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Interestingly, the article explicitly mentions the FBI, not the NSA. But, if we were to unify them in our respective imaginations (for the purposes of discussion), they still need …

"I don’t think they are filtering it. They are just storing it" How much would it actually cost to store all the emails that American citizens send and receive? I find it difficult…

Slightly OT: "The Rods... so sensitive that they can be triggered by single photon" This sort of thing is why I love HN. Irrespective of the topic, there is always some little gem …

So which framework comes out on top with the least developer friction metric? Not just convenient features like an ORM but also, your ability to do stuff without the framework gett…

37signals can be considered small

I don't understand this concept? Anybody care to clarify? edit: specifically, What constitutes a voting ring? Why would HN want to find and prune them?

I want to believe this and internalise it, and make it my road map. I intend on getting a 4-year degree as well as a master's degree. Do you have any evidence on the state machine-…

Are you sure? How do you know it is not an image processing/edge detection algorithm running? If they were indeed constructing a 3d-model, I'd be interested in seeing it, even if i…

> "if cron fails completely" How often does this happen, and why? If this problem is inherent to cron, are there alternatives that are [possibly] better suited to server work?

This is totally awesome. BTW, I've been meaning to ask for a while though: what sort of algorithm is running that detects edges and orientation so when the mouse is moved, the smal…

Initially this might seem different from the topic at-hand, but bear with me please: Several years ago (probably first or second year of high school) I wrote and distributed amongs…

A comparison between this and statsd would be interesting. Any one have experience with both? And as for the similarity between the Heroku documentation page - their github documen…

Finding out about this kind of thing is exactly why I come to Hacker News. Thank You, eminent kefs.

I, like many other developers, really like Twitter's bootstrap framework. However, many of the websites using it look the same or similar (those buttons, that navbar at the top, am…

I think this article's headline is a little misplaced. The massive backing given to Ouya on Kickstarter in such a short time period is testament to the sheer volume of people who w…

Don't forget RethinkDB, Mixpanel and Cloudera - those guys are solving some difficult, real world problems. Personally, I wouldn't classify massively distributed computation as a s…

Ray Wenderlich's website is a very valuable source of information for incipient iOS devs. A search: http://www.google.co.za/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ub... yields his website a…

What does the video game company entrepreneurship scene look like today? People of Y, how does the model of starting a new video game company compare to starting a web company?

The $99 is not so much the limiting reagent... South Africa doesn't mean poor BTW :) its just the barrier to entry that is a tad high for an income-less High School student.

Hi HN. I read what goes on on this incredible site almost every day. I'm 17 years old and a modestly competent hacker. Last year I published an app to the Apple app store, but is h…

I know it's not technically mathematical, but someone in this community should point to Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter. It is a fascinating book that partially explores …

Are there any new companies making desktop software using the so-called traditional model? (Autodesk, et al) I am writing a personal desktop program - an organiser/tasks app that m…

Premise: Recently, there was a bit of a storm in this community involving "racism and meritocracy". This was largely started by the comments made by a black entrepreneur. Question:…