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Show HN: Upcall - Non-AI Sales Assistant - leahcim https://www.upcall.com/ ====== mlevental so this is a call center that has CRM integration? i guess it's a cute idea but the problem with call centers isn't that they didn't have the list of leads but that they're bad sales people. ~~~ sharemywin Short term. no relat...
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dm-cache: new caching method that operates within the Linux kernel - auston https://github.com/mingzhao/dm-cache ====== sciurus It's not exactly new, development started in 2006. <https://lwn.net/Articles/211246/> dm-cache is the project Facebook's flashcache is based on. <https://github.com/facebook/flashcache> ...
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Exotic Cosmic Locales Available as Space Tourism Posters - yincrash http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=5052&1 ====== csl Previous discussions: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11132713](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11132713) and [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11104124](https://news.ycomb...
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Ask HN: Is it possible in the future, viruses may appear that don't exist yet? - arjn ====== Blahah If you mean biological viruses, it's not just possible, it's certain. In the two seconds it took you to read this, hundreds or thousands of viruses appeared that didn't exist before. Mutation happens at a very high r...
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Show HN: Let strangers predict your salary - cagriaksay http://salaryfairy.com/ ====== cagriaksay We built this site as a social experiment side project and would love to hear your feedback.
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Show HN: Graph Convolutional Networks – Intro to neural networks on graphs - triplefloat http://tkipf.github.io/graph-convolutional-networks/ ====== kingennio This is really powerful. As a use case I'm considering the graph of streets in a city. A task would be to make predictions on the next nodes visited by a vehicl...
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Long player - bootload http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/05/long_player.php ====== ralph news.yc really needs the ability to add a descriptive sticky first comment along with a URL otherwise the RSS feed, and this page, has bugger all on it to know whether to click on the link or not. Yes, this is already on the ...
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Ask HN: Hacker forum or IRC? - jebediah Is there a forum or irc channel aimed at all hackers? I have never managed to find a good one ====== decentrality Why not just all jump into #hackernews? What does hackers mean again? Who's definition? If you're actually looking for HN people, why don't we just participate on #...
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I'm going to be on Mixergy today at 11am PDT - jl http://ycombinator.posterous.com/im-going-to-interviewed-on-mixergy-tomorrow-a ====== e1ven I tend to enjoy the Mixergy interviews, but I find that Andrew is often too self-focused. It's somewhat jarring when he uses his access to people to say "What do you think of ...
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How Popular Are Wix, Weebly and Squarespace? We Ran the Numbers - ekaln https://www.ostraining.com/blog/general/wix-squarespace/ ====== smt88 They didn't "run the numbers", they googled the numbers. I was expecting someone to have resolved millions of domains and matched them up with IP ranges for each company.
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Newly Released Surveillance Orders Show That Spying Powers Are Misused - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/newly-released-surveillance-orders-show-even-individualized-court-oversight-spying ====== chopin What I not understand (I am not a US person): Why is the FBI involved in foreign surveillance? My (pos...
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PayPal was not vulnerable to Heartbleed - fastest963 https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/PayPal-Forward/OpenSSL-Heartbleed-Bug-PayPal-Account-Holders-are-Secure/ba-p/797568 ====== cynix _When you login to PayPal using your user name and password these details were not exposed to the OpenSSL vulnerability._ So they ...
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Meadow is the Amazon of weed - piyushgupta27 https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/02/buy-weed-online/ ====== FearNotDaniel Jesus Christ, what a hypocritical world we live in. Such Orwellian doublethink to maintain the pretense that only 'patients' are receiving 'medical marijuana' from 'dispensaries', otherwise the powers t...
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Ask HN: new app idea - xaine Just finished reading techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/buywithme-16-million/ when an idea popped into my head. Not sure how original it is but I figured I would throw it out here on HN and see what kind of discussion it sparked.<p>Recently, I have been stumbling upon more and more of these Dail...
