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In 2019, blockchains will start to become boring - whichcoin https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612687/in-2019-blockchains-will-start-to-become-boring/ ====== jobigoud My prediction is that some services or products will use a blockchain as an underlying mechanism but without telling it and will even deny it, in order...
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Ask HN: Do you have some advice on pricing a product? - cx42net Hi!<p>I&#x27;m finishing the beta release of my project and one of the main question that&#x27;s bugging me is the following:<p>&gt; Am I asking for the right price?<p>In general, I would compare the competitors, see their price and adjust accordingly, ...
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Show HN: LiveTourLab – A framework for creating Live VR Tours - andelar https://github.com/livetourlab/live-tour-lab ====== andelar We are at a critical point in defining what VR will become. It would be sad if VR just makes humankind even more addicted to consuming passive entertainment, or something that you "scan ...
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AI in medicine will help doctors, not replace them - elorant https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/does-ai-have-a-place-in-medicine/ ====== godelski I'm always confused with these types of articles. "Will AI cause job loss" or "Will AI create jobs" aren't really the important questions. Because those quest...
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Ask HN: Where are we now with eye tracking? - chx Thanks to Windows Hello now many laptops basically pack a Kinect, infrared etc. I am wondering whether eye tracking using this hardware could be used to replace the mouse. ====== imauld I don't know about replace but most likely supplement. I for one wouldn't want to ...
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Show HN: A Facebook Group for Solo Founders - liquimoon Startups are tough. It's especially tough for solo founders. Having gone through Startup Chile, I understand the value in having a good community of peers.<p>So, if the value of having cofounders is really just emotional support, let's be the emotional support fo...
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Ask HN: Achieving financial freedom through freelancing - yasbhagchandani I am working as a full time freelancer from around 7 years now but it&#x27;s been major ups and downs in terms of income which never led me to achieve financial freedom.<p>Is there a good way to earn good amount and achieve financial freedom? ==...
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A London Hedge Fund Lost $1.2M in a Friday Afternoon Phone Scam - jackgavigan http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-07/friday-afternoon-scam-cost-hedge-fund-1-2-million-and-cfo-s-job ====== Someone1234 > Fortelus has “strong internal policies against fraud prevention” [lawyer > Daniel Astaire] said in an e-...
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The Real Reason Tech Billionaires Should Fear Trump - cmurf http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/the-real-reason-tech-billionaires-should-fear-trump/amp ====== cmurf _Tech leaders who once fancied themselves the vanguard of a post-partisan, technocratic future, now face a mounting public relations crisis in the Age ...
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Ask HN: Would you read a book about emulation? - cpro I have always been a fan of emulation (system emulation such as NES, SNES etc). The process of learning how to create my own emulator was a grueling one (lack of documentation for some systems and lack of information on the subject in general).<p>After successful...
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Ask HN: Please suggest a Facebook Connect gem/plugin for RoR - blizkreeg Hi HN folks,<p>I'm integrating Facebook Connect into my Rails app and have been looking at various plugins in Rails. There seem to be three of them that are popular<p>- rfacebook (not maintained anymore?) - facebooker - facebook-rails<p>Time is...
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What Does the HN Community Think of Burst (Green Crypto)? - npguy Naturally decentralized, Energy efficient, Infinitely Scalable, is the claim. ====== PixelPaul Why do we need or want it?
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Show HN: A library to add a command promp (and telnet) to your programs - buserror https://github.com/buserror/libmish ====== j1elo Given the explanation from the Security section (i.e. " _libmish is really made for developement purpose_ "), it might make more sense that telnet access is _disabled_ by default and only...
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RxNDA.com: Painless Commercial NDAs Online - kemitchell https://rxnda.com ====== rmgraham There's something about the verbose text-only UI that just screams "written by a lawyer". The copy is not even objectively that wordy, it just feels like it started as legalese and was pared down to this instead of starting with ...
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A Shocking Way (Really) to Break Bad Habits - maneesh http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/02/a-shocking-way-really-to-break-bad-habits/?_r=0&register=facebook ====== maneesh This article is from earlier this year, but admin @dang mentioned that I should repost it, with a link to the comment thread: [https://news.yco...
