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VLC for Android | [
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"text": "No.This is an alpha version that crashes all the time... Not the final version. If you try it, you'll see why ;)"
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"text": "Incidentally, I chanced upon another source of VLC builds http://vlc-builder.neo-ns.net/vlc-android/"
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ISP Bandwidth Caps are Really Rate Hikes | [
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"text": "As a Canadian who went through the debate here, I can say that caps and rate hikes aren't the same thing. The psychological impact on the average internet user is very different, and so online behaviour will be impacted in a different way.Paying 40$ a month instead of 30$ for an unlim... | en | 0.985146 |
Why does UI of Microsoft's website so unattractive?Do they lack of designers? | [
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"text": "\"Microsoft Website\" is a term kind of like \"Europe.\" It covers a lot of culturally diverse ground.In general, Microsoft's approach to the web has always been, get stuff out there and accessible. Unlike Apple or Google, there isn't top down control over all their web presence.I hav... | en | 0.969292 |
I lost 60 pounds this year. How can I best share what I've learned? | [
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"text": "First off- congratulations, that’s an awesome accomplishment.On fitness “advice”, solicited and otherwise. I am a long time fitness enthusiast, I look like a bodybuilder. This makes one a bit of a pariah in the startup/tech community. Geeks are not muscular, if you are into body ... | en | 0.940503 |
Why you should take everything Mike Arrington says with a grain of salt. | [
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"text": "I can understand someone posting an article then other people commenting on why they disagree, but to start a thread just to say \"here's another reason I disagree\"? I don't get it. Not only that, but saying one sentence (minor at that, in my opinion) discredits \"quite a few other t... | en | 0.979216 |
Website Screenshot Of Every Two-letter Domain | [
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"text": "Surprise, surprise. No one is doing anything useful with the majority of them, just like many other potentially useful domain names online.I remember how pissed I was in 1998 when I tried to register my first website and found most names were squatted already. Truth be told, I'm ... | en | 0.964226 |
Why Doesn't Our Government Actually Do Anything? | [
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"text": "The fundamental problem here is demosclerosis - any low-hanging fruit have long since been plucked. Essentially every plank in the Socialist Party Platform of 1928 has already been enacted into law. Nowadays many of the issues government tries to address were caused by the previous ro... | en | 0.984064 |
Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics Are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies | [
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"text": "Drug companies are not trying to stop the legalization of marijuana. Painkiller manufacturers has gotten into a lot of shit for the abuse of their products (some execs almost went to prison and paid $34M in fines personally; see Purdue Pharma [1]. How do they remedy that? By funding... | en | 0.961309 |
Winer decides to turn off blog comments | [
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"text": "I'm frankly not surprised-- Winer has complained in the past about comments. From the perspective of someone who often disagrees with him, I've never really understood why he had them in the first place, as he simply does not tolerate alternative views well."
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... | en | 0.99377 |
Is F# Ready for Production? | [
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"text": "> 5.Hiring developers is already very hard. Do we want to limit the pool of available candidates significantly (and take the increased salaries that come with the harder-to-find skills)?To that one, if I were in your shoes, I'd answer "yes" in a heartbeat. Using F# c... | en | 0.955719 |
Report: Iran Hacked, Hijacked U.S. Drone | [
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"text": "(Prelude edit: A few people seem to be missing the point I'm making here. I know quite a lot about the predator, and a bit about the Global Hawk. I do not know much about the Sentinel. The jab about building a drone with parts on my kitchen table is a joke, meant to illustrate that... | en | 0.974063 |
Ask HN: When to learn AJAX? | [
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"text": "AJAX, how it's commonly referred to now, is simply the process of loading content from an external page into a Javascript variable. Most of the time it's not even AJAX anymore, but rather AJAJ (Asynchronous Javascript and JSON). In terms of getting started there really isn't much to ... | en | 0.975918 |
How a colonial past shaped Star Trek’s utopian futures | [
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"text": "This entire piece throws out conjecture as fact and appears to back none of it up with substance.> By making the Ferengis a race of intergalactic traders with oversized appendages and an addiction to “gold-plated latinum,” Star Trek merely updates Jewish stereotypes.If you read the... | en | 0.893191 |
Ask HN: Which scheme implementation do you recommend? | [
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"text": "If you are learning Scheme by reading SICP, you might want to install MIT/GNU Scheme. Otherwise, let me join the bandwagon in endorsing PLT. The PLT camp has its own favored textbook, qv http://www.htdp.org/ .The just-released game QuantZ (http://www.gamerizon.com/gamerizon-news-and... | en | 0.911149 |
Stephen Fry on binary choices | [
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"text": "I often find myself in agreement with Fry's seemingly incompatible interests. Like his appreciation for the Free Software movement[1] as well as Apple's achievements[2].[1]: http://www.gnu.org/fry/[2]: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/"
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A beautiful self hosted alternative to Basecamp | [
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"text": "Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5698741"
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"text": "Wow really nice work. I have a strong feeling you need to raise the price."
