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Phone Rubik Cube Solver Is Pure Genius(i.gizmodo.com)
52 points by zain 18y ago|24 comments
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by zain 18y ago
Big organizations don't trust individuals enough to make them the single point of failure for encryption. Most often, these organizations run key servers that have the actual key, and provide the key based on some form of auth (usually Acti
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by zain 18y ago
Here is the video of the creator testing it with his own finger: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3mzhvMgrLE
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by zain 18y ago
What's the difference between this and searching for "define: word" on google? http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=define...
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by zain 18y ago
I'm one of those people on the fence about whether I want to follow a management career or a technical one. Articles like these shove me firmly towards the latter.
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"Must have advanced knowledge of Web 3.0"(sfbay.craigslist.org)
60 points by zain 18y ago|47 comments
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by zain 18y ago
It seems to be fashionable to rag on Muni these days, but after living in two other urban cities, Muni is the best public transportation I've seen. It runs practically everywhere and is quite affordable and prompt. Muni cars run on clean el
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by zain 18y ago
San Francisco is an excellent place for a hacker. 1) Plenty of other hackers in close vicinity 2) Lots of startups all over the city 3) Excellent public transportation 4) Awesome bike trails all over the place Plus, you can wal
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by zain 18y ago
Wow, a $250 valuation with 6 million users? That's $41.66 per user. It is ridiculously high, especially with no business model in sight.
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by zain 18y ago
we took the approach of not making them 100% human readable. Sounds like a great way to make sure neither bots nor humans use your service.
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by zain 18y ago
So is Paul ;)
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by zain 18y ago
I had a crazy idea too, and I'll probably get ridiculed, but what the hell. I think it is fairly straightforward to get something tiny to the moon. The challenge comes in making it broadcast back to earth. For wireless transmissions, you ne
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by zain 18y ago
If Obama was not president because he wasn't sworn in yet, then certainly neither Biden nor Rice were president either since they hadn't sworn in. Per the 20th amendment[1], the new president's term begins immediately after the old presiden
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Photosynths from the Obama Inauguration Events(photosynth.net)
1 points by zain 18y ago|0 comments
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Ramit Sethi: Your idea isn’t good enough to keep secret(iwillteachyoutoberich.com)
2 points by zain 18y ago|1 comments
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by zain 18y ago
Automatic versioning and version control.
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by zain 18y ago
+1 me too
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by zain 18y ago
Did you read the article? He establishes that on average, FB users have 100 connections, and derives 5 whoppers per user from there.
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by zain 18y ago
The traffic isn't just from people following links. What about the people uploading 50,000 documents every day ? Source: Scribd says so, according to washingtonpost http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12...
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by zain 18y ago
Man, you guys are harsh. Even if it isn't a service you yourself would use, why bash a service useful for others? The first goal of many Y Combinator startups is to make something people want, and Scribd clearly fits the bill if millions of
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by zain 18y ago
Facebook is in a lot of the nominations. Are they really still a startup?
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by zain 18y ago
The library is a great place to try. Quiet, comfortable, and free :)
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by zain 18y ago
http://www.applecanceledchristmas.com/
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by zain 18y ago
Yahoo! Mail is currently in a limited beta version and only open to confirmed partners. How do you become a partner?
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by zain 18y ago
It isn't always that straightforward. For example: if (a) return (some && complicated || boolean && calculation); else return (some || other && boolean || calculation); edit: I suppose you can get ri
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by zain 18y ago
Thinkgeek sells the extract in tablet form: http://www.thinkgeek.com/caffeine/candy/ab3f/ Has anyone tried it? I've always wanted to try the effects of the miracle berry and it seems like a cheap way to do so.
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Python 3.0 Released(python.org)
147 points by zain 18y ago|60 comments
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by zain 18y ago
PG says: Unless a political story is big enough to affect hackers, or related to things hackers care about. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=349168 I think this applies.
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by zain 18y ago
Flag it and move on, folks. Nothin' to see here.
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by zain 18y ago
If Google had stuck with the standard OpenID implementation, they could've still had the same user experience. http://zain@gmail.com/ is a valid URL, and Google could've used that as the OpenID URL.

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