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by pvnick 13y ago
Oh, derp. Well that makes more sense.
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What's going on with Amazon recently? We're seeing a torrent of new technologies and platform offerings. Are we finally catching a glimpse of Bezos's grand scheme?
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Did you write your mappers and reducers in java using the hadoop api or does this translate into hiveql or some other higher-level language? Great job btw, this looks super helpful for the business types to get useful reports on their own r
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by pvnick 13y ago
This seems like a great idea, one that I've been tossing around in my head for a while now. To the skeptics (of which HN has in droves), has anybody ever gone in the reverse direction, ie, from having their own client-funded business t
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by pvnick 13y ago
This revelation proves Wikileaks is stil alive and relevant. I hope they see a renewed jolt of donations and interest. This is the organization of heroes that helped get Snowden to safety. Also, I'm getting sick and tired of our "
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It's comments like these and the close-knit community of hackers that keeps me coming back to HN. Everyone seems to know a guy.
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This is really, really cool. I've been developing an excel spreadsheet that I use for diet/nutrition tracking, which has all sorts of calculations across various sheets. I thought there was no way this would be able to handle that
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I agree, that's the thought I've had ever since learning of native client. These native, proprietary solutions have come and gone, such will be the fate of NaCl. As far as I'm concerned the future of high-performance webbrows
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by pvnick 13y ago
Well that was a pretty mean thing to say. Not everything needs to be a cure for cancer or fix peak oil. We need some room for leisure. If the author had fun making something that provides him with some cash, I don't see what the harm i
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I liked the point about "Bizarro Edward Snowden" acting on conscience to spy on and take down nsa threats as a sort of lone gunman of information. Don't get me wrong, I'm one of those conspiracy theorists who believes th
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This post hit home for me. I've personally implemented code review strategies which directly and immediately led to much improved code quality and generally better product. But management doesn't see code quality. They see deadlin
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>As mentioned above, development on Presto started in Fall 2012. We had our first production system up and running in early 2013. It was fully rolled out to the entire company by Spring 2013. Wow. As somebody who skimmed through the orig
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Keep in mind when considering reform by our legislature that any serious efforts on that front will likely be undermined with blackmail made possible by the very surveillance apparatus they are attempting to curtail [1]. I sincerely hope th
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That is a brilliant idea! I'll have to try that sometime
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Great idea! Looking forward to the planned functionality being built in. Bookmarked for future usefulness
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Orgo is a double edged sword. The flow of electron density that dictates bonding patterns between the machinery of life is fascinating and graspable intuitively. The problem comes when you get to those useless professors who prefer not the
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Having been born the same year as this worm's release, I love reading about these moments in internet history. When I read that Paul Graham and Morris later went on to found Y-Combinator (why didn't I know that already?) I was so
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I read the article and at the end muttered "abso-fucking-lutely"
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Periodically, especially when a new report like this one comes out, I like to go back and watch the original Snowden interview ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yB3n9fu-rM ) and reflect on the differences between what we knew
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by pvnick 13y ago
E-Cigarettes are going to save millions of lives in the coming years. They're harmless, and, if you get a brand that feels like the real thing, easy to transition to. I hope the tobacco industry takes a huge financial hit from the sale
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I actually don't have a problem with private surveillance, regardless of purpose. As long as it's legal (!!!), it's probably more effective than what government agencies like the NSA could do with their more intrusive and il
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Watch as the flag-all-NSA-stories brigade pushes this relevant story off the front page...
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I remember this post being made here on HN around when the revelations first started coming out and we were still trying to collect ourselves and adjust to the new realities of omnipresent surveillance. It was on the front page and had a to
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Impressive! Great job.
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Ok can we please stop with the "conspiracy theorist" label/ad hominem attacks? After the NSA revelations have shown things to be a lot worse than even the more paranoid conspiracy theorists thought, folks with an eye for co
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In addition, here is their leadership team ( https://www.wiki-pr.com/leadership/ ): "DARIUS FISHER Co-Founder, Chief Operations Officer Darius co-founded Wiki-PR in 2010 after working alongside a crisis communicatio
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You know what they say, if at first you don't succeed, then middle management might just be for you
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Jeremy Scahill, Laura Poitras Reportedly Joining Forces With Greenwald(truthdig.com)
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I can still flag things - both posts and comments. Could your flagging history be perceived as excessive?
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I would be interested in reading about this if you're referring to any articles in particular, especially if they offer advice on how to personally escape that trend in order to not get caught up in it all

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