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Perhaps Pandora Must Be Our Sacrificial Lamb - jmorin007 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/perhaps-pandora-must-be-our-sacrificial-lamb/ ====== pedalpete Pandora could license their Music Genome (back-end that decides what tracks get played), to other companies, or go the 'songza/mixturtle/skreemr/seeqpod route and...
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Show HN: Flipper Zero – Tamagotchi for Hackers - zhovner https://flipperzero.one/zero ====== ge96 Interesting I see the other version has WiFi. Kind of curious if these become ubiquitous enough just having one would make you seem like "a bad person". I suppose most people probably wouldn't know what this is. Anyway ...
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Report on the current experience of using IPFS to deploy a website - shuckles https://macwright.org/2019/06/08/ipfs-again.html ====== zlynx I had to stop using IPFS to read websites because it kept crashing my router. It makes hundreds of connections to other IPFS servers. And if you have working IPv6 it makes many of...
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Show HN: Notification Control my weekend project - Email notification setup - benjlang http://notificationcontrol.com/ ====== 1880 Just nitpicking here, but I noticed that a new HTTP request is done when hovering the links in order to download a different background, and that is not a good idea, because it will alwa...
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Ask HN: Can the person who received thousands of emails from Google sue them? - usaphp I wonder if that person who received thousands of emails on his hotmail account can sue google for spamming him? ====== jordsmi I haven't read about this but is it really that big of a deal? Can't he just delete them?
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Ask HN: Looking for email delivery for 500k subscribers - twog Hey HN,<p>I run a site that has 500k email subscribers, and were looking to do a big mass mailing campaign in the upcoming months.<p>We are planning on sending close to 6 campaigns (so 3 million emails) in one month. What is the best solution for us to r...
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Show HN: Social engineering with Chrome's autofill - simonbrown https://www.isimonbrown.co.uk/address-game/# ====== richardmjohn On first attempt it took me to my address in Chrome's autofill preferences, then second time it worked (got the alert).
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Github and Stackoverflow programming language popularity - mooreds http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2012/09/12/language-rankings-9-12/ ====== smoyer "a few surprises on this list – the continued traction of Java" I'm not surprised by this at all ... while looking for work recently, I was a bit shocked at how much of the ...
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Ask HN: Why is it so hard to hire good engineers? - arlix I was wondering if anyone in charge of hiring here has any insights on why its generally so hard to hire a good engineer. I have been brainstorming a startup focused around recruiting, and I am an engineer myself who has struggled with this in the past in small...
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Too few pages indexed by ggl. why? - bee Hello, I have a question.<p>I have a website, and I submitted a sitemap in google webmaster tools, with about 10k pages. But only around 2k (around 20%) are in google index. Any ideas how to get indexed more pages?<p>I have the exact same script on another website, and around...
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A basic guide to SEO, by analogy with Jerry Seinfeld - kerno http://afatefulhaven.com/2012/12/a-basic-guide-to-seo-by-jerry-seinfeld/ ====== calciphus SEO: Making lousy content slightly more prominent for a short period, and charging a surprising amount of money to customers who dont understand technology.
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What I Love About Wordpress Plugins - madmax108 http://meta.discourse.org/t/what-i-love-about-wordpress-plugins/5697 ====== jacques_chester As a wordpress administrator, I detest plugins. There's no isolation. If a plugin breaks or is slow, the whole of Wordpress breaks or is slow(er). That's not entirely their faul...
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Ancient virus found hibernating in the human genome - mromanuk https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/ancient-virus-found-hibernating-in-the-human-genome-and-it-might-wake-up/ ====== JoeAltmaier Maybe we're mostly made of coopted virus fragments? Could be intelligent apes were spawned not by mutation but by viral med...
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Google CEO: we need to “take a much harder line on inappropriate behavior” - Analemma_ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/google-ceo-we-need-to-take-a-much-harder-line-on-inappropriate-behavior/ ====== londons_explore Googlers internally are like children with a lot of petty squabbles. There are some with qui...
