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Eliminating the Human - denom http://davidbyrne.com/journal/eliminating-the-human ====== trjordan There's another force at work here: in the name of efficiency and standardization, companies worked to make human interactions less useful. There's a reason McDonald's is seen as a bottom-of-the-barrel job. There's nothi...
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The Secret Uber Data That Could Fix Your Commute - em3rgent0rdr https://www.wired.com/2017/02/ubers-coughing-data-nyc-fix-commute/ ====== tomohawk If they want the data, they should pay for it.
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How My Co-founder's Dog Boosted My Productivity - WadeF http://wadefoster.net/post/47425174788/how-my-co-founders-dog-boosted-my-productivity ====== aashaykumar92 You make some great points, but don't forget that Tuna was already trained...if you are to get a dog, or shall I say puppy, the training process will take...
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The Most Infamous Computer Hacks & Hackers in History - dsr12 http://myhosting.com/blog/2012/01/infamous-computer-hacks-hackers ====== dsr12 These are real hackers not the script kiddies that most of the media portrays as "Hackers". One of my favourite hack is "The Black Sunday Hack": [http://www.codinghorror.com/bl...
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Google Search engine - mercury888 is it still the best search engine? ====== zachlatta Yup, without a doubt. The amount of engineering that Google has put into it is hard to compete with. ------ wehadfun I sometimes feel like yahoo get better results. For tech problems it is good. ~~~ vitobotta Isn't Yahoo powered...
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Good UI Begets Great UI - allenc http://allenc.com/2011/12/good-ui-begets-great-ui/ ====== lucian1900 The website breaks the back button, flashes a few times before rendering and doesn't always actually render (blank screen every few refreshes). It's yet to be shown that Flipboard and Path are actually a good idea. A...
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Apple’s boring hardware updates - remi http://www.marco.org/4222285032 ====== jrockway _... LTE chipset (which currently has coverage almost nowhere)_ Whoa! Marco is beginning to sound more annoying than Gruber. The Apple fanbois make statements like this all the time -- Apple doesn't support something, so therefore...
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Ask HN: Review our startup, PubliciTweet - jmathai http://publicitweet.com ====== dc2k08 First off, great design and layout, very clean and pretty too. It compliments twitter well. However, it's not clear to me what the service does. The first feature listed on the 'what you get page' says: PubliciTweet is a social ...
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I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream For Freemium - MRonney http://tech.li/2012/02/ceo-sunday-i-scream-you-scream-we-all-scream-for-freemium/ ====== zepcatsal First article by CodeSquare.me founder on Tech.li ------ lucidcircus Well said.
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Ask HN: For those who overcame long-term procrastination, how did you do it? - hkyeti Any behaviours, tools or other that helped you? Trying to make some positive changes in the new year ====== znpy Just realizing that stuff won't get done automagically. Some problems will actually solve themselves if you ignore the...
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Shopify Files for Proposed Initial Public Offering - shakes https://www.shopify.com/blog/18032644-shopify-files-for-proposed-initial-public-offering ====== bonzoT It amazes me how many IPOs are happening. This seems like the 1990s again....
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What point on mainland of the Netherlands is furthest away from any buildings? - Mz http://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/87917/what-point-on-the-main-land-of-the-netherlands-is-furthest-away-from-any-buildin ====== Neliquat That density is impressive, and a little frightening, for reasons I cannot fully articulat...
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Business Method Patents Limited by U.S. Supreme Court - rglovejoy http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-28/business-method-patents-limited-by-u-s-high-court-update1-.html ====== jbooth Thank you, Microsoft and Google. ~~~ tzs IBM's amicus brief was interesting. The said "This judicial direction has resulted in sub...
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Vote: How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use - pchristensen http://azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/ ====== jgrahamc A very neat hack. Now it could be used for other purposes, for example, I could ignore social sites and look at other major sites (e.g. I could see who goes to CNN.com vs. FoxNews.com). ...
