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Google launches utility company: Google Energy - abraham http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10427993-54.html ====== wmeredith According to Google their intent is not to enter the utilities market, but to be able to more easily manage their goal of becoming a carbon neutral entity. ~~~ sophacles Right, thats why they...
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The NYC subway system runs on OS/2 - yankcrime https://tedium.co/2019/06/13/nyc-subway-os2-history/ ====== _hardwaregeek Is it just me or does this article feel kind of shallow? Like there's a lot of fancy text boxes and nice big text, but it doesn't cover a whole lot of information. Like how did the MTA build this in...
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AR Sneaker Apps: Why the Future of Footwear Is Digital - bookofjoe https://www.wsj.com/articles/ar-sneaker-apps-why-the-future-of-footwear-is-digital-11580750963 ====== bookofjoe [http://archive.is/rtE2D](http://archive.is/rtE2D)
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How Stripe built one of Silicon Valley’s best engineering teams - bberson http://firstround.com/article/How-Stripe-built-one-of-Silicon-Valleys-best-engineering-teams ====== nthj > Stripe turns down candidates with outstanding engineering talent if they > don’t fit with the team’s culture. Each candidate must pass the...
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Thoreau 2.0 - anu_gupta https://static.pinboard.in/xoxo_talk_thoreau.htm ====== pixelmonkey I thought this section was particularly good: """ He was obsessed with how complexity can creep into unexpected corners of your life, disguised as necessity. He gives the example of a farmer who convinces himself he must eat ...
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16 Years with IPv6 - okket http://teamarin.net/2017/06/12/16-years-with-ipv6/ ====== lwhalen In Seattle and surrounding areas, Comcast is more or less the only game in town (with Centurylink a distant, distant second) if you're not in one of a dozen high-rise apartment buildings. For all their marketing around 'extens...
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Impact: HTML5 Canvas & JavaScript Game Engine - bgar http://impactjs.com/ ====== cnp Just finished my first game using this framework and I am _very_ impressed. Getting consistent 60fps on both android and ios, though strangely the one browser that struggles is Firefox on desktop.
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Show HN: SSH key deployment and account provisioning made easy (v2) - amrali https://bastio.com ====== amrali Hi, one of the creators here. We got some really great feedback last time and went back to implement a daemon-based service. We are interested to know what server admins think of this tool, and what they fin...
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Programming for Morons? - Jare http://www.codingwisdom.com/codingwisdom/2012/09/programming-for-morons.html ====== yvdriess A bro-grammer's perspective.
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Top Tech Companies That Pay Engineers The Most - peter123 http://gigaom.com/2009/03/01/top-10-tech-companies-that-pay-engineers-the-most/ ====== likpok I wonder what the variance on those numbers is. It can be important. For example, the average salary of the 1984 class anthropology* majors from UNC: Chapel Hill is se...
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Pin-ocular - cyriacthomas http://pin-ocular.blogspot.com/ ====== FatalLogic Presented like this, it looks like a spam post, but actually it isn't. Interesting design. Work on the presentation... [http://reddyraveesh.blogspot.com/2015/05/pinhole- camera-35mm...](http://reddyraveesh.blogspot.com/2015/05/pinhole- camera...
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Show HN: Wrish – A quick autosaving editor on the web - jajoosam https://github.com/jajoosam/wrish ====== jajoosam Hey HN. Wrish is an editor that saves text written every 3 seconds. It generates a 6 character alphanumeric hash for saving what you write, and it can be edited again simply by copying and pasting the sa...
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What Happens Now That China Won't Take US Recycling - kilovoltaire https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/china-has-stopped-accepting-our-trash/584131/ ====== kilovoltaire "America generated 262.4 million tons of waste, up … 60 percent from 1985. That amounts to nearly five pounds per person a day."
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Russian startup Dream Industries is raided on by its investors - andreypopp http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/12/19/russian-startup-dream-industries-claims-to-be-raided-on-by-its-investors/ ====== andreypopp I work for this company — there's a story by my colleague on what's happened at the start of the raid — <htt...
