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The Last Lecture--Randy Pausch - stevenboudreau http://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo ====== zkinion Yeah, I finally sat down and watched this whole thing last night. He gives some really good advice about achieving your dreams. It goes off on some tangents sometimes, like when talking about the specifics of his st...
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Ssh Passwordlessly - dbieber http://david-bieber.tumblr.com/post/58219613742/ssh-passwordlessly ====== bradleyland David, I'd recommend augmenting your instructions to include a passphrase. An SSH private key without a passphrase is extremely dangerous. Should someone gain access to your private key, they can use it...
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NTSB Report: Over-Pressure of a Massachusetts Natural Gas Distribution System - mkeeter https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/PLD18MR003-preliminary-report.aspx ====== danielvf The gas lines here used a different system than most of the US. The normal way is for a high pressure line to run to a reg...
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Amazon’s quest for cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes - ilamont https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/11/14/how-amazons-quest-more-cheaper-products-has-resulted-flea-market-fakes/ ====== ilamont _Despite Amazon’s algorithms designed to detect fakes, shoppers can type the phrase “YSL dupe”...
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Show HN: Keep your data out of the wrong hands - jason_wang https://www.truevault.com/blog/keep-your-data-out-of-the-wrong-hands.html ====== hayden_gomes Interesting idea. How does TrueVault Keep work with systems that want to process user data in the background? Won't you need to give a single account access to all r...
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Memory Usage of Firefox with e10s Enabled - XzetaU8 http://www.erahm.org/?p=22 ====== arsa Primary reason I switched back from chrome to firefox couple of years ago is for memory usage actually - got really tired of browser eating all my ram (with every extension and tab adding more and more usage). And no, i rarely a...
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Show HN: Revisit Your First GitHub Commit Ever - amitmerchant http://www.amitmerchant.com/your-first-commit-ever/ ====== krthr cool! i had a nostalgia moment viewing my first commit
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What Google know about us - brainy http://techunzipped.com/google-knows/ ====== brainy are we giving social-networking to much information? what can be done to change this?
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Race, Genes, and IQ (1995) - huihuiilly http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-race/ned-block-race-genes-and-iq ====== qiqing It seems the key problem that incites controversy is that when geneticists say "heritability," it doesn't mean what lay-persons think it means, and sometimes, even professionals in the field ge...
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What Happened When I Tried Talking to Twitter Abusers - Kliment http://www.everywhereist.com/what-happened-when-i-tried-talking-to-twitter-abusers/ ====== avmich Here is the conclusion: > I spent days trying to talk to the people in my mentions who insulted and > attacked me. I’d have been better off just remembering...
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Show HN: Tulipan – a cryptocurrency portfolio balance management tool - flurdy ====== flurdy I created Tulipan (née Tulips) as webappification of an excel sheet that I used to update my cryptocurrency portfolio balances. I have used Tulipan for over a year now and find it perfect for my own requirement but have not re...
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Bilski v. Kappos: Business Methods Not Out, Software Still Patentable - grellas http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2010/06/bilski-v-kappos-business-methods-out-software-still-patentable.html ====== _delirium It seems more like a non-decision as far as broad statements go. Only 4 justices fully signed the majority/plura...
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Understanding V8 - philipDS http://s3.mrale.ph/nodecamp.eu ====== ldite For those like me, who initially assumed that this didn't work in their browser for some stupid reason, turns out you need to press the space bar or page up/down. ~~~ eis You can also click the sides (left or right) of the page. Not very intuit...
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Map.merge() – One method to rule them all - wheresvic1 https://www.nurkiewicz.com/2019/03/mapmerge-one-method-to-rule-them-all.html ====== browda Yes, the final example code reads reasonably nicely, but alas -- unless ConcurrentHashMap.merge() has been rewritten since Java 8 time -- it is definitely not as performant ...
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French Record Labels Suing Sourceforge, Among Others - normchow http://ostatic.com/177024-blog/french-record-labels-suing-sourceforge-among-others ====== cmars232 I've always wondered if it really matters much if you get "sued" in some other country like this. Really, what can a foreign court do to you? Block your sit...