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Working While Female - prance https://medium.com/@nickyknacks/working-while-female-59a5de3ad266#.lplkdlvui ====== prance The previous post[1] to this has been baselessly flagged, so I'm reposting it. [1][https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13836588)
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Carl Icahn just started a blog - lots of rants - dangoldin http://www.icahnreport.com/ ====== dcurtis Wow, I thought he was just some obnoxious prick, but he's actually an extremely intelligent guy. He gets American business. ~~~ henning A lot of blogs run by high-profile business figures are wishy-washy buzzword-...
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Programming is terrible; so learn to enjoy it - barake https://walledcity.com/supermighty/programming-is-terrible-so-learn-to-enjoy-it ====== was_hellbanned I think programming is great, it's people that are terrible. People write horrible APIs and document them poorly (ugh, Microsoft's SetupAPI put me into burnout...
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How to get into microservices real quick - MartinGoodwell https://blog.ruxit.com/microservices/ ====== prohor You can also get a nice set of microservices resources, just searching HN, ranked by points generated, so with good social proof they are good: [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=microservices&sort=byPopularit......
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Google Would Love to Bring RCS to Your Phone, but US Carriers Are Bad - Corrado https://www.droid-life.com/2019/07/28/google-would-love-to-bring-rcs-to-your-phone-but-us-carriers-are-bad/ ====== theamk What is the appeal of the carrier-based messaging like RCS? My experience with various carriers was that the feature...
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Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation - vasco_ http://blog.unbabel.com/post/75063388957/translation-api ====== etrain This type of crowdsourcing meets ML is a really nice example of where we can leverage humans and machines to the best of their current abilities. It would be great if the feedback...
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China's Restructuring Scheme Is Screwed - 11thEarlOfMar http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-plan-is-screwed-2015-7 ====== BurgersAndFries This is going to be a painful lesson for the Chinese to learn, but it will hopefully be for the better and a more stable future.
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Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? - nicholjs I started a small dev shop with a group of friends in NYC. We are 3 developers - we do APIs in Ruby or Scala and native iOS development. Our backgrounds are strong, and we have worked on some cool projects together and individually.<p>Since the summer we have...
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What if someone invented a better mousetrap and the world yawned? - edw519 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/technology/08stream.html?=&ei=5124&en=3cbf9c1a8a06c507&ex=1370577600&pagewanted=all ====== thwarted "Consider that Douglas Engelbart invented the mouse in 1964. It was obvious to many people that it was a bet...
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How I Would Design a Programming Degree - alphaoide http://www.kodefuguru.com/post/2012/05/24/How-I-Would-Design-a-Programming-Degree.aspx ====== Peteris Completely disagree about excluding algorithms and data structures among other things. In fact, I would say current curriculums feature much too less of design ski...
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Show HN: Chrome extension to screen record solving project euler/codewars probs - dasqueel https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/brainswole-recorder/jelhidhkljiionbmmdbengnnbghaifip ====== dasqueel OP here When solving a project euler or codewars problem, record your screen and audio while voicing your thought pr...
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Imo.im supporting Skype and Introducing Voice, Video Capability On All Networks - honeytech http://www.honeytechblog.com/imoim-supporting-skype-and-introducing-voice-video-capability-on-all-networks/ ====== senko Interesting that it supports Skype, which is the only protocol in the list that doesn't have third party...
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The Root Cause of Procrastination - cborenstein https://www.indiehackers.com/post/the-root-cause-of-procrastination-0c37b8d650 ====== pmdulaney Thank you. This is insightful. ~~~ cborenstein Glad it was helpful! I also recommend this related article by a psychologist that explains: "When a person fails to begin a p...
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Ask HN: How to learn front-end development as a back-end web developer? - lichtenberger Hi, maybe it&#x27;s best starting with a book&#x2F;course about plain Javascript, as I always feel overwhelmed by all those Javascript frontend frameworks (or typescript)!?<p>That said it would probably be best to write code in Kot...
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Dispelling the New SSL Myth - wglb http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx ====== burgerbrain The issue here seems to be that the author doesn't seem to really understand the concept of "expensive". "Expensive" is relative, and while yes, SSL does require more nu...
