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The Problems with the FBI’s Email Investigation Went Well Beyond Comey - OliverJones https://www.propublica.org/article/problems-with-fbi-clinton-email-investigation-went-well-beyond-comey ====== OliverJones The IT screwups in this slow train-wreck of a story are fascinating (to me, anyhow). email messages stashed on...
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Forget Academia. Startups Are the Future of Knowledge - z0a http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/12/165191/ ====== thelambentonion The actual title of this article is "Let's Bring The Polymath - and the Dabblers - Back". Much more grounded, and much less linkbait-y. ~~~ z0a Believe it or not, "Forget Academia. Startup...
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Tell HN: Best OS X Utility for programmers who use the command line - weaksauce I don't know how I have lived without it for so long: http://www.decimus.net/dterm.php<p>Fast access to the shell that defaults to the working directory of the currently used file from say xcode and you can paste in the current working f...
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New Skype for desktop is available - woofwoofwoof https://blogs.skype.com/news/2017/10/30/the-new-skype-for-desktop-is-here/ ====== FBISurveillance I tried this Skype via insiders and it's... unusual. Things have been much more customizable but Skype has been a battery hog. It looks more like Snapchat to me now inste...
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Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming" - fogus http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht81Ht/doc_kay_oop_en ====== raganwald I like the notation "<-" instead of "." Here's why: "<-" looks like sending a message. "." looks like a scoping construct. Thus, to my brain, "." implies synchronicity: Invo...
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The Voters Decide - tortilla https://stratechery.com/2016/the-voters-decide/ ====== dzdt Ben Thompson of Stratechery consistently puts out some very insightful stuff!
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Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game - alanfalcon https://cryptozombies.io/ ====== tomasien There's a lot of hate on here for blockchain gaming/rare digital art so I'd like to clarify two points. 1\. Blockchain games are best when only the necessary work is done on chain, such as transfer of ownersh...
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Open source and the ability to modify code - NickLarsen http://cultureofdevelopment.com/blog/2013/02/28/open-source-and-the-ability-to-modify-code/ ====== vog The auther gives a very important advice, but takes it to an unhealthy extreme. I fully agree that you should always try to contribute the changes you make t...
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Ask HN: Pomodoro Technique advice? - pook http://zipwith.blogspot.com/2010/06/pomodoro.html describes how I'm trying to integrate a Pomodoro-based todo.txt with Dropbox.<p>I'm going for as easy and simple as possible. All plaintext, all sync'd across boxen, and accessible through the CLI.<p>Does anyone have advice o...
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Leap Motion: Orion [video] - tiagobraw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnlCGw-0R8g ====== thenomad I've just been testing this out. It works. Not perfectly, for me, so far - it's a little wobbly, and I heartily recommend clearing your desk before beginning. With a headset-mounted Leap the close distance isn't partic...
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Bruce Perens quits Open Source Initiative amid row over new crypto license - jrepinc https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/03/osi_cofounder_resigns/ ====== bdowling I find this line in the CAL problematic: > You also agree that either the Licensor or a Recipient (as an intended > third-party beneficiary) may enforce ...
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A Short History of Women at Los Alamos National Laboratory - celias http://www.lanl.gov/discover/news-stories-archive/2018/March/0322-history-of-women.php ====== killjoywashere LANL has the best science museum I have ever been to. ------ itronitron nice article, although I think the title is a bit dismissive... An In...
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New in Node.js v0.12: Running Multiple Instances in a Single Process - jguerrero http://strongloop.com/strongblog/whats-new-node-js-v0-12-multiple-context-execution/ ====== mattschmulen Now you have my attention - "Or Node embedded in a phone or network switch where it is performing routing logic for multiple connec...
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Ask HN: What are good resources for learning hacking? - NinjaX books, blog, video, community like HN. ====== mindcrime [http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart- questions.html](http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html) ------ mtmail "Ask HN: How can I learn computer security?" [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i...
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Why Generic Machine Learning Fails - yarapavan http://metamarketsgroup.com/blog/machine-learning-in-wonderland/ ====== oakenshield > I get pitched regularly by startups doing “generic machine learning” which > is, in all honesty, a pretty ridiculous idea. Learned this the hard way. As an academic who used to think ...
