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Instagram for Android — Available Now. | [
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"text": "I still don't get the popularity of instagram. Is it the filters or sharing? There are tons of apps that let me apply a filter and instantly share to FB. As someone who doesn't use instagram have I missed something?"
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"text": "Instagram. Ruining perfectl... | en | 0.952725 |
Ask HN: What are the essential components of your front-end workflow? | [
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"text": "I'm a big fan of npm and modular code. - npm to manage dependencies and versions\n - npm-scripts to handle basic build tasks\n - beefy during module development \n (when a bundle isn't necessary) \n - watchify & browserify/uglifyjs during app development \n ... | en | 0.796269 |
Ask HN: Why HN doesn't allow markdown? | [
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"text": "Among other things, HN was a test case for programming in Arc, and mostly by one programmer: pg.So the likely reason that HN does not allow Markdown is because there is/was no Arc implementation of Markdown."
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"text": "What extra formatting would you w... | en | 0.980604 |
Prof Gives Lecture to Prove He Knows Students Cheated; Over 200 Students Confess | [
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"text": "Previous submissions of the same story from various sources. They all have some discussion:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1919562http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922049http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1922243 <- This has the most commentshttp://news.ycombinator.com/it... | en | 0.909416 |
Mark Russinovich:The Case of the Random IE Crash | [
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"text": "This post taught me more about troubleshooting a faulting process in Windows than anything I've done in the last year or two."
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"text": "\"so the likely explanation was that the toolbar had come onto my system piggybacking on the installation of one of the ... | en | 0.963386 |
5 deal-breaking flaws in Windows 8 | [
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"text": "The author can't decide if he's criticizing Windows 8 as a PC OS or as a Tablet OS.His first point explicitly says \"unless you have a keyboard attached\" which makes me think he's criticizing Windows 8 as a Tablet OS. But his complaint is that it's hard to manage 10+ open apps at on... | en | 0.990644 |
Body mass is correlated with lifespan | [
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"text": "As usual, read the paper instead [0]. It's short, clear, and easy to read. In particular, it applies only to plants, so the article's musings about jellyfish and elephants is off the mark and even addressed in the paper [1]. So is the irrelevant discussion of \"pulse\", which is oddly... | en | 0.964067 |
Write LaTeX - browser-based collaborative editor | [
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"text": "Creator of http://www.sharelatex.com here. LaTeX collaboration and environment setup is a big problem, online collaborative environments are going to become more popular. The more of them out there the better so good luck to jdleesmiller and writeLaTeX.writeLaTeX has a nice split view... | en | 0.948558 |
Tell HN: The 2 best things I love about HN | [
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"text": "I'll chip in with the \"2 worst things I hate about HN\", since I enjoy being contrary.1) The groupthink that arises in certain political/scientific/social debates. I find that the nontech debates here are more uniform and less varied than they are on sites with similar quality.2) Whi... | en | 0.972149 |
Apple’s cash pile - The tech giant should give cash back to shareholders | [
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"text": "Paying dividends is a bad signal. That did not work well for Microsoft's share price. And even though OP argues that Apple will not repeat their fate, the argument is weak. There is only so much more iStuff that you could sell when everyone and their mother has an iPhone.Paying divide... | en | 0.987548 |
My story of learning to code to build a side project. | [
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"text": "Thank you for sharing! I always like to read this kind of stories. For me, I started coding in a silly way. First wave of motivation was when I tried to impress my current girlfriend, her sister needed a website and I said I can code it for her. Right after saying that I jumped into Y... | en | 0.95979 |
The Pain of HTML5 | [
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"text": "While these points are valid, and indeed very insightful in some cases (the logging / encryption issue hadn't even occurred to me before now), I do wonder if the author would ever be happy. Using bleeding edge features will always cause cross-browser problems like this, no matter what... | en | 0.960794 |
Opera confirms support for WebKit vendor prefixes | [
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"text": "This is a good thing, and there is basically no way around it.There is a varying degree of a WebKit monoculture on mobile. Without great site compatibility, users will never successfully switch to a non-webkit browser, but currently much of the great mobile content out there assumes w... | en | 0.906923 |
Learn REST: A Tutorial | [
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"text": "If people would simply advocate building applications which follow the semantics of HTTP instead of advocating \"REST\", many more people would understand the benefits and conform; there would be no need to write a thousand and one posts explaining what is REST. Unfortunately the orig... | en | 0.97139 |
12 Months to 7k Monthly Revenue | [
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"text": "My favorite quote:"The amount of support caused by failing pieces of code far exceeded the time it would have taken to test the code properly, period. The agility we gained from our test coverage really helped us refactor big chunks of code quickly."People ask whether it mak... | en | 0.958185 |
Challenge HN: Inspired by greplin's third problem | [
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"text": "http://codepad.org/5TyD9Jqy -- C++ solution with running time of ~0.004s. 30 lines not counting empty lines/comments/braces, half of the code is generating P."
