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IOS 5 brings the innovations - guelo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq-e0getf4M ====== guelo It's not copying, really. It's just good design. Except when it's Samsung, then it's stealing.
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The internet has made defensive writers of us all - dkarapetyan https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-11/defensive-writing.html ====== kornish A great quote from the article: "The defensive writing style also encourages another sort of ugliness, which is that “avoiding saying something wrong” becomes a primary focus of...
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Show HN: Everything about your movies from the command line - iCHAIT https://github.com/iCHAIT/moviemon ====== jpstory I like the idea! Unfortunately I hit an error at 33% of my scan: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/bin/moviemon", line 9, in <module> load_entry_point('moviemon==1.0.11', 'console_s...
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Ask HN: Developer workstation setup to promote startup culture? - dotBen We’re a new startup, about to bring developers on the payroll and have them work out of our new office space.<p>I’m interested to hear HN’ers views on how best to set up developer’s workstations to promote both the startup mentality we want and a...
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Ukrainian astronomers: "Asteroid could collide with Earth in 2032" - galaktor http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/10388090/Asteroid-could-collide-with-Earth-in-2032-say-Ukrainian-astronomers.html ====== galaktor from the article: Nasa played down the possibility of impact, with Don Yeoman, manager of the admin...
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Is medium.com messing with archive sites? - awjr An article was deleted earlier today and I tried to view it using google cache http:&#x2F;&#x2F;webcache.googleusercontent.com&#x2F;search?q=cache:443n-Pc8f-wJ:https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;%40wob&#x2F;the-sad-state-of-web-development-1603a861d29f+&amp;cd=1&amp;hl=e...
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World's Greatest Extra - DanielRibeiro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdEBu7ODVk8 ====== PankajGhosh First this seemed unreal, then probable.... and then I was able to find him... Jesse Heiman <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1035503/>
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State Dept.: Clinton IT aide's email archive is lost - a3n http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/279233-state-dept-claims-to-have-no-emails-from-clinton-it-aide ====== luso_brazilian See also the "Bush White House email controversy": [1] _> The "gwb43.com" domain name was publicized by Citizens for Responsibil...
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Most honest cities - snambi http://www.rd.com/slideshows/most-honest-cities-lost-wallet-test/ ====== function_seven Any statisticians want to chime in here? How many wallets should be dropped in each city before you can reasonably rank them? Or, is it statistically significant that Lisbon was 1/12, while Helsinki was ...
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What is the use of Url shortners? - panchpunt I want to understand the significance of Url shortning websites and short url besides their use in micro-blogging sites and advertising/campaigning. ====== sim0n When services like Twitter limit your messages to 140 characters, you don't want to waste 50 characters on a ...
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Boost your command line productivity with "fasd" - clvv https://github.com/clvv/fasd ====== johng This looks supremely useful. Anyone here using it?
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Choosing the right stack for your web application - fallenhitokiri http://www.hopelesscom.de/2012/9/9/my_stack_is_bigger_than_yours_-_ranting_about_web_applications_and_scalability.html ====== tonecluster I'll be a contrarian here: don't use mega-frameworks (Django, Rails). Instead, use micro-frameworks. Stay away f...
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Ask HN: What do you do to enhance/protect your privacy online? - hajderr E.g.<p>* incognito always * tor browser * switched X app for Y<p>...<p>For me it&#x27;s on a basic level: incognito mode block cookies as much as I can ====== Nextgrid No accounts with any kind of social media or ad-supported service except if r...
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Ways to Learn to Program Online - iProject http://thenextweb.com/dd/2012/10/21/so-you-want-to-be-a-programmer-huh-heres-25-ways-to-learn-online/ ====== jasim Check out <http://rubymonk.com> as well for learning Ruby interactively. We've a free Ruby Primer series that covers the basics of Ruby and a paid subscription...
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Wikipedia bans agenda-driven editor, but punishes the messenger too - k1m https://wikipedia.fivefilters.org/banning/ ====== bhouston Wikipedia internal solidarity politics are just messed up if you approach the inner circle. There is no fixing it. There is a lot of behind the scenes back scratching, horse trading, and...