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Ask HN: What are the great software development books written in last 5 years? - cryptozeus ====== croo You don't know javascript: [https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know- JS](https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS) I would also mention that the 3rd edition of Effective Java is still a standard for anyone using j...
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Træfik, a modern reverse-proxy - emilevauge http://traefik.github.io/ ====== philips I like this pattern of using a distributed configuration store like etcd for load balancers so you can have a single configuration for a set of frontends. It is also great to have HTTP servers focused on runtime reconfiguration via AP...
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Do programmers get the respect they deserve? - john_p http://www.codingismycraft.com/2013/04/30/a-conversation-with-a-technical-recruiter/ ====== gee_totes Maybe a better title for this post is "Do recruiters give programmers the respect they deserve?" ~~~ john_p This was the initial title, but I realized that the...
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A Super-Efficient Email Process - nreece http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2012/05/a-super-efficient-email-proces.html ====== Fuzzwah I have a super efficient email process; 1) use gmail 2) any email which is important I click on and read 3) everything else remains unread Most of the time I can get everything I need from...
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Ask HN: A friend has a plan to get a job in UK, worried about legal implications - gallinaponedora Hi, I'm asking on behalf of a good friend and fellow programmer who is looking for a job in London, UK after being made redundant recently.<p>She told me that virtually every offer in job boards are posted by recruiter...
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An amazing traffic light - MaysonL http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/01/this-is-an-amazing-traffic-light/ ====== kls I don't think a lot of people think about it but stop lights are position coded for the color blind. These things would cause a lot of problems for those of us with the disability....
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Why Org is better than ReST (& other markup) - punchagan http://punchagan.muse-amuse.in/blog/why-i-like-org-as-a-markup.html ====== altxwally What I like the most about Org syntax is that it gives you a framework to plan your tasks by using nothing but text. For example: \- [%] Task 1 \+ [X] Task a \+ [ ] Task b...
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Vancouver Housing Tax Pushes Chinese to $1M Seattle Homes - dhirenb https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-04/vancouver-housing-tax-pushes-chinese-to-1-million-seattle-homes ====== adrenalinelol There should be similar laws all over. In a global economy, if "regular people" have to compete with multi-milliona...
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Google's Eric Schmidt Talks to Charlie Rose - px http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_40/b4197039435964.htm ====== JustinM charlierose.com
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Drone-mapping slums for land titling – one pixel at a time - ston3r https://factordaily.com/orissa-drone-mapped-slum-titling-project/ ====== perl4ever This is the happiest article I have seen in a long time. It makes me think of Hernando de Soto Polar and the ILD. "Between 1988 and 1995, he and the Institute for Lib...
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Google Wallet Co-Founding Engineer Departs Google for Square - hornokplease http://www.nfctimes.com/news/google-wallet-co-founding-engineer-departs-google-square ====== 27182818284 I was really excited for Google Wallet, so much so that I bought a Galaxy Nexus. Guess what? Verizon blocks it. If Google doesn't want...
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Solo: open source security key – last week on Kickstarter - ecesena https://solokeys.com/kickstarter ====== ecesena Open source code: [https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo](https://github.com/SoloKeysSec/solo) Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18131651](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=181...
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Coronavirus Survey Results: 42% of Employees Drinking While Working from Home - altoidaltoid https://www.fishbowlapp.com/insights/2020/04/20/coronavirus-survey-results-42-of-employees-drinking-while-working-from-home/ ====== service_bus 42% of respondents of an app. Looking at their app, I'm surprised their audience ...
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See Where People Are Coming to Startup School From - dottertrotter http://hackrtrackr.com/blog4.php ====== D_T Knowing where the Hacker News readers come from is interesting. Does anyone have enough karma to setup a poll for the ages of readers? Thanks ------ comatose_kid This is a great idea - thanks to this, I c...
