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Google, eBay kiss, make up -- sort of / Auction site will resume ads but reduce spending - gibsonf1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/23/BUG3OQKAOA1.DTL ====== vlad I don't think eBay had any problems growing for the first 6-8 years before AdWords even existed. eBay started using Google AdWords ...
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Design Trends: Coolest iPhone APP Website Designs - jonphillips http://spyrestudios.com/design-trends-25-coolest-iphone-app-web-designs/ They generally all follow the same plan of attack (for good reason) but it makes me wonder – are these sites being built to just blend in with the rest of the pack or are there some...
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As Democrats gather, allegations of Russian subplot raise intrigue - jboydyhacker http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/25/us/politics/donald-trump-russia-emails.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news ====== gtrubetskoy From NYT I'd expect som...
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The Best 404 Error Pages Of All Time - mediagearbox http://www.businessinsider.com/the-best-404-error-pages-of-all-time-2013-3#whoops-we-caught-techcrunch-with-its-pants-down-on-this-one-1 ====== lutusp I hate sites like this that dole out content one quantum at a time in order to expose you to more advertising. Once ...
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37signals Finally Launches Highrise - python_kiss http://mashable.com/2007/03/19/highrise/ ====== floozyspeak they did away with a-typical quicktime videos to explain the thing this time around, now its follow the GREEN arrow... i dunno if i like that, though it does appear simpler in my head vs a movie telling me how...
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Heroku Casts - screencasts series on how to use Heroku - quan http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2009/10/6/heroku_casts_creating_your_first_app/ ====== pospischil anyone using Heroku? I was so excited about it when I first saw the beta -- but then, never really felt compelled to shift my behavior to developing in a bro...
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DHS proposes to repeal Work Authorization to Spouses(H4) of H1B visa holders - nikhilalmeida https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/eAgendaViewRule?pubId=201710&RIN=1615-AC15 ====== product50 This is a really cruel move. It honestly only affects a small population of spouses from Indian and Chinese immigrants who have to w...
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Amendment: Possible Remote Code Execution Exploit in Rails Action View - jbaviat https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/zRNVOUhKHrg/GmmcVXcmAAAJ ====== jbaviat What was supposed to be a file disclosure turned into a remote code exécution.
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Comic Strip Tour of the Wild World of Pandemic Modeling - jonbaer https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-comic-strip-tour-of-the-wild-world-of-pandemic-modeling/ ====== ykevinator This is so unsatisfying, they are basically concluding that it's unknowable. Not even estimatable. That means there is no expertise. Then w...
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After 12 years and endless fights with Google, HubPages finds a buyer - adventured https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/06/hubpages-sells-to-maven-giving-venture-investors-exit-after-12-years.html ====== neya I used to be an avid HubPages fan. At its peak, it was mildly useful, kind of like instagram where you'd be able to di...
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Go += Package Versioning - f2f https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour ====== aleksi Main discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421966](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16421966)
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High-Fidelity Quantum Logic Gates - gk1 http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.060504 ====== doener "Oxford team achieves a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required to build a quantum computer" [https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/4wghmo/oxfo...
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A 4-Day Workweek? A Test Run Shows a Surprising Result - jcrabtr https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workweek-new-zealand.html ====== imh This fits very well with my experience. Moving job to job, I've been in plenty of places with different expectations around hours. If anything, hours with my butt...
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Science Exchange (YC S11) Raises $3M in Series A Financing - bmahmood http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2013/04/science-exchange-series-a-financing/ ====== rdl Science Exchange is awesome -- I hope in a time of declining grant funding, it's possible for researchers to use this to lower their costs and do the same/more...
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Show HN: Scenery — Asynchronous communication for teams - davidkim http://scenery.app ====== quickthrower2 It’s not clear what it does, and not a clear enough benefit for me to be interested to give my email. I’d suggest explaining a bit more about what it does or will do. Comparing to team chat and wiki solutions wou...