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Photographer Shoots Formula 1 with 104-Year-Old Camera, and Here’s the Result - CarolineW http://www.intoourworld.com/photographer-shoots-formula-1-with-104-year-old-camera-and-heres-the-results/ ====== dgoujard Cached version here : [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...](http://webcache.goo...
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CA Pastor on Orlando Mass Shooting:‘The Tragedy Is That More of Them Didn’t Die’ - raddad http://www.theroot.com/articles/news/2016/06/calif-pastor-on-orlando-mass-shooting-the-tragedy-is-that-more-of-them-didnt-die/ ====== nervoustwit You know how we are always saying that muslims don't denounce Islamic Fundamentalis...
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JavaScript molecule simulator - rogercosseboom http://blahbleh.com/molecools.php?name=ethanol ====== biohacker42 Neat modeler, not so much a simulator. ~~~ wwalker3 I guess it's a simulator in that the bond angles and lengths dynamically rearrange as you add new atoms or yank on existing ones. I'm not sure the resu...
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Everything we know Google is working on for the new year - sciurus http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/12/google-tracker-2015-everything-google-is-working-on-for-the-new-year/ ====== xasos I'm especially excited for their Google X projects[1] - Google Glass 2, Google X Display, and self-driving cars. If reports[2] ar...
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Systems theory research suggests wealth redistrib. needed for economic growth - germinalphrase http://necsi.edu/research/economics/econuniversal ====== specialist Economy is the measure of the movement of money (activity). Growing the economy (increasing the velocity of money) means raiding hordes (by whatever means) ...
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Why Seaside, and What the persistence options are - icey http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/blog/blogView?showComments=true&printTitle=Why_Seaside,_and_What_the_persistence_options_are&entry=3391426948 ====== wensing I really need to learn more about Seaside/SmallTalk. While I learned Scheme in school and believe Lisp i...
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Ebpf.io - zdw https://ebpf.io ====== ncmncm It is funny how many people think you have to code your ebpflets in C. It turns out you can use C++, or even Rust or D, just as easily. I like that some peripheral manufacturers (e.g. Netronome) will compile your ebpflet, in their driver, to the native code of a processor o...
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Create a Club for your Startup - YahooR http://robbieallen.com/2010/08/does-your-startup-have-a-club/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1613998>
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Manager Can’t Code? They Shouldn’t Be Your Manager - lanecwagner https://qvault.io/2020/07/14/your-manager-cant-code-they-shouldnt-be-your-manager/ ====== jermier > A good manager has empathy for those who report to them. If the boss doesn’t > code or hasn’t written code in a long time, they won’t understand the daily...
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Three Years in San Francisco - apress http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2016/05/three-years-in-san-francisco ====== draw_down > Part of honest writing is being candid about both positives and negatives, > and every time I think about disclosing the negatives of my time at Twitter > (of which there are plenty)...
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In England, the Right to Daylight Can Be a Legal Matter - politelemon https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/right-to-light-law ====== hprotagonist Compare "Bartleby the Scrivener" (1853): _My chambers were up stairs at No. — Wall-street. At one end they looked upon the white wall of the interior of a spacious sky-li...
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UserVoice launches TouchPoint Toolkit to move service away from the help desk - rrwhite http://pandodaily.com/2013/03/21/uservoice-launches-touchpoint-toolkit-to-move-service-away-from-the-help-desk/ ====== timrosenblatt I dig this. Breaking down support and community interaction into even smaller steps will get mor...
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Debt collector profits soar with people flush and easy to find - pseudolus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-07/debt-collector-profits-soar-with-people-flush-and-easy-to-find ====== jedberg Always ask for proof of the debt before paying. If they can't provide proof, you can contest it on your credit repo...
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Programming Satan's Computer - mariorz http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3482 ====== akamaka Cool title, but completely misleading. I thought this paper would be about writing software on top of an untrusted hardware architecture (an increasingly important national security concern, considering that so many chips...