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NodeMCU based Totoro figure that indicates the weather forecast through its eyes - jgrahamc https://github.com/jgrahamc/totoro ====== jgrahamc See also: [http://blog.jgc.org/2017/04/a-totoro-to-forecast- weather.htm...](http://blog.jgc.org/2017/04/a-totoro-to-forecast-weather.html)
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Oracle Whitepaper: The Department of Defense and Open Source Software - queeerkopf https://blogs.oracle.com/WebLogicServer/entry/whitepaper_the_department_of_defense ====== queeerkopf direct link to the whitepaper: [http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/cloud-app- found...](http://www.oracle.com/us/products/m...
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Ask HN: What are possible drawbacks of using a company in Singapore? - ianderf What are possible drawbacks of using a company in Singapore for selling software online, targeting the clients in USA, EU and UK mainly - wrt the ease of doing business, possible double taxation, etc? (I&#x27;m not a citizen of any of those...
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Write and Submit your first Linux kernel Patch - ahmicro http://ontwik.com/linux/write-and-submit-your-first-linux-kernel-patch/ ====== augustl In case you don't watch the whole video: <http://kernelnewbies.org/> A great starting point for kernel hacking. ------ steevdave Greg is an all around stand up guy. I pers...
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Ask HN: Why did OS X win out over Linux for so many developers? - coned88 ====== im_down_w_otp It's the best possible bridge platform for *nix development. POSIX enough that tools and environments work pretty well without a mountain of hacks and workarounds (e.g. Cygwin). Mac enough that the user experience is cohere...
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Ask HN: Should I learn Ruby on Rails or Python? - anantzoid I'm familiar to C and C++ syntax and plan to learn a new and more powerful programming language this winter. Should I go for Python 2.x(since I'll be working on linux)or shall I learn Ruby on Rails? I want a more versatile language since I'll may change pla...
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How to use metrics in a startup - charlieirish http://swombat.com/2011/2/10/how-to-use-metrics-in-a-startup ====== visakanv I was just reading something that's related and yet totally different- about the US Army grappling with whether or not to use kill counts as a public metric. The answer tends to be "it depends". ...
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Tor at the Heart: OnionShare - BuuQu9hu https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-heart-onionshare ====== noonespecial Downside: Slow as molasses in January. (1) Upside: Dodges nearly all forms of NAT and most content filters so long as the server's Tor Browser is set to use only port 443. You can just pop it open in any ...
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Easily render D3 examples in Node.js - bradoyler https://github.com/bradoyler/d3-node ====== bradoyler See examples in repo, that output svg or png
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HoloLens 2 Remote Collaboration is fake? - GlebBraverman Facebook, Twitter and other media are still rumbling on the news from MWC-19 and Microsoft release of its HoloLens 2 with “Spatial” remote collaboration demo. The project was presented by Spatial team and CTO of Mattel (iconic toy producer). The crowd is super-...
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JQuery 2.0 ends WinXP support - Good. - th3byrdm4n http://skyhighcode.blogspot.com/2012/07/jquery-future-kills-winxp-good.html ====== greenyoda The title is not an accurate statement. JQuery 2.0 will not support Internet Explorer 8 or below. While IE 9 does not run on XP, other modern browsers such as Chrome or Fire...
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Solving the Expression Problem with Clojure 1.2 - Kototama http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-clojure-protocols/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Duplicates, but with no discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2014181> <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2007700> Related: <http://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Show HN: splashbe.at, a force graph of Wikipedia's list of music styles - haon99 http://splashbe.at ====== mistercow Not the most graphically efficient demo I've ever seen, but neat. ------ davedx Seems totally random or broken. Whatever is on screen is completely unrelated (IMHO) and clicking on one thing takes yo...
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The Top 35 Startup TechCrunch Missed out on this month - chehoebunj http://www.startupplays.com/blog/top-35-startups-in-tech-that-techcrunch-missed-out-on-%E2%80%93-september-2012/ ====== betterlabs Awesome - glad to see PicBackMan on the list. We are excited about our mission to end photo backup anxiety for everyon...