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Murder suspect asks Siri where to hide a dead body - spidersilva http://www.networkworld.com/article/2464546/smartphones/murder-suspect-asks-siri-where-to-hide-a-dead-body.html ====== seren If this is indeed a true story, and if the question is correctly quoted in the article, I really wonder why and how it happened...
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2011: The Year Android Explodes - dave1619 http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/26/2011-android/ ====== mortenjorck _I can’t help but think sometimes that it looks as if Google actually did the carriers a huge favor in the long-run because they’ve taken many of the bells and whistles that drove users to the iPhone in the f...
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Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth - lnguyen https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding-meat-and-dairy-is-single-biggest-way-to-reduce-your-impact-on-earth ====== z_open Disclaimer: I'm vegan I really don't know how to help attitudes move towards a plant b...
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Rackspace CDN finally adds HTTP Compression - dashr http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/03/04/cloud-files-cdn-compresses-at-the-edge/ ====== dashr rCDN started offering http compression on text/html _,text/css_ , and application/x-javascript*. Its enabled by default. Along with last weeks CDN edge purge, this i...
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Instagram Lite Offers Photo Sharing on Android for 1/55th the App Size - anastalaz https://petapixel.com/2018/06/28/instagram-lite-offers-photo-sharing-on-android-for-1-55th-the-app-size/ ====== kup0 At such a small size, is it just a web view?
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Emmanuel Macron Wins French Presidency in Boost to EU - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2017-05-07/macron-set-to-defeat-le-pen-to-become-france-s-next-president ====== orf Further discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286630](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14286630) ------ nafi...
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History of Lisp Editing - lemming https://github.com/shaunlebron/history-of-lisp-editing ====== gumby D-Edit was already around when I got to PARC in late 1983. The first thing I worked on was an Emacs in Interlisp-D. I think ITS Emacs (written in TECO) had paren matching before the CADR Lisp machines (what you call ...
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If you're wondering why your "D" cell batteries don't last long... - nickb http://www.newstarget.com/PhotoTour_Energizer_Batteries_1.html ====== cstejerean I was pretty disappointed with both the content of the article and the fact that it was just a plug for Powerex. If the idea is that battery companies purposeful...
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Dear Google, am I pregnant? - cstross http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/03/dear-google-am-i-pregnant.html ====== patio11 _Side note: In the USA, doing this would be a federal offence under Title II of HIPAA._ It would probably depend on whether the consultancy got a BAA signed by Google. That would obl...
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Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury - VladRussian http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/mysterious-planet-sized-object-spotted-near-mercury-154443870.html ====== VladRussian they say it is an image processing artefact. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...](http://www.youtube.co...
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North Carolina sues FCC for right to block municipal broadband - paralelogram http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/north-carolina-sues-fcc-for-right-to-block-municipal-broadband/ ====== duncan_bayne I don't think you can describe the situation as 'competition' when some of the 'customers' are forced to pay at ...
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Ask HN: What recurring meetings do you have? Are they useful? - mavsman ====== tombert This is not a "meeting" exactly, but I have it scheduled as one. Every morning, I have a half-hour (sometimes extended to an hour) blocking meeting to check and reply to my emails, where I'm the only one invited. I get a ton of emai...
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The first place to start when marketing your startup - cezinho http://www.cezary.co/post/79977288955/marketing-fundamentals-canvas ====== shortsightedsid A marketing plan or sheet as outlined is similar to a business plan. You can even incorporate in the business plan. End of the day, as Eisenhower said - plans are ...
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Two Trains Puzzle - jimsojim http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html ====== dalke The oldest telling of this puzzle I know of is Wigner's account of Max Born posing the question to von Neumann in the 1920s: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9O0CoVng&feature=youtu.be...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTS9...
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Elon Musk teases June news on Hyperloop, his rapid transit system for the future - glymor http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/29/4378468/elon-musk-teases-june-news-on-hyperloop-rapid-transit-system ====== FD3SA The concept is now fully fleshed out. His idea is a Maglev train which uses ram-air and/or a lifting body to ge...