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Nokia moves Symbian to Accenture & more. - guruz http://press.nokia.com/2011/04/27/nokia-starts-measures-to-align-workforce-and-site-operations-with-new-strategy/ ====== JarekS Press release in plain english: Nokia will fire 4000 people and 3000 will be moved to Accenture so there will be 7000 badges less in Nokia ...
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CEO of Cleo resigns after it was discovered that her resume contained lies - guyhance https://www.forbes.com/sites/bizcarson/2019/06/18/exclusive-investigation-how-lies-and-a-troubled-workplace-brought-down-shannon-spanhake-cleo/ ====== bsg75 "There was not enough hustle..." Canned phrases from company leadership is ...
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6 Bootstrapping lessons from a 20-year veteran business owner - Sujan https://medium.com/@JoshDoody/6-bootstrapping-lessons-from-a-20-year-veteran-business-owner-dcaf141e6aa5 ====== jimnotgym Am I alone in feeling nauseated every time I hear the term 'bootstrapping' for starting a business? 1) Bootstrapping has other...
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Blight wiped out the American chestnut. Scientists are close to bringing it back - jseliger https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/two-plans-to-bring-back-the-american-chestnut--one-by-hybridization-one-by-genetic-engineering/2019/12/17/8fc28ff4-16c7-11ea-a659-7d69641c6ff7_story.html ====== KingMachiavelli Arti...
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Welcome to 'the Matrix': At FedEx's sorting hub, 1 night, 1.5M packages - zachlatta https://www.cnet.com/news/at-fedex-sorting-packages-1-5-million-at-a-time/ ====== CaliforniaKarl Should be marked (2014), but otherwise it's good!
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Chrysler Destroys Its Historical Archives; GM to Follow? - edward http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/editorial-chrysler-destroys-its-historical-archives-gm-to-follow/ ====== vaksel With little notice and no planning, Cerberus literally abandoned the engineering library at the Chrysler Techni...
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Democrats Unveil “Internet Bill of Rights” - joeyespo https://boingboing.net/2018/10/06/democratic-technology.html ====== masonic Strange that is doesn't exist in the system: [https://www.congress.gov/member/ro- khanna/K000389?q=%7B"spon...](https://www.congress.gov/member/ro- khanna/K000389?q=%7B"sponsorship"%3A"spo...
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Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (2010) - privong http://www.gaussianprocess.org/gpml/ ====== vladislav There are some interesting connections between GPs and neural networks. Deep neural networks with random weights concentrate about gaussian processes, so the two may not be so far apart in practice. [https:/...
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The Building Block Web - bootload http://staynalive.com/articles/2009/10/15/web-3-0-the-building-block-web/ ====== Scriptor Note to the blog's owner: I do not like getting a popup thrown in my face telling me I'm "required" to login via Facebook.
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Ask HN: What's the least expensive service to host a new SaaS platform? - WheelsAtLarge ====== tony-allan It really depends on the resources your service will consume: cpu, memory, storage, bandwidth, etc. ~~~ WheelsAtLarge I'm thinking in terms of a proof of concept with hopeful expansion in the future. ~~~ _bxg1 He...
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Problems with Paywalls - csvoss https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/04/problems-with-paywalls/ ====== rrrrrrrrrrrryan Access to quality investigative journalism is more important than ever. With the decline of printed newspapers, the lowering of the barriers to publish online, the increasing sensationalism of TV news, ...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to setup an always on video conference? - kabuks My parents are overseas, and my son is growing way too fast. I want to setup a dedicated, always-on video portal between their living room, and my son's play room.<p>What's the best way to do this?<p>Bandwidth is a constraint (ADSL connecti...
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C++ unified call syntax: x.f(y) vs. f(x,y) [pdf] - tpush http://isocpp.org/files/papers/N4174.pdf ====== lokedhs Oh great. More magic syntax that makes one thing look and behave like another, while not actually being that other. Every time C++ gets new features, I feel like the designers must never have looked at a C...
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Play Super Mario in 14kb Javascript - rglullis http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/04/super-mario-in-14kb-javascript.html ====== ph0rque This is amazing. I kept thinking about whether it's possible to use javascript to make a simple game (instead of flex/actionscript). This proves that it is. ~~~ Hexstream Here's something...