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Show HN: My current App Store Featured Game was written entirely in Scheme - rrradical https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cloud-breaker/id721767500?mt=8 ====== Shivetya After reading the story I just have to recall stories from the guys who flew and serviced F4s, they joked they could fly without either wing simply becau...
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GFI apologizes for false alarm on Samsung keyloggers - woan http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215396/GFI_apologizes_for_false_alarm_on_Samsung_keyloggers?source=rss_news&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+computerworld%2Fnews%2Ffeed+%28Latest+from+Computerworld%29 ====== billybob TL;DR - ...
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Show HN: Pinecone – Build your own genetically-encoded tools - jfarlow https://serotiny.bio/notes/pinecone/ ====== jfarlow Justin here, cofounder of Serotiny. We've built a web-app to make the design and organization of synthetic genetic constructs efficient, cheap and effective. We've built an abstraction layer to en...
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Computer algorithms create and 3D-print a terrifying, 'Alien'-style altar - jonbaer http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/16/4737456/digital-grotesque-3d-printed-sandstone-room-resembles-hr-giger ====== atrilumen I wonder why it has to be printed in sections. How long before it becomes possible to print an entire building i...
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Introducing Circl: An Advanced Cryptographic Library from Cloudflare - yarapavan https://new.blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-circl/ ====== yarapavan Github repo: [http://github.com/cloudflare/circl](http://github.com/cloudflare/circl)
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Giving up on Julia - ingve http://zverovich.net/2016/05/13/giving-up-on-julia.html ====== KenoFischer Happy to address these points: - Startup performance/memory usage Yes, we are definitely very acutely aware of these. Julia is not currently optimized for frequently run short scripts. That's th...
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Delivering Wow Customer Service: An Interview with Valerie Liberty from Balsamiq - prateekdayal http://blog.supportbee.com/2010/12/02/delivering-wow-customer-service-an-interview-with-valerie-liberty-from-balsamiq/ ====== wallflower Excellent interview. > Peldi started Balsamiq on nights and weekends, and now it’s ...
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Computer-driven cars will convulse the automotive industry - evo_9 http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131130/AUTO01/311300015/1148/AUTO01/Computer-driven-cars-will-convulse-automotive-industry ====== nakedrobot2 There is a hint of what a full society of self-driven cars will be like in _Rainbows End_ by Vernor Vinge...
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Why is enterprise software so bad? - techdog http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-is-enterprise-software-so-bad.html ====== vladimir 1\. Development process is led by managers, not developers. 2\. Developers frequently work under time / budget pressure. 3\. Money is the only stimulus, so the developers try to ...
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Show HN: Benchmark your AngularJS application easily - robinbressan https://github.com/RobinBressan/ng-benchmark ====== Bahamut The benchmarks could be misleading, given that it stores a reference to the element and attrs - I'd expect it to possibly mess with the garbage collecting, thus not giving you a true benchm...
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The Technology That Could Free America from Quarantine - mmhsieh https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/contact-tracing-could-free-america-from-its-quarantine-nightmare/609577/ ====== jjgreen Does anyone seriously believe that the various 3-letter agencies will keep their nasty little fingers off this? And ...
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Revealed: the first ever picture of the sun's north pole - sahin-boydas https://www.newscientist.com/article/2187161-revealed-the-first-ever-picture-of-the-suns-north-pole/ ====== Alex_Fragd Praise the Sun!
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Ask HN: Is it feasible to create a Twitter Client in 2020? - MH15 I have been toying with a plan for a custom Twitter client, but have heard that Twitter has made it more difficult to build custom clients. If anyone has information on this I&#x27;d be glad. ====== cocktailpeanuts no.
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Amazon Fire TV Stick - ramanujam http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GDQ0RMG/ ====== chaostheory It's currently $19.99 (if you're a Prime Member) for two days. Discount is applied at checkout. I'm pretty happy with Amazon Fire; it's Google TV done right. Hopefully this USB stick is just as good. If you already have a Roku ...
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Y Combinator Challenge #17 - New Payment Methods - toffer http://astartupaday.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/y-combinator-challenge-17-new-payment-methods/ ====== ROFISH The biggest problem in this space isn't a transaction system, the coding, or even the idea. I highly doubt that companies are willing to 'share' their virt...
