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Awesome tool. Thanks for sharing.

There is too much friction to build high speed rail in the US due to the democratic process. You have to get everybody along the way to agree which is pretty much impossible as you…

This reminds me that California has approved construction of a section of high speed rail too. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-high-speed-route-201... Hard to evaluate the …

Free food is the best. It's actually a really strong incentive to get employees to stay at work longer, and who doesn't like free food? Now it is becoming more and more of a standa…

There are plenty of startup founders that got their credit ruined before like Max Levchin. It got to the point where "a ruined credit history prevented him from buying a car, getti…

Samsung claims 7 hours battery life compared to 10 hours for the iPad, but it seems satisfactory in the reviews. Not sure if it will last one whole day without charging, especially…

Don't know the numbers for mobile search, but after Google retreated Baidu has climbed from 60% to 80% market share of total search. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2010-10/2…

It's actually manufactured in Mainland China(Not Taiwan), but it seems to be getting expensive there, so it is making more and more sense to move some production back to the US. ht…

Due to high demand, they closed the open sign up process. Can anybody share the link or download?

Would love to share hotel and rental car. Please email me crazyabc at gmail dot com. I will try to write up a blog post and share with HN afterwards.

Here are a couple that I've found, don't know if anybody has experience using them. http://thecoccinella.org/ http://www.miranda-im.org/ http://www.pidgin.im/

Is there any good open source IM project (based on C++/Windows)? I checked google's libjingle, it's good. Is there any other good one? I want to integrate group text-chat, group vo…