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NSA chief: 'Nation state' intervened in presidential election - fish0398 http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/16/1600424/-NSA-chief-Nation-state-intervened-in-election-to-achieve-a-specific-effect ====== sintaxi Hypothetically speaking lets say that Russia did in fact intervene in the election but Trump did not collu...
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Darpa robotics challenge - organicelephan http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/12/8768871/darpa-robotics-challenge-2015-winners ====== melling We need a consumer robot where Apple, Google, and Microsoft can throw their vast resources into future development.
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Front End Development Guide for Large Engineering Teams - yangshun https://github.com/grab/front-end-at-grab ====== acconrad I was hoping this would be a guide on managing architectures, common use case traps for handling things like scalability and state. Instead this is just a long-winded way of recommending an opin...
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Is EF the New IQ? - edw519 http://www.newsweek.com/id/139885/output/print ====== gambling8nt Like IQ, EF is creating a self-fulfilling prophecy with regard to success and failure. IQ was used to justify the failure of some students relative to others--so the students with a reason why they were allowed to fail did s...
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How can you program if you're blind? - rayvega http://stackoverflow.com/q/118984/4872 ====== gaius I've sailed the open oceans with a blind man at the helm. Which sounds like a line from PoTC but really: he used an audio compass that played a tone at different points of the compass, higher or lower so he knew how to c...
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OpenBSD vmm/vmd Update [pdf] - fcambus http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Mike.pdf ====== brynet Reyk Floeter's paper explains more about the implementation of the userland side, vmd(8), including its privsep design and the use of pledge(2): [http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-Reyk.pdf](http://bhyvecon.org/bhyvecon2016-R...
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United Airlines takes seat away from child, forces him to sit on moms lap - fergbrain http://m.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/United-Airlines-takes-seat-away-child-mother-11267745.php ====== muggermuch I haven't flown United since the David Dao incident. Anecdotally, most international airlines are orde...
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Fring: Cross Platform Mobile IM - terpua http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fring.php ====== dcurtis Fring is interesting, but this article written really, really badly.
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Paxos Explained from Scratch [pdf] - mzehrer http://www.ux.uis.no/~meling/papers/2013-paxostutorial-opodis.pdf ====== csl Happy to see my thesis advisor's paper on the HN front page! This paper really helped me when I was implementing a simplified version of Paxos using OpenFlow. I also remember Hein recommended me...
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Flatpak – a security nightmare - stryk http://flatkill.org/ ====== vanderZwan > _Sadly, it 's obvious Red Hat developers working on flatpak do not care > about security, yet the self-proclaimed goal is to replace desktop > application distribution - a cornerstone of linux security._ Sheesh, while the issues raised ar...
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What It's Like to Be Passed by a Tesla Semi on the Highway - ourmandave https://jalopnik.com/heres-what-its-like-to-be-passed-by-a-tesla-semi-on-the-1830347845 ====== cimmanom The idea of a semi that isn’t loud scares the hell out of me as a driver and even more as a pedestrian.
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Ask HN: Which dedicated server provider do you currently use? - samsheen I am looking at setting up a dedicated server, but am having a hard time figuring out which one.<p>Hetzner seems the best when it comes to bang for the buck, but should I be concerned about the DDOS issues?<p>Any recommendations for other provi...
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Show HN: Markupwand, magically convert your photoshop files to HTML & CSS - alagu http://www.markupwand.com/ ====== QuantumDoja As the developer of www.psd2html.co.uk I can honestly say I am very happy that someone else out there is doing something similar to me...you might ask why? When I launched Psd2Html in late 2...
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Software Engineering Within SpaceX - theanirudh https://yasoob.me/posts/software_engineering_within_spacex_launch/ ====== aphextron >SpaceX also made use of Chromium and JavaScript for Dragon 2 flight interface. I am not sure how that passed the certification. I assume it was allowed because for every mission-critical...
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Ask HN: Best free Rails message board software? - rwebb Anyone know of good free message board software that runs on rails? ====== callmeed Check out altered beast <http://github.com/courtenay/altered_beast/tree/master> Of course, you could always roll your own pretty easily with rails.