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"text": "http://www.fzort.org/mpr/junk/greplin-3.pl.txtPerl, 7s. Looks like I arrived at the sam... | en | 0.887845 |
Seriously.js: A Realtime, Node-Based Video Compositor for the Web | [
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"text": "This is seriously cool, but can't there be a better way to embed fragment shaders in javascript for WebGL? Check out this effect:\nhttps://github.com/brianchirls/Seriously.js/blob/develop/eff...Or is there a tool that needs to be created that will compile a fragment shader for WebGL d... | en | 0.968488 |
Look at yourself objectively | [
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"text": "Semmelweis is a favorite \"management science\" topic; there's even a pop-psych phenomenon called the \"Semmelweis Reflex\"; the Wikipedia article on it recapitulates much of what Aaron wrote here. The Gladwell formula of using Semmelweis' personal narrative to articulate a frailty of... | en | 0.942976 |
Programming is not algebra | [
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"text": "It's funny--I've just spent several days realizing exactly the opposite. Namely, programming is algebra. Not high school algebra, granted, but abstract algebra. I've seen patterns from abstract algebra come up several times in programs I've worked on recently, but I didn't know enough... | en | 0.975433 |
I was a college newspaper advisor | [
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"text": "Just in case you aren't familiar with Jeff Pearlman:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_PearlmanFormer SI writer. His expose of baseball player John Rocker shook up the MLB world at the turn of the century. He's since written a bunch of sports biographies that have sold very well.He a... | en | 0.984009 |
Yapp.js: Build large client-side applications in a structured way | [
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"text": "Ironically, there's a company called Yapp (https://www.yapp.us/) that's one of the biggest users of Ember.js that I know of. Was super confused when I saw the title..."
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"text": "looking at that scary diagram and thinking "will... | en | 0.908682 |
Top ISPs Poised to Adopt Graduated Response to Piracy | [
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"text": "I can't wait until Anonymous starts sending infringement notices in bulk. Cutting off people's Internet access based on a few random threats is a pretty obvious denial of service vulnerability."
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"text": "There is an institution dedicated to \"graduated re... | en | 0.98084 |
Google R&D team's goal: Make renewables cheaper than coal "in a few years" | [
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"text": "This stuff is the reason I'll never hate google the way I hate Microsoft. Ok, hate is a strong word, but I just don't like or trust microsoft. I think the world is a worse place because of it. I Think the world is a better place because of google, but there's still a healthy portion o... | en | 0.989536 |
The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 2) (from employee #13) | [
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"text": "I'm not sure if this is 'Operate as if in a vacuum' so much as 'Challenge assumptions', especially if you are entering a competitive market.Challenge the format, the value, the technology, and the ability of users (both searchers and advertisers) to learn and adjust when the technolog... | en | 0.950653 |
Open Source Visitor.js | [
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"text": "It is now apparently Session.js https://github.com/codejoust/session.js"
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"text": "Here is a live demo showing your own information.\nhttp://visitorjs.herokuapp.com/Fyi: I am not storing the information."
