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Fennec (aka Firefox Mobile) To Debut Next Week - pclark http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fennec_aka_firefox_mobile_to_debut_next_week.php ====== pclark I think it's an uphill struggle for Moz now that the iPhone is so popular. Apple only allows webkit browsers on their store.
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Long-time Googler will head Silicon Valley patent office - azylman http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/11/long-time-googler-will-head-silicon-valley-patent-office/ ====== JohnGB A first step in the right direction. I don't think the fact that she formerly worked for Google is an issue though. The fact that she h...
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Wilhelm von Hackensplat: 'First Past the Post' isn't. - billpg http://blog.hackensplat.com/2011/01/first-past-post-isnt.html ====== edderly If I understand rightly, the AV system being discussed in the UK allows the voter to choose to vote for either one or a limited number of candidates. All votes won't be carried t...
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How Cloud Computing Edges Out Other Hosting Services - Katel http://www.freearticlesnow.com/article-how-cloud-computing-edges-out-other-hosting-services-67709.html This is how cloud computing edges out other hosting services being offered by different hosting providers firms in Australia. A web hosting services inclu...
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Show HN:Review my App - Elapsed - The Timer App for Hackers(Multi-Taskers) - appsuler Long time lurker reading and learning from the community here. Inspired to act and currently working to escape from cubicle nation. Financial constraints mean I can't quit cold turkey but realized that working on the "Next Big Thin...
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POLL: What computer do you use for programming? - azizali Recently we had a poll on what programming language we you use. Now I want to know what computer do hackers use? ====== TheSmoke I have a retina macbook pro for my own development and have a macbook air at work. ------ NAFV_P A dirty, smelly black Toshiba Sa...
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Amazon Releases Kindle Fire Source Code - revorad http://briefmobile.com/amazon-releases-kindle-fire-source-code ====== drewda See the discussion at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3114383>
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Ask HN: Does Hacker News make you overwhelmed or frustrated or worried? - pshyco After being a HN regular for more than two years, I&#x27;ve now changed the way I think. That is the only way I can get over this and stop going crazy.<p>When you scroll through all these pointers and read some of them, I used to feel lik...
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We need a new document markup language – here is why - Yuval_Halevi https://medium.freecodecamp.org/we-need-a-new-document-markup-language-c22e0ec44e15 ====== tannhaeuser SGML, on which HTML and XML is based, has had the features the author is looking for since before 1986. No need to pull a 927 and invent yet another...
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Something Weird Is Happening on Wall Street, and Not Just the Stock Sell-Off - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/upshot/markets-weird-coronavirus.html ====== withinboredom Is it really not obvious? 80% of the assets being sold belong to people who either A. are at risk of dying from this virus and B. don’t exp...
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EU proposal to clamp down on Bitcoin curb terrorism funding - ghosh http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN0T81BW20151119?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=twitter ====== mikekchar The headline is misleading. This is a Reuters reporter reporting that some ministers are planning to discuss non-bank methods of ...
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Sub-second reloads for mobile developers with Flutter and Dart - rpeden http://news.dartlang.org/2016/10/flutter-sub-second-reloads-on-mobile.html ====== rpeden I like the potential for code sharing between web and mobile. In the past, I've done this with React and React Native. Angular 2 (Typescript) can easily acco...
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Show HN: An even better solution for declarative animation - leeluolee http://regularjs.github.io/blog/2014/07/26/2014-7-26-animation-rethink/ ====== zjuwwq so flexible design support event trigger and conditional trigger, support chainable even between two element, easy extend
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Do You Really Want to be Doing this When You're 50? - rw140 http://prog21.dadgum.com/154.html ====== edw519 57, programming for 33 years with hardly a day off, and having more fun than ever. My motivation? It's not about the technology, the tools, the apps, the business, the customers, or even the money, although any...
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Apple: We’re responsible for over 500,000 American jobs - GBond http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/apple-were-responsible-for-over-500000-american-jobs/2012/03/02/gIQAnRaEnR_story.html ====== davewicket Please stop posting this to HN.
