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Kill the settings, build opinionated software | [
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"text": " Some people argue software should be agnostic. They say\n it's arrogant for developers to limit features or ignore \n feature requests. They say software should always be as \n flexible as possible.\n\n\n We think that's bullshit. The best software has a vision. \n The best sof... | en | 0.960556 |
Copyright Holders Punish Themselves With Crazy DMCA Takedowns | [
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"text": "There really needs to be an immediate financial cost associated with incorrect DMCA takedowns.For instance, the entity the requests are made of (in this case Google) should be able to claim money for every false take down request."
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"text": "So basically, t... | en | 0.956979 |
Ask HN: .net vs .com | [
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"text": "First register the .net name while you are thinking. It's only $7 or so..com is better than .net because .net is below the radar for most people. Have you thought of .org It doesnt mean nonprofit. It was set up for everyone else not in the military/industrial complex. Most peopl... | en | 0.967288 |
Ask HN: How to think on the spot and persuade? | [
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"text": "I have no idea what I'm talking about, but if you get lost, you can frame your argument in an analogy and build your way up from there. As long as your argument is rational, you can find parallel examples in almost any topic (especially topics you're deeply familiar with!). This kind ... | en | 0.965608 |
Komanda: IRC Client For Developers | [
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"text": "Is this an IRC client or an IRC server?Looking at the code, it appears to be a client, but in that case why does the site talk about it providing support for "Channels, Users, Permission, Private, Public and much more", why does it claim it makes my channel contents more sec... | en | 0.926026 |
Ask HN: Founders: Interested in earning extra cash? | [
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"text": "I'd be super interested in this. Been working on a startup full-time but might have to look for contract work soon. I think the value add of something like this is having you curate the job listings for entrepreneurs and you being able to convince companies the value of our uniq... | en | 0.95293 |
UI responsiveness: OSX vs. Windows, iOS vs. Android | [
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"text": "Speaking of anecdotes, I have always found Windows more responsive than OS X to the point where I have completely switched to Win 7 - mouse handling and screen drawing is definitely superior on Windows.However it is easier on Windows to mess up the experience - install some crappy ant... | en | 0.974356 |
Kickstarter: Shorter project durations lead to higher funding rates | [
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"text": "Also interesting in the graph, 30, 45, 60, and 90 day durations are quite popular and significantly poorer at getting funded than other durations.Is the kind of person that picks a number like that less able to write a convincing story? Is there something about seeing those unthoughtf... | en | 0.964866 |
Ant colony simulator | [
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"text": "A more piecemeal simulation released by Maxis back in 1991. Possibly some inspirations (red ants vs black ants, food represented in green circles/spheres):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt"
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"text": "\"- Magnifier:zoom in and zoom out.\"Aw, I was hoping ... | en | 0.910234 |
Apple didn't revolutionize power supplies; new transistors did | [
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"text": "It's a pleasant surprise to see my old power supply article on the front page of HN today. I'd never given much thought to power supplies before researching that article and there's a lot more to their history than I expected. In particular, Robert Boschert seems like h... | en | 0.968375 |
Aldous Huxley was right, not George Orwell | [
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"text": "This is a false dichotomy. It's quite possible - and indeed, probably much more likely - that aspects of both are becoming bigger parts of our lives at the same time.\nThese two aspects of human culture - authoritarianism and dissipation have always been with us, this isn't new; 'dic... | en | 0.986906 |
Bitmessage - a P2P communications protocol to send encrypted messages | [
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"text": "Why does nobody use URIs? At least bittorrent magnet links got this right.We have standards for a reason, guys.Furthermore, any system in which all nodes receive all messages will not scale. Additionally, without proof-of-work, it is trivial to disable the network through flooding."... | en | 0.949014 |
The man behind FAKEGRIMLOCK | [
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"text": "Can someone explain the downvoting of FAKEGRIMLOCK's comments? I find them insightful, substantive, and hilarious, but is some HN norm being stepped on?"
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"text": "I really appreciated the candidness on getting out of the midwest. I love home. Born and rais... | en | 0.979088 |
ORNL invention unravels mystery of protein folding | [
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"text": "URL of their paper in PLoS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna..."