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How OpenGL works: software renderer in 500 lines of code - gregorymichael https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki ====== sclangdon This is great and so concise, but I'm surprised that the author didn't implement OpenGL's interface (obviously not all of it), if the goal is to show how OpenGL works. Another good exa...
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Ask HN: What should I say to a colleague who just got laid off - rainmaker So I got laid off y'day, and received amazing advice from the HN community, and been acting on it. I've spent all morning calling up colleagues that I worked closely with and realized that their responses varied with the amount of experience ...
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Russian Government's agency exploits overlooked browsers vulnerabilities - Shamar https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487081#c16 ====== Shamar It's worth noticing that while they didn't target specific people or made the attack undetectable through cache control trickery, the tools they are looking for can b...
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Louis C.K's email to his Beacon Theater Show customers - danso http://danwin.com/2011/12/louis-c-k-thanks-his-fans-for-buying-his-5-beacon-theater-show/ ====== mxavier Like this email, I've noticed Louis' personality permeates the whole experience. An interesting little tidbit: the password emailed to me after purch...
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Ask HN: Would you use Coda for iPad - Judson I don't know why, but I just think a "Coda for iPad" type app would be an awesome. I wrote an article describing some of the things I think you could distill the app down to, most of the parts are very complex, but seem simple when executed in a great app.<p>The article i...
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Apps are Dead. Long Live Experiences. - linuxcoder http://ceklog.kindel.com/2012/11/26/apps-are-dead-long-live-experiences-powered-by-buddy/ ====== ontheotherhand My brain is what creates the experience out of the sensory input and its current state, memory etc. Therefore at best you may contribute to that sensory i...
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South Park Season Premier Sets Off Everyone's Amazon Echo - gridscomputing https://www.maxim.com/entertainment/south-park-season-premiere-sets-off-amazon-echo-units-2017-9 ====== 5_minutes These creators are just great guys. Not only is this again a sign of them being on the edge of healthy creativity, but they're als...
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Stick Them With The Pointy End: Apple Files ‘Active Stylus’ Patent - neya http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/02/stick-them-with-the-pointy-end-apple-files-active-stylus-patent/ ====== corporalagumbo Of course they did.
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Salesforce.com CEO's head is still in a 'cloud' - gibsonf1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/02/BU5C13RBT5.DTL ====== theoneill "his idea of 'software as a service'" hardly
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Feedback on our website http://www.transparentitsolutions.com - vkkan We revamped our website http://www.transparentitsolutions.com to help entrepreneurs to build their webapp in 7 days.<p>Would like to receive your valuable feedback about our offering and website .<p>Thanks for taking time to help us to serve my cu...
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automatic plant watering with voting continuation in different place - cdoern the creator of Please Take care of my plant has been missing for almost a month now. I know he posted on here about 1&#x2F;2 year ago informing you guys about his project and you all liked the idea so I though I&#x27;d let you know about thi...
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Ask HN: What book are you reading? - Sealy I recently discovered a book from Jessica Livingston, one of the Y Combinator founders. I&#x27;m finding it to be a great source inspiration (especially when I get frustrated with coding).<p>I thought I&#x27;d to share it with the hackers on here and also ask:<p>1. What boo...
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Ask HN: Just got sued by patent troll – what should I do? - angkec Hi fellow hackers, I could use some help here. We developed an simple location sharing app 3~4 years ago, and got sued yesterday along with Apple, Google, Verizon, Sprint, T-mobile[1], Glympse[2] by some company called Remote Locator Systems LLC in Tex...
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Recent Hacks and Two-Factor Authentication - jonstuebe http://jonstuebe.com/2012/08/25/recent-hacks-and-two-factor-authentication/ ====== lutusp A typical sentence from the article: > However, I’ve noticed more and more that friends who I know practice good or > even excellent password practices have had there [sic] ...