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Ethics, Morals, and the Law: Where do you draw the line at what to develop? - DanielBMarkham http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/10/wheres_the_line.php ====== gibsonf1 I enjoyed the post until we hit Kant. This "imperative": "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it shou...
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Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Puzzle Claimed Solved by Special Relativity - dhimes http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27260/ ====== thegrossman This is an almost trivial application of special relativity. It was be absolutely shocking if the dozens of scientists involves in the neutrino experiment didn't take thi...
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After Travis Kalanick’s Resignation, Will Uber Really Change? - hluska http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/after-travis-kalanicks-resignation-will-uber-really-change ====== thevardanian Maybe Kalanick wants to manufacture a return story. ~~~ iamdave I was thinking about this last night after listening (paradoxical...
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How SQLite Is Tested - deegles http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html ====== voltagex_ Previous discussions: [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.sqlite.org%2Fte...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=http:%2F%2Fwww.sqlite.org%2Ftesting.html&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story) ------ antonios Th...
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Quickest way to $30,000 profit after taxes? - airwick I'm a programmer employed full time. I need to find a way to earn 30,000 dollars or so after taxes to pay for some health related debt I incurred last year. What kind of site or online activity would you start in your free time to make that kind of money? ====== rm...
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Coding practices NASA uses to write millions of code - SenHeng https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/4npim9/10_coding_practices_which_allows_nasa_to_write/ ====== LandR Link to pdf is broken on that reddit site. Think this is the link [https://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf](https://lar...
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CCRMA at Stanford, anyone students or faculty around these parts? - thealphanerd Looking to get an idea of what kind of grades, portfolios, and GRE scores students had. Also curious what type of references you used.&#60;p&#62;Also would be interested in hearing anything positive or negative any has to say about the...
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Angels sing: ‘frankly ridiculous’ restrictions might ‘destroy Silicon Valley’ - pstevensza http://venturebeat.com/2010/03/26/angel-investing-chris-dodd/ ====== pstevensza This bill strikes me as being a little odd in light of the drive toward the small and agile versus the monolithic and too big to fail. I think thi...
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Lockheed Martin's laser can stop a truck from over a mile away - eplanit http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/04/lockheed-martin-laser-athena-test/ ====== lettergram I don't see any benefit to this in its current state. It's way less inefficient than standard weapons today, and it is effected by things such as smoke, humi...
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Ask HN: How do you manage multiple client servers on Amazon? - zenincognito I am looking for a tool that can monitor the services and perform some automation as restarting server when certain events are triggerd.<p>Any solutions out there ? ====== smt88 AWS supports this natively. Not sure how to do it through the GUI...
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Hacker Steals Military Docs Because Someone Didn’t Change a Default FTP Password - Jerry2 https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-steals-military-docs-because-someone-didn-t-change-a-default-ftp-password/ ====== hinkley He stole the docs by compromising a router that was running the FTP protocol. That s...
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Trump’s FDA plan should raise concerns for Americans who eat food - ArtDev http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-fda-plan-should-raise-concerns-americans-who-eat-food ====== ArtDev This article title is priceless. "The good news is, if you don’t eat food, you have nothing to worry about. Everyone else, howev...
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Alleged Coinomi exploit shows how easy it is to have Bitcoin stolen - timcc50 https://decryptmedia.com/5414/alleged-coinomi-exploit-concern ====== rory096 To _Google Chrome 's_ spellchecker. It's a bad vulnerability, but it's unlikely that it's really the attack vector here. ~~~ Veen Right. The "thief" would have to ...
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A Quick Demo of Apache Beam with Docker - ecesena https://medium.com/@ecesena/a-quick-demo-of-apache-beam-with-docker-da98b99a502a ====== ecesena Author here: feel free to reach out for comments, additional details, clarifications...
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Lua: the world's most infuriating language? - jgrahamc http://www.slideshare.net/jgrahamc/lua-the-worlds-most-infuriating-language ====== Pxtl ... that is the _strangest_ collection of complaints I've ever seen about Lua. He obsesses over minor syntactic quibbles like the lack of a += operator and the ~= and "not" ins...
