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WikiLeaks: Out of time and money | [
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"text": "Between the donation lock-out from every major bank, the heavily biased media coverage, and the clearly false charges against Assange, this has become too painful to watch.All of this for a guy trying to create a press outlet that tells the real truth, using anonymous and protected (b... | en | 0.930083 |
Facebook Slingshot – A new way to share photos and videos | [
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"text": "We live in the age of wonders. The internet and mobile devices create endless possibilities for people to communicate, learn and interact. And at Facebook, a company which can, if it chooses, pick from among the brightest engineering minds and focus their efforts on any problem it cho... | en | 0.94241 |
Gen - a generics library for Go | [
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"text": "Here is someone trying to come up with a good solution for generics, rather than simply complaining it don't exist. I am thankful for the effort."
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"text": "Author here, pleasantly surprised to see this on HN.There is a substantial set of changes happe... | en | 0.829657 |
EBay acquires Hunch for $80m | [
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"text": "Could someone experienced breakdown what a transaction like this looks like for everyone involved? I'm super curious. I've never been acquired, so I really have no insight into the process other than what I've read.Here's the facts as I see them: Crunchbase says Hunch started in Sep... | en | 0.984402 |
Quitting job | [
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"text": "I'm planning my escape in great detail, like a prison inmate who has been wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in a cubicle. I already made it out a few times before but was recaptured. Armed with my greater yearning and experience I'm determined to make it out for good. Even if it... | en | 0.965049 |
Please review my weekend project: face-me-not | [
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"text": "This may get downvoted, but:I personally know you to be a trustworthy guy, but people outside of Hacker News probably won't (and you aren't even associated with this project on the site, regardless). So to the average passerby this website looks mad-sketchy, like it is a thinly disgui... | en | 0.964992 |
Developer of Tweetie launches LetterPress iPhone Game | [
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"text": "Further confirmation that search is completely broken in the App Store. Read about this app on my work computer, fire up the App Store on my phone, search 'Letterpress', Apple's Cards app, and a Letterpress Handbook about actual letterpresses."
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"text": "I ... | en | 0.945813 |
Get Rid of Source Code Templates | [
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"text": "From GPLv2:\n\"You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change.\"http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html"
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"text": "Errr, but how does someone know that something is copyrighted and... | en | 0.921453 |
Opposition to and problems with neckties | [
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"text": "I wear neckties whenever the mood strikes me, and I'm a Java developer. I was well into clothing before I became a programmer. I like neckties for aesthetic reasons, and the same goes for suits and sport jackets. Yes, I've been harassed for this, but I just ignore the snide remarks... | en | 0.942962 |
Why I Take Angel Funding over VCs | [
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"text": "Am I misinterpreting the data when it says Avg. Angel income of $90K and Avg. net worth of $750K since that would make the \"Avg.\" angel in their list a non-accredited investor and hence not an angel from who you should raise money since you will lose your Reg-D exemptions. The min r... | en | 0.940612 |
All-time greatest failed Internet startup | [
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"text": "My favorite part (with reference to eToys):\"They ditched a perfectly working MySQL application and migrated to Oracle which caused them to hire Oracle consultants $2000 per day and spend millions on Oracle big-iron.\"Reminds me of when the ads manager at Google decided we needed to d... | en | 0.978009 |
Why I left Google | [
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"text": "If you're having trouble with the idea that there is a real human behind this article, someone with feelings and motivations for writing what she did and not just some anonymous internet commenter who "takes a long time to get to the point" or "has a boring writing... | en | 0.913718 |
How John Perry Barlow gained enlightenment and lost his mind on acid | [
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"text": "There's so much more to our world than meets the eye. It's a shame we allow those in authoritative positions to tell us how we're allowed to live our lives and how we're allowed to explore the universe, both inner and outer. We are all born into the world as naive, ignorant and cluele... | en | 0.986602 |
The Product is the Byproduct | [
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"text": "> \"increases in masculine wording were sufficient to decrease women's job appeal ratings and their anticipated belongingness in specific occupations\"> People in Silicon Valley are dicks> Hire those bothered by suck> [random butt statue]"
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... | en | 0.942483 |
Ask HN: Web Dev Testing Best Practices | [
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"text": "For testing the front-end, take a look at Selenium: http://seleniumhq.org/It's a bit of a pig to get used to initially, but I guarantee the first time you run a test and find a newly-introduced bug, it'll make your day - and your team's, for that matter."
