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Ask HN: Are you penalized for linking directly to a HackerNews submission? - matt1 There is a widespread belief among many HackerNews users that you should not share a direct link to a submission because there are systems in place to detect it and the submission is more likely to be killed because it indicates you'r...
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Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin - biafra http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html ====== a3n > The necessary equipment is usually installed on the upper floors of the > embassy buildings or on rooftops where th...
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Tell HN: Starting a search startup, please review our project - lkozma The website is http://www.metahint.com<p>Currently we have a working prototype for searching some of our favorite blogs. We are soon sending out beta invites, and opening it up for general use.<p>Our idea is to make an embeddable search widget fo...
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Demand growing for open access science texts and tools - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/12/building-sustainable-open-access-science-texts-and-tools.ars ====== iwwr With regard to OpenCourseWare, MIT are not selling secret knowledge, but a certificate stating the bearer is smart enough to go through the...
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So if Wikipedia is the web's encyclopedia, where is the web's user's manual? - davewiner http://scripting.com/stories/2010/12/11/theWorldwideWebUsersManual.html ====== zdw "Hi, where can I buy just enough rope to hang myself"? For some things, simple instructions are fine - the coffee example being one of them. Once...
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research - DmenshunlAnlsis https://daily.jstor.org/amazons-mechanical-turk-has-reinvented-research/ ====== Radim Mechanical Turk is great for "open", public research. We used to use them a lot for machine learning tasks (data cleanup, model comparisons, label annotations), along...
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Evolved virtual creatures (evolutionary programming, 1994) - derwiki http://www.archive.org/details/sims_evolved_virtual_creatures_1994 ====== danbmil99 (shameless plug:) here's a paper I worked on where we used evolved neural networks to control a robot (simulated, hoping to reproduce on the real robot soon): <htt...
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Why does the world still need the Mozilla Foundation? - pwg http://venturebeat.com/2015/01/02/why-does-the-world-still-need-the-mozilla-foundation/ ====== csmattryder We need the Mozilla Foundation for it's values, not it's software. Things like setting up a free SSL CA [0], and lobbying alongside the EFF are what ...
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If you could use any language for general development, then which would you use? - baccheion For example, which would you use to replace Java (if you didn&#x27;t have to worry about finding Engineers, etc), for example, or would you just use Java? ====== edwcar13 I would say either python or ruby. Reasons: PYTHON: 1...
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Ask YC: Has anyone else here worked in the video game industry? - gabrielleydon Just curious... ====== uuilly I graduate from college way into CG. Oddly I'm not into video games. After some exploration though I found that people in that industry are over worked and underpaid. I found other uses for CG instead. Not r...
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SimCity Developers' Reddit AMA Swiftly Turns Into WTF With The Online-Only DRM? - secretwhistle http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121214/16262621391/simcity-developers-reddit-ama-swiftly-turns-into-wtf-with-online-only-drm.shtml ====== fruchtose Reddit communities are a minefield, at least in terms of the larger su...
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Dinosaur Easter egg on Vogue.co.uk - joebeetee http://www.supajam.com/news/story/Dinosaurs-in-hats-on-Vogue-website ====== joebeetee Check out [http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/](http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/) for a suited version - same keys - UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A and then press A for more dino's.....
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Hledger entries with Haskell and Elm - narendraj9 https://github.com/narendraj9/hledger-serve ====== brudgers If it meets the guidelines, this might make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: [https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html](https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) Curious if there is a story behind its developmen...
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This Dutch master builder creates the most wonderful devices - ggdG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1ODwgX_KkQ ====== beerbajay This is Tatjana J. van Vark: [http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/index.html](http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/index.html) ------ noonespecial One of the reasons I think guaranteed minimum income is a fan...
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Ask HN: Alternatives for high end network monitoring - FireBeyond Looking for an alternative to things like Landscape, NewRelic - ideally something self-hosted, free, pretty. Something more user-friendly, less intimidating than Nagios.<p>Ideally, but not necessarily, multi platform client support. ====== GiHe NetXMS...