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Narcissistic CEO bully threatens lawsuit - andrewbadera http://blog.badera.us/2010/04/oldie-but-goodie-narcissistic-ceo-bully.html ====== sjsivak I have been sent a handful of these spammy emails. I would not be so concerned if they did not start out with a straight up lie. The emails I see always have something like,...
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Distributed Mass Customization: Is Etsy the Next eBay? - naish http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/etsy_ebay_distributed_mass_customization.php ====== Olgaar I'v been amazed by the way that Etsy and other sites like Hyenacart have queitly been growing in the background, with not much significant media coverage, but...
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Apple crushes one-man repair shop in Norway’s Supreme Court - Krasnol https://repair.eu/news/apple-crushes-one-man-repair-shop/ ====== Improvotter From what I hear, this isn't only about repairing iPhones. In a previous court proceedings the man was ordered to remove the logos from Apple because he imported the parts ...
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Yahoo Grabs 10% Stake in Alibaba.com IPO - luccastera http://www.redherring.com/Home/22948 ====== rms I would get in on this IPO if I had a large amount of spare cash burning a whole in my pocket.
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Kibana forked to support SQL and cross index joins in Elasticsearch - szydan http://siren.solutions/kibi-a-kibana-fork-for-data-intelligence/ ====== joflaherty Kibi – Data Intelligence Browser is a really excellent fork of Kibana for Data Intelligence use cases. Check it out at [http://siren.solutions/kibi-a-kibana- f...
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There May Be Money in Internet Art After All (1999) - mattbierner http://spiller.si/new-york-times/ ====== pjc50 It's interesting to see how the predictions have diverged. Internet penetration into "gallery art" basically hasn't happened at all. Cynical people would say this is because it's unrelated to artistic value...
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Experimenting with mob programming to rebuild the gov.uk Verify front end - robin_reala https://identityassurance.blog.gov.uk/2016/02/26/experimenting-with-mob-programming-to-rebuild-the-gov-uk-verify-frontend/ ====== CraigJPerry The fact that this worked for me, I later came to learn, was a symptom of an underlying l...
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Proposed solution to Microsoft's game licensing policies - tpetrina http://www.tonicodes.net/blog/proposed-solution-to-microsofts-game-licensing-policies/ ====== cbhl "In worst case your game will be played on two consoles" While you and I might think this is acceptable, I don't expect video game publishers would b...
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YCNYC discussion thread - RockyMcNuts Didn't see one, so maybe an area for comments, suggestions for the next one, meetups, desperate pleas for co-founders! ====== dgunn Was anyone else expecting that many people? I was very surprised. I overheard one of the ushers say something like 800. Does anyone know the actual...
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Equifax CEO to Congress: Not Sure We Are Encrypting Data - boyd https://www.wsj.com/articles/equifax-ceo-to-congress-not-sure-we-are-encrypting-data-1510180486?mod=yahoo_hs&yptr=yahoo ====== tptacek Encryption wouldn't have mattered here. To a pretty good first approximation, none of the "encryption" done at scale at ...
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What do you do when you get bored? - zbruhnke Ok so I realize how random this topic seems, but this is a real problem for me.<p>As a long time programmer and self proclaimed workaholic I dont do this terribly often, but every so often I hit what I would like to think is the programmer's equivalent of "Writer's block...
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Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft - frik https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/06/microsoft_windows_10_creators_update/ ====== uranian Most striking for me is not only access to your documents, but also: >events generated by the operating system, and your "inking and typing data." Sounds like a...
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San Francisco bans facial recognition technology by municipal agencies - dcschelt https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban-san-francisco.html ====== jasaloo seeing plenty of comments along the lines of "don't they have better things to do?" please remember that there are coalitions of activists ad...
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Button Basics - heycarsten http://jacojoubert.ca/post/7210637533/button-basics ====== orionlogic No body is mentioning but the tutorial is really descriptive in content where much of the design tutorials on the web lacks. It explains each design step, not 'how to do it' but 'why to do it', which i think developer mi...