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Reading the Ruby Source to Understand Rails Idiosyncrasies - cmdrcoriander http://pivotallabs.com/reading-the-ruby-source/ ====== Denzel Well, first of all, you aren't reading the Ruby source to understand _Rails '_ idiosyncrasies, you're reading the Ruby source to understand _Ruby 's_ idiosyncrasies applied to Rail...
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"Enders Shadow and Offense-Defense Theory" - bkohlmann http://blogtarkin.com/2013/11/01/enders-shadow-and-offense-defense-theory/ ====== generj I was disappointed to see Bean get such a short stick in the new Ender's Game movie. But I understand sacrifices must occur during the book -> movie translation, and the mo...
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Misery of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan would be global - nwrk https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/10/misery-of-a-nuclear-war-between-india-and-pakistan-would-be-global/ ====== shardinator India and Pakistan may be enemies on paper, and there may be genuine animosity among a small minority. But most Indian...
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An unexpected application of the P vs. NP problem (2003) - cool-RR http://www.joeydevilla.com/2003/04/07/what-happened-to-me-and-the-new-girl-or-the-girl-who-cried-webmaster/ ====== michael_dorfman A true classic, and getting a well-deserved revival of sorts due to the recent link in CodingHorror. Well worth the re...
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Show HN: Integrating a CMS and Parse into Wordpress for a MMORPG Community Site - ZaneClaes http://aftermath.io/mmo-community-site/ ====== fiatjaf Nice that you managed to do all that, but I couldn't stop thinking that there is an enourmous overuse of (and overinvestment in human capital related to) Wordpress. The fa...
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New US attorney general refuses to drop Microsoft foreign data warrant - jfuhrman http://www.zdnet.com/article/new-us-attorney-general-refuses-to-drop-microsoft-foreign-data-warrant/ ====== mark_l_watson I find it disturbing that our government seems to care so little about their actions harming the US tech industry. ...
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Command-Line Torrent Search Tool for Windows and Linux OS - kryptxy https://github.com/kryptxy/torrench ====== kryptxy Command-line torrent search tool. The tool fetches torrents from thepiratebay* and linuxtracker.org. Project link: [https://github.com/kryptxy/torrench](https://github.com/kryptxy/torrench) Feedback...
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Show HN: I launched my first self-promoted Lifetime Deal - novellsim https://simvoly.com/a/hn-lifetimedeal ====== novellsim Hey HN, I'm Stan, Co-Founder of Simvoly and this week we launched our first Lifetime deal that we promote on our own. Before I continue, in Simvoly we are building a different type of a platform...
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Wearing Designer Knockoffs May Have Hidden Psychological Costs - robg http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=faking-it ====== ENOTTY I'd be interested in seeing the same study repeated except with knockoffs reported as genuine being given to the students.
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Ask HN: Does Sophia the robot have any unique capabilities? - altsyset I am visiting Sophia the robot today, but I have been wondering if she has any unique skills? Have there been any milestones in AI accomplished with her? Because the more I read about her, the more I realize that she is just a pretty face ;) and t...
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If Satan was a web developer - napolux http://imgur.com/gallery/qA4Bu?utm_content=buffer56d42&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== mpicker0 Not pictured but also terrible: Enter your phone number in these three separate fields. We may or may not automatically take you to the next field...
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Charging from Day 1: Genius or Deathknell? - bradleyjoyce http://squeejee.com/blog/2009/10/29/charging-from-day-1-genius-or-deathknell/ ====== idlewords One point the article doesn't stress is that charging money removes a whole slew of problems, chief among them spam and ghost accounts. This frees up a lot of develop...
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Show HN: MindMup Storyboards - adzicg https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W7LSa9H_FzA ====== adzicg Author here. This video shows a feature we've been experimenting with lately, aimed at people who write articles and blog posts and like to plan the structure of their writing using mind maps. I'd love to hear your feedback...
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The idea that all things are conscious is gaining academic credibility - nikbackm https://qz.com/1184574/the-idea-that-everything-from-spoons-to-stones-are-conscious-is-gaining-academic-credibility/ ====== fermienrico I thought Quartz did better articles. >> It’s very hard to get consciousness out of non-consciousnes...