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Magic: The Gathering is Turing Complete - lelf https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09828 ====== yorwba I guess this is newsworthy because a paper was put on arXiv, but the result has been known for a while. See e.g. this submission a year ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15712377](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Why Start ShareMeme Now? - zaveri http://blog.sharememe.com/2008/09/20/why-start-sharememe-now/ ====== acangiano What does it do though? It's not very clear.
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Twitter character limit broken - daleharvey http://twitter.com/davewiner/status/21186748082 ====== enathu now Twitter has fixed the bug and only shows the t.co link not the text or exact URL in the tweet! No more longest tweets! Only t.co links.
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What do USAA, CVS, Costco, and Berkshire Hathaway all have in common? - lotusleaf1987 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-gibson/america-needs-taxes_b_869744.html ====== foxhill it's actually slightly unsettling to see that some corporations that pay the amount of tax they should, is considered news!
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What is the best way to get notified of Hacker News follow up comments? - ececconi I've tried looking online but there doesn't seem to be much discussion on this topic. How do most people keep up with responses to their comments? Do most people just scroll down the threads section or do they use an external applica...
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The World's Lightest Electric Vehicle - zachallia http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/170315130/boosted-boards-the-worlds-lightest-electric-vehicl ====== pg This is one of those things that's like Google in the sense that it seems to be just an improvement on existing technology, but in fact is enough of an improvemen...
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"Voice cues for the unfortunate souls that gave us 1-star reviews." - epaga http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stuck-on-earth/id478313722?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 ====== epaga Here's the whole text, as an app developer I definitely can relate: About .01% of users got stuck on the first screen where it says Enter Your Name. ...
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“Tests should be poorly factored” - alecbenzer This is a piece of advice I&#x27;d seen somewhere once, but can&#x27;t remember where (or if this is exactly how it was worded). Does anyone know of an article or something that talks about this, or a more well-known term for this idea?<p>The basic idea: Say you have some...
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Mean Street: Crash - The Machines Are in Control Now - drawkbox http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2010/05/06/mean-street-crash-the-machines-are-in-control-now/ ====== froo I for one welcome our new robot overlords.
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Interview with AMD Java Labs - dforbin http://javaposse.com/index.php?post_id=454436 Well someone just convinced me older news is cool as long as it hasn't been posted, and this isn't that old.<p>Fascinating podcast from the AMD java labs team (how many of you knew such a thing existed?). Some nice performance tips, ...
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Intrade: Only 30% chance US debt ceiling will be raised by July 31st. - ticky http://intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=745701 ====== ForrestN Could be a really interesting/useful hedge for a lot of people. ~~~ ticky I tend to like the think the masses are usually wrong... ------ STHayden don't they have ...
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Saul Griffith on winning a MacArthur, entrepreneurship, and dumpster diving - toffer http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/14/smbusiness/Saul_Griffith.fsb/?postversion=2007111509 ====== quickpost His TED talk is pretty interesting: <http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/48> ------ electric Amazing.. there are so many ...
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Mario running in Unreal Engine 4 [video] - latenightcoding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUKcSiAPJoQ ====== frik Nice. Though Nintendo won't be happy and will shut down your video as you use their IP as happened many times before. Some months ago, someone did the exact same thing with Unity engine, and his Youtube ...
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Found this site, apply to New York City's startups in 60 seconds - mergesort http://underdog.io/ ====== mjolk It would be nice to see a list of the startups that can see resumes (or opt out of some). If I was at a startup and looking to move to a new one, I wouldn't want it to be public knowledge that I was looking...
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Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system? - Dowwie Describe your backup workflow ====== gerdesj It .... depends. Given I worry about this sort of thing for a living and am a partner in the firm: I think in terms of backup, DR, BC, availability and more. I have access to rather a lot of gear but the same approach w...