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Show HN: Reading journal app I made - yanis_t https://www.candlapp.com?utm_source=hn ====== yanis_t Hey guys! If you like to keep track of what you read, please take a look at this service I made. I need advise on whether this concept is tenacious... And of cause for HN-ers first 6 months is free. ------ tbirrell How...
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Ask YC: What do you want? - sdurkin Pg advocates a simple model when deciding what product to offer as a startup: Make something people want.<p>Since I've decided to target the tech startup world for my first venture, this seemed like a good place to ask a few questions. What do you want? What do you need? What serv...
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The Moral Sense Test - mhb http://moral.wjh.harvard.edu/index2.html ====== seles All 10 questions were variants of the trolley problem. The problems were also poorly formed which is what made answering them difficult, not the actual moral dilema. For example, in the real trolly problem it is clear that you really on...
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Why PHP is (still) the easiest web programming language to learn - dorkitude http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4699961/why-is-php-the-easiest-web-programming-language-to-learn/4699971#4699971 ====== roadnottaken It's a bad comparison. PHP is not an alternative to Rails or Django. It's more like an alternative to Pe...
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Elixir Deployment Tools Update – February 2018 - megido https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/02/28/elixir-deployment-tools-update-february-2018 ====== elcritch Handy, this should help resolve a few annoying parts of making releases.
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Looking for team-mates to join start-up (venture) in Bay Area - Venktheman Hey guys,<p>I am an ios developer, and I have been working on two ideas in the past, and I strongly believe that these ideas will take off. I was working with a team before, but they got caught up with corporate life, and lost the momentum af...
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The privacy paradox: why do people keep using tech firms that abuse their data? - hhs https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/05/privacy-paradox-why-do-people-keep-using-tech-firms-data-facebook-scandal ====== oil25 Tech firms engage in capitalist logic to achieve it: wherein the true costs of production ar...
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Tesla Financial Results 2019 Q4 - xyby https://ir.tesla.com/static-files/b3cf7f5e-546a-4a65-9888-c928b914b529 ====== 40acres The bull case for Tesla is clear. Aside from Nissan with the Leaf, who recently loss their galvanizing CEO and who's market cap has tanked since, what major automaker has anywhere near the succe...
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No CEO: A Swedish company where nobody is in charge - jon-wood http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38928528 ====== whack It's worth keeping in mind that this is a company of 40 people. Half the size of most primitive hunter-gatherer tribes which had no formal organization whatsoever. At sizes that small, everyone knows...
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Show HN: Y combinator real life application: recursive memoization - viebel http://blog.klipse.tech/lambda/2016/08/10/y-combinator-app.html ====== viebel Did you ever try to memoize a recursive function? In this article, we show a real life application of the Y combinator: the memoization of a recursive function.
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To the 4 white male policemen who beat me for checking the health of [detainee] - eternalban https://medium.com/@aliafshar/to-the-4-white-male-policemen-who-beat-me-for-checking-the-health-of-a-sick-black-man-in-their-8d77789fb24d#.f4129orat ====== rayiner This shit has been happening to poor black and Hispanic people...
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Ask HN: What are the most innovative technologies for fighting wildfires? - panabee ====== kristoft There is one thing I'm always thinking about: a mesh network of autonomous devices that scattered across a field or a forest and a base nearby. These devices can have temperature sensors and someone can rather quickly se...
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Tell HN: iCombinator back up - bdotdub Hi all,<p>Apparently iCombinator.net has been down for the past couple of days. It should be resolved now.<p>I've also fixed:<p>- "Next 30 Stories...". Looks like this was also not working for a while. back up! :)<p>- Instapaper-ing HN items (such as these 'Tell HN', 'Ask HN', ...
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Web 2.0 names that were stolen from my 4 year old - eastsidegringo http://tracksuitceo.com/2008/07/17/web-20-names-that-were-stolen-from-my-4-year-old/ Jaiku, that was just bought by Google and Joomla are both names invented by the author's 4 year old. He wants her to get some credit... ====== ScottWhigham Cute :) Y...
