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Why Google App Engine Shouldn't Include PHP - mikeyur http://blog.jeffhui.net/2009/04/why-google-app-engine-shouldnt-include-php/ ====== gord He seems to be saying "PHP shouldn't be supported because its a bit of an ugly language and somewhat insecure" But then should they only support Scheme? :] The problem is th...
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Setting the date to 1 January 1970 will brick your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch - sabbasb http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/setting-the-date-to-1-january-1970-will-brick-your-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch ====== sschueller So in theory I could create a SDR setup using openBTS and then go around sending a GSM...
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Grooveshark Co-Founder Josh Greenberg Found Dead at 28 - DadADadADA http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/20/grooveshark-co-founder-josh-greenberg-found-dead-at-28/?ncid=rss ====== ColinWright [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917442](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9917442)
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The Most Exclusive Restaurant in America - brandur http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/29/damon-baehrel-the-most-exclusive-restaurant-in-america ====== brandur This one's on the longer side, but it's worth the read. It starts out as an article about a high-class dining experience, but ends with a twist.
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VPN.sh are offering a VPN for £2/year. Yes, £2 yearly D: - halfpipe https://www.vpn.sh/clients/cart.php?a=add&pid=1&billingcycle=annually&promocode=12MONTHS_2 ====== frdmn Actually it's £2/month: [http://up.frd.mn/8a552.png+](http://up.frd.mn/8a552.png+) ~~~ halfpipe Nope, follow the original link and click checkou...
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Gym Retro - lainon https://blog.openai.com/gym-retro/ ====== frenchie4111 I created a Google Colab notebook that runs Gym Retro. Feel free to clone it to play around with Gym Retro. [https://colab.research.google.com/drive/11Mxg30mXEvhk8jB0iJ-...](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/11Mxg30mXEvhk8jB0iJ- cFw1k0wIC...
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Show HN: An interactive visualization of Switzerland's public transport network - aubryio https://tempusfugit.ch ====== perilunar Really nice visualisation! ------ robsalasco dead ~~~ aubryio Thank you for this constructive comment. The visualization is using deck.gl which requires WebGL. I'm working on a fallback m...
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In 10 years, Tesla has gone from one-car company to being compared with Porsche - HNLurker2 https://www.businessinsider.in/in-10-years-tesla-has-gone-from-a-one-car-company-to-being-compared-with-porsche-heres-why-thats-incredible/articleshow/71351652.cms ====== NeedMoreTea Oh that's some _hilarious_ framing.
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Do We Really Need Another Smartphone OS? - aynlaplant http://www.wired.com/insights/2013/01/do-we-really-need-another-smartphone-os/ ====== moccajoghurt Wouldn't a real Linux OS on a smartphone be every developer's dream? I will definitely get a Ubuntu phone. Think about the the variety of options you'll have... Ho...
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The Fair Price Of A Bitcoin Is Zero - brown9-2 http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fair-price-of-a-bitcoin-is-zero-2013-12 ====== oxalo Seems like the author is trying really hard to make Bitcoin fit current monetary theories rather than allowing the possibility that Bitcoin could break them.
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Reservations for Taco Bell’s hotel sell out in 2 minutes - hsnewman https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/27/taco-bell-hotel-reservations-sell-out-in-2-minutes.html ====== smacktoward That place is going to be crammed to the gills with Instagram "influencers." Recommendation: nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ...
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1900 NYC colorized by latest and unreleased DeOldify model - justinzollars https://twitter.com/citnaj/status/1219156481762713602 ====== gbronner Color palette leans too much towards purple, and the whites are far too bright -- those people would be lucky to own two outfits, and keeping the shirts that white on a daily...
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Kryptos & Overestimating the CIA - MikeCapone http://michaelgr.com/2008/12/29/overestimating-the-cia/ ====== pmjordan The British seem to hold a similar respect for GCHQ (which is probably more like the NSA than the CIA) - there seems to be a widespread belief that they can crack even strong, modern encryption. (I d...
