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Patent holder attempts to put x-plane out of business - zobzu http://www.x-plane.com/x-world/lawsuit/ ====== noonespecial This title isn't quite right. Uniloc does not want to put x-plane out of business. They want to reap some of the profits from the app without doing any work. They're rent seekers, not enemy comb...
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Dutch spies helped Britain's GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War - samizdis https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/05/18/maximator_euro_spy_alliance_falklands_war/ ====== mike_d The Dutch have an absolutely amazing intelligence apparatus. In 2014 AIVD hacked the office network of Russia's APT29, and maintain...
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Getting Rich off Those Who Work for Free - maurycy http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1590440,00.html ====== parker I'm sorry, but saying that when I use sites like Flickr for free I'm lending them free labour is like saying I'm an employee of NBC for watching TV. ~~~ astine Not quite. Flickr, Youtube, et al....
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Redeye VC: I Don't Know... - jkopelman http://redeye.firstround.com/2008/03/i-dont-know.html ====== redorb I don't know; seems to be a lesson in honesty, do you know? no!? then say so ... If you gained an advantage by slanting the truth then you will almost always end up over promising and under delivering
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Hugin: open source panoramic photo stitching and HDR merging - henning http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugin_%28software%29 ====== est If you need easier tool to stitche your Panorama pics, try Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor [http://research.microsoft.com/en- us/um/redmond/groups/ivm/ic...](http://research....
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H1B – the super secret weapon - shna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrE9z1JFT1Y ====== dalke Videos are too slow to watch or quote. This appears to be a repeat of what Kaku said in 2011. A partial transcript is at [http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/06/how-come-the- scientific...](http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2011/0...
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Internet Archive free library to close due to copyright lawsuit - mimixco https://www.inputmag.com/culture/internet-archive-kills-its-free-digital-library-over-copyright-concerns ====== RogueBurger While I think we do need better digital access to books, it was only a matter of time before something this extreme got k...
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Ask HN: What are problems inappropriate for iterative solutions? - eric-hu I just watched Gary Bernhardt's talk "A Whole New World" [1]. Two-year old spoiler alert: he introduces an editor and terminal that doesn't actually exist. His thesis: that some pieces of software--specifically developer...
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Ask HN: What smartphone should I get if I'm concerned about privacy? - padobson I refuse to buy an Amazon Echo or Google Home because I don&#x27;t want anything listening to me constantly. I would also like to be able to carry my smartphone around without worrying about it listening to me either.<p>I know this sounds ...
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The CPU C-States Power Saving Modes - jcr http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-cpu-c-states-power-saving-modes/ ====== th3iedkid something interesting with APIC and power-states was with tick-less kernel starting 2.6.18 and only win8 in NT. [http://lwn.net/Articles/223185/](http://lw...
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20 weirdest and pointless phone apps - abula http://thelightmedia.com/posts/17173-20-weirdest-and-pointless-phone-apps?user_id=15 ====== hrgeek Haha!Thanks for sharing!
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Show HN: I found my WHY, which trumps passion anytime - azarai https://mindfuldevmag.com/find-your-why ====== mikro2nd Oh the hurdles to jump! The final straw was the reCapcha it stuck in my face. I went away. Away, away, I ran away. ~~~ azarai Where did you get a ReCaptcha?
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Hackers Can Delete Facebook Friends, Thanks to Flaw - JeanPierre http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196901/hackers_can_delete_facebook_friends_thanks_to_flaw.html ====== snewe Original story without the splash page: <http://prominentsecurity.com/?p=119> It also says that the flaw has been patched: "*Up...
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Is there a US alternative to Second Life? - eastsidegringo http://www.hunterhost.com/64/mining-habbo-data/ Habbo is like Second Life in Japan. From the article:<p>Could you conduct market research in a week and come back with the buying and spending habits, and brand preferences, of 42,000 teenagers around the world...
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Moving Beyond Basecamp: Managing Company Growing Pains - danielodio http://go.DanielOdio.com/basecamp ====== bdclimber14 I like how you approach your problems with Basecamp as usability issues and not as feature-set limitations. I think Basecamp is at a sweet-spot with features, but has a lot of room for improvement...