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Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined? [pdf] - dbcooper https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_regional_income_convergence_in_the_us_declined_01.pdf ====== dbcooper > The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income > convergence across states and in population...
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Russia’s Retro Lenin Museum Still Runs on Decades-Old Apple II Computers - yawz https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/retro-apple-computers-lenin-museum-russia ====== amq The irony that you have to use a computer from your main enemy for your main ideological museum.
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Show HN: Minimalist open source gdocs like editor, 91 LOC - lecarore https://simpletext.link ====== lecarore Hi, author here, I started this project 8 hours ago to solve one very specific problem : organizing a small event with friends in a WhatsApp group. Keeping a list of "who brings what" up to date was a pain. Sim...
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The Fastest and Shortest Algorithm for All Well-Defined Problems (2002) - tosh https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/cs/0206022/ ====== carapace See also: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIXI) [http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedelmachine.html](http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/goedel...
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Inferno OS for Raspberry Pi - rcarmo https://bitbucket.org/infpi/inferno-rpi ====== ZenoArrow What are the major differences between (the latest versions of) Unix, Plan 9 and Inferno? Is there anything that Inferno and/or Plan 9 do that would be harder to achieve with a Unix-based system? ~~~ MaxBarraclough Inferno O...
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No More Excuses: Lazy Load Your Images - vzhou842 https://victorzhou.com/blog/lazy-loading-images/ ====== forgotmypw17 Why does lazy-loading of images suck? Let me count the ways... Lazy-loading sucks for anyone whose connection is not stable or always on. It also sucks for offlining content you want to read later a...
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A wild PyBoy appears: a GameBoy emulator written in Python - skelliger https://notamonadtutorial.com/a-wild-pyboy-appears-a-gameboy-emulator-written-in-python-22666762232f ====== ericfrederich Written in Python2.7 which had its end of life in January
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How we solved an infamous sliding bug - exch http://joostdevblog.blogspot.nl/2014/04/the-infamous-sliding-bug.html ====== tetrep Problem: Lag + collision detection = characters slide. Solution: Turn off collision detection. I was sincerely hoping for an actual technical solution for dealing with peer- to-peer network...
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In 5 states, richest Americans live in a “new Gilded Age” - hellofunk https://www.cbsnews.com/news/in-5-states-richest-americans-live-in-a-new-gilded-age/ ====== padobson _Even as the gap between the rich and everyone else widens, the quality of life for the bottom 99 percent has vastly changed since 1928._ This make...
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Friends' photos lost in your Instagram feed? Here's a fix suggestion - josefrichter https://www.iphonedesign.info/blog/instagram-friends-vs-famous-filter-ux-concept ====== bartcobain The thing with this suggestion is that ATM Instagram is trying to fix how people are getting addicted to the Instagram popularity contes...
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Microsoft Announces a $5B Investment in IoT - LyalinDotCom https://www.thurrott.com/hardware/155799/microsoft-announces-5-billion-investment-iot ====== randomerr I thought they were getting out of IoT because of how bad they did with the Raspberry Pi. [https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/21/first_look_windows_...](...
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US Study Projects How 'Unequivocal Warming' Will Change Americans ... - newacc http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2009/06/17/17climatewire-us-study-projects-how-unequivocal-warming-wi-29186.html ====== pragmatic Just in time for one of the coldest summers on record. It's hard for people to fathom the thought of global wa...
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AirBnB for Experiences - Designed for Failure? - coolestcool http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/24/dead-pooling-gidsy-acquired-by-getyourguide-in-a-berlin-insiders-deal/ ====== coolestcool I've always loved the concept of an AirBnb for experiences and even considered using a model similar for my own business. That said, ...
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Terry Fox - jkuria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox ====== elsurudo We were taught about him in Canadian elementary school (it feels like every school year). I guess I assumed he was known just in Canada for this reason, but didn't realize he even had reach outside of Canada. ~~~ kenned3 Pretty much every city...