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Show HN: ShareSEER- Research tool for investors - shareseer https://shareseer.com/ ====== shareseer ShareSEER is a research tool for investors. We are excited to announce the launch V 1.3 of ShareSEER. We now have: \- A real time insider filing dashboard - [https://shareseer.com/today/insiders](https://shareseer.com/...
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Custard Antenna - maxerickson https://michaelcullen.name/2019/04/custard-antenna/ ====== anilakar If you're willing to experiment, you'll find out that you can tune pretty much anything from a random spool of wire to an iron frame bed, and in this case custard. I've found that an inductively coupled sausage is a nice ...
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Eating out – one month in SF - rf45 http://rf45.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/eating-out-one-month-in-sf/ ====== jacalata Very interesting. I look forward to reading a summary of your month of eating in, but one thing to be careful of is that because you won't have any staples/basics, you should be planning/ready to spen...
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58% Of Americans Still Own A VCR - nettizen http://www.businessinsider.com/pew-research-electronics-poll-2014-1 ====== tzs I have a VCR. To play a tape I would have to dig it put of a closet and hook it up. If I were surveyed by them, would I be counted among VCR owners?
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Measuring HTTPS Adoption on the Web [pdf] - okket https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/46197.pdf ====== prathiks what the % number ~~~ lifthrasiir That's not what the paper primarily shows. The gists are sentences in italic (in the section 3): > Is HTTPS usage still growing...
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Show HN: Libtmux – A tmux workspace manager in Python - git-pull http://libtmux.git-pull.com ====== foota Might be able to make some cool neovim (or another text based editor) python plugins with this. ~~~ tekacs Perhaps like how the Kakoune text editor[0] (discussed a few days ago on HN [1]) uses tmux to manage pane...
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A collection of useful .htaccess snippets - scapbi https://github.com/phanan/htaccess ====== _cudgel While I think this is a very valuable resource, and patterns are always welcome by me, it should be noted that the Apache docs recommend against using .htaccess files due to the performance penalty. From the docs ([...
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Putin’s playbook for discrediting America and destabilizing the West - matthewsinclair http://kottke.org/17/06/putins-playbook-for-discrediting-america-and-destabilizing-the-west ====== addmeaning So author basically read Wikipedia page about some Russian philosopher's book and somehow connected it to Putin and assume...
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Wow very terminal doge - thiderman https://github.com/thiderman/doge ====== alanh very humor enough wow still doge homepage again stop now done shibe ------ benatkin This predates the doge_js twitter account, the doge npm package, and dogescript. It's ...
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Ask HN: Where do Rubyists host their application? - hendricius Where are rubyists currently hosting their applications?<p>So far I mostly hosted at OVH&#x2F;Hetzner. But I am looking forward to moving to PaaS service or so.<p>What are you doing right now?<p>Thanks, -hendrik ====== blairanderson heroku, aws, digitaloce...
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Approve or Reject: Can You Moderate Five New York Times Comments? - dotluis http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/insider/approve-or-reject-moderation-quiz.html ====== franciscop > "Women and their monogamy obsession. Why are they so insecure and try to > fight biology?" > "Reject" > "We would have approved....
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Twitto: A web framework in a tweet - kenver http://twitto.org/ ====== dchest How about (secure?) OO version (with no error handling)? $c=new ReflectionClass('co');$m=$c->getMethod($_GET['m']);if($m && $m->isPublic()){$i = $c->newInstance();$m->invoke($i);} Example usage: <?php...
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Run Bash on Ubuntu on Windows - jessaustin https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/03/30/run-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windows/ ====== dang [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bash%20windows&sort=byDate&dat...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bash%20windows&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) ---...
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Critical Code in Millions of Macs Isn't Getting Apple's Updates - doener https://www.wired.com/story/critical-efi-code-in-millions-of-macs-is-not-getting-apple-updates/ ====== floatingatoll The same Twitter-posting Apple employee noted in a thread last week that they had intended EFI checks to ship in Sierra. This ind...
