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Ask HN: What are real Ruby on Rails alternatives in 2017? - rubyfan
What are the real alternatives to Ruby on Rails in 2017? When I saw “real” I mean, what frameworks offer a wide variety of packages/libraries, common integration with “as-a-service” offerings, and have an opinionated methodology for delivering hi... | {
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A Hong Kong real-estate tycoon wants to build a new city in Ireland - simonebrunozzi
https://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-real-estate-tycoon-wants-new-city-in-ireland-2020-7
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aww_dang
If Ireland won't have them, I'm sure other commonwealth regions would be glad
to have this kind of investment. Caribbean nat... | {
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Photo-realistic lip-sync from text - giacaglia
http://ritheshkumar.com/obamanet/
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wizardforhire
I'm enamored and terrified at the same time. As a documentary film editor this
is going to literally save my ass for those times when production didn't quite
get it right. As a citizen, hacker / child of the 80's whos... | {
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Stop writing code. - hncoder
Stop writing code. Know how to write code. Be good at it. Be very good at it. But don't do it for long. Or else your growth will be stalled. You'll be just a resource. Unless you're Walter Bright or Andrei Alexandrescu and lets face it, most of us are not them or cannot beco... | {
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Show HN: InaPic: Yet Another Photo App that Isn't So. Smart Photo Albums. - ksolanki
http://getinapic.com<p>What is InaPic?: Photo sharing + Image recognition.
InaPic gives you photo albums with multiple collaborators. It then automatically organizes thousands of photos contributed by tens of users. This is accomplish... | {
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TechCrunch gets a facelift - dhouston
http://www.techcrunch.com
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brm
There's almost no emphasis on the navigation and for a site with so many parts
this is a negative.
On the whole I like the move to the cleaner and simpler layout but it still
puzzles me that they almost completely neglect categories or tags.... | {
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Book “Exploring Mayan EDMS” available in pre-release format - loneviking
https://forum.mayan-edms.com/viewtopic.php?t=1046
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PassingCroft
I'm not able to upvote this post. The upvote button is missing!?
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loneviking
Getting messages that some comments are not showing up. Seems Hacker News has
shadow banned ... | {
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Zuckerberg Says Twitter Is Wrong to Fact-Check Trump - laurex
https://www.newsweek.com/zuckerberg-says-twitter-wrong-fact-check-trump-1506958
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mcph
Ay carumba. Like many who have been posting about this, I really struggle with
his attitude here.
I frequently have a knee-jerk emotional response to Zuck's comment... | {
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2012 in Review: Encrypting the Web with HTTPS - zoowar
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/12/end-year-blog-post-2012-https-rise
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lambada
I made the switch just recently to making my perosnal site HTTPS only. It was
surprisingly easy to do with nginx.
StartSSL gives free 1 year certificates - although each certi... | {
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Limiting the power of package installation in Debian - l2dy
https://lwn.net/Articles/770784/
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heinrichhartman
I don't get why we would want to allow packages to run any scripts
before/after the installation. I get why it's necessary at this point, but the
true solution should get away without executing any code.... | {
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Twitter Will Finally Stop Making Your Images Look Terrible - fewi
https://onezero.medium.com/twitter-will-finally-stop-making-your-images-look-terrible-2ed882dfcd9e?source=rss----444d13b52878---4&gi=fad303263da1
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gojomo
Next, maybe Twitter can assign a big team the multi-month project of making it
so that when y... | {
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DIY Weapons of the Libyan Rebels - MatrixBai
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/diy-weapons-of-the-libyan-rebels/100086/#
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norova
The Toyota Hilux - one amazing pickup truck. It still makes me laugh a bit to
see all of the various uses people find for that vehicle and all of the
ridiculous situations[1] ... | {
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Say Goodbye to the Password - kniht
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323585604579008620509295960.html
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ianstallings
_Eye roll_. I've heard this ~20 years now. I welcome fingerprint readers
myself but I doubt they'll get the traction this article implies. Particularly
with the privacy-consciousness... | {
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Why the world is full of buttons that don't work - electic
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/placebo-buttons-design/index.html
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a-dub
I don't buy this argument that they were explicitly installed as a placebo.
