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Publishers: Forget the content, here's your business model | [
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"text": "\"one of the best, if not the best, news/article filter out there. ... if you remove the coding and start-up articles ... a super-interesting collection of smart writing and interesting thinking.\"Rather ironic."
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"text": "So... the answer is stop publishin... | en | 0.881377 |
Coding Horror: The Girl Who Proved P = NP | [
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"text": "even with computers that operated at, say .. the speed of light. As opposed to our modern day computers, driven by steam and turtles."
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"text": "Summary: Jeff quotes what several blogs (and XKCD) have said about P = NP. As such, he gets it mostly right, bu... | en | 0.969537 |
The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood | [
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"text": "As others have pointed out the concept of a more detailed screenplay structure has been around for a very long time, and typically pretty well understood by working screenwritters.I remember reading about the 9 act structure in the 90s (can't remember if this is the guy who start... | en | 0.914912 |
Don't launch a company, launch an experiment | [
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"text": "I feel like a lot of people use the term \"startup\" as a cover for \"unbootstrappable\". If your idea requires big-league success (think twitter), or is otherwise a failure, surrounding yourself with buzzwords will not escape you from reality.My personal opinion is to make an MVP th... | en | 0.979203 |
Stanford CS Book: Mining of Massive Datasets [pdf] | [
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"text": "Pretty cool. I work in search quality at Google, and this is a pretty decent overview of the more universal tricks I've picked up from people on the job, as well as a lot of things I didn't know. MinHashing in particular is one of my favorites.Also, if you like this, I'm trying to col... | en | 0.961739 |
Show HN: How I built a self-driving (RC) car. | [
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"text": "The links:http://blog.davidsingleton.org/nnrccarhttps://github.com/dps/nnrccar"
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"text": "Hint: it's common wisdom that such things are best posted as links instead of \"Show HN\", since \"show/ask\" posts leave the front page more quickly. You can always a... | en | 0.904117 |
Startup School acceptances are out | [
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"text": "I'd love to know which other HN'ers are going to be there, but without each of us spamming up this thread.Any clever solutions?"
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"text": "Hey, let's do a San Francisco meetup this weekend!How about 4pm, Sunday September 21, Ritual Coffee on ... | en | 0.869952 |
iGo: a new Syntax for GoLang | [
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"text": "I think one of the reasons for developing Go were some hard-to-find bugs with the indentation of python code. AFAIR, the Go authors specifically didn't want this.Found it: (http://talks.golang.org/2012/splash.article)"As a simple, self-contained example, ... | en | 0.875196 |
Do 320kbps mp3 files really sound better? Take the test | [
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"text": "Asking which file sounds \"better\" is meaningless; some distortions sound good. The proper way to do this is an ABX test, where you compare both to a known original, and ask which sounds more like the original."
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"text": "This is meaningless.\nStatisticall... | en | 0.950568 |
Codecademy Surges To 200,000 Users, 2.1 Million Lessons Completed In 72 Hours | [
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"text": "I pointed my younger sister at this the other night. She's 17, and I'd tried to interest her in programming before with no avail. She seems to have caught on to this, though, and it's something I'm extremely happy about. It's not that I think that she'll ever become a hardcode graphic... | en | 0.995818 |
Opening a US Corporation: an Incorporation Guide for Foreigners – Part 2 | [
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"text": "Diego, that's really nice. Thanks a ton for sharing these step-by-step process. Doing this stuff may seem easy to americans, but when we are down here in Brazil trying to figure out all this things can be extremely time consuming. This will definitely help many of us save a huge amoun... | en | 0.946733 |
Could folks please help me get DigitalOcean onto wikipedia? (deleted thrice) | [
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"text": "Does DO actually need and warrant an encyclopedia entry? The Netcraft article about them says they had 7,000 hosts -- versus 165K at Amazon and several million at BlueHost at the time, the other companies mentioned as points of comparison.DO is well-known on HN, but I don't know ... | en | 0.967485 |
Stop Trying to Save the Planet | [
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"text": "Something about this article really rubs me the wrong way, but I can't really put it in words.Think about that while enjoying a trip to your local zoo or arboretum — the most biodiverse places that ever existed on Earth.So biodiversity for its own sake is something to aspire to, rathe... | en | 0.95516 |
