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RJSON: compress JSON to JSON | [
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"text": "I see a pretty major problem with this. It seems to depend on the order of key value pairs in object literals being defined. The order is not defined by the JSON or the ecmascript standards. So you can't really depend on the order of keys in a json object, unless you explicitly define... | en | 0.944613 |
Ask HN: What's your favourite API? | [
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"text": "Stripe and Mailgun and Twitter are some of the best documented, clearest to use APIs.The Google Maps API i can usually get cool stuff happening with quickly.My favorites overall are probably Sunlight labs APIs though: http://services.sunlightlabs.com/"
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How should I decide on learning front-end vs back-end development? | [
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"text": "You asked frontend or backend so I'll give you my answer, but this just comes from my personal experience over the past 10 years as a software developer, nonetheless I think its fairly true for the industry at large and will be for some time to come. The short of it - do backend. Why... | en | 0.96052 |
FlightCar (YC W13) Raises $5.5M Round to Expand and Hire | [
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"text": "These guys are Airbnb-like in another way too: as with Airbnb, I initially thought this was a bad idea. What changed my mind was when I emailed all the YC alumni to recruit users for the closed beta, and large numbers of them immediately and enthusiastically signed up.There is clearl... | en | 0.986422 |
Function hooking in Swift | [
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"text": "The "function trampoline" that's described looks more or less like the Block ABI. Some good learning is available in the source for `libclosure`, [Language Specification for Blocks](http://www.opensource.apple.com/source/libclosure/libclosure...... | en | 0.693464 |
Bombax: OS X Web Development Platform | [
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"text": "Bizarre! I guess it could be tempting for long time Cocoa developers who don't already know Rails or PHP? Though if they're building a basic website, rudimentary PHP would be less hassle, and if they're building a web app and want familiar territory, Cappuccino would be a better cho... | en | 0.963126 |
Big Data, Big Bucks: Palantir Valued at $9 Billion | [
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"text": "> In-Q-Tel, a non-profit venture-capital firm established by the CIAGood old Mussolini style fascism is steaming full speed ahead in the land of the free."
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"text": "Pretty shoddy reporting from the WSJ, Peter Thiel isn't (just) an investor in Palan... | en | 0.875619 |
How programmers should write their resumes | [
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"text": "I find these funny. Not helpful to anyone at all, but funny.Article says: "Sure, you might have implemented a new feature "in less than a month", but why did you start in the first place?"90% of developers reply with: "Oh dear God, I don't make the decisi... | en | 0.956917 |
Google's Eric Schmidt says government spying is 'the nature of our society' | [
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"text": "It was the nature of the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries to spy on its citizens. We, the United States, were supposed to be better than that. We were, but we're not any more.It is our choice as developers, creatives, et al to decide if we as individuals will do work tha... | en | 0.975709 |
I just moved into an RV, where I will live and work for the next year | [
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"text": "Takes me back. 10 years I chucked in my job and bought an old clunker RV and just travelled the USA. While I wasn't working (the idea of a startup back then involved VC money and millions of it), I was doing my best to stay connected. For the most part this was using the old NetZero... | en | 0.98624 |
Ever Notice How Often the Cities on Google Maps Change? | [
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"text": "It may be a side effect of scaling. That's just an assumption.The algorithm used to determine what will be displayed and to ensure that names will not overlap may also not be deterministic, or not completely.Meta-balls kind of computations can typically generate a different output bas... | en | 0.975649 |
'Gamers' are over | [
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"text": "This article is completely void of any real content or thoughtful discourse. It is just the author taking tons of potshots at people who self-describe as "gamers."I think this quote sums up the entire article perfectly:> These obtuse shitslingers, these wailing hyper-cons... | en | 0.932861 |
Ask HN: Any prospect in this site made in 4 hours? | [
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"text": "If you make money on this, it will be because people didn't do their homework. This is not a new market, and there are a ton of free options that allow really large downloads (FileFactory, etc.).I think the only way you'd make headway is to focus on customer service and presentation:-... | en | 0.962474 |
Facebook Seems to be Down | [
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"text": "The headline url is: https://www.facebook.com/sorry.php?msg=account\ndoesn't this just mean that their error page works...?"