Instead I think they're basically a form of technical debt. In the elevators,
they probably once did wo... | {
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What Medieval England Can Teach Us about Software Development - fergie
https://medium.com/@fergiemcdowall/hackathons-on-festivals-and-feastdays-what-medieval-england-can-teach-us-about-software-661c73b328c2
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gbtw
Not to shit on your nice story :) but much what we know is either wrong or
incomplete about archery.... | {
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Masks Went from Don’t-Wear to Must-Have During the Coronavirus Pandemic - rbanffy
https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to-must-have/
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misanthropian00
>Don’t put masks on, because we’re going to be taking them away from health
care workers,” says Anthony Fauci, director of the National Instit... | {
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PickyDomains – Risk-Free Naming Service - steeples
http://www.pickydomains.com/
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colinbartlett
I noticed they are soliciting reviews (read: links) to their site and paying
for them:
[http://www.pickydomains.com/make-money](http://www.pickydomains.com/make-
money)
...including a requirement that the site have... | {
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EBook piracy sites to be blocked by UK net providers - SimplyUseless
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-32899041
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alexc05
Not that I'm actually planning on using any of them... but if I were in fact
interested in pirating e-books but didn't know where to start, the BBC would
have just given me a list of what I... | {
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Show HN: Cellular Automaton Music Generator with HTML5 Audio and JS - zmitri
http://www.zmitri.com/static/automataJS.html
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zmitri
I was inspired by the other post I saw yesterday and decided to make my own,
but without flash. The goal is so that when my iPad finally arrives I can play
it on there! You can fork... | {
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How to change my apple id for icloud use? - harinath92
I recently updated my iPad2 to iOS, I have one problem not able to use icloud, as it expects my apple id to be like email, but mine is not.
seems my image imports have vanished thank god had backup of most on facebook.<p>is it me alone or others who face the pro... | {
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Robocall fines rise to $10k per call under newly passed law - prostoalex
https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/19/21030114/robocalls-bill-congress-president-trump-sign-law-illegal-fcc-ajit-pai
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dang
Comments moved to
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21838333](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21838333).
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In the Age of Google DeepMind, Do the Young Go Prodigies of Asia Have a Future? - muloka
http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/in-the-age-of-google-deepmind-do-the-young-go-prodigies-of-asia-have-a-future
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chenglou
I mean, that's like asking whether marathon runners have a future now that
we've got cars. Exerci... | {
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CMU 15-721 (Spring 2016) Database Systems - snaga
http://15721.courses.cs.cmu.edu/spring2016/schedule.html
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curiousDog
Professors like Andy Pavlo are probably the best thing to happen in the
Database area. Existing DBMS courses are very outdated and most profs teaching
them lack passion. It's always the same bor... | {
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Guide to becoming a modern front end developer - Lilian_Lee
https://roadmap.sh/frontend
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JimDabell
This is a disaster and more likely to put a newbie off or confuse them than to
help them.
Why is the largest callout dedicated to WebAssembly, noting it as not ready
yet? Why is "Using DevTools" near the bottom, b... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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SF Mono Fonts with Line Gap Baked In - kentliau
https://github.com/kentliau/SF-Mono-LG
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kentliau
This version exists purely for Xcode, which lack of option for controlling the
line height in editor.
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Sex drive-in opens for business in Switzerland - jacobr
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/26/20192594-sex-drive-in-opens-for-business-in-switzerland
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jacobr
I wonder what it is in West/Central European cultures that make them
relatively tolerant of prostitution, even publicly. Just mentioning somethin... | {
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WaveNet implementation in Keras - basve
https://github.com/basveeling/wavenet/
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svantana
The most interesting thing here is the note at the bottom regarding
computational cost: "A recent macbook pro reaches about 5 samples per second."
This shows how far this model is from realtime usage. However I'm sure
Deepm... | {
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Newegg just switched everyone's reviews to use their name on record - Glyptodon
Newegg seems to suddenly have made everyone's reviews show their name without any sort of opt in or notification.
