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Ask HN: What are you ways to learn new things? - aryamaan This question is kept this vague intentionally to not bias your answer in any way. ====== jimsojim By jumping right into them. Usually I try to spend straight 8-10 hours in the beginning to get hang of things + it gets you in a flow. The idea is to get over tha...
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Will Microsoft restore Start Menu to Windows 8? - denzil_correa http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2012/11/13/microsoft-sinofsky-fired-windows-8/1702511/ ====== diminish If Windows 8 is a flop, Microsoft may restore the Start Menu, and that way may come closer in the UI experience to Win7. This will be Windows 9. Si...
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Celebrating Marvin Minsky – Live Webcast (3.30pm EDT March 17 2016) - sajid http://www.media.mit.edu/events/marvin/ ====== osteele Hosted by John Hockenberry. Speakers: Joi Ito, Daniela Rus, Gloria Rudisch Minsky, Jacques D'Amboise, Patrick Winston, Yoshiaki Shirai, Mike Hawley, Dylan Holmes, Danny Hillis, Cynthia So...
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Why Does Covid-19 Kill So Many Older People? - likajan https://www.labroots.com/trending/health-and-medicine/17095/covid-19-kill-people ====== bjornsing This doesn’t seem very interesting from a scientific standpoint, and it’s also a somewhat dangerous message politically. The director of the WHO said yesterday that a...
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Recent programming books - vamsee http://programmingzen.com/2010/06/21/ten-recent-programming-books-that-will-make-you-a-better-developer/ ====== regularfry I'm surprised to see Programming Collective Intelligence on the list. Not to say it's not a good book - it absolutely is, I've got a well-thumbed copy sat next ...
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To stay young, kill zombie cells - devy https://www.nature.com/news/to-stay-young-kill-zombie-cells-1.22872 ====== DrScump 2 days ago, 217+ points, 62+ comments: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15577836](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15577836)
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How the Father of Claymation Lost His Company - benjaminfox http://priceonomics.com/how-the-father-of-claymation-lost-his-company/ ====== doctorpangloss I expected the story to end with, "And then the billionaire's son ran the company into the ground," but it didn't. Still, I'm skeptical to credit Travis Knight wit...
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Business Lessons I Learned This Year - webtickle http://www.quicksprout.com/2009/08/31/10-business-lessons-i-learned-this-year/ ====== jwesley Anyone else tired of these business-advice-self-help blog posts? It's all this feel good generalized advice that just seems to reiterate the same points over and over again. ...
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Writing a Phase-locked Loop in Straight C - blueintegral http://liquidsdr.org/blog/pll-howto/ ====== phunge PLLs are fascinating. Software PLLs are less fun than messing with the hardware, in my experience! I started working on a software PLL recently -- not analog like this one, digital. Specifically, I was trying...
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At this point, 5G is a bad joke - CrankyBear https://www.computerworld.com/article/3575510/at-this-point-5g-is-a-bad-joke.html ====== jkchu I am personally fine with my current phone speeds. I even use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop when I do coding at the park. Curious what the bottlenecks for people are that m...
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6 steps to building a better iphone app - newsio http://mashable.com/2009/06/10/build-iphone-app/ ====== TomOfTTB The basic premise here is "focus on the iPhone, not on being a generic mobile app" (and "test" which is sort of a "duh point") Almost a year ago there was a post saying Apple was making a mistake by not...
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The Startup Choice: Get Big or Get Bought - olivercameron http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/30/technology/startup_acquisitions/ ====== ori_b Where did being sustainable go? ~~~ apike Small but sustainable startups are not on the media's radar. Simply put, we're boring. ~~~ kylebragger The good thing is, I don't wake up...
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Microsoft wins right to sell Word - RiderOfGiraffes http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8237497.stm ====== phsr The title is misleading here, Microsoft was granted a stay on the on the injunction that would prevent them from selling Word. They still need to appeal or settle the Texas court's ruling if they want to...
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A tiny robot with moves inspired by caterpillars and jellyfish - IntronExon https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/24/science/tiny-robot-medical.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront ======...
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A Seed Stage Mental Framework to Limit Failure as a Startup Founder - massimosgrelli https://thevalley.substack.com/p/fail-sucks-a-seed-stage-mental-framework ====== artembugara "people don’t know what they want until you create it for them" in point 2 "“Go looking for your user base” is something that you need to do...