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"text": "Damn, you beat... | en | 0.937472 |
Brain-boosting drugs for healthy people | [
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"text": "At a point, this just goes to the competitive nature of our society. From a moral standpoint, if who we are is a product of our environment and our genetics, then we ourselves aren't anything that isn't predefined. Someone who is lazy is a product of their genes and environment in t... | en | 0.97094 |
Is HN only about saying nice things about everything? | [
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"text": "I can only speak of my own personal approach to commenting. I evaluate my own comments by one metric - whether I think my comment will make HN a smarter, more interesting place. I see HN comments less as a forum for chit-chat and more as a venue for a series of short essays on the top... | en | 0.981796 |
FAA to lift mobile shut-down rule | [
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"text": "Good. If they were actually that dangerous, we wouldn't be allowed to carry them on board.Shutting down cell radios makes sense; as I understand it, a bunch of cellphones moving at a couple hundred miles per hour can do some nasty things to cell towers, but it drives me absolutel... | en | 0.973232 |
Ask HN: How does Google and Facebook do friend recommendations? | [
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"text": "Can we instead have a discussion about recommendation "engines"? I've been interested in writing one for fun but I have no clue where to start in learning about them. Can someone point me in the right direction, maybe a Coursera/OCW course?"
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Solved By Flexbox – Cleaner, hack-free CSS | [
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"text": "Unfortunately, the Holy Grail layout works like crap in mobile. In the most recent Chrome and Firefox for Android, the pinch-to-zoom gesture either doesn't work at all, or the whole div is resized as an image without text reflow (i.e. cropping text lines to the left and right). A... | en | 0.893092 |
10k+ API directory | [
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"text": "Post and Discussion from earlier today.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6898015"
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"text": "Please add an API!"
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"text": "Great but I think search options could be improved with some categorization, tagging etc.... | en | 0.90192 |
Thoughts on Keybase.io | [
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"text": "Unfortunately I think this particular review is missing the point of Keybase. In the same vein as attacking Twitter for not making the follow relationship symmetric or attacking Instagram for ruining the dynamic range of pictures, this author is (mostly) attacking Keybase for the very... | en | 0.96694 |
Joke about blowing something up on Twitter, get arrested | [
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"text": "I'm sorry, but 'joking' about blowing up something ANYWHERE in 2010 that is in earshot of another person (either physically or digitally) will likely get you at least a mild amount of attention from the authorities.My question however is did the authorities have someone report this to... | en | 0.982225 |
Apple shuts down Podcaster, again | [
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"text": "I found the original post text just by putting their URL into Google Reader. Gotta love web-based RSS aggregators that cache. Here it is:It seems that Apple has shut me down. I can no longer provision any more devices. The developers website that had a \"remove device\" link is now go... | en | 0.97155 |
Congratulations PG on the coming child | [
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"text": "Why is everyone just congratulating PG? Livingston is the one who has to carry it around for 9 months and give birth.Kidding kidding, but congrats to Jessica too!"
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"text": "Congratulations!On the humorous side, this reminds me of this story: http://edward.... | en | 0.907058 |
Google URL shortener available to the public | [
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"text": "I know there's a plethora of URL shorteners these days, and most platform providers (eg: Twitter) are introducing their own so they can harvest analytics themselves. For whatever reason though, I keep trusting Google with all of my most personal information. I don't know if that's a g... | en | 0.972925 |
How do university hackers stack up? | [
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"text": "Not only are you competing for that hackathon's prize, you're competing for the reputation of the entire school. I imagine HackRU will be extra competitive."
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"text": "Question for HN people: Do you associate the word hacking with computer securit... | en | 0.945113 |
London Startup Map | [
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"text": "This map and many others include digital/creative agencies. They may be startups in the sense of new companies, but if we accept that definition why not include every new lawyer, restaurant, or retailer? Agencies are contractors and they don't own the value they build in a p... | en | 0.927976 |
Clipper, the Caltrain nemesis | [
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"text": "Clipper is a terrible service but not for the reasons outlined in this post. This post misses the point that tagging on and tagging off is a simple and relatively elegant solution to the problem posed by Caltrain charging by distance traveled.But that's not the real problem with Clipp... | en | 0.977312 |
Ask HN: Tell me why a room-and-board-and-bandwidth incubator is a stupid idea | [
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"text": "In addition to the isolation that others have cited, there's quite an opportunity for moral hazard on behalf of the entrepreneurs you accept into your house. Not only would you have to be very good at selecting capable entrepreneurs, but you would also need to structure the incentives... | en | 0.968184 |
Betraying Salinger | [
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"text": "A review of the story in question, for those who are curious:http://www.thesatirist.com/books/HAPWORTH.htmlI also tracked down a copy of the full text, but in the interests of some kind of vague respect for copyright I'll leave you to figure out how to obtain it for yourself."