Want to succeed? Try failing | [
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"text": "Cue a rebutting (but not admitting that's what it is) 37signals blog post in 5.. 4.. 3..Seriously, though, I think the message is more that you should take bigger risks and push yourself further into an area where failure is quite likely.. rather than to merely try to fail ;-)"
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... | en | 0.980224 |
Ask HN: Judging startup on hosting company it uses? | [
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"text": "No, I don't think anybody would judge you on it out-of-the-gate. But, if something went wrong (your site was slow loading, you had troubles scaling etc) then your choice of hosting provider might be the first thing people look at.Nobody really has a valid reason to critique your ... | en | 0.963628 |
9007199254740992 | [
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"text": "If you're using Chrome, this should save you some time: function step() {\n var eventObj = document.createEvent("Events");\n eventObj.initEvent("keydown", true, true);\n eventObj.which = 37 + Math.floor(Math.random(0, 1)*3);\n document.dis... | en | 0.680965 |
Minimum Viable SEO | [
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"text": "I did a quick SEO analysis on priceonomics.com. Most of these tips fall into the 20% category. Maybe they can use some of these tips to perfect their SEO strategies.1. Blog on a subdomain.Though sometimes easier for administration, subdomains might dilute your SEO efforts. Links to a ... | en | 0.946612 |
Blackbox: Safely store secrets in Git | [
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"text": "There are a lot of alternatives in this space (I wrote transcrypt [1] for just this purpose), but I think the killer features here are that you don't need shared credentials since you can have multiple keys, and that it's generic enough to work with multiple VCS's.With ... | en | 0.963128 |
3D Systems sues Formlabs, Kickstarter | [
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"text": "Shame the patent numbers were not included in the press release.A comment below mentioned the patent being possibly related to creating support structures (additional 3D printing to support overhanging sections of a model), and a quick search on Google patents brought up these:http://... | en | 0.957931 |
Harvey Golub's Response To Warren Buffett | [
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"text": "I don't understand the often-repeated conservative talking point that \"almost half of all filers pay no income taxes at all\". There are only two kinds of people who pay no income taxes at all: the desperately poor and the super-rich (who are taxed on investments at the 15% long-term... | en | 0.965581 |
Amazon building a Color Kindle with FFS display. Shipping for holidays 2011? | [
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"text": "The e-ink screen is the major selling point for me and i could not care less about a kindle4 with a color lcd screen.\nI use it (and want to use it) only for reading.If Amazon want to sell a tablet-like device, adding a \"kindle tablet\" to their line-up would be a wiser idea, imho."... | en | 0.950325 |
Peak Everything? | [
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"text": "Exponential Growth is a magical thing. The doubling time of something growing at a constant rate is approximately 70 divided by that rate. For example, something growing at a 10% annual rate will roughly double in size every 7 years. I don't doubt the potential of human ideas, but ... | en | 0.959458 |
Researchers Easily Slipped Weapons Past TSA’s X-Ray Body Scanners | [
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"text": ""The only useful airport security measures since 9/11, were locking and reinforcing the cockpit doors, so terrorists can’t break in, positive baggage matching and teaching the passengers to fight back. The rest is security theater.”[0] \n--Bruce Schneier[0] http://... | en | 0.844361 |
Yoga app smashes Kickstarter funding goal... 4 times. | [
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"text": "I've wondered about adapting a live streaming video platform that would run on your smart TV which would show students the instructor as a primary UI element, and let students see the others students the instructor was seeing (opt-in per student) as a secondary element.The instru... | en | 0.967363 |
PayPal is now an identity provider | [
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"text": "\"PROSPECT SCORE\nThis API enables you to know the purchasing potential of a user visiting your site. Users are classified into Gold, Silver, or Bronze based on their average spending value, frequency, and online transactions. Product details...\"This doesn't feel right. Aren't there... | en | 0.971376 |
How safe is your password with Verizon? | [
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"text": "Calm down people, it is just an authorization phrase that Verizon uses to make sure you have permission to make changes. You can share that phrase with anyone that you want to make changes to your account. Verizon probably should not call it 'Password'. It is NOT the password that you... | en | 0.991711 |
Ask HN: What do you do if someone has your startup's twitter name? | [
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"text": "On the list of things to be worried about, this just seems to rank a few notches after what font you should use for the names on the conference room doors."