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... | en | 0.919048 |
RISC OS for Raspberry Pi | [
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"text": "FWIW, I have running RISC OS machines that I still use occasionally for the few applications that had, and have, no peer. I'll be watching closely to see if any of my older work will be of use to the community."
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"text": "This is all very interesting from ... | en | 0.9689 |
A Practical guide to StatsD/Graphite monitoring | [
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"text": "In addition to this helpful guide, note that statsd / graphite both spring some unfortunate surprises on new users, e.g., graphite changing your data across retention rates and time scales [0], graphite changing your data at different plot widths (?!) [1], statsd believing that o... | en | 0.920876 |
Guido van Rossum Deconstructing Twisted's Deferreds | [
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"text": "I made lots of micro-edits while thinking about this, let me try and combine to something more cohesive... Also of note is that I use Twisted in my day to day.In common Twisted programming a deferred can not fire before you add the callback since the only way a deferred can fire (for... | en | 0.957769 |
Can news.yc provide a 'comment' link in the RSS feeds? | [
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"text": "Yes! Please do this!I read the RSS feed for news.ycombinator.com, and I don't get to view (and participate in) the discussions as much as I'd like to, purely because the RSS feed in Google Reader does not include a link to the discussion page.I see the RSS feed contains a <comment... | en | 0.982048 |
LightningJS: safe, fast, and asynchronous third-party Javascript | [
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"text": "From the comments:\"The short answer is that the third-party provider must make small modifications to take advantage of LightningJS. This is done by adding the bootstrap Javascript and ensuring that the code uses window.parent for manipulation of the original document.\"That's kinda... | en | 0.915818 |
Stronger-than-steel fibre spun from wood | [
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"text": "A while back I read an article about how this [1] was going to replace plastic in the near future. It seems that since that time it has downgraded to improving the material properties of plastics. The best part is that you can make this stuff out of sawdust. Hopefully the research men... | en | 0.959452 |
Show HN: LINQ for Go | [
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"text": "The 'LINQ for Go' passes around slices as sequences. It differs in both space and time complexities from the 'LINQ to Objects' in C#.A rather proper LINQ implementation in Go ishttp://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/golang/linq3/linq.go.html\nhttp... | en | 0.288547 |
LaunchBit Launches Email Ad Network | [
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"text": "Testing this out right now. I've been buying email traffic for years and one of the biggest hurdles has been getting the best targeting possible.I doubt that they will be able to duly compete with the major bulk mailers (Reliant, etc.) but they look to be providing a good option for t... | en | 0.926486 |
More than 2800 developers speak out about Java 8 | [
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"text": "I primarily use "Java" on Android. I'm very excited to see the language progressing. Recently, I read Gosling gave Oracle a B+ on stewardship of the language:http://www.javaworld.com/article/2087444/open-source-tools/j...However, I'm g... | en | 0.863046 |
Circuit City files for bankruptcy | [
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"text": "What exactly happened to circuit city anyway? Were they over leveraged? Holding auction rate securities as cash equivalents? Or have they just not been selling much for a long time?"
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"text": "Good. I've been frustrated by large consumer electronics stor... | en | 0.978267 |
How does our language shape the way we think? (2009) | [
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"text": "As a speaker of 3 different languages (English, German and Portuguese/Spanish) I believe that although correct this is a wrong discussion. Yes, languages does influence the way we think, but overall culture does influence a million times more.One example is the democratic debate in En... | en | 0.957296 |
Is it possible to design a better stop sign? | [
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"text": "The better stop sign would be no stop sign.The preponderance of stop signs on US roads is one of the most infuriating parts about American road engineering. (Along with such a large number of signs that it is not humanly possible to process them all when traveling at vehicle speeds.)I... | en | 0.962261 |
The myth of self help has replaced religion (translated from Swedish) | [
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"text": "And a sorry replacement it is.In his Institutes John Calvin argues that knowledge consists chiefly of two things: knowledge of ourselves and knowledge of God. When we dispensed with God we thought we'd finally found the key to human happiness: freed from the constraints of ancien... | en | 0.961195 |
Why doesn't Quora use PostgreSQL | [
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"text": "This is a common mistake people make, I think. Just because an ecosystem is smaller does not mean it is inferior (or less practical). In fact, the opposite is routinely true.Is it harder to find tutorials for PostgreSQL? Yeah, maybe. Is it harder to get high-quality advice and resourc... | en | 0.98643 |
Just Do It: Move to Silicon Valley | [
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"text": "Moving to Silicon Valley definitely gets you closer to a pool of tech startup minded people and the venture capitalists that feed them in the same way that moving to Los Angeles helps you start your acting career. But I'm sure that there are quite a few wannabes up north who never mo... | en | 0.973854 |
Stallman on Steve Jobs | [
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"text": "Comments like this drive me away from FSF, despite heavily using open source software each day of my life."