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New kernel.org - mrnil https://www.kernel.org/category/site-news.html ====== kristopolous Here's what I did on the old kernel.org: 1\. I typed in www.kernel.org 2\. I looked for the new kernel on the page that loaded. 3\. I clicked on the link and my download started. On the new kernel.org: 1\. I type in www.ke...
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Google Analytics Premium vs. Standard - benblodgett http://www.google.com/analytics/premium/features.html ====== jonah For a flat annual fee of $150,000. Contact sales for more information.
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Responsive Typography - maguay http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography/ ====== nicholassmith This is no criticism, but for an article on responsive type/design seeing the page being slightly off in terms of fluidity made me smile. Try resizing the article down as narrowly as you can, for me it brou...
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When Your Customer is Your Competitor: The Return of Roll Your Own - andrewvc http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/01/12/roll-your-own/ ====== grumpycanuck I know it seems obvious, but determining when to create your own tech instead of using or extending existing solutions is tough. Even tougher given the tendency of pe...
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Git Repo of Police Brutality During the 2020 George Floyd Protests - Glench https://github.com/2020PB/police-brutality#hn ====== tedunangst If you think there's missing context, submit a pull request with a link? Here in philly, police insisted they tear gassed protestors because they were in imminent danger. Two wee...
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Part of Ham Radio AMPRnet IPv4 Space Sold to Amazon - benburwell https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/ ====== cereal_console A response I saw on the 44net mailing list: On 7/18/19 10:57 PM, Majdi S. Abbas wrote: What's interesting about this is it was not an ARIN allocation, and the ARDC fol...
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Next.js 7 - lxe https://nextjs.org/blog/next-7 ====== ldthorne Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especially given how few people are working on this full time -- it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who...
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TLS 1.2 Support Added to Chromium - QUFB https://chromiumcodereview.appspot.com/14772023 ====== ctz Anyone one know if GCM is coming soon? ~~~ wtbob It's a little odd to me that so few folks support GCM. It's not that difficult to implement (I've done so, in my free time), it's patent unencumbered and it's extremel...
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Is Android Leaving the Door Open for Microsoft Windows Phone - ariels http://aseidman.com/2010/07/android-leaving-the-door-open-for-microsoft-windows-phone-7/ ====== sabj I have to disagree with part of what seems to be the thesis here, which is that the smartphone market is a zero-sum game of some kind, and that An...
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Ask HN: No Link to Hacker News on Reply/Submit - orky56 This is a question to the YC&#x2F;HN team as much to the HN community. When submitting a new post or replying to an existing thread, the navigation at the top completely disappears outside of a link to YC. I don&#x27;t have the option to go to Hacker News directl...
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After 37 years, Voyager has fired up its trajectory thrusters - lisper https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/12/after-37-years-voyager-has-fired-up-its-trajectory-thrusters/ ====== botskonet Voyager is probably the _most_ badass awesome thing ever. Every single aspect of space travel is an engineering/mathematic/scien...
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InfluxCloud: Managed InfluxDB Clusters and Grafana on AWS - pauldix https://influxdata.com/blog/announcing-influxcloud-fully-managed-influxdb-clusters-on-aws/ ====== ramanathanrv I was expecting this for a while now. But the pricing part isn't very clear. Is it $149 per instance or for the solution itself? Could be be...
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Why do you use Foursquare (or Gowalla)? - nicholasreed What is the appeal of Foursquare/Gowalla? Is the value in the competition, or exploring new places? What makes you pull it out of your pocket to check-in? ====== jasonlbaptiste I deleted both off of my iphone. Random people Ive never met started adding me on gow...
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San Francisco median one bedroom apartment rent hits a new peak of $3,690 - vector_spaces https://www.cnet.com/news/san-franciscos-outrageous-rent-hits-a-new-peak-highest-in-the-us/ ====== dthal Note that Zumper is _not_ a reliable source for median rent data. CityObservatory wrote an article about their data problems...