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What Marissa Mayer Brought to Yahoo That Can’t Be Bought or Sold - jessaustin https://medium.com/@jelenawoehr/what-marissa-mayer-brought-to-yahoo-that-cant-be-bought-or-sold-4ee82382e4ee ====== 1024core Heh, I remember Jelena from discussion on devel-random. I would like to correct (mildly) a couple of anecdotes in he...
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Inventor Of ADHD's Deathbed Confession: "ADHD Is A Fictitious Disease" - josht http://www.worldpublicunion.org/2013-03-27-NEWS-inventor-of-adhd-says-adhd-is-a-fictitious-disease.html ====== mikecane The take from Snopes: <http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/adhd.asp>
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Digging into the Privacy Sandbox - feross https://web.dev/digging-into-the-privacy-sandbox/ ====== gundmc Without detailed prior knowledge in the domain, it seems to make sense. I'm a proponent of privacy-aware advertising online and think the free services supported by advertising are a net positive. That being said...
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A Snappier, New Look Editor – CodeSandbox - bpierre https://codesandbox.io/post/new-look-editor ====== GarethX This update is really a ton of tiny things that improve the editor experience, but mostly it's about laying the groundwork for what's to come. Still lots of work to do
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Ask HN: How hard would it be to build js script that detects ad blocking - padseeker Here&#x27;s my question - Is it possible or realistic for content providers to add javascript to their own site to detect if ads are being blocked, and if so then block the user from seeing the content. Or making it extremely difficul...
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Response to “Never Use Black” - oscar-the-horse http://www.horsesaysinternet.com/design/never-user-black-bullshit/ ====== davewicket Why are you using a nearly unreadable letter 'k'? ~~~ oscar-the-horse i've not written any posts on typography. some may called the closed counter on the "k" charming, others unreada...
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Google Caught Funding Slew of Right-Wing Front Groups - shrikant http://www.progressive.org/google-caught-funding-slew-of-right-wing-front-groups ====== Uhhrrr I guess the title is linkbait for progressives. Google disclosed this information, so it's hard to see how that translates to "caught". And CATO and Heritage m...
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NYC housing court, created to protect tenants, has become a tool for landlords - danso https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/20/nyregion/nyc-affordable-housing.html ====== beisner I'm curious, and maybe this is not the right forum for this kind of discussion, but it seems to me at some level there's going to be ...
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Vim - Navigating files in vertical splits - skwp http://yanpritzker.com/2012/03/12/vim-navigating-files-in-vertical-splits/ ====== falcolas The article mentions using Ctrl-O for navigating backwards in your jumps, but much more useful for going through tags (Ctrl-]) is Ctrl-T. This way, you can dive into a tag, go any...
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British scientists claim to have found proof of alien life - xd http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-truth-is-out-there-british-scientists-claim-to-have-found-proof-of-alien-life-8826690.html ====== bazzargh Published in the Journal of Cosmology? [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Cosmology#Reliabil...
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Why enforce development dependencies? Use Nginx+lua to serve LESS/SASS and ES6 - titpetric https://github.com/titpetric/nginx-lesscss ====== some1else Hey this is interesting! Did you notice a significant difference in performance using this technique over running the compiler from the command line? There has to be ...
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The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420 - Petiver http://publicdomainreview.org/2018/01/24/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420 ====== jcmeyrignac Copy of the article: [http://archive.is/gj3sf](http://archive.is/gj3sf) ------ pontifier That last image with the spheres seems like one of the most straightforward... The sphere i...
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How to Hire a Winner? Try a Game of Ping Pong - promocha http://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/how-to-make-better-hiring-decisions-ping-pong.html?cid=sf01002 ====== Paul_S At this point I can't even tell anymore if this is some subtle sarcastic commentary on how ridiculous interviews can get or a real way to hire employees....
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WhatsApp voice calls were used to inject spyware on phones - EwanToo https://www.ft.com/content/4da1117e-756c-11e9-be7d-6d846537acab ====== galadran Interesting! Google's Project Zero team investigated WhatsApp's and Facetime's video conferencing last year: "Overall, WhatsApp signalling seemed like a promising attac...
