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Title: I was recently chatting with friends and the question came up: When hiring a programmer, FizzBuzz is sometimes (and controversially) used as an initial filter. What's an equivalent filter for mathematicians?<p>I know that HN is filled with people who have specializations outside of programming, so I ask:<p><pre><code> What is your specialization, and what is your "FizzBuzz" equivalent? </code></pre> <i>Added in edit: Fascinating answers - thank you. I'd love to respond to many of them but that would probably trip the HN flame-war detector, penalise the item, and I'd get no more replies! If you want a reply, email me, or make sure your email is in your profile. And thanks again to all.</i> Upvote:	260
Title: PS: Assuming a REST architecture. Upvote:	268
Title: For those who have side projects with Monthly Revenue > 1000. How do you effectively drive traffic to your site? Upvote:	166
Title: Given the amount of people asking for alternatives in the Evernote thread making the waves right now and since I’ve been looking for one for a while now, figured I ask what others use.<p>OneNote, Simplenote, org-mode seem to be some popular ones. Upvote:	41
Title: I went back to school recently for a 2 year master's degree in information science (think: UI/UX, data science, databases, statistics), and the program strongly recommends doing an internship at a tech company during the summer in between the years. However, I'm going to be 31 this year, and I assume most of my competition for the positions are going to be in the 18-22 range. Will managers at SV-type tech companies (probably younger than me) even look at my application? My background mostly linux sysadmin-ing and bioinformatics, looking to get into more analytic/statistical work like BI. Upvote:	49
Title: Hi everyone, I am organizing a crowdfunding campaign to give blankets/food/books/glasses and new year's postcards to 1000 homeless people in San Francisco.<p>Since we as the residents already spend a lot of money on the homelessness issue in SF via government(200MM+/year), I thought some of us would be willing to take a more active role in fixing this issue by donating to campaigns like this one(and to more sustainable ones). So, I am thinking of turning this campaign into a crowdfunding platform for activists and organizations that want to work on homelessness related issues in San Francisco.<p>I wanted to share the campaign here thinking you might like the idea & might want to share your thoughts on it: https://operationsflove.com<p>So far the supporters have been mostly my friends but I believe this could go viral with some improvement.<p>Would love hear what you all think, Thanks, Seckin Upvote:	45
Title: Since it's such a famous and lauded book, I figured that perhaps I should pick it up and give it a stab. I've read conflicting opinions on it: that it's a timeless classic which intersects mathematics with philosophy and whimsical humor, that it's pretentious or that it's now outdated.<p>What do you guys think? Is it worth it? Upvote:	54
Title: Clarification: This is not meant with any ill-will towards PG or any of the other individuals who help run HN. It is a simple request for a postmortem <i>eventually</i>. Perhaps it's an unneeded request, but I think a lot of HNers echo the sentiment. Upvote:	330
Title: I'm (and probably others, hopefully) will be interested in knowing where you spent your online surfing time in place of HN. As a person learning programming for the first time, I spent most of the time on r/learnprogramming, r/learnpython, r/ python and Google Groups for the Python mailing list.<p>What of you? Upvote:	53
Title: Lately while conducting a job search, I've been running in to company after company that just seem to want another cog in their feature grinding machine. I've been having a hard time finding software engineering jobs that are more than just "crank out web application features" smoothly put as "solving hard problems".<p>Does your company have a job that is more than just code monkeying? Please post it in this thread with explanation of why it's more. Upvote:	59
Title: Hey there, I'm Irish, and here our banks are shady and private. The government owns most of them (through bailouts) yet still there's little to no transparency - they act as the please, grabbing as much profit off their customers as possible. Most people here hate their bank and would gladly move to a half decent alternative, but of course there is none. It's identical in most countries nowadays, including the US. I think we can all agree that fundamentally, the finance industry is backward, greedy and corrupt. It needs to change.<p>Here's the idea: An open source, upfront, transparant and <i>humane</i> bank driven not by profit but by the passion to simply create a bank that people like and enjoy using.<p>A few key ideas or keystones might include:<p><pre><code> * Transparant/Open Source * Non Profit * Great Customer Support * Few and fair fees * Great User Experience * Mobile First (cliche I know..) * Open API </code></pre> This wouldn't just be a projects for fellow developers. We'd need designers, lawyers, and people involved in banks who are dissatisfied at the current status quo (after all we'll need a partner bank in every country we want to operate in to avoid logistical nightmares). I really think it could be a project anyone could help out in - Think of it as a generation coming together to drag one of the biggest industries in the world into the 21st century.<p>By partnering with a local bank in each country, it would cut out a lot of issue logistically, making the project a lot easier to implement than just building a new bank from the ground up.<p>Any thoughts?<p>By the way, my email address is npaterson1 [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested/want to know more :) Niall<p>P.S Regarding Credit Unions, I can see why people are bringing them up but mcuy issue with them is that they don't offer stuff like checking accounts, atms etc, aren't really open that much, are exceptionally slow at allowing you withdraw and are completely offline. That's just my experience, but I don't think you could actually <i>bank</i> with a credit union, which is what I'm trying to get at.<p>P.P.S I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part.<p>EDIT: A lot of people are asking something along the lines of 'well this works when it comes to banking, what else is there to it?'. I think banking is a really really backward system, there's so much you could do, simple tiny things that would make experiences so much more pleasant. Here's an example: Imagine if your bank account had a profile, almost like a social network, and you could go to someone else's profile and quickly see recent transactions you've had with them. I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different, and I really feel there's lots more that can be done with banking from a tech pov. I don't get why we have to assume banking is as advanced as it can be, it's clearly not. Upvote:	60
Title: What do you think is the best way to get the lowest risk, 5% annual return on a million dollars?<p>I'm also interested in how you could get 8% or 10%, though I know that would likely include more risk. Upvote:	47
Title: We (TrueVault), released our HIPAA compliant file storage today. Our BLOB Store is not a cloud file backup service like Box or Dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. During our beta period in December, early adopters are using the BLOB Store to store X-Rays, CT Scans, MRIs, PDFs, scanned medical records, images, and videos.<p>You can upload, update, delete, and download any binary file via our REST API.<p>We are also beta testing a browser-to-TrueVault direct file upload and download web form. If you would like to join the beta, please email us at [email protected]<p>API: https://www.truevault.com/rest-api.html<p>Blob post about its release: https://www.truevault.com/blog/hipaa-compliant-file-storage.html<p>Love to get your feedback. Upvote:	52
Title: Hello,<p>As a developer and a gamer I always wanted to make games, but I never actually did it. To change that I threw myself a public challenge: build a new game every week in html5 using Phaser (a javascript framework).<p>The games are quite simple for now, but that's because I'm still learning. Let me know if you have any feedback on the games or the website.<p>Link: www.lessmilk.com<p>Thanks! Upvote:	73
Title: Dear HN,<p>Two years ago you joined in fighting back against dangerous Internet censorship legislation during the SOPA protests. You blacked out your websites, lobbied your employers to do the same, and started creative campaigns to defeat a threat to freedom on the Internet.<p>As was often the case, Aaron Swartz said it best: “[We defeated SOPA] because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story.” [1]<p>In the last 6 months it’s been revealed that government agencies, like the NSA and GCHQ, have twisted laws to create the legal and technical infrastructure for mass surveillance. Surveillance precipitates a dark form of censorship: people become afraid to speak freely. It undermines our security and restricts our ability to communicate privately.<p>With SOPA we had a clear goal: defeat a specific bill. In this case, we have promising bills (like the USA Freedom Act) and terrible ones (the FISA Improvements Act). But if progress is to be made, we need to send a message to our legislators that we won’t let the Internet be turned into a tool for mass surveillance. We need to push them to have the courage to support comprehensive reform.<p>Today, on the eve of the anniversary of Aaron’s death, we’d like to ask you to step up once again in defense of a free, open and secure Internet. In memory of Aaron, we’d ask that you to join us in a month of activism, culminating in a day of action on February 11th.<p>Our organizations—Demand Progress, EFF, and others—will be doing everything we can. We’re creating a banner that sites can add on the day and built a campaign website [2]. But for this to be a real success, each of us must again be the hero of their own story.<p>Will you join us?<p>Rainey Reitman, Activism Director, EFF<p>David Segal, Co-founder, Demand Progress<p>Cory Doctorow, Co-editor of Boing Boing<p>[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/freedom_to_connect_aaron_swartz_1986<p>[2] https://thedaywefightback.org Upvote:	681
Title: dropbox.com Upvote:	130
Title: Work queue has always been one of the most hot points in server software. Here is how to scale it effectively to multi-core environment. Upvote:	57
Title: I don't want to make this sound like a scene out of Glengarry, but as a early stage how do you manage your high quality leads?<p>(I've got about 40,000 leads that I pulled together. There's a good blog post in this story if I get the time).<p>At the moment, I have a excel document with lots of fields and contact information, and I essentially work my way through it individually emailing each recipient.<p>Each converted lead is worth upwards of several hundred (to a few thousand $ per year)... so it totally makes sense to research each customer correctly and spend the time to approach them with a highly customised email about why our product is a great fit for them.<p>The problem I have is keeping track of where I am and who I have already emailed. Once you start getting one hundred names down the list, and then you start having an open discussion with a few dozen customers, it becomes a minefield to remember each conversation chain you are having.<p>Do you use CRMs for this and handle the emailing through the CRM, or do you use a sales pipeline management tool?<p>What are your thoughts (and possible experiences with existing CRMs)? Upvote:	41
