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MicroServices as a service - mohameddev http://stackhut.com/ ====== mohameddev Looks promising to have the ability to access your code as an API, I cannot wait to test it. Check it up
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Microsoft's little-screen, big-screen interactive future - clbrook http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-57572163-75/microsofts-little-screen-big-screen-interactive-future/ ====== clbrook Reminds me of Corning's day of glass videos: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Cf7IL_eZ38>
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Ask HN: Where can I hire developers for my dinky bootstrapped startup? - j32fun I&#x27;m interested in some ideas, fellow HNers. I run a bootstrapped software business. It&#x27;s small, but profitable. I want to expand the company, and I see myself (who&#x27;s technical) as needing some hired help in expanding the cod...
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Ask HN: Is it 'normal' to struggle so hard with work? - throwawayqdhd This question might come across as dumb, especially for a 30 year old, but I come from a culture where this aspect of work was never emphasized and at this point, I don&#x27;t know who to ask.<p>Basically, since as long as I can remember, I&#x27;ve ...
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Useful Links for Front-End Web Development - SarahJune https://www.codefellows.org/blogs/useful-links-for-front-end-web-development ====== ivanoats I love these tools lists. It's great to get a lay of the land out there if you are new to web development. ------ hijk Oooo, definitely some goodies in there that are n...
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Should I Spend $1k on a Smartphone? - praveenscience https://www.wired.com/story/should-i-spend-1000-on-a-smartphone/ ====== xtiansimon The question I find fascinating is whether we should spend $100 for a hard case to protect our $1000 smart phone. I bought an Otter case for my current iPhone, and it's saved my phone...
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Bitcoin mining on a 55 year old IBM 1401 mainframe: 80 seconds per hash - dezgeg http://www.righto.com/2015/05/bitcoin-mining-on-55-year-old-ibm-1401.html ====== userbinator _I ended up using one character per bit. A 32-bit value is stored as 32 characters, either "0" or "1"._ Bitslice DES does the same thing, althou...
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Show HN: Relayed encrypted signalling for P2P WebRTC calls - jvanveen https://ca11.io/ ====== jvanveen For more info, see [https://github.com/garage11/ca11](https://github.com/garage11/ca11) ~~~ chatmasta Could I use this to setup a TURN server with e2e encryption? My biggest problem with p2p signaling has always bee...
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The YOLOv3 Object Detection Network Is Fast - Qworg https://medium.com/@Synced/the-yolov3-object-detection-network-is-fast-fcceae0ab650 ====== Qworg Paper: [https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf](https://pjreddie.com/media/files/papers/YOLOv3.pdf) GitHub: [https://github.com/pjreddie/darknet](https://git...
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Ask HN: Best website building service for selling software - zengid Howdy. I&#x27;m wanting to throw up a web-store for a software product in the future and I&#x27;m doing research on a web-hosting service like wix or squarespace that I can sell downloads through. I could build my own site from scratch, but I&#x27;d r...
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Show HN: Try, the art of repeating tweets like Guy Kawasaki - sameerpeace http://www.socialchamp.io ====== sameerpeace Based on The Art of Repeating Tweets, by "Guy Kawasaki", following Guy's social media strategy for Twitter [http://www.socialchamp.io](http://www.socialchamp.io) We developed a platform to increase ...
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Why the Best Days of Open Hardware are Yet to Come - swah http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1863 ====== sliverstorm I am somewhat annoyed by the author's portrayal of individuals or small companies as the innovators, and large companies as the converse. Who do you think drives Moore's Law? It's not some force of na...
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The Evolution of Trust - abhi3 http://ncase.me/trust/? ====== shock Nick Case has other awsome stuff you can play with. I quite enjoyed [http://ncase.me/polygons/](http://ncase.me/polygons/).
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Unable to submit my *.github.io subdomain on HN - ashutoshgngwr I&#x27;m returned an error saying my account is too new to submit &quot;this site&quot;. PS, I&#x27;m able to share other links. ====== greenyoda For questions about site policy, please contact the moderators at hn@ycombinator.com. ~~~ ashutoshgngwr Than...