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Games on GitHub - nodivbyzero https://github.com/leereilly/games ====== unsignedqword Many companies in the games industry have settled on using Perforce or SVN (or more recently Plastic DVCS) internally as, out of the box, it can handle both code and non-code assets (i.e. large binary files) well in tandem. Git has p...
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China's Largest Base Has Replicas Of Taiwan Presidential Building, Eiffel Tower - ycombonator https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33591/chinas-biggest-base-has-huge-replicas-of-taiwans-presidential-building-and-the-eiffel-tower ====== Simulacra A couple of footnotes: This has been known since 2015, [https://multimed...
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Elon Musk's high-speed Hyperloop train makes more sense for Mars than California - allenleein http://thetrigger.io/share/trends/55a3b1b6d2b47ffd74622f8a ====== 27182818284 As I understand it, the idea was put out there because of how incredibly underwhelming the high-speed train plans were for California. Musk noted...
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New social network to help startups with their promotion launched - startuppers http://www.startuppers.org ====== startuppers Dear all, I would like to announce, that after some months of work, we have just launched new network for startups - www.startuppers.org. We would love to have your startup featured on our si...
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Something is wrong with Connecticut - johan_larson http://www.slate.com/articles/business/metropolis/2017/06/something_is_wrong_with_connecticut.html ====== nxsynonym CTs main problem is that it has no identity or culture of its own. It's biggest draw is that it's close to other cultural hubs (BOS and NYC). Why pay c...
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Modern C, Second Edition - matt_d https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2019/09/18/modern-c-second-edition/ ====== k_sze How does this book compare with "21st Century C"? I know that, unlike "Modern C", "21st Century C" can't possibly cover C17 because that book was released in 2014. But otherwise, what would be notable dif...
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Amazon allegedly stealing tech from startups under the pretext of funding them - vvpvijay https://androidrookies.com/amazon-allegedly-stealing-tech-from-startups-under-the-pretext-of-funding-them/ ====== merricksb Big discussion about this topic a few days ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929044](https://...
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VITALS PRO That Can Alert Before Heart Attack and Strokes - seextrpmaw VITALS PRO is the first device who works on EIS Sensing Technology and detects Troponin (T and I) micro particles presence in users body. Through this innovative validated technology it can alert users before any future Heart Attacks, Strokes or a ...
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The dumbest ad ever. - gr366 http://www.scripting.com/stories/2010/06/01/theDumbestAdEver.html ====== sbierwagen It's always nice to see Dave speaking knowledgeably on a topic which he knows nothing about. You'll never see an interchangeable lens camera with a cell phone in it, simply because high quality lenses have...
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Introducing Zapp: Continuous integration testing for iOS and KIF - puls http://corner.squareup.com/2011/11/ios-integration-testing-2.html ====== JackDanger KIF+Zapp is awesome, it lets our iOS engineers and Rails engineers keep up our testing culture. Recommended.
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InstaSource: On-demand tech magicians at your service - pearlsteinj http://instasource.co/splash/hn ====== minimaxir No, you can't just do a "Magic for X" and get away with it. Skilled labor is not something you want done "Insta." ~~~ pearlsteinj Hey Max, founder here. While we don’t deny that we believe a no inte...
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L.A. podcasting festival is this weekend. This year, there's a live stream - MichaelApproved http://lapodfest.com/ ====== MichaelApproved The events start tonight. It's at the Sofitel Hotel, near the Beverly Center mall. If you stream it, you'll have access to shows for up to 3 weeks after.
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How do you show that you're a great group of founders? - throwaway_19361 Hey Hackers I’m using a throwaway partly because I feel I may come off as naive but also partly because I think a lot of great start ups are facing the same problem I am. I’ve been reading a lot of the posts on HN and have read through some of...
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Hall of api shame: boolean trap - agonzalezro http://ariya.ofilabs.com/2011/08/hall-of-api-shame-boolean-trap.html ====== gregonicus Interesting article. I would help if all of the links worked. I found 3 that did not, returning the message "This domain is registered for one of our customers" (CloudDNS). These were ...