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"text": "Already in discussion here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3083349"
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"text": "For someone who claims his ... | en | 0.957672 |
Online PHP Emulator | [
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"text": "Explored a bit and sent the guy an email at the whois address of another domain that seems in his possession. The email address in scripterous.com seems broken. root@localhost doesn't seem to get read.Hi,Your site scripterous.com is a security leak for your server. I was able to kill ... | en | 0.987456 |
Why conservatives are probably not stupid | [
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"text": "Some of the stupidest and worst-informed people I've ever met have been liberals, and some of the most intelligent and thoughtful people I've met (and I've met quite a number) have been conservatives. I spent four years at Georgetown, which is probably one of the most politically act... | en | 0.9862 |
Practical AngularJS Examples | [
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"text": "Anyone got a post on how to structure big angular apps ?i've been struggling a bit with menu bars : it seems to me that you can't prevent copy/pasting the menu bars on each of your screens if you want to keep meaningfull URLs (as the routing component only maps a url to... | en | 0.885517 |
Ask HN: Best android development phone? | [
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"text": "Wait for the Nexus 5. Rumor is that it will be announced tomorrow."
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"text": "I would recommend a nexus device. If you are really into sensors like temperature, humidity go for galaxy S4 otherwise don't. Nexus 5 is coming soon,to wait few more days to ... | en | 0.953658 |
'Everyone in US under virtual surveillance' - NSA whistleblower | [
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"text": "It's easy to opine about things like educating the public or engineering 'crypto' for the common man.In my opinion that would be an exercise in futility.I think a proper response to this issue is to simply promote social depravity on a grand scale.Everybody should just constantly read... | en | 0.956038 |
Ask HN: Advice for dealing with a difficult co-worker | [
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"text": ">How to be more zen about this situationWorry about the things that you can control and ignore the things that you can't control.The things you can't control is how your coworker and supervisor will behave. Can you control their behavior? If not, then why worry about it a... | en | 0.96033 |
Muse: the brain sensing headband | [
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"text": "A $300 consumer product that promises to help one be more "mindful" & "present" more "efficiently" than plain old meditation. What is sad is the irony in all of this. What's sadder is that I want to buy it...Might be brilliant on their part. C... | en | 0.862704 |
Addons.mozilla.org to move from CakePHP to Django in 2010 | [
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"text": "\"When it did work it would return enormous nested arrays of data causing massive CPU and memory usage (out of memory errors plague us on AMO). When it didn’t work, we’d end up doing queries directly which kind of defeats the purpose.\"For what it's worth, I believe a lot of these iss... | en | 0.962466 |
Meet the teams working with Springboard for its London accelerator program | [
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"text": "Congrats all... cant wait to see what comes out.."
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"text": "I am looking forward to the next 3 months."
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"text": "Good luck kids!"
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"text": "Good Luck."
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"text": "hmm, what... | en | 0.929034 |
EU wants to criminalize "Hacking Tools" | [
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"text": "Sam gets arrested because he's carrying burglary tools at 03:00 in the morning and gets charged with burglary.Defending himself he appears before the judge and asks the judge if they're going to accuse him of rape as well.The judge, somewhat surprised at the turn of events bellows: \"... | en | 0.982216 |
My gripes with JavaScript | [
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"text": "The other problem I would see is obvious if you continue with something like the following logic: All successful languages passed through a phase in which they had a broadly similar list of problems. How did they escape from that phase? Because somebody had the power to move the langu... | en | 0.986234 |
Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby | [
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"text": "Isn't it a little sketchy to have one of the \"games\" be a game that takes into account outside information like your balanace?Here's another \"paradox\":Game A: You lose a dollar every time.Game B: If the last game you played was game A, you win a million dollars. Otherwise, you los... | en | 0.991159 |
Are you a solopreneur? How does it work for you? | [
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"text": "In my view, if you're going to do a business on your own, you have to be focused. Between the other parts of life that need some attention, the care-and-feeding of the business, sales, marketing, and promotion, there isn't that much time left for actual development. So, you need to ... | en | 0.942401 |
TraceGL: JavaScript code flow visualisation in WebGL | [
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"text": "This is an amazing app, extremely underpriced for what it delivers! One thing I'd love to see is the ability to do profiling, so I can see exactly how much time was spent in each function invocation."