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Business Failures learned at 19yrs old - krmmalik http://saadmalik.net/entrepreneurship/a-little-more-about-me-my-business-failures-lessons-learned/ ====== saadmalik01 Thanks for sharing my blog post on HN! Please feel free to share your thoughts. I'd appreciate any feedback.
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Kubernetes 1.13 – What's New? - vthallam https://k8s.co.in/blog/kubernetes-1-13-whats-new/ ====== ggm IPv6 inside would be nice.
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Facebook Code - GutenYe https://code.facebook.com/ ====== GutenYe Facebook Open Source 2016 year in review: [https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/15945710_1292506674...](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/15945710_1292506674139589_2204580213088583680_n.png)
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Why is Apple only buying startups from Israel? - ForFreedom Are there no startups in the US&#x2F;EU&#x2F;UK? ====== jaachan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Apple) says they've only bought two Israeli companies so far. ...
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How script kiddies turns Linux box into a Zombie - True Story - Andrew-Dufresne http://blog.larsstrand.org//article.php?story=HollidayCracking ====== DCoder _"Let's execute command 382 to see what it does."_ Oy. Not the best idea, generally speaking. Edit: I used to read the localized paper version of <http://xake...
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Some Indian start-ups shun funding in bid to retain independence - paraschopra http://livemint.com/Companies/hZXXOXHl9euEdJMSkvpKMM/Some-startups-shun-funding-in-bid-to-retain-independence.html ====== kamaal Firstly, Congratulations Paras. One more company that comes to my mind is HasGeek(<http://hasgeek.com/>). HasG...
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EPA to revoke California’s power to limit vehicle emissions - ilamont https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/17/epa-california-obama-waiver-1500336 ====== mdorazio This is... unfortunate. California has really dragged most of the US auto industry kicking and screaming into an era of lower emissions by virtue of its ri...
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The Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job - xcubic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/10/agents-of-automation/568795?single_page=true ====== eindiran Duplicate of: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18120322) ------ IronWolve Go away or I will re...
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An extremely high-altitude plume seen at Mars’ morning terminator - user_235711 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14162.html ====== bsurmanski unfortunately the actual article is paywalled. In the abstract they say there are 2 theories of the plume's source: 1) CO2 or H2O ice particulat...
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Should UX/UI Designers Code? Finding a Balance Between Yes and No - philk10 https://spin.atomicobject.com/2017/09/26/should-ux-ui-designers-code/#.WcqhPMLkkHU.hackernews ====== warrenm UI/UX designers should know - approximately - what is going to be required by software developers to implement the designs they want (...
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Show HN: Use Pinvoke to Speed Up .Net Core - samfisher83 https://github.com/samfisher83/Pinvoke.NetCore ====== bigdubs PInvoke is a really nice system to handle native interop, but introduces so much complexity in terms of tool chain and platform specific issues I'm not sure .net core (which is supposed to be cross pl...
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Ask HN: Web app feedback (intelligent chatting system) - benjamincanfly http://www.circleofconversation.com ====== gruseom I like it too. I might even use it, if there are enough high quality participants. I read the whole Theory page and it struck me as blah blah blah blah blah, _except_ for these two points: 1\....
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Secrets of BackType's (YC S08) Data Engineers - omakase http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/secrets-of-backtypes-data-engineers.php ====== blantonl This illustrates that a staff of _three_ highly skilled innovative engineers can bring to market an innovative solution. Jeeze, these guys developed their own _datab...
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Ask HN: Best distributed job processing system in 2019? - sharmi I have around 10 million network I&#x2F;O related jobs that I would like to do in a short period.<p>So I hope to use a job queue to run it distributed on several servers.<p>I have used celery in the past but it is not quite reliable.<p>Features most impo...
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Parse, The ‘Heroku For Mobile’, Raises $5.5 Million Series A - llambda http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/09/parse-the-heroku-for-mobile-raises-5-5-million-series-a/ ====== kennystone Parse is different from Heroku is a very big way - vendor lock-in. You are using the Parse libraries, DB, push notifications, etc, and rep...