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Glyptodon
Just to clarify, I filled out a review a couple days ago and put in a 'name'
to use for the review li... | {
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Go reliability and durability at Dropbox - astdb
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/go-reliability-and-durability-at-dropbox-tammy-butow
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tlb
What does "Reliability of 99.9999999999% (twelve 9s)" even mean? Obviously you
have to exclude large classes of user-visible failures (network outage,
account over quota) to... | {
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I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math (2014) - paublyrne
http://nautil.us/issue/17/big-bangs/how-i-rewired-my-brain-to-become-fluent-in-math
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nicolas_t
This is related to the Curse of the Gifted. When I was a kid, I could grasp
concepts easily and I understood maths very quickly so I didn't really bother
d... | {
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McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn - anm89
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-21/banks-must-act-now-or-risk-becoming-a-footnote-mckinsey-says
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throwaway66920
I believe this is the actual article
[https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/financial-
services/our-i...](https://ww... | {
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Keys to Shopify’s Success – an Interview with Tobias Lutke - kevt
http://www.yearonelabs.com/top-5-keys-to-shopifys-success-an-interview-with-tobias-lutke/
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ludicast
One other thing that Shopify did well was extract a lot of code into open
source projects. Liquid, DelayedJob and ActiveMerchant are all thanks t... | {
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Robert Zubrin answers “why should we go to Mars?” in the most eloquent way - sktrdie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKQSijn9FBs&t=49m16s
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dalke
The three reasons are 1) it's where the science is, 2) it's where the
challenge is, and 3) it's where the future is.
This is further described as 1) if we find fossils... | {
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What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago.. - Sirupsen
http://blog.sirupsen.dk/me/what-i-wish-a-ruby-programmer-had-told-me-one-year-ago/
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njharman
> After a few days playing around with Python, I felt okay with it. I didn’t
> love Python,
Probably should try longer than a few days, but this is t... | {
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Virtual Machines Vs. Containers: A Matter Of Scope - wslh
http://www.networkcomputing.com/cloud-infrastructure/virtual-machines-vs-containers-a-matter-of-scope/a/d-id/1269190
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mpweiher
We _should_ need neither VMs nor Containers. The process isolation and
environment virtualization provided by the OS should be... | {
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EFF details post-Bilski confusion on what is too "abstract" to patent - grellas
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/trio-post-bilski-cases-fail-clearly-define
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cduan
So it seems that the "abstract idea" under Bilski has turned into "does it
look complicated enough."
In Research Techs. Corp. v. Microsoft Cor... | {
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A $430 27" WQHD (2560x1440) S-IPS LED Monitor - shawndumas
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6131/nixeus-vue-27-a-430-wqhd-2560x1440-sips-led-monitor
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rorrr
You can get one for $285 on eBay with free shipping:
[http://www.ebay.com/itm/27-Inch-Matrix-NEO-LED-270WQ-
IPS-256...](http://www.ebay.com/itm/27-Inch-Matrix-... | {
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Making Poverty Fashionable to Millennials - riverlong
https://jayriverlong.github.io/2020/08/08/poverty.html
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lalos
It's interesting seeing how humans are deciding to forgo one of the most
innate patterns of life itself, passing their own genes via these phenomenons.
It's almost as if it's a 'invisible hand' reg... | {
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Groggle boggled by Google mean spirit - bootload
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/biz-tech/groggle-boggled-by-google-mean-spirit-20100428-trq5.html
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jerf
Trademark law is, broadly speaking, a good thing. It can be abused, but there
is a reason it is there.
Coming at this cold, Groggle strikes me as a bad-... | {
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Show HN: New app, CHEEKY, connects the contact photo with a photo messenger - cprutting
https://www.facebook.com/thecheekyapp
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cprutting
Today I released the first version of my new app (ios only for right now,
android is in the works) CHEEKY! It's a photo messenger that connects directly
with your address boo... | {
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One man's obsession with rediscovering the Doves typeface - tankenmate
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31534032
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lindig
The Doves Type font can be seen at this site [http://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-
type/](http://www.typespec.co.uk/doves-type/), which als tells the story how
it was recovered.