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"text": "Why use this over freedcamp.com/ ?"
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... | en | 0.942835 |
UN: Disconnecting File-Sharers Breaches Human Rights | [
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"text": "At least use due process of law, instead of (as HADOPI did) disconnecting users after they had been merely accused of infringement 3 times. That effectively makes copyright owners into judge and jury, and forces the ISP to act as executioner."
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"text": "May... | en | 0.985246 |
R.J. Lipton - A proof that P is not equal to NP | [
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"text": "Reading Lipton's description of this paper I think I understand how normal people feel when they listen to geeks talk about technology."
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"text": "The paper is rather complicated, you can see it here http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/#s.p. on ... | en | 0.982567 |
Bruce Sterling: Poor folk love their cellphones | [
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"text": "Damn and blast, where is the podcast of the Bruce Sterling SXSW talk? It doesn't appear to be up here yet:http://sxsw.com/taxonomy/term/44I'm tired of all these bits-and-pieces leaks. Sterling's one-liners are much more fun -- and often make rather more sense -- in context.I suppose, ... | en | 0.974283 |
Deaths per TWh for all energy sources: Rooftop solar power relatively dangerous | [
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"text": "Okay, that's DIY rooftop installations and though I'm usually against atomic fear-mongering I have to say that it's difficult to accurately gauge the effects of the Chernobyl incident. And to be fair, we also need to count birth defects and other permanent injuries. So I don't know if... | en | 0.969155 |
Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee weighs in: There’s Danger in the Filter Bubble | [
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"text": "I'm not getting this \"filter bubble\" meme that's floating about of late. My site is dedicated to helping people filter information (www.filterjoe.com), though not in the narrow sense discussed by the \"filter bubble\" proponents. Many regular people I know are totally overloaded and... | en | 0.888714 |
Working memory at 5 is a better predictor of academic outcome than IQ [abstract] | [
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"text": "Thanks to the citation shown in the abstract submitted here, I was able to gain online access to the full text of the article through my alma mater university. The key issue here is that designers of IQ tests have known for a while that their empirically designed tests didn't tap all ... | en | 0.99301 |
How to stop illegal downloads | [
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"text": ">Then I asked him to imagine if the product in question represented several months or even years of his life. All that time he was creating, writing, editing, and marketing this thing in order to fund his next project. And then everyone downloaded it, illegally, for free.So he res... | en | 0.978119 |
Original IBM PC (Intel 8088) in Javascript with Visicalc | [
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"text": "For some reason I get a control-L (^L) after every character I type which makes this usable for me but it sure brings back some nostalgia!Ah okay the keyboard was only broken in firefox but it works in chrome.My instinct immediately made me type prompt $p$g from something buried keep... | en | 0.956911 |
Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S3 | [
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"text": "It's not limited to NFC (email or website can be used as attack vectors), but the researchers apparently decided to show off the NFC method as it's a relatively new medium for malware (though of course not a very practical one)."