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There Are No Truffles in Truffle Oil (2014) - obi1kenobi https://priceonomics.com/there-are-no-truffles-in-truffle-oil/ ====== gabemart If this is true, I am genuinely surprised that it is legal to sell "Truffle oil". Take the truffle oil offered by 3 big UK supermarkets [1][2][3]. All three stores describe it as hav...
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EMusic leaks email address to spammers - RiderOfGiraffes My wife recently made a purchase from eMusic.com. According to our usual procedure she invented an email address unique to them for the registration. We are now getting around 100 spam a day to that email address:<p><pre><code> 2009/04/04 : 41 2009/0...
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Nine new startups from TechStars -- from golf to Twitter to baby monitors - waderoush http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/09/11/techstars-first-class-of-boston-startups-launched-at-microsoft-hosted-gala/ ====== HeyLaughingBoy I like HaveMyShift. I had a similar idea a few months ago when my wife was trying to find so...
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Unlimited Influence: Sell Any Idea One On One - PeterWales Jonathan DeCollibus is releasing a book called Unlimited Influence, I found out about it because I was forwarded a copy by accident. The main designer sent me the whole thing, I can provide a bootleg version if you guys want? ====== braunshizzle Would be c...
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Nearly half of American workers have low-wage jobs - howard941 https://www.knoe.com/content/news/Report-Nearly-half-of-American-workers-have-low-wage-jobs-565741211.html ====== mnm1 Not only have our minimum wage laws not been updated to realistic levels, neither has the poverty level. Half of Americans are indeed too...
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Any bad experiences with Y combinator? - bluekite2000 Seems like everyone I talked to or post I read loves it. Is there no negative experience? If there is, please share. ====== pg We surveyed the founders after the last batch. Their main gripes were: 1\. There aren't enough social events, especially early in the cyc...
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Show HN: Mobile CSS Stylesheet for Hacker News - filipmandaric http://pastebin.com/KcFjaMtP ====== filipmandaric I visited Hacker News today on my phone and noticed that the site is not mobile friendly. There are some homespun mobile versions around the web, but they don't seem kosher. So I decided to take a break a...
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Kent Beck and Don Reinertsen on Value of Storytelling - skmurphy http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2014/05/06/kent-beck-and-don-reinertsen-on-value-of-storytelling/ ====== skmurphy A twitter exchange from Dec-2013 after both had presented a the 2013 Lean Startup Conference Kent Beck: The beauty of teaching through story...
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Has Capitalism Reached a Turning Point? - DocFeind http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2014/09/26/has-capitalism-reached-a-turning-point/ ====== 573f I have long believed that capitalism is fundamentally flawed. It is a system that was designed when the world seemed endless. There were always new lands to discove...
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CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy - signifiers http://blog.ciphercloud.com/responding-to-the-myths-about-cipherclouds-encryption-technology/ ====== tptacek Weasel wording filter: Graf 1, sentence 1: "a few board threads" -> Internet's current most important programming forum. Graf 1, sente...
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Introducing TrailerMatic.com - jtokash http://blog.briangreenbaum.com/introducing-trailermaticcom ====== Game_Ender I like trailers but they are not all created equal. The longest trailer, released close to the release of a movie, is usually spoiler ridden. It will contain shots from every important scene, each acti...
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SimCity traffic AI is why services and traffic are broken - ry0ohki http://answers.ea.com/t5/Miscellaneous-Issues/Traffic-quot-AI-quot-This-is-why-services-and-traffic-are-broken/m-p/737060#U737060[ ====== ripperdoc Glassbox engine has been shown as a challenging and CPU-sucking way of solving the simulation. I'd lo...
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Ask HN: What are best practice approaches for cross-platform projects? - TheCabin I am interested in starting a project that runs on desktop (Linux, MacOS, Windows) and mobile (Android, iOS, mainly aiming and tablets). The final application has a GUI with standard components (ListViews, Buttons, etc) and maybe some le...
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Rare seventeenth century poetry manuscript at risk of export - gruseom https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rare-seventeenth-century-poetry-manuscript-at-risk-of-export ====== i386 That’s how the rest of the world feels about the stolen treasures in the British Museum ~~~ devoply Yeah India wants all the stuff the Brit...