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"text": "Short URL to the patent at USPTO: http://1.usa.gov/plfTg3I am not a specialist in protein folding, so take it with a grain of salt, but from the figur... | en | 0.839174 |
America Loses Its Dominant Economic Role | [
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"text": "\"Also on display is the end of arrogance. The Americans are now paying the price for their pride.\"Pure schadenfreude, most of it. Kind of sad, really, given that Der Spiegel has a reputation for serious content. Most of the criticism of US policy is valid, as far as it goes. And,... | en | 0.96574 |
Not Sharing Is Caring | [
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"text": "I'm going to drag out another cstross quote (from Accelerando[1]):\"[...] his suitcase is on its way to Mombasa, where it will probably be pithed and resurrected in the service of some African cyber-Fagin. That's okay by Manfred — it only contains a statistically normal mixture of sec... | en | 0.957424 |
South African province spends $15.4M (140M ZAR) on WordPress site | [
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"text": "The causes behind this are truly more systemic than mere corruption, and actually pull at the very root of problems in Africa and many developing economies in the current tech environment.In USA/Europe/increasing in China and India, basic tech and internet projects are fairly well und... | en | 0.930581 |
Don't Blame Jim Cramer | [
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"text": "I think this writer is missing the point just like Cramer did on Stewart.The New York Times doesn't have subpoena power, but there are still a non-zero number of people in power who limit their shenanigans because they're terrified of ending up on the front page.The government has a r... | en | 0.978826 |
April Fools Day jQuery plugin | [
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"text": "Note: hiddenVideos has a number of mildly nsfw videos. Turn off your speakers before clicking!The first one I got just kept repeating \"surprise mother f*er\".The full list of YouTube ids for the curious: videos = ['Prhzzqc0aFQ', 'UwB9m4FslO4', 'LH5ay10RTGY', 'DkQ83yLqpJE', 'T6j4f8c... | en | 0.937971 |
US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook | [
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"text": "Sigh, don't panic, the system will work, just legislative time is not internet time. As far as I can tell by reading the order [1] the order is temporary, and as its from a district judge [2] really only holds for Nevada at the moment. If it gets to the appeals process and the circuit... | en | 0.988107 |
Apple's CPU lead Jim Keller heads back to AMD | [
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"text": "A few points of interest here which Venture Beat have skipped:1. Keller's company, PA, was bought by Apple mainly for its engineering talent. Getting Keller was a huge deal for Apple.2. Keller has been hired away by Mark Papermaster, who was a disaster at Apple (all of Bob Mansfield's... | en | 0.988216 |
Cappuccino (YC Winter 08) Brings Cocoa-Like Programming To The Web | [
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"text": "So, in order to layout an interface you programmatically create it? And so a designer has to learn yet another language for layout?We made the mistake of adopting GWT a while back and it's been nothing but headaches.Now instead of the designers being able to directly design in HTML (... | en | 0.952619 |
Surprises | [
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"text": "\"Now, when coding, I try to think: 'how can I write this such that if people saw my code, they’d be amazed at how little there is and how little it does'.\"golden. i've been trying to pound this concept into my head lately, and this is a very well-stated version of it."
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Comparison of DVCS hosting - Github, Bitbucket, Assembla, Unfuddle, Kiln & more | [
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"text": "I know that the author says this is a high level overview... but the extra features that DVCS hosting companies add on top of repository hosting is practically the entire value-add of using a repository hosting site vs. setting up your own server or just dropboxing your git projects.... | en | 0.904074 |
An American doctor experiences an NHS emergency room | [
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"text": "I actually have directly relevant experience to the question of "What happens if you get something in your eye in the US and need to see a doctor urgently?" Don't read the following if you're squeamish.About a year and a half ago, I dropped my iPad while on a flig... | en | 0.935648 |
Scientists Say Their Giant Laser Has Produced Nuclear Fusion | [
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"text": "Here's the paper.http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...They would like to charge you $32 to look at it, nature-ally.The fusion yield is (?) 14 kilojoules (inferring this from physicist Mark Herrman's "5 mi... | en | 0.67551 |
Dropbox Hires Rasmus Andersson, Facebook’s Mobile Design Guru | [
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"text": "It seems like they are scoring a lot of really big power players from other great companies. Does it seem like everyone is going there until it goes public for the payout?"