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Its been 20 years since I used a Mac - g-garron http://www.tyleringram.com/blog/its-been-20-years-since ====== mmphosis Affordability? I read this as twenty years ago it was much easier for people in the prior generation to pay $3200 (1993 dollars) vs. some today paying $1249 (today's dollar.) "I finally was able t...
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The tech behind building an independent, internet radio station - oggadog https://watsonsmith.com.au/building-an-internet-radio-station ====== jedberg Ha too funny! I haven't heard the name Icecast in a long time. I know the guys who created Icecast. They did it because they wanted to run a radio station but according...
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Custom t-shirt site I've been working on the past few months. - teejayvanslyke http://www.teemakers.com ====== tiddchristopher To improve the preview for Windows and Linux users, why don't you use Typekit with Nimbus Sans (a rather accurate Helvetica clone)? Many designers and typophiles won't trust a service that d...
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Racial and gender gaps in computer science learning: New Google-Gallup research - riqbal https://blog.google/topics/education/racial-and-gender-gaps-computer-science-learning-new-google-gallup-research/ ====== brudgers Software Engineering Daily podcast interview with Jennifer Wang: [http://softwareengineeringdaily.co...
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Canon printers found using very outdated (NSA backdoored) encryption standard - KirinDave https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg25168.html ====== Chaebixi I think this needs more clarification. As far as I can tell, this post only states that these printers merely used the BSAFE library, which used a li...
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Ask HN: For those of you self-employed, what is your health insurance? - kurtvarner ====== simmons I have a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield of Colorado, associated with a health savings account (HSA). It has worked well for me and I recommend that general route to other self-em...
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A Modest Proposal: Recruit The Hackers - mjlangiii http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_072612_full_show.mp3/view ====== toomuchcoffee _Coleman says that her contact with hackers indicates that they would not want to work with a government that encroaches on online privacy._ Other data -- such as the readiness of ...
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Danger signs to search for in your writing - RiderOfGiraffes http://io9.com/5520058/4-danger-signs-to-search-for-before-sending-off-your-novel ====== RyanMcGreal Don't forget: * The passive voice is to be avoided. * You want to not split your infinitives with a negative. * In order to streamline your text, take o...
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Steve Jobs receiving Cancer Treatment in Hospital - joshbert http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/02/17/steve-jobs-may-have-just-six-weeks-to-live-receiving-treatment/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Related: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2228842> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2230042> <http://news.ycombinator.c...
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Windows Phone 7 Series Features Video - Dauntless http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IOTrqlz4jo ====== Dauntless I'll be honest it looks like Facebook OS for phones :) Not bad, not bad at all. Still though, imho, Microsoft will lose most of the old Windows Mobile fans and users and will start from scratch with this one...
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Life at the Palace (1996) - ims http://truecenterpublishing.com/psycyber/palacestudy.html ====== andyidsinga ha! I was a software developer at The Palace ..my first Internet startup :) I did tech support for The Palace server then went on to coding in next generation projects ..like an ICQ-like instant messenger calle...
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Tesla Model 3 – Exploded View - kozak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDYbvI32OBE ====== kozak If you like this, you'll probably also enjoy the Weber Auto YouTube channel: [https://www.youtube.com/user/WeberAuto/videos](https://www.youtube.com/user/WeberAuto/videos)
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Show HN: Hue v4.6.1 - madprops I&#x27;m working again on this project I started months ago. Made a lot of improvements in a week, and I wanted to share some images and stuff to others.<p>It&#x27;s currently at Version 4.6.1<p>Basically it&#x27;s a multi-room chat platform with internet radio, image uploading (latest u...
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Where would you invest $500K? - min5k If you were generally a risk-taker, what would you invest $500K in? ====== brc 200k in good quality under-or-moderately valued commercial real estate with moderate leveraging (say, 60% LTV) 100k in a hedge/growth fund with a consistent record. I know of one that has delivered 20...