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You Do Not Have to Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day - denzil_correa http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/upshot/no-you-do-not-have-to-drink-8-glasses-of-water-a-day.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1 ====== mangeletti Without any disrespect to the author, why don't we all just start thinking for ourselves when it comes to our health...
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Strangers Drowning: Voyages to the Brink of Moral Extremity - lermontov https://literaryreview.co.uk/grace-notes ====== cjbprime > Singer and many (but not all) of the figures whose stories feature in > Strangers Drowning are committed Kantians in their ethics I choked on my drink. Peter Singer has been famous for de...
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Crapify - twampss http://mattmaroon.com/?p=622 ====== gruseom Based on direct observation of some similar projects, I'd advise skepticism about claims of "crowdsourcing". It is typically used as a buzzword to draw attention to projects that don't actually deserve any, and wouldn't otherwise get it. The way this movi...
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Ask HN: WordPress designers in NYC area? - ebaysucks A webmaster I know is looking for a WordPress designer/studio in the NYC area and asked me for recommendations.<p>Which WP designers in NYC would you recommend?<p>Thanks ====== collint Here's a guy I know in NYC who can do wordpress: <http://gregorygallagherdesign...
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Apple staffers reportedly rebelling against open office plan - V99 https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/08/08/apple-park-employees-floor-plan-hq-spaceship-aapl.html ====== seorphates Working in open office plans is simply awful. Personally I believe remote work, for any tech-enabled employer, makes the most ...
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Flash vs HTML 5 - kloc http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/03/10/10readwriteweb-does-html5-really-beat-flash-the-surprising-81090.html ====== ZeroGravitas This is an unchanged repost of a ReadWriteWeb post, which in turn only summarises the original article by Jan Ozer which is discussed here: <http:/...
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High frequency cryptocurrency historical raw market data replay API - tardis_thad https://tardis.dev ====== tardis_thad Hi, founder of [https://tardis.dev](https://tardis.dev) here. Happy to answer any questions you have.
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Ask HN: Are there any studies on if and how are dark or light themes better? - qwerty456127 ====== tedyoung Yes, a Google Scholar search provided some experimental results: * "The impact of color combinations on the legibility of text presented on LCDs" ("Dark text generally leads to greater legibility when contrast r...
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Dexcom outage that kept patients from tracking blood sugar was complete surprise - zootme https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/03/dexcom-cto-our-biggest-ever-glitch-was-a-big-surprise.html ====== wglb It seems seriously irresponsible to be in a position where outages of any scope are "a complete surprise". Especially with a s...
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Berlin 1945 and today - chrtze http://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berlin-1945-2015/ ====== gus_massa Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492068](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9492068) (168 points, 34 days ago, 43 comments) It has a few comments about a similar project for Warsaw with lin...
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Building the Midwest: Money. Liquidity. Talent? - pthomas551 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/building-midwest-money-liquidity-talent-nick-cromydas?trk=v-feed&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_detail_base%3BZPZMszK1jbY0l7i2MLH%2FWQ%3D%3D ====== aceeightofspade The big question is how do you bring in additional and qual...
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Show HN: Nikon DSLR as video conf webcam on Mac - dognotdog I&#x27;ve spent the COVID weekends working on an open-source plugin to use my Nikon DSLR as a webcam for the endless Zoom calls, and here it is:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;dognotdog&#x2F;ptpwebcam ====== jamesponddotco Nice! If anyone is looking for...
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Groupon daily emails and RSS feeds, a lesson in nagging and timing - a4agarwal http://sachin.posterous.com/groupon-daily-emails-and-rss-feeds-a-lesson-i ====== mrshoe To anyone sending emails (including posterous), I'd recommend going beyond A/B tests. You should know the optimal time to contact _each user_. For ne...
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DefCon Hackers Tell How They Cracked Brink's Safe in 60 Seconds - mtuncer http://www.eweek.com/security/defcon-hackers-tell-how-they-cracked-brinks-safe-in-60-seconds.html ====== xenophonf "So the issue isn't so much that there is no acknowledgment that there is a problem; rather, the vendors have b...