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The Law of Late Projects - adamo http://www.commonsense4commonpeople.net/2009/11/the-law-of-late-projects.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CommonSense4CommonPeople+%28Common+Sense+4+Common+People%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== GrandMasterBirt my co-worker one said "programmers are...
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This SAT Math question got no correct submissions - strategy http://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2015/07/05/everyone-got-this-sat-math-question-wrong-can-you-solve-it-sunday-puzzle/#.VZrxi_lVhBc ====== lexcorvus This is a corollary of the _coin paradox_ : [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CoinParadox.html](http://mathworld....
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Show HN: Play-test the most popular models in ML, directly from browser - aliabd https://hub.gradio.app ====== aliabd Hey HN! Thanks for all the great feedback on our library yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23901834) We just launched interfaces for 12 of...
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Obama Owes us an Apology and an Explanation - danielrm26 http://danielmiessler.com/blog/obama-owes-us-an-apology-and-an-explanation ====== d23 > with the failure to close Gitmo He tried and was blocked by congress. On the rest of the points, I agree. ~~~ benjohnson Gitmo is part of our military - as Commander in Chi...
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Ask HN: How to get a consumer social app off the ground? - teehfb Let&#x27;s say I was building a something like snapchat, how do I start getting users for the app? This is a classic chicken and egg problem, so I would love to see some actionable advice on how to get users. Considering the target demographic is 13 to ...
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Amazon may soon provide free video streaming for all - ozh http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/report-amazon-is-prepping-a-free-video-streaming-service/ ====== Tmmrn free video streaming for all* *limited to customers of microsoft and apple. Excluding everything that is not windows or mac os. Also, android.
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A hacker challenge - shiroyasha23 http://shiroyasha.github.io/a-challenge.html ====== joshtronic That was fun!! [https://gist.github.com/joshtronic/427d0591379dc4255673](https://gist.github.com/joshtronic/427d0591379dc4255673)
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Alexa and Siri Can Hear Hidden Commands - GW150914 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html ====== coleca Isn't there an inaudible tone that you can use to disable the assistant? I recall reading somewhere that Amazon used it in their commercials for Alexa so that ever...
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So your ARM hardware is ServerReady? - pabs3 https://marcin.juszkiewicz.com.pl/2020/08/05/so-your-hardware-is-serverready/ ====== pabs3 Similar tools for other architectures: [https://firmwaresecurity.com/2020/07/19/intel-arm- microsoft-...](https://firmwaresecurity.com/2020/07/19/intel-arm-microsoft- apple-platform-...
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Show HN: Madworld.tv – Vine, Instagram video-based internet TV - marpi http://madworld.tv/noseguitar ====== mykerberos I am unable to use it because all your videos are MP4 and Firefox doesn't play MP4 ~~~ marpi I know, that's what Vine/Instagram serves. Only solution is getting a backup Flash player for that. It'...
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A man who drives around collecting leftovers from tech companies - lazyjeff https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/11/leftover-food-tech-lunches-google-juul-linkdin-food-runners-pantry-waste/ ====== 0b0001 The "Too Good To Go" app became quite popular in Germany now. Restaurants, hotels and alike offer leftovers...
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Travis Kalanick's ultimate hacking guide to CES (2008) - rmason https://swooshing.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/bootstrappers-guide-to-ces/ ====== rounce His second 'hack' made me chuckle though: > Hack #2 – Rent a car > * $20/day (huge savings over taxi costs) > * No taxi lines (massive time savings over taxi line) > ...
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Elon Musk Says Mark Zuckerberg's Understanding of AI Is Limited - grej http://gadgets.ndtv.com/science/news/elon-musk-vs-facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-artificial-intelligence-stance-1728970 ====== jnwatson I'm personally not a huge Facebook fan, but I was impressed with Zuckerberg's AI assistant project he did as a sid...
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Prosecutors halt vast, likely illegal DEA wiretap operation - anon1385 http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/25/dea-riverside-wiretaps-scaled-back/80891460/ ====== edc117 Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see this was stopped, but how long until the DEA is simply drinking from the same firehose the NSA is? We've al...