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Intel i7-4770k overclocked to 8.0 GHz - ttoti http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Haswell-Overclock-i7-4770K,22454.html ====== jwfergus I'm skeptical. I don't know the exact breakpoint, but pushing enough power through the small (and very dense) circuits of a processor can't go beyond a certain level based on our...
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Family Asked To Leave Southwest Flight After Tweet - Deinos http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2014/07/22/family-asked-to-leave-sw-plane-after-tweet/ ====== 01Michael10 Let me get this straight... Southwest monitors for negative tweets that hashtag them and if one is found they match the account to their passenger list? ...
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Quintus - An Easy, Fun HTML5 Game Engine For Mobile, Desktop and Beyond - Hirvesh http://html5quintus.com/ ====== cykod Author here, just saw this pop up. The engine isn't really in a released state yet and doesn't have a numbered released yet (darn lack of docs), but it's been used internally for a number of proje...
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GitHub is down - ekianjo http://www.github.com/. ====== cyptus [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380608](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13380608)
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Ask HN: Options to display weather info for world-wide locations? - sagacity http:getLocalNe.ws - our new site has individual pages for about 9,000 locations across some 240 countries world-wide. We wish to display current weather info (buttons) for as many of these locations as we can.<p>We've already implemented A...
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Booking.com donates $60000 to Perl development - oneandoneis2 http://news.perlfoundation.org/2014/10/bookingcom-donates-60000-to-pe.html ====== wsc981 Doesn't surprise me. Booking.com has been searching for Perl developers (or people willing to learn Perl) for ages[0], which makes it clear that Perl is important for...
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Ask HN: Which Is Better for You and Why, Amazon Echo Dot or Google Home Mini? - chirau I am trying to get some last minute discount gifts for friennds. One is a couple and the other a single lady. I am wondering which one would be better for either.<p>What has been your experience with either of these products and wha...
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"Rockstar" RoR Developers Needed in Northern VA - lwarren Currently hiring four Ruby on Rails Developers to work with our team to build the core of our application. While we can't discuss the application publicly, we can tell you that it's an exciting, challenging and growing product in an open source environment. E...
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Ask HN: What do you think of implementing Gravatars in a social site? - akos Or maybe should I allow the user to upload their own avatar or maybe link it from elsewhere on the web? ====== whichdan Why not all three? Pull the Gravatar by default, and let them choose between: [] No avatar [] Use your Gravatar [] Uplo...
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Ruby fad going out? - eVizitei http://www.codecommit.com/blog/ruby/the-end-of-the-ruby-fad ====== davidw Yeah, it's terrible. I started an app in Ruby last year, had to switch to Erlang, and now Scala...
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Kops 101- the Kubernetes Deployment Game-Changer - dpolstra https://www.reactiveops.com/blog/kops-101-the-kubernetes-deployment-game-changer/ ====== alpb This turned out to be a more marketing/consulting post than I expected. It says 101 on the tin box, I expected to see a small demo or links to documentation.
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PrimeNG - myxlptlk http://www.primefaces.org/primeng/ ====== emsy As someone who spent a long time with JSF, I can say that using angular on top of JSF is one of the worst ideas I can think of. Not that using JSF itself is any better. My hatred for this technology is sincere. ~~~ LoneWolf From what I see this is not ...
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Show HN: How to Make an AWS S3 Static Website with SSL - greatamerican https://www.josephecombs.com/2018/03/05/how-to-make-an-AWS-S3-static-website-with-ssl ====== subway This works, but it leaves all traffic between the CloudFront edge node and S3 unencrypted. In theory, that shouldn't be an issue, by why risk it? A...
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First Licks of "Two Scoops of Django" - JMill http://www.jmillville.com/first-licks-of-two-scoops-of-django/ ====== JMill This was written as a 'memory crutch' while learning Django and synthesizing the content in Greenfeld's and Roy's new book, "Two Scoops of Django" [1]. I hope it helps other novices for learning ...
