top 50% hacker news stories for 2012-05-05

Who Killed Men's Hats? Think Of A Three Letter Word Beginning With 'I'

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/05/04/152011840/who-killed-mens-hats-think-of-a-three-letter-word-beginning-with-i

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Perspective: All of Earth's Water in a Single Sphere

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/2010/gallery/global-water-volume.html

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Linux's awesome and underused traffic control facilities

http://serverfault.com/a/384155/82273

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Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-05-indian-drug-giant-cipla-slashes.html

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How not to ask questions at a conference

http://kev.inburke.com/kevin/how-not-to-ask-questions-at-conference/

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Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial

http://azabani.com/blog/2012/05/understanding-database-normalisation/

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Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell

http://parfunk.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-write-hybrid-cpugpu-programs.html?m=1

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Interviews Can Be a Terrible Way to Identify Good Programmers

http://thecodist.com/article/interviews_can_be_a_terrible_way_to_identify_good_programmers

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Facebook Stops You From Posting ‘Irrelevant Or Inappropriate’ Comments

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/05/facebooks-positive-comment-policy-irrelevant-inappropriate-censorship/

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Opa replaces Javascript, HTML, CSS, PHP, and SQL with one unified language.

http://www.opalang.org/

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The Grok prediction engine from Numenta announced

http://www.numenta.com/grok_info.html

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Heroku’s early history: 4 home pages that made $212 million

http://www.flourish.org/blog/?p=687

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Glancee is Joining Facebook

http://www.glancee.com/

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Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom

http://joel.is/post/22436341176/achieving-overnight-success-kevin-systrom

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The Internet Kill Switch; With Global Wiretapping Capability?

http://www.pastebay.net/308121

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Erik Naggum's XML Rant from 2002: Disturbingly prescient

http://www.schnada.de/grapt/eriknaggum-xmlrant.html

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170+ Django conference videos

http://equallytrue.blogspot.com/2012/05/170-django-conference-videos.html

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Today just feels magical.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3933579

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Is it possible to become 'excellent' at both design and coding?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3931527

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Show HN: Server installs simplified (and built from source)

https://rayburst.com

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How the shift to ebooks will affect genre categories in fiction

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/05/the-death-of-genre.html

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CSS Tricks: How to Speed Up CSS Rendering

http://www.onextrapixel.com/2012/05/03/css-tricks-how-to-speed-up-css-rendering/

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ARM creators Sophie Wilson and Steve Furber - Part Two: the accidental chip

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/05/03/unsung_heroes_of_tech_arm_creators_sophie_wilson_and_steve_furber/print.html

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Top Things Every Software Engineer Should Know

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2012/05/top-10-things-every-software-engineer.html

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Elsevier's recent update to its letter to the mathematical community

http://gowers.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/elseviers-recent-update-to-its-letter-to-the-mathematical-community/

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If the Internet was around before recorded music would we have record labels?

http://lewisflude.tumblr.com/post/22457371154/if-the-internet-was-around-before-recorded-music-would

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Ask HN: Best practices when pitching your startup to Techcrunch, Mashable etc?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3932163

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How To Waste $500,000 On A Domain Name - Startups.Com Story

http://www.pickydomains.com/node/3024

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AT&T chief regrets offering unlimited data for iPhone

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/att-randall-stephenson/

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CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser

http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/04/new-start-up-codenow-com-lets-you-build-and-test-code-in-real-time-in-your-browser/

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New HTTP status codes

http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/blog/new-http-status-codes

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