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The (partial) state of the mobile data market - danw http://mobileopportunity.blogspot.com/2007/08/partial-state-of-mobile-data-market.html ====== jsjenkins168 I thought Americans text message a lot.. But it is still only half of how much Europeans do. Amazing. Untapped startup potential maybe? What I really want to ...
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Ask HN: No US Degree, will get work permit in 4 months - Kshad I don&#x27;t have any schooling in the USA - moved here after my marriage. I will get my work permit in the next 4 months. What&#x27;s the best way I can spend my time productively to land a good job ($100k+ and intellectually stimulating) ====== akerl_ Wh...
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Snapchat COO Emily White to Depart - foobarqux http://recode.net/2015/03/13/exclusive-snapchat-coo-emily-white-to-depart-ephemeral-messaging-phenom/ ====== foobarqux Does someone know what is going on at this place?
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Show HN: Imageless – Read webpages without distracting images - ramoq https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imageless/ceagmcmlnnpcdhnlocedfdciecplcpgj ====== aam1r Cool, very useful! Do you have plans to make it so that it remembers which pages I have images turned off on? ~~~ ramoq Great idea. I'll see if I ca...
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Integrating Spine & Rails using a JSON Ajax API and scaffolding - maccman http://vimeo.com/30976192 ====== Gertig Thanks for the screencast Alex, the documentation and examples around spine.js are really helpful.
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What's new in Gradle 5.0 - wendelinsky https://gradle.org/whats-new/gradle-5/ ====== iamdanfox This is a huge achievement - props to the Gradle maintainers for delivering so much with such careful adherence to backcompat! I’ve had two enableFeaturePreview lines in my repos for a few weeks now and it made upgrading to ...
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OKCupid will make people use real names on their dating profiles - ValentineC https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16810128/okcupid-remove-usernames-real-name-policy ====== mariojv What's the point of this, other than "nicknames are hard to remember?" Not a rhetorical question, since that seems to be the main point bro...
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Let’s improve commuter rail service between Providence and Boston - chmaynard https://commonwealthmagazine.org/opinion/dear-gov-raimondo-express-trains-wrong-ask/ ====== davexunit I would love for MA to improve the Worcester-Framingham commuter rail line, too. The infrastructure feels so dated. The trains are slow, in...
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Microsoft's Stephen Elop moves to Nokia -- what a waste - mindblink http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/Microsofts-Stephen-Elop-moves-to-Nokia-what-a-waste/1284136468 ====== rbanffy IMHO, Nokia has to give up on Maemo/Moblin, keep Symbian (but fix it, please) for low-end smartphones (because in a couple years ...
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Ask HN: What is a good price for software that you license to schools? - wahwah I have an idea for a piece of software that could be utilized by middle and high schools. The software would be run on my server. Basically I would charge each school a fee to let all of their students use the software. I was thinking of...
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PayPal chief reams employees: Use our app or quit - Kynlyn http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/11/paypal-chief-reams-employees-use-our-app-or-quit/ ====== mikeryan This is really one of those things that look, in principal, to be a simple fix. "Why are our employees not eating our own dog food". The part he's missing is t...
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Ask HN: Anyone have experience with PayPal Claims for services? - webdesigner I'm a web designer (new account but old member) and I've got a sticky situation relating to PayPal that I'd like to get other's feedback on.<p>THE SHORT VERSION<p>A client commissions services, paid 1/2 deposit through PayPal and within 6 ...
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My quest for better WordPress SEO plugin - kevinhq https://kevinhq.com/the-quest-for-better-seo-plugins/ ====== mtmail So the author looked for a better plugin, tried it, then decided to still use the current one. Followed by "I don’t mention the name of those SEO plugins on purpose. I don’t want to promote or demote ...
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Stealth Research and Theranos: Reflections and Update 1 Year Later - mmastrac http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2524161 ====== danso I would love to hear more of the reasoning as to why Theranos thought Dr. Ionnadis, famous for being hugely skeptical of medical research claims [0], would be someone t...