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"text": "The magnetic stri... | en | 0.951677 |
Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety | [
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"text": "To all who think passenger safety equals insurance: you are wrong. Passenger safety is much more.Passenger safety is mainly 3 topics, which are all have to be fulfilled:\n1. The car has to be in proper technical conditions.\n2. The driver is trained to be allowed to drive people aroun... | en | 0.985084 |
Dear jetBlue... | [
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"text": "So they are asking for JetBlue to give them special treatment? They booked 43 flights in 30 days. How about cutting their flights in half so that they are less likely to miss one?I wonder what their backgrounds are that would make them good resource to interview JetBlue passengers and... | en | 0.976051 |
My Recent Experience with PayPal Customer Service. | [
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"text": "Try PayPal's Merchant Technical Support (https://ppmts.custhelp.com/app/ask - Mass Pay is under \"API Products\") The developer forums on x.com can sometimes be helpful as well. They have a few staff members that work the boards.If you're a developer, you don't really want to use thei... | en | 0.988686 |
Lisphp is a Lisp dialect written in PHP. | [
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"text": "Happy to see PHP be taken more seriously around here. Trust me, we're not all moronic programmers using register globals, magic quotes, and other abominations originally available in PHP.This is a pretty cool project."
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"text": "I'm the author of this, I ma... | en | 0.913822 |
Apple Updates Safari | [
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"text": "In terms of the supported Web Platform APIs, is this new Safari release any different from the recent WebKit snapshots? (http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/trunk/mac/1)Also, is WebKit2 framework still private on OSX 10.9?"
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Ask HN: Unlocked Nexus S and T-mobile | [
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"text": "Buying unlocked will save you money over two years because T-Mobile will give you a discounted monthly rate. I do it this way.Also, if you are considering a variety of T-Mobile phones, then you can buy them and return them within 15 or 30 days. For example in the past season I've boug... | en | 0.979022 |
How I Deal with Sexual Discrimination in a Positive Way? | [
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"text": "It's hard to take this blog post at face value. My experience with the industry has been that IT people are terrified of offending women and go far out of their way to avoid being perceived as sexist. I do know a couple guys that flirt with women at work but that's a far cry from sexu... | en | 0.986613 |
Recursive Postgres Queries | [
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"text": "I've implemented similar designs in the past, but found ltree[1] to be much more useful/expressive when it comes to needing to fetch, order and manage lists of hierarchical data.[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/ltree.html"
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The worst visualization I've ever seen (CNBC on the oil spill) | [
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"text": "I think the progression is interesting.It starts by visualising what 1 gallon equals using something that people recognise in everyday life ... then shows a lot of 'wow, it really is vast' slides, then moves to 'well, it's pretty small compared to the size of the gulf / how much oil w... | en | 0.959146 |
How our small startup survived the Amazon EC2 cloud-pocalypse | [
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"text": "This \"cloud-pocalypse\" simultaneously affected multiple availability zones in US-East. Had you had the misfortune to have your multi-AZ pair in two affected zones you would have had significant downtime. The only architectures that were truly safe from this outage were those with a ... | en | 0.987638 |
Lessons Learned for Getting Better Results from Developers | [
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"text": "This is an excellent list, and I would love to work with someone who ascribes to it. I also find it a very depressing list, because almost all of those items involve an awful lot of effort. It's really hard to imagine many people even half-way living up to it. It ends up making me ... | en | 0.980644 |
Heroku founder Adam Wiggins: The Legacy of the Self-Made Man (2008) | [
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"text": "Well I'm glad the last 100 years of business history can be summed up with a single strawman. It's such a relief that there was no nuance or complexity in history, now I won't have to do any of that nasty \"thinking\".Sarcasm aside, you present an entirely simplistic view of history p... | en | 0.970332 |
Ask HN: We're building a real-life, location-based MMORPG. Will you play? | [
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"text": "Thanks, but I'm already playing a real-life location-based MMORPG which takes up most of (or rather, all) my time."