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TabNine now charges 99$ instead of 30$ for personal licenses - derN3rd https://tabnine.com/buy ====== derN3rd I personally started using it when I saw it on hackernews and thought about buying it. $30 seemed to be a good affordable price for me as an independent developer. But $99 is a big number for me. So I think, t...
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Covid-19: Only 268 cases and no deaths. How did Vietnam with 97M people do it? - doppp https://mothership.sg/2020/04/vietnam-covid-19-success/ ====== moltar We have been in Vietnam since March 8th. Prior to that we were in Thailand. The response of these two neighbouring countries is night and day. Authoritarian gove...
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Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator - nazwa http://shop.soloshot.com/ ====== IanDrake I've had the SoloShot 2 for almost a year now. I use it for surfing, but just got a small racing dinghy (RS Aero) and will probably use it for that too. The device paired with the recommended ca...
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Alexa Says YouTube Is Now Bigger Than Google. Alexa Is Useless - transburgh http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/08/13/alexa-says-youtube-is-now-bigger-than-google-theyre-wrong/ ====== lkozma For google, all regional domains are counted separately, google.com, .de, .ro, etc., while for youtube, as far as I know there's only...
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PayPal Redesign - webbruce http://bruceackerman.com/paypal-redesign/ ====== zmillman Just a quick usability issue I noticed: The numbers in the Gross (Amount?) column are only differentiated by their color. Red-green colorblindness is pretty common, so it may be hard for colorblind users to distinguish between the two...
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Judge a (Clojure) Programming Book by Its Cover - dragandj https://dragan.rocks/articles/19/Judge-a-clojure-programming-book-by-its-cover ====== dragandj The books in question: 1\. Deep Learning for Programmers: An Interactive Tutorial with CUDA, OpenCL, MKL-DNN, Java, and Clojure 2\. Numerical Linear Algebra for Pr...
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For 21 Years, No-One in Britain Knew How Long an Inch Was - Kednicma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmh819Lfgfs ====== Kednicma Tom is not pleased with himself for the scaffolding in the background, but I find it to be a delightful bit of flavor that accents the history.
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Demo of Short-Range Wireless Power Transfer - saycheese https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/quasistatic-cavity-resonance-for-ubiquitous-wireless-power-transfer/ ====== jf If you're having trouble loading the page, here is the direct link to the PDF: [https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/disneyresearch/wp- content...
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Ask HN: What are the best technologies you have worked with in 2013? - domaniac I have spent about a year away from writing code and I miss it. I want to learn something cool and fun in my leisure time.<p>What are your recommendations HN? ====== JoelAnair You're going to hate this answer, but after a couple of years...
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What Piracy? The Entertainment Industry is booming - llambda http://torrentfreak.com/what-piracy-the-entertainment-industry-is-booming-120130/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ====== RandallBrown It doesn't matter that it's growing, they're just going to say that it's growing less than it should be. "Think how ...
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Is our fight against coronavirus worse than the disease? - hecubus https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/coronavirus-pandemic-social-distancing.html ====== scout4 _The clustering of complications and death from Covid-19 among the elderly and chronically ill, but not children (there have been only very rare deaths...
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Writers write, but this one couldn’t about the most important person in his life - NaOH https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/12/02/littwin-susie-wife-alzheimers-memorial ====== DoreenMichele Under the best of circumstances, it's tough to talk about very long relationships. So much of it has its own private context...
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Show HN: Textile Notes: A Replacement for Squarespace Note App - andrewxhill https://github.com/textileio/notes/blob/master/README.md ====== jhunter1016 The cool thing about this that's probably overlooked is how Textile keeps building apps to showcase their development tools that make building with IPFS as performant...
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Run CasperJS scripts in your browser - gggarnier http://casperide.io ====== karolisd Is this on Github? ~~~ gggarnier I'm sorry but it isn't.
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Ask HN: Project based interviews in SF? - sfthrowaway Are there companies in SF that do project based interviews? I am currently looking for a job in the bay area (from the East Coast), and I am finding it extremely tough&#x2F;nerve wracking to do these live coding sessions that every SF based company seems to do. ...