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Google Fights Back In Battle For Talent - razin http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/15/google-fights-back-in-battle-for-talent-but-may-be-creating-a-worse-problem-for-itself/ ====== baddspellar Effectively they're rewarding employees for interviewing with other companies. What about the equally-valuable employees who are ...
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Rails 4.0 Sneak Peek: Asynchronous ActionMailer - bcardarella http://reefpoints.dockyard.com/ruby/2012/06/26/rails-4-sneak-peek-async-actionmailer.html ====== evdawg I think this was the lowest-hanging fruit in Rails. Glad they've finally addressed it in core. Years of people using job queues just to send mail is fi...
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Google gives developers code to disable iOS 9 app security - blacktulip http://9to5mac.com/2015/08/28/google-bypass-ats-ios-9/ ====== jsjohnst "Do no evil" unless it affects the bottom line...
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Fix for web encryption? - honey_cutt Since the NSA incident I have been thinking about common encryption methods used currently in use on the web.<p>I was wondering if a rolling&#x2F;hopping key scheme would work. Something similar to this is used in RF communications where they have frequency hopping.<p>I was think...
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The unlikely resurgence of Dungeons and Dragons - gscott https://www.inlander.com/spokane/nearly-45-years-after-its-creation-a-fantasy-game-played-with-paper-pencil-and-dice-is-having-its-biggest-year-yet-in-the-inland-northwest-a/Content?oid=15615918 ====== hellepardo My friends and I play D&D because we have no real...
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Medical Research: The Dangers to the Human Subjects - sergeant3 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2015/nov/19/medical-research-dangers-human-subjects ====== medymed This article compares medical experimentation with varying levels of egregiousness, but leaves unmentioned the variable interpretation of the stand...
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Internet Explorer IQ report appears to be a hoax - azazo http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/08/03/explorer.report.faked/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn ====== ColinWright Same story, much discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840626> Documenting the re-submissions: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840...
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CloudFlare: The Google AdSense Killer - direclap http://botcrawl.com/cloudflare-the-google-adsense-killer-how-cloudflare-will-destroy-your-google-adsense-earnings-and-harm-your-website/ How CloudFlare Will Destroy Your Google AdSense Earnings And Harm Your Website ====== direclap How CloudFlare Will Destroy Your Goog...
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Wolfram Alpha on Android free today - vivekvinodh http://www.amazon.com/Wolfram-Alpha-LLC/dp/B004J1DBJI ====== Nadya Good find. Sucks that Amazon bundles their software with it...makes it annoying to have to install just for Wolfram then uninstall. E: I'd like to note that I use Wolfram maybe a few times a month, i...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants the Country to Think Big - howard941 https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-interview-797214/ ====== brodouevencode It's insane how much the media are turning this woman into a rockstar. ~~~ wpdev_63 It's because she is a rockstar! Here...
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How to make a search engine with crawler? - aScii ====== vvvkkk You need just login on bubblehunt.com
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MVC - How is it evolving? - misham http://manulis.com/post/5395989522/evolving-mvc ====== misham I submitted my blog post here as I'm curious what people on HN think about the effect of Backbone.js, et al. on how the traditional way of building web applications using MVC is changing.
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Wikipedia and the Wisdom of Polarized Crowds - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds ====== ComputerGuru One of the reasons I still frequent Hacker News is because there is a very similar dynamic at play here on topics where informed dissent can bring about greater aw...
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Show HN: WebRTC Serverless 2-player 2048 Game with Annotated Source - chrischen http://www.instapainting.com/2x2048/index.html ====== aikah "Serverless" ? how do players connect with each others? I bet it isn't serverless at all. When will developers stop using these buzzwords that are effectively lies, from a strict ...
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The Use of the Apostrophe in the English Language - someperson http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/apostrophe/ ====== elblanco Lame, didn't even cover the clusterf*k that is the apostrophe and year ranges. 1990s vs. 1990's vs 90s vs 90's vs '90s vs '90's or the could've, could have, could of corrupted homophone disa...