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Lousy web design trends that are making a comeback due to HTML5 - choult http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/62335-14-lousy-web-design-trends-that-are-making-a-comeback-due-to-html5 ====== cscheid Aside from this being about design and not HTML5, is anyone else not surprised they didn't include "550 social +1, like, tweet...
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Five.js gives you five - orf https://five.js.org/ ====== vmasto Please can you make the async version return a Promise. It's 2017 for cryin' out loud! five.asPromised? ~~~ Uberphallus Yes, please, it's 2017, nobody wants to block all I/O waiting for an int. ------ shizcakes So, I realize this is a joke, but there's...
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Ask HN: Window management for Mac - paolomaffei Ok, I feel dumb. I've put many hours into this and found nothing, yet.<p>When i was using Windows I had this little tool called WinSplit Revolution.<p>What it did was letting you divide your screen into how many and of how much size you choose "virtual monitors". You s...
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California's Insurance and Land Use Regulations Make State's Wildfires Deadlier - Bostonian https://reason.com/2019/10/30/californias-wonky-insurance-and-land-use-regulations-make-the-states-wildfires-deadlier-and-more-destructive/ ====== tomohawk > California legal doctrine that holds utility companies wholly liable ...
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Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection - deegles https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/16/zelle-users-are-finding-out-the-hard-way-theres-no-fraud-protection/ ====== ghshephard Most of the article was pretty good up until the close: _And as word gets around that Zelle and the banks are not hel...
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Google Apps Status Dashboard - mkuhn http://www.google.com/appsstatus ====== snprbob86 I love the transparency! As far as I am concerned, the more of this, the better. ~~~ mkuhn Yeah I think the transparency is a big step for Google and they are countering a lot of criticism with it. The other question is if it wil...
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New MacBook Pro Taken Apart by iFixit - tech_h http://www.geek.com/tech/new-macbook-pro-taken-apart-by-ifixit-found-to-contain-not-very-repairable-computer-parts-1678141/ ====== grzm Why not just submit the iFixit article itself? The submitted post doesn't look like it adds any value. [https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown...
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Show HN: Gossip’s Cafe - A Cafe on the Internet - cookingoils http://gossips.cafe ====== hans1729 That's cute! I like that emojis can be links :-)
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Tiny Frogs and Giant Spiders: Best of Friends (2015) - yummypaint https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/tiny-frogs-and-giant-spiders-best-of-friends/ ====== yummypaint [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgQj9b0b2w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKgQj9b0b2w) video starts around 16 seconds in
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When The Drones Come Marching In - perlino http://techcrunch.com/2011/01/29/drones/#comments ====== alexwestholm Decoupling criminal, crime and consequence is truly a scary proposition. It's pretty obvious that lowering the risk and emotional consequences of committing a crime makes it a lot easier to commit to comm...
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Ask HN: Good place to publish a security model - Yoric Dear Aunt Irma,<p>We've been working for a few years now on a very nice web development platform with a considerable array of security defenses. It's now high time to document &#38; publish the security model. Any thoughts on <i>where</i> to do this? Project Blo...
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Study: High Frequency Trading reduces volatility, enhances price discovery - yummyfajitas http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CBoQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futuresindustry.org%2Fptg%2Fdownloads%2FHFT_Trading.pdf&rct=j&q=%22High%20Frequency%20Trading%20and%20its%20Impact%20on%20Market%20Quality%22&ei=5...
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Ask HN: Website design builder - rocgf The website trend nowadays seems to be multiple horizontal sections, starting with a large photo as a header and continuing with various sections like &quot;Who we are&quot;, &quot;3 easy steps&quot;, &quot;Pricing&quot; etc. The only example I can think of is https:&#x2F;&#x2F;w...
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Ask HN: Modern text editor like Acme? - Philipp__ Text editors have always been fetish for me. Currently I am on Emacs 25, but prior to it I used Vim for few years. So I was reading about some old Unix text editors, and then I saw Acme which looked pretty interesting to me. Is there any modern text editor that is insp...
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Ask HN: Best guides (books/talks) on best practice web app security in 2018 - noir_lord I&#x27;m curious what resources you folks have found.<p>I&#x27;m not talking about low level (but still ridiculously prevalent) stuff like simple SQL injections.<p>The reason I&#x27;m asking is I have an itch I want to scratch but ...