Title: I added this code as a comment to a thread that was almost all the way off the front page by the time I got to it. It was a response to some 'functional folks' criticizing the verbosity of c#. While you can certainly do c# the java way, you can also do it in a <i>near</i> functional way.<p>I decided to post the code as a full submission because I think c# often gets dismissed as Java copy-cat, which hasn't been true in a decade.<p>The code (non-destructive, no side effects) calculates square roots :<p><pre><code> public static void Main() { const int n = 21; Observable.Generate<double,double>(1, x=>true, x=> 0.5 * (x + (n/x)), x=>x ) .Scan(new {prv = 0d, cur = 0d}, (prev, curr) => new {prv = prev.cur, cur = curr}) .FirstAsync(_ => Math.Abs(_.cur - _.prv) < 1E-10) .Select(_ => _.cur) .Subscribe(Console.WriteLine); // this is just to compare values, so is not part of the solution Console.WriteLine(Math.Sqrt(n)); Console.ReadLine(); } </code></pre> Read the more OO c# implementation that inspired me here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044497<p>Read the Haskell code that inspired both here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043943 Upvote:	111
Title: I believe the expired link issue came from using a new lisp feature, but I'm curious if there is any plans to fix it?<p>It's a little annoying since I constantly pickup tabs that are a day old, and have to start from the beginning. Hopefully I'm not the only one on HN with that issue. Upvote:	96
Title: So I dropped out of school recently for various personal reasons. I just couldn't cope. I can't get a job, obviously. So I figure freelancing is my only shot.<p>I've been programming since I was like 12. I'm primarily a web developer. I know Ruby, JavaScript (Node & client), and the obvious CSS, HTML, et al.<p>How do I actually get clients? I have no portfolio or any real open source contributions. My GitHub profile is pretty empty. And I doubt anyone would hire me due to my age. Upvote:	52
Title: OSX Terminal: hold option and click a position in the current line to move your cursor to that position. #yearslost Upvote:	1145
Title: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html Upvote:	597
Title: HN went down for nearly all of Monday the 6th. I suspected failing hardware.<p>I configured a new machine that is nearly identical to the old one, but using ZFS instead of UFS. This machine can tolerate the loss of up to two disks. I switched over to it early morning on the 16th, around 1AM PST.<p>Performance wasn't great. Timeouts were pretty frequent. I looked into it quickly, couldn't see anything obvious, and decided to sleep on it. I switched back to the old server, expecting to call it a night.<p>Then the old server went down. Again. The filesystem was corrupted. Again. So I switched back to the new server. During this switch some data was lost, but hopefully no more than an hour.<p>And here we are. I'm sorry that performance is poor, but we're up. I'll work to speed things up as soon as I can, and I'll provide a better write-up once things are over. I'm also really sorry for the data loss, both on the 6th and today. Upvote:	273
Title: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html and http://openbsd.org/want.html Upvote:	825
Title: How do you respond to someone who says they are interested in acquiring your business (especially a potential competitor) but won't make an offer until you share your financals and other confidential data? Do you ask them to make an offer without seeing the books first or share your data, hoping they make an offer, but realizing you're sharing confidential info? And how do you differentiate serious offers from time wasters who will chew all your time only to either not offer or low-ball after seeing your financial state? Can you get away with saying: "I'm not sharing you anything until you make an offer?" But then how can you obligate them to that?<p>And what if they are adamant that they won't make an offer until they see your books and do due diligence? I would think that if investors can make a Term Sheet commitment contingent on due diligence, so can you do that with potential acquirers. But they don't seem to see it that way?<p>Here's some suggestions we've gotten, but I don't know what is common place or accepted:<p>* Tell potential acquirers that they must first submit a Contingent Offer providing your books substantiate certain minimum metrics.<p>* Tell potential acquirers that they have to pay for your time in doing due diligence, setting a flat rate (say, $20k for sake of argument), with the amount counting as a non-refundable deposit towards the acquisition amount<p>* Use a trusted third party to do a due diligence review, providing your information to the third-party who will not disclose it to the acquirer, but only verify certain required facts or due diligence requests. The Trusted third party inspects the books and doesn't disclose them to the acquirer but knows their desired metrics.<p>* Breakup fee that penalizes them for walking away.<p>* Confidentiality agreement with huge damages for disclosing any of the information outside a small group of people in the acquiring company. Upvote:	105
Title: For the sake of argument, suppose this is right after the 1st summer founders program or right after the talk you gave at Harvard, whichever is more interesting. Upvote:	171
Title: I was going through my bookmarks and found this:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394 Upvote:	148
Title: I'm an iOS developer. I'm decent and have launched a couple of apps. With bluetooth LE and multipeer connectivity, I am very interested in learning about building a hardware device that pairs with my iPhone. Where can I go to learn more about prototyping? Upvote:	108
Title: Hi HN - I'm the founder of People Food (pplfood.com). We cater delicious, healthy lunches to startups in SF for only $7 meal.<p>We're planning on scaling to >300 heads per day in the next few weeks, so we'd like to do a free test run with 5-7 additional companies for the rest of this week. We can deliver to zipcodes 94102, 94103, 94104, 94105, 94107, 94108, 94109, 94110, 94111, 94124, 94133 and have a meat & vegan meal available everyday.<p>If you're interested in getting free lunch this week, just leave a comment w/ your company name & info or send me an email at support [at] pplfood.com. Really appreciate your help! Upvote:	46
Title: This post gave me the motivation to give it another try: https://medium.com/business-startup-development-and-more/e0937c7f0951<p>Previous years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 Upvote:	395
Title: "This course covers functional, object-oriented, and declarative dataflow programming in a unified framework."<p>Probably a fantastic course that follows CTM, which I have always thought to be in many respects SICP's sequel: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConceptsTechniquesAndModelsOfComputerProgramming Upvote:	45
Title: During the maintenance window the site will be intermittently available, with varying degrees of responsiveness.<p>Tweaking our storage configuration a bit. Upvote:	91
Title: I am in Italy and I need help. I hope there is anyone here on HN that can help me. I am a Computer Science student, I started 3 years ago the course because I LOVE PROGRAMMING. My only wish is to get away from here. It's like a trap. I have to thank the internet for connecting me to the outside world. It feels like it's the only way out for me and I am obsessed. Thing is "startups" here are hell, lots of bureaucracy and so on. I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do <i>anything</i> to get my way out.<p>I study EVERY DAY so hard, University here is a mess, bad management and few very good professors. I know how to program, I have a strong passion for algorithms, data structure and complexity analysis. In addition I try to learn new things in my free time, like other programming languages, tools, etc. You know, I am in my third and final year and if it wasn't for my curiosity now I would have no knowledge at all for REST, Python or even Maven! (Just saying)<p>I feel trapped, I am trapped. Jobs here in enterprises are that trap, you can get a job, maybe programming in Java, and stay there forever. Because here is how the things works. I can't get my way out. I would like to pursue my educational career and I hope that my applications to English University succeed but still it's just a try.<p>I don't expect anything more from my situation, I really hope that someone can point me to the right direction or at least give some help.<p>Thank you HN and sorry for this post, but I had no other chance. Upvote:	76
Title: Configure GNU Emacs (24.3 or above) to avoid distraction. Upvote:	294
Title: I have a SaaS app with a 14 day free trial. I take CC details as part of the signup process so I have card details for users who are in the trial recorded in Stripe.<p>Currently, if a user doesn't unsubscribe during the trial then they are automatically charged for their first month once their trial has ended.<p>Is it proper etiquette to warn them about this or should I just charge them and say nothing? Should I be sending them an email which says something along the lines of "Hope you enjoyed your trial. You card will be charged tomorrow."?<p>Edit: Just to stimulate the discussion a little bit more because it seems like the responses are one sided...<p>The reason I'm asking is because Optimizely recently charged my card for €168.00 after a free trial ended on me. No warning was issued. We all know how much money they make so perhaps this works out ok for them?<p>For completeness, they refunded immediately once I challenged the charge. Upvote:	70
Title: Hi<p>Can somebody with enough karma create a poll with salary ranges for software engineers in Berlin?<p>Or you could post here, if you have something to share.<p>Thank you! Upvote:	51
Title: For your service, do you reach out to potential customers without any referral or lead? If you do, how well does it work? Do you have any advice? Upvote:	90
Title: In five minutes, the creator and BDFL of Python Guido van Rossum will give a talk at LinkedIn, Mountain View about Tulip (asynchronous I/O for Python 3). Upvote:	43
Title: To celebrate the 30 year anniversary or the Mac, Steven Levy released an unseen and raw interview with Steve Jobs. Upvote:	46
Title: Is gmail down in your country?<p>Colombia +1 Upvote:	971
Title: What are some relatively-cheap ways of hosting your own secure email server that's easy to bring back up in case of power outages or other common reasons for downtime?<p>This was initially inspired by and posted on the "Gmail is down" thread, but it got drowned out quickly by our collective lack of organization. (Why didn't we just start with a "me too" thread that people could respond to?) Upvote:	53
Title: Just wondering. Upvote:	91
Title: Four tools to get an overview and interact with what is going on with your Linux machine. Upvote:	248
Title: I'm a serial wantrepreneur. I build things that no one wants. That's my problem and I know it. I respect the candid feedback HN'ers offer. So if I were your son, or best friend, where would you steer me? Upvote:	104
Title: I assume that most readers on Hacker News spent most of their daylight hours (at least Monday to Friday) in front of a computer. Do you try to avoid using your computer outside of working hours, and if so, how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube etc.. Upvote:	54
Title: In the event that someone wants to take a break from the typical startup life (e.g. after a burnout or because of shifted priorities in life) and work for a big company, what would HN recommend for a senior software engineer (late 20s) with a very solid background developed while working like a horse in startups for the past few years (and MS in computer engineering)? These points (in random order) might be important:<p>- Very very competitive salary and "deterministic" benefits (401k with good employer contributions, RSUs, cash bonuses, etc.)<p>- Challenging working environment where neat technical problems are still solved despite not being a startup, possibly with modern tools and technologies (e.g. not a "we use CVS as our SCM" shop)<p>- no more than 40-45 hours a week expected as per company culture<p>- Stable job (no serious failure possibility in the next 3 years or so for the company)<p>- Possibility of working from home (even just once or twice a week to break the routine)<p>- Main headquarters in SF bay area (where I'm located)<p>I'm of course expecting Google, Facebook, etc. But I'm curious to see what else might be there. Upvote:	110
