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It’s a fun thought experiment, but I tend to revert to the simpler explanation: They’re cutting off third party apps to increase their control over the user experience, to show mor…

I believe zacharycohn meant "regressive" as in "imposes a harsher burden on lower-income households than on households with higher incomes."[0] In this sense, Washington state does…

What a milestone! This was the most impressive work in open source decision-making that I have ever followed (in my limited experience). People have contributed thousands of commen…

Hacker News Highlights[0] is something I didn't even know I needed. There's some great content to be found here (including some insightful comments), but the sheer volume of conten…

With more books and content on the internet than anyone could possibly read in a lifetime, how do you decide what deserves your attention and what doesn't?

Location: Portland, OR Remote: No Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL at work. Clojure, Haskell, and many others in off hours. Résumé/CV: Send me a…

Typically, it's expected that as a company raises more money, it will probably create more shares in the process. Even though your percentage of equity goes down, over time the com…

You can try http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ .

Ratchet.io works well for this. http://ratchet.io/

When I consider what my own answer to that question might be, I think the "doing what I love: computers" answer is a given. It's completely obvious to me that I'll still be doing w…

I'm a bit late to the party, but I love http://www.youneedabudget.com . I've been using it religiously for over two years.

Well, you know what they say about headlines and questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_Law_of_Headline...

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I've only been following Alex since he left Twitter, but [Bank]Simple always struck me as exactly the kind of dream company I'd want to be at (never really considered myself good e…

InstaEDU — Software Engineers — San Francisco, CA InstaEDU is an on-demand video tutoring marketplace. We're making personal study help accessible and affordable for everyone. We j…

I was only 12 years old when the dot-com bubble of 1995-2000 finally burst. Now that I'm a developer at a venture-backed startup, I can't help hearing rumors that we're in yet anot…

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, and some ColdFusion and AS3/Flex. I'm open to part…

I do some work for a [very] small web development company. A few years ago, this company built a custom web application for a local business in a small niche market (estimated 600 …

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc.…

Kyle gave a response to this question two days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3211965

Was just checking out apartmentlist.com for the first time: "We need you to connect with Facebook so we can work our magic." Why in the world...?

SEEKING WORK - Portland/Remote I do web development with Python (Django and Flask), PHP, ColdFusion (and CFWheels), SQL, JavaScript (and jQuery), HTML, CSS, some Flex and AS3, etc.…

I use Clickpass on the login page, but I would be okay with getting rid of it if I was able to migrate my account from OpenID to HN.