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A Free Speech Battle at the Birthplace of a Movement at Berkeley - thomyorkie https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/us/university-california-berkeley-free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos.html ====== tokenizer Free Speech is a concept dead to the left wing of political ideology. Hate Speech, "Evil People" prevented from speakin...
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Russia cyber attack targeted voting software and election officials - Aqueous http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/bombshell-intel-leak-reveals-russia-cyber-attack-targeted-voting-software-and-election-officials/ ====== pkilgore Interestingly, (and despite an erroneous popular belief), prior to this there was no evidence R...
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Txqr: Transfer data via animated QR codes - kumaranvpl https://github.com/divan/txqr ====== delinka "...written in Java, Python or JavaScript. That means the code is not cross- platform..." [1] wat. I need an explanation how these implementations are not "cross-platform" yet his Go implementation is. 1 - from the au...
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Apache Wicket – three years of lessons learned - rohshall http://blog.bosch-si.com/apache-wicket-lessons-learned/ ====== rauar Wicket is a single design flaw: -no clean dependency injection possible due to the "page" life cycle -inheritence hell out of the box with coder kiddies thinking adding even more subclasse...
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WhatsApp accused of giving terrorists 'a secret place to hide' - vixen99 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/26/home-secretary-amber-rudd-whatsapp-gives-terrorists-place-hide/ ====== merricksb Active discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959953](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13959953) ------ ...
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The secret to hiring a designer - waxman http://waxman.me/the-secret-to-hiring-a-designer ====== tomelders If I may: Design is how something works, not how it looks. My view is that if you pick a _designer_ with a _style_ , you're gambling. I've seen an alarming increase in designers with styles over the past 10 ye...
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V8-GL: A Toolkit for creating Desktop Hardware Accelerated Graphics with JS - mnemonik http://github.com/philogb/v8-gl ====== nkassis Interesting stuff. I've been working on some WebGL stuff and it would be interesting to see if it could run as a native desktop app also. Maybe they could ensure to be using the same ...
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Inside McKinsey - bane http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0d506e0e-1583-11e1-b9b8-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1enItOpBZ ====== mmaunder This is how you hit the undo button on a nuclear detonation. If this wasn't buried in FT Magazine, I'd be tempted to cancel my subscription. It's so obviously part of the damage control campaign tha...
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Why is there no live stream of the World Series game? - ceworthington It's 2012. Why hasn't FOX found a way to make money from live streaming a sports event that they broadcast for free on TV?<p>They could load it up with ads, or charge me $10 per game. Instead, they black it out, asking me to tune into their free, ...
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A heads up display for git - michaelallen https://github.com/michaeldfallen/git-radar ====== an_ko I use a modified version of mislav's git prompt [https://gist.github.com/mislav/1712320](https://gist.github.com/mislav/1712320) which is pretty minimal but usually enough for me. For when I have to wrangle lots of file...
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Google Kicks Android Adware Out of the Google Play Store - ChuckMcM https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-kicks-chamois-android-adware-off-the-play-store/ ====== ChuckMcM This is another article about the lengths people go to in order to defraud mobile advertisers. I certainly applaud Google for being ...
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Apple tablet can't save print on its own - nreece http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60Q0BY20100127 ====== Perceval >Bob Sauerberg, group president of consumer marketing for Conde Nast, expects digital versions of its titles on the tablet may one day command higher ad rates than those of their print versions, becau...
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Chinese hacking attempt/Secure your Servers - shamsulbuddy I just have reinstalled Debian 7 on my VPS. Logged in for the first time with &quot;root&quot; and on port 22..then I didn&#x27;t locked down anything and within an hour I can see the below root password breaking attempt in &#x2F;var&#x2F;log&#x2F;auth.log f...
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Ask HN: Ruby, Python, or JavaScript for teenager? - tmaly If you were going to recommend a language to a teenager about to turn 18, that wants to try to learn something on their own, what would it be and why? ====== zubat Python, because it's the rare combination of "wildly popular" and "keeps you out of trouble". Rub...