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Enterprise software vendors have no taste - lelf https://medium.com/michael-dubakov-selection/enterprise-software-vendors-have-no-taste-add7e78b7f69 ====== pinaceae The design challenge behind a modern enterprise app is also way steeper than on any consumer app. Enterprise apps like CRM, ERP, HR, etc. need to cover a...
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Elementary OS Loki Released - aroman https://elementary.io/ ====== billconan the os seems to be built on top of linux and gtk? can you really sell a linux distro? given it's gpl licensed? ~~~ r3bl You can charge for the distribution of the software any way you want. You just need to provide the code. They don't eve...
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Ask HN: Should we create a Crypto Bank that issues bank notes? - Findeton Some people have created &quot;bills&quot; and physical &quot;coins&quot; that actually contain crypto. I haven&#x27;t seen anyone creating bank notes that are simply backed by a bank that stores the crypto for them. What do you think about the ...
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Dafny: A Language and Program Verifier for Functional Correctness - kushti http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/dafny/ ====== nickpsecurity Good to see it show up on HN. It's a nice language and their rise4fun project brings such stuff to a wider audience. I wonder if any readers with a lot of hands-on experie...
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Switching roles told me how hard it is for women to get the respect they deserve - pvorb https://twitter.com/SchneidRemarks/status/839910253680553988?s=09 ====== pvorb Disclaimer: This story is _not_ by me but really worth reading. Posting it here for better discussion.
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ASk HN: I Need a Self-hosted blog platform - BeccaCory I&#x27;m a marketer, and looking for a blog platform where we can host the blog ourselves - ie, I want to implement extreme customization. Anyone have any recommendations.<p>Wordpress is not capable enough. ====== robotys If wordpress is not capable enough for y...
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‘None of this happened the way you think it did’ - Avshalom https://www.hcn.org/issues/51.10/communities-none-of-this-happened-the-way-you-think-it-did-cremated-remains ====== rurban Great timing. Just lost my grandmother (she was 92), and now she's getting cremated next week. I can really use that info to detect susp...
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CloudFlare on Spamhaus SBL - simpleenigma http://blog.wordtothewise.com/2012/07/cloudflare-and-spamhaus/ ====== simpleenigma I recently got an message from a client who has a business email blocked because of a Spamhaus SBL listing for CloudFlare. I know they have already responded to this at <http://blog.cloudflar...
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Are crowds really all that wise? - blasdel http://nonbovine-ruminations.blogspot.com/2009/08/are-crowds-really-all-that-wise.html ====== billswift You might try actually reading Surowiecki's "Wisdom of Crowds". Once you get past all the hype and glosses on the book, and the book's introduction, you will find that the ...
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Welcome Back, Nokia - tilt http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/24/just-try-a-windows-phone/ ====== laacz TechCrunch did it again. Brutal PR. I mean, 33% (OMG, 33%!!) of a market, which is tiny. In a linked article it says, that nokia sold 1 million (that's rounded up from mentioned .9 mil) devices in Q4. WP7 share is arou...
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NVIDIA reaches settlement in class action suit affecting Apple, Dell, HP laptops - lotusleaf1987 http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/30/nvidia-reaches-settlement-in-class-action-suit-affecting-apple/ ====== kls Wow great info, I did not even know that this was going on, I have one of the affected models, thanks for the in...
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Grantoo lets college students earn tuition by playing games - thegarside http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/04/grantoo-lets-college-students-earn-tuition-by-playing-games-exclusive/ ====== vitno as a college student, I say the games really suck...
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“AI-generated” content is sometimes just unaltered training data - weswpg https://twitter.com/eevee/status/1298932940697550848 ====== weswpg > it appears this was "produced" by an AI, but it also exists verbatim > elsewhere as written by a human, so it was probably picked up in the > training data and then spat back o...
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Tesla crash victim had complained about auto-pilot in same location - ucaetano http://abc7news.com/automotive/i-team-exclusive-victim-who-died-in-tesla-crash-had-complained-about-auto-pilot/3275600/ ====== antirez "Our data shows that Tesla owners have driven this same stretch of highway with Autopilot engaged roughly...