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"text": "For those of you without Facebook, here's the message I'm getting: http://i.imgur.com/CaT46eG.png"
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Ask HN: What are you reading right now? | [
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"text": "* The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo* A Guide to the Good Life: The Anicent Art of Stoic Joy* Harry Potter and the Methods of RationalityAbout the last, I typically abhor fanfic, and I admit, I started reading this one in a fit of ironic pique. However, it's actually quite damned good. ... | en | 0.957406 |
Developers Vs. Bigcorp | [
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"text": "I have no desire to join a union. You and I have plenty of bargaining power without one. Nor can a union represent this very diverse field.Unions are fantastic when there is no bargaining power, horrible conditions and most critically no mobility. Coal Miners in a town in the middl... | en | 0.955576 |
Developers blog post: No, I won’t do it. It would not be professional. | [
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"text": "Developers should absolutely push back and make sure that the person requesting the change has all the information needed to make a good decision, however they also need to understand that they, the developer, may only have part of the story and that they need to respect that the deci... | en | 0.989712 |
One second per second is harder than it sounds | [
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"text": "There is a standard to keep time on LANs now: IEEE-1588 which is built into a lot of new network cards. It enables the NIC to time stamp incoming packets which can be used to achieve sub microsecond timing.Normally it can be implemented with a single GPS receiver on the network that t... | en | 0.977004 |
Nokia Becomes The Fourth Largest Smartphone Brand in USA in Q3 2013 | [
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"text": "I am very glad to see how the company which I love and follow for so many years is getting more and more share in the US market. The best thing I like about Nokia is how they are obsessed with quality of their products, I think in terms of build quality and design, Nokia is the only s... | en | 0.987299 |
Ask HN: How do I prevent database bottlenecks on my web app? | [
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"text": "Relational databases handle systems much, much bigger than your app will ever be. You are highly unlikely to have scaling problems. If you do, yay. Concentrate on other sources of risk to your business, such as building someone that no one wants, or targetting a market of people wh... | en | 0.962239 |
Owning a Programming Language | [
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"text": "The central claim of the post is that Microsoft and Apple look after their developers while Facebook and Google will not. This is demonstrably false.The post says:> Microsoft and Apple have massive vested interests in supporting their languages and platforms. They stand to lose a l... | en | 0.961714 |
Camera+: The Road to 3 Million (infographic) | [
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"text": "Now this is what I call an infographic!Unlike many others which I have seen in the recent past, this infographic delivers a ton of data in a very clear, concise, easy to parse way.I can't stand those infographics that just throw a bunch of numbers onto a canvas and expect it to make a... | en | 0.97398 |
Linux's fsync() woes are getting some attention | [
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"text": "I think part of the problem is that fsync() is that it's an insufficient interface. Most of the time, you want two things:\n * write ordering ("write B must hit disk after write A")\n * notification ("let me know when write A is on disk")\nIn particular, yo... | en | 0.955623 |
Uber – London Tube Strikes or How to take advantage of a protest | [
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"text": "I can see it now: Londoners huddled outside of the barred-up tube entrances in the rain, moaning privately to themselves about the lack of transportation, until one clever sod whips out his smartphone and announces, "Uber will give us 50% off if we split!"Dozens of commuters... | en | 0.924909 |
The mess Django's in | [
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"text": "I've only looked at a small portion of the underlying django code and from what I've seen there were definitely some complicated parts, but it was far from being messy. Perhaps the author is confusing necessary complication with messiness? After all, isn't the purpose of a high level ... | en | 0.975282 |
Teaching linear algebra | [
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"text": "Nice approach. And wow, that makes me realize that I was doing it right after all as a student.I used to take the following approach, which maps surprisingly well to the author's teaching method: - Pay attention, but don't really take notes during class\n\n - Do the homework, but d... | en | 0.985904 |
Rands in Repose: The Shop I Want | [