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"text": "How important to the business plan is the twitter name? \nI dont think you will get it fr... | en | 0.953382 |
Hash tables with O(1) worst-case lookup and space efficiency [pdf] | [
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"text": "I've had some luck turning a cuckoo hash into a sort of LRU cache. Whenever you do an insert, replace the older item. Iirc, everything else stayed the same. Using more than 2 hashed really helped."
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"text": "I'd just like to point out that the worse your ha... | en | 0.919467 |
The US crackdown on not-so-harmless laser strikes | [
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"text": "I'll agree that firing lasers at aircraft is dangerous ... for the pilot, and anyone in that aircraft's vicinity since it needs its pilot to fly properly. Makes total sense.But ... it's hard to square that with articles like this one:http://www.bbc.co.uk/... | en | 0.924061 |
Heroku is down again | [
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"text": "MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is"
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"text": "EC2 status:8:21 PM PDT We are inves... | en | 0.918386 |
Exceptions (2003) | [
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"text": "Everyone here seems to agree that "exceptions are for exceptional conditions". The problem is that when you get down to details, there is disagreement about what exactly is an "exceptional condition".e.g. - you are trying to open a file for reading. The file does n... | en | 0.955247 |
Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer | [
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"text": "There have been a lot of crowd-funded and startup attempts to commercialize RepRap designs lately - here's a sample of a few:eMaker Huxley: http://www.indiegogo.com/eMAKER-Huxley-3D-printer-kitsSeeMeCNC - uses software to drive stepper drivers via a parallel port rather than onboard c... | en | 0.887568 |
Mixpanel (YC S09) Raises Seed Funding From Max Levchin And Michael Birch | [
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"text": "Congratulations, Suhail."
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"text": "Congratulations Tim and Suhail"
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"text": "That's a market that hasn't seen any consolidation but quite a lot of competition. It will be interesting to see what they can do and how they are goin... | en | 0.978518 |
Cheaper than free: paying for music after searching for a free download | [
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"text": "I didn't know Bandcamp but a few days ago I wanted to buy the Bastion soundtrack. The Bandcamp link was the first hit on Google and it was linked from the game's official page so I went there.I could listen to all the songs without restriction, pick from a variety of reasonable format... | en | 0.988795 |
Quora: "How does a penniless entrepreneur attract gold diggers?" | [
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"text": "I just celebrated my twelfth wedding anniversary and here's some advice: what you want to look for in a mate is a loyal friend for life.Things change. People change: your city, your religion, your personality, your income, your health. Through each change it's nice to have someone ... | en | 0.941224 |
Why do game developers prefer Windows? | [
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"text": "Being a very experienced game developer who tried to switch to Linux, I have posted about this before (and gotten flamed heavily by reactionary Linux people).The main reason is that debugging is terrible on Linux. gdb is just bad to use, and all these IDEs that try to interface with g... | en | 0.975611 |
Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script | [
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"text": "Two months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192790Three months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102238This is a really cool presentation. The idea and technique have their flaws, as are pointed out here by several participants, but what bothers me most is that the l... | en | 0.975891 |
Ask HN: Resources for learning Java? | [
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"text": "If you already have experience programming (which you do) try the following: First read the wikipedia page on the language. Download a medium-sized open source project, start at main() and try to understand what it does. Then, google for features/syntax you don't understand; read com... | en | 0.938865 |
An introduction to genetic algorithms | [
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"text": "If you're looking for more doc / research on GAs, be sure to include 'evolutionary computation' in your searches.The tough parts to using EC/GA on your problem (which this article doesn't discuss at all, unfortunately) are going to be:a) figuring out a string representation for your c... | en | 0.888317 |