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The Art of Travel (1872) - pmoriarty https://www.gutenberg.org/files/14681/14681-h/14681-h.htm ====== ape4 Travel must have been a much bigger deal 100 years ago. You could not get shots for the area you're going. It would be so slow. On the other hand, with fewer travelers there wouldn't be areas over run by tourists...
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Bug #1 in Ubuntu: “Microsoft has a majority market share” - Sadranyc https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1 ====== JCB_K Kind of a running gag in the Ubuntu world. Funnily, Mark Shuttleworth himself filed it in the first place, but still it's been declined for every single version :)
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It's Time for a New Old Language – Guy Steele [video] - zengid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuZkaaou0Q ====== cryptonector Wow, this is a very nice talk. I particularly liked the Q&A, where Guy Steele went back and explained the type checker shown earlier. And I also loved the LISP macro backtick-comma inspiration...
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Countries with the Highest / Lowest Average IQ - lambersley http://www.statisticbrain.com/countries-with-the-highest-lowest-average-iq/ There are many things wrong with this ====== stephengillie Apparently, the source is a 2002 book on the subject, written by a pair of emeritus professors. Emeritus professors don't n...
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E la Carte (YC S10) to Deploy Restaurant Tablets in 113 Airports Nationwide - yoniriemer http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/02/e-la-carte-partners-with-hmshost-to-deploy-restaurant-tablets-in-113-airports-nationwide/ ====== rmcfeeley Tried out a similar service at NYC's La Guardia while waiting for a flight. Not a fan -- a...
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Parallel Programming, a book by Paul McKenney - alexkon http://paulmck.livejournal.com/23027.html ====== JoshTriplett I've followed the development of this book for several years, and it has progressed quite well in that time. It currently has a good combination of "documentation nobody else ever bothered to write" ...
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ESO telescope sees surface of dim Betelgeuse - dnetesn https://phys.org/news/2020-02-eso-telescope-surface-dim-betelgeuse.html ====== SiempreViernes The original ESO press release is probably a better link, as the phys.org text mostly just a small bit of context but doesn't include the "before" pictures or links to an...
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Elementary OS to Build the Next-Generation Linux App Store - ajaviaad https://news.softpedia.com/news/elementary-os-to-build-the-next-generation-linux-app-store-529141.shtml ====== gen3 I really liked my time using Elementary OS. It had a good and consistent design scheme, and shipped with a good default tool set (I w...
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Amazon no longer hosts wikileaks - credo http://www.npr.org/2010/12/01/131730912/wikileaks-leaves-amazon-host-servers ====== RiderOfGiraffes Choose your news source: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959697> \- techdirt.com <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1959655> \- cnn.com <http://news.ycombinator.com/...
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Show HN: Search 1M recipes by their ingredients - qrv3w https://timetomakefood.com/find ====== qrv3w I wanted to find an average recipe for “no-bake” cookie. This is complicated to Google because the “no-bake” cookie goes by many names (read on to learn them all). My search was also complicated by a need to find a rec...
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Inside the RFID 'virus' that 'infected a man' - jgrahamc http://blog.jgc.org/2010/05/inside-rfid-virus.html ====== Vivtek This whole story just really made me roll my eyes. ------ LaPingvino He is missing the point. Sure, this is a logical thing to happen. The sensation of the story was that it's a device in the hu...
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Google, it's time – We want Scala for Android - phatak-dev http://blog.madhukaraphatak.com/scala-for-android/ ====== colig Um, people have already been able to use Scala to make Android applications. Just about anything that doesn't require dynamically generated JVM bytecode can manage, difficult and error-prone as it...
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Things Every Aspiring Entrepreneur Should Know - acremades http://postmasculine.com/33-things-every-aspiring-entrepreneur-should-know ====== kirinan Honestly if you are starting a startup to get rich, just quit and get a real job because you'll get richer quicker. Unless you are a consultant (and thats not really a ...
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Letting plumbers duplicate your product - opeadeoye http://www.opeadeoye.com/Articles.aspx/Letting-plumbers-duplicate-your-product Letting plumbers duplicate your product can be beneficial to you. In any industry, when the factors of production are placed in the direct control of a larger audience than is currently p...