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"text": "All he wants is better salesmanship. He wants someone to tell him why he wants something so that he'll actually enjoy owning it. A desk becomes more than just a desk. Shaving cream becomes more than just shaving cream.Looking for reasons to not just buy el-cheapo shaving cream. Is... | en | 0.979185 |
Ask HN: Quarter-life crisis | [
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"text": "A lot of questions - don't need to answer. Maybe they can jog your thinking...What draws you to data visualization? Is it the sorcerer's apprentice type visceral appeal of creating meaning out of seemingly entropic data? Or is it you like the data visualization aspect more than the po... | en | 0.936718 |
Daring to Discuss Women in Science | [
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"text": "Even when you consider only members of an elite group like the top percentile of the seventh graders on the SAT math test, someone at the 99.9 level is more likely than someone at the 99.1 level to get a doctorate in science or to win tenure at a top university. This sentence is very ... | en | 0.969741 |
Ask HN: How would you approach a disruptive new technology? | [
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"text": "Sounds like you're torn between selflessness and selfishness. But it's not that simple.Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats. - Howard AikenI know you're not worried about theft, but the second part of the quote is stil... | en | 0.974446 |
Google Agrees to Change Business Practices to Resolve FTC Competition Concerns | [
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"text": "The FTC never had a prayer on the \"manipulating search results\" charge. Google's search product is a great big \"filter-and-sort.\" Regulating the \"sort\" was ridiculous.To my mind, the strange part of the settlement is the FTC's claim that websites benefit from hits coming from or... | en | 0.98223 |
Gems of HN: What is your candidate for best comment ? | [
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"text": "To kick it off, here is my nomination:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793"
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"text": "This is one of my favorites (\"How I Hacked Hacker News\"):http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=639976"
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"text": "http://news.ycombinator.co... | en | 0.786885 |
Driving students into science is a fool's errand | [
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"text": "It isn't clear what, exactly, Macilwain objects to, because he never bothers to give specific examples of what he finds wasteful.At the outset, he identifies three broad categories of funding: (1) luring young people into STEM careers; (2) promoting science and technology at graduate ... | en | 0.921229 |
Progressive JPEGs: a new best practice | [
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"text": "I don't like this suggestion of \"best practice\" without any numbers. Progressive JPEG uses more RAM (because you can stream normal JPEGs so you only have to buffer a row of JPEG blocks) and lots more CPU (up to 3x).Most of the compression benefits can be obtained by setting the \"op... | en | 0.900771 |
Ask HN: how do you process payments? | [
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"text": "Google Checkout has no customer service, not for merchants at least. No phone number, no email address, just a knowledge base and a forum where GC merchants vent their frustration by making threats and typing in all caps:http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/checkout-merchants/lab...I... | en | 0.946324 |
Ask HN: what problems do you have in your company? | [
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"text": "Sorry, the biggest problems I face at the company I work for are bad management, cronyism, disfunctional leadership... mostly organizational problems that can't be solved by a SaaS.Even worse, there are a LOT of improvements that could be made but management DOESN'T CARE. It... | en | 0.945848 |
Lessons from 150 startup pitches | [
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"text": "Regarding this one: \"Pretending your faults don't exist.\"Having seen quite a few pitches myself, one good thing you can do is point out your major flaws/obstacles before you're asked about them (assuming they don't clearly spell out your impending demise).This may seem a little coun... | en | 0.969495 |
Tell HN: Nest Software Update Failed and Now We're Freezing | [
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"text": "Update: Just got through to tech, they are working late. Apparently our issue is an edge case but there are a bunch of problems with their OS update and automatic rollback. Here's the temporary fix: to reboot a Nest, press it for 10 or 15 seconds. Then, when the Nest is bootin... | en | 0.959164 |
Ask HN: Which language/web framework to learn for employability? | [
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"text": "Java.However, think very carefully before embarking on that journey. Having an average proficiency in Java already will almost certainly get you a job in some bank, insurance company or similar enterprise-style companies. At the same time you become an exchangeable code monkey that fr... | en | 0.975154 |