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Ask HN: Mobile analytics aggregator? - llaxsll I've been driving myself nuts this past couple of weeks going back and forth between mixpanel, google analytics, bit.ly stats and my custom reports.<p>Most of my time I'm on my mobile .. I refuse to believe that there aren't people out there that haven't been facing the...
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The best way to nab your dream job out of college? Be born rich - known http://qz.com/399115/the-best-way-to-nab-your-dream-job-out-of-college-be-born-rich/ ====== paulhauggis "The qualities most commonly used to sort applications, in descending order, are school prestige, extracurricular activities and grades. Well...
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Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? - cjauvin https://blog.growthbot.org/chatbots-were-the-next-big-thing-what-happened ====== chatmasta Chatbots were never the “next big thing” by any measurable metric other than artificial hype created by the companies trying to create a new platform for extracting reve...
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Returning to Facebook after living off the grid - kmerlini http://sophmoric.tumblr.com/post/69075741968/my-return-to-the-dark-side-facebook ====== lizlemon Nice post. I would be the same...don't want to be there, but I am because it makes some social aspects a little better. And I think FB is very clever at detectin...
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Iptable: An Introduction - cyberomin http://cyberomin.github.io/devops/2017/01/25/iptables.html ====== LordWinstanley The similarly named 'iptables' is also good.
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Show HN: Unified API for Facebook Google+ Slack Twitter GitHub and More (Android) - cr-si https://github.com/CloudRail/cloudrail-si-android-sdk ====== cr-si We've released an update to our Android Library to add social networks. So besides Cloud Storage, you can now integrate eg Facebook, Twitter, Slack, GitHub and ma...
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Ask HN: How do you store the key or emergency kit of 1password - kureikain Hi Hacker,<p>Once setting up, 1password generate some kind of master key and store into an emergency kit. We will either need an existing 1password installation or this emergency kit to set it the account on another computer.<p>But given I&#x27...
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California replacing 200 polluting diesel school buses with all-electric buses - towndrunk https://electrek.co/2019/07/17/california-electric-school-buses/ ====== towndrunk This maybe a way to pick up a cheap bus and convert it into a camper. ------ java-man Mail delivery vans and garbage trucks should be next.
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Ask HN: Would you consider an online education? - aik There has been so much talk lately about online education. I'm wondering what the hacker crowd thinks here.<p>If you could redo your education in today's world, would you spend a ridiculous amount of time and money on a formal college education, or do you think...
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Zoom taps Oracle for cloud deal, passing over Amazon, Microsoft - SREinSF https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/28/zoom-taps-oracle-for-cloud-deal-passing-over-amazon-microsoft.html ====== scott00 Some useful context: Zoom also runs 17 of their own data centers in addition to using AWS and Azure[0]. This deal is to run their "...
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Introduction to Moose, Perl’s OO system - lelf http://www.houseabsolute.com/presentations/intro-moose-class/ ====== MichaelBurge Moose is a killer library for Perl. I really miss roles when working in other languages. I often feel like I'm fighting the language if I can't split out some common program logic into a sep...
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The Outrage about PRISM spying is wearing off already - Baustin http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043777/the-outrage-about-prism-spying-is-wearing-off-already.html ====== neilk This is from July 7th. Almost a month ago. Maybe I suffer confirmation bias because I'm following the story, but it seems to be picking up stea...
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Hey everyone, do you have some spare time to do my survey? - hkuhl https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/D5QLLXP ====== hkuhl I hope it's okay to post this here, but I'm running a Developer Happiness Survey at the moment and will publish the results in an index. If you have a few minutes spare, it would be so helpful to have ...
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Show:Tot – Convert any text into trello task - mhrnik https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tot-convert-any-text-into/ahbnljonnejlldcfccaklgpcblpodfeo ====== mhrnik My friend came up with an idea and we made this chrome extension (our first) which can help to convert any text in the task. Check here: [https://www...