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Twitter Facts & Figures - aditya http://www.socialbrandingblog.com/199/twitter-facts-figures-infographic/#more-199 ====== alexro The Pareto principle in action: 20% tweeted more than 10 times, 80% less 10 and 41% (of total) not at all. So 20% of users are the true twitter user base, which is about 20 million. ~~~ a...
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Taboola ($157mm VC funding) partners with malware; Akamai and Amazon complicit - momscomputer I&#x27;m at my moms house for Mother&#x27;s Day weekend and cleaned her computer after she told me she was getting a lot of popups. One of the frequent popups was for a site called suchhappy.com which looks like a BuzzFeed&#x...
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Bootes: AI-powered writer that writes referral email based on info from the net - davidyapdy Bootes: An AI-powered email writer that writes referral email based on info from the net. ====== bradknowles Got a link? The normal link just takes me to this HN page.
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Show HN: CoderNews - hodgesmr https://github.com/hodgesmr/CoderNews ====== arvidjanson Oh, please don't do this: "Historically, these features [vote ups and comments] are hard to use on small devices and I want to make an app that is easy to use." I understand that you want to make a minimal app (personal preferen...
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Ban Killer Robots Before They’re a Problem, Say Human Rights Activists - swohns http://betabeat.com/2012/11/killer-robots-human-rights-watch-drones-weapons/ ====== swohns 2 fold problem: we see that replacing troops with drones could save US military lives, but it would make going to war an easier. This would increase...
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Show HN: Animated bubble charts (bubblecharts.js) - hirak99 http://randomexperiment.com/experiments/javascript/bubblecharts/timeplot.html ====== faycalz I like the animation, it's an interesting way to show time series. If I were you, I would explore opportunities to build animated charts of all types (there's a cha...
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Show HN: Smoove Text. An inspiration discovery platform - fspacef https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smoove-text/id1362792811?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 ====== fspacef Product page with video if you have a droid. [https://farhanf.github.io/smoovelanding/](https://farhanf.github.io/smoovelanding/)
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The Little Book of Semaphores [pdf] - rspivak http://www.greenteapress.com/semaphores/downey08semaphores.pdf ====== rubiquity Just coming here to give my usual thank you/plug to Allen B. Downey for all of his wonderfully written (and free!) books. Aside from The Little Book of Semaphores, here are a few of my favorite...
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Show HN: A data science fellowship to solve the world’s toughest problems - pyduan http://www.bayesimpact.org/fellowship ====== micro_cam I appreciate what you guys are trying to do but I can't seen many mathematicians or statisticians applying for this unless you provide a little more information about what these "...
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Traction Book available for pre-order – G. Weinberg (DuckDuckGo) and J. Mares - kearney927 http://www.tractionbook.com/ ====== yegg Co-author here. I actually started exploring this book topic in late 2009 through an initial series of open-ended interviews that were discussed on HN (when it was much more startup foc...
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Ask HN: Anyone know of any opportunities in the Bay Area for a good teacher? - aerovistae I&#x27;ve been working as a software developer for 2 years now after finishing my CS degree, and frankly it&#x27;s not my thing. I love programming! But I hate working in an office on a computer all day, 8+ hours a day.<p>I&#x2...
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John Carmack on Developing the Netflix App for Oculus - vquemener http://techblog.netflix.com/2015/09/john-carmack-on-developing-netflix-app.html ====== omouse John Carmack is a good role model for any techies that move up to management. If you want to keep in touch with the base tech that your devs are using, you hav...
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Ask HN: New device, webapp and API to track your stuff, input appreciated - stowaware_jeff I&#x27;ve been working the last few months to create a easy to use low cost device for personal tracking called StowAware (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;stowaware.com) and just started shipping orders. The basic idea is a black box that ...
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WebHooks and WebSockets in ASP.NET - nirajs http://www.entechsolutions.com/hooks-and-sockets-for-web-apps#more-423 ====== vyrotek Good stuff. Has anyone used SignalR before? I imagine it's a lot easier to use that instead of rolling your own. <https://github.com/SignalR/SignalR> ~~~ ragesh Yes, SignalR is awesome. E...
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