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Is miio.com the real facebook killer? - Kilimanjaro http://www.miio.com ====== pedalpete that link doesn't work so well, try this one. <http://miio.com/> the 'groups' page isn't exactly enticing as there is very little content <http://miio.com/tabs/groups> So in short, no miio isn't a facebook killer yet. not even...
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Be Careful How You Override - carbonica http://carboni.ca/blog/p/Be-Careful-How-You-Override ====== mooism2 It's a draft? OK. In the final version, could you remove the words "pe" and "nis" and respell "butt" as "but"?
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I am going to start automating my life one email at a time. - tosbourn https://plus.google.com/108259413842523229630/posts/WRNd4zzmMep ====== billehunt No suggestions, but I'm interested to hear what you learn in this. I've wanted to do similar, but email broke for me because I can't arbitrarily sort the list. I cou...
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Shimport: Use JavaScript modules in all browsers, including dynamic imports - octosphere https://github.com/Rich-Harris/shimport ====== blauditore The author highlights support of dynamic imports multiple times. But why; is there something particularly interesting about it? Other module systems did this ages ago, e.g....
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Warren Buffett Keeps His Billion - mightybyte http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/boxscore?gid=201403200443 ====== mightybyte In the VERY FIRST game to finish, 11 seed Dayton upsets 6 seed Ohio State. Nate Silver had given Dayton a 25% chance of winning, so just about everyone who used his numbers as a guide is ...
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Perkeep: Lets you permanently keep your stuff, for life - getdreambits https://perkeep.org/ ====== getdreambits Curious if someone has tried this, and if so, what their experience has been like? ~~~ brudgers A past discussion, [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15928685](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=159286...
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Yahoo acquires Astrid - tamersalama http://blog.astrid.com/blog/2013/05/01/yahoo-acquires-astrid/ ====== general_failure I don't want to take anything away from Astrid. I keeps dismissing my ideas as trivial and already done. When I think I have a new idea, my friends would dismiss it as trivial and already done. T...
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My Nexus 5 was stolen by UPS - geekrax http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/332139-my-nexus-5-stolen-ups.html ====== SpikedCola I have friends that work at the UPS distribution center in Toronto, and this happens more often than you'd think. Usually with consumer electronics but also with new video games, e...
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Operating System Development - Zolomon http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page ====== exDM69 Doing your own toy operating system is a great learning experience and I can recommend it to anyone who has the right hacker attitude and a little bit of prerequisite knowledge. OSdev is a pretty good starting point for basic resourc...
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A little discussed effect of therapy: it changes personality (2017) - gfmio https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/01/19/a-little-discussed-effect-of-therapy-it-changes-your-personality/ ====== lkadr After years of depression, I'm sure my personality is one of the cause of me still being depressed. And if I went to therapy, I...
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Ask HN: How would/do you find your niche... - grumps I've been having issues for the past year or so determining where I'm headed (career wise).<p>I'm not really sure how to approach finding my Niche, and building on it. Let me give some background: Degree: BS engineering management (basic courses in most engineerin...
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Ask HN: Choice of (romantic) partner - big impact? - throwme Hi all, since my question and content is a wee bit personal I've decided to post using a temp.<p>I am a 28 years old male and, as many here, both interested in and involved with tech and startups. I am currently working daytime as a coder, and spend rest of ...
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I think this is ready for GitHub lovers - likeaboss http://liuwenchao.github.io/github-explorer ====== pedalpete I just keep getting 'Path error or limit API' error
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"will establish secure connection from … cloud to the site … on your behalf" - donohoe http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html//ref=amb_link_357584342_3?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200775440&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER ====== donohoe Full text from bottom of that page: What about handling secure (https) co...
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Ask HN: Subdomains you don't want your user to have - sandipagr For my web app, each user get their subdomains. Are there any list of subdomains that you want to keep for yourself and not have your user to register?<p>Example. blog, mail, www (duh!) ... ====== mooism2 Anything listed in /etc/services. All 2 letter ...
