understanding of the current meta-studies is that there is a slight positive effect on general health and life expectancy associated with drinking reasonable amounts of coffee.But think about that more -- what else could be associated with drinking coffee? People w... | en | 0.982919 |
Ask HN: how many years have you "wasted" on failed startups? And any regrets? | [
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"text": "I spent probably 6 months to an entire year working on failed or unreleased projects. Some were just little things to learn the language, like a trojan written in VB6 that would do various annoying to the user (like \"earthquake\" their windows), to a couple of sites I've recently la... | en | 0.984904 |
FenixEdu, a open source academic and learning management system | [
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"text": "I can't tell from the site, but how mature is this lms?I recently toyed around with Canvas[1] and found it to be really stable and feature-rich without that messy feeling that Blackboard or Moodle give you. What were the motivations to develop this system instead of enhancing or ... | en | 0.952027 |
Poll - How many here are involved in a startup? Vote up the appropriate comment. | [
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"text": "Karma whoring! Unlike in Reddit, comments count for karma here. So having us vote up comments instead of the article still isn't karma-neutral. You'd need an additional \"Vote this down when you vote up one of the other options\" to have that.But it's an interesting poll, so I'll v... | en | 0.971236 |
WakeMate (YC S09) runs out of cash, co-founder allegedly spams users | [
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"text": "They built a legitimate product that some people wanted and managed to get it manufactured and shipped. That's a lot farther that most go.The product sales weren't able to get to enough volume to support the company and the needed lowering of costs that comes with volume manufacturing... | en | 0.963604 |
Microsoft admits Patriot Act can access EU-based cloud data (2011) | [
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"text": ""Microsoft cannot provide those guarantees. Neither can any other company."The most telling and most important line in the article. Recent days have made it abundantly clear that anyone under US jurisdiction is susceptible to scrutiny and surveillance."
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It's easier to port a shell than a shell script | [
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"text": "Something similar has happened to me before. I was sitting in the audience of a talk, and the speaker said something blatantly wrong about something I had worked on, so I asked them to clarify, and they responded with something like \"they did such and such\", which was also wrong, so... | en | 0.992992 |
The Future According to Stanisław Lem | [
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"text": "Just an interesting aside: Lem is famously known for Solaris, mainly due to the movie adaptations. According to Lem the movies don't really reflect his vision:..to my best knowledge, the book was not dedicated to erotic problems of people in outer space... As Solaris' author... | en | 0.985068 |
Bitcoin Tipping Bot for HN | [
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"text": "Please do not deploy this unless you do it in a way that does not leave a trace.In other words, if you do this in such a way that people who don't care about this can't even tell that it's going on, that's fine. If you have to interact with the HN interface, e.g., by leaving comments,... | en | 0.994106 |
Google's list of losers: YouTube and six other businesses that aren't making any money | [
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"text": "I think it's a positive sign that some of Google's initiatives don't make much money (yet?). It shows that Google is taking risks."
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"text": "The article says YouTube is making $100 million. Is that revenue or profit? I was under the impression that YouTube... | en | 0.982733 |
New Internet Meme - Zuckerbucks | [
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"text": "\"Zuckerbucks\" was used in a Joy of Tech comic: http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1015.html"
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"text": "Anyone remember sniglets? I used to have a book of them. I'm not sure Zuckbucks qualifies as a 'Meme'"
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WebGL on iOS8 Safari and WebView | [
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"text": "It also looks like both iOS and OSX are using same Webkit Api. Webviews get the same stuff Safari has access to, which mean Webviews also get access to JIT compilation including FTL tier.More info in this talk: Introduction to Modern Webkit Api\nhttps://developer.apple.com&#... | en | 0.960642 |
Lessons for uncultured web developers | [
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"text": "> Why are these US only? It’s a conundrum which we probably don’t regularly need to worry about, but it’s unusual all the same (I’d love to hear insight on why there’s no .us on these).History of the internet: it was invented as a US department of defense research project, and gre... | en | 0.957255 |
Where Are the AB Testing Frameworks? | [
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"text": "One of my friends, who is regrettably still in stealth mode or I would be shillin' like a villain, is working on an automated AB testing framework. Suppose you had a website with a banner, a sidebar, and body text with 3 paragraphs, each with 4 possible variations.His software, as fa... | en | 0.984444 |