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"text": "Facebook has mobile design? Maybe he did the decent bits, and feel free t... | en | 0.97743 |
Ask HN: Require a sign-up or allow anonymous/guest users? | [
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"text": "This is an interesting question that I'd love to hear other opinions on.My idea that I haven't gotten to implement yet: Make it possible for the user to get started without logging in, then force them to create an account after they've started playing around.The particular application... | en | 0.969542 |
Should Your Start Up Go Static or Dynamic? | [
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"text": "The definition given for dynamic and static languages is not very good. The main difference is that a statically typed language has type checks preformed at compile time and a dynamically typed language has them preformed at runtime. My intro CS professor had a really good explanation... | en | 0.972878 |
Actually I use Rdio, Not Spotify, Your Link Is No Good To Me | [
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"text": "This is exactly the problem that http://toma.hk and http://www.tomahawk-player.org are trying to solve.Their approach: your library becomes (title, artist, album) tuples, and then songs are found at whatever provider you use when you want to listen.The devs are mostly ex-Amarok and ev... | en | 0.907995 |
How Bitcoins Involved in Crime Can Be Seized by the Feds | [
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"text": "Hypothetical: Suppose you owned a car, and this was stolen. If the car were sold intact, then presumably you could reclaim the car from the buyer because of the nemo dat rule.But now suppose the thief sold the car to a salvage yard. The salvage yard breaks the car down into scrap meta... | en | 0.985366 |
Localtunnel.me | [
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"text": "Author of the project here.I want to clarify why this project exists (as many seem to point out that other projects or methods exist for doing this).TL;DR; If you think of localtunnel as just a shitty ngrok (or name your project here), you are missing the point and probably don't... | en | 0.945956 |
What I would like to see from Microsoft regarding OSS | [
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"text": "I was going to say stop using the Ms-PL[1] license but when I checked both ASP MVC[2] and TypeScript[3] are licensed under Apache. Good decision.[1]http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/openness/licenses.aspx[2]http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/license[3]http://typescript.codeplex.com/licen... | en | 0.952378 |
Sunsets in Google Calendar using R | [
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"text": "I always miss meteor showers. I live in the city so I have to drive for about 30 minutes to see one BUT if the sky cover is over 10% covered it isn't worth it and the moon needs to be gone. I think I might try to figure out a way to let me know when the conditions of a meteor sho... | en | 0.965959 |
Don't Store Passwords, Generate Them When Needed | [
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"text": "However, this IS a master password only with a salted hash added on top. From the FAQ it uses a phrase like \"Tubby loves tacos!facebook\" runs it through SHA1 and spits out Facebook's password. Someone who shoulder surfs your keyphrase can now use this technique to generate passwor... | en | 0.955758 |
Steve Wozniak gives jailbreaking the thumbs up, wishes iTunes supported Android | [
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"text": "BREAKING: hacker nerd who has had nothing to do with Apple for 3 decades takes positions markedly different from Apple orthodoxy.Woz always takes very predictably pro-hacker positions; I'm not clear why we regard it as news when he does."
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"text": "The itun... | en | 0.97325 |
On software communities, "Rock star" programmers, and... Linus | [
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"text": "This is a low-quality essay that is not worth discussing directly. (Meta-note: see, it's possible to have firm opinions without being abusive).I just want to add that there are plenty of outstanding engineers with very high standards who lead projects without going on the kinds of ab... | en | 0.919711 |
The Moore's Law blowout sale is ending | [
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"text": "Whenever I'm wondering if Moore's law is still prevailing as a trailing indicator, I check out: http://www.top500.org/statistics/perfdevel/If that (logarithmic) chart starts to flatten - particularly for device #500 (more price sensitive than the fi... | en | 0.84296 |
Into the Bitcoin Mines | [
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"text": "Whenever I see advances in mining rigs I just hope that someone invents a cryptocurrency where the mining actually does some useful work, like protein folding."
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"text": "Couple weeks ago these photos from a Hong Kong based mining facility floated up, prett... | en | 0.918422 |
Greenspan Says Bitcoin a Bubble Without Intrinsic Currency Value | [
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"text": "Who is Greenspan? Oh right, the fella who advocated for 1999 banking deregulation [1] and 2001/2003 tax cuts that encouraged a historic boom (and subsequent bust) -- cleverly calling the direct consequences of his own policies "Irrational Exuberance".[1] http:/&#... | en | 0.664255 |
How I “hacked” Kayak and booked a cheaper flight | [
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"text": "No. I work for an OTA (not Kayak). First of all airlines file their fare rules and OTAs don't change the prices, and generally airlines pay around $10 to us to book a RT fare so there is little room to discount. Kayak is a meta which means all they do is present prices they are g... | en | 0.967342 |
How I Made Porn Video Streaming More Efficient with Python and C | [
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"text": "Agreed that RTMP is an abomination that needs to be exorcised from the Earth as soon as possible. Unfortunately, it is probably here to stay until something like WebRTC gains critical mass.It's not clear what the article means by \"repackaging\" a stream or \"pointers\" to tags (espec... | en | 0.954665 |
Typewriters live on in New York police department | [
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"text": "There's one argument in there that's semi-sensible: in case of a power outage, it would seem important for the police to be able to continue processing data. Yes, aggregates help, but keeping everyone's desktop computer running isn't as effective as limiting it to critical systems (an... | en | 0.951445 |
Prediction: This Statement Is Going To Come Back To Bite Microsoft In The Ass | [
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"text": "Comment in question“It looks like the iPhone 4 might be their Vista, and I’m okay with that.“ -Microsoft COO Kevin Turnerfor people who like me aren't fan of TCSource: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9179164/Microsoft_exe..."