Elop himself leaks Nokia's first Windows Phone | [
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"text": "I'm extremely excited for Nokia + Windows Phone. Recently upgraded from an iPhone 3GS to a 4 and it just didn't feel like an upgrade. I'll admit that I haven't had the chance to try out a Windows Phone 7 device personally, but I've watched A LOT of videos. The interface smoothness and... | en | 0.988336 |
Ask HN: Does Swift change anything about the dismal app business? | [
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"text": "Swift is going to help iOS apps improve in quality and quantity - though some very bad quality Objective-C apps that would have been rejected into the store would be bad quality apps that are accepted into the store.Your problem may be to do with using the App Store as the sales and a... | en | 0.979896 |
When in doubt, turn to _why | [
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"text": "Code should not look like that. Such code is too difficult to understand - even in C I've rarely seen such a mess.The style of programming that in any way values a lot of weird unreadable characters is a relic of the past, and it is not in any way related to skill level or intelligenc... | en | 0.989256 |
Show HN: Tubalr.com, taking advantage of all the great music content on YouTube. | [
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"text": "This is really cool - do you think it would be possible (I'm not necessarily suggesting you implement it) to do some basic NLP to get artist/title from YouTube video names, meaning you could search for an artist and see what's available?Clearly it wouldn't be perfect, but a reasonably... | en | 0.968052 |
Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet? | [
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"text": "Apparently, when energy becomes matter, it creates some sort of cloud of javascript context in which the variable worldHasEnded is defined.I don't think that was covered in my college physics textbook."
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"text": "From the page source:\n\"if the lhc actually... | en | 0.972982 |
On being an AI in a box | [
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"text": "I don't think it can be done.First of all, I'm assuming that Eliezer started this experiment because he realized that the Transhuman AI would be able to convince him in the function of gatekeeper to let the AI out. Therefore the answer probably isn't some kind of subtle trickery, the ... | en | 0.988827 |
You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again | [
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"text": "Unmentioned in the fluff article: Since flash cookies are set in a user-global location, they are the same live across all browsers. As an added bonus, they completely defeat \"private browsing\" everywhere I've tried it."
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"text": "To see your Flash Cookie... | en | 0.978849 |
Ask HN: What do you use to manage your tasks? | [
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"text": "I use MyLifeOrganized for Windows. I'm a big fan of creating hierarchical lists of projects and tasks and this tool allows me to do that.My organization uses FogBugz to manage our releases, projects, and tasks and I can't say enough great things about that software."
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Why writing software is not like engineering | [
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"text": "IMHO, writing software is actually an excellent example of an engineering task. The reason we see all these failures in software development is, in fact, that most software developers are NOT engineers. This is where all this pain comes from.The role of engineering is to apply a theor... | en | 0.95285 |
Ask HN: Why are more Startups using Python over Ruby? | [
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"text": "I can't give you a definitive answer, but I'll explain why my company chose to use python.NOTE: We're a technical startup in the telecommunications industry. We build web-based telephony applications in addition to traditional phone-based applications.1. python's syntax is extremely c... | en | 0.960441 |
Somebody please hire me before I take a job in weapon development | [
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"text": "You should hire me instead of him. I've been using python to do statistics and machine learning in a bioinformatics context for the last 15 years. Plus, if you don't, I'll kill this puppy. Isn't he cute? You wouldn't want to be responsible for his death, would you?"
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CSS Only 3D Camera Animation | [
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"text": "Despite hating the use of css for this kind of stuff, that was very well done."
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"text": "Now that was sick use of CSS."