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Need Canadian health care? Too bad you're not a dog. - pchivers http://www.macleans.ca/science/health/article.jsp?content=20080501_103008_103008 ====== sanswork Not sure why this is here, I'd really expect to see it on Reddit instead. That said, this is only true if you're lucky enough to live very close to one of ...
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Why You Should Never Use a Supply and Demand Diagram for Labor Markets - rhizome http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/07/never-use-supply-demand-diagram-labor-markets.html ====== qubex Economist here. I concur. Much woe is caused by applying supply and demand reasoning to situations where other constraints are prevalen...
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“We would like to offer you 7 days to export data and cancel your Hiveage.” [pdf] - ValentineC http://s.natalian.org/2015-06-17/7days.pdf ====== mdekkers I think hiveage acted professionally and remained polite to what, by all accounts, appears to be a bit of a dick with a chip on his shoulder: "Build your product t...
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What I learned by bringing down LinkedIn.com - kiyanwang https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/13/what-i-learned-by-bringing-down-linkedin-com/ ====== goodbyehorses A great read, thanks for sharing. I've been a junior front-ender for two and a half months now, it's not much but I've been working extra hours daily and on wee...
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Syrian rebel commander eats dead soldier's heart on video - salimmadjd http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/human-rights-watch-outraged-by-video-showing-syrian-rebel-commander-abu-sakkar-cutting-out-government-soldiers-heart-and-eating-it-8615112.html ====== leephillips I have nothing useful to say, b...
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Personalized Hacker News Frontpage - riffer http://www.swimwithoutgettingwet.com/hnitems/ ====== riffer This is a tool to tilt the Hacker News frontpage towards a particular user. As HN grows, there is more interesting content added to it. What if there was a way to get this content that would be interesting to you...
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Oracle Separation of BQP and PH - eboyjr https://eccc.weizmann.ac.il/report/2018/107/ ====== eboyjr A more readable editorial can be found here: [https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that- only-q...](https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-problem-that-only-quantum- computers-will-ever-be-able-to-solve-20...
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Ask HN: Is there an immutable and decentralized database out there? - ncodes Hi Guys,<p>I am in need of a database that is decentralised and would allow one or more privileged users perform only INSERT and READ operations. This means data stored in it would be replicated across all nodes and are immutable. Immutable i...
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Videogames under fire, Hollywood lays low after school shooting - 001sky http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/19/us-usa-shooting-connecticut-entertainmen-idUSBRE8BI1LU20121219 ====== stewie2 In my opinion, video game is a good thing, especially the GTA kind. it's a good way to relief, so that people won't become m...
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Ask HN: What are all the good launch platforms for an Internet startup ? - jarsj It should be global, themed around internet and competitive like Techcrunch 50. Absolutely no charging money from participants. An award is a plus. Sadly, I know only Techcrunch 50. ====== coryl Why do you need a "platform" to launch o...
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Short writing exercise closes gender gap in university-level physics [2010] - evolve2k http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/11/25/15-minute-writing-exercise-closes-the-gender-gap-in-university-level-physics/ ====== Jun8 It's interesting that the writing exercise did nothing for men's performance o...
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The most cliched movie tagline opening words... - spxdcz http://amorphousblog.com/2010/the-story-of-a-man-who-wrote-awful-movie-tag-lines/ ====== spxdcz Looking through the data (I wrote the post), there are some classics in there: "Valentine's Day is the work of Satan" "When bad things happen to good dogs..." "Thr...
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Lessons from running a Code Club for Kids - edent https://thelab.o2.com/2014/04/lessons-from-a-code-club/ ====== namanyayg While I started reading I was meh-ing to myself and thinking that it's nothing special, but I love points 3 and 4, asking peers for help. Those points quickly changed my perspective around. Lea...
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Ask HN: Why should I study computer science? - mklappstuhl Hey dear HN-fellows,<p>I asked this question on Quora some time ago but didn't get much from it.<p>I'm not sure whether I should copy the text or paste the link so I'll do both:<p>–––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Original question:<p>Currently I'm ...