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"text": "A more apt com... | en | 0.917226 |
Runa is hiring Clojure developers | [
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"text": "What do people on HN think of the idea behind this startup? Do you think it has the potential to be huge and/or a good acquisition target? Would you apply/Are you applying for this job? Why or why not?It certainly sounds like they have everything (business case /tech etc) well laid o... | en | 0.970384 |
Say “no” to import side‐effects in Python | [
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"text": "Would anyone like to share their experiences avoiding this sort of problem in the context of web frameworks and building the back end for larger web sites/apps?As an example for discussion, the first time I wrote a Flask-based back-end, I backed myself into a corner almost immedi... | en | 0.934207 |
How Twitter Killed My Fish | [
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"text": "Hi everyone. Author here. Gotta say I loved all the comments. My blog followers are all so nice. It feels good to get some real criticism for once :)Relying on Twitter was a truly bonehead move, to be sure. Truly a "bang head here" kind of moment.However, if trusting Tw... | en | 0.979268 |
Ask HN: What language should I learn? | [
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"text": "Asking which language you should learn is like walking into a wood shop and asking which tool you should learn to use. Screw the tools, just build something and grab whichever tools you feel are right for the job along the way.I never could learn a programming language for the sake o... | en | 0.984118 |
Which web development framework has largest and active community? | [
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"text": "You might want to be aware of this too:\nhttp://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r7&hw=i7...Interpreted language-based frameworks tends to be the slowest ones to perform"
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"text": "Just going on community size is rarely a... | en | 0.900761 |
A Critique of “Don’t Fuck Up The Culture” | [
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"text": "I wonder if this is just a strong contrarian streak in me, but I've always been extremely suspicious of "company culture" anywhere I've worked. Almost any real culture is implicit; it's not designed. I think it's because growing up watching a lot of cable... | en | 0.878528 |
Ruby is faster than Python, PHP, and Perl | [
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"text": "Did anyone else find it strange that Ruby only beat Python and PHP in the median range? On both ends Python and PHP are both quite faster. I don't really know how to read this thing, but I feel like this title is probably misleading?"
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"text": "The author s... | en | 0.991651 |
Portal as a required college text | [
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"text": "I appreciate the idea, but I have a major issue with it. I personally get motion sick from playing various kinds of first person games. (The problem first showed up for me with Doom.)Judging from videos I've seen, Portal would be exactly the kind of game that I can't comfortably pla... | en | 0.986087 |
Chinese cows (GM) to produce human milk. To be sold in 3 years. | [
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"text": "\"It's good,\" said worker Jiang Yao. \"It's better for you because it's genetically modified.\"Flawless argument."
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"text": "Apart from the usual \"Oh no, we're playing God\" kneejerk reactions, do we really know enough about genetic modifications to be ma... | en | 0.961049 |
Ask HN: I need advice getting a junior Rails dev job | [
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"text": "My advice for technical interviews as a non-CS major (I am making that assumption) would be:Don't be afraid to admit what you don't know, but stress that you are a quick learner and that you will constantly be improving.If they give you a technical question and you are unabl... | en | 0.967829 |
Stored Hashcash | [
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"text": "Your post advocates a(X) technical ( ) legislative (X) market-based ( ) vigilanteapproach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from sta... | en | 0.885792 |
Sony Shuts Down PlayStation Network Indefinitely | [
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"text": "This is exactly why PC gaming isn't dead.What I don't understand is why online gaming is huge for the one American console maker, but lags so far behind with the two Japanese manufacturers when for years and years we are told how wired Asia is. The Wii is too casual and Sony just does... | en | 0.9746 |
Steve Jobs Doesn't Want Shit In His App Store, And Neither Do I | [
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"text": "I have collected screenshots of 39 apps from the App Store: http://nativegui.posterous.com/ It's just a small fraction of what you can find there. I think they are all written in Objective-C. Now, what's the argument again?"