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"text": "We build a mystical, medieval universe atop these real places.Please, not another one. Although it is the most popular trope, and t... | en | 0.97214 |
The key to good UI design is not simplicity | [
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"text": "And yet, Tumblr is better than Posterous.I know this is subjective, but my point is: maybe the use of email in Posterous appeals to you, but it never appealed to me."
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"text": "Agreed and well stated. However, since, the concept of \"familiarity\" will cont... | en | 0.982788 |
Ask HN: Any Talented Writers Here? | [
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"text": "Love this idea. Would definitely love to fund some of my fav authors, esp ones that post on free sites in spare time. I am wondering how this would work though. As a reader I'd totally do it for an author/excerpt I was psyched about.As an author I'm wondering how useful it would re... | en | 0.978984 |
LastPass Disclosure Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things | [
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"text": "This is to be expected when you have ignorant people reporting on things that they are not willing to educate themselves about. Anyone who wrote sensational garbage about the LastPass event didn't bother to understand how LastPass works and what the real potential of any breach could ... | en | 0.97915 |
Barriers to scala adoption | [
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"text": "I liked the comments about immutability in the article, even from an OOP standpoint. After having read the \"Eiffel\" book 20 years ago, and being exposed to programming by contract and class invariants, the whole java-bean concept made me want to vomit. \"Here's an object\" -- to... | en | 0.956349 |
Skip Class | [
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"text": "Am I the only one who really enjoyed going to class ?This kind of post pop up once in a while here, some guy tells the experience about skipping classes or dropping out of school. If that works for you, great! But I am actually one of those guys that could happily get back to school i... | en | 0.980249 |
BBC announces the closure of the Digital Media Initiative | [
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"text": "I was working at the BBC at the time this was first suggested (on web stuff, not video) and saw the edges of this project. From the start it felt like the start of a good idea, but with a huge remit and no focus.The idea of being able to edit video locally using a low quality version ... | en | 0.969148 |
Graphs Show How Reddit Got Huge by Going Mainstream | [
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"text": "Original post with HD graphics: http://www.randalolson.com/2013/03/12/retracing-the-evolutio..."
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"text": "Ugh, I really hate stacked area graphs. Usually you can display the same information in a much more readable format by u... | en | 0.850524 |
Brain Hacks Top Founders Use to Get the Job Done | [
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"text": "Mine are that much better.1 - Don't sleep ! (what?!)1.1 - Reap any opportunity to close your eyes while thinking and listening to people, if they start closing by themselves you've lost the game.1.1.1 - Move your head not your eyes, the tiny eye muscle wont last 30 hours.1.1... | en | 0.869191 |
Trading Program Ran Amok, With No ‘Off’ Switch | [
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"text": "'Prediction is difficult, especially with regard to the future'.It looks like they were using some new algorithm, which should have made them a lot of money, had the market gone up after their massive purchases. In that case, they would have pocketed fat bonuses and would not be on th... | en | 0.993888 |
Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985) | [
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"text": "I can't think of someone else right now who could come up with such an easy way to understand computers."Playboy: Maybe we should pause and get your definition of what a computer is. How do they work?Jobs: Computers are actually pretty simple. We’re sitting here on a bench i... | en | 0.951316 |
Out of Prohibition’s Reach: How Technology Cures Toxic Policy | [
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"text": "There is a good book whose title and author are eluding me for the moment that examines the necessity of a frontier for freedom. Freedom requires the ability to up and move into an area that is a challenge for the nearest power to control, regulate, and abuse. That is the only meaning... | en | 0.946717 |
Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone | [
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"text": "I wish they wouldn't attach themselves to the sublime brand. It's not theirs, and it's pretty shady to ride another project's coattails when their intent is essentially to cannibalize it by being sublime-but-free. You can discuss the merits of open source and payin... | en | 0.969441 |
Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee | [
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"text": "Arguing that these programs are effective by revealing a few foiled terrorist plots is entirely beside the point. Obviously monitoring every communication on the planet would help the government track down a few terrorist plots here and there. If they really want the debate to focus o... | en | 0.977468 |
Microsoft to Limit Capabilities of Cheap Laptops | [
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"text": "This isn't \"evil\", it's basic market segmentation. Microsoft doesn't want to limit the capabilities of any device, but if it sets the price of XP to a level that works for ultra-cheap vendors, it surrenders a vast amount of money to companies like Dell.Like any business, Microsoft w... | en | 0.978133 |
Show HN: I shipped my first product | [
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"text": "Congrats. Good luck w/ the app and future apps. I think that writing, launching, (and making a few bucks off of) a simple app might be the best way to get started down the right path. If you can get even the slightest bit of success, I'm sure it will lead to more.It's amazing how hard... | en | 0.961184 |
Show HN: My app in 4 weeks is done | [
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"text": "It's funny that just this past weekend I was looking for something like your product. I've imagined it more to be a webapp with mobile client though. Something like http://highrisehq.com/ but more personal. (A PRM instead of CRM, one could say.)\nIt should keep in sync with my address... | en | 0.978819 |
Nastiest Python list comprehension ever | [
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"text": " >>> def mystery(n):\n\nIt's a buggy implementation of primes_below(n) through a sieve.\"There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it.\" And this ain't it."
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"text": "> Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do it... | en | 0.947809 |
Ask HN: Death by design, poor on-boarding or do we just smell? | [
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"text": "This looks way too complicated. The birds eye view might be your main feature, but it's visually unattractive, and very cluttered.It looks like you have all the bones of a great app, but you need a great graphic design and a great user experience architect to take it to the next level... | en | 0.989169 |
Unified Dropdown Menu: One Menu to Rule All Links | [
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"text": "I'd rather these complex sites avoid having drop-down menus entirely for their top-nav bar. Instead, have the most common general sections linked in the top-nav, and put links to their sub-sections in a section-specific navigation area inside the newly-loaded general section, separate... | en | 0.956959 |
Y Combinator's Graham Doesn't See "Bubble" in Technology | [
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"text": "My favorite line in that, after the interviewer asked PG what the big successes for YC were and he answered AirBnB and Dropbox:Q: \"But aren't you forgetting Heroku? They just sold for $220 million.\"A: \"Oh sure, Heroku was a success... but you couldn't buy Dropbox or AirBnB right n... | en | 0.987003 |
Ask HN: is there a marketplace for code bases, startups, etc.? | [
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"text": "Generally such businesses get sold directly by the owner approaching interested parties (companies in the same space, competitors, etc.).If they end up on a public market it generally means that no-one in that space was interested in it, which is a huge negative flag (i.e. strong indi... | en | 0.959903 |
Show HN: My 10 Hour Winter Break Project Mixmatic | [
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"text": "Interesting site. I lost interest in Spotify but I can see the novelty of a site like this.But... your example URL makes it pretty easy to guess at other people's mixes... so not very private. Not that you claim it to be private. But if I was sending a mix to someone and typed in a sp... | en | 0.970584 |
Craigslist Censored: Adult Section Comes Down | [
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"text": "I hear quite often that prostitution would be a wonderfully pleasant industry if it were only legal, which does not square with the experiences of countries where it is legal or tolerated.You pretty much have to be running schoolgirls out of homeroom to get the Nagoya police to so muc... | en | 0.991849 |
Coming Home to Vim | [
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"text": "I took the dive into Vim about a year ago. I was at the stage where I'd become proficient with some command-line tools in Linux, but I didn't yet have an editor I could use fluently from the command line. I tried out both Vim and Emacs, and found Vim to be slightly easier to grok, plu... | en | 0.984732 |
Ask YC: Choosing wiki software | [