~~~
vortico
Why... | {
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Suspend Uber from London over 'flawed driver checks', minicab operators say - jackgavigan
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/18/suspend-uber-london-black-cab-drivers-claims-flawed-checks
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DrScump
Are London black-cab operators still required to learn "The Knowledge"
(exhaustive detailed geography a... | {
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PhoneGap vs RubyMotion - jballanc
http://iconoclastlabs.com/cms/blog/posts/phonegap-vs-rubymotion
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freehunter
One thing that really put me off about this article: the giant header that
scrolls with the page. Vertical real-estate is already limited on a wide-
screen monitor. I hate it when CNet does it, I hate it... | {
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Neural network for recognising porn stars by face - wgx
http://pornstarbyface.com/?u=http://poplavok-irk.ru/e107_plugins/sgallery/pics/8fv03yh21tf1/31313131.jpg
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Cheyana
I will honestly be more impressed when they recognize them by ::wink wink::
"other" attributes.
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Rethinking the test pyramid, and other topics: TalkPython#45 - variedthoughts
https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/45/the-python-testing-column-now-a-thing
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variedthoughts
There's also a book give-away if you comment on the episode show notes. But
please do listen to the discussion first.
| {
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Best PC games - manelfg24
https://www.pcgamer.com/best-pc-games/
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manelfg24
Interesting
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manelfg24
Aha
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manelfg24
fgdh
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The Problem with EULAs (sneaky bitcoin mining) - privong
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/12/the_problem_wit_5.html
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infruset
What if some intern at Sony adds a little mining-when-idle module to the next
PS4 update? Surely this would generate decent profit?
| {
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Did Facebook trademark "like" on domains? - fbquery
It seems like there is so much potential for business around "Like" button but no one is doing it. Is it because FB has a trademark on the word "like" ?
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kopko
<http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/26/trademark-face/>
They are trying to (see the end of that article... | {
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Jailbreak your iPhone? iBookstore purchases may be unreadable - Hagelin
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/02/ibooks-to-jailbreakers-no-yuo.ars
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chapel
"But Apple appears to be within its legal rights to prevent a jailbroken
device from decrypting DRM content, and it may actually be obligated to do so
in its... | {
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OpenGL Is Broken - watermel0n
http://www.joshbarczak.com/blog/?p=154
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fixermark
Quite a few of these issues (especially in the "Too many ways to do the same
thing" category) relate to OpenGL's age as an API, which is something
Direct3D's design was able to learn from and improve upon. OpenGL's origin was
as a ve... | {
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Ask HN: Design Resources for Developers? - vital101
I've been working on a side project for quite some time and have been skirting around the issue of design. I started out using Bootstrap, then purchased a nice looking design from ThemeForest and hacked it to my needs. Even with my lack of design skills, it's act... | {
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Flawed Study of Advanced Prostrate Cancer Spreads False Alarm - hvo
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/21/health/advanced-prostate-cancer-false-alarm.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=sectionf... | {
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Ways to improve gender equity in the tech sector - Oatseller
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla-faculty-voice-five-ways-to-improve-gender-equity-in-the-tech-sector
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yagibear
Why is it that so many people (such as this author) use participation rates as
an indicator of equity? I understand gender equity to ref... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The iPad is [priced like] a game console - ssp
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/02/22/ipad-game-console/
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schraeds
The BoM for the iPad is around $259.
([http://www.electronicsadvocate.com/2010/04/08/ipad-bom-
is-25...](http://www.electronicsadvocate.com/2010/04/08/ipad-bom-
is-25960-says-isuppli/)) Apple buys a m... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
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Is Google Stadia Doomed? - baud147258
https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=46628
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DKnoll
I'm in the Nvidia Geforce NOW beta at the moment. It's fantastic. If you want
to get in the beta it's running until early May. Invites are going out fairly
quick at the moment (a friend just got on with a one week ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Otto Zero is a robot for your travels - zerzeru
https://www.personalrobots.biz/otto-zero-is-a-robot-for-your-travels/
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piro234
Cool when the code will be released?
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JSON Resume – a JSON-based open source standard for resumes - krrishd
http://jsonresume.org/
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esbranson
Europass CV (can be embedded in PDF files, easily exports to everything using
EU government web services):
[http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/](http://interop.europass.cedefop.europa.eu/)
HR-XML (als... | {
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Common sense dies when adults catch teenagers "sexting" each other - jseliger
http://www.reason.com/news/show/133863.html
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mustpax
OK let's take a step back and examine the core issue here: are minors capable
enough of making sound decisions to be held legally liable for the outcomes?