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Disney is safeguarding its future by buying childhood, piece by piece - e15ctr0n http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21684138-disney-making-fortune-and-safeguarding-its-future-buying-childhood-piece-piece ====== tunesmith FYI, the first part of the article spoils some minor things about the new star wars film, for ...
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China's voluntary organ donation data perfectly fit quadratic equation - datashow https://mobile.twitter.com/mprobertson/status/1195151387585216512 ====== thedudeabides5 If the organ donation data is cooked, imagine the incentive to massage market moving data like GDP, industrial production, inflation....
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Disputed NSA Phone Program Is Shut Down, Aide Says - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html ====== Jerry2 One program is shutting down (according to who knows whom) but that doesn't mean that other programs are doing the exact same thing. NY Times is again acting...
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Reading list of Christof Koch with brief reviews - DanielleMolloy https://www.alleninstitute.org/what-we-do/brain-science/about/team/staff-profiles/christof-koch/book-list/ ====== DanielleMolloy His list on the Caltech servers, before 2013: [http://www.klab.caltech.edu/koch/books-i- read.html](http://www.klab.caltech....
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Show HN: Look at this thing I built - dwwoelfel http://www.idyllicpast.com ====== dwwoelfel I made this. It runs on Google App Engine and uses the new HNSearch API to get the comments. The goal is to present people with things from the internet that they liked in the past. I think that sending people their HN comm...
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In 50 Years Steve Jobs Will Be Forgotten - bluedevil2k http://m.cnet.com/news/in-50-years-steve-jobs-will-be-forgotten-gladwell-says/57449162 ====== michaelpinto Not true -- people will remember Steve Jobs for his Pixar films. I also suspect that Bill Gates may be remembered more for his philanthropic work than his ...
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Same as It Ever Was: Why the Techno Optimists Are Wrong - jeffreyrogers https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-06-16/same-it-ever-was ====== tim333 He seems a bit downbeat on the whole thing speaking as a bit of a techno optimist myself. Viewing Earth's history from a long perspective the main events would lik...
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IMAP Rant - nickb http://sup.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/lib/sup/imap.rb ====== simpleenigma LOL ... He hit most of my points except for the insane complexity of the FETCH and SEARCH commands. Each of these commands could be broken down into smaller commands that could be implemented in a hour or two instead of one huge c...
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Ask HN: Copying Y Combinator - If there's a right way, what is it? - jedc I'm writing a master's dissertation on startup incubator programs: Ycombinator and the rising tide of YC clones that are cropping up all over the world. (TechStars, Seedcamp, etc.)<p>My goal is to provide a guide/framework that other people/r...
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After 50+ Years of Service, It’s Time to Retire the Cubicle - StackBundles http://observer.com/2018/02/after-50-years-of-service-its-time-to-retire-the-cubicle/ ====== LinuxBender I despise open work-spaces. It is distracting. Between slack and open work- spaces, my productivity is significantly lower. This has not ch...
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After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost - GvS https://blog.ghost.org/5/ ====== johnonolan Good morning HN! John from Ghost here - Thanks for all your support over the last 5 years. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that very first blog post hitting the #1 spot of HN and getting so...
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Ask HN: Curriculum ideas for teaching programming to middle school kids - jasonkillian Hey HN! I have plans to teach a 10-week, one-hour-a-week course to a group of kids in the 10-16 age range. These kids come from a poorer urban background and likely have no exposure to programming at all. I have some ideas for cours...
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Wearality SKY: Limitless Virtual Reality on Kickstarter - jessmartin https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wearality/wearality-sky-limitless-vr ====== jessmartin I'm not affiliated with Wearality, beyond being friends with one of the founders. I've gotten to use demo units over the past year as they've iterated on de...
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This Website did cost 4.390.000 EUR - franze http://www.lebensministerium.at/ ====== SnaKeZ This site did cost 45.000.000 EUR (+ 8.000.000 EUR for restyling) <http://www.italia.it> ~~~ cico71 At least it doesn't have a logo with lens flares.... ------ fichtl it's a news topic in austria ... [https://www.google.a...