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Tell HN: Successful Impromptu Chat on Drop.io w/ Customers - spencerfry This may interest some people. About an hour ago I posted on our Twitter account (twitter.com/carbonmade) for people to come chat with us using drop.io’s new chat functionality. I just threw up a simple drop and invited people to come join. We g...
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Hackers Are Abusing a Bug in Firefox to Take over Computers - fortran77 https://www.pcmag.com/news/372978/hackers-are-abusing-a-bug-in-firefox-to-take-over-computers ====== vstuart "... To stay safe, Firefox users should update to version 72.0.1; enterprise users on Firefox ESR should be on version 68.4.1. Update by g...
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Google PageRank explained as a Ruby function - adelevie http://www.rubyinside.com/google-pagerank-in-five-lines-of-ruby-3313.html ====== jrockway What's the legality of firing someone over unsubstantiated rumors? ~~~ adelevie What do you mean? ~~~ jrockway Hmm, I clicked a few links from that page and ended up at ...
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Ask HN: Which is the best OS for programming? - hello-coders ====== arkj It depends on what you are programming. If you are a student look no further than Linux. It is open, it is free, has a lot of documentation and it has the liveliest community. ------ kurinj Most popular Linux distributions, MacOS, and the major B...
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Ask HN: Encrypted UDP? - pjungwir Is there any way to use UDP for private, authenticated messages? Suppose your use case is like statsd, where you can tolerate the occasional lost message, and you don&#x27;t want to block on network activity--you just want to fire off the message and keep going--but you <i>do</i> wa...
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Hyperloop Would Cross Entire State in 30 Minutes - ry4n413 https://news.thomasnet.com/featured/hyperloop-would-cross-entire-state-in-30-minutes- ====== IntronExon It had better cross in a straight line, or it will arrive filled with vomit. I’m so tired of hearing about hyperloop, or “Vac-Trains” as they were known in...
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I Sleep In Late, And I’m Tired Of It - tommaxwell https://medium.com/pursuit-of-happiness/720a7d173812 ====== anigbrowl Get a dog. You could also consider a cat, but they're more complicated. ~~~ dylangs1030 I'm going to go ahead and confirm that a cat will not help. I have 2, have had up to 4 at one time, and when I...
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Redesigning the Windows Logo - llambda http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2012/02/17/redesigning-the-windows-logo.aspx ====== ender7 I've actually grown to like the monochrome treatment of the Windows 7 logo: [http://www.seeklogo.com/images/W/windows- logo-C2E55C2526-see...](http://www.seeklo...
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Alternatives to Android, iOS, and Windows Phone - maudlinmau5 http://www.techhive.com/article/2031515/four-alternatives-to-android-ios-and-windows-phone.html ====== JVIDEL Yeah, no: I live in Argentina and nobody, NOBODY here is going to get a FirefoxOS phone. The deal with emerging markets is that people here still c...
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Ask HN: What problems can techies solve to help world? - marmot777 I&#x27;m using the term techie to be more general as clearly one could use a variety of skills to solve problems, not just coding.<p>Sure, there are all kinds of domains that the market will pay for and even more that investors will fund. I&#x27;m for ...
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If My Classmates Are Going to Cheat on an Online Exam, Why Can’t I? - Kaibeezy https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/magazine/if-my-classmates-are-going-to-cheat-on-an-online-exam-why-cant-i.html ====== Kaibeezy _“But everyone else is doing it!” You won’t be surprised that the Ethicist takes a dim view of this argument....
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US considers cabin laptop ban on flights from UK airports - k-mcgrady https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/25/us-considers-banning-laptops-on-flights-from-uk-airports ====== no1youknowz Was already posted earlier: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192644](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14192644) -...
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Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den - benbreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den ====== knodi123 > "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a > grammatically correct sentence in American English, often presented as an > example of how homonyms and homophones can...