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Locate with IP Geolocation - lamerske https://getipdata.com/ ====== evlinston Excellent experience. Quite precise geolocation and good support
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How I Learned to Write Electrical Engineering Specifications - e-_pusher https://iskender.ee/EE-Specs/ ====== a12k_ “ became clear to me that learning how to write a specification was going to be my hardest learn-on-the-job experience yet. Why? Because I was actually having an unlearn-on-the-job experience.” —> conce...
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Show HN: Crowd Puzzle - Realtime puzzles with friends - x0ner Hey guys,<p>This is my first true release of something I feel is pretty cool to HN. I started building this site with the idea that pieces could be purchased through micro payments. Winners of solving the puzzle would get some sort of prize and could buil...
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How DreamHost Builds Its Cloud: Selecting Microprocessors - randoramax https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/2016/09/26/dreamhost-builds-cloud-selecting-microprocessors/ ====== itomato I expected more from you, DreamHost. This blog reads like a first-time DIYPC build retrospective. > The most common instruction set you will...
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Tell HN: You know who needs content? Patients in hospitals - caseyalbert I just met an elderly woman in the hospital today. She has been bedridden for a month, in serious but stable condition. In speaking with her, the thing she longs for the most, besides company, is something to read. Books, magazines, anything po...
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Ask HN: Does anybody have experience using Ubuntu 14.04 on a Macbook Pro? - agnivade I have looked around in the internet and there are a couple of blogs showing how to do it. But there seems to be a lot of issues around it too. I dont want to buy a MBP and then regret because Ubuntu does not work on it.<p>How has y...
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Twitter Is Pushing Celebrities and Publishers to Stop Using Meerkat - simas http://techcrunch.com/2015/04/12/this-stream-aint-big-enough-for-the-both-of-us/ ====== ultimape Lost me at 'sources say'. ------ tomglindmeier Meerkat will have no chance against Periscope with the support of Twitter. In two years we will ...
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How Did Things Ever Get This Good? (2009) - luu http://prog21.dadgum.com/51.html ====== apta Productivity is not the only argument. What happened to performance and correctness for example? ~~~ Spearchucker Both ( _especially_ the second) are subjective. In the context of an arbitrary objective even BASIC may be a ...
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Project Rider – A C# IDE - ingve http://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2016/01/13/project-rider-a-csharp-ide/ ====== danielcarvalho JetBrains is deadly. IntelliJ IDEA is simply the best tool I've ever used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Incredibly intuitive and it does it all. It's what Photoshop is for de...
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The Perils of Peak Attention - benbreen https://newrepublic.com/article/137107/perils-peak-attention ====== sotojuan I've been experimenting with using my phone as little as possible. When I'm out, I put it in my backpack or pocket on silent. At the very most, I'll use it for music. I try really hard to not pull it ou...
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MixPanel Platform - pelle http://mixpanel.com/api/docs/guides/platform ====== sahillavingia What a brilliant idea. What do people think of this UI switch-up (from an ameteur designer trying to get better)? [http://f.cl.ly/items/88b19cf0a0964af0e53d/Screen%20shot%2020...](http://f.cl.ly/items/88b19cf0a0964af0e53d/Scre...
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The Acquisition King: Reckitt Benckiser - escapist16 https://aalokbhatawadekar.in/2020/07/08/reckitt-benckiser/ ====== escapist16 Reckitt Benckinser or RB as we know it today owes a great amount of its growth to the outstanding acquisitions that it had done in the past. The author has listed many such acquisitions and...
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Why Spotify Will Kill iTunes - jjhageman http://www.businessweek.com/management/why-spotify-will-kill-itunes-07222011.html ====== kylec I think his argument is pretty weak. Sure, for tech-savvy people that buy a lot of music, going with the flat pricing of Spotify makes sense, as does the convenience of not having to ...
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Australia's Home Affairs department proposes making telcos retain MAC addresses - pdemporg https://www.zdnet.com/article/home-affairs-floats-making-telcos-retain-mac-addresses-and-port-numbers/ ====== pdemporg The fact that most MAC addresses are not visible to the ISP behind NAT anyway is not the point, given the Dep...