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Designing Calm Technology (1995) - kevbin http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/calmtech/calmtech.htm ====== DonHopkins i miss you, Mark. From mark@markssun.cs.umd.edu Wed Feb 17 19:49:56 2010 Date: Wed, 25 Feb 87 00:24:52 EST From: mark@markssun.cs.umd.edu (Mark Weiser) To: don@gyre....
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Radio Shack to start stocking Arduino, Other Goodies - vineel http://blog.radioshack.com/2011/07/21/top-ten-diy-suggestions-from-you/ ====== SwellJoe I remember watching my local Radio Shack turn into just another commodity electronics shop, and not a very good one, at that. By the end, it was just a place I would g...
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Ad-Free Social Platform App.net Raises Another $2.5M From Andreessen Horowitz - jayzee http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/app-net-new-funding/ ====== tsurantino I'm confused, as I thought that part of the reason why app.net pursued it's monthly payment ad-free business model was to ensure that it was sustainable while p...
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Details of Google's Project Glass revealed in FCC report - polskibus http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21290934 ====== meaty Watch this before you consider one: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29> Season 1 Episode 3: The Entire History Of You ~~~ psbp Watch a paranoid melodrama slighting ...
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A Canadian Bill Proposes Barring Public Employees from Wearing Head Scarves - t1o5 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/world/canada/quebec-head-scarves.html ====== currymj adding the crucifix ban is a ridiculous fig leaf, as there's no obligation to wear an enormous crucifix in any Christian sect that I know of. wherea...
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Crowdfunded businesses may owe taxes, too - eplanit http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/13/us-column-feldman-crowdfunding-taxes-idUSBRE87C0F120120813 ====== daemon13 This whole article reads kind of bullshit from US GAAP perspective. In case people who pledge will receive tangible goods in exchange, of course it...
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What is everyones thoughts on Ethereum? - aml183 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2016/03/02/business/02reuters-banking-blockchain-bonds.html?_r=4 ====== dang It's against the HN guidelines to rewrite article titles unless they are misleading or linkbait, so please don't do that. ------ aml183 I know it's been posted h...
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Building an electronic human brain - ronnier http://www.israel21c.org/201005237948/technology/building-an-electronic-human-brain ====== az Go Israel!
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Facebook’s first week is the worst of any IPO in 10 years - MRonney http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/26/facebooks-first-week-is-the-worst-of-any-ipo-in-10-years/ ====== zaroth Is it really such a bad wrap for facebook (the company). They've already said they don't really 'care' that they are a public company, and neve...
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Apple airs unfortunately-timed ‘Do Not Disturb’ ad with Venus, Serena Williams - Pr0 http://9to5mac.com/2013/01/01/apple-airs-unfortunately-timed-do-not-disturb-ad-with-venus-and-serena-williams-video/ ====== msie I don't get why it was ill-timed.
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Wheelcrowd: is the world around you wheelchair accessible? - ehuard http://jabberwocky.eu/2012/11/25/wheelcrowd/ ====== 178 You might want to check out Wheelmap, it is a very similar project ans they have already almost 300.000 points. <http://wheelmap.org/>
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Ask HN: Review my new email marketing startup, redcappi.com - alecbee RedCappi was launched privately about 2 months back, and publicly just 2 weeks ago.<p>I am an entrepreneur who believes that email marketing can be simplified and stripped down to the basics for the average small to medium sized business operator....
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Rubigo: Golang dependency tool and package manager - yaa110 Homepage: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;yaa110&#x2F;rubigo<p>Rubigo is a dependency tool and package manager for Golang, written in Rust. Rubigo uses vendor directory (starting from Go 1.5) to install packages, however it is possible to add packages globa...
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Show HN: Trailer gods and you never miss a trailer again - bert2002 http://www.trailergods.co/ ====== bert2002 I created the site, because I always missed some trailers when I am working. Their were no easy way to catch up. Its aggregates the data from one source at the moment, but want to add more. Which would you ...