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The backdoor file named man.cy in Linux mint - cujanovic https://gist.github.com/Oweoqi/31239851e5b84dbba894 ====== elcano Where I this file supposed to be located in an installed system, if I wanted to check?
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A Dirty Pun Tweaks China’s Online Censors - rms http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/world/asia/12beast.html?_r=1&hp ====== eli So... what's it translate to? ~~~ tokenadult It's a close pun for a Chinese phrase that would be taken to mean "_____ your mother."
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What Makes for a Good Blog? - gasull http://www.43folders.com/2008/08/19/good-blogs ====== YuriNiyazov One of the best blogs IMO is Steve Yegge's. One of the qualities that makes it really good is that he doesn't post often, each individual post is very long and discusses some particular thing in great detail. Inciden...
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10 Incredibly Awesome Documents to Help You Start a Company - nickb http://www.jasonnazar.com/2008/07/10/10-incredibly-awesome-documents-to-help-you-start-a-company/ ====== jl I don't think these samples are incredibly awesome for starting a company. I'm not a lawyer, but I have helped a lot of startups with incorpora...
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The quest to crystallize time - jonbaer http://www.nature.com/news/the-quest-to-crystallize-time-1.21595?href= ====== dimillian Any of you saw the movie "Arrival"? Without spoiling anything, it drops an amazing concept, which is also exploited in the novel in a much subtler way, and it's bugging me ever since. In the...
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Living With a Computer (1982) - atestu http://www.theatlantic.com/past/issues/82jul/fallows.htm ====== grellas I went through my undergraduate and law school years, as well as the first couple of years of my career, during the typewriter era. A few random thoughts on the early era: 1\. I paid to have a freelancer ...
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Microsoft Anti-Gmail Ad - andr http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TDbrX5U75dk ====== beshrkayali It is pretty funny, but the ads makes it seem as if there are real people snooping into your emails when it's actually just some bots that are trying to serve you ads (which is inevitable) that might ...
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Unholy Rails: External Scripts, jQuery Plugins, and Page-Specific JavaScript - DanielKehoe http://railsapps.github.com/rails-javascript-include-external.html ====== ScotterC I've been using this technique with great success. [http://viget.com/inspire/extending-paul-irishs- comprehensive...](http://viget.com/inspire/...
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Lisp Web Templating - dualogy Yay, after my first week of playing with Lisp I built something that I really like but for ye olde advanced hacker this is probably kiddy stuff.<p>http://www.roxority.com/roxbase/<p>Still, I'm so fond of this whole new world I have to announce this small step and (proclaim 'im-on-a-natu...
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FBI launches eFOIA System for faster FOIA requests - dan-silver https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/november/new-efoia-system ====== hodwik Glad for the FBI. Getting something like this in place is a massive undertaking. These organizations are all clamoring to get this sort of thing in place, it's a serious game c...
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10 great WP plugins - bbelderbos http://bobbelderbos.com/2010/11/10-great-wp-plugins/ ====== dibarra #11. W3 Total Cache. Wordpress is CPU hungry.
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LASIK 6 months later - bemmu http://www.bemmu.com/lasik-6-months-later ====== jgrahamc I had wavefront-guided all-laser LASIK ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasiks#Wavefront- guided_LASIK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasiks#Wavefront-guided_LASIK)) 6 years ago and the 'problems' I have with my eyesight are complete...
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Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results (Even Logged Out) - pierrefar http://searchengineland.com/google-now-personalizes-everyones-search-results-31195 ====== barrkel Google's core service, the simple page <http://www.google.com/> , has been getting more and more borked and broken over the past year, and es...
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Cloudkick (YC W09) raises another $2M - pquerna http://deals.venturebeat.com/2010/04/28/cloudkick-funding/ ====== andymoe I find it really annoying that these tech news sites (read TechCrunch) never link to the company. Always to crunchbase or in this case some silly twitter search about Cloudkick. Anyway, they do ...