Microsoft Introduces New "Surface" Tablet | [
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"text": "I don't understand the \"OMG MICROSOFT MADE A TABLET IT IS CLEARLY COPYING THE IPAD\" reaction Microsoft's getting here. They're absolutely ahead of the curve with the blending of mobile and desktop operating systems, something which I am extremely happy they are doing, and this is ab... | en | 0.984859 |
That truck driver you flipped off? Let me tell you his story. | [
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"text": "I'm sorry, but the ignorance expressed in this thread by some is absolutely astounding. Per mile, truckers drive far more safely than the typical driver. Just to put things in immediate perspective.Beyond that, though, some people here are spending a whole lot more time blaming the dr... | en | 0.984307 |
A response to Node.js is cancer - The Diagnosis | [
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"text": "I think a better response to Ted's argument would have been to rewrite the fibonnaci number generator as a forked-off process with a callback that updates the requesting page on completion.The thrust of Ted's argument (as I saw it, and completely agree with) is that telling people \"i... | en | 0.973912 |
Would you build a pure client-side JavaScript App using Pageforest? | [
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"text": "Possibly using the open source platform, fairly unlikely on a hosted version. Why? I think it's almost certain that at some point I'm going to need some configuration or tweaks to the server side code that are application specific and cannot be done in client side code (validation, he... | en | 0.937825 |
Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police | [
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"text": "Who loses out when fans provide subtitles for films? My partner's native tongue is Spanish and so we often want to watch films with Spanish subtitles. Unfortunately it seems incredibly rare that subtitles are provided through legal channels. I can't tell you the number of ti... | en | 0.95168 |
How grep got its name | [
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"text": "Wait, what? As a non-native speaker of English, I've always assumed that \"grep\" is a normal English verb."
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"text": "From Early history of UNIX: \"When asked what that funny name meant, Ken said it was obvious. It stood for the editor command that it simu... | en | 0.952911 |
Microsoft Internal Emails about Vista Problems | [
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"text": "Vista is plain aweful. I bought a cheap $400 laptop for my parents, and unfortunately it came with vista. I should have just wiped it out, and installed XP, but I didn't have time.The user interface is confusing, menus are incoherent, and the web 2.0 gradients everywhere create huge... | en | 0.988105 |
Common REST Mistakes | [
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"text": "Several of these points are highly prescriptive without offering any motivation for the advice.For example, \"your public API should not depend on the structure of your URIs. Instead there would typically be a single XML file that points to the components of your service.\" It's diff... | en | 0.917618 |
Osmo | [
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"text": "The company introduces Osmo, an iPad suite of games for children which uses the iPad's camera to use physical tiles on a traditional tabletop as input. The demonstrated games include tangram, a tile based word guessing game, and a physics-engine based game in which players must d... | en | 0.939782 |
Encourage the USPTO to stop issuing software patents; deadline September 27 | [
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"text": "Hey guys, all it takes is a simple email, and they provide the address on the webpage. They also provide a form email.I wrote my own:I believe software patents have deleterious effects on both an individual and societal level.As a software developer, my job is to encode symbols withi... | en | 0.965644 |
The man who screwed an entire country | [
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"text": "Here's another man who screwed up a country: Russia's Putin. In power since 2000, insane amount of fraud, perpetuating corruption, no free speech, no rule of law, police state and pretty much any other state-level deficiency you can think of, and at a much bigger scale than you can im... | en | 0.972361 |
The Billionaire Who Is Planning His 125th Birthday | [
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"text": "He doesn’t count calories or believe in extreme caloric restriction as a way to extend life.Not only has caloric restriction been shown to work in mammals (including primates), but it has known mechanisms of action. That's some hefty evidence to ignore.But he does believe that excess ... | en | 0.968404 |
DeadSwap, a clandestine offline file sharing system | [
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"text": "So in other words, all someone has to do is hijack the SMS gateway (or fake an SMS from that number), pose as a \"rabbit\" and get the information delivered straight to them?"