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Hypertext Literal - jashkenas https://observablehq.com/@observablehq/htl ====== mbostock We created Hypertext Literal because we wanted a convenient (and safe!) way to create DOM from JavaScript, and nothing more. As the post explains, we were inspired by lit-html, but felt we could simplify (and optimize) by focusing...
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Show HN: A cli JSON processor powered by Node.js - flerro http://www.rolandfg.net/2014/07/29/json-commandline-processor/ ====== brianparks From your page: "I tried jq, which seems very good. However I was not quite able to grasp its syntax, so I gave up searching and I created my own." I use jq on an almost daily b...
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How do I deal with the problem of too many talents and personas? - magsafe http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-deal-with-the-problem-of-too-many-talents-and-personas ====== gamechangr You're going to have to get focused on one and BRAND yourself as the expert and let the other two take on a hobby form.
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Facebook Tries To Silence Lamebook: Removes Its Page, Blocks Links And Likes - ssclafani http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/22/facebook-blocks-lamebook/ ====== mmaro You can't even send private messages that have a lamebook URL. At least Facebook makes it obvious that we shouldn't trust them with private communication / Fa...
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Flint Officials Could Have Prevented Lead Crisis for $80 a Day - jayess http://www.mintpressnews.com/flint-officials-could-have-prevented-lead-crisis-for-80-a-day/213462/ ====== bobby_9x The problem is the lead in the pipes. Flint was mis-managed years before Snyder appointed an emergency manager. Even kwami kilpatri...
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Sorry, Geeks, Microsoft Excel is Everywhere - csixty4 https://davidmichaelross.com/blog/microsoft-excel-is-everywhere/ ====== ef4 As a geek, I actually think Excel is one of the few really nice things Microsoft has created (I realize it wasn't the first spreadsheet, but MS gets credit for taking it mainstream). It's ...
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Ontop – A Virtual Knowledge Graph System - hmottestad https://ontop-vkg.org ====== mark_l_watson Looks interesting. Years ago, I experimented with the D2RQ project that does something similar. It would be interesting to see a benchmark with something like WikiData or DBPedia converted to a relational database and com...
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Report: NSA defeats many encryption efforts - Baustin http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/090513-report-nsa-defeats-many-encryption-273543.html?hpg1=bn ====== greenyoda This article is just blogspam. The original article from the NY Times that it refers to has already been posted: [https://news.ycombinator.com/it...
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Daily discovery of 600+ startup tool gems; Find the best options for your needs - jwtuckr Hi everyone!<p>The startup environment today is changing at an incredible pace. New technologies, methods, and processes are being formed practically by the hour, and it can be tough to know which things can be applicable to yo...
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A decade's worth of IPv4 addresses - r11t http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/01/dont-publish-the-decade-in-ipv4-addresses.ars ====== jacquesm Just like with any other scarce item we'll see more and more tricks to wring the last out of what we've got. The good news is that an IP address that is given out can...
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The [USA] Government is Profiling You - Create http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/cis/videos/21814-the-government-is-profiling-you ====== techtalsky I'm feeling extremely impotent at this point to cause any meaningful change on this issue. It seems like the deck is stacked. We have the ACLU and the EFF but it increas...
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The Busy Person’s Lies - dwynings http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/opinion/sunday/the-busy-persons-lies.html?_r=1 ====== Jtsummers I did an analysis on my own time once, ignoring the breakdown of my work day and just focusing on overall time available: 1130-0000 - prepare for bed, relax 0000-06...
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Cohabitation with Python and C++ - benhoyt http://tech.oyster.com/cohabitation-with-python-and-cpp/ ====== ephelon It's quite easy to release the GIL while you are running non-python code.[1] Just be sure that if you touch the Python API that you reaquire the GIL.[2] [1] [http://docs.python.org/c-api/init.html#rele...
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Minecraft Kings Landing (jpg) - fmsf http://i.imgur.com/VGLM1MI.jpg ====== fmsf I've never been a player of minecraft but this game keeps amazing me on so many levels. Markus Persson really built a tool for fanatics...
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Boeing 2016 internal messages suggest employees may have misled FAA on 737 MAX - HugoHobling https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-airplane-boeing-exclusive/exclusive-boeing-2016-internal-messages-suggest-employees-may-have-misled-faa-on-737-max-sources-idUSKBN1WX25G ====== tspike The actual transcript is illumi...