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Ask HN: I got kicked out of an Ivy League, now what? - crappystudent I got withdrawn from the Engineering program at an Ivy League because of my grades. Looking back, it was completely my fault, but I can&#x27;t change that now. I was transitioning from a &quot;core&quot; engineering major to CS but before I could, ...
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Swatting Could Soon Be Illegal - ColinWright http://mic.com/articles/128931/swatting-could-soon-be-illegal-in-all-50-states ====== bpicolo This sounds like something that's already illegal. How would fraudulently calling law enforcement NOT be illegal? ~~~ mistercow Yeah sounds like this is about a new law that is mo...
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Raganwald on Inheritance - 0x44 http://weblog.raganwald.com/2008/04/is-strictly-equivalent-to.html ====== ambition Summary: If superclass has method X with behaviour Y, do not override X to have behaviour Z in a subclass, because this violates the spirit of inheritance semantics. To be fair, his version is long, pe...
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Show HN: TubeDrop.in, simple and quick YouTube to audio conversion - gmaster1440 http://tubedrop.in ====== Eduard hmm, searching for "Whitebeard - No we can't" didn't list me the video that actually exists at Youtube. ~~~ gmaster1440 That's because, for now, TubeDrop only searches through videos that support at lea...
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Landmark Copyright Lawsuit Cariou V. Prince Is Settled (2014) - nkurz http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-features/news/landmark-copyright-lawsuit-cariou-v-prince-is-settled/ ====== lloydde Seems like the expensive road Andy Baio wisely chose not to travel, [http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/](http://waxy...
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The Daily WTF maliciously infringes Programming Praxis trademark - igorhvr http://programmingpraxis.com/2009/08/13/the-daily-wtf-maliciously-infringes-programming-praxis-trademark ====== johns Anecdotally, shortly after The Daily WTF gained popularity I emailed Alex to suggest starting a sister site for non-programm...
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Show HN: Companion – Your Personal Safety Service - dsfreed http://companionapp.io/ ====== lexieernst This is literally the sickest app idea since Nam. Need this for me and my family!
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Internal Boeing Documents Show Cavalier Attitude to Safety - alistairSH https://www.wsj.com/articles/internal-boeing-documents-show-cavalier-attitude-to-safety-11578627206 ====== bookofjoe [http://archive.is/9fEvf](http://archive.is/9fEvf)
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The Android Pebble App Has Been Pulled from the Play Store - sundvor https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/b8l6i2/the_android_pebble_app_has_been_pulled_from_the/ ====== sundvor We still have a few Pebbles which we run using the great Rebble initiative - and there's the option of sideloading APKs, however it's goin...
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Quality over quantity – The right way to comment your code - feedjoelpie http://revelry.co/2014/09/30/quality-over-quantity-the-right-way-to-comment-your-code/ ====== jMyles You've neglected to mention the most harmful possible comment: the one that is wrong, especially when it was once correct, but wasn't updated i...
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Layoffs Taboo, Japan Workers Are Sent to the Boredom Room - GabrielF00 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/17/business/global/layoffs-illegal-japan-workers-are-sent-to-the-boredom-room.html?hp ====== workhere-io Relevant Dilbert: [http://www.dilbert.com/2013-08-09/](http://www.dilbert.com/2013-08-09/)
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Documenting every apple variety in North America - bookofjoe https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/history-of-apples ====== oeuviz I grew up near an orchard containing just over 120 varieties of apples and remember being very impressed that so many varieties exist and yet we end up eating only a few of them. Now readi...
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The Uncatchable - AlexMuir http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2014/newsspec_8700/index.html ====== breakyerself 15 comments and no ones bothered to say anything about the content of the article. So let me be the first to say that I love this guy! He's what the public wanted Dillenger and Jesse James to be. He hasn't ki...
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Digital coins may be on the verge of going mainstream - jonbaer https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/style/what-is-cryptocurrency.html ====== dcw303 We're a long way off mainstream. Take the Web as an example: When my university lab computer got trumpet winsock and Netscape installed, it wasn't mainstream. When Hotbot ...
