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31.		Magic Tricks based on deep Mathematics (mathoverflow.net)
		25 points by _giu on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
32.		jQuery Plugins (woorkup.com)
		23 points by woork on Dec 27, 2009
		raspie on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: They Killed My Lawyer The worst thing is that even though this story received a lot of attention in Russian media and people are well aware and furious about it, there is nothing that will be done about it. Neither the president nor the prime minister nor the parliament nor the government nor anyone else with any power in this country have done or are going to do anything about it. As if it's normal.
		davi on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret phot... I didn't know what "Error Level Analysis" was. So: 'Error level analysis (ELA) works by intentionally resaving the image at a known error rate, such as 95%, and then computing the difference between the images. If there is virtually no change, then the cell has reached its local minima for error at that quality level. However, if there is a large amount of change, then the pixels are not at their local minima and are effectively “original”.' From http://www.hackerfactor.com/papers/bh-usa-07-krawetz-wp.pdf, a lot of interesting stuff in there.
35.		Ask HN: How to setup scaled-down Craigslist for my struggling rural area?
		23 points by JayNeely on Dec 27, 2009 \| 35 comments
36.		Why the web economy will continue growing rapidly (cdixon.org)
		22 points by prakash on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
37.		Scientists want planes to fly in formation like geese, to save on jet fuel (guardian.co.uk)
		22 points by vaksel on Dec 27, 2009 \| 15 comments
38.		Ample SDK - Open Source GUI Framework (amplesdk.com)
		23 points by meddah on Dec 27, 2009 \| 4 comments
39.		Redis can now batch operations and execute them atomically (groups.google.com)
		22 points by xal on Dec 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
40.		Ask HN: How to jump into "real world" programming?
		22 points by dmn on Dec 27, 2009 \| 16 comments
		markbao on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Has Hackers News Become Less About Hacking? I dunno, I always wanted to see more startup stuff here. Maybe I'm in the minority.
42.		Ask HN: Is this an idea worth pursuing further?
		20 points by scrr on Dec 27, 2009 \| 19 comments
43.		Sorry, Shoppers, but Why Can’t Amazon Collect More Tax? (nytimes.com)
		20 points by ojbyrne on Dec 27, 2009 \| 32 comments
44.		Ask HN: New Year resolutions and programming/coding projects
		20 points by arithmetic on Dec 27, 2009 \| 14 comments
		ellyagg on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: They Killed My Lawyer Wow, it sounds like you actually condone the spirit of what happened. As an American it's strange to imagine celebrating rule of force over rule of law. The US falls woefully short at times, but I can't imagine anyone cheering fraudulent theft of tax money to pander to voters. I also find it hard to believe someone would behave as the lawyer in this story did merely over ill-intentioned greed.
		pg on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: HN stops at 210, why 210? 7 pages of 30 items.
		alanthonyc on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, ... Is it really true that it's not cool to post your own articles? I don't think there's anything wrong with it.
		ramchip on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter What would be interesting to know is if Twitter got this list from somewhere else, or if they actually analyze which passwords were most commonly chosen by its tens of millions of users in the past I thought it was the journalist's job to research, not the reader's. Would it be that hard to fire up an email to Twitter and say 'hey, this is Techcrunch, we have a question...'? It's not like this is urgent news and must be published right now or become worthless...
		kf on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: They Killed My Lawyer Single page: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/12/22/they_killed...
		gojomo on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: 370 Passwords You Can't Use On Twitter In the New Model, it's good for a site like TC to leave obvious questions unanswered, or even a blatant error or two in the story. It triggers comments and followup stories!
51.		How to commit brand suicide (econsultancy.com)
		18 points by eam on Dec 27, 2009
		alexkay on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Forensic analysis of recent Victoria's Secret phot... Follow-up: http://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/329-The...
53.		Ask HN: Does Web Traffic Always Equal Income?
		17 points by DanielBMarkham on Dec 27, 2009 \| 17 comments
		city41 on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: If You’re Nervous About Quitting Your Boring Job, ... It also struck me as rather smug and arrogant: "You can't quit your job, but I have a PhD from MIT, so I can." Geez buddy.
		pquerna on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: Ask HN: How do you organize your code on your mach... `~/code ~/code/${company_or_topical} ~/code/${company_or_topical}/${project}` Where company or topical are things like 'cloudkick', 'asf' or 'personal'. (I guess you could say, its "who owns the IP"). Some of these subdirectories are actually symlinks to encrypted DMGs, again depending on who owns the IP. Project is the top level checkout of the projects.. My 'asf' (aka Apache Software Foundation) directory contains 84 project level checkouts. I also keep a ~/work/temp directory full of random source tarballs if I need to look at how something works. Currently contains glibc, python 2.6 & 3.1, dojo, and about 30 other open source projects, normally ones I'm not normally involved in patching, but often run into... difficulties with. Nothing resolves bad documentation quicker than looking at the source code... I tend to nuke temp once every 6 months.
56.		E-books spark battle inside the publishing industry (washingtonpost.com)
		17 points by carterschonwald on Dec 27, 2009 \| 22 comments
57.		Bugs Inside: What Happens When the Microbes That Keep Us Healthy Disappear? (scientificamerican.com)
		17 points by edw519 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 3 comments
58.		The Arrogant VC: Why VCs are disliked by entrepreneurs (venturehacks.com)
		17 points by peter123 on Dec 27, 2009 \| 5 comments
59.		CUDA and OpenCL run time comparison using Vector Addition (researchdaily.blogspot.com)
		17 points by astroguy on Dec 27, 2009 \| 6 comments
		astine on Dec 27, 2009 \| parent \| context \| on: They Killed My Lawyer What does that have to do with anything? He was in fact guilty of tax evasion, which was in fact against the law.
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