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The Problem with IRC - scrollaway https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JeromeLeclanche/posts/icC6gDToBsQ ====== rakoo > So why are the basic problems not getting fixed? Because it's a protocol, not a service. There is nobody in charge of IRC or its evolution, there is no single entity in charge of dealing with spam, so as...
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Pioneer: A home for the ambitious outsiders of the world - siberianbear https://pioneer.app/ ====== ggm On the homepage list of experts page Marc Andreessen looks like a conehead. Is that Photoshopped to add some humour or does he have microcephaly? ~~~ hsikka he definitely has strange head shape in reality. its pret...
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Ask HN: Which Macbook is best for development? - stasy I need to get a Mac for iOS development (and some ruby on rails). I have limited amount of money, so something below $2000. Should I get a 13 inch Macbook pro with 4gb of ram or is retina something I should get. Is a desktop Mac better than laptop? ====== dougba...
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Calacanis on Ellen Pao and Fixing the Gender Issue in VC - rsobers http://calacanis.com/2015/03/23/mansplaining-the-ellen-pao-trial-fixing-the-gender-issue-in-venture-capital/ ====== foobarqux > Venture capital used to draw the best of the business-school crowd, but > today it’s being taken over by 30- and 40-year-old...
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A breakdown of how I was talked out of $100 - dskang http://dskang.com/post/35828532133/a-breakdown-of-how-i-was-talked-out-of-100 ====== tzs Even better than talking someone out of money is to get them to pay you without even knowing they are paying. A landlord I rented from once did this with the rent, managing to r...
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Git-recent: Quickly check out your favorite branches - cool-RR https://github.com/cool-RR/git-recent/ ====== cool-RR OP here. This is my new open-source project. I made it to scratch an itch I've had for years. I'll be happy to get any feedback. Shameless plug: I've quit my job recently and I'm looking for my next ho...
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Why I gave up my private office - vitakis http://vitakis.com/2013/05/12/why-i-gave-up-my-single-office/ ====== doki_pen I once worked in a place where the size and location of someones office was so important that it seemed more important then getting work done or the success of the company. It was really sad and my...
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Why don't I like objects? - throwawayplz I have been writing programs for 17 years, a 'professional developer' for 13 years, an academic computer scientist, a hacker, and a systems guy. I have never admitted it, but despite years of professional OO development, I have never really "gotten" the object model, nor do I...
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Nurses to carry out surgery under NHS plans to slash waiting times - RickJWagner https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/02/24/nurses-carry-surgery-nhs-plans-slash-waiting-times/ ====== planetzero You mean the waiting times that the proponents of Universal healthcare say don't exist? ------ RickJWagner 'Slash' waiting ...
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Announcing CodeConf 2011 (GitHub is putting on a conference) - kneath https://github.com/blog/780-announcing-codeconf-2011 ====== jonursenbach I wish conferences weren't so damned expensive. ~~~ acgourley I recently got a "exhibitor kit" packet that lists the costs of renting certain items for your conference displ...
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Ask HN: Is there rss for HN new articles? - gaiusparx Would be nice if there is rss feed for HN new articles http://news.ycombinator.com/newest. ====== aj <http://news.ycombinator.com/rss> There you go. It's the top articles and not newest. The link is in the footer link list For the newest article (firehose) I'm ...
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I Think I Want To Make A Game - jcvandan http://www.iamjcvandan.com/getting-started-in-game-development/ ====== steerj92 You do that. :)
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When Does Your Intelligence Peak? - oblib https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-does-your-intelligence-peak1/ ====== kleer001 Right before you stop learning?
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Genes In Space: A Mobile Game that Helps Speed Up Cancer Research - littledot5566 http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/02/04/download-our-revolutionary-mobile-game-to-help-speed-up-cancer-research/ ====== maqr From a link in the article: [http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2013/03/01/can- the-p...](http...
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Follow the goal creep - creativityhurts http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3304-follow-the-goal-creep ====== SatvikBeri What I get out of all these different posts on motivation is that the amount of motivation matters a lot, the type of motivation matters very little, and motivation and come from very different places fo...