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StumbleUpon’s Su.pr is Really... Super - muimui http://www.brentcsutoras.com/2009/06/09/stumbleupons-supr-super/ ====== noodle too bad that its going to probably bury the recently released <http://peashootapp.com/> which is pretty similar. ~~~ pantsd except that costs money
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Six Days in North Korea - tswartz http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/06/10/world/asia/north-korea-photos-video.html?_r=0 ====== Zirro For those who would like to follow North Korea on a more than casual basis, these sites are likely to be of interest: * NK News ([http://nknews.org](http://nknews.org)) * DailyNK...
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Ask HN: Making money during college? - quizbiz What did you do to bring in some income during college? I plan to take studies seriously but I also need to bring in some cash. ====== matttah If you have HTML/CSS and basic website skills you can get a fair amount of money from Craigslist very easily. Additionaly, see ...
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YIMBY Hackathon - sutro https://yimbyaction.org/hackathon/ ====== livingparadox More information on the group hosting the hackathon: [https://yimbyaction.org/about/](https://yimbyaction.org/about/) It looks like its intended to work on anti-NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) solutions; So YIMBY stands for "Yes In My Backyar...
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Challenges and Trade-offs in Building a Web-scale Real-time Analytics System - benblack http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2011/02/11/ChallengesAndTradeoffsInBuildingAWebscaleRealtimeAnalyticsSystem.aspx ====== barista Impressive. We were building a high dimensional cube just last year for some click stream analysis. ...
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Overseas outsourcing and intellectual property - andrewtbham how do you cover your liability if you use overseas sub-contractors with regard to non-competes, intellectual property, ndas etc. especially if they are not in the US. How can you enforce them? I am going to talk with a lawyer, but wondered if anyone ha...
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Fracking in North America could be partly to blame for methane spike – study - colinprince https://www.newsweek.com/fracking-u-s-canada-worldwide-atmospheric-methane-spike-1454205 ====== btilly [https://www.wired.com/story/atmospheric-methane-levels- are-g...](https://www.wired.com/story/atmospheric-methane-levels-are...
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Google Shifts Ads (To The Left) - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/11/google-shifts-ads-to-the-left/ ====== ujjwalg The fact that they have made a choice to increase their profits while compromising on user convenience is a completely opposite direction of what google was based upon IMO. Google is a company I ...
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The PC is dead. Why no angry nerds? - pauljonas http://futureoftheinternet.org/the-pc-is-dead-why-no-angry-nerds ====== typicalrunt _Why no angry nerds?_ Because nerds are still using their PCs to create mobile and web-based software. The PC may (just may) be dead for the hordes of average consumers out there, but it...
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Thanks, but I have accepted another offer - bigfatmonkey https://medium.com/@TreyceMeredith/thanks-but-i-have-accepted-another-offer-aaf90107ddb ====== lightbyte This reads and looks like it was written by a teenager. Quite ironic that it is preaching professionalism. Edit: I did not mean this as "only girls are unpr...
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Slashdot Launches Re-Design - Mithrandir http://meta.slashdot.org/story/11/01/25/163257/Slashdot-Launches-Re-Design ====== jessriedel I was hoping Slashdot was going to reduce the huge amount of padding around each comment, but no luck. For instance, on my screen right now I can fit 13 comments on HN or reddit but no ...
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Boost Your WiFi Signal Using Only a Beer Can - pwg http://dsc.discovery.com/gear-gadgets/boost-your-wifi-signal-using-only-a-beer-can.html ====== Mavrik How does that work on MIMO routers? ;)
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Firefox now 19% market share, eating more of MSIE's lunch - fromedome http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/mozilla-gets-its-guinness-record-firefox-gains-market-share ====== mattmaroon After spending the better part of a year working with web design, I can only pray that this trend continue. ------ bprater Although i...
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Ask HN: Worked for linode? - a_lifters_life Please share your experience ====== db7a11196 Yes. Don't. ~~~ a_lifters_life Why?
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We use too many damn modals (2018) - juancampa https://modalzmodalzmodalz.com/ ====== bedatadriven I was just about to share this our designer, who is always talking me down from modals, when I reached the bottom and discovered that our designer is in fact the author. I seriously can't say enough for this message. Ad...