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Ask HN: Systems for supporting Evidence-Based Policy? - westurner What tools and services would you recommend for evidence-based policy tasks like meta-analysis, solution criteria development, and planned evaluations according to the given criteria?<p>Are they open source? Do they work with linked open data? ====== we...
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Intel SPMD Program Compiler: A Compiler for High-Performance SIMD Programming - kick https://ispc.github.io/ ====== rrss Matt Pharr wrote a series of posts telling the story of ispc: [https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc- origins.html](https://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/18/ispc-origins.html) I found them extr...
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Can Glucose Replenish Willpower? - CMartucci http://whatblag.com/2011/08/21/can-glucose-replenish-willpower/ ====== 6ren It might not be literal glucose consumption, but the body figuring it has calories to spare to indulge in a pointless (for survival) lab exercise. ~~~ sixtofour Yes, the blog poster states that the...
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How the United States Learned to Cyber Sleuth - boh http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/russia-cyber-war-fred-kaplan-book-213746 ====== jessaustin One might expect that eventually they would start ignoring FBI.
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Worker injuries, 911 calls, housing crisis: Recruiting Tesla exacts a price - navigatesol https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/11/12/tesla-gigafactory-brings-nevada-jobs-and-housing-woes-worker-injuries-strained-ems/2452396001/ ====== foxyv I think USA Today has forgotten how dangerous most indus...
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Google's nit-picky interview process is a turnoff for some experienced coders - jahan http://www.businessinsider.com/why-an-older-google-contract-programmer-left-google-2016-10 ====== smt88 It's a good goal for your interview process to "turn off" or filter some experienced hires. Not all experienced people are good c...
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Ask HN: Is There Any Good Open Source Voice-Activated Virtual Assistant? - FiveSquared ====== mabynogy OpenJarvis: [https://github.com/alexylem/jarvis](https://github.com/alexylem/jarvis) I'm also on that with some folks on irc (check my profile for contact). ------ neilsimp1 [https://snips.ai/](https://snips.ai/) T...
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Ask HN: Please Re-Review My Webapp - boundlessdreamz Site: http://www.celebsutra.com<p>Previous Review: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=869803<p>New since last review:<p>Top celebs by twitter activity and followers, Pictures shared by celebs are easily browseable and I think the celeb list was revamped after the...
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Douglas Coupland: Moody - century19 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/c737c3fc-1468-11e5-ad6e-00144feabdc0.html ====== plg "Douglas Coupland is currently artist in residence at the Google Cultural Institute in Paris" Try explaining THAT to someone from past decades. Wow ~~~ jgrahamc The Medici's made a fortune in banking an...
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Firefox 3.5 is out, But Are You Dazzled? - aj http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/firefox_35_arrives_today.php ====== dpcan It's not about being dazzled. When you go on a road trip, you rotate the tires, check the brakes, wash the windows, change the oil and fill it up with gas - and not because it's dazzling, but ...
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Perian is shutting down - BenSS http://perian.org/ ====== SeoxyS I will be really sad to see it go. Perian is one of the first five things I download when I'm on a clean install of OS X. Support has sadly been lagging when it comes to MKV, and for that I still keep VideoLan around; but otherwise I love having full sys...
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Ask HN: Which career to choose? - dumitrupetrov So i have two options for internship, one in java and one in PHP(symfony&#x2F;Laravel).<p>I already made a wrong decision recently. What the future say? Which better to choose to go with? I mean it the start of the career, give me some pros, cons. I want to be confident ...
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Ask HN: Best bookmark and archiving service? - arikr I bookmark a lot of tweets. But, because I&#x27;ve had the bad experience of going back to an old tweet that I bookmarked to find it deleted, now I always copy out the tweet text and save it.<p>I&#x27;ve had a similar experience with blog posts, too, so I save them ...