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Perceptrons from memristors - godelmachine https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04912 ====== zgao I don't mean to be too negative here, but this is hardly a new development, so can someone clarify the novelty in this paper? Neural nets have been extensively demonstrated in memristor-based architectures [1] and several memristor...
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How we can learn from a baby's brain - robg http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/26/inside_the_baby_mind/?page=full ====== tokenadult "'We sometimes say that adults are better at paying attention than children,' writes Gopnik. 'But really we mean just the opposite. Adults are better at not paying...
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Martin Fowler's paper on Continuous Integration - mshafrir http://martinfowler.com/articles/continuousIntegration.html ====== culix It's interesting that he considers testing to be a normal part of CI - "Once I'm done I carry out an automated build on my development machine. Only if it all builds and tests without err...
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Analyzing Diaspora - jchonphoenix http://jonchu.posterous.com/analyzing-diaspora ====== jackowayed A few thoughts: * I don't think that they are outsourcing the coding to Pivotal. I got the impression that Pivotal liked their idea and offerend to give (rent?) them office space and monitors and give (probably not fo...
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Ask HN: Are you a fast developer? - cwt Why? What make a fast developer? Is it rarely having to learn new things? Is it learning a new technology before other people on a team? How do you measure your speed as a developer?<p>This concept has been bothering me lately. I&#x27;ve been working on a project for a few wee...
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Open source jobs: What's hot, where to look - jfruh http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/214031/open-source-jobs-whats-hot-and-where-look ====== Peroni _What's hot_ Over 1,500 words and not a single programming language mentioned. Instead _embedded, mobile, and cloud_ are the _three big fields of growth_. W...
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Malaria is no excuse for patent trolling, Mr. Myhrvold - wglb http://gigaom.com/2012/08/11/malaria-is-no-excuse-for-patent-trolling-mr-myhrvold/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+OmMalik+(GigaOM:+Tech) ====== kevingadd This reminds me of violent criminals who 'find faith' while imprisoned, excep...
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Run a Small Team? Don’t Just Look to the Big Guys for Advice - sidkothari http://blog.15five.com/run-a-small-team-dont-just-look-to-the-big-guys-for-advice-2/ ====== laaurenlee25 Great insight for lean teams. Leaders of large companies have great advice but not always on how to manage and make the most of your tight...
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Elon Musk's Wealth Is Closer to Your Wealth Than Jeff Bezos' Wealth - DarkContinent https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/hju9nw/oc_believe_it_or_not_the_wealth_of_elon_musk_is/ ====== pmdulaney Not in the geometric sense -- which is more like how people tend to think of these things, whether explicitly or...
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Helsinki's Radical Solution to Homelessness - leksak https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jun/03/its-a-miracle-helsinkis-radical-solution-to-homelessness ====== tom_mellior So fed up with these stupid clickbait headlines for good, interesting, useful articles. Here's the subtitle blurb in case you weren't sure whet...
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Show HN: A chrome extension to countdown the years until your death - stevenmiller888 https://github.com/stevenmiller888/focus ====== lostmymind66 This is depressing.
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How to build the world's most extraordinary town - hammerbrostime http://omegaproject.us/ ====== Klonoar The tone of this site comes across as if it was written by a bunch of hippies with little knowledge of how the world (or people in general) work. This is a process that will take _years_ to even get started proper...
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User Interface Programming in the (Near) Future - pragmatic http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=335011 ====== Aviwein77 I have seen a wide variety of opinions on this subject already with people feeling strongly towards and against CoffeeScript. I have also read reasons why it is unnecessary to use thi...
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Cisco set to open new accelerator focusing on ‘world-changing’ ideas - yanivf http://www.geektime.com/2013/08/14/cisco-set-to-open-new-accelerator-focusing-on-world-changing-ideas/ ====== mathattack On paper this looks great. Get in on the startup game. The skeptic in me asks: \- Do you lose out on network effects...