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Girl with genetic disorder sues sperm bank for providing defective sperm | [
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"text": "I'm curious; by the logic given in the article, a woman who was inseminated by way of a glass tube has the possibility of legitimate legal recourse for defective semen, whereas if it were provided via a meat tube, it would be seen as a cruel aberration of nature. It's almost as if in ... | en | 0.993461 |
Ask HN: CTO vs. VP of Engineering | [
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"text": "The CEO has decided that you have technical ability but not management ability. He doesn't want to lose your nagios-installation skills but he thinks that an imaginary person whom he has not yet met or hired will be better than you at leading the tech team. He's happy to let you keep ... | en | 0.987642 |
Our approach to gender diversity | [
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"text": "I think this sort of affirmative approach is going to become more common as tech is dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.When I was an engineer, I never worked under a woman in a technical role. Since I've been a lawyer, I've had a majority of female bosses an... | en | 0.984529 |
Do Female Executives Drive Start-up Success? | [
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"text": "One thing that annoyed me (and it's typical of writing on gender and racial issues) is that he bends over backwards to state, effectively, \"not that having women execs don't drive success\". This hyper-careful threading brings to mind the famous Seinfeld \"not that there's anything w... | en | 0.958018 |
Why Mahalo employed a felon hacker | [
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"text": "There are things that I don't understand about this story.I don't understand why Calacanis' choice was between firing his trusted CTO and retaining a convicted computer felon.I don't understand how Mahalo could have checked any reference, let alone 3-5, and not found out that Schiefer... | en | 0.991764 |
Kryptoradio – A Bitcoin data transmission system | [
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"text": "This means parking meters, vending machines, laundromats, etc. can receive bitcoin payments without an internet connection. That is actually really cool."
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"text": "Talking about that, Can anyone please transmit wikipedia via long wave radio? It would be in... | en | 0.942945 |
Ask HN: my startup addresses a small market. How much of a problem is that? | [
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"text": "I have a SaaS app, but in a larger (and crowded) market.First of all, I don't think you should charge $25 per month. A company of 10 people spends more than $25 per month on toilet paper! If you're in a market where your customers are cheap or have no money (or both) they may actually... | en | 0.982558 |
A Crash Course in Sales Hacking and Deal Closing [video] | [
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"text": "...what is happening right now in this comments section? I came here to get a thoughtful response about the video, or a brief description at least (videos at work aren't a fantastic idea), and all I see currently are "great video!" and "Steli is neato!"Also, ... | en | 0.935105 |
Debug your programs like they're closed source | [
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"text": ""Your program communicates with something on a network, but some of the information it’s sending is wrong? It’s probably sending it with write, sendto, or send."If you want to debug network traffic, a higher-level tool like Wireshark[1] (which knows about the packet formats ... | en | 0.946178 |
CPU and GPU trends over time | [
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"text": "There are many architectural differences between CPUs and GPUs that make it difficult to draw the kinds of conclusions suggested by these graphs.Data parallel algorithms with high computation-to-communication ratios, good data locality and low local branch divergence will see these ki... | en | 0.950186 |
Google's Humans.txt | [
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"text": "I personally like the Disqus humans.txt file: http://disqus.com/humans.txtEdit: Also, I'm just getting a 404 on the linked Google humans.txt file."
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"text": "It's not really practical to have a proper list of credits for a company l... | en | 0.835137 |
How to Recruit a Frontend Hero | [
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"text": "I don't think so. First of all, a Frontend Hero needs to have design sense, ability to learn quickly, empathy with users, trustworthiness to \"fill in the blanks\", and the balls to say no to designs or features that are unnecessary, impractical, and time-consuming. What Sebastian Deu... | en | 0.943345 |
Baby Name Predictor | [
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"text": "Wow, my dad would have loved to come across a tool like this.My father, in his infinite genius, devised a clever naming scheme for his children (three of us), with the following rules:1. The middle name must be a fairly rare name, so that we might be the only one among friends/pe... | en | 0.958804 |
Backbone.js views done right | [
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"text": "Whoa there nellie. Complexity ahoy.Why would you want to have a view that dumps out its HTML as a string? If a string of HTML is all you want, don't use a view, just use a template.But putting that aside for a second ... for this particular example, how about this: render: ->\n... | en | 0.890536 |
3 days before elections, largest German state censors Pirate Party from the net | [
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"text": "this headline is misleading. The website was blocked in some schools due to an incompetent configuration of a filter software. The filter configuration has been changed."