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Vinyl Revival Causes Discord - jamesbritt http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/4433/full ====== huxley I have no problem with people enjoying the medium of their choice and if vinyl turns your crank more power to you, but as far as revivals go, this is not gigantic. For 2011, a grand total of 3.6 million vinyl records...
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Ask HN: What are better alternatives to Meteor? - artur_makly looking to quickly build a SaaS platform MVP that can scale. No need for real-time socket stuff. thanks ====== sgdesign It's not an alternative to Meteor since it's built on top of it, but you could look at VulcanJS: [http://vulcanjs.org](http://vulcanjs.or...
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Ask HN: Do startups actually do data science? - shazam I&#x27;m a Stanford MS candidate in CS. Are there any startups actually hiring for real data science positions? The term seems so overloaded to the extent that recruiters are ready to label anything from Excel to &quot;data infrastructure&quot; as data science. ...
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Microsoft trademarks 'Windows 365' - paralelogram http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-trademarks-windows-365 ====== vortico How to count, according to Microsoft: 1 2 3 95 98 2000 7 8 10 365 Alternatively: 1, 360, One
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Why Programming is Hard - msarmento https://raygun.io/blog/2015/07/programming-is-hard-is-it-a-problem-with-my-brain/ ====== simonblack Let the computer work for you. If you can't remember the key sequence to start the terminal, install an icon once and click on that thereafter. It's the 'mental blindness' that is ...
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How an unknown Taiwanese server maker is eating the big guys’ lunch - protomyth http://gigaom.com/2013/03/16/how-an-unknown-taiwanese-server-maker-is-eating-the-big-guys-lunch/ ====== gruturo Quanta. Unknown. What? Maybe unknown to mr Jordan Novet. They've been out there for what, 25 years, and are like the biggest no...
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How the Netflix prize was won - bootload http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/09/how-the-netflix-prize-was-won/ ====== roundsquare Neat. I wonder if it would be possible to do something like this... Create a website where anyone can upload their algorithm. The website takes it and runs it on the data set. Depending ...
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Apple Thinks a Day Has Only 18 Hours - jbverschoor https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/10/apple-unveils-apple-watch-series-5-with-always-on-display/ ====== iamNumber4 Funny title, especially considering its 9 to 5 Mac’s article. ------ rafaelvasco For me it has ~ 17 hours ;) But yeah, if you want to live with it 24/7, it ca...
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Some coronavirus patients haven't gotten their senses of smell or taste back yet - samspenc https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-patients-lose-senses-of-taste-smelland-havent-gotten-them-back-11591007522 ====== bashinator I lost my sense of taste a few years ago, from a combination of extreme stress and the flu. L...
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Google Will Soon Start Punishing Mobile Sites that Use Annoying App Install Ads - zhuxuefeng1994 http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/01/death-to-app-install-interstitials/ ====== jacquesm Does that mean they'll block youtube? Try playing a video on a phone that does not have the youtube app installed, it's just about imposs...
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Outlier Detection Techniques (2010) [pdf] - olooney https://archive.siam.org/meetings/sdm10/tutorial3.pdf ====== graycat The OP has a problem: The algorithms don't give any significant, meaningful results. E.g., can run one of the algorithms, and it can report that there is an outlier or not, and in either case we hav...
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Triumphant motel owner slams Carmen Ortiz - hudibras http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/triumphant_motel_owner_slams_carmen_ortiz ====== tokenadult It's interesting to see the Institute for Justice, <http://www.ij.org/> "the nation's only libertarian, civil liberties, public interest law fir...
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Apache's Projects are all ugly and hard to use with tons of config - kingname They don&#x27;t know what is out of the box.<p>if you agree with me, vote me and comment me. ====== snazz I think that this is more than a bit of a misunderstanding and a generalization. Most of the Apache projects are designed to fix large-...
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Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart - Garbage http://dougmccune.com/blog/2011/05/07/visualizing-time-with-the-infinity-hour-chart/ ====== gt384u The use of the infinity symbol seems really confusing. I would think a circle with midnight mapped to the top and noon to the bottom would make for a considerably...