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Ask HN: Learning Ruby + MooTools - sscheper Compared to most people here, I'm a n00b when it comes to programming. I've had a computer since I was five, but I never really got into computing languages until this past year (I'm 23 now---yes, pretty old).<p>Without ever taking one class in computer science, I managed ...
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ASCII art animations in the URL bar - qbonnard http://glench.com/hash ====== gus_massa Really interesting but I hope this doesn't become popular and appear in every site. A few comments: * Wave2 is broken in Chrome (in Windows) * The title should change, it's always "I'm sorry". * I'd prefer that this doesn't des...
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Amazon Should Acquire Netflix - Here's Why - dell9000 http://ryanspoon.com/blog/2009/01/02/why-amazon-should-acquire-netflix/ ====== catone The argument I've always heard against Amazon acquiring Netflix is that Netflix has distribution centers in something like 45 states, whereas Amazon only has them in a handful. So...
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OpenSSH and the dangers of unused code - corbet http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/672465/4c0bced62cb3e625/ ====== Kristine1975 Use memset_s, people. The compiler isn't allowed to remove calls to it: [http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf](http://www.open- std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1381.pdf)
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Show HN: App for Fitness Pros – Book clients, schedule lessons and get paid - matthewjbaker http://www.plannit.io ====== supercoder Great looking app. Whats the marketing strategy here ? Having been part of a very similar (failed) startup, believe it's a hard market to access. The market itself isn't actually that...
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Ask HN: Has CodeWars helped you career-wise - thrwawy20160421 Has anyone ever achieved a high &quot;kyu&quot; rank on CodeWars.com and been able to leverage that into a promotion or a job offer? ====== jhoffner I'm a co-founder of Codewars. We hired 2 full time employees and a few contractors off of Codewars based off...
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The Real Lolita - lermontov http://hazlitt.net/longreads/real-lolita ====== dschiptsov Lolita, the book, is not about kidnapping of a girl or any kind of perversity. It is about futility and pains of worshipping a fleeting beauty, which is a temporary state of approaching perfection (beauty is youth + health. Proximit...
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How We Test the Stateful Autoscaling of Our Stream Processing System - chuckblake https://blog.wallaroolabs.com/2018/03/how-we-test-the-stateful-autoscaling-of-our-stream-processing-system/ ====== nisanharamati Hi All, I'm Nisan, a Chaos Engineer at Wallaroo Labs, and the author of this post. I'll be keeping an eye o...
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Ask HN: I can do the work but how much do i charge? - gaspoweredcat after an unpleasantly long period of unemployment i was contacted by a former colleague who knows my skill set well, he is expanding his business and wants me to handle the IT side as well as providing some specialized documentation and training.<p>Th...
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Launch any browser/OS right from your desktop with Sauce for Mac - awilson820 http://sauceio.com/index.php/2012/12/introducing-sauce-for-mac-the-easiest-way-to-launch-any-browser-right-from-your-mac/ ====== beatpanda -1 for forcing me to use the Mac App Store — the copy on the landing page you sent me to made it sound...
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The Wire Image of a Network Protocol - okket https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8546 ====== wyldfire > QUIC is ... the first ... protocol to ... prevent ossification I'd never heard of the term 'ossification' regarding a protocol before. But "QUIC as a solution to protocol ossification" from LWN [1] clears it up: > TCP ...
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Review of e-Conomic a popular Accounting App for Small Businesses - ManuJ http://www.getapp.com/blog/e-conomic-review/ ====== iambot the reviewer obviosuly doesnt know the market then as i would say not only is FreeAgent a competitor, but it wins hands down: <http://www.freeagentcentral.com/> ~~~ blazzar And no men...
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Big Data Patterns - rayascott http://www.bigdatapatterns.org/overview ====== ju-st The requested URL was rejected. If you think this is an error, please contact the webmaster. Your support ID is: 3088072978181255613
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How to go faster than jQuery, Ext, Mootools...? - jie http://myjs.fr<p>I coded a JS framework that goes faster than jQuery, Ext, Mootools... (I haven't find any faster on the web for now) Accessing and modifying HTML Element properties are the main taks of JS frameworks and My.js does those operations way faster tha...