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"text": "This is an incredibly useful tool! I was tryin... | en | 0.974713 |
Ask HN: When to do an API for my web app? | [
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"text": "I'm building an app and found that thinking about the API from the get go made me design the app better. Why? Because the interface I'm building is just one example of how to interact with the API. The API is better and I understand my app better."
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"text":... | en | 0.98043 |
UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit | [
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"text": "Here's a statement from the Information Commissioner's Office:\"When people visit a website via their mobile phone they would not expect their number to be made available to that website.\n\"We will now speak to O2 to remind them of their data breach notification obligations, and to b... | en | 0.95385 |
Are you one of the 10% of programmers who can write a binary search? | [
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"text": "To be precise, the post says that only 10% of programmers can write it correctly without testing. I agree that this is an interesting statistic, however the industry has been deprecating implementing an entire algorithm in one go in favour of implementing algorithms incrementally.\nWe... | en | 0.974975 |
Ask HN: Is .com address absolutely necessary to launch your company? | [
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"text": "If you want people to remember your domain name and type it into the browser than you really need the .com extension. You have to market the hell out of .net or any other type of domain for people to remember it. They might remember your domain name but forget the extension and will... | en | 0.969638 |
Grove is here to stay | [
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"text": "Maybe I'm misunderstanding this product. Please let me know if I am.$10/month for 5 users on IRC?This service is very poorly branded. IRC is a protocol that is easy to set up, free, and low maintenance. Whatever value there is to outsourcing IRC server setup, it isn't $10/mo. But that... | en | 0.974922 |
Ask HN: Are there any very long term genetic programming experiments? | [
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"text": "I believe the problem is with ever advancing hardware. The new chips are much faster and would \"overtake\" an experiment that's been running.This problem is sometimes described as putting colonists on a space ship and sending then off. They travel for generations but before arriving ... | en | 0.988471 |
Best cities ranking and report (2012) | [
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"text": "I'm not sure there's a point in ranking cities. I've lived in a handful of the cities listed, and their ranking has very little to do with my own perception of them. Cities are a bit like people in the sense that they have a character, you can fall in love with a quirky... | en | 0.958647 |
Multi-Device C++ is used everywhere on planet Earth and beyond | [
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"text": "I think it's a bit disingenuous to write that Linux uses C++. Clearly, the kernel is in C, and nothing else. There is no C++ runtime support in the kernel.I get that there are userland applications in C++, but coreutils and all the GNU apps traditionally used in Linux distros are in... | en | 0.969687 |
Stanford Whizzes Develop an Astoundingly Cheap Fix for Clubfoot | [
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"text": "This passage:> Before this brace becomes the standard of care, it will face challenges. In parts of Brazil, doctors often stay faithful to less effective solutions because they make more money delivering them.Struck me as mildly derogatory; my impression (I'm not from the US, ... | en | 0.948001 |
I develop free software because of CUNY and Blackboard | [
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"text": "I use Blackboard as professor a lot, and while pedagogically it can do amazing things technically it's poorly done and annoying. I think the author wrongly poo-poos the one-stop-shop feature of Blackboard. The fact that the annoying quiz making facility grades automatically and posts ... | en | 0.943537 |
Apple Confirms “Back Doors”, Downplays Their Severity | [
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"text": "What's really disappointing is that there seems to be an all-or-nothing security model here. If I pair my phone with a computer, then suddenly it has complete access to spy on me, install monitoring tools that can continue to run, etc. Why can't there be a way where I can tr... | en | 0.920977 |
Machinery of an Energy Dream: How to Keep Fusion Going Long Enough | [
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"text": "The question of sustainable fusion receives a lot of press regardless whether it is a Tokamak or laser-ignited fuel pellets. However, the question I'd always love to see get some attention is the engineering required to make it a successful power plant -- will it use heat transfe... | en | 0.919073 |
Fog-harvesting system could provide potable water for the world’s driest regions | [