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"text": "First, it isn't clear how you request a specific item or file from the ... | en | 0.943804 |
UK Government asks: "Which laws would you like to see repealed?" | [
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"text": "The sources of law are as varied as the institutions in place for promulgating them. Some derive from charter documents such as constitutions and are foundational to the society; others from judges deciding cases and setting precedents that in turn affect future decisions; still other... | en | 0.950644 |
Top Dying Industries, and lessons for your startup | [
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"text": "Wow, I think this article is taking quite a leap calling shrinking industries dying. I'm not sure anyone would argue that the typewriter industry is anything but dying, or the pager market.However, does anyone really think that wired telephone lines are going to disappear from busine... | en | 0.991468 |
Show HN: NotesTab - A notes app with real-time syncing for iOS, OS X & Windows 8 | [
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"text": "Clickable links:NotesTab: http://www.notestab.comiPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab/id502287001?ls=1...Mac (Lite): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?ls=...Mac (Pro): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/notestab-pro/id506772307?mt=...Windows 8: ... | en | 0.654168 |
Contribute to Open Source without Being a Programming Genius (2012) | [
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"text": "> 7. Fix a bugMany open source projects (definitely those at Mozilla) even have specially-labeled bugs in their database that are good for beginners. For example, in Servo we mark those issues "E-easy" and provide support for them on our IRC channel:https://gith... | en | 0.884719 |
New Sanctions Imposed on North Korea as it Warns of Pre-emptive Nuclear Attack | [
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"text": "Wow. More juvenile posturing, or the beginning of the end for North Korea? Depends on whether anyone takes them seriously. And with a growing nuclear capability, they can't be taken not-seriously. This is suicide for them."
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"text": "DRPK's military is stil... | en | 0.989755 |
Scientist: Tata dreams of cars running on water | [
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"text": "Genius! because if their cars do get fire* there's always some water to douse the flames*http://indianautosblog.com/2010/11/tata-nano-recall"
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"text": "At the risk of stating the obvious for most readers here -- the energy put into cracking water will alway... | en | 0.939437 |
05/11/01. When did u know you wanted to do a startup? (for me..) | [
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"text": "Geesh, you expect me to remember these things?Sometime in November, 1995.Actually, that's a little inaccurate. I had entertained ideas about being a professional shareware developer when I first learned Pascal - that was when I was 12, so about 1993. The November date in question wa... | en | 0.989198 |
A response to "Erlang - overhyped or underestimated" | [
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"text": "I used to all kinds of syntax or absence of it, like in Lisp or Forth. So I have no problem with Erlang syntax itself, but with its verbosity and inconsistency.1. VersbositySorted by code verbosity level, Erlang is somewhere in between Java/C++/C# (more verbose) and Ruby/Python (less ... | en | 0.926949 |
Simple Git-backed Microsites | [
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"text": "You can also expose the git protocol on your website so that anyone can `git clone http://yourwebsite.com`. It's not the whole solution ; you would need a way to get accept pull-requests and advertise the fact trough an HTML header tag, but it's a start to take bac... | en | 0.883171 |
Ask HN: What music motivates you? Any genre. Go. | [
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"text": "List of my most frequently played Spotify tracks that I've fav'ed while coding. Mostly discovered through Spotify radio. Action Bronson - Shiraz\n Feed Me - Rat Trap\n Gammer + Whizzkid - We Killed the Rave\n Michael Woods - Flash Hands\n Robyn - Hang With Me ... | en | 0.842451 |
Ask HN: Two startups, one me: Which opportunity would you take? | [
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"text": "For now treat the pay and benefits as zero and focus on what really matters.Which one will give you the most challenge and highest responsibility? 2-3 years from now, your salary wont matter that much. So you made 80k, whooptidoo. Pay-check money comes and goes, but experience is eter... | en | 0.96696 |
Programming languages that make you think differently | [
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"text": "The idea that one should experience different types of programming languages is fairly well known. But there are wrong and right ways to use any given language and reaping benefits depends on you using it the right way. But how one should know whether s/he is using a language correct... | en | 0.926328 |
Product: Do It Yourself – OR – Hire/Outsource? | [