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Computer Programming is a Trade - julienchastang http://on.wsj.com/1zLQhOL ====== andraganescu This is so bad. I fail to believe that the world will get out of the paradigm of social stratification in the next dozen years or so. Making computer programming a "trade" is basically putting computer programmers on the s...
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Continuum - A javascript ES6 VM - ricardobeat https://github.com/benvie/continuum/ ====== TheMakeA Fascinating. I was just thinking about something like this today because I wanted to use generators. JavaScript is odd in that it's hard to make changes to the language and get browser vendors to support them. Fortunat...
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Rust lifetimes: Getting away with things that would be reckless in C++ - dbaupp http://www.randomhacks.net/2014/09/19/rust-lifetimes-reckless-cxx/ ====== missblit In C++ if the string is a rvalue reference you could std::move it into part of the return value. Think a signature like template<typename...
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The 5 foot ground rod and its use in the National Electric Code (2018) - turtlegrids https://iaeimagazine.org/magazine/2018/07/30/the-5-ft-ground-rod-and-its-little-known-use-in-the-nec/ ====== FiatLuxDave Once I had a situation where the length of the ground rod mattered. We were building a fusion reactor prototype,...
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SkyMall Lands in Bankruptcy as In-Flight Shopping Changes - tshtf http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-23/skymall-lands-in-bankruptcy-as-in-flight-shopping-habits-change.html ====== paulhauggis I'm not surprised. They are overpriced and never changed with the times.
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Any site with pagination to subdivide content into 2 or 3... - nato1138 ... needs to die ====== snissn did ... needs to die really need to be on a separate page?
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Math, chemistry, physics, and biology question classifier now on Mashape - ramjeetram http://www.mashape.com/JakStatTutors/subject-classifier ====== ramjeetram updated link [https://market.mashape.com/JakStatTutors/subject- classifier](https://market.mashape.com/JakStatTutors/subject-classifier)
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I'm not good enough to work on open source software - davidw http://journal.dedasys.com/2012/03/22/im-not-good-enough-to-work-on-open-source-software ====== antirez I guess that in some way a lot of companies are taking from open source without giving enough back. Open source is much cheaper than proprietary software ...
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Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware - jandeboevrie https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega ====== bri3d Wow, I had a very similar LZSS related experience just a few weeks ago reverse-engineering a VW ECU, although my process didn't end up being as painful. Through luck (and no skill of my own, really), ...
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Non-Facebook version of my Numbrosia puzzle. No registration required. Very addictive. - amichail http://numbrosia.com/ ====== Tichy I like the idea, although I must admit that like Sudoku, it does not really motivate me. Ultimately, it just seems to be solvable by running a standard search algorithm. Why that is ...
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London black taxis plan congestion chaos to block Uber - sp8 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27317164 ====== casca The Black Cabs in London have a long-standing monopoly on picking people up on the street and providing a metered journey. This is mandated by law. To become a black cab (not always black in colour) ...
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A Fairly Fast Fibonacci Function - olooney http://www.oranlooney.com/post/fibonacci/ ====== jfarmer It's possible to use Binet's formula, too, if you implement the exact arithmetic of ℚ(φ). φ is the golden ratio and ℚ(φ) is the set of all numbers of the form a + bφ where a,b are rational numbers. So if you create a ...
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SDCC – Small Device C Compiler - vmorgulis http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/ ====== msarnoff SDCC is the only FOSS compiler for PIC microcontrollers. Microchip's XC8 compiler has a free version that's deliberately crippled (optimizations disabled, garbage instructions added to slow your code down) and a license for the ful...
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To replace the additive BPA, a chemical company teams up with unlikely allies - laurex https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/01/replace-controversial-plastic-additive-bpa-chemical-company-teams-unlikely-allies ====== Vaslo For those interested, this video actually shows someone remove cans from the coating, which sound...
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