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"text": "This title is a bit of an over-exaggeration. As the article says, "Systems to make use of this airborne potable water already exist in at least 17 nations." The title implies that it's relatively new technology.For some historical background, an early fog harvesting pro... | en | 0.902431 |
Show HN: c | [
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"text": "Comments for your C learning: #include <stdbool.h>\n\nis better than typedef int bool;\n #define true 1\n #define false 0\n\nAlways, always, surround your if and else clauses with brackets. There are plenty of ways leaving them naked will screw you over. This goe... | en | 0.846529 |
Theinfo.org - for people with large data sets | [
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"text": "Here's a data set that needs scraping, if anyone has the time to spare: speeches and PR communications, esp. those from government officials. Visualizations of what talking points or ideas are spreading through what organizations (political parties, campaigns) and in what countries wo... | en | 0.95499 |
Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore. | [
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"text": "On Fedora 17: # yum -y install cabal-install\n # cabal update\n # cabal install gitit\n Resolving dependencies...\n cabal: cannot configure old-time-1.1.0.0. It requires base >=4.4 && <5\n For the dependency on base >=4.4 && <5 there a... | en | 0.800554 |
Infamous Hacker Heading Chinese Antivirus Firm? | [
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"text": "Nice bit of detective work, it certainly would seem that this could be another case of a 'bad guy' deciding to use his skills above board to make money. The question of whether or not the company will be 'legit' is completely bogus though. It isn't an uncommon path for folks and when ... | en | 0.988991 |
Shell script Mac Apps | [
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"text": "A hidden gem in this post is open(1), which is one of the best command line utilities on the mac, especially because all of the sane default that most Apple apps have. I think`open -a Mail mydoc.pdf` (open Mail and create a Mail with attachment mydoc.pdf)is my favorite line of Mac she... | en | 0.905638 |
AOL Mail was rewritten in Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 and released today. It is better than Gmail. | [
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"text": "Can someone qualify the \"It is better than Gmail\" statement? I'm not opposed to the possibility that it is, but I would like to see what you think is better. Thanks."
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"text": "My favourite feature is the large, colorful ads scattered about my inbox giv... | en | 0.988919 |
Backlift (YC W12) Launches A Back-End Service For Front-End Developers | [
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"text": "Having been primarily a backend developer for most of my career, I generally view these services with suspicion.But the rate of new entries into this space makes me wonder if one day I'll be considered a luddite for thinking this way."
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"text": "Was playing... | en | 0.960094 |
Visualization: The evolution of Python | [
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"text": "Here's the link to the project page. \nhttp://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/research/storylines/\nIt says there that this visualization is based on a XKCD comic (about lord of the rings).The guy is the same that the code_swarm visualization:\nhttp://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm/\nI... | en | 0.874726 |
Why don’t software development methodologies work? | [
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"text": "It's fun to watch observations like the following re-discovered again and again. From the NATO Software Engineering Conference in 1968:Ross: The most deadly thing in software is the concept, which almost universally seems to be followed, that you are going to specify what you are... | en | 0.959737 |
Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price? | [
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"text": "eh, for me? I am type A mostly because I don't enjoy negotiation and hard sales. If you have an expensive product, at least in my sector, you are expected to negotiate, sometimes for months on price. Then you are expected to give a discount to the customers that waste the most of y... | en | 0.978628 |
Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics | [
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"text": "This is very similar to Doug Lenat's work on Automated Mathematician & later on Eurisko, and later Ken Haase's follow up work on representation languages.http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=ht...There were severe sticking poi... | en | 0.889728 |
Ask HN: How many open tabs do you have and when does it become a problem? | [
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"text": "At work i force myself to shutdown Chrome daily to prevent tab bloat.Home is another story. I've got two instances of chrome open, split screened on my 24" monitor. I constantly bounce back and forth between the two while pages are loading or watching youtube in one while su... | en | 0.945992 |
Processing ported to JavaScript | [
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"text": "Long live the king of JavaScript."