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AMD Ryzen 4000 Mobile APUs - neogodless https://www.anandtech.com/show/15324/amd-ryzen-4000-mobile-apus-7nm-8core-on-both-15w-and-45w-coming-q1 ====== m0zg And laptop manufacturers will now proceed to stuffing these into bargain bin laptops with shitty 1080 displays. To this day desktop/workstation Ryzen CPUs are not ...
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The business men's guide to open source licenses - kkovacs http://kkovacs.eu/businessmens-guide-to-open-source-licenses ====== ZeroGravitas Where "business men" means "people who sell software (with footnotes for those that sell software development services)", rather than the more normal definition of "people who r...
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An Introduction to JavaScript's "this" - jmtulloss http://justin.harmonize.fm/index.php/2009/09/an-introduction-to-javascripts-this/ ====== Bluem00 This article does a good job of explaining a concept I had trouble with when first using javascript. Now, I usually use the approach recommended in the article of settin...
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A Tale of Two LEDs - lelf http://dtrace.org/blogs/rm/2019/09/06/a-tale-of-two-leds/ ====== salex89 I'm not sure how common it is, but I met a guy who uses a CD drive to identify the unit he is searching for. Pops them out remotely. Of course it is applicable only if your servers have CD drives, but it's hell of a lot ...
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A Sound So Loud That It Circled the Earth Four Times (2014) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/blog/the-sound-so-loud-that-it-circled-the-earth-four-times ====== bitcurious The explosion of Krakatoa is believed by some scholars to be the inspiration for Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream." [https://www.skyandtelescope.com/p...
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ThinkPad X1 Extreme - FunnyLookinHat https://www.techradar.com/reviews/lenovo-thinkpad-x1-extreme ====== walrus01 Now if we could just get something like this with a full complement of ports, and the famous Thinkpad durability, that would run native MacOS without playing with hacked bootloaders and hardware incompatib...
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These genetically modified cyborg dragonflies could perform ‘guided pollination’ - preetish https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/25/these-genetically-modified-cyborg-dragonflies-could-perform-guided-pollination/ ====== LordWinstanley >>we can make enough of them fast enough to counter the disappearance of honeybees Black M...
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Wssdl – WireShark-Specific Dissector Language - Snaipe https://github.com/diacritic/wssdl ====== rwmj Interesting, but surprising they didn't look at how Erlang bit syntax works. [http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html](http://erlang.org/doc/programming_examples/bit_syntax.html) It's considerably ...
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Google AdSense: “we're going to optimize your ad settings for you” - Mistri https://i.imgur.com/ixzn8yB.png ====== tonyedgecombe That's nice of them. I wonder in whose favour the optimisations will be, them or their customers. ~~~ t0mas88 Isn't the model that you as a publisher get paid based on the bidding of the ad...
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Uber Picks Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi as New CEO - nbmh https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/technology/dara-khosrowshahi-uber-ceo.html?mcubz=0 ====== mwnivek Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15113613)
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A Tiny Intro to Database Systems - sandcrain http://blog.dancrisan.com/a-tiny-intro-to-database-systems ====== crdb As a non-CS grad coming fresh to databases, I found both the entity- relationship, and the object-oriented models confusing. Then I read Date [1] and Codd's [2] books and papers on the relational model, ...
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Yet Another DDoS device – The connected mattress ;) - maghis https://www.eightsleep.com/buy-mattress/ ====== simonebrunozzi I like the irony! Ehehe. I personally know the Eight team, and it's nice to see them launch a smart mattress. I think that their smart cover works quite well. They spent a few months refining th...
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Reputation: kind of a big deal - holman http://zachholman.com/2010/12/reputation/ ====== thesz >If you take an action — write a blog post, publish a photo, launch a website — you want your action to spread to as many people as possible. Overgeneralization, is what I see there. Actually, "avoiding success at all co...
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Richard Stallman on the Anonymous WikiLeaks Protests - gnubardt http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/dec/17/anonymous-wikileaks-protest-amazon-mastercard/print ====== iwwr I guess you could compare this with the 1960s sit-ins at the whites-only establishments.