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"text": "Sounds like my life 6 months ago. I found it too difficult to manage consulting and my own product. I would always compromise my own resources to ensure my consulting clients were happy. Although it was nice to make a decent amount much quicker than with my product, I really felt like... | en | 0.977121 |
Gregory Perelman spotted in St. Petersburg subway | [
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"text": "First, it's Grigori (Григорий) or \"Grisha\" for short. Secondly, there's quite a few mathematicians that have that look. I remember a funny story one of my professors told me about Campus Security not allowing him into a building because they thought he was a homeless person trying t... | en | 0.988594 |
Move The Web Forward | [
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"text": "If these sorts of ultra-long-single-page-with-fixed-element-jump-point web pages are 'forward' for the web, I don't really want to help move it there."
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"text": "This is excellent! Its awesome to see yet another great set of resources for aspiring web devel... | en | 0.961299 |
David Heinemeier Hansson says, 'Unlearn Your MBA' | [
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"text": "While I don't disagree with what he's saying, there is a nuance that isn't coming across that is pretty important:It's not just about entrepreneurship - every real business is steeped in stuff that just can't (or shouldn't be) taught in school. Business school theory is meant to be ge... | en | 0.981652 |
Facebook Announces Its Third Pillar, "Graph Search" | [
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"text": "Ok, I'm biased because I'm a search guy but for some reason I get more creeped out by people inventing new ways to track down other people than I do about people inventing new ways to connect someone to a product sale.We've heard from people trying hard not to be found because it does... | en | 0.990589 |
The Google Puzzle | [
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"text": "I don't understand the benefit of using separate windows for this type of media. Wouldn't layered DOM elements be easier and less annoying? Do the windows add to the wow factor somehow?A similar Google-made product: http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/"
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The Senate will move next week on comprehensive high-skill immigration reform | [
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"text": "The one thing that's really huge in this proposition is that it would allow spouses of H1B visa holders to work in the US. The fact they cannot do it is a particularly cruel aspect of the current immigration system in the US.We moved to the Bay Area when I got a job at Google a year a... | en | 0.978063 |
Namecheap disabled imgur.com for abuse | [
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"text": "I'm Namecheap's Social Media Manager and just want to be clear that the issue here stemmed from trying to contact Imgur regarding child pornography. We made 6 separate attempts to contact Imgur before the domain was disabled. We do admit that perhaps we should have been more aggressiv... | en | 0.976283 |
On Incorporation - Hold Off Until You Have The Cash To Spare | [
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"text": "As a lawyer, I try above all to work with clients in flexible ways. Every lawyer should do this and many do. A client should never feel that coming to a lawyer is something at all costs to be avoided unless and until he is prepared to pay in blood.Now this is a thoughtful piece and I ... | en | 0.983037 |
Confessions of a tech journalist: my advice to startups pitching the media | [
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"text": "From my perspective as a former tech journalist, Sean nails the key points. Keep it short, sweet and remember that journalists see dozens of pitches per day -- your startup doesn't deserve press because it's your baby. It needs to stand on its own merits.I have one additional thing to... | en | 0.968319 |
Sept. 26, 1983: The Man Who Saved the World by Doing ... Nothing | [
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"text": "What I find most interesting about this event is that there is really no consensus on what would have happened had he believed the alert to be genuine. When he received an award at the UN in 2006, Russia felt the need to declare that they would not have launched a counterattack witho... | en | 0.984033 |
Brazil dismantles 'biggest destroyer' of Amazon rainforest | [
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"text": "Such crap. Cattle ranches are the leading cause of Amazon deforestation in Brazil. Logging (legal and illegal) is 2-3%.Edit: Right, here's some numbers: http://www.mongabay.com/brazil.html"
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"text": "It's election time in Brazil rig... | en | 0.887015 |
Ask HN: Better 1st person (My Photos) or 2nd (Your Photos)? | [
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"text": "How about option 3: \"Items\" and \"Photos\"? Unless of course you have to differentiate between \"Mine\" and \"Everyone Elses\""
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"text": "I'm really shocked about the differing opinions on this. I have always thought that the \"my X\" label triggers selfi... | en | 0.980646 |
It's no secret: Facebook's allure is its privacy | [
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"text": "Oh. I seriously thought that its allure was a mix of voyeurism and exhibitionism."