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Women 2.0 x Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White, Founder, Moonfruit - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/7590260543 ====== raychancc Sustaining a successful business is a hell of a lot of work, and staying hungry is half the battle. \- Wendy Tan White (@wendytanwhite) <http://startupquote.com/post/7590260543>
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Bitcoin – what happened yesterday in Japan? - cocoapriest I&#x27;m a developer of the Bitcoin Tracker iPad app (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.alstertouch.com&#x2F;bitcoinapp&#x2F;) and I just noticed a big spike in yesterday&#x27;s downloads from Japan. Does anyone have any clue what happened over there? ====== mschuster91 T...
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Building Waze for the Boston subway: my first adventure in civic hacking - gklitt http://geoffreylitt.com/2015/02/28/mbta-ninja.html ====== sethbannon "In a world where political systems are increasingly gridlocked every day, and much of Silicon Valley is focused on peddling ads, the civic innovation and open data m...
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Oat Milk Could Change the Way You Drink Coffee (2018) - indigodaddy http://time.com/5190977/how-oat-milk-could-change-the-way-you-drink-coffee/ ====== dpkrjb I've become a particular fan of oat milk over the past couple of years. It's one of the more difficult milk substitutes to find in at restaurants the UK (coffee ...
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Ask HN: Resources for making hardware ideas into products - collyw I am a software developer. I have a reasonably good idea about how to start a software based company from reading articles on this site. I sometimes come up with ideas for hardware, or a mix of software and hardware (something that plugs into your ph...
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F# Versus Java Shootout - dayjah http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/demo/compare.php?lang=fsc ====== Jacked What point am I supposed to be getting here? Yup, it's a benchmark. F# was consistently slower than Java, but, consistently used less memory and fewer lines of code. Are you saying this is good, or bad? ~~~ g...
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NASAs Cassini spacecraft has delivered a glorious view of Saturn... - jug6ernaut http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20121218.html ====== T-hawk Here's a fantastic detailed explanation of the geometry and what's going on with each visual element of the picture, from Slate: [http://mobile.slate...
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They Have, Right Now, Another You - kushti http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/12/22/they-have-right-now-another-you/ ====== marchenko The idea that Facebook and other services may allow the proliferation of erroneous doppelgänger profiles more attractive to advertisers than the real versions is very interesting. How...
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Random Country – Explore the World - sleiman https://random.country/ ====== elmerfud Interesting site, but really need to work on the mobile view of it.
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Turning the Apple //e into a lisp machine, part 1 - antics http://blog.nullspace.io/apple-2-lisp-part-1.html ====== fsck--off If you want to play with a Lisp Machine on Apple hardware, Symbolics is still selling refurbished MacIvory boards. Even though the hardware is ancient the latest model (MacIvory model 3) costs ...
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Spikey Spheres - ColinWright http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/SpikeySpheres.html?HN_20161120 ====== jakobegger A teacher of mine told us, "Don't try to imagine 4D space. You can't. If you think you can imagine a 4D hypersphere, you're wrong. It's just not possible." And everytime someone talks about how to imagine highe...
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Apply HN: Remember – Intelligently search all of your files from one place. - merterdir Hello HN!<p>Remember is an intelligent personal search engine that lets you find every moment of your digital life.<p>We connect to your computer, phone, wearables and the services you use (Facebook, Twitter, mobile apps, etc.) and...
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Aussies' fix for 'stagnated' email - michaelneale http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/aussies-fix-for-stagnated-email-20120221-1tkqd.html ====== citricsquid > "The market that we're going for initially is sort of independent > professionals and small businesses that tend to have personal accounts [and] >...
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Ask HN: Programmers, how do you handle Copyright and IP in your contracts? - pbowyer When working directly with a client or as a freelancer, what do you include in your contract about Intellectual Property and Copyright?<p>The only example contracts I&#x27;ve found (like the very popular Contract Killer [1]) talk abou...
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Live air traffic of the world - vibrunazo http://www.flightradar24.com/ ====== state_machine Pretty, though, just to nit-pick since I happen to be sitting on a plane, seems to be not quite live: <http://cl.ly/image/002u2g152Y0T> ~~~ _djo_ Flightradar24's data comes from a network of volunteer-run ADS-B receivers, whi...