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"text": "\"... Processing ported to JavaScript ...\"My project just got a lot more interesting. One of the things I was having trouble with is generating an image from data with severe constraints on modules & process... | en | 0.904216 |
Introducing Swift | [
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"text": "So it looks like the language isn't open source and won't target non-Apple runtimes?I'm not trying to troll, I just think that it's a pity that Apple tends to limit the ecosystem and applications of its otherwise-great languages. Building against LLVM ought to make... | en | 0.938328 |
Delta CEO: No Voice Calls on Our Flights | [
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"text": "I'm not a big fan of people who are always on their phones but I don't think disallowing them on planes really solves any actual real world problem. Those chatterboxes who need to be talking will just continue to annoy the stranger sitting next to them or chatterbox with the... | en | 0.964535 |
Rot8000 – Rot13 for the Unicode generation | [
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"text": "It's broken.Λ̊1 → ⊻∪ά → Λ̊⋌𝄞 → 뤔뷾 → 駴點Edit: anyway, even with correct (a+b)%n it's plain bad idea.Unicode is not English alphabet. Everything not in basic multilingual plane is broken automatically. And even in BMP there's going to be bag of glitches starting from hang... | en | 0.816136 |
TV monitoring service is fair use, judge rules | [
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"text": "I once built a system that pulled multiple TV channels, encoded them on the fly and rebroadcast via multicast over the office LAN to reporter's desks. This was for a newsroom and would have otherwise required dozens of DVB cable drops (and subscriptions). The DirecTV guy was migh... | en | 0.979566 |
Flat UI colors | [
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"text": "And here we see the ultimate extension of the web designer's aesthetic into the realms of the absurd: colours, artfully chosen and arranged; a Flash (?) interface allowing exactly one interaction, of utter triviality. And because it would no doubt ruin the perfection of simplicity, n... | en | 0.96218 |
The Bloodthirsty Battle For Tech Talent | [
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"text": "You know what is blood thirsty? recruiters are bloodthirsty. Since there is exactly zero barrier to entry when there is a perceived shortage of talent we get a swarm of 'tech recruiters' that looks kind of like Carp do when you through a handful of popcorn into the coy pond.There is a... | en | 0.990193 |
Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development | [
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"text": "It's not a product. It's a landing page.Could we stop voting stuff like this onto the front page? I'm sure it'll be cool when they actually build it, but right now it's just an hour's worth of brainstorming and 20 minutes of somebody's time in photoshop. There's absolutely nothing ... | en | 0.96636 |
Instapaper Server Update | [
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"text": "I think you're more than justified in assuming no compromise happened. Someone with legitimate authority had physical access to your server. That has happened before and will happen again. Your server's cage opens several times a month, probably, as techs and whatnot do their icky ... | en | 0.978396 |
It's not you, it's your books | [
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"text": "Here's the problem. You are considered ignorant if you don't know anything about Pushkin. But it's perfectly normal or accepted to ignore who Enrico Fermi, Alan Turing or Paul Erdős were. We're all ignorant about something but, in society, literary ignorance is frowned upon much more ... | en | 0.976588 |
Ask HN: What do you listen to when you code? | [
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"text": "Richard Williams (of Roger Rabbit fame)wrote an excellent book about animation called \"The Animator's Survival Kit\". In it he describes (illustrated with beautiful caricature) how he once asked Milt Kahl (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milt_Kahl)\"Milt, do you ever listen to classical... | en | 0.946897 |
In California, a Champion for Police Cameras | [
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"text": "Recording the police has got be a good thing almost all the time. Unless they can "accidentally" not record an encounter or "accidentally" delete one, it will most certainly place moral pressure on the officers.We all know they have never had legal a duty to protec... | en | 0.984148 |
Results of yesterday's personality poll: we're strange. | [
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"text": "There seems to be a bit of misunderstanding about the purpose and intention of this test, and the Myers-Briggs type system. I'm by no means an expert, but I know enough about the system to see there are some knee jerk misunderstandings going on here. So feel free to correct me if I ... | en | 0.970642 |
Build an iOS App on Heroku in 10 Minutes | [
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"text": "Looks very nice, but I have a feeling that it's like iOS Storyboards: Great for simple demo apps, but very painful when you have slightly more complex needs.For example I don't know how it can handle the following (kinda conventional for a web app) situation: Multiple users, some are ... | en | 0.945341 |
Why engineers hate your shitty job specs | [
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"text": "I get the point that job spec should help to sell the company, but as far as being specific about problems domain that's less important to me.. I just want someone that's smart and get's things done. There is no specific problem they are hired for but wide net of proble... | en | 0.97125 |
Ask HN: If you have ADHD, what are your strategies to deal with it? | [
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"text": "First off, don't beat yourself up - 20 min is good. Just make sure that 20 min work periods are punctuated with 5 min break periods.I have ADD (not ADHD), but here is what works for me.1. Drugs - After much resistance to the idea as well as near exhaustive experimentation with alterna... | en | 0.986473 |
The Physics of The Hulk’s Jump | [
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"text": "TL;DR: The Hulk is maybe around 250 kg and jumps atop a 120 m building in the movie, which using E = m g h means that he jumped with a kinetic energy of ~300 kJ. He pushes through a distance of around one meter, so using W = F Δx we can estimate his force as ~300 kN. Normal male feet ... | en | 0.95714 |
Teaching Ruby to High School Girls | [
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"text": "Here's a crazy idea. Let's teach Ruby in intro programming classes instead of C, so as not to frighten away 90% of the population with pointer dereferencing and segfaults. You should teach C eventually to make them appreciate high level languages, but just not right away."
