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What has become of my beloved HN? Doesn't a devout 20 minutes three times a day on HN count as meditation. Next we'll be discussing horoscopes...

Doesn't work for me Chrome 9.0.597.98 beta on Ubuntu :( Possibly because all HTTP traffic has to go through a proxy server, the company block all outbound traffic, and require a pr…

And those countries produce the top super-models too.

Thanks, that's essentially what I said, but I am curious what you mean by "most followings in common" (you mean people intersect?) I assumed you did some form of semantic analysis …

I'd love to hear the concepts behind this, I'm guessing you first do a radial search from current location, yield list twitter handles, fetch last n dozen tweets, extract links, cl…

It has Google in the title, instant upvote for any article with Google, Quora or Stackoverflow.

what's an average person? The only way politics connects with the masses is through voting.

Simplistic means treating complex issues and problems as if they were much simpler, that's exactly what Jquery and its suit of plugins (including Amplify) does well.

The internet is really many superimposed communities. Expecting the internet, or pretty much anything else to be a certain way is setting yourself up for unfulfilled expectation. T…

Doesn't Facebook already have a search feature?

often in text indexing the original document is kept for things like snippet generation.

"Nothing kills a new idea better than taking too much time on it." I feel like this might be true of very simplistic ideas, I don't think it holds in any generally applicable form.…

C++ with a JIT is called Java, Seriously though this is misguided. PGO is clearly a step in the right direction but its simply deferred static optimization. Either you optimize in …

It's fascinating watching the HN community ebb and flow around topics, there's this collective conscious that discusses programming languages (mostly) and some days the tide takes …

This is not true. The runtime environment for Java is capable of changing the program on the fly in response to dynamically determined bottlenecks. To implement such a system in C …

I read it as more of a politic answer, there's been a lot of inpulse bashing it seems over what appears to be something that they are doing to try and help, not thwart hackers. Enc…

I was curious about the Redis sets used for social graph storage and using intersection of sets to find nodes in common. Would anyone have an idea about the complexity of this as b…

Nearly every geek I know has a MBP, and every startup I've worked at uses the same.

No they are not! apps mostly use the internet for their data, but provide a richer UX than what a web browser can do. The internet is the underpinning of most apps.

I still don't get it? you tied three words to an email account? for what? Where does it go? What's the use case?

Well, I can't agree, I thought it was clever and witty and I'm hanging on to the 15 year old inside me that still thinks this is pretty funny.

It does matter, culture, infrastructure, proximity to events/meetups etc. Walk to see customers, competitors, etc. Can't go to a bar without ending up debating which key value stor…

Mankind has built a lot of civilization using bigger steamrollers.