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1.Aerial footage of uncontacted Amazon tribe (uncontactedtribes.org)
418 points by timf on Feb 4, 2011 | 363 comments
I'm currently working fulltime on my own startup
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3.E-ink writing pad, Noteslate. (noteslate.com)
296 points by markkat on Feb 4, 2011 | 116 comments
I'm an employee at a startup
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5.The Type of Employee You Really Want: Porn Star (pseudocoder.com)
208 points by vlucas on Feb 4, 2011 | 52 comments
6.I'm graduating with a CS degree but I don't feel like I know how to program (stackoverflow.com)
191 points by dangrossman on Feb 4, 2011 | 128 comments
7.I pitched YC, was rejected, just closed a multi-million dollar round.
186 points by ycreject on Feb 4, 2011 | 49 comments
8.Steve Pavlina: 30 days since I quit Facebook (stevepavlina.com)
187 points by egorst on Feb 4, 2011 | 106 comments

a decent chunk of the energy for writing delicious was in response to getting rejected by google years ago...
10.Ode to the App Review team (marco.org)
157 points by atularora on Feb 4, 2011 | 67 comments
11.Why PostgreSQL doesn't have query hints (toolbox.com)
156 points by mcfunley on Feb 4, 2011 | 60 comments

The Type of Blog Post I Really Want: One With Some Substance
13.The git parable (preston-werner.com)
146 points by RiderOfGiraffes on Feb 4, 2011 | 38 comments
I'm interesting in working for a startup in the future
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I'm planning to start my own startup soon
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16.XMPP creator's "Locker" -- personal social media aggregation platform (github.com/quartzjer)
132 points by Terretta on Feb 4, 2011 | 34 comments

How does your perspective differ from the perspective of the missionaries who attempted to bring "salvation" to indigenous peoples around the world?

How does your perspective differ from the perspectives that led to the imposition of the Residential Schools?

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Canadian_Indi...

Also, nothing I wrote says anything about providing them with access, it says something about destroying their culture and identity. So don't be too quick to make assumptions about what I believe or don't believe about medicine and education.

18.Show HN: my new project, an anti-snub dating site (secretpoke.com)
119 points by bjonathan on Feb 4, 2011 | 113 comments
19.Rainbird: The Way Twitter Counts Tweets In Realtime (Soon To Be Open Sourced) (techcrunch.com)
116 points by ssclafani on Feb 4, 2011 | 28 comments
20.Front-End Engineer wanted at Tutorspree (YC W11)
on Feb 4, 2011
21.The iPad is the new IE6 (millermedeiros.com)
117 points by ldayley on Feb 4, 2011 | 75 comments
Running
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We should give them access to technology and to our way of life. Our way of life is better. Preserving their backwards culture so they can continue lives of misery and suffering is just as disgusting as the Prime Directive.

Help is exactly what I would want from advanced alien visitors. I don't want them to respect my culture just because it is mine; I want something better for myself, not cultural relativism.

There is nothing good or enviable about uncivilized lifestyles to preserve; any actions that maintain them in that lifestyle are ensuring they literally die young, mostly of preventable causes. Their lives are short, uncomfortable and brutal. Trying to minimize contact is ensuring they do not get modern medical care and that they retain their dark ages quality (or worse) myths and prejudices.

Weights
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"It's minus 40 (Celsius) outside," Turkeyev said.

Celsius, Fahrenheit, what's the difference?


Ok, let me see. Back in 2005 a friend sent me one of these crush anonymously. I didn't want to guess on the site who it was, but I wanted to know who it was. They had this feature where you enter your email if you forgot your password. So, I thought to myself, not many of my friends would know about this site and whoever it is was probably the only person of my friends to be on it. So, I enter the list of female friends to recover their passwords[Just finished my undergrad, had loads of free time]. If they weren't on it the site came back with an error message. In the end, I came across one person who it was successful for.

Point being be careful with your error messages they might give away your users anonymity.


Hacker News: Correcting assertions about anal compensation rates since 2011.
I didn't know it existed until now
96 points | parent

My opinion? PoF stores password in plain text because it is an unprofessional outfit with no care for the security of its users or their data.

There is no valid reason for storing plain text passwords. Every time someone says "but we want it because we need to X" there is a better way to achieve X (or Y, where Y has the same effect as X in the end) that does not require plain text password storage (but may require a little extra coding+testing).

If anyone who says that the "but may require a little extra coding+testing" constitutes a valid reason, then they should not be trusted with any of your data. It is like leaving the office door unlocked because you couldn't be bothered to fish your keys out of your pocket and find the right key. It is an excuse (a pathetic excuse) for plain text passwords, but it is not a valid/good/acceptable reason.

Of course there are probably a great many sites that are unprofessionally constructed (in the auth credentials storage area at least) and you may never know until something goes wrong, so for safety you should not use the same password for multiple sites (keepass and similar utilities make keeping track of multiple password easy enough) then at least if one site is hacked the perp only gets access to that one site as you rather than potentially many sites.

I just like reading about startups and attending events
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