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Ten times the iPhone traffic on AT&T starting in June? How come? - technologizer http://technologizer.com/2009/04/03/ten-times-the-iphone-traffic-on-att-come-june-how-come/ ====== swernli My theory is based on personal desire, and some early and very fake images of the iPhone 3G: video calling. A major desire for ma...
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Interview on Startup Life with millionaire entrepreneur Erica Douglass - pmichaud http://www.petermichaud.com/essays/erica-douglass-success-in-vulnerability/ ====== mikegreenberg I must say that you have great interviewing skills. It feels like a conversation is happening rather than firing questions at them. This s...
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MIT Open Courseware for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - SEJeff https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/ ====== fasteddy Is unreadable (text too small) in Chrome browser on my Android phone. Perhaps MIT needs a course in Responsive Web design. ------ Isamu Question: are th...
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Top books discussed on Stack Overflow and other Stack Exchange sites - BookInsider https://bookinsider.gitlab.io/ ====== gallerdude This is off-topic at best, but I find it interesting that with certain websites which won't be named, as a college student I have basically unlimited access to all the books, movies, and ...
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The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now - jds375 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-economy-startups.html ====== mabbo > The king of money-losers, of course, is Amazon, which went years without > turning a profit. Instead, it plowed billions of dollars back into its > business The key difference with...
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Termites Are Guardians of the Soil - dnetesn http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/03/science/termites-are-guardians-of-the-soil.html?ref=science ====== bediger4000 This is kind of a weird article. For instance, a photo of a chimp sitting on a termite mound is partially captioned with "A chimpanzee learning how to fish hon...
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How Companies Make Millions Charging Prisoners to Send an Email - SQL2219 https://www.wired.com/story/jpay-securus-prison-email-charging-millions/ ====== imnotlost Here you are, after making some mistakes and behaving very badly, the State has full control of you. They then limit how much you can communicate with nor...
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Larry and Sergey: A Valediction - smacktoward http://www.roughtype.com/?p=8661 ====== kinkrtyavimoodh It's funny how much public perception is tied to the media pulse of a company. If you read comments on online boards today, you'd think Google was one of the worst companies out there. And yet, I think it is safe to ...
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How Facebook’s Winning The War Against Yahoo, Patent By Patent - tilt http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/yahoo-vs-facebook/ ====== chaosprophet It is very disheartening to see that something like privacy settings have not exempted from this 'lets patent everything we can get our hands On' mentality. Sure these patents...
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SwarmKit by Docker: a toolkit to orchestrate distributed systems at any scale - shykes https://github.com/docker/swarmkit ====== marcc Obviously it is very early in the data center orchestration and scheduling world, but it looks like this is filling in many of the gaps that exist today. Excited to dig into a bit more...
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Ask HN: How do you keep a record of meetings at your company? - Madawar Am looking for a fast and efficient way of keeping a record of meetings at our corporate company, which process has been most efficient for you? Do you record audio take down minutes is there any apps you use to plan and schedule meetings apart fr...
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The unified control group hierarchy in Linux kernel 3.16 - chiachun http://lwn.net/Articles/601840/ ====== gioele In the last weeks, the kernel developer Neil Brown has been contributing a series of very in-depth articles about cgroups and hierarchies in the current kernel in general. Worth reading and worth paying ...
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So You Want To Be a Developer (Part 2) [video] - jonikanerva http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer-part-2 ====== jonikanerva First part here: [http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a- dev...](http://penny-arcade.com/patv/episode/so-you-want-to-be-a-developer- part-1) HN:...
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The Sourcehut Project Hub - ddevault https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-30-the-sourcehut-hub-is-live/ ====== omdv Like many others I too admire Drew's work. But one thing I appreciate the most is the visual style and usability of Sourcehut. I don't know what it is exactly (am not a UX or visual designer myself, althou...