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"text": "MediaWiki is the king of unrestricted wiki platforms. However, if you're looking to restrict access to certain portions of the wiki, or develop some sort of responsibility and/or permission structure, or add features such as forms and even embedded apps, I recommend TWiki. There are l... | en | 0.903464 |
Ask News.YC: What would you do if you were a billionaire? | [
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"text": "I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man. Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.All office space quoting aside, if my startup IPOs I'm buying a winery in N... | en | 0.984871 |
Why Don’t Restaurants Charge for Reservations? | [
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"text": "What I've never understood is the opposite, is those restaurants which have insane lines, as in 2+ hours waiting outside to get a seat, why they don't simply raise their prices by $1 or $2.There was a restaurant that everyone in college in Vancouver went to back in 1993-1994... | en | 0.992917 |
Beautiful fixed-width fonts for OSX | [
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"text": "Wow, this is the ugliest font I have ever seen. I do like the color-less syntax highlighting, though.Also, Haskell looks nicer when you translate things like -> to →, \\ to λ, and so on.But really, both of these things would look nicer on high-resolution displays. When can I get... | en | 0.923448 |
GnuPG - 16 Years of protecting privacy | [
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"text": "So many people seem enamored of the idea of building software to protect users from NSA, and respond by designing new cryptosystems. These efforts invariably fail, because crypto is very hard, and professional crypto requires 10x verification (particularly at the design stage) as it d... | en | 0.966342 |
The inside story of MIT and Aaron Swartz | [
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"text": "I continue to be astounded by the unprofessional, predatory manner in which MIT, JSTOR and in particular the federal prosecutors in this case handled themselves.The article also reiterates that the ridiculous CFAA charges centered on the claim that Swartz had unauthorized access to MI... | en | 0.938083 |
Start-Up Founders: Take Your Spouse on a Date | [
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"text": "I'm curious why so many negative articles on startups keep coming from the NYT. It's like they are sinking with the Titanic and laughing at people in the lifeboats."
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"text": "It is also worth noting the burdens on the children of startup founders and early... | en | 0.978332 |
Google Buys Twitter? Chris O'Brien's 11 Predictions for 2011 | [
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"text": "I would like to see someone buy Twitter, if only to have a different set of engineers and product people tackle their issues. I find twitter search to be very useful in theory, but useless in practice. Mostly I get the \"older tweets for <term> are unavailable\" message.If it ... | en | 0.966701 |
A Statistical Portrait of a Y Combinator Batch | [
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"text": "This is a really excellent example of using your own product to generate interesting content as a way to drive traffic back to your product.Great work Statwing. Can't wait until I have some data that needs analyzing so I can use your service."
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Ask HN: What Criteria Should a Young Hacker Apply to College Choice? | [
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"text": "It's not the populist thing to say, but I'll say it anyway.The top colleges are a great place to be because of the friends you'll make and the level of competition at those places. You can meet amazing people anywhere, but generally speaking they are in higher concentration at more co... | en | 0.960584 |
Android: Fragmentation? More like Fragmentawesome. | [
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"text": "That's not to say it was playable on all of them--the Covia SmartQ5, for example, has no keyboard, trackball, or even orientation sensors, and you have to use a stylus on the screen (it also has no GPU so the game runs extremely slowly). And some devices (like the LG Eve) have directi... | en | 0.976604 |
The new sandbox: open-source and self-hosted | [
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"text": "I'm sad to see their free sandboxes going away, they were a good option for deploying Django for small, non-commercial projects or tests. The experience was better than Heroku (rsync deploy, reasonable database limit, ssh shell) and the docs were alright.From the free options I've see... | en | 0.993361 |
Swiss City Of Bern To Switch To Free And Open Source IT Solutions | [
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"text": "It's quite interesting, since Switzerland has been quite \"under the thumb\" for a while when it comes to proprietory software, so this comes as a welcome relief.Disclaimer: I live and work in Switzerland."