Title: I work for a company that claims it owns all development work that I do in my spare time. I don't use any office equipment, software or accounts for this work. Is this legally enforceable?<p>Note: I work and live in England Upvote:	41
Title: So, yeah, where to start? I know C, Obj.-C, Java and Python. I am self-taught. Now I want to get in Reverse Engineering and I don't know where to get started. Feedback and help is highly appreciated! Upvote:	67
Title: We've all been there (most of us, at least). What did you do (or not do), how did you first react, and how did you handle it?<p>Bonus points for sharing what you learned/key takeaways from the experience. Upvote:	217
Title: I launched a service to buy gift cards for bitcoin earlier this week (cardforcoin.com) and it's doing far better than I expected. Like, in a scary way.<p>I have a full-time job, and was hoping to carve out a small bit of passive income, not launch a full-blown startup.<p>I could really use some advice from anyone else who's run a bitcoin business, dealt with an unexpected success, or could get me in touch with a lawyer interested in the BTC world who might start pro-bono.<p>PS - Earlier discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144067<p>PPS - I want to leave the link for context, but if you'd actually like to use the service, please wait a bit / until the weekend.<p>EDIT - I'm not accepting cards until this gets on the road to straightened out, for obvious reasons. If anyone has any particular further insights <i>please</i> drop me an email. Upvote:	152
Title: What are the best IRC channels for developers, security, networks, programming, general tech discussion, data science, etc. Just looking for some recco's. Upvote:	125
Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.<p>Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=7162201 Upvote:	299
Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:	128
Title: And if you have to start the same project again what would be different and why?<p>I've invested over 10000 hours in PHP and I want to know whether to invest another 10000 in some other language and what are the alternatives.<p>There are lot of opinions in the wild but I think that opinion supported by example is much better than just "I like X and dislike Y"<p>edit - some grammar EDIT 2 - To be more precise - I am not looking for a brain teaser, but for a tool which will allow me to be 1.5x (or 2x or 3x) more productive. I am looking for a tool to feed my family and myself in the next few years. To be honest I am a little scared of all "PHP sucks" articles. I don't want to be jobless in 3 years when/if PHP becomes the new COBOL. Upvote:	40
Title: My small project similar to bropages and tldr, but (finally!) using manpages only. Manpages generated from Markdown files by Pandoc. Upvote:	48
Title: This thread was <i>fantastic</i>.<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617551<p>----<p>If you're a dev, want to play with Ember, Angular or Meteor an are interested in working on a bitcoin related web project, email me: [email protected] (also email me if you are already working on a bitcoin project :) Upvote:	88
Title: Hey HN, long time lurker, hoping this awesome community can help me (and others like me) figure out the next step in my (thier) career(s).<p>I spent 2006-2012 on three self funded ventures that didn't come to fruition, which left me tapped for spending ability, several maxed credit cards, and a job in Seattle thats not advancing me career-wise.<p>I am starting to feel a slip in my creativity, which I think is attributed to some drop in self confidence / depression / anxiety that's been creeping up.<p>I'm in love with business strategy, project ideas / planning, budgeting, and architecting. I love prototyping, but that leaves me with a gap in mastery of any specific technology.<p>I'm starting to panic that I'm running out of time to "get my shit together."<p>I have a potential opportunity to work with an incubator vetting applicant's technology. I'd take that job in a heartbeat, but they are not running yet (probably 1yr+ away)<p>I would love to take my experience in business, engineering, and product / project management, and find a position where I am helping a growing company with a full pipeline of projects get focused and prioritized.<p>I'm concerned that as I get older it's harder to find an engineering job. I get bored where it's building and fixing things all day. Management-wise I struggle with giving critical feedback to people as their "boss".<p>My uncle used to be a manufacturing / process consultant. He had a constant flow of new challenges and companies to work with. This sounds highly interesting to me when applied to tech, but I have no idea where to start.<p>So, I'm interested to see the discussion about what those of us who are life long hackers (with a ton of varied experiences) can do besides keep writing code or moving into people management. And some advice on how to start down such a path.<p>Thoughts? Upvote:	56
Title: [1 of 2]: My name is Dr. Dal Bedi. I'm owner of a medical practice in Va. I took a chance on a start-up drchrono as my EHR & billing service provider; both services being a vital part of my business. It's a decision I wish I never made. In the past 5 mo, I've had massive issues w/ the drchrono service. The setup of their billing & collections services has taken 4 months due to repeated, inept errors by outsourced-to-India drchrono billing staff. Other drchrono users have been complaining about similar issues & have asked for refunds: http://bit.ly/1doMER9 & http://bit.ly/1fL8dzH. I've forwarded pages of errors to the drchrono staff http://cl.ly/image/200i2D2y1s2R , http://cl.ly/image/1z0g230x0N1I , http://cl.ly/image/3H072F0f3k43 , http://cl.ly/image/0k3G1t2h3h3w , http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2h3E2m43 , escalated w/ their support team for months, and finally escalated to the CEO, Michael Nusimow. When that proved ineffective, I asked for a refund for the months when the service wasn't functional, all while being a committed customer w/o a single outstanding balance. This past Xmas Eve, drchrono sent me an email raising my monthly fee 3x from $1.5k/mo to $4.5k/mo starting Jan 1st, 2014 w/o any reason given -- even tho. we have a signed contract which sets the price for their services and can't be changed. Upvote:	211
Title: The dead URL can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004 and/or https://web.archive.org/web/20140204160630/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004 Upvote:	311
Title: Interesting story on that big EVE battle from last week. Talks with a lot of the involved parties. Upvote:	206
Title: 50 years? 100 years? This year? Upvote:	58
Title: Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity.<p>It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news.<p>It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year. Upvote:	149
Title: I would describe myself as a pretty okay software developer. I'm definitely competent, I'm passionate, but I don't think I'm good enough to land a 80k job in SF at the moment.<p>What I would like to do is make a very small amount of money ($500ish a month) programming on the side that would support the side projects I want to run.<p>What do you think would be the best way to make that kind of money reliably and with as little time investment as possible? Upvote:	48
Title: [EDIT : Techcrunch removed article, here's another link (thank you w1ntermute) : http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-google-lenovo-idUSBREA1606B20140207 Upvote:	130
Title: I won't name names, but a YC alum runs a company that is in direct competition with a company in 500 Startups' latest batch.<p>500 Startups just had their Demo Day this past Wednesday, and the non-500 competitor managed to "sneak in" to the Demo Day to (allegedly) "snipe" their competitor's pitch and their competitor's interested investors.<p>The competitor then bought ads online for anything related to 500 Startups, to leverage the increased press surrounding Demo Day and the latest 500 Startups batch of companies.<p>What do you all think? Is this a "dirty" tactic or does it qualify as an aggressive but clever "hack"?<p>P.S. Reminds me of this recent story on Uber ("Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics") that was on the front page of HN:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7115177 Upvote:	45
Title: As my January personal code project, I created an experimental game that considered what would happen if you crossed an RPG with a UNIX filesystem. The result is RPGFS.<p>You have some simple commands available (ls, cd, pwd, rm) and you fight "bugs" in the filsystem using the rm command (everything is a file). You also consume "items" with rm. The goal is to descend the filesystem to find a special file to unlock another command to destroy the filesystem.<p>This was written as part of a monthly project I'm undertaking in 2014, and represented a small amount of work (hack). It's written in C for Linux, and you can grab it at the URL if interested. Upvote:	52
Title: We created an amazingly simple IOT utility and are giving it away for free. We constantly found ourselves needing an easy way to get machines, sensors, and Things online and quickly get data from them. So we built Dweet.io, a simple websocket-based utility for connecting your things to the Internet. And we're opening it up to everyone. We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for it.<p>Http://Dweet.io<p>- Bug Labs Upvote:	100
Title: Between here and Hacker News, it took me two days just to go through all of the awesome words of wisdom and support. I read everything — three times. I even read those of you who told me to “quit whining” and to “man up”. Thank you, ALL, for your support.<p>I’m not yet ready to reveal my company or name, I may never be. But, for all of you who offered your advice, I want to at least share with you how things turned out. Upvote:	96
Title: http://instantclick.io/<p>It seems the internet architecture won't bring us instant websites anytime soon. So here is a hack.<p>I released this JS library last month (today is version 2.0 release, fixing v1.0's rough edges), it makes use of HTML5's pushState and preloading to make a website instant.<p>It works like this: before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. And there's a delay of 200-300 ms between these two events. InstantClick uses this delay to preload a page, when you click on a link it will display instantly in most case. (You can test on the website.)<p>That's similar to pjax and Turbolinks, for it uses HTML5's pushState and Ajax. And preloading is thrown into the mix.<p>In case preloading all the links that a user hover over is too much work for the server, there's also an option to set a delay before preloading kicks in, or to preload on "mousedown". Mousedown is when you press your mouse button (a click is when you release it). This way you still get a slight "magical" speed advantage, and pjax's benefits (notably, no recalculation of scripts/styles on every page change).<p>For mobile it preloads on touchstart, so you get 400 ms to preload. This is different from FastClick: with InstantClick a user can still double tap to zoom without triggering a link.<p>As said in the first sentence, the internet architecture can't bring us instant websites today or tomorrow. So I think this — InstantClick — could be a pretty big thing to improve the situation at scale.<p>The main challenge I see is that existing JS scripts may not work with it out of the box. I don't do much web development nowadays though, so I don't know how big of a problem that is, and I don't know if there isn't any other major barrier in the way to make this mainstream.<p>That's why I'm awaiting your opinion, smart folks of HN. Upvote:	426