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Why Australia must embrace the digital age - dan_siepen http://coderfactory.co/posts/why-australia-must-embrace-digital-age#.VMnwOqy28C4.hackernews ====== Sir_Substance We're hearing the same narrative in this piece that we do in the US. I graduated last year (in Australia) with a degree in software engineering with f...
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Where Boys OutperformGirls in Math: Rich, Whiteand Suburban Districts - jbredeche https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/13/upshot/100000005950701.app.html ====== mkirklions I have a hard time with these studies because they obviously had an agenda before they started. Rural areas likely do not have as much comm...
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Show HN: Shazam in Java - wsieroci https://github.com/wsieroci/audiorecognizer ====== ck2 Now make it identify EDM. Because that seems to be a next generation thing that nothing can achieve right now even with 30 second clips.
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LibreOffice remote arbitrary file disclosure vulnerability - sanqui https://github.com/jollheef/libreoffice-remote-arbitrary-file-disclosure ====== jwilk Remote arbitrary file _disclosure_ vulnerability. Please fix the submission title. ~~~ dang Ok, we'll take your word for it. ------ kevinoid Does anyone know what ...
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Chimpanzee Browsing Instagram on iPhone with Precision - okket https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/25/chimpanzee-using-instagram-iphone/ ====== ASalazarMX With precision is too vague. The chimpanzee actually chooses what to see: scrolls, watches chimp videos, swipes off boring snake videos, etc. It's said they are roughly as ...
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U.S. Statement on Reliability of Election Results - r721 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/us/politics/us-statement-on-reliability-of-election-results.html ====== ryuuchin Nate Silver made the point on twitter that when you control for race and education the effect that you see in the counties that used paper ballots ...
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Rapid Development with Codeigniter and RedBean ORM (+source code) - legierski http://blog.self.li/post/21377767608/rapid-development-codeigniter-redbean-php-orm ====== babuskov I used to use CodeIgniter. It's really good for beginners and easy to to get into. But, it's still not rapid enough for me. After a few big ...
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Startup in Silicon Valley or Day Job in Paris? - alain94040 http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2010/08/16/startup-in-silicon-valley-or-day-job-in-paris/ ====== ABrandt I have little experience in the corporate world, but I get the feeling that the OP's analysis could apply just about anywhere. There's certainly places that ...
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PostgreSQL needs a new load balancer - eksith http://www.databasesoup.com/2012/03/postgresql-needs-new-load-balancer.html ====== pilif The article is from 2012, but its contents is still very true. The only general purpose solution out there is pgpool, but from my own experience, unfortunately, it's less than stable...
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Show HN: The Creative Commons of Privacy Policies - Facens http://www.iubenda.com/en ====== zoowar Seems to me listing "Various types of data" defeats the purpose of informing users as to what is being collected. ~~~ Facens Good point! Actually, those "various types of data" are explained within the complete privac...
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Continuations: One Control Flow Construct to Rule Them All - PieSquared http://blog.bytefreeze.com/past/2010/4/29/one_control_flow_construct_to/ ====== Vivtek Sigh. I'm 43 years old and only really grasped _closures_ this January. It's going to take another ten years for my continuation epiphany. This is what happe...
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Not A Waste - sahillavingia http://al3x.net/2011/03/18/not-a-waste.html ====== maxklein "But it’s worth a read to understand the perspective of a vocal minority in the tech industry." That statement is a bit off-putting. First of all, this 'minority' is the majority. Most software businesses are indeed small, and are...
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Show HN: San Francisco MUNI Transit Delays, Visualized - bdon http://bdon.org/transit/ ====== dougmccune Trying to compare against the published schedule isn't all that useful. As a resident of SF, I long ago gave up the idea that you could look up the scheduled arrival of a bus and plan around that. However, if a b...
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Introducing GitHub Traffic Analytics - xPaw https://github.com/blog/1672-introducing-github-traffic-analytics ====== abritishguy Well that makes [https://github.com/igrigorik/ga- beacon](https://github.com/igrigorik/ga-beacon) somewhat redundant ~~~ igrigorik Wohoo! [https://twitter.com/jnunemaker/status/4206348855...