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Quiz: How's your maths? I got 10/10 - RiderOfGiraffes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3513187.stm ====== rsheridan6 That was too easy for HN. I was expecting something I didn't know in seventh grade - and I'm no math genius, not by a long shot. ------ RiderOfGiraffes Following up from the English quiz, <http:/...
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Care about H1B quotas? Call your congressman - maalyex http://www.contactingthecongress.org/ ====== maalyex The grass roots tech community has had success in the past shaping legislation. Whatever your thoughts are on H1B quotas, let your elected representatives know.
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Add Undo and Redo to Your Web Application With Cappuccino - dawie http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/ajax/add-undo-and-redo-to-your-web-application-with-cappuccino ====== thomasmallen Is anyone here using this framework?
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F8 Facebook Developer Conference - djug https://fbf8.com/ ====== jpgvm I don't know what it is but I really like the design of this site. That out of the way it will be interesting to see what comes out of F8 this year, specifically in relation to Parse - I would be expecting big announcements especially considering ...
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Memory by the Slab: The Tale of Bonwick's Slab Allocator [video] - snw http://paperswelove.org/2015/video/ryan-zezeski-memory-by-the-slab/ ====== bcantrill This paper brings back many great memories -- it's one of those that I can remember the cafe I was in when I first read it -- and Ryan has done an excellent job ca...
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What are potential disadvantages of functional programming? - tosh https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/6pnq7e/what_are_potential_disadvantages_of_functional/ ====== surement Biggest disadvantage for me comes when trying to implement a complex algorithm where the paper uses pseudocode that's imperative (which is ...
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People reject info on existence of a prob if they object to possible solutions - shawndumas http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/04/politics-self-confidence-trump-education-for-climate-change.ars ====== xbryanx Yale's Six America's study is a great companion read to this article. <http://environment.yale.edu/clim...
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How verizon failed to figure out a migration strategy for contacts - smoothgrammer https://twitter.com/smoothgrammer/status/642026817956769792 ====== smoothgrammer Basically, their developers couldn't write a SQL statement to get data from the database holding contacts in their 'old' backup assistant application backe...
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Paypal hits 100m accounts, predicts end of wallet by 2015 - danboarder http://www.thepaypalblog.com/2011/06/paypal-crosses-first-100-million-active-accounts-4/ ====== michaelpinto I think I'd trust anybody but Paypal with my wallet — I once tried tried to delete an account and it seemed to take forever. Owning that ...
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Memoro: A Detailed Heap Profiler - matt_d https://epfl-vlsc.github.io/memoro/ ====== cjhanks Thanks for building, I'll consider in the future. Though, I wish the fracture in C++ compilation wasn't so frustrating. LLVM has really helped pushed the boundary of compiler feedback. But still, GCC wins consistently in my e...
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Beloved Pets Everlasting? - ksvs http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/garden/01clones.html?_r=1 ====== geuis Hmm, its requiring me to register and login to read an article? I thought the major news sites were past this childish mentality. ~~~ kirubakaran bugmenot.com
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Remembering Chris Kraft - selimthegrim https://www.nasa.gov/chris-kraft ====== scj During John Glenn's first orbital flight, an indicator went off, causing concern over the heat shield. Kraft and his team correctly determined the heat shield was fine. His judgement was ignored and he was forced to use an untested and...
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Import Delicious To Google Bookmarks - darkhelmetlive http://blog.darkhax.com/2010/12/16/import-delicious-to-google-bookmarks ====== rsanders This is much faster and doesn't ask for any auth info: <https://gist.github.com/744312> ~~~ darkhelmetlive That's definitely cool. Are there any docs for that "upload" API? It...
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FBI in talks with Apple, Google over device encryption policies - therealmarv http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/25/fbi-apple-privacy-encryption/ ====== swasheck what's (not) shocking is the double-speak. "i believe that nobody is above the law" when that's not been the case for quite a while. additionally, use that as a ca...
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Ask HN: Is python NLTK library still used for word tokenization? - pandeykartikey ====== mlthoughts2018 Yes, I work on a team that uses NLTK for lots of word canonicalization tasks in an NLP-heavy search engine. There are other options that work well too, but we have found NLTK to be very good, even at a large scale. ...