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Bayer CEO: Nexavar cancer drug is for "western patients who can afford it.” - denzil_correa http://keionline.org/node/1910 ====== mullingitover > Bayer Chief Executive Officer Marijn Dekkers called the compulsory license > “essentially theft.” He's a bit mixed up. Government enforcement of your temporary monopoly is ...
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Bouncing Beholder: JS1k winner explained - sant0sk1 http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/js1k.html ====== glhaynes _At the start of the program there is a for/in loop that goes over the properties of the canvas context, and adds a new property, with a shorter name, for each of them. It took some experimenting to find an abbrevi...
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CareerBuilder acquires semantic recruitment company Textkernel - winterismute http://venturebeat.com/2015/07/21/careerbuilder-acquires-dutch-company-textkernel-to-help-bring-semantic-job-searches-to-recruiters/ ====== flarg I actually built a semantic engine for CV/job ad matching last year but I could never get ove...
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I Am Pressing the Space Bar and Nothing Is Happening - VirtualAirwaves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdS3tjEIqUA ====== techdragon Love it. On a related note... The keyboard in my 15" 2016 MBP is definitely the most "persnickety" electromechanical device I've ever owned. While still fully functional, it has develop...
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Conditions for the possibility of exit - enkiv2 https://medium.com/@enkiv2/conditions-for-the-possibility-of-exit-c38ea186abf1 ====== PaulHoule Is "enkiv2" a spammer? It seems like they only post posts from Tedium.
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A Math Geek's Ride to the High Court in Landmark Patent Fight - grellas http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202435264768&src=EMC-Email&et=editorial&bu=Law.com&pt=LAWCOM%20Newswire&cn=NW_20091109&kw=A%20Math%20Geeks%20Ride%20to%20the%20High%20Court%20in%20Landmark%20Patent%20Fight ====== modeless _"Our revenues ar...
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5 + (-sqrt(1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))*cos(30*((1-x^2-(y-abs(x))^2))) - sajithdilshan http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=5+%2B+%28-sqrt%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29*cos%2830*%28%281-x^2-%28y-abs%28x%29%29^2%29%29%29%2C+x+is+from+-1+to+1%2C+y+is+from+-1+to+1.5%2C+z+is+from+1+to+6&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 ...
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Ask HN: Browser based IDEs. Do they work? - circuiter Does anyone here work predominantly with a browser based IDE? There seems to be a lot of them popping up lately so I was hoping you could share your experience with which IDE you use and what you use it for. ====== danpalmer I'd love to be able to use a browser b...
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The Manchester prototype dataflow computer (1985) [pdf] - luu https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep548/05sp/gurd-cacm85-prototype.pdf ====== saganus I think it needs [1985] added to the title. That's the date of the paper's publication. ~~~ DonaldFisk Thanks to whoever submitted this. The paper, and the mach...
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Ask HN: Should I pay Product Hunt to promote my newsletter? - eibrahim I subscribe to the Product Hunt daily newsletter and anyone can sponsor a newsletter edition.<p>I have a weekly newsletter called Frontend Weekly at http:&#x2F;&#x2F;frontendweekly.co&#x2F; and I was wondering if it would be worth it to spend money...
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Five methods for Filtering data with multiple conditions in Python - min2bro https://kanoki.org/2020/01/21/pandas-dataframe-filter-with-multiple-conditions/ ====== danpalmer Title should probably clarify that this is with Pandas, that's much more specific and less generally useful than "in Python". Original title: "P...
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Huawei proposes to replace TCP/IP at ITU - zoobab https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2020/discussion-paper-an-analysis-of-the-new-ip-proposal-to-the-itu-t/ ====== jlgaddis I'm pretty sure this is the "New IP, Shaping Future Network" proposal that was unceremoniously squashed by the IETF a few months ago; th...
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What we found when we tested tools on the world’s least-accessible webpage - robin_reala https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2017/02/24/what-we-found-when-we-tested-tools-on-the-worlds-least-accessible-webpage/ ====== jandrese That page was way more accessable than plenty of sites I have seen. I mean content shows up ev...