Title: Hey guys and gals! I'm learning Go at the moment and LOVING it. I was hoping to get constructive feedback on a project I'm working on - goatee - which is a notification server that utilizes Redis pub/sub and WebSockets. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment but I'm hoping to add in a lot more features as time goes on such as queueing and WebSocket channel subscriptions (via Go Socketio possibly). Upvote:	40
Title: I've read several articles about REST, even a bit of the original paper. But I still have quite a vague idea about what it is. I'm beginning to think that nobody knows, that it's simply a very poorly defined concept. Like Web 2.0, everyone talked about it but nobody could give a clear definition. Thoughts? Upvote:	68
Title: I am currently an iOS developer looking broaden my horizons. I'm currently learning Javascript as it seems to be the next big thing. What would you suggest ? Upvote:	49
Title: Hi guys! Getting a ride on all the hypeness involved on Flappy Bird game, i've created a clone of the game, with almost all the elements involved in the game, using MelonJS , a fantastic javascript game framework. Hopy you guys enjoy!<p>https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird Upvote:	128
Title: I created a Sublime Text 2 plugin that lets you see the commit message history (messages & file stats) for selected line(s) of code with a simple shortcut: cmd+shift+m on Mac, alt+shift+m on Linux/Windows.<p>Inspired by this earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7202146). Upvote:	108
Title: This is youtube's 500 page. I wonder if someone knows how the 'information' is encoded. It is not base64. Does anyone know how to decode it.<p>http://paste.pm/raw/dme Upvote:	44
Title: 'Hitlist, meanwhile, hasn’t so much invented the concept rather than re-imagined it for the mobile age, with “lean-back” search in mind.' Upvote:	50
Title: Tired of not finding things in your terminal because there's a lot of logs and garbage? Tired of destroying the Enter key by creating a "void zone" in your terminal so that you can see the error that you're trying to debug?<p>Use the old <hr /> tag, but in your terminal Upvote:	82
Title: Cloudflare confirms that a big DDoS is going on right now: https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSys<p>There are a lot of people out there talking about the DDoS as well, some of them are talking about 400+ Gbps: https://twitter.com/search?q=ddos Upvote:	45
Title: This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat.<p>Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-D<p>Currently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-)<p>Let me know what you think! Upvote:	40
Title: What are your best sources for news of iOS app development or design? Where do you find useful snippets for iOS apps? Upvote:	56
Title: So I've spent the last 3 years attempting to teach a computer how to understand recipes. What they taste like, ingredients you'd need to make them. If they have animal products or are gluten free. If they're a dessert. This work involved a lot of natural language processing, Beyesian filtering, etc.<p>With this, I built a very powerful recipe search engine. It allows you to find recipes using some pretty interesting queries. For example, if the user wants to make 5 recipes that will efficiently use a head of lettuce, 12 bananas, a pound of salmon, and 6 eggs, it can find the most efficient set of recipes that will use as much of those ingredients as possible, while requiring the user to have to buy as few new ingredients as possible. It's also able to normalize the ingredients across all recipes to build really accurate shopping lists. For example, if one recipe calls for 6oz of cheddar cheese and another calls for 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, it knows the weight of 1/4 cup of shredded cheese and can combine that with 6oz. So, pretty interesting technology.<p>Unfortunately, after several iterations, this completely failed to gain <i>any</i> traction as a consumer product. However, I got dozens of emails from other entrepreneurs who were trying to build similar products and were very interested in the technological side of things. I had a lot of asks if I could share the code, or turn it into a web service.<p>For this reason, I have decided to re-factor my code as a free, open source project. I'm hoping to find some other developers who could build on what I've done to create the next big recipe startup. The code is all written in C#, but could almost definitely be run under Mono.<p>It's up at: https://github.com/KitchenPC/core<p>If you'd like to help contribute, by all means! I really hope it can help someone out! Upvote:	42
Title: Great for testing your copy Upvote:	1040
Title: Little web server for emergencies Upvote:	54
Title: Tired of getting off your terminal screen to answer that dickheads friends of yours? Now you can curse them right on the terminal! Upvote:	64
Title: Wagtail is a new, open-source Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience. It was originally built for the Royal College of Art, but now we're able to share it with everyone. See<p>https://github.com/torchbox/wagtail<p>and<p>http://wagtail.io (marketing site)<p>and<p>http://www.rca.ac.uk/ (first big site built on Wagtail)<p>We're really proud of the user interface, and we hope that Wagtail will make it easy for Django developers to build beautiful, modern sites. Feedback very welcome!<p>Tom Dyson, Technical Director at Torchbox (Wagtail developers) Upvote:	166
Title: I wrote a few words about my process for remote development & PM at NPR. Seems like it might be interesting to this audience. Upvote:	186
Title: This is a sad story how I got robbed for $8500 while my laptop was in Apple Store.<p>I dropped my laptop at Apple Store, the Falls in Miami to fix minor cooling system issue on Feb 2. And picked it up on February 4. Cooling system was fine, but when I launched my Bitcoin wallet, I realized that over 10BTC (worth $8500 at that moment) has been transferred from my wallet (https://blockchain.info/tree/111322425) on Feb 3, 20:25, when my laptop was in Apple. It was very stupid, but yes, my wallet was not encrypted.<p>I checked Mac system logs and it says that my laptop has been booted on Feb 3, 20:36, only 11 minutes after my BTC have been stolen. Looks like someone has connected my laptop as external drive and scanned it before booting it up.<p>I never used my wallet on other devices. I never download suspicious stuff from the Internet. I never hand my laptop to anyone else. I have not been using my wallet for about a month before I dropped it at Apple.<p>Nevertheless, I downloaded latest antivirus software and performed full system scan — no viruses.<p>I filed a police report and talked to the manager at Apple Store. It's been a week and there is no update.<p>$8500. Nobody cares. I wonder what else people copy from laptops when you drop it for service.<p>The moral of the story — encrypt your drives. Upvote:	49
Title: Also covered by The Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protester-confronts-mt-gox-executive/ Upvote:	84
Title: I launched the site http://altexplorer.net at the start of January as a Block Explorer and information hub for alternative cryptographic currencies. This morning I found a site http://4co.in which is ripping-off my site in real-time; every time a page is loaded on 4co.in it uses php to load the corresponding page from http://altexplorer.net, removes analytics and ad tags, replaces the site name, and replaces the link URLs.<p>I've put a lot of effort into building this site and keeping it running, and now someone in India is stealing it in real-time. Every page load to 4coin causes an identical page load in the nginx logs of http://altexplorer.net. What can I do besides blocking the source IP address to stop this?<p>Screen shots: Alt Explorer home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-home.png<p>4coin home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-home.png<p>Alt Explorer profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-prof.png<p>4coin profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-prof.png Upvote:	90
Title: I adore great typography, but I think @font-face in practice contributes to some of the most annoying user experiences on the web today.<p>It is very frustrating when loading up a website and seeing a mostly blank page because the fonts are still downloading. This is especially frustrating on a slow internet connection or on mobile.<p>I'm sure that more people will discover and adopt best practices to improve performance and overall user experience over time, but right now I'm noticing this slowdown very frequently. - see http://www.igvita.com/2014/01/31/optimizing-web-font-rendering-performance/ for some notes on best practices<p>To me, speed is still the most important feature of a website, and it's shocking how bad this experience often becomes when web fonts are added to the equation.<p>This is one of the biggest problems I have with the current web because of how frequently I'm noticing this. Upvote:	89
Title: It's meant to be lite and fast. Hope you like it Upvote:	56
Title: There is betalist, HN, .., what else? Upvote:	138
Title: I’m refering to this article:<p>http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0<p>Here are the HN comments:<p>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485 Upvote:	56
Title: I've never done any kind of user acquisition besides posting to Reddit and HN. I realize that this is, needless to say, not a working strategy. What do you people do? Upvote:	214
Title: We finally made it to 2.0 with a lot of new features! Upvote:	47
Title: Specifically, sites where you can post links and comment on them, but with a focus on technical topics.<p>EDIT: it's okay if it's not a popular (yet) site, just looking for all the options<p>EDIT2: this isn't a complaint about HN, just asking<p>EDIT3: please post them in auto-link format, thanks a ton Upvote:	199
Title: Hello hackers!<p>So I am part of the non-profit organization (NGO) called "Adelante Africa" (Go Africa!) based in Uk/Spain. We really try our best to keep the things going but we really could use a bit of help, and you will be able to add your collaboration to your showcase =)<p>This is our memory and objectives: http://www.adelanteafrica.com/wp//wp-content/themes/Pilgrim/docs/Annual%20Report%202012.pdf (The 2013 report will come out next May).<p>You can find all the information in English and Spanish in the main web page and I will answer any question regarding this topic here or by e-mail, so let's get to the point.<p>We have already deployed with a bit of help a Wordpress Site (replacing the previous static web-page) but we are not design experts, and also, we don't have the money to pay for one.<p>So, let's go to the point, what are we looking for:<p>0. UpVoters: anyone reading this who can help us by voting this very same post.<p>1. A designer: someone who has the time and the willing to facelift our page so it becomes nicer and easier to use.<p>2. A SEO: someone who has the time and the willing to help us to reach more people.<p>3. A hosting enterprise: currently we are paying for it nearly 200€/year (hosting/domain). It would be great to cut-off this cost. In exchange we can provide a badge.<p>4. Any enterprise who is willing to collaborate with the cause, anyone willing to collaborate with the project.<p>5. Any others! If you think you can help us in any other way, you will be so very welcome, just e-mail me.<p>In exchange we provide: gratitude and acknowledgement.<p>In exchange the children will provide: smiles.<p>Contact me at: professorTuring [ at ] gmail [ . ] com Upvote:	76
Title: We have a list of phrases that get replaced in titles and their replacements (which can be the empty string if we simply want to remove something). A moderator accidentally added an identical pair to it. Upvote:	68
Title: The reasons are plenty, free speech, regulation and even criminal (piratebay?)<p>How can one register a domain anonymously and host a site without anyone being able to trace the owner's identity ? Upvote:	88