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The Zimbu programming language, by vim author Bram Moolenaar - mbrubeck http://www.zimbu.org/ ====== silentbicycle * It has to be as fast as possible, so interpreted languages are out. * You don't want to micro manage memory, so C is out. * You don't want to require programmers to have a degre...
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The Time For A Stateless Global Reserve Currency Is Fast Approaching - cgi_man http://www.thegenesisblock.com/the-time-has-come-for-a-stateless-reserve-currency/ ====== lifeguard This is an article about the ideal world. The actual world will be using the Dollar for the next 50 - 100 years. Why? Two main reasons, th...
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Advantages of Tcl over Lisp - gnosis http://wiki.tcl.tk/13410 ====== srean Tcl does not get a lot of love. I think some of it is due to the fact that it is not lisp, it does not have closures, and perhaps the association with the famous Tcl wars. I have always found it a lively little language to code quick and dirty ...
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There are 2.4 billion people on the Internet. We should get to know each other. - codybrown http://twopointfourbillion.com ====== p4bl0 [meta] Why is this not on the frontpage? I see links with less than 10 points from an hour ago there, but not this link with more than 10 points from less than half an hour ago. Not...
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Andela Is Building Africa's Tech Ecosystem–and Is Assessing 130k Engineers - geoffroberts https://www.qualified.io/blog/posts/andela-is-building-africas-tech-ecosystem ====== rvz This is no different to Codility or Hackerrank which both do the same automated assessments that this also provides. I'm afraid that this is...
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Visualization Framework for Elliptic Curves Cryptography - aadeshbagmar https://github.com/cardwizard/EllipticCurves ====== aadeshbagmar A Pure Python framework for Elliptic Curves and support for Matplotlib visualizations to easily view and understand them. Currently, the demo shows the implementation of the Diffie ...
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Kid Cannabis - Perceval http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/7683923/kid_cannabis ====== Perceval I think the key quote in this article is: "In the end, Nate was not undone by his own greed but by overlooking one of the basic tenets of capitalism: Never underestimate the competition."
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Show HN: PhilzScore – Real-time people count at Philz Coffee - bredfield http://www.philzscore.com ====== joshrotenberg Cool! If you end up doing the new 9th Street Berkeley location, consider another count next door at Donut Dolly to see how many donuts are still available. ~~~ andrewfarah You got it. Consider it ...
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Firebase: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly - hackerboos https://www.raizlabs.com/dev/2016/12/firebase-case-study/ ====== doubleorseven " If your database requires a lot of relationships, it’s worth modeling out how your database will be constructed in Firebase before choosing to use it. " Wait what? Modeling your entire a...
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Ask HN: HN data access - bashgrep How can I get access to all of the submissions on news.ycombinator.com? I don't want the comments, just the posts.<p>It seems like it is getting increasingly more difficult to access the content on HNS. For example, it seems like you have to sign in now to access older posts. Als...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Final Beta is out - jonaphin Type "sudo do-autorelease-upgrade -d" in the terminal to install. ====== jonaphin I had the chance to set it up last night, and one very noticeable change is the speed of the UI. It is remarkably faster on my netbook. Congratulations are of the order. Thank you Canonical and...
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JDK 14 Early-Access Builds - based2 http://jdk.java.net/14/ ====== lerouxmlr hmmmm looks like some Oracle boffs are trying very hard to save their licencing SNAFU
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After a Month, Homeless Man Learning To Code Has Almost Finished His App - prawn http://www.businessinsider.com.au/homeless-coder-2013-9 ====== hardwaresofton I am extremely proud of how low the barrier to entry is for our field, this guy is living a philanthropic wet dream of mine
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Physicists Just Achieved the First-Ever Quantum Teleportation Between Chips - lisper https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-manage-quantum-teleportation-between-computer-chips-for-the-first-time ====== spartan7500 I know this is quite ignorant, but for the sake of devils advocate, what’s different between this and an...
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Discovery, ESPN to launch 3D TV channels - baran http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9143116/Discovery_ESPN_to_launch_3D_TV_channels ====== kbob Just about every time I've seen ESPN HD (in restaurants and bars), it's used the extra resolution to upconvert a standard definition signal and bookend it with two huge "E...