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Steve Jobs, Superman - razin http://uncrunched.com/2011/10/09/steve-jobs-superman/ ====== michaelpinto Akio Morita is as close as I've seen to a Steve Jobs in my lifetime - I was into his work in the 80s thanks to the Walkman, but that was the last big notch on his belt that he'd been working on since just after WWI...
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Offer HN: I will work for free this Wednesday in São Paulo or REMOTE - just_testing I want to meet startups in São Paulo or nice remote ones and I thought of trying new things, so... I&#x27;ll do anything. No task is big or small. You could have me move boxes, enter data, clean up the floor, but here is a list of ar...
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Ask HN: How do I negotiate my job (salary/conditions)? - throwaway1986 I have been working in this startup for last 3 years, and overall my salary increased around 60% since the beginning, but I live in an expensive country, and this increase does not even cover the cost of living increase over the years.<p>My salar...
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We have broken HTTP - nkurz http://gadgetopia.com/post/9236?retitle ====== Animats We suck at error reporting to the user. One of the legacy curses of UNIX is trying to encode all error info in "errno". Then came HTTP, which most languages try to treat as something like a file access. When there's some complex problem...
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Lightspeed Summer Fellowship: Your Questions Answered - pushpins http://lsvp.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/the-lightspeed-summer-fellowship-program-explained/ ====== pushpins There were a lot of questions and concerns about this (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2380567>) in the original post on why LSVP gives away m...
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Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp [video] - b-man http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy ====== evanrmurphy The interface is frustrating because there are only hooks to the questions, not the answers.
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LibreOffice 6.3.5 - jrepinc https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/02/20/libreoffice-6-3-5/ ====== bookmaster latest version is 6.4.0
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Post-mortem on the Skype outage - Uncle_Sam http://blogs.skype.com/en/2010/12/cio_update.html ====== wccrawford Skype just sent an email with the above link and a "credit voucher worth a call of more than 30 minutes to a landline in some of our most popular countries, such as USA, UK, Germany, China, Japan. Or spend...
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Fuchsia Rust Crates - juancampa https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/development/languages/rust/crates ====== ldeangelis Here is is the "Fuschsia Programming Language Policy" that was here some time ago [https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/master...](https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/fuchsia/+/refs/heads/m...
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With Assembly (YC W12), anyone can contribute to open-source and get paid - awwstn http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/21/7258667/assembly-collaborative-work-open-source ====== bitsweet Today we announced $2.9MM in funding from Union Square Ventures, Thrive, Collaborative Fund, and others. We're eager to get back to wor...
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Starbase comes with its own programming language - jrmurray https://www.pcgamer.com/starbase-comes-with-its-own-programming-language/ ====== rendall It looks a bit like BASIC. Interesting choice to have goto statements.
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COBOL's Not Dead - solipsist http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/01/cobols-not-dead-in-the-enterprise.php ====== cao825 I started at a company 2.5 years ago as a COBOL programmer and am now a Software Architect for the company. I would say that COBOL still runs a very large percentage of business systems (es...
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Show HN: CloudTunes - jkbr https://github.com/jakubroztocil/cloudtunes ====== MeoMix420 Hey, This is really nice. Would you mind chatting with me sometime? I'd love to pick your brain or even just converse with someone who has similar interests. I've spent the past two years developing Streamus, [https://streamus.com...
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Performance Mushrooms - bookofjoe https://lairdsuperfood.com/products/performance-mushrooms ====== bifrost This is just an ad... ~~~ bookofjoe True. But the concept is just so...
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The flattening of design - l33tbro http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/the-flattening-of-design/ ====== mnicole > Steven Heller, co-chairman of the M.F.A. Design Department at the School of > Visual Arts and author of more than 150 books on design culture, said that > part of the push toward flat design was to ...