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4 Reasons to Keep a Work Diary - gatsby http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/04/four_reasons_to_keep_a_work_di.html?cm_sp=most_widget-_-default-_-Four%20Reasons%20to%20Keep%20a%20Work%20Diary ====== thesz > _Although it can seem that I'm making only baby steps of progress — and, > yes, sometimes going sideways or even backw...
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The unknown man who (may have) invented optogenetics - dharma1 https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/01/optogenetics/ ====== dharma1 Sorry about the clickbaity title, but that was as close to the original as I could fit in 80 characters. Also, looks like the company licensing his patent just got bought by Allergan for $60...
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CallStranger UPnP vulnerability exposes routers, gaming systems, TVs, printers - geek_slop https://www.geekslop.com/news/technology-news/hacking-and-security/2020/new-callstranger-exploit-takes-advantage-of-upnp-vulnerability-in-millions-of-routers-gaming-systems-tvs-printers-and-other-internet-connected-attachable-de...
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Open Up vs. Break Up - PretzelFisch https://avc.com/2019/06/open-up-vs-break-up/ ====== dluan This is so uncreative. Besides conveniently forgetting how Twitter starved out its third party apps with breaking API changes, and Amazon's similar strong arming of smaller vendors and services, he doesn't seem to understand ...
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Surge – Static Web Publishing for Front-End Developers - stevelacy https://surge.sh/ ====== sotojuan I'm not a paying customer of or affiliated with Surge—just a happy user. Surge is what I've always wanted to when I do frontend development for fun and learning. This is especially true if you're new. When you're new,...
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The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev - weisser http://www.bostonglobe.com/Page/Boston/2011-2020/WebGraphics/Metro/BostonGlobe.com/2013/12/15tsarnaev/tsarnaev.html ====== guard-of-terra They seem to be describing an average Chechen family. Or so many Russians believe, therefore a growing movement to split Chechnya and ...
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Who's Going To Get Money For Facebook Apps? - vascoos01 http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/who-s-going-to-get-money-for-facebook-apps- ====== sanj Me! [http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/the-best-of-the-best- the-...](http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/the-best-of-the-best-the-most- interesting-fbfund-winners)
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HTTPS with a Custom Domain on GitHub Pages - jgrahamc https://lukeb.co.uk/2018/01/02/HTTPS-With-A-Custom-Domain-On-GitHub-Pages/ ====== PebblesHD I’ve been using CloudFlare to provide SSL on my documentation sites hosted on GH Pages for around 12 months with excellent reliability. The only caveat I’ve found so far is ...
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Ask HN: Does anyone else also have a thick black line at the top of the screen? - eindiran ====== mindcrime Yes, it's an HN tradition to acknowledge the passing of notable figures in the community. On this particular occasion, the individual is Larry Tesler. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282](https://news...
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Show HN: Monitor Your Competitor's A/B Tests - ysekand http://cromonitor.com/#hn ====== smt88 What's the benefit of knowing what your competitor is A/B testing?
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Onion names reserved by the IETF - finnn https://blog.torproject.org/blog/landmark-hidden-services-onion-names-reserved-ietf ====== duskwuff It's the sensible, pragmatic thing for them to do. Allowing .onion to be allocated as a "real" TLD would just be disruptive and confusing at this point. The implications with re...
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The Future Of The Web — A Draft - drublic http://thenittygritty.co/the-future-of-the-web-a-draft Bastian Allgeier describes his idea of decentralized sytems that build the web in the future focusing on self-distributed servers. ====== drublic Bastian Allgeier describes his idea of decentralized sytems that build the ...
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Thinkfuse’s Status Report App Inspired by Google Internal Feature - erin_bury http://betakit.com/2012/05/15/thinkfuses-status-report-app-inspired-by-google-internal-feature ====== nswanberg Based on a past thread (<http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3531075>) it sounds like Google discontinued Snippets, the tool that...
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Why Would Anyone Want To Host The Olympics? - Qtz http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/09/economist-explains-0?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ee/hostOlympics ====== nemesisj I think there's an important psychological dimension that's often missed from these calculations, particularly for countries that have a chi...
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Bitrise.io – Apple Credentials Portal Bug - dirtylowprofile Anybody received an email from Bitrise regarding their bug? It is frustrating that this was not publicly posted by them on any of their blog and social media channels. ====== mgliwka Can you disclose the contents of your email here for the wider public?
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Ask HN: Why would anyone want to hijack my HN account? - shashankp Got a bunch of &#x27;password reset&#x27; emails yesterday for this very account, I&#x27;m assuming they&#x27;re malicious. What would anyone stand to gain any HN acct let alone my worthless acct? ====== throw03172019 They want your 1 karma! Usually th...