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Ask HN: Would you accept a job offer without salary negotiations - dermybaby If you were presented with an offer letter with your prospective salary, would you take it knowing that you had had no negotiation prior to that? Especially if the offer is a semi-overseas offer? Like, nobody talked or setup any conversations...
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NASA might put a drone on Mars - yawz http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/01/26/nasa-might-put-a-drone-on-mars/?tid=sm_tw ====== ggreer An aircraft on Mars would be quite an engineering feat. The average atmospheric pressure on the surface of Mars is 600 pascals, which corresponds to an al...
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How to ask your boss for help without looking stupid - gvajravelu http://www.climbuptheladder.com/how-to-ask-your-boss-for-help-without-looking-stupid/ ====== gigatexal I liked what I read here. Going to give some of these points a shot. Thanks.
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Apple Said to Plan $17 Billion Bond Offering in Record U.S. Sale - bane http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-30/apple-plans-six-part-bond-sale-in-first-offering-since-1996-1-.html ====== washedup Not a good sign for Apple. This plan may work just fine, but definitely speaks to the recent struggles. Also, they belie...
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Dr. Carla Hayden Nominated for Librarian of Congress - jobu https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/02/24/meet-president-obamas-nominee-librarian-congress ====== jobu There doesn't seem to be any information about her views on Copyright or the DMCA, but she's definitely been a vocal proponent of privacy rights: _As ALA...
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Monoprice now has $400 3D printers - ck2 http://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=13861 ====== rottyguy What are the more practical uses of 3D printing at this point? Is it still in early adopter phase? Are (everyday) users saving any money by having their own 3D printer? ~~~ at-fates-hands I actually had a friend who w...
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Harvard, 4 Other Schools, Make Up Most MBAs at PE & VC Firms - JumpCrisscross http://blog.pitchbook.com/harvard-4-other-schools-make-up-most-mbas-at-pe-vc-firms/ ====== rayiner PE/VC firms are arms of the finance industry, and largely recruit from analyst classes at traditional investment banks (either directly, or ...
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How to be like Steve Ballmer - drb311 https://medium.com/@drb/how-to-be-like-steve-ballmer-cf4c9803d74c#.xfttmyket ====== bigdipper Let me add some color to the speculation here, I worked under Ballmer for sometime leading a product. Ballmer was a math genius, he was also a spreadsheet whiz and knew as much as a CFO ...
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Andrew Chen: 5 factors that determine your ad CPM rates - andrew_null http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2008/04/5-factors-that.html ====== webwright While it makes sense, it's sad that creating a site that gets frequent return usage and a lot of user passion results in poor monetization. ~~~ cperciva ...
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KDevelop 5.4 beta 1 released, testing appreciated - cullmann https://www.kdevelop.org/news/kdevelop-5380-released ====== ognarb Nice and the change to Kate to support LSP are awesome.
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Urbit Is for Communities - jlehman https://urbit.org/blog/urbit-is-for-communities/ ====== the_mitsuhiko More than anything Urbit is impossible to comprehend. All I understood from it is that it's some bizarre distributed something with an alt right attachment. ~~~ ghostpepper Where did you get anything remotely "alt...
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What are the legal implications of PleaseRobMe? - morisy http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/03/what-are-the-legal-implications-of-pleaserobme067.html ====== billswift >In coming to its decision, the court noted that Paladin's book was "so comprehensive and detailed that it is as if the [author] were literally presen...
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Department of Redundancy Department - akakievich https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/department-of-redundancy-department/ ====== addled I liked the note at the end about Pair Instructing. I forget many disciplines haven't embraced pairing to the degree programming has. In college I took an elective course taug...
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The music you listen to impacts your creativity - DannyGroner http://www.shutterstock.com/blog/2013/06/songs-to-design-by-vol-9-step-by-step/ ====== anigbrowl Spam masquerading as an article. Flagged.