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The secret economics of a VIP party - jelliclesfarm https://www.economist.com/1843/2020/07/03/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party ====== 082349872349872 "secret economics"? Is the decidedly non-VIP conventional free admission with a skirt no longer a thing? ------ 1cvmask Seems like a high signal to noise (noise incl...
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Hillary Clinton Joins the 'Make Silicon Valley Break Encryption' Bandwagon - adrianmacneil https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151119/18032932868/hillary-clinton-joins-make-silicon-valley-break-encryption-bandwagon.shtml ====== jrcii It's disturbing that advocating against encryption may become the latest device for b...
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Top Visual Studio Code Extensions for Node.js - reverentgeek https://developer.okta.com/blog/2019/05/08/top-vs-code-extensions-for-nodejs-developers ====== reverentgeek Hey! I wrote this because I've given lots of introductory talks on Node.js and written a lot of tutorials, and one of the most frequent things I'm ask...
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Using TLA+ to Understand Xen Vchan - technion http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2019/01/01/using-tla-plus-to-understand-xen-vchan/ ====== pron > Writing formal proofs is a little tedious, largely because TLA is an untyped > language. I've written a somewhat lengthy discussion of this point on the TLA+ subreddit: [https:/...
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Twitter and Yes, Inc - coloneltcb http://yesitsyes.com/joining-twitter/ ====== jondubois WTF is "Yes, Inc"? They're so insignificant, they don't even have an Alexa ranking. [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yesitsyes.com](http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yesitsyes.com) None of their products seem popular either: [http://w...
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Apple Has Learned The Importance of Play. We Should Too - pius http://whydoeseverythingsuck.com/2008/09/apple-has-learned-importance-of-play-we.html ====== jcromartie My wife is in school for design, and she was telling me about one of her professors. Whenever someone says that they have been "playing" with an idea or...
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Y Combinator’s latest batch of startups is too big for one Demo Day stage - laurex https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/11/y-combinators-latest-batch-of-startups-is-too-big-for-one-demo-day-stage/ ====== snowmaker Hi, I work at YC. I think this article is a bit misleading, so I wanted to take the opportunity to give you som...
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Show HN: Reverse-engineered game worlds using WebGL - Jasper_ https://noclip.website/#smg/HeavenlyBeachGalaxy ====== s-macke That's an impressive list of games. I don't know how many hours were spent reverse engineering these games. I did a bit of reverse engineering myself on some 3D game worlds. Test Drive 3 [1] an...
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Show HN: Alerts for the Cheapest Airline Tickets - ertra https://www.jetcheater.com ====== jack2017 Which countries can I choose from, I cannot find Cuba there? ~~~ ertra hello, thanks for the comment. At this moment, we only supports EU countries, register and when we include ROW, we will send you email. regards t...
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Cathy O’Neil on Weapons of Math Destruction - icebraining http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2016/10/cathy_oneil_on_1.html ====== pliny Cathy's use of 'problematic' seems to paper over any need to actually go into an analysis of cost and benefits of using statistics and statistical learning in sentencing, personal banki...
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Siemens (140K+ employees) and 11 other large companies embrace remote-work - theknight https://www.prospercircle.org/signals/remote-companies ====== sarcasmatwork FYI, You cant add company without a twitter profile.
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An open source prosthetic hand costing $1000 - jhrf http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130905-making-advanced-prosthetic-hands-for-under-using-3d-printing.html ====== kiba If there's anything that need to be open source from day one, it's prosthesis. It's more about the ability of prosthetic users being able to own th...
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Dark Side of the Moon arranged for the NES - machrider http://rainwarrior.thenoos.net/music/moon8.html ====== petercooper While we're at it, I want to recommend.. <http://8bitcollective.com/> It's a chiptune media sharing/community site. Very clean design and everything on there is Creative Commons licensed (so you...
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Ask HN: How can we make the web more seamlessly translated/multilingual? - arikr It seems at this point that deep learning language translation is pretty solid.<p>But it also seems that Google in other countries doesn&#x27;t index machine translated versions of webpages that are written in English.<p>That means that w...