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Demystifying CORS - andRyanMiller https://frontendian.co/cors ====== paol This post never actually explains why any of this was needed. The closest it comes is this bit: "If [...] the same-origin policy for XMLHttpRequests relaxed, said services could now receive a deluge of DELETE, PUT, etc… requests from any origin...
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Capturing Millions of Packets per Second in Linux without Third-Party Libraries - andreygrehov http://kukuruku.co/hub/nix/capturing-packets-in-linux-at-a-speed-of-millions-of-packets-per-second-without-using-third-party-libraries ====== cm3 In case you're wondering about the different linux kernel bypass mechanisms, h...
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Ask HN: Which programming bootcamps do you take seriously? - cblock811 I am new to the tech industry and was one of the people who got in after doing a rails web development bootcamp. I was honestly pretty disappointed with my bootcamp, but I just wanted some direction with my education and validation with a credent...
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Carlos Ghosn Berates Japan, Nissan Executives in First Public Comments - forgingahead https://www.wsj.com/articles/carlos-ghosn-set-to-tell-his-side-of-the-story-11578472943 ====== sheepdestroyer He has shown quite a talent at savaging the Japanese justice system, the prosecutors, and Nissan executives who colluded to...
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ReactOS 0.4.5 Released - ma2rten https://reactos.org/project-news/reactos-045-released ====== StevePerkins I tried installing this on the latest VirtualBox release. It installed cleanly, but the VM would not fully boot. It just hangs on the startup splash screen, with the progress bar about three-quarters of the way a...
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Pocket: The App That Irked Me Over Privacy Today - teaneedz http://teaz.me/pocket-the-app-that-irked-me-over-privacy-today/ ====== disposition2 If you are that worried about privacy on an app like Pocket, there is an open source alternative ([https://www.wallabag.org/](https://www.wallabag.org/)) and it has an iOS a...
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The Planet Nine Hypothesis - legatus https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.10103 ====== legatus PDF link: [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10103](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.10103) From the abstract, "This paper reviews the observational motivation, dynamical constraints, and prospects for detection of this proposed object known as P...
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Sparrow shot after it knocks over 23,000 dominoes (2005) - gerbilly https://web.archive.org/web/20051126145855/http://www.dodemus.nl/ ====== AndrewOMartin Non archive link to the same story. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4450958.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4450958.stm) ~~~ Someone See also...
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Why tax the merely well-off as if they were wealthy? - quoderat http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12wwln-lede-t.html?ref=magazine ====== anamax Because you get more money if you hit the well-off as hard as you hit the wealthy. Bill Gates takes income when he wants it. Also, I note that the referenced artic...
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Show HN: Enscouto - Market Research & Analytic Tools for Envato Authors - ykadosh https://enscouto.com/ ====== ykadosh Hello everyone, if there are any Envato authors in the crowd, I thought you might be interested in a Chrome Extension that I am developing, that provides research and analytic tools for the Envato Mar...
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Predator-induced fear causes PTSD-like changes in the brains of wild animals - linnaeus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47684-6 ====== linnaeus Abstract >Predator-induced fear is both, one of the most common stressors employed in animal model studies of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and a major fo...
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Oxytocin enhances brain function in children with autism - rb2e http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/27/1312857110 ====== rb2e Paper is here: [http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/27/1312857110.full...](http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/11/27/1312857110.full.pdf)
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Berkeley Protesters Built a Human Wall to Violently Stop White Students - SiVal http://reason.com/blog/2016/10/26/video-uc-berkeley-protesters-built-a-hum ====== michaelmrose Pick a handful and let them know that there presence isn't desired at the university anymore if they can't respect their fellow students. They h...
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Neo4j 1.4 M05 - Autoindexing, REST Paging, Cypher aggregates - digitalstain http://blog.neo4j.org/2011/06/neo4j-14-m05-kiruna-stol-midsummer.html ====== urza I cant help myself but Neo4j is just awesome :)
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Ask HN: How do you fire a “B Player?” - throw-it-away24 I&#x27;ve been struggling with this all week.<p>Long story short, we have someone on the team who is just OK. Not terrible, there&#x27;s nothing specific I can point to that I can say, &quot;This is awful,&quot; but the work they produce is just mediocre.<p>To be...