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ReBreakCaptcha: Breaking Google’s ReCaptcha v2 Using Google - edwinksl https://east-ee.com/2017/02/28/rebreakcaptcha-breaking-googles-recaptcha-v2-using-google/ ====== maxmcd From previous recaptcha discussion[1] it seems like the going rate for solving recaptcha's is $2 for 1000 solved, or as low as $1/1000\. This me...
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Startups Swarm to Build Bee-Based Businesses - DigitalVerse https://news.crunchbase.com/news/startups-swarm-to-build-bee-based-businesses/ ====== pseudolus These bee-centric start-ups are a pleasant surprise, especially given the importance of bees in agricultural production. Perhaps some of them will venture overseas...
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HP gets into the tablet business, Windows-style - andrewljohnson http://www.slashgear.com/hp-elitepad-900-tablet-means-business-01249752/ ====== veermishra0803 am not sure if it will help them.. i mean the only competing point they will focus on is Price.
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Computing the optimal road trip across the U.S - rograndom http://www.randalolson.com/2015/03/08/computing-the-optimal-road-trip-across-the-u-s/ ====== chiph 9.33 days worth of driving time -- that's a fair bit! You'll want to do this in a car. Some of the cities and routes will not allow an RV. For example, Washin...
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Keep Freelancing - jdbentley http://jdbentley.com/keep-freelancing ====== iends There comes a point where the tax advantages of forming a company outweigh doing a sole proprietorship. Based on my circumstances, my accountant informed me that that number was less than 100k of taxable income. Certainly this is in the ra...
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True, False And Nil Objects In Ruby - askorkin http://www.skorks.com/2009/09/true-false-and-nil-objects-in-ruby/ ====== stcredzero It's a bad idea to put methods on nil willy-nilly. I see stuff like this in Smalltalk projects all the time. People like to put < and > on nil and think they're clever because they fixed t...
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Selling My Papers - ascertain https://theamericanscholar.org/selling-my-papers/ ====== Riegerb "... one can either live life or curate it, not both."
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Inspiring website built in HTML5, could you do this in Flash? - vondip http://www.kulu.lu/devunplugged/ ====== T-zex Too heavy for my mac mini :( ~~~ vondip Html 5 features powerful gpu hardware acceleration. If you really want to enjoy the new power of html 5 websites, upgrade to IE 9 or Firefox 4.
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Firebase Database as back end for your Android/iOS app - floryan2oo7 http://iosapptemplates.com/blog/mobile-programming/firebase-database-backend-ios-app ====== ericand Take a look at Cloud Firestore. The author talks a lot about scalability but Google recently posted [0] that Cloud Firestore is similar to Firebase R...
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VM escape vulnerabilities patched in VirtualBox - emptysands https://www.techrepublic.com/article/10-new-vm-escape-vulnerabilities-discovered-in-virtualbox/ ====== mirimir The title should really say that they've been patched. Edit: The first sentence: > Oracle has released patches for ten vulnerabilities in Virtual...
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Microsoft proposing $10B program to bring broadband internet to rural America - rmason http://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-proposing-10b-program-to-bring-broadband-internet-to-rural-america/ ====== rbanffy Where no ransomware has gone before...
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Oracle Cloud Dedicated Customer Regions (AWS/Azure comparison starts 6:22) - singhkays https://www.oracle.com/corporate/events/live/new-autonomous-services/?bcid=6170019844001 ====== singhkays Product Page - [https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-customer/dedicated- reg...](https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-at-custom...
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Poll: 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share - mrfusion https://www.cato.org/publications/survey-reports/poll-62-americans-say-they-have-political-views-theyre-afraid-share ====== mrfusion To be fair, I almost never trust polls. So much is dependent on how the questions are phrased and ...
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Brian Eno: Composers as Gardeners - GuiA https://www.edge.org/conversation/brian_eno-composers-as-gardeners ====== hosh Tangent: I've been reading about Christopher Alexander's work, particularly his keynote for the 1996 OOPSLA conference. Alexander introduced the idea of pattern languages to architecture in the 70s,...
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Drone and Docker, Open Source CI - daker http://blog.drone.io/2014/2/5/open-source-ci-docker.html ====== rubiquity Wow just yesterday I was visualizing and dreaming about what a containerized CI system might look like after realizing: 1) I don't want to pay for hosted CI 2) Setting up your own CI is a pain in the bu...