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Power line corridors provide important wildlife habitat - stevemillburg https://cloverly.com/blog/power-line-corridors-provide-wildlife-habitat/ ====== detaro Another interesting example is the "green band", the former East-German border. One long stretch of land where for decades humans where mostly kept away, the la...
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NIST recommendation: Use random generated passwords - fulldecent https://github.com/usnistgov/800-63-3/issues/449 ====== pixpop Doesn't that result in them being written down? How do you remember fifty or so randomly generated passwords? ~~~ fulldecent You don't. If you can remember it, it will be guessed by a script...
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Before You Get Too Excited About That GitHub Study… - chroma http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/02/12/before-you-get-too-excited-about-that-github-study/ ====== exolymph Yet another sign that people read the meanings they want into most information that they encounter. ------ Moshe_Silnorin It's telling that this got swa...
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How a completely funded kickstarter project faded into darkness - rohu1990 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lifelog/lifelog-remember-life/posts ====== onion2k Kickstarter projects are often lofty goals to make an app that people think they can build in a few months, but they forget the "take a wildly pessimistic ...
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Let’s embrace the end of food - ph0rque http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/5/soylent-end-foodinsecurity.html ====== vixin 'But the line between dystopia and utopia is a thin one' (in this case). Nope, I can't detect it at all. A nightmare propelled along by politically correct nonsense. ------ hnal943 Yes, be...
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...all programming, will, in one sense, be maintenance programming - misham http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2011-02.html#e2011-02-22T16_06_38.htm ====== dreamux There will always be a place for innovation, regardless of how software is architected. Gluing libraries together may seem like an ignor...
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Finding Unity in the Math Wars - kalid http://betterexplained.com/articles/finding-unity-in-the-math-wars/ ====== dvse Some really nice suggestions in the article that for whatever reason are not often brought up while discussing maths education. A good way to bootstrap the "math avengers" website would be to get p...
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The 9 Oddest Job Interview Questions Asked at Tech Companies in 2011 - MichaelApproved http://mashable.com/2011/12/27/glassdoor-interview-questions-2011/ ====== valuegram For people wondering about the hourglass problem: 1) @0min: Take both glasses (4 & 7) and flip them over. 2) @4min: When the 4min glass is empty, fl...
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Hong Kong is collateral damage in Trump's new trade war with China - partingshots https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/Hong-Kong-is-collateral-damage-in-Trump-s-new-trade-war-with-China ====== dirtydroog Weren't Hong Kongers themselves asking the US to remove HK's special status? Seems like they're scuttling the ship. Whi...
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PayPal Allowing Me To Use Two Different Passwords To Login - karlhadwen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc2BUwqTwAM ====== eyeareque Are your passwords similar in the first few chars? ex: thisismypassword12345 thisismypassword54321 I've heard of password hash issues (amazon had this problem) where they only used t...
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Silicon Valley Seasteaders Go Looking for Low-Tax Sites on Land - Osiris30 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land ====== azinman2 So let’s get this straight — rich, educated guys — all from countries where having a super developed functional g...
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TextMate 2.0 goes open source in response to OS X restrictions - stefanve http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/08/textmate-2-0-goes-open-source-in-response-to-os-x-restrictions/ https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;textmate&#x2F;textmate ====== matthewmacleod This is an old article, and it's rubbish anyway. The sandboxing ...
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Letsencrypt just sent an email containing all their users' email addresses - aaronpk https://aaronparecki.com/2016/06/10/12/fail ====== molecule [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881704](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11881704) ~~~ x0 cheers
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Ask HN: United States' history from other ancient civilizations' perspective - unexaminedlife The other night it struck me how interesting it would be to read United States&#x27; history from the perspective of other cultures that already existed at the time, and preferably from the perspective of the most ancient civ...
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Factoring may be easier than we think (2016) - braised_babbage http://math.mit.edu/~cohn/Thoughts/factoring.html ====== waynecochran Imagine what you would do if you discovered how to factor efficiently? Think carefully. You now how the power to decrypt much of the world's banking and internet traffic and spoof certi...
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Technical founder seeking a technical co-founder - jason_wang http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sof/3885337620.html ====== mathattack I'm trying to figure out if this is earnest, or a satire on "Non-technical founder seeking a technical co-founder" ------ hauschi CTO & Co-CTO? ~~~ jason_wang CTO.
