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by nyellin 15y ago
Computer science is an optional part of the high school curriculum in Israel. Depending on which matriculation exams you take, the classes teach basic .NET, Java, or Assembly. There's room for improvement, but the classes are widely success
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by nyellin 16y ago
If the candidate is on github, ask them to show you something they're proud of and to explain their technical decisions. I've only experienced this from the perspective of a candidate, but it was almost fun to go over the code with my inter
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by nyellin 16y ago
On the whole, I concur. However, for comments like your own, the votes are interesting, as a rough measure of whether the HN community agrees with you or not. (It's a rough measure because upvoting!=agreeing.) Clarification: I don't wan
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by nyellin 16y ago
I don't think so, considering that the 1st comment thread on Reddit is a series of "that's what she said" jokes. Edit: All the same, I'll try giving /r/programming a chance. As a whole, Reddit looks less civil than HN, but maybe I haven't b
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by nyellin 16y ago
It's a shame that the results will be skewed by people who read about the experiment first. The more I think of it, the more I regret posting this to HN. I'm deleting this submission. Please do not re-submit. Lets wait until Ars writes a bl
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by nyellin 16y ago
This submission reminded me why I love HN: On Reddit, there would have been a flowchart (at best) if I followed the link. Here, there's an engineering solution, with practical tips for machine-learning. Now I want to build a "that's what sh
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by nyellin 16y ago
If you've missed the point of this posting: 1. Click the URL, press ctrl+f, and search for "bananas" in the page's text 2. Read the comments The experiment's results change on page 3 of the comments, around the time that John Timmer (author
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Feature suggestion for Python 3.3: math.zod (zero or divide)(mail.python.org)
2 points by nyellin 16y ago|0 comments
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Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres (newscientist.com)
3 points by nyellin 16y ago|0 comments
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by nyellin 16y ago
By definition, there is no point in having an anonymous conversation with your dad, because it wouldn't be anonymous. Right now, we're seeing freeversation used with much larger groups of people, where guessing which email matches the passw
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by nyellin 16y ago
The original title was more interesting, but I guess it was too long. Learning new color names produces rapid increase in gray matter in the intact adult human cortex
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by nyellin 16y ago
Read the ending; it sounds like a cloud computing offer: In the future, we think this service could also be useful for businesses in various industries, like biotech, financial services, manufacturing and energy. If your business can benef
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by nyellin 16y ago
I thought the blog post was interesting, but lacking scientific data. You had citations for most of the information, but I stopped looking after you cited ehow.com.
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by nyellin 16y ago
An earthquake in Japan is not controversial and might have business implications for some people on HN. Edit: Removed pro-Israel defense. This is not the place for a political discussion.
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by nyellin 16y ago
I'm not sure what you have in mind. Our use case is explained on freeversation.com/about. Let me know if you have any questions.
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RedBull Creation, hardware hacking contest(redbullusa.com)
37 points by nyellin 16y ago|14 comments
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by nyellin 16y ago
Again, it's not a private password if they chose to share it with a group.
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by nyellin 16y ago
If someone creates and conversation and re-uses a password, that password is emailed to everyone they invited. There is no way to avoid that and still use a group password. Edit: Furthermore, the password is not associated with a specific
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by nyellin 16y ago
There are some cases when storing plaintext passwords is justified, despite all of the risks. There are cases where you can't - or shouldn't - hash passwords. For Freeversation, we store plaintext passwords for two reasons: 1. Our passwords
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Riding the startup roller-coaster: The Madness(justinvincent.com)
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by nyellin 16y ago
The grey color for a:visited is too light. I have to strain my eyes to see it. edit: Also, the extra space in comment-headers is wonky. And even with my nitpicking, great job!
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by nyellin 16y ago
Update: Bob Cavezza (rcavezza) suggested Face.com on StartupGuild, so I am testing that now. If Face.com doesn't work, I hope to hack Google/Bing related images, or locate images with unique filenames.
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by nyellin 16y ago
I am testing against images on http://natanyellin.com/about and there are no matches. It also failed to find my current and past Facebook profile pictures, which were all public.
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Ask HN: Need reverse image search engine for my one-night webapp
7 points by nyellin 16y ago|4 comments
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by nyellin 16y ago
You can tell clients to check the http referrer for your domain. That would (mostly) stop people from posting now-useless destination URLs online. http referrers are easily spoofed, of course, but it'll be enough to prevent most people from
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by nyellin 16y ago
Whoever wrote this app understood two simple business techniques: 1) In non-technological industries there are golden opportunities for software developers. A small app like this can make a huge difference for first responders. 2) Sometimes
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by nyellin 16y ago
The McDonalds and Burger King logos seem like they are part of an interactive duel. I was surprised that I couldn't click on one and then login with twitter or Facebook.
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by nyellin 16y ago
Klout is an alternative: http://klout.com/
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by nyellin 16y ago
That's fair, but I felt that bushi.do would have been equally understood with an appropriate title or comment explaining the website. In fact, if the same article had been written on a different blog, I doubt an indirect link would have bee
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by nyellin 16y ago
> When the article is off the front page, the discussion quickly dies off with it. There needs to be a "hot discussions" tab that allows people to continue the conversations. This encourages people to get to know each other and particip

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