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They really should have a disclaimer on the submit form asking submitters to use the search box at the bottom of the page first to check that their stories have not already been submitted. Or, they should have it check for similar posts first and ask submitters to make sure that their post is not a duplicate.


From a tether, getting slightly better than dial-up speeds, I get a (>) play indicator, presumably as the video is buffering, but it starts automatically, as expected of any video, when it buffers sufficiently to play without breaks or pauses.

All in all, it started playing 4 seconds after the page loaded.


" ... Just upload lots of pictures of cats, then it's LOL funny." -Jason Zada


The comparison here is not literal. It is an implied comparison of the iPhone to 'Android phones' made by your different companies.

In general, most of the latest and greatest Android phones sport larger displays and claim "4G" speeds, whatever that means for a given carrier. (Nexus One, Evo, Droid, Galaxy S, etc.)


Along the same sentiments here, is utilizing facebook login part of a larger strategy here? Curious as to why it's the only option for users to interact with the site.


No strategy here. I though facebook is pretty much ubiquitous. May be I can provide a way to login through twitter as well. I am just asking for basic level of access for FBConnect.


May be I can provide a way to login through twitter as well

No, that doesn't solve the problem at all. I really doubt it's any harder to use OpenID than it is to use twitter if you're really hung up on not storing usernames and passwords yourself (which really isn't that hard!).


Double post (a few hours ago?): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2996767


Unless I'm missing something fairly obvious, they might have missed something pretty big - is there any way to book a one way flight?


Agreed -- couldn't find it in the first 30 seconds, which is sort of a red flag...


The site provides no useful information for people who are entering information of suspect reliability.

Your user is faced with nothing of value other than your assurance (in repeated caps) that things should remain anonymous.

Why not give a better picture of what on earth is going on, otherwise it's just a form to submit some numbers, and an email.


"City, State, Country" doesn't work well for those folks not residing in the USA. Perhaps you could rephrase it?

"What industry" might also be rather unclear. What if I'm writing a web page for Exxon? Is my industry "Software Development?" "Web Development?" "Oil?"


The idea of theif floating data centers was well planned, and I'm assuming has not fallen completely off the table when factoring in their, already in place, shipping container server configurations.

This plant for water cooling has been in planning since 2009, at the time of purchase. So the flotilla of servers is entirely still possible. I would not be surprised to see it come out down the road.

ref: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html


There is a tempering station that dissipates the heat from the water before it is released back into the sea.


Then what advantage is there to sea water over a loop?


The heated water is tempered with cold sea water so it's closer to the temperature of the gulf when returned. This prevents a hot water plume at the outlet, which can cause environmental problems.


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