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Why Amazon needed to control Kindle's book prices(alek.posterous.com)
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I don't know how many of you actually own a Nexus One, but I bought one, and I can't see why everyone is considering it such a failure. Having used an iPhone and an HTC Magic I think the Nexus is a big leap. It does more than the iPhone out
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http://AcademicEarth.com is also great
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You have 3 options: 1) As an Italian citizen you can go to the US and stay there for up to 3 months at a time using the tourist visa waiver program. You are not allowed to work, but you are allowed to interview for a potential job. 2) If yo
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Amazon sold more Kindle books than paper this Xmas(gizmodo.com)
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Yes, I have used Bloomberg quite a lot, although I spent most of my time with its painful API. I just wanted to get your perspective on what Bloom feature you'd like to see in a web site/search engine.
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Why is something like Google/Yahoo Finance not good enough? Apart from 10-K and 10-Q's?
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I agree with you completely. My question is what would you build if the technological barrier of building a massive, reliable real time service was not there. Everyone is talking about the Real Time Web (even organizing conferences) but Twi
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Ask HN: If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do?
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You mean a $5 pair of red and green glasses? 3D movies for home consumption have been available for a while http://www.amazon.com/Coraline-Blu-ray-Combo-Digital-Copy/dp... and 3D HDTV is expected to start in late 2010.
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In the sleeves of most CDs you can find a list of credits for every track, which include people that took part in the production, as well as other songs that were sampled in the track. There are also databases online which show what song sa
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That poses an interesting technical question - how do you achieve military-grade encryption over a communications line with heavy packet loss (assuming the drone->satellite connection is like that)? Most self-synchronizing ciphers would
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In that case your favorite airport is called Boston Logan, Terminal E (I haven't checked the other terminals). Most passenger-oriented power plugs have USB, too, albeit it's a different design from what's in the link. WiFi is free, sponsore
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Yes, I did work on that. I used a neural network to trade FX. I wrote my own neutral network framework using code generators for x86 and CUDA. The neural network was a fairly normal feed-forward network with GA-inspired, but heavily modifie
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Tell HN: Watch the TEDxNASA live stream starting at 3pm GMT(livestream.com)
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I keep a screen open on a Slicehost server and do all my development there. Even if I visit a friend and don't bring my laptop I'd download PuTTY and feel at home.
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I would assemble a team to try and replicate several scientific experiments that have came out with inexplicable results. While a large number of those will turn out fraudulent, it is very possible that a few claims were true, but sounded s
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Ask YC: Any entrepreneurial events in Boston around Thanksgiving week?
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Short version: document.location.href = 'http://pixlr.com'
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How is cloud computing free? Since they already owned the machines, Findory would've been paying for bandwidth and power only. With cloud computing you'd have to pay for this and CPU time.
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I'm trying to see how a graph database would be significantly faster than a key-value database. The only thing that comes to mind is that with graph databases a node's edges contain direct pointers or offsets to the other nodes, instead of
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I'm curious if Facebook would give in if the British government offered #1.38bn to shut down Facebook in the UK.
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That's how Movable Type used to work. People complained how it took forever to regenerate a big site on a shared host.
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Key-value stores develop fairly quickly. We need an up to date comparison between their features and metrics (performance, code coverage, bugs filed per month, etc.).
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Ok this is just iLike and Lala widgets embedded in the search results. It's not a new business model, it's not new technology or a new experience. It's the same old music you can find anywhere else. Can we move along now?
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Ask RethinkDB: Benefits on spinning platter drives?
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Where is this hosted?
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It kinda looks like a testing tool, but I don't get what this actually is about. A 1-sentence description of why I need this tool, rather than a list of features, would be much more helpful.
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This is a good reason to think of what are the quickest ways to bring one of your own sites down and try to prevent them. In 2002 I lost the data to a small (~200 users) hobby site I built and to this date it still haunts me as my biggest f
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Me and a friend are starting a healthy-eating salad bar, the first in the city. It's very different from programming, which is what excited me the most about the project.

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