If they are, then they s... | {
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Flickr Gets More Photogenic With A Complete Photo Page Overhaul - aresant
http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/new-flickr-design/
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zacclark
1\. open webkit browser (safari or chrome) 2\. go to new photo page 3\. click
on photo 4\. look at url
Has webkit introduced a way to modify the url without adding a hash cha... | {
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Remote Tech/Design/Marketing Jobs - remotemonk
https://www.remotemonk.com/
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remotemonk
Find the best remote jobs in Tech, Design, Marketing, Sales on Remote Monk.
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Renaming the Bro project - henridf
http://blog.bro.org/2018/10/renaming-bro-project_11.html
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394549
> On the Leadership Team of the Bro Project, we heard clear concerns from the
> Bro community that the name "Bro" has taken on strongly negative
> connotations, such as "Bro culture".
My understanding is that the... | {
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Army Conducting Black Hawk Operation Around Washington D.C - microdrum
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-22/army-lets-slip-that-it-s-conducting-secret-operation-around-d-c
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dogma1138
The US army trains to protect the political nerve center of the US.
In other shocking news when it rains the ground... | {
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Implementing a programming language in C, part 2 - ScottWRobinson
http://www.vnev.me/implementing-a-programming-language-in-c-part-2/
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peterjmag
Part 1: [http://vnev.me/implementing-a-programming-language-in-c-
part...](http://vnev.me/implementing-a-programming-language-in-c-part-1/)
And previous discussion:
... | {
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Yahoo Mail for iPhone - evo_9
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/yahoo!-mail/id577586159?ls=1&mt=8
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andyrubio
but why? maybe it's for folk who enjoy reading spam?
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atarian
>maybe it's for folk who enjoy reading spam?
middle-brow dismissal much?
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HSBC Mobile App – Authentication Flaw - valkyrieuk
I discovered a flaw in the UK HSBC Mobile banking app.<p>Essentially the flaw consisted of being able to authenticate through the mobile app using characters that are not in your password (i.e the wrong password).<p>I raised this withe HSBC via twitter and this was th... | {
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Ask HN: Built a successful app business, now I desperately need a biz partner - rdelerna
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ravensley14
Is the app published? whats the name of the app?
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redmattred
Built _
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rdelerna
that too. thanks
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The Tesla Bricking Story? It’s Nonsense - jsherry
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/22/the-tesla-bricking-story-its-nonsense/
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Kaedon
If anything, this confirms the other post. Making the parallel between
standard automobiles and the Tesla makes some sense to me, as does comparing
motorcycles to the Tesla. I feel ... | {
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How does an Angel Investor get invited to a YC demo day? - anthony_james
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gtmtg
I'm pretty sure you can apply for an invite at
[http://www.ycombinator.com/demoday](http://www.ycombinator.com/demoday).
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dang
This type of question is probably better addressed to info@ycombinator.com.
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Sundial: Harmonizing Concurrency Control and Caching in a Distributed OLTP DBMS [pdf] - lnyng
https://people.csail.mit.edu/devadas/pubs/sundial.pdf
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lnyng
The author of this paper gave a talk today in UW-Madison about this and his
other related works. Sundial is an extension to his previous work called
TicToc [1... | {
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Coda 2 - idan
http://panic.com/coda/
======
flixic
They seem to have defined their target user, and design around it. And I think
most of us are not this target user.
I have used Coda since 1.0, but later switched to TextMate and now, Sublime
Text. And eventually, I replaced all the good parts of Coda with something
... | {
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Microsoft Accused of Hindering Firefox Browser - ssclafani
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052702304070304577394760696347108-lMyQjAxMTAyMDAwOTEwNDkyWj.html
======
SoftwareMaven
I really love my iPad, but I wish Apple would let Firefox into the garden.
Apple is getting away with it because Safari is a web... | {
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Firesheep - smaili
http://codebutler.com/firesheep/
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tams
We should be thankful for Firesheep.
It was brilliantly simple, spread fast, and forced the major players to adopt
HTTPS rather quickly.