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Pirate Bay to allow real-object downloads - reverend_gonzo http://www.zdnet.com.au/pirate-bay-to-allow-real-object-downloads-339330303.htm ====== kiloaper So this is thingiverse.com but presumably without the prevention of copyright infringement[1]? As a 3D printer owner Thingiverse is awesome. I encourage people to...
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How 4 Mexican Immigrant Kids and Their Cheap Robot Beat MIT (2005) - sriram_sun http://www.wired.com/2014/12/4-mexican-immigrant-kids-cheap-robot-beat-mit/ ====== sriram_sun OK I skimmed through the article. Not much technical content here. The original was published in 2005. Here is what they are doing right now. [...
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Async, embeddable HN share button - igrigorik https://github.com/igrigorik/hackernews-button ====== huhtenberg There's nothing more sad and somewhat pathetic than a "share on... " button with a single digit counter. Perhaps hide the counter if it's under configurable threshold? ~~~ igrigorik That's a good idea. Ide...
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Ask HN: Can anyone recommend a db for managing connected devices in a LAN? - ng-user I&#x27;m looking for an intelligent approach to storing multiple MAC addresses (devices), their status in realtime ie. online vs offline, as well as other generic fields (frequency, IPV4, IPV6, etc.) in presumably a database. I&#x27;v...
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A realtime, platform-agnostic error logging and aggregation platform - wspeirs https://github.com/getsentry/sentry ====== mindcrime FYI, there is another fairly well-known open source project called Sentry: [http://sentry.incubator.apache.org/](http://sentry.incubator.apache.org/) Are they close enough to be consi...
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Sharovipteryx - ag8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharovipteryx ====== bediger4000 The first "restoration" is obviously wrong. The center of lift of a subsonic wing is roughly at the quarter-chord point, which is in front of the beast's hips. The CG of the beast is well forward of that. That restoration is going to ca...
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How Radioactive Poison Became the Assassin’s Weapon of Choice - NN88 https://medium.com/matter/how-radioactive-poison-became-the-assassins-weapon-of-choice-6cfeae2f4b53#.hax0s8sm4 ====== UnoriginalGuy Holy heck this article is all over the place, history of nuclear physics? How radiation works? A full history of every...
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People with multi monitor setups with different DPI, how is your experience? - Secretmapper I&#x27;m thinking of getting a 43&quot; 4k monitor. The real estate is going to be AMAZING.<p>The only thing I&#x27;m worried about is the DPI. I use a 2017 MBPr w&#x2F; a Dell P2415Q, both of which are ~180+ PPI<p>I used to ha...
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Will Node.js forever be the sluggish Golang? - alexhultman https://medium.com/@alexhultman/will-node-js-forever-be-the-sluggish-golang-f632130e5c7a ====== coldtea > _It is productive and elegant, sure, but lacks in performance. Emerging are > projects like Fastify, and hundreds alike. They all aim to provide what > Ex...
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Intel to Develop Discrete GPUs, Hires AMD's Raja Koduri as Chief Architect - namlem https://www.anandtech.com/show/12017/intel-to-develop-discrete-gpus-hires-raja-koduri-as-chief-architect ====== unsigner The connection between "AI" and "GPU" in everyone's mind is a testament to the PR chops of NVIDIA. You don't need ...
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A CQRS Implementation with ASP.Net MVC and Entity Framework - harisb2012 http://web-matters.blogspot.com/2014/08/cqrs-with-aspnet-mvc-entity-framework.html ====== emp_ Dapper was a great fit when we had a pretty ugly Entity Framework 1.1 (eek!) build a few years ago, so all the heavy duty of writing and handling ent...
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Ask HN: I want to learn how to code. Can anyone tell me how to start learning? - theprotagonist Greetings,<p>I am a recent college graduate (as of this past May) and I studied chemistry and physics. I have plans to go to graduate school within a year for theoretical and computational chemical physics - that's basicall...
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Touch Enabled Business Card - ari_elle http://chasingtrons.com/main/2012/3/2/touch-enabled-business-card.html ====== huhtenberg I like the idea and I want to steal it, but are there any options for super- thin batteries? Something that would be literally paper-thin. ~~~ cyanoacry Powerstream ( <http://www.powerstre...