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Inflammation and vitamin D: the infection connection (2014) - fpoling https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00011-014-0755-z ====== grok2 It's hard to keep up with advances in scientific knowledge -- this paper seems to hypothesize that Vitamin D deficiency is a symptom of inflammation in the body rather than t...
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Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Prime Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” - ankneo http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/04/google-is-building-a-same-day-amazon-prime-competitor-google-shopping-express/ ====== DigitalSea It's going to take a lot of money, time, hardware and infrastructure to beat Amazon. We're talkin...
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Lowhash.com – sentences that produce low sha-256 hash values - sagebird https://lowhash.com/ ====== sagebird I am the author of this website (and the go client to search for sentences). I would be happy to take any questions, comments and suggestions.
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TLS-O-MATIC – self TLS testing for web apps - eloycoto http://www.tls-o-matic.com/ ====== y0ghur7_xxx With all those TLS vulnerabilities coming out in the last months, i start to wonder, is there a tool that allows me to test those vulnerabilities? For example when the "basicConstraints" man-in-the-middle attack cam...
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Language popularity on GitHub - blamonet http://beust.com/weblog/2014/05/03/language-popularity-on-github/ ====== workhere-io _I’m going to go out on a limb and predict that Python is being replaced by Go. I don’t have a lot of information to back up this prediction except that most of the positive articles I read a...
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The Hydrogen Myth - TriinT http://www.slideshare.net/stephenfleming/the-hydrogen-myth-presentation ====== Shakescode A 38 page powerpoint presentation. Very illuminating. Who knew such things as: Liquid hydrogen leaks can be ignited by the static spark set off by the leak itself? Hydrogen flames are _not_ visible ...
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Is this the future of advertising? - dfragnito wyzscan.com ====== dfragnito I forgot it's April 1, ugh, it was very early when I received this email.
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Turing completeness bullshit - fogus http://shebang.ws/turing-completeness-bullshit.html ====== cleverjake While I agree that it is a bit of a misnomer to say that anything is possible in a turing complete language from a feasibility stand point, I think this response falls back to a common thought process that techni...
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Is there a config manager based on shell scripts? - mkauer So, I stumbled upon &quot;fucking shell scripts&quot; from a couple of years ago: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7401952<p>From the major config managers, I&#x27;m only familiar with Ansible. There, I feel like I&#x27;m fighting its syntax...
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How Gauss Taught Us the Best Way to Hold a Pizza Slice - _mayo http://www.wired.com/2014/09/curvature-and-strength-empzeal/ ====== ubasu The author's point that "curvature imputes stiffness" conflates several different and distinct mechanisms, and offers an inadequate explanation. For the examples of the pizza, the l...
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Godel's Thoughts on AI: Godel, Nagel, minds and machines - Jd http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2515 ====== Jd Feferman usefully explores the presuppositions and equivocations of both Godel and Nagel in their exchanges over the mathematical mind. In the end Feferman advocates for recognizing mathematics as part of a...
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CUPP crams ARM inside of a MacBook Pro, makes it run Android with a button press - lotusleaf1987 http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/14/cupp-crams-arm-inside-of-a-macbook-pro-makes-it-run-android-wit/ ====== clvv I would prefer if they just make a ARM laptop. Seriously, why aren't there any decent ARM laptops? I know ther...
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Don't get bitten by Javascript variable hoisting in loops - ithayer http://thecomputersarewinning.com/post/a-dangerous-example-of-javascript-hoisting ====== Q_the_Novice JavaScript variables are passed by reference, the variable `i` on the statement: `var msg = txt[i];` will always reference the last value after the...
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How the Coronavirus Short-Circuits the Immune System - mikhael https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/health/coronavirus-immune-system.html ====== salawat For the record, the Thymus does _not_ produce new T cells. New T cells are formed from stem cells in bone marrow. What the Thymus does do, is it plays a key role in pr...