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Top 20 freemium alternatives to hunter io lead generation cold emailing - sharemywin https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/top-20-freemium-alternatives-to-hunter-io-lead-generation-cold-emailing-ebcbffc1d7 ====== tomatotomato37 I appreciate the work you put in to help others clog my spam folder
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How much energy goes into making a bottle of water? - indiejade http://www.physorg.com/news156506896.html ====== indiejade A: 2000 times more than the energy required to produce tap water. Another interesting fact from the article: ". . . world consumption of bottled water has increased by 70% since 2001 to 200 bil...
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Which YC companies had the most traction before going into YC? - kkt262 Just thought this would be an interesting thread. Which YC companies had significant traction prior to their acceptance into YC? (Revenue, Users, etc) ====== yurka Also, a related question: Has YC rejected applicants despite impressive early tra...
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Detailed Comparison Between WordPress and OctoberCMS - theluketowers https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/03/wordpress-october-cms/ ====== larryvel I'm making this post because OctoberCMS (OCMS) really helped simplify the development process for me. After nearly 10 years away from web development, I was looking to ge...
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$199, 4.2” computer is Intel’s first Raspberry Pi competitor - kcorbitt http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/09/199-4-2-computer-is-intels-first-raspberry-pi-competitor/ ====== knocte 'It's notable that the MinnowBoard is an open hardware platform, a distinction that Arduino and BeagleBone can claim bu...
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Burning issue: how fashion's love of leather is fuelling the fires in the Amazon - occitan https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2019/aug/29/burning-issue-how-fashions-love-of-leather-is-fuelling-the-fires-in-the-amazon ====== aurizon leather sales have plummeted, there is a glut of leather on world markets. The lower g...
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Basic Aspects of Squeak and the Smalltalk-80 Programming Language (1998) - shawndumas http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/wolfgang.kreutzer/cosc205/smalltalk1.html ====== cwp Love the screenshots! You've heard of MVC? This is it. The original implementation. The one that was demoed to Steve Jobs at Xerox PARC. ~~~ vi...
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Do you one of startup lovers and don't know how to become successful? - mtufekyapan https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140610190011-81337627-six-main-traits-for-startup-team-members?trk=prof-post ====== AJ72 The embedded image in the article crystallizes everything. I wish I could repost it in the comment...
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Ask HN: My Startup didn't go viral- what now? - jiganti So I launched my startup (moodstir.com) after working on it since November or so and have made a few attempts over the past couple of weeks to try and get a following. It's actually one of the main reasons I decided to take a leave of absence from the University ...
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“Maybe jobs are for machines, and life is for people” - cedricr http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/02/24/robots-will-take-your-job/5lXtKomQ7uQBEzTJOXT7YO/story.html ====== stegosaurus So as far as I can see, living in the UK, we treat life as a sort of 'survival of the fittest' game, but with seemingly arbitrary co...
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How I hacked sales: write about people who don't buy from me - goldfishcaura I am a techy. I don&#x27;t know how to sell. But everyone needs to sell: to get a job, to get people sign off on your project, etc. In my case, I am a data consultant. I need to sell to get hired for future projects.<p>Recently, I decided to...
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Stephen Hawking to unveil strange new way to tell the time - gscott http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/09/14/scihawking114.xml ====== frazerb The clock really is quite garish, but you have to see it in context really. It's going to be be sited on the wall of the old bank opposite Kings Colle...
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Min Chiu Li - DoreenMichele https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Min_Chiu_Li ====== sytelus It is fascinating that Li was fired for his groundbreaking work on chemotherapy which have now saved millions of lives. He is still not awarded any major prize! ~~~ deepVoid It is not fascinating. It is sad, unfortunate, and unfair t...
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From Russia, With Stupidity: Band Must Pay Fines To Itself - aj http://techdirt.com/articles/20090710/0340345512.shtml ====== inerte Probably not a problem with record associations or copyright laws, but just a bureacratic misstep. _Of course_ the Deep Purple has a right to play Deep Purple's song, but did you remin...
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Scaling Bitcoin Milan Day 1 Video - jlrubin https://scalingbitcoin.org/event/milan2016/#remote-participation ====== jlrubin Lots of really cool technology presented. Recommend watching TumbleBit and MimbleWimble talks, very promising developments. ~~~ luck87 In the afternoon, also Lightning Scalability, Sidechain Sca...