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Public Cloud Security Survey - sweis http://saweis.net/cloud-survey.html ====== sweis Hi. I'm doing some research into security practices on public cloud infrastructures (e.g. AWS, Linode, Heroku). Specifically, I'm interested if and how people deploy credentials and handle sensitive data. Please take a minute to f...
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Why subscriptions are the future of journalism - bitslim https://medium.com/thoughts-on-media/selling-ads-is-a-short-term-strategy-here-s-why-subscriptions-are-the-future-of-journalism-6721226d52ca#.g1o3c99ud ====== tyingq For me, subscriptions wouldn't be great. There aren't many sources where I appreciate a wide eno...
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S-tui: Stress Terminal UI - yankcrime https://amanusk.github.io/s-tui/ ====== anc84 This will make a nice partner to glances' current-state centric display: [https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/](https://nicolargo.github.io/glances/) ------ voltagex_ I wonder what impact this monitor has on power usage itself. ~~~ b...
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Interesting talks from Hot Chips 2018 - JoachimS https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333649&print=yes ====== snaky > Flexibility, not frequency, is the new mantra > Compared to its current 16nm FPGAs, the so-called Adaptive Compute > Acceleration Platform (ACAP) will deliver 20x and 4x performance increases ...
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Firefox on Mobile: Browser or App? - e15ctr0n http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2016/01/firefox-on-mobile-browser-or-app/ ====== AndrewMBliss Anyone remember the Firefox OS? It is also quite ambiguous to the consumers. It is needed to define it clearly. Not all consumers are tech experts.
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Ask HN: How long do you keep your emails? - stamps I&#x27;ve been toying with the idea of deleting emails after x number of months&#x2F;years.<p>Currently I have 11 years of emails that I can&#x27;t say I ever reference. ====== twobyfour Pretty much forever. Somewhere along the line my 1993-2002 archives went missing...
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India bans Facebook’s ‘free’ Internet for the poor - ghostDancer https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/indian-telecom-regulator-bans-facebooks-free-internet-for-the-poor/2016/02/08/561fc6a7-e87d-429d-ab62-7cdec43f60ae_story.html ====== herbst Thats awesome. I was afraid most countries are going to fall for it, but no. ...
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Brainf****d - wglb http://languageagnostic.blogspot.com/2009/05/brainfd.html ====== klez My extended implementation :-) <https://github.com/federicoculloca/m4bf>
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Germany’s Googlephobia - julianpye http://www.economist.com/news/business/21615588-why-online-giant-has-become-countrys-bogeyman-and-why-matters-closing-circle ====== julianpye As the article mentions this is about business interests and is largely driven by the old media with plenty of daily horror stories about Go...
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Culture-First Companies - dmonn https://dmonn.ch/culture-first-companies/ ====== towaway1138 Maybe. Personally, I loathe work environments where you're required to signal various forms of the varies "virtues" that the majority holds as important. I do my job, well. No one at work can tell what my politics and various...
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Rough Day at Work? Call of Duty Can Help You Recover - station909 http://www.livescience.com/46355-rough-day-at-work-call-of-duty-can-help-you-recover.html ====== station909 Seems interesting to try. I'm used to watch TV shows in order to disconnect. Working out sounds like a good idea but I'm a little bit lazy. So ...
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Ask HN: Good hacker backpack? - jason_slack What I mean is laptop, chargers, portable wifi, tablet, maybe a few books, snacks. Going on an extended trip and want to ensure I have room, but a good layout inside the bag. ====== jenkstom 5.11 tactical RUSH12. [http://www.511tactical.com/rush-12-backpack.html](http://www....
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Is it useful to have a college degree? - lkrubner http://www.smashcompany.com/business/is-it-useful-to-have-a-college-degree ====== maxharris no
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State of Rust 0.11.0 - cmrx64 http://blog.octayn.net/blog/2014/07/15/state-of-rust-0.11.0/ ====== rdtsc That is very exciting. I like the direction the project is going. But, one thing worries me -- performance. Anyone know a list or tracker of benchmarks to see how it roughly compares. Or is it too ealry too talk a...