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Chat with Khan Academy's Founder, Sal Khan - gill http://afraj.com/chat-with-khan-academys-founder-sal-khan ====== joeevans1000 Khan Academy appeared as a remarkable thing: a self paced single page app of sorts, readily apparent to the user in it's construction. That simplicity was it's greatest quality. That was the ...
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Should high school seniors go to College or become an Entrepreneur? - travisketchum http://thecollegestartup.com/college-or-entrepreneurship/ ====== mmastrac The insane tuition costs in the US have turned this into a reasonable question, IMHO. For students in countries with reasonable schooling costs -- I still con...
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Don't wake up the programmer - g9 http://alexthunder.livejournal.com/309815.html ====== gruseom There is something distinctively Russian about this delirium. I'm pretty sure I've never seen a Dostoevskian programming blog post before. ------ d-rock This reminds me of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's TED talk on flow. ~~...
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A CIA officer turned police officer: thoughts on policing - mmhsieh https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/6/2/21277438/police-officer-george-floyd-patrick-skinner-interview-militarization ====== eljost As someone from Germany it seems very strange how casually he talks about being shot at, as if this is a norma...
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Thoughts on Entrepreneurship with Jason Fried - srs0001 http://samuelrsolomon.com/entrepreneurship-with-jason-fried/ ====== InfinityX0 What's up with the fake "positive" comments at the bottom of this thread? Makes you think this was manipulated up (every user has -3 karma). Always sad to see and it feels like this ...
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TV News is Ridiculous Compared with Internet News - NathanKP http://www.experimentgarden.com/2012/02/tv-news-is-ridiculous-compared-to.html ====== zowens1190 This article highlights a real generational gap I never considered until earlier this year. I started Googling when I was about nine years old, at the latest....
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Light at the end of the scalpel - Hooke http://mosaicscience.com/story/tumour-paint-cancer-surgery ====== melling "Jim Olson remembers being ridiculed. It was 1989 and he was defending his PhD thesis, and the bank of University of Michigan professors asked what his next goal would be. “If we can bring radioactivity ...
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Ask HN: What is the correct way of session handling in web applications? - sunilkumarc Hi Hackers,<p>I&#x27;m a naive web developer who is trying to build a small web application using Node.js and React.js. Currently I&#x27;m stuck at session handling for the chosen technology stack. I have seen some examples(One ex...
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A Fully Automated Society - Current Arguments Are Oversimplified - StandardFuture http://standardfuture.com/ ====== eip It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without ...
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Ask HN: Where can I learn how to build APIs for developers? - rm2904 I am looking to learn how to build APIs for developers, what are the best practices around organizing them and exposing them through API keys.<p>Any courses, guides, blogs, or books that people found helpful?<p>I code mostly in Python and Javascript....
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On Free: a flight across Europe for five pounds is indistinguishable from magic - ivankirigin http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/11/a-flight-across.html ====== abstractbill I've taken advantage of a bunch of these flights (I'm from the UK). I live in the US now though and I'm wondering why this model hasn't t...
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Frankenimage – Reconstructing images with pieces from an image database - sebkomianos http://gimlids.github.io/frankenimage/ ====== zingermc Is the mosaic of The Creation of Adam generated by Frankenimage? Judging by the results in the videos, it doesn't seem capable of making that. Edit: I did a Tineye search and ...
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Chartwell font exploits ligatures to build charts from character sequences - mef http://www.tktype.com/chartwell.php ====== zbanks This is pretty amazing & clever. I wish the font file was available just to play with, even if it was a crippled version. Even though it's not a "full" typeface, I'm surprised he's not ...
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If Ruby is object-oriented Perl, then Reia is object-oriented Erlang - bascule http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2010/06/reia-everything-is-object.html ====== deno Besides Ruby-like syntax how does it differ from parametrized modules? From his example: = Reia: class Foo def initialize(value)...
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New Relic launches perpetually free tier, 100gb data ingest and 1 user license - dan-buzzkill https://newrelic.com/signup ====== Havoc Looks promising :)
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ARE OCTOPUSES FROM OUTER SPACE - ijafri http://www.newsweek.com/alien-octopuses-outer-space-930942 ====== gigatexal They are majestic, smart and caring and cunning creatures. They’re my favorite animal in the animal kingdom. I’ll never forget the clip I saw of David Attenborough narrating how a female octopus holed up...