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A customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator - Doubleguitars https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20170418-00/?p=95985 ====== kpao It's an everyday occurrence during the development of our app (Infinite Flight). We often get customers complaining about a misplaced sticker on a livery, a mi...
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The born-again entrepreneur - jacquesm http://swombat.com/2011/6/6/born-again-entrepreneur ====== edanm Absolutely agree with the conclusion. I would take it a step further, though. For us geeks/entrepreneurs, oftentimes the non-conformist thing to do, but which ultimately make us happiest, is to run our own busine...
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Make something and sell it - J3L2404 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/01/22/make-something-and-sell-it/ ====== actf I think this article presents an interesting argument, even though much of it is anecdotal. Some of the author's points are very interesting: > He says he’s an empiricist and that data have convinced ...
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My job is now about tests and data – not children. I quit - danso http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/23/kindergarten-teacher-my-job-is-now-about-tests-and-data-not-children-i-quit/ ====== sampo I think the full title "Kindergarten teacher: My job is now about tests and data — not children. I...
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Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript kickstarter ends today with over $36K - AMA - jdlshore My "Let's Code: Test-Driven Javascript" kickstarter [1] announced on HN three weeks ago [2] is wrapping up today. It's been far more successful than I anticipated, with over 800 backers and over $36K in pledges. I thought HN mi...
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At - colinprince http://furbo.org/2014/03/25/at/ ====== elektronaut In Norwegian the official name is "krøllalfa", meaning "curly alpha". Hip in the 90s, but I don't think I've heard anyone call it that in years. I was actually surprised when I learned that "at" was the proper English name and usage. I had always assu...
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Ask HN: Is Your Webapp in an App Store? - sabat ====== stephenou It is not 100% related but I have a premium whiteboard application on Chrome Web Store for $3.99. The volume is relatively small in comparison to folks at Apple App Store, I assume it's because many people barely know about Chrome Web Store yet. My sa...
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Ask HN: Who is working remote due to CoronaVirus? - shabirgilkar This is to let everyone know which are the individuals&#x2F;companies started to work remotely due to COVID-19 virus spread.<p>Please feel free to mention your experiences, challenges, pre-requisites, suggestions etc. ====== Trias11 I working mostly from...
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Longest streak on github? ~61 days and counting - pwnna https://github.com/tpope ====== johnny22 doubtful, 87 days is my longest. Pretty sure i'm not the highest either. ------ johnny22 of course.. he'll beat me in 26 days :)
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Stuxnet Questions and Answers - Garbage http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002040.html ====== njharman Stuxnet amazes me. My first tech job was (in part) installing anti-virus on every computer in the Univ KS Library system, 1989-90. MS-DOS days. I've been an avid watcher (not expert) of malware since. I've wat...
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Bill Joy - "EMACS costs hundreds of dollars?" Did I miss something? - niels_olson http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html ====== abrahamsen Pretty sure he speaks of Unipress Emacs. A little history: Richard M. Stallman wrote the original Editor MACroS for the TECO editor. James A. Gosling implemented Emacs in C...
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Flipkart founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, get million dollar paychecks - abhisekumar http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/internet/flipkart-founders-sachin-bansal-and-binny-bansal-get-million-dollar-paychecks/articleshow/24168729.cms ====== deepak56 Good for them. Flipkart might have its problems (negat...
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Toki Pona - ColinWright https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona ====== anonymfus Conlang Critic is a fan of this language: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLn6LC1RpAo) I highly recommend watching all episodes of their show if you like an idea of short text based video ess...
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Google was awarded US Patent 8,078,349 for driverless car - antichaos http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=8,078,349 ====== antichaos US Patent 8,078,349 Transitioning a mixed-mode vehicle to autonomous mode Abstract Disclosed are methods and devices for transitioning a mixed-mode autonomous veh...
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Ask IH: Feedback on this idea very much needed - marcinem https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/ask-ih-feedback-on-this-idea-very-much-needed-f408c6eddd ====== dang Please don't cross post like this. ------ rmason I had to read the entire site twice to understand what you're doing. I think you're too close to the proble...