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"text": "This ought to be counter-productive, considering that most students either k... | en | 0.982867 |
Ask HN: What do you while the automated tests are running? | [
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"text": "My guess is that you're testing AR associations all over the place and that the business logic in your models is tightly coupled to AR associations. This has the effect of slowing down testing tremendously.I try to write code so that stuff that needs to be tested is not tied to ... | en | 0.969914 |
JavaScript Promises: There and back again | [
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"text": "Broader adoption of JS on the server will only begin after ES6 generators land in Node. Due to the complexity of async code, writing JS on the server is not easy for the average team.As of now, you could use Promises but it is still kind of messy without generators. Here is a simple e... | en | 0.901794 |
Mercurial 2.0 has added largefiles extension (older r. are downloaded on demand) | [
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"text": "I'm the developer of [git-annex](http://git-annex.branchable.com/) which is AFAIK the closest eqivalant for git. I only learned about the mercurial bfiles extension (which became the large files extension) after designing git-annex.The designs are obviously similar at a high level, bu... | en | 0.945955 |
Ask HN: Anybody working on opensource web app | [
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"text": "I have 2 Rails apps you might be interested in.Big Help is our company's help ticket system. I'd like to get it up to Rails 3 and prettied up. Also would like to implement macros/canned responses and allow them to be inserted via jQuery. \nhttp://github.com/bigfolio/big-helpSubby is a... | en | 0.940617 |
Ooc: new awesome language with site redesign, guide, and screencast | [
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"text": "I'm in language overload at this point. Much more than another language I'd like to see some creative new architectural approaches to problems that are thorny or tedious to solve right now.I mean, if something as simple as applying MVC principles to web development can create a revolu... | en | 0.960433 |
Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors | [
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"text": "A little OT.But I think it is really, really cool that a very technical person is acknowledged to be a capable CEO. Many companies still consider technical people incapable to be leaders (just by definition). Agree some techies may not have the desire or the social skills to lead but ... | en | 0.98702 |
Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out | [
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"text": "I'm not sure who is making this argument anyway. Women are naturally attracted to alpha males.I think the truth is quite the opposite. Programming and IT have historically attracted a large number of social rejects, who, despite scoring high on self-evaluated liberalness, have no id... | en | 0.958647 |
Show HN: SharingMeter.org - Find out how popular a link is | [
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"text": "So if a link is popular I shouldn't share it cuz everybody else already did?"
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"text": "Cool! I would be curious to learn what will be the conversion rate from visitors to sign ups for the alerts, if you're willing to share that after some time :)... | en | 0.937943 |
Why isn't join.app.net catching on? | [
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"text": "I don't think that the main problems are in name / marketing. While these, and price (which is a legit concern) definitely contribute, the whole idea doesn't sit that well with me.First off, what exactly is it? JSON-based message bus PaaS? Paid social network? Appstore? A develop... | en | 0.973652 |
Peter Sunde arrested in Sweden | [
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"text": "From Google translate ...Peter Sunde arrested in SkåneOne of the brains behind the file sharing site The Pirate Bay has been arrested.Peter Sunde, 35, was arrested today in a raid in southern Sweden.- He has been on the run since 2012 , says Carolina Ekéus , press contact at NCIS .Rik... | en | 0.981992 |
Understanding Quaternions (2012) | [
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"text": "Where the author talks about imaginary numbers being completely "made up" and suggests you shouldn't bother with trying to understand them, I think that's selling them short.Imagine, if you will, trying to explain to the ancient Greeks the idea of a number that can... | en | 0.939589 |
I have found a potential team, but... | [
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"text": "Find a small project (1-2 wks of work) you can work on together and make it clear that it is a trial process to see how you will all work together; something other than your startup (for possible legal reasons in the future). If any of them are unwilling to do this, that should be you... | en | 0.979436 |
Show HN: BestBooks100.com | [
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"text": "Direct link: http://www.bestbooks100.com"
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"text": "I'd love it if there was more space below the title image. :P Otherwise, it looks okay. 2 small things that came to mind is the hover effect on the book images and the possibility of having a small blurb i... | en | 0.956526 |
How to make your application viral - A guide to getting users | [