Why We Chose Keen IO. | [
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"text": "I think the real power of Keen is the ability to gather analytics for your clients. If you're a platform (think Shopify), your customers probably want some sort of dashboard and reporting on their customers.Keen makes this too easy with their embeddable JS visualizations: https:&... | en | 0.885683 |
AMD ships 16-core x86 3ghz CPU | [
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"text": "It's really a shame how AMD's per-thread performance has been lagging Intel. Maybe it's just their postition as an also-ran in a basically monopolized market (desktop CPU manufacture), but I've always seen them as ahead of the curve. They were optimizing per-cycle performance with Ath... | en | 0.995818 |
Crime Over Time: Visualizing Crime Data in Chicago | [
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"text": "Well, I'm not sure what the point of this was. My team at the Chicago Tribune has been working on visualizing and explaining Chicago crime data for quite some time. Here's one of our biggest projects, which pulls in (I think) the same data Socrata used, as well as our own tr... | en | 0.857814 |
Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim | [
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"text": "To be precise, this latest experiment only ruled out one possible source of error (namely, bias in the detection of arriving neutrinos causing it to preferentially detect neutrinos at the forefront of the pulse). This doesn't affirm that the neutrinos actually exceeded light-speed.But... | en | 0.920855 |
What if everything you know is wrong? | [
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"text": "One interesting book I picked up a few years ago and dip in and out of from time to time seems of relevance here: Everything you know IS Wrong[1]... a somewhat hyperbolic title and read at the best of times, but it's always got me thinking at least. One of the articles (it's a collect... | en | 0.977032 |
Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch | [
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"text": "Hi all,I made this site for the situation where you and your colleagues are all at lunch and the discussion of salary comes up. While a lot of people don't feel comfortable discussing specific numbers, they're all still curious :) So this site lets someone start a 'secret' with just a... | en | 0.945224 |
Human cycles: History as science | [
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"text": "I'm very sceptical. I listened recently to economic experts talking in the 90s, they were all saying we were in the ascending phase of some macro cycle, and that we had thirty years of growth ahead. None did forecast the crisis we had since. They also did not say a word about the econ... | en | 0.994479 |
Docracy Terms of Service Tracker | [
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"text": "Buy.com is now Rakuten.com? Talk about choosing the wrong domain name to consolidate under!"
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"text": "While documenting small changes probably is OK, I would think that reproducing long passages of a site's TOS, even in the context of documenting changes a... | en | 0.939737 |
Ryan Davis, 1979 - 2013 | [
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"text": "I've been listening to Ryan Davis on the Giant Bomb podcast every week for the last several years. It's often a long podcast, so this is literally hundreds and hundreds of hours of having this guy's voice in my head.I once noticed how intimate a medium podcasting can be... | en | 0.973028 |
Pierre Sprey on the F-35 [video] | [
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"text": "When you need the absolute best for something, you need to specialize. That's why there have historically been so many different kinds of aircraft, each with relatively discrete missions.The F-35 is a terrible aircraft, and the procurement is deeply suspect. The South Korean acqu... | en | 0.956639 |
Why all OVH dedicated servers are "sold out" | [
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"text": "The biggest problem was they were introducing new servers with similar or better specs than servers existing customers had. And instead of dropping existing customers prices, they kept them static. So a lot of people found themselves looking at a bill 600% higher for the same server j... | en | 0.989024 |
Groupon’s Strikeouts Reveal an Unspoken Truth | [
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"text": "Oddly enough, there actually is a baseball statistic that takes strikeouts out of the equation. It also takes out home runs. It's called Batting Average on Balls In Play or BABIP. You can see the formula here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_average_on_balls_in_pla...BABIP doesn'... | en | 0.952393 |
Google Art Project | [
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"text": "Zoom into \"A Sunday On La Grande Jatte\" at the Art Institute of Chicago: http://www.googleartproject.com/collection/the-art-institute...Seurat knew a lot about dots -- but seriously, the resolution is pretty impressive."
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"text": "This also means you can ... | en | 0.915347 |
As a founder of PayPal, Elon Musk made $250 million. But then he got bored | [
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"text": "> “Do not be scared of the darkness!” Elon Musk calls out to them from the wilderness. “There is nothing to fear—it is merely the absence of light!”It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue."
