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Checkr (YC S14) | San Francisco | Full Time | Onsite Checkr is hiring full stack developers to help us disrupt the background screening industry! Our clients include Uber, Instacar…

Nice story. I'm disappointed that it didn't end with some helpful tactics for ducks you could put in your own projects, though. I also would be interested to hear the real story of…

From the original comment: > Problem 1: ISPs trying to charge to (de)prioritize packets. > Problem 2: The two biggest ISPs suck, and should be broken up, and/or it should be mandat…

Personally, I think that solving problem 2 is the most important, and problem 1, if it is truly a problem, could be solved by a competitive free market. If it's truly possible for …

In the last 6 months, I've had my 15" late 2011 model MBP repaired three times for this exact problem. After the first failure, they haven't charged again for the subsequent mother…

OpenX Technologies - Pasadena & Menlo Park - Full Time - Python Back-end developers and Django developers I'm hiring both back-end (REST API) Python developers and Python web appli…

While I applaud the spirit of the Freedom Clip, I have a better idea if you object to the DRM in Keurig's new product: Don't buy Keurig. There are plenty of alternatives. Why parti…

It seems to me that Glass wouldn't have suffered half the backlash it got if the original release had excluded the camera. Even if everybody was just grumbling about how useless th…

I think in Optimizely's case, the most important factor is making sure that there's no statistically significant correlation between higher response times and A/B testing. In other…

At least this would make it easier for a company to justify digging in and fighting a patent. If they're confident they can win, they can anticipate legal expenses being reimbursed…

The United States needs any viable third party. Unfortunately, the Republicrats have a lock on our political system, and the only way to get a viable third party is to change the r…

To me, this is a strong sign that the patent holder should at least run a substantial risk of getting charged for legal costs if they lose. It might require a bit more due diligenc…

Well, it is all about "pay what you want". I'm sure you'll figure something out.

Can someone explain to me why this is so highly ranked? If I wanted to read Wikipedia's robots.txt, I don't need HN to suggest it to me. It's got a bunch more stuff than I might ha…

Actually the people who had the wealth to build the non-human labor force become the rulers of our society. Their corporations will become the new governments and campaign against …

Very interesting. Also interesting is that the blurb on the search result page was truncated before the important information I was looking for could be revealed. I wouldn't have c…

"Ever hit ⌘Q and accidentally quit an application when you really meant to press ⌘W and close a window?" At first I was really puzzled when I read this sentence...Q and W are so fa…

I completely agree that software patents should expire in 2-3 years. Even a 2 year advantage is an eternity in the software market.

vi is still around, but it lacks the plugin architecture of vim. So it's highly doubtful that anyone would find it usable for writing code anyway.

Fascinating concept. What if humans wrote the tests, and a genetic system like this used a specialized language (machine code or JVM bytecode, for example) to write a solution? Wha…

There's one simple phrase I like to keep in mind when thinking about software patents. Its mere existence demonstrates that patents are not serving their intended purpose: "acciden…