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - swyx https://www.navalmanack.com/ ====== jamestimmins Perhaps I’m alone here, but I find the common obsession with Naval creepy and misplaced. From his content that I’ve read, he primarily spouts platitudes of dubious substance. ------ MR4D The book is free (or paid - your choice) on ...
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UN experts say hacking of Bezos phone suggests effort to influence news coverage - mzs https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-n-experts-say-hacking-of-bezoss-phone-suggests-effort-to-influence-news-coverage-11579704647 ====== pryce Motherboard (Vice) has the FTI report [1]. [1] [https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v74v34/saud...
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The URL Is Dead, Long Live Search - naish http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_url_is_dead_long_live_search.php ====== mynameishere I read somewhere that the #1 search phrase on google is "google". (They publish a different list that filters out that and similar.) I've definitely seen people get to google by sear...
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WOWIO: Free Books + Free Minds - dous http://www.wowio.com/ ====== andr In order to register I need a non-anonymous email (i.e., non-Gmail) or Credit card number or Scan of ID card. Are you serious? ~~~ dous <http://www.wowio.com/help/helpmain.asp#newusers6> ~~~ andr Still. Other US-only sites, like Hulu, don't a...
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Facebook Gets a Multibillion-Dollar Tax Break - kumarski http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-15/facebook-gets-a-multi-billion-dollar-tax-break ====== miked So, Facebook invites Obama to their HQ to give a "townhall", then many of their execs contribute heavily to his campaign, and then Solyndra, er, Faceboo...
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Startup Quote: Gregg Spiridellis, co-founder, JibJab - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/3639205389 ====== raychancc If you make something good and put it out there, people will pass it along. \- Gregg Spiridellis (@jibjabceo) <http://startupquote.com/post/3639205389>
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Elastic SIEM – Security Information and Event Management - praseodym https://www.elastic.co/blog/introducing-elastic-siem ====== strictnein > SIEM detection rules ... on our roadmap The current solution in this space, that actually works really well at scale, is ElastAlert[0]. The problem is that ElastAlert is kind o...
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A top food poisoning expert won’t ever eat these foods - mudil https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/02/why-a-top-food-safety-expert-doesnt-eat-oysters-and-always-orders-meat-well-done/ ====== tzs In the case of steak, the problem is with "mechanically tenderized" meat. Mechanical tenderization involves ...
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Keeping node.js servers up forever - maraksquires http://blog.nodejitsu.com/keep-a-nodejs-server-up-with-forever ====== intranation This reminds me of the bad old days of Rails, when every man and his dog had some random hacky and myopic solution to keep Rails and Mongrel running. Just say no to Node/Rails/whatever ...
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Android Version Market Share History (from 2.0.1 onward) - mmastrac https://plus.google.com/u/0/104025431341062052230/posts/3bpKVnMgnrz ====== mmastrac Originally subtitled as "from the start", but that was incorrect - this is from 2.0.1 onward. Easy full-size version link: <http://i.imgur.com/qZy56.png> One inte...
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Yes, some blogs are profitable - very profitable - gibsonf1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/21/BUVJSNSTC.DTL ====== bootload _"... TechCrunch illustrates the new blogging math. It sells sponsorships that allow advertisers to display on the home page at $10,000 per month. It also uses Federat...
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Anonymous leaks 1.7 GB of data and email from the U.S. Bureau of Justice - Kenan http://anonnews.org/press/item/1521/ ====== gee_totes Umm... the US Bureau of Justice isn't the name of a federal agency. This dump is actually from the Bureau of Justice _Statistics_ [0]. [0][http://news.yahoo.com/computer-hackers-acc...
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They Live - dchest https://whispersystems.org/blog/they-live/ ====== grandalf Have been thinking of something similar lately: A fictitious newspaper with headlines that illustrate the propaganda aspect of our news orgs. Headlines like: \- Foreign leader lacks dignity \- US institutions solid \- Life in the 3rd worl...
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