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... | en | 0.944999 |
Dear 37signals - we apologize | [
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"text": "I LOL'd, and unlike other commenters actually loved the article. A smart and fun to read way to promote your own product -- using an overhyped competitor is just a bonus. 37signals' fanboys should tone town a bit. [Bracing for the downvotes.]"
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"score": 1,
"text": "Thi... | en | 0.949305 |
Ergoemacs Keybindings | [
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"text": "Some of the suggested bindings make sense to me. I especially like the inverted-T cursor motion keys on I/J/K/L. And as much as I might hate to admit it, the CUA-like cut/copy/paste bindings probably make more sense than the default for anyone but a hardened emacs veteran.Other stuf... | en | 0.941641 |
When free markets make it worse: new TLDs | [
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"text": "Terrible article, in my opinion. The thesis is not supported in the slightest. This was just an unfocused rant about the new TLDs and a quick upvote grab by putting a trendy jab at free markets in the title.What are free markets making worse here? He agrees that participants should be... | en | 0.978228 |
Store screenshots of your web app in Git | [
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"text": "Do not do this. This goes in the bucket of ideas-that-sound-good-but-aren't. If screen diffing is how you want to test your program, you should use / write an independent program to do so.That said, there are some serious problems to using screen diffing. First, it requir... | en | 0.923221 |
Video And Screenshots Of Android 3.0′s Surprise Appearance | [
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"text": "The best things I take away from this video:1. The new Google Maps is coming out in the next few days for Android phones and it looks SLICK. Pure vector graphics when looking at standard map views, which will greatly reduce bandwidth.2. The gmail app in 3.0 looks slick, perhaps even s... | en | 0.977232 |
How Close.io (YC W11) built per-recipient email tracking | [
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"text": "> we can send unique message content to each recipient of an email while still having recipients believe they are receiving the same messageSo you know that people don't like receiving personalized messages that are tracked and yet you are proud that you have devised a way to ... | en | 0.964127 |
German security experts find major flaw in credit card terminals | [
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"text": "Apparently, the JTAG debugging interface is exposed to the outside. You know, the one that should be turned off physically in the CPU itself through a blow fuse on production processors. The one critical interface where you don't even populate the headers and connectors on the finishe... | en | 0.972287 |
End artificial scarcities to increase productivity | [
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"text": "Bogus scarcities we've addressed at our office:* Macbook power bricks (we were having arguments over them, because people would borrow them from other desks; now we have a stack of them).* Macbook video dongles (same; note: it's not enough to just have one attached to every monitor, l... | en | 0.981748 |
Emmet (formerly Zen Coding) v1.0 is out | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "Wow, I love the documentation. It's nice to see a tool with such an amazing docs. Can clearly see you spent equal amount time there as you did writing the actual software. \nGreat work!"
},
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"score": 1,
"text": "None of my favorite editors are supported, Vim and Gedit. Se... | en | 0.965915 |
Microsoft chops the price of custom Windows XP patches | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "The original submission [1] was both blogspammy and linkbaity. Apart from the content being poorer, this leads to lower-quality threads, as you can see from the first few comments here. Since threads are sensitive to initial conditions, this can have quite an effect.We're looking... | en | 0.975647 |
Christmas: Brought to you by chinese slave labor | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "There is a major flaw in economic logic here. Yes - Chinese labor conditions are bad. Unfortunately, if we boycott companies that use Chinese subcontractors, there will be less demand for Chinese labor, which will reduce the number of available jobs, thus reducing their salaries, and ... | en | 0.976236 |
Breakthrough in sewing needles | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "There is a reason that this wasn't invented 50 years ago -- most people who regularly thread needles have been doing it for so many years, that this is a non-issue.That being said, I asked my wife (who makes her living with needles and fibers) what she thought, and she said that she h... | en | 0.988696 |
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