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1.How can we get Google Support?
446 points by fabpot on April 10, 2013 | 217 comments
2.Bitcoin falls from $266 (mtgox.com)
396 points by sillysaurus on April 10, 2013 | 486 comments
3.Csscss: a CSS redundancy analyzer that analyzes redundancy (zmoazeni.github.io)
299 points by zmoazeni on April 10, 2013 | 43 comments
4.Mendeley users revolt against Elsevier takeover (paidcontent.org)
275 points by pms on April 10, 2013 | 147 comments
5.The Tyranny of Taxi Medallions (priceonomics.com)
232 points by ajju on April 10, 2013 | 216 comments
6.Obfuscated C Code Contest 2006. Please explain sykes2.c (stackoverflow.com)
227 points by gedrap on April 10, 2013 | 23 comments
7.AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network (techdirt.com)
224 points by mtgx on April 10, 2013 | 144 comments
8.Lulu: An App No One Should Accept (compylr.com)
210 points by triplec1988 on April 10, 2013 | 342 comments
9.XKCD: Time (explainxkcd.com)
205 points by swatkat on April 10, 2013 | 33 comments
10.IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant (cnet.com)
198 points by DanielBMarkham on April 10, 2013 | 180 comments
11.Status Board (panic.com)
179 points by jpadilla_ on April 10, 2013 | 131 comments
12.Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures (nist.gov)
178 points by LiveTheDream on April 10, 2013 | 15 comments
13.NASA-backed fusion engine could cut Mars trip down to 30 days (theregister.co.uk)
162 points by kristianp on April 10, 2013 | 158 comments
14.Mozilla's Gary Kovacs to step down as CEO (blog.mozilla.org)
161 points by arturadib on April 10, 2013 | 56 comments
15.Top Coders Can Now Get Agents (businessweek.com)
156 points by rafaelc on April 10, 2013 | 73 comments
16.Rust will likely not support tail call optimization (mail.mozilla.org)
157 points by steveklabnik on April 10, 2013 | 152 comments
17.Using AngularJS at Localytics (localytics.com)
152 points by abuggia on April 10, 2013 | 56 comments
18.Twitter Just Shut Down Ribbon’s Newly Launched In-Stream Payments Feature (techcrunch.com)
143 points by 6thSigma on April 10, 2013 | 57 comments
19.You Can't Stop Universal From Removing Your YouTube Videos (dailydot.com)
133 points by gregpurtell on April 10, 2013 | 56 comments
20.Show HN: Rappad - Write better lyrics (rappad.co)
134 points by overload119 on April 10, 2013 | 65 comments
21.Optimizely Raises $28 Million to Go Global (optimizely.com)
123 points by jwblackwell on April 10, 2013 | 56 comments
22.Is it Time for Mutiny? (hbr.org)
123 points by lando2319 on April 10, 2013 | 37 comments
23.RogerEbert.com relaunched (rogerebert.com)
117 points by danso on April 10, 2013 | 21 comments

They actively don't want to support you. Google have an official explanation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU0Z_HAzO3I

It boils down to the fact that even if every customer needed 1 minute of support every 2 years that would mean they'd have to employ 6 trillion people (or some rubbish).

As I said earlier this year, Google have total contempt for their customers - yes, even their paying customers. http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2013/02/googles-customer-contempt-co...

Self host. Don't rely on Google. Sadly, that's the only way to do it.

25.Intel wants to kill the traditional server rack with 100Gbps links (arstechnica.com)
101 points by orrsella on April 10, 2013 | 56 comments
26.The Day the Replication Died (kickstarter.com)
99 points by mecredis on April 10, 2013 | 55 comments

Whoever takes charge, I hope he/she keeps Mozilla going in the same direction it has been in the recent past, because the work coming out of that company has been nothing short of amazing in my opinion.

Basically, Mozilla, don't change, you're awesome.

28.A Non-Negotiator’s Guide to Negotiating (99u.com)
93 points by projuce on April 10, 2013 | 35 comments

I'm very skeptical that this is an improvement (but kudos for thinking outside the box). Here's something that was intended as constructive criticism, but maybe ended up more as just criticism:

Removing the key signature is not a good idea. When playing in G major, the sharp accidental on the Fs is not put at the beginning of the line just to avoid printing it in the score. Rather, it fits there because when I play in G major, I put my brain in G major mode, in which case it would be distracting to have an accidental on every single F.

Similarly, writing a special symbol for each pitch seems it would get heavily in the way of transposing on the fly. The position already encodes the pitch, and the ABCDEFG names kind of get in the way of understanding the melody, which is more about relative intervals than absolute values.

And what does the little parenthesis on the length line mean? For half- and whole notes it seems to mean it doubles the length (a quarternote with one or two parentheses), but for sixteenth-notes it seems to indicate that it halves it (an eighth-note with a single parenthesis mark).

I also question removing the stem of a note. I have a feeling that is one of the stronger queues for reading rhythm. Spacing is not very important, and indeed especially in dense scores for solo instruments, that need to have few page turns, notes are often just spaced as tightly as possible.

The author also recognized that the beams on eighth- and sixtheenth-notes (e.g. in the left hand) are very important rhythmic cues, and replaced them with that horizontal thing with the arrow on the left. This is a bit hard to read though when there are no stems to link them to the note and the pitch interval is big.

The part about it being easy to write by hand looks good, and made me feel good at first. Then you realize that hand-written traditional notation is quite different from typeset one, just like handwritten text is very different from printed text. Drawing all the little balls and filling in the halfmoon C, up and down thingies seems tedious, when traditionally one writes a simple dot or a little slash instead of the note head.


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If you're interested in following the price, I suggest these links:

- https://bitcoinity.org/markets

- http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/mtgoxUSD

- http://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/

If you're interested in talking about the price, try #bitcoin-pricetalk on Freenode.


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