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"text": "Whatever the merits of that article, ... | en | 0.966256 |
Homeless Fonts | [
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"text": "This was posted on reddit awhile ago but taken down and reposted several times.This bio really made me go "wtf?":> Loraine was born in London. She was an ordinary, hardworking family person, with nothing to worry about beyond paying the rent at the end of the month or kee... | en | 0.997089 |
On Pull Requests | [
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"text": "As far as code reviews go, this is pretty spot on. I was part of a a startup that was using GitHub pull requests for code reviews. As the team grew, it became more and more intractable, although not simply because of notifications. Side-by-side diffs and checkpointed diffs (so that ... | en | 0.9932 |
Show HN: The Choice – An online programming puzzle RPG | [
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"text": "Is there an API reference? I don't remember how to ask a guard for a key, and apparently it's not guard.askKey.edit: Ahh, got it. The @key was already given to me (was this specified somewhere?), so the guard didn't support askKey. I wonder if there's a more appropriate response than ... | en | 0.965548 |
China hacked two US satellites in '07 and '08 | [
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"text": "Nothing stays secret forever, so it's probably time to create new satellites with upgraded interfaces. Them's the breaks.Off-shoring most electronics manufacture in the US is probably a \"Battlestar Galactica\" size mistake, though. Even if our super-military grade electronics are h... | en | 0.960973 |
Why we love Mozilla Persona | [
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"text": "In principle, Persona is great. Not storing passwords is awesome, a non-FB/Google/Twitter identity option is important.I would encourage you, though, to look carefully at your login completion metrics. I implemented Persona on my site (http://www.sixquestions.co) t... | en | 0.869813 |
Germany lifts Doom sales ban after 17 years | [
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"text": "Arstechnica has a pretty good writeup of the censorship thing in germany:http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/12/from-australia-to...Its a bit more complex then outright bans. Complete bans of media are pretty rare in germany - this happens to media are punishable offenses by thems... | en | 0.962039 |
Cactus for Mac | [
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"text": "Really excited about this app. As someone who enjoys casually developing personal sites — I know my way around HTML/CSS but not enough to deploy something like this on my own — I think this looks to be a perfect way to ease into some slightly more advance site building, perhaps a... | en | 0.956085 |
Haskell in Production: 12 Months Building ApiEngine | [
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"text": "Awesome. Is there a video recording of your presentation anywhere online?What strategies did you use to combat the lack of stack traces, especially in production?I was happy to see that you are fellow Brisbanites. I'm a bit out of the \"local loop\", is there much of a local Brisbane ... | en | 0.944529 |
Jolla Outsells iPhone 5S and 5C in Finland | [
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"text": "I got the jolla on the 28th or so (bought mine in late November), and I've been using it a little since. I haven't switched from my iPhone, but I do have some impressions:Good:- Sailfish OS is really nice looking, and the gestures have grown on me. Actually, I find myself tr... | en | 0.948887 |
Bitcoin stolen while laptop was in Apple store | [
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"text": "Moral of the story: don't deal with the Apple Store. The amount of people I know who have had their data trashed (after possibly being cloned) is quite high. The solution to most problems is wipe the machine. They usually come to me after telling them to fuck off. I haven't ... | en | 0.98334 |
Where is your startup located? | [
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"text": "Startup Warrior visualizes startup hubs around the globe. Are you in a large hub like NYC, Boston, or San Francisco, or in one of the many new and growing hubs? Does this map match your expectations of where companies are?"
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"score": 1,
"text": "Whoa - there's a star... | en | 0.983248 |
Die, You Gravy Sucking Pig Dog | [
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"text": "> \"In the C programming language, you're regularly forced to deal with the painful, dangerous concepts of pointers and explicit memory allocation. \"> \"I'd wager the majority of programmers alive today have never once worried about malloc(). I call this progress...\"Anger. M... | en | 0.947757 |
What's your favorite free web conferencing tool? | [
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"text": "As sad as it sounds we're currently using Skype's screen sharing (single person) and voice conferencing with Google Draw at the moment. Will try connectnow.acrobat.com as it looks decent."
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"text": "oops - the title really should be \"Ask HN: What's your fa... | en | 0.900451 |
U.S. CEO to France: ‘How Stupid Do You Think We Are?’ | [
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"text": "Wow, what a total jerk. Regardless of the differences between US, Chinese, Indian and French work ethics the least you could do as a CEO is to learn how to write a polite refusal.When you don't have to insult someone it is probably better not to. Because those pesky French just might ... | en | 0.986139 |
Court allows Samsung Galaxy Tab to again sell in Europe | [
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"text": "I'm getting pretty tired of these stories and tech companies in general. At the end of the day it's a touch screen that can connect to the Internet and run some software. When will the patent/IP madness end?"
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"score": 1,
"text": "1.) A German court lifted an injunctio... | en | 0.920114 |
Life of an Implementer: If you're good at it, don't do it for someone else | [
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"text": "I don't understand articles like this. There's the assumptions that all coding is alike and that when I code for myself I get to solve the same problems that I can solve when coding for others.In reality, this simply isn't true. Case in hand: I like distributed databases. However, I a... | en | 0.94795 |
What's the most ridiculous job title at a startup? | [
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"text": "Any title that incorporates Ninja, Rockstar, Pirate, Guru, etc. Also Full Stack is so misused it's becoming a joke."
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"score": 1,
"text": "My personal best was "Release Messiah". To this day I still cringe."
},
{
"score": 2,
"text": "Strange... | en | 0.954512 |
FriendFeed Is In Danger Of Becoming The Coolest App No One Uses | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "If no one's using it, how cool can it be?I signed up for friendfeed when it launched. It solves zero problems in my life.It can't help me build an audience for my startup like Twitter can.It can't keep me in touch with my friends like Facebook can.I think Friendfeed's problem was tha... | en | 0.977499 |
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