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What's it like to be a drug dealer? - bemmu http://www.quora.com/Whats-it-like-to-be-a-drug-dealer ====== jsavimbi A pain in the ass, mostly. It's comprable to being a good-looking bartender at a high-priced club. Sure, the customers will be there because after all it's drugs you're selling, but then the place will ...
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Congress Looking into Anticompetitive Behavior in the Digital Library Market - IfOnlyYouKnew https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/libraries/article/81549-congress-investigating-anticompetitive-behavior-in-the-digital-library-market.html ====== IfOnlyYouKnew I especially enjoy how the first commen...
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Appeals Court Overturns 2007 Unix Copyright Decision - gasull http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/08/25/0021246/Appeals-Court-Overturns-2007-Unix-Copyright-Decision?from=rss ====== bdfh42 I rather thought that the court set aside a summary judgement - saying there was sufficient grounds to require a trial of the facts. ...
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The Sunspot Enigma: The Sun is "Dead", What Does it Mean for Earth? - gibsonf1 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html ====== dandelany A couple relevant links: [http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupda...](http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/11jul_solarcycleupdate.ht...
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Ask HN: How should I catch up on fundamentals as a self-taught programmer? - superpops I learned programming as I was studying another major basically, not Computer Science. And I was mainly learning that during my work-study job because there were a ton of slow hours in the computer lab and I got curious about learni...
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ECommerce Startups - codecondo http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-ivanovs/5-ecommerce-startups-you_b_7179272.html? ====== scottgarza I suggest you to have a try with uber apps for startups. I would like you to have a check with this link @mowares.com
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Computer scientists has software that realistically make anyone say anything - puppetmaster3 https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/2310/6/161551044/508826461.mp4?token=57053e5c_0x821197a5a2acd9f4cc5a2e80f7b47e7767cad2c5#038;profile_id=119 ====== mindcrash Error 410 - Gone. ------ david-given Warning:...
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A Curated List of Wordpress and Wordpress.com REST API Apps - cdarwin http://www.justthink.it/wordpress-rest-api-applications/ ====== cdarwin I haven't found a list like this the net, so I thought it would be interesting to have one.
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Apple facing record bill for Irish tax - shazzy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37216176 ====== djrogers Seems kinda crazy to retroactively assess taxes/fines on a company that was doing something completely legal in the country it was operating in. If you don't like the rules, change them - but to go backward in t...
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LXQt 0.11 Released - Tsiolkovsky http://lxqt.org/release/2016/09/24/lxqt-011-et-al/ ====== scrollaway So while this is on HN, I wanted to talk a bit about LXQt and desktop OSes in general. Context: I'm one of the original leads on LXQt, and I initiated the merge of Razor-qt and LXDE-Qt into LXQt. I've been using LXQ...
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How is the recruitment process in 2017? - gatby I was supposed to have 4 phone interviews this week but every single one of them has been delayed. Are recruiters just busy or am I being paranoid? ====== reflexorozy It could be employers still nailing down their budget? I know that there are (in Salt Lake City) fewer c...
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Gmail is getting PGP Signatures (Feb 2009) - graywh http://www.paulspoerry.com/2009/02/13/gmail-is-getting-pgp-signatures/ ====== koanarc Over a year ago they were experimenting with this, and still no results? Not very encouraging. Has anyone since seen any evidence of further developments in this area? I've never ...
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Website that suggests domain names? - csdrizzle Recently read an article about a service that recommends domain names based on keywords. Anyone know what its called? Thanks! ====== kunle dont know but you can use domai.nr to find domain name combos based on the words you're thinking of ------ venuescout www.dotom...
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Show HN: Dating app focused on chatting and gamification - cstechofficial https://blurry.chat ====== sk0g No offence, but I would get the landing page looked at by a native English speaker. A fair few instances of quirky language there. But as for the product, having to earn virtual currency to keep using a dating ap...