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"text": "This work is amazing! Neoberg you are the best about css-only jobs :)"
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... | en | 0.988324 |
Bounce your http requests around with bouncy | [
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"text": " Since bouncy is just parsing the http headers and sending along the raw tcp stream\n\nHow does it deal with a second HTTP requests on one kept-alive connection that should be routed to another server?"
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"text": "Would be neat to have the ability to forwar... | en | 0.950892 |
Ask HN: Not enjoying working at my 1st large company, are there any good ones? | [
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"text": "Corporations are there to make money, not to make beautiful code.If you want to create code with love and care, do it at home. Or we'll have to do without money (= debt), and without corporations (= economic entites based on the money). Instead let's have a resource based ... | en | 0.961388 |
Fedora 13 (Goddard) has been released | [
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"text": "I just bought a Lenovo T510 with an Nvidia video card. I installed F13-beta on it a couple of weeks ago. It was magical.- Video card works out of the box using the nouveau driver. I just yum install'ed mesa-dri-drivers-experimental to get 3D desktop. All free software, no propriet... | en | 0.937332 |
Ask HN: Take over abandoned GitHub repo | [
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"text": "Fork it and start merging pull requests from the people that made them to euske"
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"text": "It's MIT-licensed, so just fork it and start working on it. People searching for it by title will likely find it after a while regardless. If you can get watchers/p... | en | 0.974959 |
Why should anyone ever use a Google API again? | [
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"text": "You mean, why should you build a for-profit product while relying on someone else's not-for-profit API?I'm guessing you shouldn't!I've seen a lot of neat projects come from Google APIs, but that's as far as I'd taking it.Relying on someone else's good will for the lifeblood of your co... | en | 0.965299 |
What a programmer does for a living | [
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"text": "I've actually used a \"PB&J\" exercise like this to teach HS kids from my hometown that took a computer engineering lab.The class would start. I'd have a whole loaf of wonder bread, a pack of plasticware, pb, jelly, and paper plate.\"OK, who wants to tell me how to make PB&J\"... | en | 0.985755 |
Inventing Favicon.ico | [
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"text": "Really cool reading this back story, in 2010 I launched a web search engine that displayed search results as favicons (no text, image only). The goal was to appeal to kids (using images and not text) and mobile devices (I generally find only 3 search results fit on a mobile screen us... | en | 0.929209 |
An Under-Appreciated Fact: We Don't Know How We Program | [
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"text": "I think he needs to read 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'. Programming, like architecture, medicine, or sculpture, is an art. Those at the bottom of the profession see only the mechanical process of churning out code, drawing a room, prescribing medication, and making a p... | en | 0.94167 |
Ask HN: What's considered to be a good annual raise? | [
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"text": "I may advise you to think twice about trying to negotiate your raise. If you work at a good company that values your contribution they're going to bump your salary as much as they can reasonably afford, keeping in mind fairness to your colleagues and the current budget.In most cases y... | en | 0.977442 |
The future of computing? | [
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"text": "This meme of the iPad as primarily a consumption device needs to die. On launch day you have plenty of very well designed drawing apps, some incredible music apps (including a very nice digital 8-track, http://www.sonomawireworks.com/iphone/studiotrack/) , and Apple's iWork suite. In ... | en | 0.932185 |
League of Legends database compromised, passwords hashed without salt | [
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"text": "I'm nearly positive the US code salted the hashes (it's been a long time since I was in that code :). I say US code because (again, memory is dim) I think they had a partnership with a company in the EU and that (might have) included authentication.The platform guys at Riot were the s... | en | 0.989343 |
Ask HN: echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" ›› /etc/hosts? | [
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"text": "I think it's reasonable. I have a number of sites (reddit.com, facebook.com and google-analytics.com) blocked in the same way in my /etc/hostsSince I don't have Facebook account I very rarely need to unblock it for anything and it's a bit of a pain to do so it stops me wasting time on... | en | 0.971767 |