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Interesting analysis of a malicious PDF. - steveklabnik http://www.corelan.be:8800/index.php/2010/11/18/malicious-pdf-analysis-from-price-zip-to-flashplayer-exe/ ====== andre3k1 Worth noting, Adobe launched Reader X two days ago, which they claim has a "sandbox" design that prevents attacks such as these. [1] [http...
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Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil - stargrave https://www.devever.net/~hl/globalfs ====== mrfredward Every piece of hardware on a computer is a piece of global mutable state. There are many good reasons to hide that fact behind an abstraction, but I can't help but think hiding glo...
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30 minutes a day - mrschwabe http://mindfolder.com/blog/30-minutes-day/ ====== espeed See Rich Hickey's talk on Hammock Driven Development (<http://blip.tv/clojure/hammock-driven-development-4475586>). Rich talks about how thinking about something transfers the idea from your conscious mind to your unconscious mind (...
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Layoffs.fyi Coronavirus Tracker - KKKKkkkk1 https://layoffs.fyi/tracker/ ====== rjtobin Not a lawyer, but to any fellow H1B's who are concerned about being laid off, and facing the near-impossible task of leaving the US on short notice during a worldwide lockdown: a 2017 law provides a 60-day grace period for "those w...
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Make more important apps because a lot of them are useless - technacity https://medium.com/@technacity/make-more-important-apps-because-a-lot-of-them-are-useless-c7e9e485c4bf ====== smt88 This isn't something developers can/will fix. It's an issue of incentive. Lots of frivolous apps can be fun to make or have the ...
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Feedback about my site - samjaycode http://flocksy.com/ ====== samjaycode I have launched a site recently and would love feedback on the usability, content and design - or anything else. It is a freelancing and project management platform geared towards web developers and designers. ~~~ jcr You really need to do a ...
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A Z-Machine in OCaml (2016) - tosh https://ericlippert.com/2016/02/01/west-of-house/ ====== lpage Incidentally, the execution model and abstract machine for OCaml (more accurately Caml Light) is based on Xavier Leroy's paper "The ZINC experiment: an economical implementation of the ML language" [1] - an all time CS cl...
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Qubit survives record 39 minutes at room temperature - parondea http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/qubit-record-moves-quantum-computing-forward-1.2426986?cmp=rss ====== Osmium This is really exciting! For those not familiar, 180s (edit: as previously published[2]) is a phenomenal amount of time at room temperature an...
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Sublimetext is not dead, new version! - magnyld https://www.sublimetext.com/3 ====== kup0 Trying to convince myself to buy the darn thing. I use it sparingly but I have found nothing else that even remotely compares. Been trying out others lately (Atom, Komodo Edit, etc) and Sublime seems to just kill them from a perf...
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The Rise of Robots-as-a-Service - joeyespo https://venturebeat.com/2019/06/30/the-rise-of-robots-as-a-service/ ====== thekhatribharat _[Shameless Plug]_ Summary of the Cloud Robotics (& RaaS) market: [https://medium.com/open-factory/cloud- robotics-a-10-000-foot...](https://medium.com/open-factory/cloud- robotics-a-10...
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How Lee Berger Found Homo Naledi in a Tiny Cave - pmcpinto http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/the-man-who-used-facebook-to-find-an-extinct-human-species ====== DrScump There was a _great_ NOVA episode on this, although (to me) their website search makes it hard to find: [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/evolution/wh...
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How Not to Sell a Business (2009) - basilpeters http://www.exits.com/blog/how-not-to-sell-a-business/?Hackernews ====== bdfh42 I am sure the bullet points have meaning - it is just that I can't fathom what they are. Secondary Sales? Check the alignment? Both seem to be the key issues but fail the comprehension tes...