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Some Chinese movie theaters are covering their screens in text messages - mimighost http://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2014/aug/20/chinese-cinemas-show-audiences-texts-alongside-film-wrst-idea-eva ====== mimighost I posted this article just want to know why so called "bullet screen" video is only popular in Ea...
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What's wrong with cheap food - bensummers http://smartpei.typepad.com/robert_patersons_weblog/2010/04/whats-wrong-with-cheap-food.html ====== jswinghammer It'd be nice if the government just stayed out of all this so that people could decide for themselves what food they wanted to support. Right now the real costs a...
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When Parallel: Pull, Don't Push - signa11 https://nullprogram.com/blog/2020/04/30/ ====== fluffything > If we’re using concurrency, that means multiple threads of execution may be > mutating the same cell, which requires synchronization — locks, atomics, > etc. That much synchronization is the death knell of performan...
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A map of America’s migrations using genetic data from 770K saliva samples - freedomben https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/what-770000-tubes-of-saliva-reveal-about-america/ ====== notspanishflu That map makes no sense. Hawaii ruled by Caribbeans? California is mostly Portuguese? No sign of Spaniards? I call it BS. This is ...
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Third World Quarterly Publishes “The Case for Colonialism” Leading to Censorship - kushti https://legalinsurrection.com/2017/09/third-world-quarterly-publishes-the-case-for-colonialism-leading-to-censorship-demands/amp/ ====== dEnigma _" This is an issue of student safety and having people at the institution who hold ...
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Ask YC: What are the best computer science universities in Canada? - buss I'm considering a move to Canada sometime in the next year or two, but I plan on going to grad school (I'm on track to finish my BS in CS in the next two years). If I do decide to make the move, what are the best computer science schools, pre...
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Startup Ideas - July 2011 - tansey http://wesleytansey.com/startup-ideas-july-2011/ ====== avdempsey "Does this fit me" has been a dream of mine for awhile. Imagine a world where everybody's clothes fit. Where clothing can be spontaneously gifted, and you'll be sure it fits like a glove. I think he sells himself shor...
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Micro-Services and Page Composition Problem - malandrew http://dejanglozic.com/2014/10/20/micro-services-and-page-composition-problem/ ====== AdrianRossouw Dejan has a really great set of posts about microservices. His blog is highly recommended. ------ CmonDev Seems to be quite complicated.
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A practical relational query compiler in 500 lines of code - ot http://scattered-thoughts.net/blog/2016/10/11/a-practical-relational-query-compiler-in-500-lines/ ====== gravypod I don't like the idea of executing "real" code in a database. An DB's parser shouldn't allow a query make network connections/IO access. ~~~...
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Adobe has released the SWF file format specification - timr http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf/ ====== wmf I'll just quote John Gilmore: "Freeing up specs for things that the community has already reverse-engineered makes for good publicity, and eliminates a legal EULA issue that Adobe was likely to lose in court in m...
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Ask HN: are there any "true" rockstars or celebrities who are programmers? - hoodoof Wondering if there are any well known music rockstars or hollywood-type celebrities who are also programmers? ====== sc68cal Joel Thomas Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 does some programming for his Monome. Link: [http://www.wired.com/video...
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Sexting, your lack of privacy and the iPad: a perfect storm? - apress http://gravitationalpull.net/wp/?p=1310 ====== apress Post from last year worth thinking about again in light of 7th circuit court decision that allowed firing of a guy for violating his employer's acceptable use policy even though he was doing it o...
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Data Import module: please break and tell - nlabs http://ec2-174-129-137-205.compute-1.amazonaws.com/uploadtest/DataImport.html I wrote this data import module this morning. I reads csv and xls flat data files, imports them into my db and displays a preview to the user. Please try it out and let me know what breaks. ...
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Ask HN: Help Kevin McCallister in 2018 with today‘s tech - lucattelli Hello HN,<p>One of the things that got me thinking as a kid watching Home Alone II was how Kevin was able to accurately rewind the tape on his voice recorder to the exact point he needed. He nailed every time. Of course, that was a limitation tech h...
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