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Zynga takes more funding... from Softbank this time - friendstock http://www.insidesocialgames.com/2010/07/29/zynga-confirms-150m-investment-from-softbank/ ====== friendstock Question: why is Zynga taking in hundreds of millions of dollars from strategic partners such as Google and Softbank? Assuming Zynga is alread...
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Gitlab is down - aao https://gitlab.com/users/sign_in ====== ploggingdev I get the impression that Gitlab focuses a little too much on releasing new features at a rapid pace with every release. Maybe they should spend more time on running their infrastructure reliably and getting their engineering practices up to spee...
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Whatsapp now for free in iOS - rohu1990 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whatsapp-messenger/id310633997?mt=8 ====== terhechte May fit with earlier reports that they plan to create a monthly subscription where the first year after the initial install is free, and after that you have to pay $n per month. ~~~ rohu1990...
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Xobni for Blackberry Launches (with really cool demo video) - adamsmith http://www.xobni.com/mobile ====== jzycrzy Does anyone know if Xobni has been updated on Outlook? I used to love the program until one day it crashed my outlook, as well as someone I recommended the program to (made me look horrible). It turns ...
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FB closes 11% below IPO price - akg http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120521-713832.html ====== tosseraccount The social web is dead. The spying became too scary. The question is who pays for the funeral.
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Tell HN: booking.com is looking for 40+ Perl programmers (in Amsterdam) - thibaut_barrere Note: I'm not affiliated with booking.com - they mentioned these offers at the open-source developer conference in paris/france this week-end, so I'm forwarding the information.<p>Booking.com is looking for more than 40 perl prog...
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Ask HN: MacBook Pro or Air+Cinema - tamersalama This would be my main setup. recommendations? ====== baxter Based on reviews such as Ars Technica's[1], I'd say that the Air could be used as a primary machine provided you are happy with the modest CPU and willing to upgrade the RAM from 2GB to 4GB. [1]: [http://arst...
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Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick - haldora https://iampicklerick.com ====== haldora Hey HN! This is a silly site based on the Rick and Morty clip of Rick turning himself into a pickle [1] (because ??? he could). The amusement comes from Rick revealing he is the pickle, so I turned that into a command line 'surprise'. When y...
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The closest thing to a wonder drug is exercise - hvo http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/upshot/why-you-should-exercise-no-not-to-lose-weight.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&region=CColumn&module=MostViewed&version=Full&src=mv&WT.nav=MostViewed ====== whack I particularly found the following section in the article ver...
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E-Waste Innovator Will Go to Jail for Making Windows Restore Disks - montrose https://gizmodo.com/e-waste-innovator-will-go-to-jail-for-selling-windows-r-1825518742 ====== mwnivek Larger discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16921634) ------ dleslie The real...
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Ask HN: Concept for a call anonymization setup similar to TOR - voiceTOR I&#x27;ve been tossing around an idea tonight about a service that could anonymize phone calls in sort of the same way that TOR anonymizes internet traffic. The basic set up would involve a lot of asterisk boxes hosted all over the world that w...
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Ask HN: How much time in your working day do you spend in actual work? - wowsig ====== malux85 As founder: about 12 hours, I take about 4 hours total breaks in the day to swim and often an hour or two nap in the middle, nap required because two 6 hour chunks is quite strenuous This is not rigorously followed - sometim...
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On the Origin of Circuits: GA Exploits FPGA Batch to Solve Problem - davelnewton https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ ====== davelnewton Oldie but a goodie; was reminded by the neural network article which is the same but different.
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The rubber hand illusion - kostandin_k https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16809-body-illusions-rubber-hand-illusion/ ====== jbob2000 One of the best TED talks, in my opinion, was given by Vilayanur Ramachandran and it touches on this topic. It's a great presentation loaded with tidbits about how the brain works. F...
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Why code in C anymore? - zwieback http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/why-code-in-c-anymore/240149452# ====== tgflynn I wonder why the linked benchmark site shows g++ to be 27% slower than gcc. Is this just compiling the same C (as subset of C++) program with two different compilers or are they comparing two distinct impleme...
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