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i80and
This is from 2010.
Facebook uses HTTPS for everything now, right?
~~~
mrdrozdov
Correct, but at the ... | {
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Ask HN: Simple feature request tracking service? - shockie
I'm going to launch a new product and I want to provide the users a way to submit feature requests. The code is hosted on Github but it's a private repo so the issue tracker can't be used. Is there a service equal to the functionality of the Github issue tra... | {
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What do you like to see on Internet? - lebme
Well, I want to create a directory of sites, something like Wimp.com, without a pretty design, but with a lot of content and a good organization.<p>Any idea?
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krapp
Umm... learn (or find a good library to) parse the metadata of submitted sites
to create 'profiles' s... | {
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} |
Chartd: responsive, retina-compatible charts with just an img tag - ingve
http://chartd.co/
======
morisy
A few folks were asking about open-source alternatives. I've found Quarz's
Chartbuilder is really nice, though not able to throw-parameters-in-a-URL
which is a super handy feature.
Use:
[https://quartz.github.io/... | {
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} |
EXE/OM – Erlang Language with Dependent Types and Changeabe Encodings - 5HT
https://github.com/groupoid/exe
======
brudgers
Language home: [http://groupoid.space/exe.htm](http://groupoid.space/exe.htm)
| {
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Remind HN: Unicode hacks - olalonde
Just a friendly reminder that some Unicode characters[1] look like spaces and should be taken into account when writing filtering/trimming functions. Of course it's not a big deal but something to keep in mind to prevent stuff like usernames who are basically a bunch of spaces.<p>... | {
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8 traits of successful people by Richard St. John - cx42net
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOl0v54DaXo
======
cx42net
And to sum up what is told on that video :
The eight traits are :
1\. Passion: Love what you do.
2\. Work: Really hard.
3\. Focus: On one thing, not everything.
4\. Push: And keep on pushing yo... | {
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} |
Show HN: Dead simple file uploads to your Amazon S3 bucket - junction
https://www.kiteuploader.com
======
irl_zebra
Site doesn't work at all. :(
| {
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} |
MPAA Publicly Threatens to Stop Writing Checks - nextparadigms
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120120/14472117492/mpaa-directly-publicly-threatens-politicians-who-arent-corrupt-enough-to-stay-bought.shtml
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redthrowaway
The minute they stop writing checks is the minute they stop having power. They
_may_ back r... | {
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} |
Adblock Plus Is “Unethical” and “Immoral”, Says IAB Chief - elorant
http://mobilemarketingmagazine.com/adblock-plus-is-unethical-and-immoral-says-iab-chief/
======
na85
I am so off-the-charts sick and tired of advertisers and "content" producers
that feel entitled to dictate what I can and can't choose to see on my de... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Hong Kong Protests Show Dangers of a Cashless Society - kyleblarson
https://reason.com/2019/07/02/hong-kong-protests-show-dangers-of-a-cashless-society/
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mindfulhack
Any technology that is pro-society should never be over-centralised (e.g.
control over citizen freedoms to use that technology).
Physical cash is ... | {
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} |
The Lowly Folding Chair, Reimagined with Algorithms - techpulse
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/lowly-folding-chair-reimagined-algorithms/?mbid=social_twitter?ref=techpulse.co
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bobsil1
>when you let algorithms optimize the shape of the legs and back of a chair;
they start to resemble animal bones
Evolutionary alg... | {
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} |
Keeping a Bibliography - Topolomancer
https://bastian.rieck.me/blog/posts/2020/bibliography/
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ohmyblock
Why not using Zotero or similar? Isn't it much more convenient?
~~~
funklute
The one thing I wish Zotero would have is the ability to export (and then
version control) the collections layout. I don't really t... | {
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} |
.NET Core Image Processing - jamessouth
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/01/19/net-core-image-processing/
======
skrebbel
This might sound like a small thing but the .NET image processing stuff has
traditionally depended a _lot_ on Windows builtins. Mono shipped an entire
mediocre rewrite of GDI (the graph... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Are tech companies making any effort to diversify their supply chains? - hindsightbias
For example, after 3 years of trade conflict and now C19, is Apple making any attempt to diversify? If not, is that rational?