Ask HN: Crap, I just downloaded over 10000 Credit Card Numbers - Now What? | [
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"text": "Talk to a lawyer too. By posting this you no longer have plausible deniability in the event something bad happens down the road. For example, maybe your client is hacked and an investigation is opened by the credit card company who finds out that you had discovered gross negligence on... | en | 0.993592 |
Ideas I would like to build / see built | [
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"text": "> Canvas/WebGL/JavaScript GameI made a bunch of small JS games/puzzles using Processing.js (which uses Canvas/VML). The exact rules are slightly cryptic by design. I definitely loved making them and intend to make a bunch more this year:http://chir.ag/projects/prc/?noredhttp://chi... | en | 0.855363 |
Show HN: Finance Jobs – Jobs Board for the Finance Industry | [
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"text": "I don't have a green user name but I'm going to ask my question anyway.It has been said that using a .co TLD for anything other than tech sites should be avoided since non-tech users are prone to mistyping the url with a .com, sending traffic to the exact place the .co site ... | en | 0.93607 |
New OpenStreetMap tiles from Stamen: water color, black and white, terrain | [
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"text": "When I first looked at OpenStreetMap a couple years ago I dismissed it solely because I didn't like the tile design. But now I see more and more really beautiful designs popping up (e.g. also those from http://mapbox.com/) and I expect OSM to gain a lot of importance in the next years... | en | 0.952799 |
Apple likes our name and so do we | [
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"text": "There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here about what Apple's HealthKit is. HealthKit is simply the name for the API framework Apple is making available to developers, following in the naming conventions of UIKit, WebKit, SpriteKit and so on.HealthKit is not, however, ... | en | 0.962102 |
Common patterns of markup & style | [
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"text": "Overall I like it, It can be very usefull for initial mark up where design isn't much inportant. Definitely took a place at my bookmarks.Only one thing I noticed. I am not sure if it is a bug, but please check this page http://pea.rs/forms/multi-left-labels (and apparently same at htt... | en | 0.936642 |
Hacker News Tokyo Meetup #5 – Friday, Feb. 4th | [
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"text": "Hey guys. Does HN Tokyo Meetup have a regular page that you use to organize your events? Is it at http://hntokyo.doorkeeper.jp/. If you do have a regular place that you announce your meetups, do you mind posting a link here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmQExXr67OcTdDBZ... | en | 0.849422 |
Ask HN: Somewhere just a little better than HN? | [
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"text": "No one cares about all of HN. We just all care about different subsets. If you want your perfect community, you need to find enough people who care about exactly the same subset of articles as you to support the community and convince them to become a part of it. Then you need to ruth... | en | 0.98282 |
Literally worse than EA | [
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"text": "As someone who actually runs a Minecraft server and has developed several mini games and around 50 plugins, I'd like to clarify a few things to people who aren't involved in Minecraft.* Minecraft is pretty expensive to host. The top servers are paying tens of thousands a mon... | en | 0.97337 |
Programming Laws and Reality: Do We Know What We Think We Know? | [
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"text": "I'm intrigued by the one law (unless I missed something) that he says definitely no longer applies:> Wirth's Law> Software performance gets slower faster than hardware speed gets faster.> This law was formulated by Niklaus Wirth during the days of mainframes and see... | en | 0.985512 |
Jiro's Dream | [
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"text": "I watched this movie on a flight home recently and loved it. Loved the man, loved that he found a calling and stuck to it, loved that he never changed a thing and won worldwide acclaim because of it.Then I got home and read Ebert's review. This paragraph hit me like a punch to the s... | en | 0.981101 |
Ask HN: What publications (online or paper) do you pay for? | [
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"text": "The Economist. I occasionally buy a copy of the Financial Times if I've got a long train ride, and maybe a copy of Bicisport, too:-)"
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"text": "The New Yorker for fun reading. The Week for a light digest of the news. National Geographic for my wife. I'l... | en | 0.949091 |
End of Windows XP support puts 95% of world's ATMs at risk | [
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"text": "The entire premise of this article is simply wrong.ATMs run Windows XP Embedded, which will continue to be supported at least through 2016 (if it isn't extended again.)"