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Project JMC - John McCarthy's new site - keyist http://themagiclab.org/projectjmc ====== sp332 Interesting that almost all the content on the page is hosted at uts.edu.au?
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Ask HN: Friday Review - Ebay Sniper - PleaseSnipe.com - Judson http://PleaseSnipe.com ====== Judson This started out as a fun proof-of-concept because all of the other ebay snipers either weren't free or placed your bid with ridiculous time windows (~1 min). I think the major hurdle is going to be getting people to...
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Ask HN: Would buying dead YC companies be possible and worth it? - mchannon Every demo day I see a few wallflowers that look like the runts of the litter. Maybe the team wouldn&#x27;t take advice, didn&#x27;t work hard, or fought amongst themselves.<p>Everyone looks at YC&#x27;s success stories, but would it ever be w...
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Threaded messaging comes to Slack - hswolff https://slackhq.com/threaded-messaging-comes-to-slack-417ffba054bd ====== tabbott I've spent a lot of time thinking about the problem of how to make threading work as the lead developer of Zulip, an open source group chat application where every conversation is threaded, and...
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Complete X86/x64 JIT and Remote Assembler for C++ - nkurz https://github.com/kobalicek/asmjit ====== haberman Interesting. This seems to be more or less a C++ equivalent of DynASM ([http://luajit.org/dynasm.html](http://luajit.org/dynasm.html)). Like DynASM, it lets you generate machine code at runtime. The library ha...
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Ask YC: What's the best solution for geotargetting by IP? - justin My startup is interested in building a simple ad targeted ad solution for our site. What's the best geotargeting DB / server solution? ====== bigbang You are building the ad targeted site or you are looking for 3rd party targeting? Or do you mean, yo...
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Ask HN: How do you come up with a good startup idea? - mrlase I've been trying to unravel the process of coming up with an idea for a startup for a couple of weeks now but to no luck. Sure I have some ideas, but they're not targetted enough for my first startup.<p>I've read Paul Graham's essays and have lurked aroun...
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First Krita Beta for Android and ChromeOS in Play Store - reddotX https://krita.org/en/item/first-krita-beta-for-android-and-chromeos-in-play-store/ ====== Youden I'm not an artist myself but I follow David Revoy, who [0] uses Krita and other open-source software extensively for his Pepper & Carrot comic [1]. His blog...
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Microsoft webdev survey on form controls - nailer https://microsoft.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6GaNBiVAgxXZo7b ====== nailer Microsoft's looking for feedback on form styling, which seems relevant to HN. I'm always recreating input/select widgets or trying to make date selections widgets that don't suck - hopefully this...
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Properties of the Correction Loop in David Gay’s strtod() - wglb http://www.exploringbinary.com/properties-of-the-correction-loop-in-david-gays-strtod/ ====== nitrogen Is testing random values sufficient to prove the worst case required iterations, or was that just an initial pass before performing a rigorous mathema...
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What Is Amazon? - Brajeshwar https://zackkanter.com/2019/03/13/what-is-amazon/?=hackernews ====== Aloha I think this raises an interesting point, the raison d'etre for Walmart is providing _value_ to customers above all other metrics, low prices, wide, but not infinite selection, and a modicum of convenience. Convers...
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Apple and Facebook Reportedly Negotiated Over Ping for At Least 18 Months - abraham http://www.macrumors.com/2010/09/21/apple-and-facebook-reportedly-negotiated-over-ping-for-at-least-18-months/ ====== abraham Apple and Twitter have both now launched new features integrating with Facebook only to have them disabled ...
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Ask HN: Why are you proud of your species? - bdr On another thread, weavejester recently wrote, "Not only are we never satisfied, we're also very quick to criticize our society and species." I want to ask about the positive side. What have we as a species done that you're proud of?<p>A few I can think of are going t...
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Researchers Track Online Sales of Invasive Plants - thehoff https://www.ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2015/10/trade-in-invasive-plants-is-blossoming.html ====== Chefkoochooloo This ecosystem worldwide is already being mixed up through different channels. I would think the US regulations not to bring foreign...
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