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What studying disasters has taught me about Covid-1 - imartin2k https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2020/03/26/what-studying-disasters-has-taught-me-about-covid-19/ ====== mrfusion He’s notes in 2016 people stopped thinking his work was silly and started started asking when the end is coming. It underscores some...
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Google claims Levandowski launched competing projects long before Otto - petergatsby https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/03/google-claims-levandowski-launched-competing-projects-long-before-otto/ ====== itsmemattchung > Levandowski was able to collect more than $120 million in incentive pay from > Google, the complaint say...
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Face detection with large scale unsupervised machine learning [pdf] - packetslave http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/pubs/archive/38115.pdf ====== packetslave 1000 machines, 16,000 cores, three days of unsupervised training, and it can detect faces without e...
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EncFS Security Audit - ghubbard https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm ====== mmmooo > This report is the result of a paid 10-hour security audit In just 10 hours? If really so color me impressed. I don't think I've been so productive in 10 hours, ever. ~~~ perlgeek FWIW it looks to me like this mostly isn't a code revi...
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Tutorial MMO WS Game server in C using libuv and libwebsockets and Cocos2d-x-HTML5 - meir_yanovich http://www.gamedevcraft.com/2016/08/part-1-multiplayer-websocket-game.html ====== meir_yanovich Hello all This tutorial i wanted to publish for along time now. As i see that the indie IO games are building their server...
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How many times has a unittest saved your day? - GrumpyNl How much time is spend on writing unit tests compared to receiving the bug and fixing it. All i hear around me is, the screen must be green so all unit tests have been successfully processed. When a unit test fails and the dot is red, 99% of the time they have t...
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A graph of Twitter post lengths from 1 million tweets - rg81 http://twitter.com/#!/isaach/status/155437871149481984/photo/1/large ====== zipdog The uptick after 120 characters would seem to be the natural 'long tail' of the graph, if Twitter didn't have the character limit. Instead of trailing off those people are for...
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Linksys routers will soon monitor your breathing as well as movement - _bxg1 https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/8/21056418/linksys-wellness-pods-aware-health-date ====== porsche959 Might have been more surprising had we not had the mass adoption of smart home speakers like alexa, siri and google assistant
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Can we predict the future using a temporal version of the Copernican principle? [pdf] - amichail http://info.phys.unm.edu/papers/2000/Caves2000a.pdf ====== koolmoe Upvoted for this mathematician's-gauntlet-throwing snippet near the end: "I sent an e-mail on 21 October 1999 and again on 2 December 1999 to my departm...
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Google removes authorship from search results - iamben https://plus.google.com/+JohnMueller/posts/HZf3KDP1Dm8 ====== Kortaggio It seems to me that Google's motivation for starting author snippets in search was to drive more people to sign up for Google Plus. Now that they've discovered it's either (1) not working, or ...
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Y combinator type of mentoring in the uk - startupdream Are their any y combinator types of funding and mentoring in the uk that are known espcially in london ====== godawful <http://seedcamp.com/> <http://www.thedifferenceengine.eu/> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=518097> ------ ig1 Mike Butcher posted on ...
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Downtown Project Buys 100 Teslas To Launch Project 100 - joecurry http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/02/downtown-project-buys-100-tesla-model-ss-to-launch-project-100-a-car-sharing-service-in-las-vegas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+techcrunch%2Fstartups+(TechCrunch+%C2%BB+Startups) ====== pt...
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Ask HN: How do you manage server access? - maverhick We are working on a web project which requires 8 servers. Some are web, some middleware, some database. How to best manage SSH/Security Access?<p>What are the best ways to manage access to ensure security?<p>Team members join in, leave later. How do you manage acc...
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Packaging Python Inside Your Organization with Gitlab and Conda - sscherfke https://stefan.sofa-rockers.org/2019/04/18/python-packaging-gitlab-conda/ ====== Brometheus This could actually very useful for the company I'm working for.
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