Title: I was recently chatting with friends and the question came up: When hiring a programmer, FizzBuzz is sometimes (and controversially) used as an initial filter. What's an equivalent filter for mathematicians?I know that HN is filled with people who have specializations outside of programming, so I ask:<pre><code> What is your specialization, and what is your "FizzBuzz" equivalent? </code></pre> Added in edit: Fascinating answers - thank you. I'd love to respond to many of them but that would probably trip the HN flame-war detector, penalise the item, and I'd get no more replies! If you want a reply, email me, or make sure your email is in your profile. And thanks again to all. Upvote:

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Title: PS: Assuming a REST architecture. Upvote:

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Title: For those who have side projects with Monthly Revenue > 1000. How do you effectively drive traffic to your site? Upvote:

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Title: Given the amount of people asking for alternatives in the Evernote thread making the waves right now and since I’ve been looking for one for a while now, figured I ask what others use.OneNote, Simplenote, org-mode seem to be some popular ones. Upvote:

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Title: I went back to school recently for a 2 year master's degree in information science (think: UI/UX, data science, databases, statistics), and the program strongly recommends doing an internship at a tech company during the summer in between the years. However, I'm going to be 31 this year, and I assume most of my competition for the positions are going to be in the 18-22 range. Will managers at SV-type tech companies (probably younger than me) even look at my application? My background mostly linux sysadmin-ing and bioinformatics, looking to get into more analytic/statistical work like BI. Upvote:

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Title: Hi everyone, I am organizing a crowdfunding campaign to give blankets/food/books/glasses and new year's postcards to 1000 homeless people in San Francisco.Since we as the residents already spend a lot of money on the homelessness issue in SF via government(200MM+/year), I thought some of us would be willing to take a more active role in fixing this issue by donating to campaigns like this one(and to more sustainable ones). So, I am thinking of turning this campaign into a crowdfunding platform for activists and organizations that want to work on homelessness related issues in San Francisco.I wanted to share the campaign here thinking you might like the idea & might want to share your thoughts on it: https://operationsflove.comSo far the supporters have been mostly my friends but I believe this could go viral with some improvement.Would love hear what you all think, Thanks, Seckin Upvote:

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Title: Since it's such a famous and lauded book, I figured that perhaps I should pick it up and give it a stab. I've read conflicting opinions on it: that it's a timeless classic which intersects mathematics with philosophy and whimsical humor, that it's pretentious or that it's now outdated.What do you guys think? Is it worth it? Upvote:

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Title: Clarification: This is not meant with any ill-will towards PG or any of the other individuals who help run HN. It is a simple request for a postmortem eventually. Perhaps it's an unneeded request, but I think a lot of HNers echo the sentiment. Upvote:

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Title: I'm (and probably others, hopefully) will be interested in knowing where you spent your online surfing time in place of HN. As a person learning programming for the first time, I spent most of the time on r/learnprogramming, r/learnpython, r/ python and Google Groups for the Python mailing list.What of you? Upvote:

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Title: Lately while conducting a job search, I've been running in to company after company that just seem to want another cog in their feature grinding machine. I've been having a hard time finding software engineering jobs that are more than just "crank out web application features" smoothly put as "solving hard problems".Does your company have a job that is more than just code monkeying? Please post it in this thread with explanation of why it's more. Upvote:

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Title: Hey there, I'm Irish, and here our banks are shady and private. The government owns most of them (through bailouts) yet still there's little to no transparency - they act as the please, grabbing as much profit off their customers as possible. Most people here hate their bank and would gladly move to a half decent alternative, but of course there is none. It's identical in most countries nowadays, including the US. I think we can all agree that fundamentally, the finance industry is backward, greedy and corrupt. It needs to change.Here's the idea: An open source, upfront, transparant and humane bank driven not by profit but by the passion to simply create a bank that people like and enjoy using.A few key ideas or keystones might include:<pre><code> * Transparant/Open Source * Non Profit * Great Customer Support * Few and fair fees * Great User Experience * Mobile First (cliche I know..) * Open API </code></pre> This wouldn't just be a projects for fellow developers. We'd need designers, lawyers, and people involved in banks who are dissatisfied at the current status quo (after all we'll need a partner bank in every country we want to operate in to avoid logistical nightmares). I really think it could be a project anyone could help out in - Think of it as a generation coming together to drag one of the biggest industries in the world into the 21st century.By partnering with a local bank in each country, it would cut out a lot of issue logistically, making the project a lot easier to implement than just building a new bank from the ground up.Any thoughts?By the way, my email address is npaterson1 [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested/want to know more :) NiallP.S Regarding Credit Unions, I can see why people are bringing them up but mcuy issue with them is that they don't offer stuff like checking accounts, atms etc, aren't really open that much, are exceptionally slow at allowing you withdraw and are completely offline. That's just my experience, but I don't think you could actually bank with a credit union, which is what I'm trying to get at.P.P.S I think if you were to look at the three things I mentioned - online, non profit and open source, non profit is the one I think is least differentiable if that makes any sense. I think an online open source bank is the real innovative part, not the non profit part.EDIT: A lot of people are asking something along the lines of 'well this works when it comes to banking, what else is there to it?'. I think banking is a really really backward system, there's so much you could do, simple tiny things that would make experiences so much more pleasant. Here's an example: Imagine if your bank account had a profile, almost like a social network, and you could go to someone else's profile and quickly see recent transactions you've had with them. I'm not thinking of something like a credit union, rather something quite different, and I really feel there's lots more that can be done with banking from a tech pov. I don't get why we have to assume banking is as advanced as it can be, it's clearly not. Upvote:

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Title: What do you think is the best way to get the lowest risk, 5% annual return on a million dollars?I'm also interested in how you could get 8% or 10%, though I know that would likely include more risk. Upvote:

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Title: We (TrueVault), released our HIPAA compliant file storage today. Our BLOB Store is not a cloud file backup service like Box or Dropbox but instead, it's meant to be integrated with healthcare mobile apps, web apps and wearable devices. During our beta period in December, early adopters are using the BLOB Store to store X-Rays, CT Scans, MRIs, PDFs, scanned medical records, images, and videos.You can upload, update, delete, and download any binary file via our REST API.We are also beta testing a browser-to-TrueVault direct file upload and download web form. If you would like to join the beta, please email us at [email protected]API: https://www.truevault.com/rest-api.htmlBlob post about its release: https://www.truevault.com/blog/hipaa-compliant-file-storage.htmlLove to get your feedback. Upvote:

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Title: Hello,As a developer and a gamer I always wanted to make games, but I never actually did it. To change that I threw myself a public challenge: build a new game every week in html5 using Phaser (a javascript framework).The games are quite simple for now, but that's because I'm still learning. Let me know if you have any feedback on the games or the website.Link: www.lessmilk.comThanks! Upvote:

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Title: Dear HN,Two years ago you joined in fighting back against dangerous Internet censorship legislation during the SOPA protests. You blacked out your websites, lobbied your employers to do the same, and started creative campaigns to defeat a threat to freedom on the Internet.As was often the case, Aaron Swartz said it best: “[We defeated SOPA] because everyone made themselves the hero of their own story.” [1]In the last 6 months it’s been revealed that government agencies, like the NSA and GCHQ, have twisted laws to create the legal and technical infrastructure for mass surveillance. Surveillance precipitates a dark form of censorship: people become afraid to speak freely. It undermines our security and restricts our ability to communicate privately.With SOPA we had a clear goal: defeat a specific bill. In this case, we have promising bills (like the USA Freedom Act) and terrible ones (the FISA Improvements Act). But if progress is to be made, we need to send a message to our legislators that we won’t let the Internet be turned into a tool for mass surveillance. We need to push them to have the courage to support comprehensive reform.Today, on the eve of the anniversary of Aaron’s death, we’d like to ask you to step up once again in defense of a free, open and secure Internet. In memory of Aaron, we’d ask that you to join us in a month of activism, culminating in a day of action on February 11th.Our organizations—Demand Progress, EFF, and others—will be doing everything we can. We’re creating a banner that sites can add on the day and built a campaign website [2]. But for this to be a real success, each of us must again be the hero of their own story.Will you join us?Rainey Reitman, Activism Director, EFFDavid Segal, Co-founder, Demand ProgressCory Doctorow, Co-editor of Boing Boing[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2013/1/14/freedom_to_connect_aaron_swartz_1986[2] https://thedaywefightback.org Upvote:

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Title: dropbox.com Upvote:

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Title: Work queue has always been one of the most hot points in server software. Here is how to scale it effectively to multi-core environment. Upvote:

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Title: I don't want to make this sound like a scene out of Glengarry, but as a early stage how do you manage your high quality leads?(I've got about 40,000 leads that I pulled together. There's a good blog post in this story if I get the time).At the moment, I have a excel document with lots of fields and contact information, and I essentially work my way through it individually emailing each recipient.Each converted lead is worth upwards of several hundred (to a few thousand $ per year)... so it totally makes sense to research each customer correctly and spend the time to approach them with a highly customised email about why our product is a great fit for them.The problem I have is keeping track of where I am and who I have already emailed. Once you start getting one hundred names down the list, and then you start having an open discussion with a few dozen customers, it becomes a minefield to remember each conversation chain you are having.Do you use CRMs for this and handle the emailing through the CRM, or do you use a sales pipeline management tool?What are your thoughts (and possible experiences with existing CRMs)? Upvote:

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Title: I added this code as a comment to a thread that was almost all the way off the front page by the time I got to it. It was a response to some 'functional folks' criticizing the verbosity of c#. While you can certainly do c# the java way, you can also do it in a near functional way.I decided to post the code as a full submission because I think c# often gets dismissed as Java copy-cat, which hasn't been true in a decade.The code (non-destructive, no side effects) calculates square roots :<pre><code> public static void Main() { const int n = 21; Observable.Generate<double,double>(1, x=>true, x=> 0.5 * (x + (n/x)), x=>x ) .Scan(new {prv = 0d, cur = 0d}, (prev, curr) => new {prv = prev.cur, cur = curr}) .FirstAsync(_ => Math.Abs(_.cur - _.prv) < 1E-10) .Select(_ => _.cur) .Subscribe(Console.WriteLine); // this is just to compare values, so is not part of the solution Console.WriteLine(Math.Sqrt(n)); Console.ReadLine(); } </code></pre> Read the more OO c# implementation that inspired me here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7044497Read the Haskell code that inspired both here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7043943 Upvote:

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Title: I believe the expired link issue came from using a new lisp feature, but I'm curious if there is any plans to fix it?It's a little annoying since I constantly pickup tabs that are a day old, and have to start from the beginning. Hopefully I'm not the only one on HN with that issue. Upvote:

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Title: So I dropped out of school recently for various personal reasons. I just couldn't cope. I can't get a job, obviously. So I figure freelancing is my only shot.I've been programming since I was like 12. I'm primarily a web developer. I know Ruby, JavaScript (Node & client), and the obvious CSS, HTML, et al.How do I actually get clients? I have no portfolio or any real open source contributions. My GitHub profile is pretty empty. And I doubt anyone would hire me due to my age. Upvote:

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Title: OSX Terminal: hold option and click a position in the current line to move your cursor to that position. #yearslost Upvote:

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Title: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-restrictedmedia/2014Jan/0060.html Upvote:

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Title: HN went down for nearly all of Monday the 6th. I suspected failing hardware.I configured a new machine that is nearly identical to the old one, but using ZFS instead of UFS. This machine can tolerate the loss of up to two disks. I switched over to it early morning on the 16th, around 1AM PST.Performance wasn't great. Timeouts were pretty frequent. I looked into it quickly, couldn't see anything obvious, and decided to sleep on it. I switched back to the old server, expecting to call it a night.Then the old server went down. Again. The filesystem was corrupted. Again. So I switched back to the new server. During this switch some data was lost, but hopefully no more than an hour.And here we are. I'm sorry that performance is poor, but we're up. I'll work to speed things up as soon as I can, and I'll provide a better write-up once things are over. I'm also really sorry for the data loss, both on the 6th and today. Upvote:

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Title: http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/donations.html and http://openbsd.org/want.html Upvote:

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Title: How do you respond to someone who says they are interested in acquiring your business (especially a potential competitor) but won't make an offer until you share your financals and other confidential data? Do you ask them to make an offer without seeing the books first or share your data, hoping they make an offer, but realizing you're sharing confidential info? And how do you differentiate serious offers from time wasters who will chew all your time only to either not offer or low-ball after seeing your financial state? Can you get away with saying: "I'm not sharing you anything until you make an offer?" But then how can you obligate them to that?And what if they are adamant that they won't make an offer until they see your books and do due diligence? I would think that if investors can make a Term Sheet commitment contingent on due diligence, so can you do that with potential acquirers. But they don't seem to see it that way?Here's some suggestions we've gotten, but I don't know what is common place or accepted:* Tell potential acquirers that they must first submit a Contingent Offer providing your books substantiate certain minimum metrics.* Tell potential acquirers that they have to pay for your time in doing due diligence, setting a flat rate (say, $20k for sake of argument), with the amount counting as a non-refundable deposit towards the acquisition amount* Use a trusted third party to do a due diligence review, providing your information to the third-party who will not disclose it to the acquirer, but only verify certain required facts or due diligence requests. The Trusted third party inspects the books and doesn't disclose them to the acquirer but knows their desired metrics.* Breakup fee that penalizes them for walking away.* Confidentiality agreement with huge damages for disclosing any of the information outside a small group of people in the acquiring company. Upvote:

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Title: For the sake of argument, suppose this is right after the 1st summer founders program or right after the talk you gave at Harvard, whichever is more interesting. Upvote:

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Title: I was going through my bookmarks and found this:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4000394 Upvote:

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Title: I'm an iOS developer. I'm decent and have launched a couple of apps. With bluetooth LE and multipeer connectivity, I am very interested in learning about building a hardware device that pairs with my iPhone. Where can I go to learn more about prototyping? Upvote:

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Title: Hi HN - I'm the founder of People Food (pplfood.com). We cater delicious, healthy lunches to startups in SF for only $7 meal.We're planning on scaling to >300 heads per day in the next few weeks, so we'd like to do a free test run with 5-7 additional companies for the rest of this week. We can deliver to zipcodes 94102, 94103, 94104, 94105, 94107, 94108, 94109, 94110, 94111, 94124, 94133 and have a meat & vegan meal available everyday.If you're interested in getting free lunch this week, just leave a comment w/ your company name & info or send me an email at support [at] pplfood.com. Really appreciate your help! Upvote:

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Title: This post gave me the motivation to give it another try: https://medium.com/business-startup-development-and-more/e0937c7f0951Previous years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 Upvote:

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Title: "This course covers functional, object-oriented, and declarative dataflow programming in a unified framework."Probably a fantastic course that follows CTM, which I have always thought to be in many respects SICP's sequel: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ConceptsTechniquesAndModelsOfComputerProgramming Upvote:

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Title: During the maintenance window the site will be intermittently available, with varying degrees of responsiveness.Tweaking our storage configuration a bit. Upvote:

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Title: I am in Italy and I need help. I hope there is anyone here on HN that can help me. I am a Computer Science student, I started 3 years ago the course because I LOVE PROGRAMMING. My only wish is to get away from here. It's like a trap. I have to thank the internet for connecting me to the outside world. It feels like it's the only way out for me and I am obsessed. Thing is "startups" here are hell, lots of bureaucracy and so on. I tried to look away, apply for a job/internship in the U.S. but the reason is always the same: visas are hell. I would do anything to get my way out.I study EVERY DAY so hard, University here is a mess, bad management and few very good professors. I know how to program, I have a strong passion for algorithms, data structure and complexity analysis. In addition I try to learn new things in my free time, like other programming languages, tools, etc. You know, I am in my third and final year and if it wasn't for my curiosity now I would have no knowledge at all for REST, Python or even Maven! (Just saying)I feel trapped, I am trapped. Jobs here in enterprises are that trap, you can get a job, maybe programming in Java, and stay there forever. Because here is how the things works. I can't get my way out. I would like to pursue my educational career and I hope that my applications to English University succeed but still it's just a try.I don't expect anything more from my situation, I really hope that someone can point me to the right direction or at least give some help.Thank you HN and sorry for this post, but I had no other chance. Upvote:

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Title: Configure GNU Emacs (24.3 or above) to avoid distraction. Upvote:

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Title: I have a SaaS app with a 14 day free trial. I take CC details as part of the signup process so I have card details for users who are in the trial recorded in Stripe.Currently, if a user doesn't unsubscribe during the trial then they are automatically charged for their first month once their trial has ended.Is it proper etiquette to warn them about this or should I just charge them and say nothing? Should I be sending them an email which says something along the lines of "Hope you enjoyed your trial. You card will be charged tomorrow."?Edit: Just to stimulate the discussion a little bit more because it seems like the responses are one sided...The reason I'm asking is because Optimizely recently charged my card for €168.00 after a free trial ended on me. No warning was issued. We all know how much money they make so perhaps this works out ok for them?For completeness, they refunded immediately once I challenged the charge. Upvote:

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Title: HiCan somebody with enough karma create a poll with salary ranges for software engineers in Berlin?Or you could post here, if you have something to share.Thank you! Upvote:

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Title: For your service, do you reach out to potential customers without any referral or lead? If you do, how well does it work? Do you have any advice? Upvote:

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Title: In five minutes, the creator and BDFL of Python Guido van Rossum will give a talk at LinkedIn, Mountain View about Tulip (asynchronous I/O for Python 3). Upvote:

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Title: To celebrate the 30 year anniversary or the Mac, Steven Levy released an unseen and raw interview with Steve Jobs. Upvote:

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Title: Is gmail down in your country?Colombia +1 Upvote:

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Title: What are some relatively-cheap ways of hosting your own secure email server that's easy to bring back up in case of power outages or other common reasons for downtime?This was initially inspired by and posted on the "Gmail is down" thread, but it got drowned out quickly by our collective lack of organization. (Why didn't we just start with a "me too" thread that people could respond to?) Upvote:

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Title: Just wondering. Upvote:

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Title: Four tools to get an overview and interact with what is going on with your Linux machine. Upvote:

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Title: I'm a serial wantrepreneur. I build things that no one wants. That's my problem and I know it. I respect the candid feedback HN'ers offer. So if I were your son, or best friend, where would you steer me? Upvote:

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Title: I assume that most readers on Hacker News spent most of their daylight hours (at least Monday to Friday) in front of a computer. Do you try to avoid using your computer outside of working hours, and if so, how do you prevent yourself from wasting hours on Facebook/Twitter/HackerNews/YouTube etc.. Upvote:

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Title: In the event that someone wants to take a break from the typical startup life (e.g. after a burnout or because of shifted priorities in life) and work for a big company, what would HN recommend for a senior software engineer (late 20s) with a very solid background developed while working like a horse in startups for the past few years (and MS in computer engineering)? These points (in random order) might be important:- Very very competitive salary and "deterministic" benefits (401k with good employer contributions, RSUs, cash bonuses, etc.)- Challenging working environment where neat technical problems are still solved despite not being a startup, possibly with modern tools and technologies (e.g. not a "we use CVS as our SCM" shop)- no more than 40-45 hours a week expected as per company culture- Stable job (no serious failure possibility in the next 3 years or so for the company)- Possibility of working from home (even just once or twice a week to break the routine)- Main headquarters in SF bay area (where I'm located)I'm of course expecting Google, Facebook, etc. But I'm curious to see what else might be there. Upvote:

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Title: I work for a company that claims it owns all development work that I do in my spare time. I don't use any office equipment, software or accounts for this work. Is this legally enforceable?Note: I work and live in England Upvote:

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Title: So, yeah, where to start? I know C, Obj.-C, Java and Python. I am self-taught. Now I want to get in Reverse Engineering and I don't know where to get started. Feedback and help is highly appreciated! Upvote:

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Title: We've all been there (most of us, at least). What did you do (or not do), how did you first react, and how did you handle it?Bonus points for sharing what you learned/key takeaways from the experience. Upvote:

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Title: I launched a service to buy gift cards for bitcoin earlier this week (cardforcoin.com) and it's doing far better than I expected. Like, in a scary way.I have a full-time job, and was hoping to carve out a small bit of passive income, not launch a full-blown startup.I could really use some advice from anyone else who's run a bitcoin business, dealt with an unexpected success, or could get me in touch with a lawyer interested in the BTC world who might start pro-bono.PS - Earlier discussion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7144067PPS - I want to leave the link for context, but if you'd actually like to use the service, please wait a bit / until the weekend.EDIT - I'm not accepting cards until this gets on the road to straightened out, for obvious reasons. If anyone has any particular further insights please drop me an email. Upvote:

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Title: What are the best IRC channels for developers, security, networks, programming, general tech discussion, data science, etc. Just looking for some recco's. Upvote:

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Title: Please lead with the location of the position and include the keywords INTERN, REMOTE, or H1B if the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. Feel free to post any job that may interest HN readers from executive assistant to machine learning expert to CTO.Also see: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2014) http://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=7162201 Upvote:

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Title: Please lead with either SEEKING WORK or SEEKING FREELANCER, your location and whether remote work is a possibility. Upvote:

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Title: And if you have to start the same project again what would be different and why?I've invested over 10000 hours in PHP and I want to know whether to invest another 10000 in some other language and what are the alternatives.There are lot of opinions in the wild but I think that opinion supported by example is much better than just "I like X and dislike Y"edit - some grammar EDIT 2 - To be more precise - I am not looking for a brain teaser, but for a tool which will allow me to be 1.5x (or 2x or 3x) more productive. I am looking for a tool to feed my family and myself in the next few years. To be honest I am a little scared of all "PHP sucks" articles. I don't want to be jobless in 3 years when/if PHP becomes the new COBOL. Upvote:

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Title: My small project similar to bropages and tldr, but (finally!) using manpages only. Manpages generated from Markdown files by Pandoc. Upvote:

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Title: This thread was fantastic.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6617551----If you're a dev, want to play with Ember, Angular or Meteor an are interested in working on a bitcoin related web project, email me: [email protected] (also email me if you are already working on a bitcoin project :) Upvote:

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Title: Hey HN, long time lurker, hoping this awesome community can help me (and others like me) figure out the next step in my (thier) career(s).I spent 2006-2012 on three self funded ventures that didn't come to fruition, which left me tapped for spending ability, several maxed credit cards, and a job in Seattle thats not advancing me career-wise.I am starting to feel a slip in my creativity, which I think is attributed to some drop in self confidence / depression / anxiety that's been creeping up.I'm in love with business strategy, project ideas / planning, budgeting, and architecting. I love prototyping, but that leaves me with a gap in mastery of any specific technology.I'm starting to panic that I'm running out of time to "get my shit together."I have a potential opportunity to work with an incubator vetting applicant's technology. I'd take that job in a heartbeat, but they are not running yet (probably 1yr+ away)I would love to take my experience in business, engineering, and product / project management, and find a position where I am helping a growing company with a full pipeline of projects get focused and prioritized.I'm concerned that as I get older it's harder to find an engineering job. I get bored where it's building and fixing things all day. Management-wise I struggle with giving critical feedback to people as their "boss".My uncle used to be a manufacturing / process consultant. He had a constant flow of new challenges and companies to work with. This sounds highly interesting to me when applied to tech, but I have no idea where to start.So, I'm interested to see the discussion about what those of us who are life long hackers (with a ton of varied experiences) can do besides keep writing code or moving into people management. And some advice on how to start down such a path.Thoughts? Upvote:

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Title: [1 of 2]: My name is Dr. Dal Bedi. I'm owner of a medical practice in Va. I took a chance on a start-up drchrono as my EHR & billing service provider; both services being a vital part of my business. It's a decision I wish I never made. In the past 5 mo, I've had massive issues w/ the drchrono service. The setup of their billing & collections services has taken 4 months due to repeated, inept errors by outsourced-to-India drchrono billing staff. Other drchrono users have been complaining about similar issues & have asked for refunds: http://bit.ly/1doMER9 & http://bit.ly/1fL8dzH. I've forwarded pages of errors to the drchrono staff http://cl.ly/image/200i2D2y1s2R , http://cl.ly/image/1z0g230x0N1I , http://cl.ly/image/3H072F0f3k43 , http://cl.ly/image/0k3G1t2h3h3w , http://cl.ly/image/0V1x2h3E2m43 , escalated w/ their support team for months, and finally escalated to the CEO, Michael Nusimow. When that proved ineffective, I asked for a refund for the months when the service wasn't functional, all while being a committed customer w/o a single outstanding balance. This past Xmas Eve, drchrono sent me an email raising my monthly fee 3x from $1.5k/mo to $4.5k/mo starting Jan 1st, 2014 w/o any reason given -- even tho. we have a signed contract which sets the price for their services and can't be changed. Upvote:

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Title: The dead URL can be found at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004 and/or https://web.archive.org/web/20140204160630/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7178004 Upvote:

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Title: Interesting story on that big EVE battle from last week. Talks with a lot of the involved parties. Upvote:

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Title: 50 years? 100 years? This year? Upvote:

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Title: Did you want to know topics of the news or popularity of posts? "Hacker News Hack" helps you to find news based on some categories and importance or popularity.It tagged news with 9 categories with a natural language processing technology and supervised learning for categorizing news.It also calculates a speed of number of comments in each posts as popularity based on term, that is 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, or 1 year. Upvote:

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Title: I would describe myself as a pretty okay software developer. I'm definitely competent, I'm passionate, but I don't think I'm good enough to land a 80k job in SF at the moment.What I would like to do is make a very small amount of money ($500ish a month) programming on the side that would support the side projects I want to run.What do you think would be the best way to make that kind of money reliably and with as little time investment as possible? Upvote:

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Title: [EDIT : Techcrunch removed article, here's another link (thank you w1ntermute) : http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/07/us-google-lenovo-idUSBREA1606B20140207 Upvote:

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Title: I won't name names, but a YC alum runs a company that is in direct competition with a company in 500 Startups' latest batch.500 Startups just had their Demo Day this past Wednesday, and the non-500 competitor managed to "sneak in" to the Demo Day to (allegedly) "snipe" their competitor's pitch and their competitor's interested investors.The competitor then bought ads online for anything related to 500 Startups, to leverage the increased press surrounding Demo Day and the latest 500 Startups batch of companies.What do you all think? Is this a "dirty" tactic or does it qualify as an aggressive but clever "hack"?P.S. Reminds me of this recent story on Uber ("Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics") that was on the front page of HN:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7115177 Upvote:

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Title: As my January personal code project, I created an experimental game that considered what would happen if you crossed an RPG with a UNIX filesystem. The result is RPGFS.You have some simple commands available (ls, cd, pwd, rm) and you fight "bugs" in the filsystem using the rm command (everything is a file). You also consume "items" with rm. The goal is to descend the filesystem to find a special file to unlock another command to destroy the filesystem.This was written as part of a monthly project I'm undertaking in 2014, and represented a small amount of work (hack). It's written in C for Linux, and you can grab it at the URL if interested. Upvote:

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Title: We created an amazingly simple IOT utility and are giving it away for free. We constantly found ourselves needing an easy way to get machines, sensors, and Things online and quickly get data from them. So we built Dweet.io, a simple websocket-based utility for connecting your things to the Internet. And we're opening it up to everyone. We'd love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for it.Http://Dweet.io- Bug Labs Upvote:

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Title: Between here and Hacker News, it took me two days just to go through all of the awesome words of wisdom and support. I read everything — three times. I even read those of you who told me to “quit whining” and to “man up”. Thank you, ALL, for your support.I’m not yet ready to reveal my company or name, I may never be. But, for all of you who offered your advice, I want to at least share with you how things turned out. Upvote:

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Title: http://instantclick.io/It seems the internet architecture won't bring us instant websites anytime soon. So here is a hack.I released this JS library last month (today is version 2.0 release, fixing v1.0's rough edges), it makes use of HTML5's pushState and preloading to make a website instant.It works like this: before clicking on a link, you'll hover over it. And there's a delay of 200-300 ms between these two events. InstantClick uses this delay to preload a page, when you click on a link it will display instantly in most case. (You can test on the website.)That's similar to pjax and Turbolinks, for it uses HTML5's pushState and Ajax. And preloading is thrown into the mix.In case preloading all the links that a user hover over is too much work for the server, there's also an option to set a delay before preloading kicks in, or to preload on "mousedown". Mousedown is when you press your mouse button (a click is when you release it). This way you still get a slight "magical" speed advantage, and pjax's benefits (notably, no recalculation of scripts/styles on every page change).For mobile it preloads on touchstart, so you get 400 ms to preload. This is different from FastClick: with InstantClick a user can still double tap to zoom without triggering a link.As said in the first sentence, the internet architecture can't bring us instant websites today or tomorrow. So I think this — InstantClick — could be a pretty big thing to improve the situation at scale.The main challenge I see is that existing JS scripts may not work with it out of the box. I don't do much web development nowadays though, so I don't know how big of a problem that is, and I don't know if there isn't any other major barrier in the way to make this mainstream.That's why I'm awaiting your opinion, smart folks of HN. Upvote:

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Title: Hey guys and gals! I'm learning Go at the moment and LOVING it. I was hoping to get constructive feedback on a project I'm working on - goatee - which is a notification server that utilizes Redis pub/sub and WebSockets. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment but I'm hoping to add in a lot more features as time goes on such as queueing and WebSocket channel subscriptions (via Go Socketio possibly). Upvote:

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Title: I've read several articles about REST, even a bit of the original paper. But I still have quite a vague idea about what it is. I'm beginning to think that nobody knows, that it's simply a very poorly defined concept. Like Web 2.0, everyone talked about it but nobody could give a clear definition. Thoughts? Upvote:

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Title: I am currently an iOS developer looking broaden my horizons. I'm currently learning Javascript as it seems to be the next big thing. What would you suggest ? Upvote:

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Title: Hi guys! Getting a ride on all the hypeness involved on Flappy Bird game, i've created a clone of the game, with almost all the elements involved in the game, using MelonJS , a fantastic javascript game framework. Hopy you guys enjoy!https://github.com/ellisonleao/clumsy-bird Upvote:

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Title: I created a Sublime Text 2 plugin that lets you see the commit message history (messages & file stats) for selected line(s) of code with a simple shortcut: cmd+shift+m on Mac, alt+shift+m on Linux/Windows.Inspired by this earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7202146). Upvote:

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Title: This is youtube's 500 page. I wonder if someone knows how the 'information' is encoded. It is not base64. Does anyone know how to decode it.http://paste.pm/raw/dme Upvote:

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Title: 'Hitlist, meanwhile, hasn’t so much invented the concept rather than re-imagined it for the mobile age, with “lean-back” search in mind.' Upvote:

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Title: Tired of not finding things in your terminal because there's a lot of logs and garbage? Tired of destroying the Enter key by creating a "void zone" in your terminal so that you can see the error that you're trying to debug?Use the old <hr /> tag, but in your terminal Upvote:

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Title: Cloudflare confirms that a big DDoS is going on right now: https://twitter.com/CloudFlareSysThere are a lot of people out there talking about the DDoS as well, some of them are talking about 400+ Gbps: https://twitter.com/search?q=ddos Upvote:

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Title: This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat.Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-DCurrently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-)Let me know what you think! Upvote:

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Title: What are your best sources for news of iOS app development or design? Where do you find useful snippets for iOS apps? Upvote:

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Title: So I've spent the last 3 years attempting to teach a computer how to understand recipes. What they taste like, ingredients you'd need to make them. If they have animal products or are gluten free. If they're a dessert. This work involved a lot of natural language processing, Beyesian filtering, etc.With this, I built a very powerful recipe search engine. It allows you to find recipes using some pretty interesting queries. For example, if the user wants to make 5 recipes that will efficiently use a head of lettuce, 12 bananas, a pound of salmon, and 6 eggs, it can find the most efficient set of recipes that will use as much of those ingredients as possible, while requiring the user to have to buy as few new ingredients as possible. It's also able to normalize the ingredients across all recipes to build really accurate shopping lists. For example, if one recipe calls for 6oz of cheddar cheese and another calls for 1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese, it knows the weight of 1/4 cup of shredded cheese and can combine that with 6oz. So, pretty interesting technology.Unfortunately, after several iterations, this completely failed to gain any traction as a consumer product. However, I got dozens of emails from other entrepreneurs who were trying to build similar products and were very interested in the technological side of things. I had a lot of asks if I could share the code, or turn it into a web service.For this reason, I have decided to re-factor my code as a free, open source project. I'm hoping to find some other developers who could build on what I've done to create the next big recipe startup. The code is all written in C#, but could almost definitely be run under Mono.It's up at: https://github.com/KitchenPC/coreIf you'd like to help contribute, by all means! I really hope it can help someone out! Upvote:

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Title: Great for testing your copy Upvote:

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Title: Little web server for emergencies Upvote:

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Title: Tired of getting off your terminal screen to answer that dickheads friends of yours? Now you can curse them right on the terminal! Upvote:

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Title: Wagtail is a new, open-source Django CMS focused on flexibility and user experience. It was originally built for the Royal College of Art, but now we're able to share it with everyone. Seehttps://github.com/torchbox/wagtailandhttp://wagtail.io (marketing site)andhttp://www.rca.ac.uk/ (first big site built on Wagtail)We're really proud of the user interface, and we hope that Wagtail will make it easy for Django developers to build beautiful, modern sites. Feedback very welcome!Tom Dyson, Technical Director at Torchbox (Wagtail developers) Upvote:

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Title: I wrote a few words about my process for remote development & PM at NPR. Seems like it might be interesting to this audience. Upvote:

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Title: This is a sad story how I got robbed for $8500 while my laptop was in Apple Store.I dropped my laptop at Apple Store, the Falls in Miami to fix minor cooling system issue on Feb 2. And picked it up on February 4. Cooling system was fine, but when I launched my Bitcoin wallet, I realized that over 10BTC (worth $8500 at that moment) has been transferred from my wallet (https://blockchain.info/tree/111322425) on Feb 3, 20:25, when my laptop was in Apple. It was very stupid, but yes, my wallet was not encrypted.I checked Mac system logs and it says that my laptop has been booted on Feb 3, 20:36, only 11 minutes after my BTC have been stolen. Looks like someone has connected my laptop as external drive and scanned it before booting it up.I never used my wallet on other devices. I never download suspicious stuff from the Internet. I never hand my laptop to anyone else. I have not been using my wallet for about a month before I dropped it at Apple.Nevertheless, I downloaded latest antivirus software and performed full system scan — no viruses.I filed a police report and talked to the manager at Apple Store. It's been a week and there is no update.$8500. Nobody cares. I wonder what else people copy from laptops when you drop it for service.The moral of the story — encrypt your drives. Upvote:

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Title: Also covered by The Wall Street Journal: http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/02/14/bitcoin-protester-confronts-mt-gox-executive/ Upvote:

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Title: I launched the site http://altexplorer.net at the start of January as a Block Explorer and information hub for alternative cryptographic currencies. This morning I found a site http://4co.in which is ripping-off my site in real-time; every time a page is loaded on 4co.in it uses php to load the corresponding page from http://altexplorer.net, removes analytics and ad tags, replaces the site name, and replaces the link URLs.I've put a lot of effort into building this site and keeping it running, and now someone in India is stealing it in real-time. Every page load to 4coin causes an identical page load in the nginx logs of http://altexplorer.net. What can I do besides blocking the source IP address to stop this?Screen shots: Alt Explorer home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-home.png4coin home page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-home.pngAlt Explorer profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/altexplorer-prof.png4coin profitability page: https://d1eem2029tdth0.cloudfront.net/img/4coin-prof.png Upvote:

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Title: I adore great typography, but I think @font-face in practice contributes to some of the most annoying user experiences on the web today.It is very frustrating when loading up a website and seeing a mostly blank page because the fonts are still downloading. This is especially frustrating on a slow internet connection or on mobile.I'm sure that more people will discover and adopt best practices to improve performance and overall user experience over time, but right now I'm noticing this slowdown very frequently. - see http://www.igvita.com/2014/01/31/optimizing-web-font-rendering-performance/ for some notes on best practicesTo me, speed is still the most important feature of a website, and it's shocking how bad this experience often becomes when web fonts are added to the equation.This is one of the biggest problems I have with the current web because of how frequently I'm noticing this. Upvote:

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Title: It's meant to be lite and fast. Hope you like it Upvote:

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Title: There is betalist, HN, .., what else? Upvote:

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Title: I’m refering to this article:http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0Here are the HN comments:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485 Upvote:

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Title: I've never done any kind of user acquisition besides posting to Reddit and HN. I realize that this is, needless to say, not a working strategy. What do you people do? Upvote:

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Title: We finally made it to 2.0 with a lot of new features! Upvote:

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Title: Specifically, sites where you can post links and comment on them, but with a focus on technical topics.EDIT: it's okay if it's not a popular (yet) site, just looking for all the optionsEDIT2: this isn't a complaint about HN, just askingEDIT3: please post them in auto-link format, thanks a ton Upvote:

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Title: Hello hackers!So I am part of the non-profit organization (NGO) called "Adelante Africa" (Go Africa!) based in Uk/Spain. We really try our best to keep the things going but we really could use a bit of help, and you will be able to add your collaboration to your showcase =)This is our memory and objectives: http://www.adelanteafrica.com/wp//wp-content/themes/Pilgrim/docs/Annual%20Report%202012.pdf (The 2013 report will come out next May).You can find all the information in English and Spanish in the main web page and I will answer any question regarding this topic here or by e-mail, so let's get to the point.We have already deployed with a bit of help a Wordpress Site (replacing the previous static web-page) but we are not design experts, and also, we don't have the money to pay for one.So, let's go to the point, what are we looking for:0. UpVoters: anyone reading this who can help us by voting this very same post.1. A designer: someone who has the time and the willing to facelift our page so it becomes nicer and easier to use.2. A SEO: someone who has the time and the willing to help us to reach more people.3. A hosting enterprise: currently we are paying for it nearly 200€/year (hosting/domain). It would be great to cut-off this cost. In exchange we can provide a badge.4. Any enterprise who is willing to collaborate with the cause, anyone willing to collaborate with the project.5. Any others! If you think you can help us in any other way, you will be so very welcome, just e-mail me.In exchange we provide: gratitude and acknowledgement.In exchange the children will provide: smiles.Contact me at: professorTuring [ at ] gmail [ . ] com Upvote:

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Title: We have a list of phrases that get replaced in titles and their replacements (which can be the empty string if we simply want to remove something). A moderator accidentally added an identical pair to it. Upvote:

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Title: The reasons are plenty, free speech, regulation and even criminal (piratebay?)How can one register a domain anonymously and host a site without anyone being able to trace the owner's identity ? Upvote:

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