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"text": "Are we really still ha... | en | 0.971996 |
Comcast and Netflix now have a direct adjacency | [
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"text": "It would be funny if netflix just looked for one of their hubs/datacenters and moved in next door on purpose.ISPs are common carriers and must be regulated as such, because as soon as Comcast makes its own netflix-like service, you can forget getting netflix to stream smoothly."
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Ask HN: Python for commercial desktop software? | [
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"text": "Look at javascript heavy websites. True, they aren't (usually) giving away the source for their backend, but javascript, even obfuscated, is 'source', and relatively easy to reverse-engineer.py2exe and py2app do a reasonable job of packaging up your python program into .exe/.app for d... | en | 0.937769 |
Basics of Neural Networks with example codes and illustrations | [
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"text": "Does anyone have any examples of areas where neural networks beat out statistical based methods, other than maybe image recognition? I can't even think of another major area where they dominate.- Search engines use algorithms, not neural nets.- The most popular algorithm on Kaggl... | en | 0.907935 |
Alarm clocks wake me angry, lightlywake.me | [
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"text": "Eh, I seriously wouldn't rely on a website to wake me up. Computer pukes. Power outage. Etc. I'll stick with my trusty cell phone which will stay powered up even through a power outage. BTW, my song is \"I got you babe\" by Sonny and Cher. +1 for anyone who get's the joke. ;)"
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Five laws of human nature | [
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"text": "How are these relevant to each-other? What's the purpose of this article? If we’re just making an arbitrary list, there are hundreds of similar phenomena we could include. These five certainly aren’t exhaustive, and they don’t strike me as representative either.This article seems more... | en | 0.961963 |
The Care and Feeding of Entrepreneurs (Interview with Guy Kawasaki) | [
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"text": "From the interview:The more I meet with entrepreneurs the less I think I can pick them. Sure, there are stereotypes: bright, aggressive, enthusiastic, young, etc. But there are many successful entrepreneurs that don’t come off this way.The richest vein I have seen is two guys/gals who... | en | 0.947149 |
Boyfriend Required | [
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"text": "I can't even fathom how awful it would be to date with someone that has such stringent \"requirements\". What happened to falling for someone awesome who you meet and get on like fire with?Honestly, if she finds someone based on this, good on her, but she sounds extremely boring.\"Fav... | en | 0.978806 |
How AT&T Recognizes Unauthorized Tethering from Jailbroken iPhones | [
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"text": "Last week at a conference, I spoke briefly to an engineer from one of the large two US telcos on this issue. He indicated they utilized a variety of methods, including utilized fingerprinting of the IP/TCP headers, and protocol analysis to help identify traffic. Specifically, I heard ... | en | 0.964708 |
Twitter Ordered To Hand Over WikiLeaks Supporters’ Account Information | [
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"text": "I wonder if these types of legally-enforced privacy intrusions will bring about a new design goal for web-app builders: making retrieval of this information impossible for the service provider.It's one thing for Twitter to promise not to give your information to government entities un... | en | 0.933313 |
Ask HN: Is there a Hacker News Meet Up in Austin? | [
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"text": "I'm interested!Also consider the (physical) hacker community at http://www.atxhackerspace.org/ or one of the many co-working spaces. Sunday daytime will be easier for bars, less so for restaurants. Only a couple of coffee shops have space you can reserve; Genuine Joe has one I've us... | en | 0.948797 |
Cloudflare’s CDNJS vs. Google Hosted Libraries | [
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"text": "I'm not sure what using wget is supposed to show.\nUsing it 25 times in a row on a completely stable, completely idle 25mbps connection, I get speeds/times that vary by 100% consistently(IE min is 496k/s, max is 895k/s, average is about 600k/s)Using wget is a completely useless benchm... | en | 0.964331 |
Ask HN: How many lines of code per day? | [
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"text": "Dunno. SLOC just isn't an important enough metric to track. Here's an example of why that is:http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s..."
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"text": "When it comes to maintaining most software projects, the number I hope to achieve on ev... | en | 0.913055 |
Canon to begin acquisition of the ".canon" Top-Level Domain name | [
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"text": "I am th only one who hate the idea of generic top-level domains? Will their web site be accessible just as http://.canon? ."
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"text": "\"With the adoption of the new gTLD system, which enables the direct utilization of the Canon brand, Canon hopes to global... | en | 0.879797 |
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