======
hncensorsnonpc
No
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Town Introduces its own Currency - dangoldin
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aq6uUiFX9_ZM
======
Protophore
I heard about this a month or so ago on NPR. I don't see the benefit in it
really. Unless they can back their currency with gold or something else it
will continue to fluctuate in value ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Microsoft comes to Facebook's aid with 550 patents - bproper
http://allthingsd.com/20120423/microsoft-and-facebook-to-announce-550-million-patent-deal/
======
larrik
Title is wrong. It's Facebook paying Microsoft $550 million for about 650
patents (former AOL patents).
~~~
rollypolly
I've always wondering how large... | {
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} |
As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts - kanamekun
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/business/as-competition-wanes-amazon-cuts-back-its-discounts.html?pagewanted=all
======
zaroth
> It is difficult to comprehensively track the movement of prices on Amazon,
> so the evidence is anecdotal and fragmentary.
I g... | {
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} |
How good are anti-virus heuristic scanners? - thristian
http://archive.cert.uni-stuttgart.de/bugtraq/2003/06/msg00251.html
======
ZoFreX
> ESATF is used to "check", so, in order to get a "full" checking, I think it
> should be treated like a true virus
No, it shouldn't. EICAR is a special test-case, and if it was d... | {
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} |
Google plans monthly security updates for Nexus phones - moviuro
https://threatpost.com/google-plans-monthly-security-updates-for-nexus-phones/114148
======
thescrewdriver
That doesn't help for 99.9% of Android devices out there (including mine)
which aren't Nexus phones, and will only receive 1 or 2 updates, usually
... | {
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} |
Rails Rumble 2008 Apps - melvinram
http://48hrlaunch.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/rails-rumble-2008-apps/
======
zapnap
Just an FYI... The official list will be online at the Rails Rumble 2008 site
shortly, once voting opens.
Teams have an additional 24 hours to update their profiles (make screencasts,
etc) and then we... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
When Robots Take All the Work, What'll Be Left for Us to Do? - e15ctr0n
http://www.wired.com/2014/08/when-robots-take-all-the-work-whatll-be-left-for-us-to-do/
======
anigbrowl
This is an important and increasingly pressing question. On one level, you can
ask 'what will we do with ourselves' \- that is, to give our li... | {
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} |
3D Visualization of a Convolutional Neural Network - carlosgg
http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/
======
carlosgg
In 2D
[http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/flat.html](http://scs.ryerson.ca/~aharley/vis/conv/flat.html)
| {
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Ask HN: Where to find good mobile devs? - kotrunga
I am planning on building a small side-income project. I would build the website and backend. If it is profitable enough and made sense to have iOS and Android apps, I would like to have them. However, I won't have time to build the apps while working on the webs... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Playing Golf, and Other Mistakes CEOs Make - r0h1n
https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140626151302-69244073-playing-golf-and-other-mistakes-ceos-make
======
Liesmith
A lot (edit: all) of these are dumb correlation = causation crap. The most
egregious one is the "don't win awards" point, on which all the f... | {
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} |
Turn on MFA Before Crooks Do It for You - todsacerdoti
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/06/turn-on-mfa-before-crooks-do-it-for-you/
======
ping_pong
This is absolutely getting unwieldy to the point of being fucking ridiculous
and unusable.
I've been in tech for 25+ years. I'm very familiar with security, and I have
t... | {
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} |
Show HN: Website to Play Board/Card Games – Looking for Feedback - ravipatel
https://www.funnode.com/
======
sazers
More atractive design will be fine (avoid white background) + add some trendy
colors: [http://colorhunt.co/](http://colorhunt.co/)
~~~
ravipatel
Thanks sazers - did you try the different 'Themes' and 'P... | {
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} |
Show HN: Social project – Tinder? not quite, it has a different angle - alaserm
http://tinderofreconciliation.tk/
======
pictur
Want my bank account information?
| {
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} |
The Checklist Manifesto - mattmcknight
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Jauhar-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3
======
tjic
I did a 3 month contract gig with a local robotics firm a while back. I
developed a few cool features for them, but the reason they fell in love with
me was that I worked up ex... | {
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} |
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