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"text": "When I think about social software (which is the context in which \"virality\" lives, anyway) I think you have to build for three things - in this order:1. Utility - it must be high utility, even if nobody else is in the system.2. Network Effect - As people are drawn into the system, ... | en | 0.978393 |
Chart.js - open source HTML5 charting library | [
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"text": "A bit of the shame on the interactivity:\"If you are looking to add interaction as a layer to charts, Chart.js is not the library for you. A better option would be using SVG, as this will let you attach event listeners to any of the elements in the chart, as these are all DOM nodes.\"... | en | 0.977016 |
I made $200K and PayPal locked my account | [
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"text": "From your comments, you had multiple PayPal accounts (disallowed), were in Venezuela, using a US PayPal account, then transferring the funds to a PayPal account in Venezuela, and can't provide a tax ID for the US account. At the same time, you went from zero to hundreds of thousands i... | en | 0.97289 |
New Theory on Why Stonehenge Was Built | [
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"text": "One of my old Physics teachers was an expert on Stone Henge. Did a lot of original research in the 1980s. From what I recall Stone Henge is actually multiple sites on top of each other, so when someone says \"this is what Stone Henge was for\" I am skeptical because we're talking a... | en | 0.984189 |
The Oculus Rift Made Me Believe I Could Fly | [
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"text": "> The consumer version of the Rift should be out in about a year.Yeah, and will I be able to buy one and use it without Facebook keeping a permanent record of everything I do with it (tied to my real name of course)? Will it refuse to work unless it's online? I was really look... | en | 0.963073 |
I seem to be writing a web-app framework. Any advice? | [
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"text": "\"... What kinds of features would you like to see in a framework? ...\"explain to me how you intend to let users get to the data? Not pages but raw data (xml, rss, microformats etc). Oh that and cool-uri's. URI's created in a lot of frameworks suck. How are you going to create cool... | en | 0.93606 |
Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2011 - Results | [
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"text": "I don't think this proves a superiority of any algorithm against other. Just that SuperVision team did a great job on task 1 and task 2. I just would add two things: 1) There is a No Free Lunch Theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_theorem) that had been applied to patte... | en | 0.960001 |
All calls in the Netherlands are stored, indexed and searched for keywords | [
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"text": "Here's a year-old story by a more reliable Dutch newspaper, claiming 1 in 1000 phones is being tapped in the Netherlands.http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=nl&tl=en&u=ht..."
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"text": "I call bullshit. Phone metada... | en | 0.914149 |
“Learning to Read” excerpt from The Autobiography of Malcolm X | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Everyone should really just read the entire Autobiography.http://www.amazon.com/The-Autobiography-Malcolm-Told-Haley/d...Also, they should spell "Malcolm" correctly. :)"
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"score": 1,
"text": "For those who feel uncomfortable with Malcolm&#... | en | 0.964836 |
The Story of Wanz, 51-Year-Old Breakout Singer on "Thrift Shop" | [
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"text": "Just so I'm clear on this: The number 1 song on the US charts (EDIT: and a bunch of others, according to wikipedia) isn't on a major label, is a white guy rapping about going to the thrift store, and the hook is sung by a software test engineer?Somebody should call Alanis Morissette a... | en | 0.92881 |
Germans and Jaywalking: An American's Perspective on the Berlin Tech Scene | [
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"text": "I'm an American that's lived in Berlin for the last 7 years, and run a startup here. This post is mostly correct; in fact, it's pretty impressive that the author soaked up the vibe that much in such a short span. But there are a couple points worth clarifying:The jaywalking analogy ... | en | 0.972646 |
Ex-Google executive's new venture helps students avoid corporate life | [
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"text": "The backers - acquaintances, alumni or other accredited investors - provide funding that will typically range between $20,000 and $50,000 in exchange for an agreed share of the graduate's future income over a 10-year period.Well, I am skeptical, but also glad someone decided to try it... | en | 0.95793 |
Do I really want to be using a language where memoize is a PhD-level topic? | [
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"text": "Not as my _only_ programming language, no. But in general, why not? I value programming languages for what they can teach me. Haskell does make state slightly difficult. (If you need it, just use the IO monad, already. It doesn't bite.) But Haskell makes certain other things easy, thi... | en | 0.971237 |
Is Google Knol failing? | [