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Xbox Fitness users will soon lose access to workout videos they bought - protomyth http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/not-working-out-xbox-fitness-users-losing-their-purchased-training-videos/ ====== mikestew That's why I don't rely on anything DRM'ed from Microsoft (games on Xbone excepted). Movies, music, Xbox Fi...
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Node WebKit - gits1225 https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit? ====== SixSigma I don't quite understand what this is. Is it a Web browser that runs Npm? Is it a server side html renderer? ~~~ general_failure Desktop software using HTML and node. ~~~ SixSigma I still don't quite understand. How is it different ...
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If I'd Known What We Were Starting - relyio https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/id-known-what-we-were-starting-ray-dillinger ====== relyio Mirror: [https://pastebin.com/Wk61SMir](https://pastebin.com/Wk61SMir)
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Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data - caseysoftware https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings ====== minimaxir Creator/Maintainer of the repo here. I apologize for the lack of updates to the BLNS. (since I'm free today and this is on the HN front page, I'll do a...
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Ghostly Compatibility: Cross Browser Transparancy with CSS - simplrdes http://www.cherrysave.com/web-design/ghostly-compatibility-cross-browser-transparancy-with-css/ ====== hellotoby "-khtml-opacity is used in Apple’s Safari, and in other KHTML-enabled browsers." This is factually incorrect. Safari has supported t...
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Ask HN: I'm doing a series of lectures on entrepreneurship - what should i say? - mixmax I've been asked to do a series of 12 lectures on entrepreneurship, and the ins and outs of starting a company. Each lecture will be 2 hours, and will be given to a group of people that have just started, or are thinking about st...
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USA removes Wakanda as trade partner after initially listing it as one - iafrikan https://www.iafrikan.com/2019/12/22/wakanda-black-panther-america-usa-agriculture-trade-relations/ ====== ineedasername Where does it end? If we're discriminating against countries whose only fault is that they lack physical and historic...
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Trump Orders Coast Guard to Look into Building Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers - ourmandave https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33971/trump-orders-coast-guard-to-look-into-building-nuclear-powered-icebreakers-like-russia ====== UI_at_80x24 This can only be useful if the famed 'Northern Passage' becomes viable with Globa...
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ESPN Sues Verizon to Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles - kw71 http://www.cnet.com/news/espn-sues-verizon-over-new-skinny-bundles-for-cable-tv/ ====== kw71 I have always hated the idea that I have to pay ESPN and Disney, services I have zero interest in, in order to have video services from the cable company. It's one ...
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DNC warns 2020 campaigns not to use FaceApp 'developed by Russians' - smacktoward https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/17/politics/dnc-warning-faceapp/ ====== bifrost I was discussing this (faceapp) earlier today, and I really don't feel like its a big deal aside from the russaphobia it drums up. We shouldn't condemn all of th...
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Psychological manipulation - what I learned trying to save money on a sandwich - nate http://blog.inklingmarkets.com/2010/05/psychological-manipulation-what-i.html ====== GeneralMaximus For those interested in social psychology, I recommend _Influence: The Psychology of Persuation_ by Robert B. Cialdini. The book el...
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San Francisco Homeless Project and Two Inspiring AltSchool Students - ramonvillasante http://blog.altschool.com/san-francisco-homeless-project-and-two-inspiring-altschool-students ====== Alexsandros These guys deserve high praise. They have an idea and try to realize it. I want to believe that houses will be construct...
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Black holes are simpler than forests and science has its limits - devy https://aeon.co/ideas/black-holes-are-simpler-than-forests-and-science-has-its-limits ====== QAPereo The parts of black holes we can access are simple, but that excludes the interior. Bit of a caveat, that.
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Learn Spock, a Haskell web framework - agrafix http://www.spock.li/tutorial/ ====== cschneid I have been using spock for a 2-3 end point website. It's good. Very simplistic form of web framework (along the lines of sinatra). The docs should be a bit better, with some examples of how to use the database and session ...