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"text": "If you're doing stuff The Right Way, you don't wire them up to... | en | 0.923366 |
Warren Buffett has me Confused | [
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"text": "I think the author is making a small fallacy regarding investments. He assumes that as the capital gains tax rises, investment will fall because the investor will make less money. This seems true for small investors, who might decide to \"not invest\" their money, and instead find s... | en | 0.992349 |
Valve working on 'Steam Box' gaming console with hardware partners | [
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"text": "Here is what i hope will pan out:1. Steam OS will be powered by Linux + OpenGL2. It will have unparalleled gamer-bias and developer-bias instead of revolving around publishers (meaning its truly gamer focused as what has been Valve's MO)3. It will be just good enough in the graphics d... | en | 0.957566 |
What a fig is. | [
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"text": "If you are squeamish and like figs, this may comfort you.According to a comment in the original post, majority of commercial ones do not contain insects:\"Only some kinds of figs (so called 'Smyrna' types) are pollenated by wasps. The vast majority of figs eaten come from varieties th... | en | 0.968273 |
Groupon Sets Nov. 4 IPO - $11.4B | [
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"text": " +----------------------------------+\n | TODAY'S LIVING SOCIAL DAILY DEAL |\n | |\n | 1 Share of Groupon Stock |\n | |\n | +---------+ |\n | $9.00 | BUY NOW | |\n | ... | en | 0.123059 |
Hackers Turn Burger King’s Tweet Stream Into A Whopper Of A Mess | [
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"text": "The worst part about all of this - to me, anyway - is that they had the opportunity to be clever and funny about it and could have left it at the McDonald's-buys-BK PR stunt with continuing professional-sounding tweets, but instead they wasted their hijack by turning it into the exact... | en | 0.967303 |
A Practical Guide to Using Signed Ruby Gems - Part 1: Bundler | [
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"text": "As a meantime thing, since getting gems properly signed is probably going to take a while, it might be nice if bundler could at least recognize if a gem downloaded after being added to the Gemfile.lock had changed. A hash of the .gem file or the git head sha and an alert if it doesn't... | en | 0.97452 |
Awesome swedish built 8-bit synthesizer inside an old electronic organ | [
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"text": "I like that he plays well known tunes and also shows the composer(s) and year of the tune."
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"text": "In 1998, I actually made the first soft synthesizer in Windows, controlled by MIDI, based on an emulation of the C64's SID chip. I sold 2 copies.Apart from... | en | 0.975249 |
Why VC's invest in Pigs not Chickens | [
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"text": "One nice thing about getting revenue positive is that you can tell people like this to fuck off."
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"text": "As VC firms are not about charity, but profit, I can only understand that they think they are able to buy those who invested their last dollars much ... | en | 0.993003 |
Peers call for a pardon for Alan Turing [video] | [
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"text": "Why not pardon all the other men who were persecuted? Their criminal records should be cleared."
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"score": 1,
"text": "Obligatory "Pardon implies he did something wrong post". they should apologize."
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{
"score": 2,
"text": "Are these symbolic ap... | en | 0.963035 |
Show, Don't Tell | [
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"text": "As a almost total visual thinker, I often get in trouble for taking it too far and basically finishing a project in order to show somebody what my proposal for given project actually is."