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"text": "Facebook's secret is that there is no spam. MySpace is completely usually because of the spambots but Facebook has some kind of brilliant secret algorithm for keepi... | en | 0.985066 |
Show HN: Audio-Responsive, Hackable LED Light | [
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"text": "Thank you so much for building this and thank you so much for building this on Open hardware. I can already see a lot of use-cases for this - For example commercial complexes like expensive theaters and 5-star lounges where many people visit everyday. You have your own niche, please d... | en | 0.98347 |
Design: Voting up or Down is Dead | [
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"text": "It's not a voting problem, it's a scaling problem; I believe. Simply put: social news sites don't scale very well. As communities grow:1. You and I can't get things on the home page any more. It becomes only for the well connected.\n2. Subjects lose focus.\n3. It becomes a gold mine f... | en | 0.962004 |
Ask YC: How do you know what to fix... | [
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"text": "In that same vein, how would we know what to tell you if you don't show us anything?Generic advice: Get a lot of feedback from a lot of people."
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"text": "I think you'd be a much better candidate if they see you, and your team, pursue your startup, despite ... | en | 0.985659 |
Ruby 1.9 made me remember how I hate the concept of encodings | [
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"text": "Encodings are fundamentally hard in our current code environment. If your language doesn't make you explicitly think about encodings, you are writing bad code. Period. Full stop. If your language does make you think about encodings and you just make it go away with compiler incantatio... | en | 0.960704 |
Hi-Res Panorama of the Sistine Chapel | [
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"text": "Until this, I thought the only painting was on the ceiling. Wow, I need to travel. Was just reading another thread about logo design, and then I look at this.."
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"text": "So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever ... | en | 0.983821 |
Oracle wants to buy chipmaker, ARM shares rise | [
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"text": "AMD is mentioned as an alternative target and that makes a lot more sense than ARM.* ARM is not a chip manufacturer, it is a CPU architecture design house.* Oracle runs on big to medium iron: x86, Power (IBM), SPARC, and HP (Itanium, PA-RISC). They don't run on ARM and I would specul... | en | 0.973775 |
Simtec Entropy Key | [
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"text": "I doubt me or my business happens to have any real, justifiable need for this now. But the enthusiastic geeky kid in me thinks this is super cool :)Looks like it may be available by my birthday in a few months, maybe I'll suggest it if someone asks what to get me as a gift."