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Turbo Pascal navigational aids that saved my life in 1991 - pmarin https://github.com/timonoko/sextant/blob/master/README.md ====== matte_black I find it amazing he was recording video of his trip from 1991, the camera must have been huge! ~~~ walrus01 Huge compared to a modern camera, but probably not vhs or betamax...
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How to get on the front page of Hacker News (in 7 lines of Python) - tomasien http://tommy.authpad.com/how-to-get-on-the-front-page-of-hacker-news ====== danjaouen This is bad Python: \- "isgoodtime" is a magic variable that changes depending on when it is imported. It should therefore be either a function or metho...
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Show HN: CryptoProof – post proofs to the Ethereum blockchain for free - flixic https://cryptoproof.org ====== flixic Hi HN. Quick comments about this project: * Today is 10 year anniversary to the original bitcoin.pdf release. This pdf is the first document proof I posted, included in the first release: [https://cry...
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ObamaCare Opinion; what it means for small businesses - borderbandit http://www.elpasonews.org/2012/06/28/the-obamacare-opinion-what-it-means-in-practical-terms/ ====== jcmoscon outsource jobs to S.A, india, china... bye bye USA, welcome USSA (United Soviet States of Amerika
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Should Developers Be Allowed to Talk to Customers? - bconway http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/features/article.php/3916821/Should-Developers-Be-Allowed-to-Talk-to-Customers.htm ====== rick888 It depends on the developer. Some are social and know how to talk to the customer. Others, like the one in this article, are...
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Manchineel or little apple of death - pvaldes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel ====== pvaldes A proof that mother nature hates us: [https://naturespoisons.com/2014/05/27/the-manchineel-tree- pr...](https://naturespoisons.com/2014/05/27/the-manchineel-tree-proof-that- mother-nature-hates-us/)
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Mysteries of time, and the multiverse - nickb http://www.latimes.com/news/education/la-sci-carroll28-2008jun28,0,6029497,full.story ====== mynameishere _The fact that you can turn eggs into omelets but not vice versa is a thing we know from our kitchens._ Unless you feed a hen nothing but omelets. Am I right? ~~~ cr...
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Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings - ajaviaad https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/13/facebook-dating-launch-blocked-in-europe-after-it-fails-to-show-privacy-workings/ ====== AsusFan Clickbait headline. Facebook was not "blocked" \- they voluntarily halted the rollout of the fe...
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Ask HN: How to know how good at coding you are? - blackrabbit I'm a student in college, and I use to think that I was fairly good at coding. But lately, I'm not sure.<p>I was wondering if there are particularly principles of a good coder or some kind of pattern. I find myself coding well and quick when I'm intereste...
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Ask HN: why do you upmod? - jonmc12 In my daily reading, the front page of hacker news has become precious intellectual real estate. However, the window for a new article submission to reach critical velocity and land on the front page is very small, due to the large number of submissions.<p>It has made me curious ...
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Identifiable Images of Bystanders Extracted from Corneal Reflections (2013) - officialjunk http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0083325& ====== gknoy "... from approximately 1 m using a ... 39 megapixel digital camera ... with 120 mm macro lens" Good news: At least we can still trust that norm...
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Spotify plans to join the hardware race, but what can it offer? - adrian_mrd https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/spotify-is-building-a-hardware-product-and-it-could-be-a-smart-speaker/ ====== adrian_mrd Really hope this is something unique and interesting - rather than just a copycat smart speaker, for instance. ...
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11 reasons why you should avoid OpenVZ and Virtuozzo in any cases - pavel_odintsov http://www.stableit.ru/2016/06/11-reasons-why-you-should-avoid-openvz.html ====== timbutlerau As a user of Virtuozzo for 10 years, this is a load of rubbish. We haven't experienced anywhere near these amount of issues. Virtuozzo is sti...
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Interview with Kasper Hulthin, co-founder of Podio - JCB_K http://www.founderly.com/2011/05/kasper-hulthin-podio-1-of-2/ ====== JCB_K Podio is a great app. A build-your-own-app Tool is usually not that great, but they really worked out a good way to do it. The variety of apps you can create out of the small pool of fu...
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