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www.sfgate.com 12y ago

Uber, Lyft, Sidecar Put Driver Recruiting In High Gear

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android.googlesource.com 12y ago

Android code commit makes ART runtime the default, instead of Dalvik.

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sfist.com 12y ago

VC Tom Perkins: I Regret Comparing Plight Of 1% To Nazi Germany

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www.computerworld.com 12y ago

Detroit wants its own high-tech visa

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www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

HSBC bank won't let customers withdraw cash unless they prove why they need it

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laist.com 12y ago

Uber Driver Allegedly Locks Passenger In Car, Gives Himself Five-Star Rating

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www.openshift.com 12y ago

Ceylon: Awesome Tea or a New Language to Learn

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www.telegraph.co.uk 12y ago

Man jailed for refusing to divulge USB password

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www.fit-pc.com 12y ago

Intense PC2: miniature fanless Haswell PC, 3 hard drives, supports 3x 4k display

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theweek.com 12y ago

Everything you need to know about Japan's population crisis

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www.newyorker.com 12y ago

Why the Climate Corporation sold itself to Monsanto

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www.thelocal.se 12y ago

Flu-jab narcolepsy due to brain damage: study of Pandemrix vaccine

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www.theguardian.com 12y ago

China surpasses US as world's largest trading nation

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www.nytimes.com 12y ago

Obama Announces ‘Promise Zones’ in 5 Stricken Areas

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www.hmbreview.com 12y ago

San Francisco: Experts say beach radiation unrelated to Fukushima

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www.hmbreview.com 12y ago

Half Moon Bay, California: Health officials respond to beach radiation scare

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www.mouser.com 12y ago

Intel Galileo Development Board - First Arduino Compatible Board

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sfappeal.com 12y ago

Uber Admits That Driver Arrested For Killing 6-Year-Old Worked For Them

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sfist.com 12y ago

Uber Driver Identified In Death Of 6-Year-Old Pedestrian In San Francisco

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www.reuters.com 12y ago

Japan's homeless recruited for Fukushima clean-up

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corporate.target.com 12y ago

Target: PIN data "protected by triple DES encryption, the most secure standard"

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www.tecmint.com 12y ago

51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users

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lkcl.net 12y ago

Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages

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www.usatoday.com 12y ago

Target confirms (TripleDES) encrypted PIN data stolen

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www.techpowerup.com 12y ago

End of an Era: Western Digital to Stop Shipping PATA Hard Drives

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www.theguardian.com 12y ago

The Brits have it right: forget Happy Holidays, just wish people Merry Christmas

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www.cdc.gov 12y ago

CDC - Estimates of new HIV infections in the United States

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Good books for foreigners wanting to learn about the history of the USA?

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www.independent.co.uk 12y ago

BT Internet filter gives parents option to block 'gay lifestyle' content

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blog.lenovo.com 12y ago

The Origins of The ThinkPad Keyboard

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PA Consulting are idiots and everybody who gave them this contract should be fired.

Saying "I didn't know" is no excuse as this is not the first time PA Consulting have lost data!

"The Home Secretary announced on 10 September that the government has terminated its contract with PA Consulting, following the recent high profile data loss

On 19 August PA Consulting formally notified the Home Office of the loss of a data stick containing sensitive information relating to the JTrack system which PA manage under contract to the Home Office

The data on JTrack relates to prisoners and other offenders in England and Wales."

http://www.scl.org/site.aspx?i=ne9297

Yeah yeah yeah. Heard this one before.

Acquired company says it's business as usual, nothing will change, and then 6 months later things slowly begin to change and then after the vesting period of the acquisition finishes, and the newly minted sail off into the sunset, it all goes to hell.

The CEO just had a higher price than most other people.

To get $16bn cash from Facebook is hilarious.

Next time a start-up says they won't pay you market rate because of x, y, and z just walk away and laugh. For the sake of a few thousand dollars in wages, you could make them billions.

Don't work for cheap bastards. Funny how engineers are supposed to sacrifice yet we never see a lawyer or accountant charge below market rates, and their work can save businesses millions as well as jail-time.

Putin on the Ritz 12 years ago

This article offers an interesting look at Russia-US relations:

"Diagnosing Sochi Media Coverage: Virulent Russophobia...

The water, the toilets, the hotels – nothing pleases our pampered media divas, whose hatred of all things Russian oozes from between the lines of their "reporting" like pus from an old wound."

All the antipathy we saw aimed at Russia during the cold war years is now being revomited up by the political class, albeit in a new flavor: instead of genuine martyrs like Andrei Sakharov and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn being lionized, we see the professional provocateurs of "Pussy Riot" elevated by Western media to the status of "dissident" stars.