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Turn an ATX Power Supply into a Bench Power Supply | [
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"text": "Hi all, I made this! Neat to have my dream of being on the front page of HN come to fruition.To use HN parlance, one might say that I have launched! (Any VCs out there want to discuss other ideas I'm working on?)This kit look me about 6 months to put together, from prototyping the PCB... | en | 0.96142 |
A Budding War Over Internet Economics | [
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"text": "The crazy thing is they're debating on Sender-Pays:FTA \"The concept—known as “sender pays”—would radically alter today’s Internet economics. Some countries say their networks are groaning under video and other content provided in large part by U.S. companies such as Facebook, Netflix... | en | 0.946075 |
CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup | [
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"text": "The rest of what happened in the region including the rise of terrorism is called 'blowback' in CIA terminology.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_%28intelligence%29Some go so far as to argue 9/11 is such blowback. Hard to prove or refute that bec... | en | 0.953077 |
Electric Bike Review: We Ride the Pacific E-Bike Terra 7-Speed | [
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"text": "This bike has a weird design. I understand that they are trying to make it as inexpensive as possible, but why do they put (expensive) disc brakes and front suspension on but then use fake fenders? Why not use regular brakes and a $30 pair of fenders that actually work? Also, do pe... | en | 0.981888 |
500px Co-Founder and Former CEO Ousted from the Startup | [
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"text": "Ex 500px employee here.Oleg is a good guy, as in I'd love to be (and have been) his friend, but he really can't run a company. He's impossible to work for.Investors put project management in place (more than once) which he systematically destroyed (firing, pushing so ha... | en | 0.979392 |
Things I did to improve my English and reduce my accent | [
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"text": "Some anecdotes, my half-sister and I pick up new accents in a couple of weeks. She used to go split time between her mother in the south and my parents and she'd come back to us with a rich accent full of local colloquialisms. We'd send her back a few weeks later wearing our... | en | 0.963311 |
What to Write About | [
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"text": "More important is who you write for. Different audience-writer feedback systems optimise for different things. Pithy, data-heavy, and ephemeral HN comments won't port handsomely to a foreign policy op-ed, which values flow and lucidity less than brevity.I am most proud of my short ess... | en | 0.948504 |
I'm Not Employable, But That's OK | [
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"text": "When I program, I’m playing chess with the computer. The board is wide open and there are tons of moves to make, but which move is the right one? Typing commands into my terminal to compile and run my latest masterpiece is just another turn. A runtime error means I’ve lost a pawn. A c... | en | 0.961779 |
How I got my first paying customer | [
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"text": "What was the response like when you originally posted on Reddit? Which subreddit did you post in?Reddit seems like a great place to test ideas, but I'd be concerned about being labelled as a spammer."
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"score": 1,
"text": "Good job — you validated your idea, hustled, a... | en | 0.976611 |
HackerChat: Worth putting more time into chat for developers? | [
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"text": "I would love some feedback on the existing basic chat features as well as some guidance as to whether it's worth putting time into fleshing out the developer specific features.It's worth noting that you can create your own rooms now if you want to play around with it. Just go to http:... | en | 0.973927 |
How a Car Engine Works | [
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"text": "It's worth noting that the engine illustrated is a gasoline direct injection engine, which are fairly common on new cars but historically not so.Until the early 2000s most fuel injected gasoline engines were multi-point injection - the fuel was injected in to the incoming air str... | en | 0.941092 |
Sentdiff: Diff for Writing | [
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"text": "Howdy, thanks for posting this.It would be awesome to visualize wikipedia edits overtime. I don't really care about what the text says, just how blocks of it change over time. I am after the ascetics present in the ever flowing change of data. I think your script might be a good st... | en | 0.976963 |
Spreedly doubles pricing. | [
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"text": "My monthly Spreedly bill went up by approximately the amount I spent on AdWords between 9 AM and 3 PM on Friday.I know pricing discussions generate a lot of heat, but honestly, $30 is not a lot of money. Nor does it magically become a lot of money after you have 500 customers, at whi... | en | 0.983193 |
About Not Owning Sh*t | [
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"text": "I moved countries 9 months ago, I had only £600 in my pocket, nowhere to stay, no job and no real qualifications. When I moved, I couldn't afford an expensive flight so I had to cut down to 1 suitcase and 1 backpack and whatever else I could stuff in my pocket.I was terrified, I had a... | en | 0.988747 |
First Weekend iPhone Sales Top Nine Million, Sets New Record | [
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"text": "Fun fact: If you stacked this many iPhones screen to back on top of each other the stack would be at least 82 times the height of the worlds tallest building[1] (assuming they were all the thinner 5S - Apple didn't say how many of this 9 million was the 5S versus the 5C).[1] Burj... | en | 0.978033 |
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