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Show HN: DataFire Interactive Tutorial – Build and Share Dataflows - bbrennan https://datafire.io/dataflow?tutorial=true#/Code ====== persona Like this? [https://zapier.com/multi-step-zaps/](https://zapier.com/multi- step-zaps/)
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From Rust to TypeScript - valand https://valand.dev/blog/post/from-rust-to-typescript ====== aerovistae The first code example he uses immediately threw me for a loop. Why is he adding the return value of a function call to a function itself? bar() + bar???? function bar(someNumber: number) { return...
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Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files? - ziodave https://twitter.com/immunda/status/1278783894683336704 ====== rvnx It's cute but probably just a consequence of a content editor at Barclays who has copy-pasted some old content. A technical solution could be to add a strict CSP policy but in...
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Show HN: Chat with WebSockets - dlubarov http://jabberings.net/ ====== slosh add embed widgets ~~~ dlubarov Hm, do you mean something like this (but without the header and footer)? <iframe src="http://jabberings.net/mysite" style="width: 800; height: 300px; border: none;"></iframe>
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HealthCare.gov Sends Personal Data to Dozens of Tracking Websites - markolschesky https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/healthcare.gov-sends-personal-data ====== zaroth This is pretty shocking. What is PII doing in the query string in the first place? Disclosing pregnancy status from an insurance application sounds li...
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Huun-Huur-Tu - kostyk http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i0djHJBAP3U#t=268 ====== gregman This could be the opening ceremony for Waza 2014!
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Germany is opening its first electric highway for trucks - mariushn https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/07/tech/e-highway-a5/index.html ====== ChuckNorris89 So basically they reinvented the trolleybuss[1] that's been around for over 100 years and still popular in some European cities by putting a tram pantograph[2] on top...
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Estimate how many slaves work for you based on your possessions and lifestyle. - SandB0x http://slaveryfootprint.org/ ====== zeteo Let's have a closer look at the "complex algorithm that determines the minimum number of slaves [...] used to produce each product" [1]. The basic data is supposedly taken from five offici...
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AT&T’s Troubling Plan to Change HBO - okket https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/07/att-changing-hbo/564635/?single_page=true ====== tptacek I don't buy the logic here, and I'm not sure David Sims does either; this strikes me as one of those headlines that was written by an editor, independently of t...
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Click on a few dots and our program will guess your age - vyrotek http://kgajos.eecs.harvard.edu/ag/ ====== edanm My guess - this experiment has nothing to do with the clicks, but rather is trying to measure something else. Something like the amount of time people take on breaks, plotted against the amount of time p...
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Ask HN: What books do you wish your manager would read? - a3n Non-technical, technical, technical management, people management, perspective, insight.<p>What books or other resources do you believe would make <i>your</i> life better, if your present and future managers read them and lived their lessons? ====== jbob200...
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Why 3d movies hurt your eyes and make you nauseous - lukas http://www.slate.com/id/2215265/ ====== cjlars I'm relatively uninformed on this, but couldn't you reduce these unpleasant effects by 'flattening' the 3D image? If the optical effect never (or rarely) appears to come more than say, several feet off of the sc...
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The 'secret underground lair' where scientists are searching the galaxies - clouddrover https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-17/inside-super-kamiokande-360-tour/11209104 ====== clouddrover > _“I might add that if this ever happens to you, which it could, don’t say > the following to the arresting officer: ‘Don’t open t...
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A programmer's view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart - pavelludiq http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/12/programmers-view-of-universe-part-2.html ====== glymor The first part was a funny story about a little fish that tried real real hard then failed and died without hope. The second part is a boring series of...
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React and LiveScript = Love - defrun https://medium.com/@flyber/react-livescript-livescript-2-0-164d35ca5373 ====== defrun Does anybody else use LiveScript with React.js? Any pitfalls?
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