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Ask HN: What's the most beautiful code written in Python you have ever seen? - pedrodelfino ====== git-pull SQLAlchemy: [https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy](https://github.com/zzzeek/sqlalchemy) [http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/](http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vunIDi9Z...
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Soylent: A Word Processor With A Crowd Inside - MaysonL http://code.google.com/p/soylent/ ====== MaysonL See also Bruce Sterling's take on it (with a video of it in action): [http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/09/soylent-a- wor...](http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/09/soylent-a-word- processor-with-...
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Used Iphones? - aitoehigie Hi all, i am really interested in developing applications for the iPhone, but the snag i have here is that i am a developer living in west africa, where there are no Iphones sold at last legally by Apple or Telco's. I would like to know where an unlocked iPhone can be bought, or if anyone ...
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The Problem with #DeleteFacebook - alistproducer2 https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/dont-deletefacebook-thats-not-good-enough.html ====== alistproducer2 >Deleting Facebook is privilege. The company has become so good at the many things it does that for lots of people, leaving the service would be a self- harming ac...
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Google Go: Good For What? - neya http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/software/google-go-good-for-nothing/ ====== tptacek From a previous Go blog post by the same author: _Go decided to use a foreign syntax to C++, C and Java programmers. They borrows forward declarations from BASIC (yep, you heard me right…BASIC), cre...
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We’re lucky Mark Zuckerberg is in charge - mooreds https://medium.com/swlh/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-stock-drop-shouldnt-step-down-a4277737152e ====== woodandsteel This is a version of the argument, "He got us into this mess, so only he knows how to get out of it" The problem is that he is the sort of person who would...
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Coders at Work - Interview Snippets online - lupin_sansei http://www.codersatwork.com/?a=b ====== oscardelben ?a=b ? <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=817235> ------ andhapp It's a must read.
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GitHub forking has one big flaw (2011) - tutuca http://zbowling.github.io/blog/2011/11/25/github/ ====== jondubois I think it's only fair that the original repo should be the most promoted one. Usually, the original author has put a lot of thought and effort into coming up with the idea and turning it into a popular...
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At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying - mikeleeorg http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/23/fashion/Facebook-Arturo-Bejar-Creating-Empathy-Among-Cyberbullying.html ====== diminoten I find it difficult to believe the number of people who claim to be "just making a joke" were honestly doing just that, and had no of...
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Momentum Grows for Jack Dorsey of Square to Also Run Twitter - coloneltcb http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/technology/momentum-grows-for-jack-dorsey-of-square-to-also-run-twitter.html?_r=0 ====== ogezi I really think that jack will be the best person for Twitter; sometimes a c company just needs it's founder's vision...
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Lambda School is SV big bet on reinventing education but students say is a cult - lhuser123 https://www.businessinsider.com/lambda-school-coding-bootcamp-y-combinator-cult-2019-10 ====== manigandham >> _" then locks them into an intensive program that ultimately leaves them on the hook to pay back thousands of dollars...
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The Ashley Madison hack ruined my life - T-A http://money.cnn.com/2015/08/21/technology/ashley-madison-ruined-lives/index.html ====== TrevorJ Not to mention, apparently the site did not verify email addresses so theoretically you could use anyone's address to create an account. ------ thesagan To my ears she proact...
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Groupon Brazil confirmed that the majority of the deals are not real - phreanix http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/28/brazil-groupon-clubeurbano-fake/ ====== BoppreH As a Brazilian I can say that I have never heard of this "Clube Urbano" before. But it's not like their offers say anything. The current one being displaye...
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2 Hours of Standing at Work May Boost Your Health - kungfudoi http://www.livescience.com/51819-sitting-standing-health.html ====== smt88 700-person sample size monitored for 1 week, and they didn't change their behavior during the study. This is totally meaningless. You can't even draw meaningful correlation from a...