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What are people working on in coffee shops? - montebello https://medium.com/life-learning/what-are-people-working-on-in-coffee-shops-cdf351e28b6#.qkbcq8v2h ====== stqism Ha! I'm reading this in a coffee shop at this very moment. ~~~ montebello Ah, the irony ;) Did you ask the person next to you what they were working...
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Microsoft shafts HTC phone users - ableal http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1594077/microsoft-shafts-htc-phone-users ====== javery This shows Microsoft is really trying to follow Apple's playbook here and stick with very strict hardware specifications. Honestly it's probably a smart move, if you don't think t...
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Google Game Builder shuts down, project moves to open source - bdz https://steamcommunity.com/games/929860/announcements/detail/1608276251516057010 ====== bdz The last full compiled version was also uploaded to Github [https://github.com/googlearchive/gamebuilder/tree/master/bui...](https://github.com/googlearchive/ga...
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Tell HN: Australian government's driving test resources require Flash/Windows - stockkid I have just found that the Australian government&#x27;s official driving test practice requires Adobe Flash Player. Moreover, the practice test modules &quot;work best with Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge Browsers,&quot; accor...
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Top education conferences for app developers. - davewingler http://www.topeducationalapps.com/2012/01/2012%E2%80%99s-top-education-conferences-for-app-developers/ ====== croc58 Thanks. Great list!
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The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art - prismatic http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/arts/design/the-mission-to-save-vanishing-internet-art.html ====== Figs One of the things I'm really concerned about personally is the archival of web comics. A number of comics that I've read over the years have already vanished ...
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Slime Molds solve the travelling salesman problem - tambourine_man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNAxrpzc6ws&feature=player_detailpage#t=3830s ====== santigepigon Fascinating! My interest in slime now biological, no longer bound to Emacs and Minecraft! ------ surrealize Well, slime molds are NP - they explore in all...
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True Tales of High Adventure (2009) - smacktoward https://jasonlefkowitz.net/2009/07/true_tales_of_high_adventure_wit/ ====== peteretep Not got very much to add, except that one of the stories in July 1967's "For Men Only" is: "Profits: $4 billion ... Taxes $0 | Sickening Scandal of our Fat 'Free Ride' Oil Companies"...
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Google: Teach Girls Coding, Get $2,500; Teach Boys, Get $0 - asaddhamani http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/04/10/1235219/google-teach-girls-coding-get-2500-teach-boys-get-0 ====== n00shie Why are we so OBSESSED with getting more women into the programming business, and creating an artificial population balance when ...
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SpaceX Launches DSCOVR Satellite to Deep Space Orbit - sandeepmzr http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/02/11/spacex-launches-dscovr-satellite-deep-space-orbit ====== mhandley "While extreme weather prevented SpaceX from attempting to recover the first stage, data shows the first stage successfully soft landed in the Atla...
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The Failed Experiment of Covid Lockdowns - sanj https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-failed-experiment-of-covid-lockdowns-11599000890 ====== blacksqr The study measured correlation of lockdown measures with number of reported cases, not positivity rate or death rate. Did they correct for number of tests done per capita in...
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Tech setup for new startup - swami26 As a new startup with funding just around the corner, I am starting to think about tech purchasing policies as we on board new employees. We've budgeted $2500 in our financial statements. I believe in how dual screening enhances productivity, but I also believe in portability. O...
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Kolkata to get its first self-driving metro trains by 2018 - thetechgraph https://thetechgraph.com/2016/12/18/kolkata-get-first-self-driving-metro-trains-2018/ ====== jimnotgym That is what Transport For London needs...that would reduce the number of strikes I would imagine! ~~~ david-given The DLR (Docklands Light R...
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Weird Windows 386 promo video - mrkva http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swFlU-FKg30 ====== jesstaa Microsoft's marketing department never seems to have been able to make anything that didn't look completely stupid. I'm not sure how they manage to do it so consistently.
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OpenTracing and OpenCensus are merging into OpenTelemetry - manigandham https://medium.com/opentracing/a-roadmap-to-convergence-b074e5815289 ====== shaunpersad I've used OpenTracing before with good results. Though at the time, 3rd party support (like DataDog etc.) was lacking, and we didn't really want to host our ow...
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