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Ember Fastboot - brett-anderson http://www.ember-fastboot.com ====== tomdale One of the authors of FastBoot here. I'm happy to answer any questions anyone has. (P.S. One thing I think that's pretty meta-cool about the FastBoot site is that it is, itself, a FastBoot site, running on Heroku.) ~~~ jakubp Hi, I'm new to...
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Stanford CS 144: Introduction to Computer Networking - charlysl https://cs144.github.io/ ====== charlysl OP here. I think the best would be to do the labs in posted link, after watching the great video lectures (which have quizzes but are lacking labs) in the free online Stanford course: [https://lagunita.stanford.edu...
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Ask HN: Does Karma really matter? - traviswingo When reading HN, I never look at the user who posted the content and never consider how much Karma that user had at the time of posting. So it&#x27;s made me wonder, do these things have much influence at all on here? ====== sctb There are features that become available ...
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Programming is Frustrating – This is Why There is a Shortage of Programmers - robbiea http://robbieabed.com/programming-isnt-hard-its-just-frustrating-this-is-why-there-is-a-shortage-of-programmers/ ====== computerslol "Programming Isn’t Hard, It’s Just Frustrating – This is Why There is a Shortage of Programmers" ...
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Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox - jonastern http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/12/yahoo-starts-prompting-chrome-users-to-upgrade-to-firefox/ ====== dochtman Seems like that has no doubt been an important part of the deal that Yahoo! and Mozilla made. It's an interesting way to get back at Google...
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Portal Released For Steam On Linux - mindstab http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTM2Mzk ====== fragsworth Steam is now the de-facto "app store" of the PC as far as games go, which was no small feat. It took them more than 10 years to get to this point and it's now in jeopardy. With Google and Apple...
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Basic Command-Line Data Processing in Linux - symkat http://symkat.com/1/five-text-processing-tools-you-should-know/ ====== pbrumm Even after using linux command line for years it is always useful to see how others use it. I tend to overuse perl regex's to massage the data how I want it and underuse awk. my norm is...
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Curve.app – All Your Cards in One – Raises $55m in Series B - franze https://discover.curve.app/a/curve-raises-55m-series-b-funding ====== sauravt Does anyone know how this works in the backend ?
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Eric 'ESR' Raymond Philly JUG presentation - fecak http://youtu.be/1b17ggwkR60 ====== commandar I'm honestly not sure how I feel about his argument that the GPL is no longer needed. While I'm more sympathetic with BSD licensing now than I was 10 years ago, I do think that the GPL still makes a lot of sense for infra...
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Ask YC: DDOS Protection? - e1ven Some friends of mine have been running into an issue with massive DDOS attacks, primarily massive junk UDP traffic.<p>Right now, they're shunning IP ranges as fast as we can, but things change quickly, and often at night.<p>I saw the discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Reddit Founders' YC Application - ptn http://alexisohanian.com/our-y-combinator-summer-05-application-what-w ====== mikeryan So I have to wonder if this application would have gotten anywhere if pg hadn't personally met these guys previously? ie. is this really a sample of a "winning" YC application? ~~~ ig1 I imagi...
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Leave your ego at the door and master your tools - abossy http://adambossy.wordpress.com/2008/10/30/leave-your-ego-at-the-door-and-master-your-tools/ ====== noonespecial _I constantly saw kids fumbling with the random crap that came with the KDE installation: KWrite, Kate, pico, nano. Not just the young ‘uns. Junior...
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Gmail really wants me to say yes - awinter-py https://abe-winter.github.io/2019/05/21/yes-gmail-yes.html ====== prlambert I was the PM on this feature (and these are my views not Googles, as per normal). The truth is actually much more banal. Most people are just really positive over email. The model is trained to of...
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Smart Clothes Dryers Could Reduce Electricity Demand - MikeCapone http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/smart-grid-whirlpool-clothes-dryers-smart-appliances-energy-electricity.php ====== AndrewJ Electric dryers, even the high efficiency ones that are out SUCK up power. My 'rents got one recently and their power bi...
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