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"score": 1,
"text": "From the article: And hey, that \"better search\" thingie y... | en | 0.977786 |
Ask HN: C or Haskell, which to learn next? | [
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"text": "Learn C. So far you've done lots of high level languages, but no low level languages at all. Understanding what things look like at the machine level will make you a much better developer regardless of what language you end up using -- and there's a reason why people refer to C as \... | en | 0.965013 |
Other Examples of Craigslist Spam Tactics [NSFW] | [
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"text": "So I treaded on the dark side at one point, and was hired to write a Craigslist spam application. It was pretty simple and would automatically post to all the Erotic Services sections in all the U.S. localities with randomized (a huge set of varying titles, descriptions and photos - t... | en | 0.961475 |
Show HN: Velocity.js – Accelerated JavaScript animation | [
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"text": "It depresses me to no end that even with impressive engineering advances like this, any modestly graphical intensive app on the browser redlines my dual-core Intel laptop.Similar graphics effects in QT or other native technologies not only do not redline my laptop, they don't eve... | en | 0.88332 |
Apple slips below $600 in first trading day after exec shakeup | [
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"text": "This demonstrates the difference that contextual knowledge makes. Exec ousters are generally a decent indicator to sell. However, those of us who have been following Apple will know that these particular decisions were good, leaving Apple with a cohesive \"four man band.\"Information ... | en | 0.991988 |
Profiling Python with cProfile | [
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"text": "I'd say you had it right the first time with the list comprehension. List comprehensions in python are way faster than while/append loops because they're implemented in C. The issue is that you had the "not in" which is O(n) over a list (making the comprehensi... | en | 0.922212 |
What's New in Scratch 2.0 | [
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"text": "My son is finally make his space shooter the way he envisioned because of the new clone sprite action. Exciting times ahead, here is a pic of him getting down last night:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJ3OudQCQAALZCc.jpg:large"
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"text": "One important thing th... | en | 0.948374 |
Chris Anderson (Wired Editor) explains plagiarism charges | [
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"text": "It's easy to admit guilt when caught red-handed, so I don't give him any credit for that.He copy-pasted from wikipedia, utterly indefensible. He didn't copy a quote from wikipedia, but entire paragraphs. Even WITH attribution that's totally unacceptable. What he calls \"rewriting\" is... | en | 0.962227 |
Decoding Vibrations From Nearby Keyboards With Mobile Phone Accelerometers [pdf] | [
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"text": "While interesting, I don't view it as having much of an impact. Page 6 states that there was a significant training period for their machine learning algorithm that involved sending the bluetooth from the keyboard through the phone to train it.In the real world, if you have compr... | en | 0.964253 |
How Silicon Valley Perfected Ice Cream | [
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"text": ""Freezing speed is correlated with freezing temperature. So if you can freeze it really, really cold, you can get smaller ice crystals. And if you can freeze really cold, you can freeze really fast. The benefit of that is if you make small enough batches you can freeze to order. ... | en | 0.923896 |
If you build it, they won't come, unless... | [
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"text": "Maybe I'm old school, but I think it comes down to work.When I was the publicity directory of a college radio station at a small school, I'd put up 300-400 letter-sized posters to promote a dance with maybe 7-8 distinct designs. This would change the appearance of the campus and pa... | en | 0.981981 |
Ask HN: Best project management tool? | [
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"text": "We've standardized on Github Issues as the PM core, Waffle to prioritize, and Slack to communicate. The tools largely stay out of the way, unlike many of the ones I've used in the past. Give the bureaucrats access to the appropriate rooms on Slack and keep 'em out of ev... | en | 0.904952 |
Ask HN: Why is there no V8 engine-type project for Python or Ruby? | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "> JavaScript was slow until Google worked its magic with the V8 engine. I'm wondering why I haven't seen any project out there trying to do the same for Python or Ruby.Uh, because neither Python nor Ruby is uniquely entrenched in a niche as important to a big, Google-like company ... | en | 0.973388 |
Show HN: Spreadsheets in the browser with Box, Dropbox support | [
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"score": 0,
"text": "It suffers from the same defect all html spreadsheets do (even google docs): if you zoom/resize the screen, row/col alignment breaks.Unbelievable how in this decade it is still almost impossible to make a table work like a spreadsheet in html. How hard would it be to just enforce a co... | en | 0.891656 |
When to refactor code | [
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"text": "Always. The development cycle should be Test, Code, Refactor, as one atomic block of work. Sarah Mei explains why this is vitally important to creating good code in her talk \"Work, Play & Code\", I highly recommend checking it out.http://confreaks.com/videos/2333-mwrc2013-work-pl... | en | 0.95885 |
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