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"text": "Is it failing? I think it's a little late for that question. More like \"why did it fail?\"I understand the nature of a company like Google is to cast your net wide, devote a small amount of resources to a bunch of products and hope some of them take off. That's what Knol is part o... | en | 0.989046 |
Google Image Search imgcolor= Parameter Allows Results Filtering by Color | [
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"text": "http://images.google.com/images?imgcolor=red&hl=en&s...A search for \"White Shirt\" with imgcolor=redFun results"
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"text": "Reminds me of this great piece of coding/data mining: http://labs.ideeinc.com/multicolr/#colors=ea977e,5c259a;"
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Ask HN: After e^x growth, what aspects of HN are changing? | [
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"text": "Things that have changed: * Stories have a much tougher time making it to the front page\n * It's more rare to recognize all of the people in thread comments\n * The level of discourse has slightly degraded\n * The focus of the site has become more general-interest and\n less s... | en | 0.977629 |
I Heart SASS, But HAML, I'm Just Not That In To You | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I'm just not buying it. Look at his example erb code, compared to haml. Which would you rather be typing day in and day out?In terms of learnability, it takes 15 minutes to learn 95% of the haml featureset. So you spend 15 minutes, then presto, less repetitive stress injuries from ... | en | 0.950682 |
How To Fire A Co-Founder | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "The whole concept of co-founder as a \"title\" is a bit ridiculous. In the beginning, when companies are small and things are literally getting built from the ground up, when customer relations are KEY, every single employee who contributes is, for all practical purposes, a founder. ... | en | 0.980018 |
Ask YC: Great software companies to work for in DC? | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I know you said software, but if you're into web development at all, Freewebs and Clearspring seem to be two big companies in the area.Disclaimer: As an FW employee, I may be a bit biased. Besides, it's technically Silver Spring MD. Go figure."
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{
"score": 1,
"text": "We... | en | 0.950378 |
Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I wrote an open source face recognition demo here for Google Glass if anyone is interested:\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1aeMJY1AO0\nhttps://github.com/lnanek/MedRefGlassIt doesn't use lambda labs since they weren't out yet, but it is j... | en | 0.913738 |
11 Things To Know About Semantic Web | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Alan Kay said the best way to predict the future is to invent it.I wish he would have gone further and said that if you aren't creating the future you have no business predicting it."
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{
"score": 1,
"text": "One single company could affect a global semantic web adoption ... | en | 0.969205 |
Ask HN: Where do you go to meet interesting like minded people? | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Hacker News, Twitter, IRC. I follow a lot of people on Twitter and I have interesting tweets, and many follow me back. I have made several new offline friends this way.Some of my IRC friends from the 90s are some of my closest friends now, too. It's cool 'cause they're geographically ... | en | 0.976552 |
How can I teach a bright person with no programming experience how to program? | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "The top comment is bullshit.I could not get through those three books but I get paid to program. My code is repetitive and shitty but I can produce a working web app as long as it doesn't have to support too many users, and it's fine.My husband never read any books about formal progra... | en | 0.983381 |
Overpriced Developer Conferences | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "I've run a conference for freelance web devs 2 years in a row, both times at a loss (though the loss is shrinking each year) but have tried to keep the ticket prices down, but also try to cover some expenses for speakers (hotel or travel for speakers from out of the area, primarily).T... | en | 0.962268 |
Accessibility and the iPhone - a tale of woe | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Regarding the keypad issue:9. It's almost impossible to get the right letter without being able to see the screen. Because you have to place your finger, listen for the right letter, then \"lift it off\" and place it again. Trying to slide your finger inevitably results in it thinking... | en | 0.945924 |
Three string functions every PHP project needs | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "One caveat: until the mythical PHP 6 comes out, if you're using unicode at all you should be using the multibyte string functions. http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php Python has had unicode support for a while and generally does the right thing, something that might be misse... | en | 0.930624 |
Why JSONP is still mandatory | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Not sure you made the right choice.\nThis is how to use CORS without Preflights: http://homakov.blogspot.com/2014/01/how-to-use-cors-without-...And this is why JSONP is almost always a bad idea (for sensitive data): http://homakov.blogspot.com/2... | en | 0.832266 |
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