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Tumult Hype 1.5 is out with major improvements to the HTML5 builder for Mac OS X - tumultco http://tumultco.com/blog/2012/02/23/tumult-hype-1-5-is-here/ ====== lukeholder I just don't get that here on hacker news, on an announcement of a new version of software that someone probably put a lot of work into, the main ...
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Writing GUI Apps Using the Red Programming Language - wesleyhill https://wesleyhill.co.uk/p/writing-gui-apps-using-the-red-programming-language/ ====== QuantumAphid Very cool. I love all of rebol's descendent languages (red, ren-c), and this is a great article to introduce Red. Well done!
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I Went from Grad School to Prison - theoutlander http://www.cosmopolitan.com/politics/a29775/cecily-mcmillan-grad-school-to-jail/ ====== mabbo What does society _gain_ from a prison like that? Imagine a person spends 10 years in that situation, and gets out, what the hell are they supposed to do now? They have no job...
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GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com - nickb http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/03/godaddy-silence.html ====== mixmax Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner - sharjeelsayed https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/05/zfs-versus-raid-eight-ironwolf-disks-two-filesystems-one-winner/ ====== kyuudou First paragraph of conclusion: "If you're looking for raw, unbridled performance it's hard to argue against a prope...
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Stripe: We reached our goal of net-zero emissions in a matter of months - beNjiox https://stripe.com/environment ====== shoo It is positive to see stripe is voluntarily doing this. That said, the analysis ignores net emissions (positive or negative) that may arise as a consequence of how stripe's business impacts the...
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Current Mobile Patent Suits - Graphic of the Day - ColinWright http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/mobile-patent-suits-graphic-of-the-day ====== ColinWright Here's another rendering of the same thing: <http://www.solipsys.co.uk/images/MobileSuits.png> There may be errors, I gave myself 5 minutes to replicate it...
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How Cheap Can Electric Vehicles Get? - Osiris30 http://rameznaam.com/2016/04/12/how-cheap-can-electric-vehicles-get/ ====== dsfyu404ed A cheap used economy car will still have the lowest cost per mile for a very long time.... When you factor purchase price into the equation gas vehicles win by a long ways since you n...
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Irish teenagers make dotcom millions - papersmith http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/28/technology ====== Harj unfortunately the press have sensationalized things here, we never claimed to have made "millions" and we know this deal isn't the "we've made it" one it's being portrayed as. i'll blog about our t...
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Ask HN: Reselling Datacenter FPGAs - michaelxia Do datacenters buy second hand FPGA boards? (ie. VCU1525 with recent VU9P chips) Who would know about this? ====== slipo I want to buy
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IPhone 3.0: Push Notifications, Copy and Paste, MMS, and More - Anon84 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/iphone_30_push_notifications_copy_and_paste_mms_an.php ====== Angostura One nice little addition not really mentioned anywhere - it will have the ability to sync notes with the desktop, making the notes applet a...
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Sumo Logic S-1 - tpw212 https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1643269/000119312520227201/d821436ds1.htm ====== tmd83 Wow! The numbers, 837 PB/day. 18.6B events/s. I wonder who is the biggest player in logging/monitoring and what's their rate of ingestion/processing is, how much do they store and their infrastructure...
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Ask HN: Why is Google purging all search results for Syrian Arab News Agency? - teamgb The website sana.sy of the Syrian Arab News Agency has been &#x27;censored&#x27; or &#x27;purged&#x27; from Google search results. Even after clicking through 10 pages of results, not a single one links to Sana.sy. Contrast with ...
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Telegram for PC - virtualoops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqcvcSPx2T0 ====== DLion or just use the web version. WTF? [https://web.telegram.org/](https://web.telegram.org/) ------ gsfgger or just get the windows version. WTF? [https://telegram.org/apps](https://telegram.org/apps)
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Show HN: Watch Agents – Curated Vintage Watch Dealers - graham1776 http://www.watchagents.com ====== beamatronic I have a small request :-) Can you aggregate their inventory so it can be searched? I would love to find a dealer near me with the watch of my dreams. ------ beamatronic Is there a way to find the ones nea...