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/02/09/diagnosing-soc...

From the Github page:

"CDTDatastore is available through CocoaPods, to install it add the following line to your Podfile:

Why CocoaPods? What is wrong with a static library? Or simply adding the relevant class files to a project?

I don't want to have Ruby infrastructure just to add a bunch of files to a project! Why are Ruby folk obsessed with doing things their 'Gems' way? They bring the same mentality to Go(lang). I always hear (ex)-Ruby folk asking questions at meetups about packaging and versioning...

Don't forget TOM.COM.

His nickname in Hong Kong is "Superman" so everybody trusted him. During the first dot.com he jumped on board the IPO wagon resulting in mom and pop investors getting absolutely fleeced. I think after that episode people began to see him truly for what he is: just another rich guy playing the politicians to extend his empire, built mostly on property.

Another tidbit. His younger son, Richard Lee, promoted himself as a tech guru having graduated from Stanford studying computer science (it said so on the IPO prospectus). Journalists later discover that in fact he had attended but dropped out of Stanford, and instead went to Canada to work at his dad's financial firm, before returning to Hong Kong to help run the family business.

It's mostly faux outrage.

There are many fields and industries where women outnumber men, yet not a peep from the usual suspects.

I'll respectfully disagree. They are implying creation and ownership of an entire facility. They want to market themselves as being bigger and stronger than they actually are.

I guess hustling and bending the truth is rule 101 in marketing for start-ups these days, but it doesn't have to be like that.

When Blue Bottle open a new coffee shop, that's what they call it, an opening. If other coffee shops stock their coffee, Blue Bottle don't claim to have opened a new location, they simply say their coffee is available or served there.

On a Mission 12 years ago

Do you really need to be rich to do the things that interest you?

If not, and you're not in financial hardship, start doing those things you love now.

Enjoy your life before responsibilities and old age catch upto you.

Money corrupts.

It's amazing how things have changed in 10 years.

CPAN.

Perl.

A real community of programmers, system admins, enthusiasts.

Ok, this is nonsense!

DigitalOcean did not "open" a data center in Singapore. All they have done is rented some racks / colo space from Equinix in an existing facility.

http://www.equinix.com/locations/singapore-colocation/singap...

They're just another customer - to spin and imply they have built or opened a brand new data center is ridiculous.

"Our decision to open a new datacenter" is really "We've located servers in Singapore". What's wrong with telling the truth?

Just more evidence that DigitalOcean is all PR and hot air after their pot-shots at Linode and brushing off security issues as "features".

Marissa Mayer hired a guy, paid him millions, then fired him because he was crap. What makes you think Susan is any different? Right time, right place, right connections, you get the job.

We'll never know if somebody else could have been as successful or not at selling ads at Google, but guess what, given that Google has been the #1 search engine for so many years, it's kind of hard to screw up, right?

At the end of the day, I don't even know why I'm commenting on this thread, because I don't actually give a damn who's running YouTube. All I care about is that the site is literally going down the tubes because of a poor user experience, and in an attempt to monetize, it's only going to get worse.

Hooray, once again it's the generic boilerplate executive or product manager who gets the big bucks, while the PROGRAMMERS are stuck toiling away.

Thank god for people like John Carmack and Linus Torvalds, great programmers who are recognised as leaders and given the respect that this profession so badly needs.

[dead] 12 years ago

Maybe the moderators will ban this post manually?

At some point there will a rather innocuous post which will be blocked, and it will be the straw that breaks the camel's back.

I think it's coming. I think people are sick of the nannying and censorship and ready to move on from HN.

[dead] 12 years ago

I feel PG is wrong to kill the Doctor's valid question.

It's obvious that HN is not a news site, but a discussion forum based upon censored news. If this complaint had been about a non-YC funded company, the moderators would have left the story up. Heck, every other story on HN is usually about somebody complaining about a company's product or conduct.

Why is YC afraid of open discussion? So what if one company out of the portfolio is having problems? Nobody expects the investments to be perfect, yet killing the conversation makes it look far worse, as though there is something to hide.

End of the day, profit trumps transparency. Remember that the next time people get on the soap box and talk about internet freedom blah blah blah.

SourceTree seems to get slower and slowerespecially if you have submodules and lots of branches. Not sure why. Any good alternatives out there?

I use both. I dont think Git 'won' but it is more popular. I suspect many git users dont even know why they use git except because they were told to, they probably never tried hg or know anything about darcs, bitkeeper, etc.