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Fonts extracted from BIOSes and VGA ROMs - luu https://github.com/spacerace/romfont ====== theandrewbailey Over the past few weeks, I've been setting all my command prompts and terminal emulators to old-school fonts. I've settled on PxPlus IBM VGA8[0] with color #FFB000 (monochrome amber) on black. If font antialiasin...
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Most common “Y2K-style” bugs today? - DanWaterworth http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/63131/most-common-y2k-style-bugs-today ====== westbywest Daylight Savings Time issues, and other time-sensitive code snafus like one, will likely rear their ugly heads periodically for the foreseeable future: <https:/...
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Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (Do You Have Asperger's?) - georgecmu http://www.questionwritertracker.com/index.php/quiz/display?id=61&token=Z4MK3TKB ====== jdietrich Prediction: The average HNer will score significantly higher than the general average. I hypothesise that the social issues geeks experience are pre...
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Hello Firefox! Mozilla's browser gets built-in WebRTC video chat - walterbell https://gigaom.com/2014/10/16/hello-firefox-mozillas-browser-gets-built-in-webrtc-video-chat-through-telefonica-partnership/ ====== arnaudbud This project is known as Loop: [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Loop/Try_Loop](https://wiki.mozilla.org/...
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It Looks Like Netflix Is Cracking Down on VPN 'Pirating' - reuven http://gizmodo.com/it-looks-like-netflix-is-cracking-down-on-vpn-pirating-1677277648 ====== reuven I have to assume that Netflix is weighing the cost of a potential lawsuit, or having content pulled, vs. the income that they receive from overseas cust...
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Gitstats - cool stats about your git repo - wesleyzhao http://gitstats.sourceforge.net/ ====== mdehaan Cool. Here's another take on this, which doesn't produce quite as nice output, but produces some different stats and is Ruby based and a bit more objecty (if that matters). It doesn't like being fed the kernel but ...
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Show HN: (1KB) JavaScript library for building fast and feature-rich web apps - jbucaran https://github.com/hyperapp/hyperapp#hyperapp ====== tonyarkles Not much to add here, other than I'm super happy with ultralight "frameworks" like this. ------ adamleithp simple and elegant! handles state simply, handles JSX and ...
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The 17 Best (And Worst) SEO & Marketing Strategies - spiredigital http://www.ecommercefuel.com/ecommerce-marketing-strategies/ ====== spiredigital It's getting harder to "game" the search engines, especially with updates like Google's Penguin. So a lot of the old methods that might have been effective a few years ba...
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Ask HN: slicehost-like providers outside the US? - abstractbill We're running into a bunch of issues at Justin.TV that would be much easier to test with IPs outside of the US. I've tried looking for free web proxies, but those seem to be hard to find, and not very reliable.<p>I'm thinking of getting us a few accoun...
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Official North Korean News Agency - graeme http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm ====== graeme I found this site around 10 years ago. Still going strong. One reason I don't think the Sony hack is by North Korea is that whenever they oppose something, they usually talk about it loudly, and clumsily, through official cha...
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Ask HN: Why do HN users still obscure their e-mail addresses? - ddod I've been noticing that just about everyone on HN uses some form of e-mail concealment (e.g. [myusername]@gmail.com), and I'm wondering why.<p>The fear of spam crawlers seems very 1997, especially if you're using a modern e-mail provider. I've had my...
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Beat SMEP on Linux with Return-Oriented Programming - coreyrecvlohe http://falken.tuxfamily.org/?p=115 ====== jeffreyg A good paper came out a few years ago that defeats ROP by adding protections to ensure that returns/calls/jumps are only taken if the function was entered at its entry point, and rearranging registe...
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Before Food Trucks, Americans Ate 'Night Lunch' from Beautiful Wagons - extarial https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/night-lunch-wagon ====== tsunamifury This is a gold standard for what a platform should be. An individual sells a product at a one-off price to a entrepreneur who then is able to make a living off of ...
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After coffee brewhaha, CA fears cancer warnings have “gone seriously wrong” - okket https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/08/after-coffee-brewhaha-ca-fears-cancer-warnings-have-gone-seriously-wrong/ ====== tynpeddler The most important tenet of toxicology is that "the dose makes the toxin." In high enough doses, everyt...
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