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The Guardian’s new image management system - shade23 https://github.com/guardian/grid ====== mjsweet I would love to be able to install a service like this with AWS Lamba and API gateway with a React of AngularJS front-end. If anyone has thoughts on how ElasticSearch could work with Lambda?
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Fixing Reddit - whack http://www.thecaucus.net/#/content/caucus/community_blog/103 ====== CM30 I think the simplest fixes for Reddit would be just to make sure anyone who works for the site actually agrees with its goals. That's what caused most of the reason issues, they hired people who didn't really like the challe...
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Netflix Lowers Data Usage By 2/3 For Members In Canada - hanifvirani http://blog.netflix.com/2011/03/netflix-lowers-data-usage-by-23-for.html ====== ultrasaurus I'm a netflix user who's had a bandwidth cap for a while, so I only watch movies in SD not HD and you while you can notice the difference in quality it's wo...
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This is also a web page - MichaelAza http://michaelaz.github.io/ ====== nulagrithom I stopped reading because the font size and color choice made it difficult to read. Is that irony? ~~~ zackkitzmiller Same. I instantly closed the tab. ~~~ MichaelAza There, fixed. Hope the new theme is easier to read. ~~~ erso Yo...
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TRS-80 Model III emulator in Go with a web interface - bane https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80 ====== BorisMelnik I guess Go is a real language now that it has a TRS-80 emulator. Seriously though, great accomplishment. This is really neat esp after I just got done watching "halt and catch fire" tonight ------ jaem...
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Ask HN: Do you use any tools to assist you with thinking? - febin ====== codingdave For thinking out code? My answer might not be what you are asking, but... A whiteboard, a text editor that supports bulleted lists, and my legs. If I have a general idea of what components are needed, I write them in the list, drillin...
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Comcast rejected by small town, residents vote for municipal fiber instead - coatta https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/comcast-rejected-by-small-town-residents-vote-for-municipal-fiber-instead ====== bronco21016 I hate Comcast with a passion and have always fantasized about living in a progressive municipalit...
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Capsicum: Practical Capabilities for Unix - logicprog https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/ ====== dang A small thread from 2010: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043933](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2043933) ------ dredmorbius ELIF / practical applications / examples? ~~~ logicprog Have...
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MBP vs MBA - wglb http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/04/12/MBP-vs-MBA ====== spicyj > And you need something between it and your gonads, because it’s a real > toaster when it gets going. The new Ivy Bridge machines are supposed to run much cooler. ------ heapify I don't get people who enjoy matte finished ...
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The Updated Draft Design for Go 2 Contracts - saturn_vk https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/4a54a00950b56dd0096482d0edae46969d7432a6/design/go2draft-contracts.md ====== Animats Why are these called "contracts"? It's just another generic type mechanism. "Contracts" are generally associated with entry and exit condit...
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We’ve Gotta Stop Using “Lifestyle Business” as a Pejorative - iamflimflam1 https://sparktoro.com/blog/weve-gotta-stop-using-lifestyle-business-as-a-pejorative/ ====== brudgers The term is pejorative in the world of venture capital and means little outside of it. It's pejorative because in the world of VC investing, a ...
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World's biggest fake conference in computer science - merraksh http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ====== gee_totes Wow, this is fascinating. I never knew there was money to be made in holding fake conferences. ------ minopret Seen it. [http://www.google.com/search?q=sites.google.com/site/worlddu...](http://www...
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Transcript of Tapes from US 1549 that landed in the Hudson - aneesh http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript ====== aneesh PDF is here: [http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/accident_incident/1549/me...](http://www.faa.gov/data_statistics/accident_incident/1549/media/Full%20Transcript%20%20L116.pdf) -----...
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Eyeview's effort could be a reach, or brilliant - codyb http://www.adweek.com/videowatch/b-b-firm-hopes-facebook-look-back-styled-video-reels-zuck-martin-and-marissa-155645 ====== codyb Full disclosure: I'm currently an engineer working at EyeView. This is our new viral marketing campaign focused on showing the tec...
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