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"text": "The city of Munich even has created thei... | en | 0.985751 |
Merging multiple RSS Feeds into one | [
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"text": "If you'd rather not rely on an external service, it's super-easy to use SimplePie ( http://simplepie.org/ ) to merge feeds and, if you'd like, output another feed: http://www.webmaster-source.com/2007/08/06/merging-rss-feeds...(Not the best tutorial, we should have one on our wiki. Di... | en | 0.909319 |
Reddit is a failed state | [
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"text": "Tbh, I found the Washington Post profile of the moderator of /r/TheFappening to be even more fascinating. johnmcjohn frequented asexuality and Asperger forums and voiced his frustration, and detailed his financial troubles and professional failures on LinkedIn and begged for... | en | 0.933532 |
Your startup should clone the "Send Feedback" feature of Google Plus | [
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"text": "We're actually building this sort of tool. http://bugherd.comAt the moment it is a more traditional bug tracker, but the side widget is designed to accept anonymous feedback in this sort of form as well (coming soon)."
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"text": "Hopefully feedback widgets (... | en | 0.937186 |
One New York LLC law is hurting small businesses | [
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"text": "The law firm I used to work for had a great hack for this law. Essentially the LLC was formed with a mailing address in a county where the publishing was exceptionally cheap and after the publishing was completed the LLC address was amended to the HQ/principal place of business ... | en | 0.986507 |
What is your server naming convention? | [
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"text": "Despite the heated arguments people have about this it really doesn't matter that much. There are pros and cons to any choice, and it's mostly a matter of personal preference.If you're going to have < 50 servers you can very easily use cute names and it will probably... | en | 0.968921 |
IOS vs. Android from the Trenches | [
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"text": "I use an Android every day, and my wife has an iPhone. The absolute biggest thing that annoyed me about using the iPhone after being used to the Android is the lack of a dedicated hardware back button. The problem you describe about an app opening the browser and then trying to get ba... | en | 0.923076 |
Steam In-Home Streaming | [
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"text": "I have been using this on and off in beta. If possible I highly recommend a wired network connection. I have been testing it on a WRT54GL and that was not always sufficient. When my AC router is not misbehaving (ASUS RT-AC66U) I've been able to play online FPS shooters surpris... | en | 0.940816 |
Want to be a mentor to a HN Startup? [gdoc] | [
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"text": "Form leads here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tgPKuNIdWWOPUpj2ZnF8N...\nfor your viewing pleasure.I'm hoping this can serve as a list of people on HN who startup founders can approach easily for advice with any of the thousand given problems we face daily."
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Why American Mothers are Superior | [
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"text": "I'm writing this from Hong Kong, where I run a scholarship for young entrepreneurs in mainland China. A few thoughts:-To understand the mentality of a Chinese parent, you need to know a few things. First, the obvious one child policy, and the expectation that this one child will suppo... | en | 0.960729 |
Modern Perl, the book, is Available. | [
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"text": "This is great. I've been anticipating this book for a while. I'm tired of hearing the same canned complaints about perl. It's a great language. Thanks for showing us all why. :)"
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"score": 1,
"text": "One question, I noticed that the pdf from from the onyxneon site is ... | en | 0.953831 |
Ask HN: Can't stay at a company for more than an year. | [
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"text": "You have to start analyzing, what is it that you really want out of your career? Mastery of a development stack? Creating a start-up company? Project Manager? Set a goal, start with the end in mind and from there you can dedicate your steps towards that.When you keep jumping jobs, it ... | en | 0.978464 |
Infographics might be more fun to look at than a company website | [
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"text": "In this particular situation, it doesn't work at all. The infographic didn't teach me anything about the product.It starts with a segmented wheel that seems to describe the "Overall time saved". But where does that come from? Time saved doing what? Time saved by wh... | en | 0.923545 |
For Safer Food, Just Add Viruses | [
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"text": "Viruses seem so weird to me. They're naturally emergent nanobots."
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"score": 1,
"text": "Given that the human digestive tract (reportedly) contains more bacteria than the human body has cells, and they are vital to our survival, how can spraying bacteria-killers ... | en | 0.939686 |
Awsbox: A DiY PaaS for Node.JS | [
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"text": "I know that Mozilla has made a concerted effort to improve their public relations and \"get out there\" more, but it really seems like the Moz crew is just churning out innovations and interesting products one after another."
