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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,466 posts.
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Charlie Stross on Common Misconceptions About Publishing: Ebooks
Back to: We appear to have a hung parliament | Forward to: PDF: Satanic horror from the abyss, or merely evil?
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New Programming Jargon
Every field comes up with its own jargon, and oftentimes subgroups within a field come up with their own specific words or phrases (those of you familiar with Microsoft Canada’s Developer and Platform Evangelism Team know that we have our own term for “broken”, named after one of our teammates who is notorious for…
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What Business is Wall Street In?
My last two posts were designed to stimulate discussion. But lets talk the real problem that regulators, public companies, investor/shareholders and traders face. The problem is that Wall Street doesn’t know what business it is in. Regulators don’t know what the business of Wall Street is. Investor/shareholders don’t…
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Bit.ly is Harmful to Your Reputation
It all started with a simple innocent tweet. As Vivek Wadhwa was finishing up his excellent post on outsourcing he tweeted about it and I ...
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Facebook leaks user's IP addresses
Actually this is a common method of combatting spam, all of the various spam providers will block facebook as a whole if they don't include this information, which would obviously be a devastating annoyance. Go and send an e-mail from hotmail, or any kind of mailserver.. normal e-mail client, gmail, etc.. and you will…
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The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
Facebook is a great service. I have a profile , and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60.
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Thursday = Thor's day
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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The App Store Spam Problem
The first two are real. Rocket Bird 3D and MY BEST FRIEND are other things (although probably keyword spammers). The other six of the top ten results for this game’s name are pure spam. Judging from the number of customer ratings, a lot of people are downloading them — and, reading the reviews, it looks like they’re…
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Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich
The official blog of Inkling Markets. We make prediction market software for organizations to improve their forecasting and make better decisions.
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Facebook is Dying
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How I Monetized My Passion
Find your domain name at HugeDomains. Start using this domain right away.
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EFF vs. Facebook: Part 2: "Facebook's Connections"
"Connections." It's an innocent-sounding word. But it's at the heart of some of the worst of Facebook's recent changes.Facebook first announced Connections a few weeks ago, and EFF quickly wrote at length about the problems they created. Basically, Facebook has transformed substantial personal...
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Why Aren't There More Terrorist Attacks?
As the details of the Times Square car bomb attempt emerge in the wake of Faisal Shahzad’s arrest Monday night, one thing has already been made clear: Terrorism is fairly easy. All you need is a gun or a bomb, and a crowded target. Guns are easy to buy. Bombs are easy to make. Crowded targets—not only in New York, but…
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Why do Harvard kids head to Wall Street?
By James Kwak That’s the title of a post a couple weeks ago by Ezra Klein, in which he interviewed a friend of his who went to Wall Street after Harvard. Having seen this phenomenon from a co…
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Dropbox (YC 07) announces mobile API (and apps for iPad, Android)
Modern work can be frustrating and chaotic—if you don’t have the right tools. From context engineering to multimodal search, go behind the scenes and hear how Dropbox engineers are building AI that actually understands you, so you can focus on the work that matters most.
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Facebook Tries to Make Violations of Terms of Use Into Criminal Violations
San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal judge to dismiss Facebook's claims that criminal law is violated when its users opt for an add-on service that helps them aggregate their information from a variety of social networking sites. Power Ventures makes a web-...