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Tips for a Less Sugar Diet - awwam http://lifehacksforhumanbeings.blogspot.com/2015/07/tips-for-less-sugar-diet.html ====== yiiman How a can somebody avoid the taste of sugar?
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Parents: This is What Your Founder of A Son Does - feint http://feint.me/2010/09/parents-this-is-what-your-founder-of-a-son-does/ ====== swombat Fuck, man, learn basic grammar. I could have, not I could of. My parents would cry if they saw me write like that. The rest of the article is also littered with omitted ...
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Eric Schmidt struggled to answer a Google interview question - ohjeez http://qz.com/846339/alphabet-chairman-eric-schmidt-struggled-to-answer-a-google-interview-question/ ====== dudul The problem is that startups were eager to follow Google's lead and introduce such dumb questions into their process, but seems to not ...
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Bug in HN Noprocrast (if you use noprocrast don't read...) - jacquesm There seems to be a simple way to get around the noprocrast feature, the only thing you can't do is edit postings / vote but you can still read the site, comment and submit.<p>The way to do it is when you get the 'back to work' message hit the '/l...
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Our First Business Card - Tangaroo http://blog.spotfordot.com/?p=65 ====== Tangaroo Please also check out our soft launch site and register at www.spotfordot.com
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Drone Adventures, Pt. 1: Building a Drone - zsupalla http://z.svbtle.com/drone-adventures-pt-1-building-a-drone ====== jonalmeida I really like my Crazyflie and I've been meaning to use it with my Spark Core. So far I've controlled it with a Leap Motion controller but haven't had time to finish the controller entire...
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Support Vector Machines (SVM) in Ruby - brett http://www.igvita.com/2008/01/07/support-vector-machines-svm-in-ruby/ ====== aswanson Victory shall indeed be mine.
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Ask HN: Code checker for Javascript - shire I need a program that I can enter my Javascript code and it will tell me what it is doing line by line to understand some Javascript code is there such program out there? ====== kaoD It's called a debugger. There's a nice one in your browser probably.
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Who Invests in Hardware Startups? - roarden https://medium.com/bolt-blog/who-invests-in-hardware-startups-d1612895a31a ====== kickingvegas Given that it's nice to see posts like this (disclaimer: I'm in one of those HW startups listed) I'm reminded of an old ASIC joke: How do you make a small fortune? Take a large fo...
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There Are at Least 36 Intelligent Alien Civilizations in Galaxy, Say Scientists - jchanimal https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2020/06/15/there-are-36-intelligent-alien-civilizations-in-our-galaxy-say-scientists/#23805dac694f ====== AnimalMuppet ... _if_ their particular model is right.
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Who owns these gTLD companies? - simonlast http:&#x2F;&#x2F;newgtlds.icann.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;program-status&#x2F;delegated-strings<p>This page is full of bogus names like &quot;Spring Falls&quot;, &quot;Storm Orchard&quot;, and &quot;Holly Hill&quot;. Who owns these companies? ====== arcdigital Those companies are us...
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Ask HN: Page pagination (more) for Who is Hiring post is back - zerr Hello,<p>Why the page pagination is back for Who is Hiring posts? ====== gus_massa Probably too many posts, splitting makes the server happier (?). It's better to ask this directly to the mods hn@ycombinator.com
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I built a website uptime checker and I'm looking for feedback - jamesmd I know there are other website uptime monitors and checkers so you may be wondering why this is any different?<p>It checks the uptime very frequently to show the true website uptime present and passed.<p>Runs from multiple locations<p>Lightweight<...
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Beyond the Hype: 4 Years of Go in Production - neoasterisk http://www.infoq.com/presentations/go-iron-production ====== joekinley I'm 15 minutes into the video, and must say, not even considering Erlang might have been a bad move. Because all the points that are made towards go, seem to be solved much better with Erla...
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Fashionable Problems - hackerews http://paulgraham.com/fp.html ====== rgbrenner I think pg understates the problem. It isn't just fashionable. Think about how the solutions we use today evolved. Someone had an idea originally and certain decisions were made about that approach.. those that best adapted to the conditi...
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