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{
"score": 1,
"text": "I'm really excited ab... | en | 0.970337 |
Lengthen My URL | [
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"text": "was reminded of something on a similar note, shadyurl (http://shadyurl.com). \"don't just shorten your url, make it suspicious and frightening...\"it generates similarly ridiculous urls like:http://5z8.info/michaelangelo-virus_l6h3k_openme.exeand this project compresses files by maki... | en | 0.885182 |
Ask HN: Which CAs can you trust? | [
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"text": "I don't know if what your threat model is here, but if you believe the NSA can suborn any CA trusted by your user's browser, then the question of which CA you use is moot. (Modulo something like certificate pinning, which helps if your advertising company that runs an enorm... | en | 0.944408 |
Ask HN: How do you invest? | [
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"text": "I'm a buy & hold stock market investor in companies which have good management, care about the shareholders and of course, good balances.I use the simple strategy of (1 - my_age)% in the stock market and the rest in fixed income funds(or less risky investments, including some... | en | 0.952153 |
Landing page of our upcoming product. Do you understand what we do? | [
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"text": ""Create groups, send links, share files and we’ll organize them so you don’t have to" <- This doesn't mean much to me. Maybe I didn't 'identify' with the problem you're trying to solve.If I understand correctly, you're a service that uploads ... | en | 0.895774 |
KDE Ships First Beta of Next Generation Plasma Workspace | [
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"text": "I always loved how configurable KDE is and prefer it over others. I somehow always felt more comfortable using KDE than say Unity or Gnome. Its very stable , fluid and fast now as well. However, there are certain problems that just don't seem to be addressed much -1. Cartoonish o... | en | 0.976829 |
Machine that Levitates Objects Using Sound [video] | [
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"text": "If we assume they want to hold objects with a size of half a centimeter, a quick calculation shows they are using a sound frequency of 68000Hz.-> 340m/s / 0.005m = 68000Hz.If we limit the frequency to above human hearing range (>20000Hz) then maximum size of objects he... | en | 0.885096 |
Ask HN: How do you find good designers for your projects? | [
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"text": "I simply tried here and got lucky twice already.Simply post a 'Looking for a designer' with some basic requirements (job duration, an idea of the scope and your location preferences) and ask for portfolio links.That'll get you plenty of response.Make sure you put an email address in t... | en | 0.958136 |
Ask HN: Would you use AWS for a primary infrastructure if you're a bank? | [
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"text": "The FDIC is where most of your IT security requirements will come from. Below I have listed a few items which make the cloud a non-starter. In summary, it costs $20+ million dollars to start a bank. The reason every small bank has the same crappy online banking and digital services is... | en | 0.973633 |
GWT, Cappuccino, Sproutcore: AJAX-Framework-Shootout | [
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"text": "For a look at what we have done with GWT, check out TeamPostgreSQL (http://www.teampostgresql.com).It is a fairly complex web application both in terms of UI and functionality, developed and maintained by essentially one guy, which IMHO speaks volumes about the power of GWT to produce... | en | 0.897392 |
Rogue Academic Downloader Busted by MIT Webcam Stakeout, Arrest Report Says | [
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"text": "\"For its part, JSTOR says it worked with Swartz’s lawyers to get the data back[...]\"Interesting way of putting it. I would have said \"removing the data from his possession\""
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"text": "manhunt for a slender guy with a backpack riding a bike on MIT’s camp... | en | 0.989126 |
Ask HN: How do you see the future of computing ? | [
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"text": "I hate to say it but 10 years isn’t that long a time. Keep in mind the HTML 4 spec was approved about 12 years ago and we’re still using it. So I think a lot of the building blocks we’ll be using in 10 years are probably already taking shape (HTML5 for example)That said I think the ... | en | 0.975552 |
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