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GitHub vs. Bitbucket vs. GitLab vs. Coding – A Comparison - sidcool https://medium.com/flow-ci/github-vs-bitbucket-vs-gitlab-vs-coding-7cf2b43888a1#.4yiueiza6 ====== mathiasrw Would be nice if [https://gogs.io](https://gogs.io) was also included...
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I've just built this great PostgreSQL Database. How do I get it to my users? - justintocci Envelope is a complete platform that makes it easy to build web apps on top of PostgreSQL using just HTML and SQL.<p>visit envelope.xyz for details. ====== justintocci For your convenience: How Does Envelope Work? [http://envel...
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I spent my career in tech, but wasn’t prepared for its effect on my kids - ALee https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/08/24/melinda-gates-i-spent-my-career-in-technology-i-wasnt-prepared-for-its-effect-on-my-kids/ ====== citizenkeen 'One of my favorite things you can do is plan a “device-free dinner.”'...
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Robinhood gets almost half its revenue selling orders to high-frequency traders - gadders https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/robinhood-gets-almost-half-its-revenue-in-controversial-bargain-with-high-speed-traders ====== icebraining Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18223972](https://news.ycom...
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The employment green card backlog tops 800k. A solution is elusive - nafizh https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/the-employment-green-card-backlog-tops-800000-most-of-them-indian-a-solution-is-elusive/2019/12/17/55def1da-072f-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.html ====== president Has anyone ever considered that mayb...
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Show HN: Solo – App for sharing loneliness and aloneness - wtsui http://www.sharesolo.com ====== cyberferret As an INFP persona who has worked remotely and solo for many years, I'd like to break the stigma that "alone = bad". I find it incredibly energising a lot of the time, but then there _are_ the odd times when I ...
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BPG Image format - mjs http://bellard.org/bpg/ ====== pslam The big story here is this introduces a new image file format _without requiring you to upgrade a browser or download a plugin_. Those aren't PNGs of representative images you're looking at - that's BPG decoding happening in your browser. So we don't like HV...
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Know your chemical weapons - xadxad http://boingboing.net/2013/05/28/know-your-chemical-weapons.html ====== devicenull Direct link [http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/05/24/chemical_wea...](http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/05/24/chemical_weapons_wwii_posters_taught_soldiers_to_identify_gasses_by_smell....
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Multicore OCaml: Feb 2020 update - sadiq https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-feb-2020-update/5227 ====== pdimitar I'll say it again every time OCaml is mentioned here: there are programmers who are eagerly awaiting for it to become more friendly to the modern hardware realities and then they'll use it a lot. L...
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No, Ebook sales aren't down. Major publishers' sales are down - caseysoftware http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-collapse-of-publishing-industry.html ====== GFK_of_xmaspast I would have to see evidence from a different source besides Vox Day / Ted Beale before believing it.
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Introducing TelAPI - dougiebuckets http://www.telapi.com/blog/introducing-telapi-todays-most-feature-rich-telephony-api/ Introducing TelAPI – Today’s Most Feature Rich Telephony API ====== timdorr "No longer must developers and entrepreneurs have a deep understanding of telecommunications systems to build application...
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The Prose Garden – Spiritual Child of Dr. Doubs Journal - e12e http://theprosegarden.com/ ====== e12e Just came across this drm free digital magazine that's been published since 2009[1], edited by Michael Swaine and Nancy Groth[2]. Closely associated with pragprog.com. Apologies for the slightly editorialized title -...
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Why we build 7 productivity apps within a month - robins73 We launched our new startup a productivity tool Due.work on September 17th on ProductHunt.<p>Within a month we hit almost 1000+ users. We are a team of 5. We started with a web application and our customer was happily using it. As our user base started growing...
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Chronic Schizophrenia Put into Remission with Ketogenic Diet - daveytea https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/advancing-psychiatry/201904/chronic-schizophrenia-put-remission-without-medication ====== motohagiography Ketogenic diets have been prescribed for people with seizure disorders ("epilepsy") for decades. Give...
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#iotashaming - ingve https://sean-parent.stlab.cc/2019/01/04/iota.html ====== atombender Something seemingly glossed over in these discussions is whether calling it "iota()" is even that helpful. The fact that a lot of software engineers -- engineers, not mathematicians! -- are unfamiliar with it at least points to a...
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GameStop opening Deus Ex boxes, removing free OnLive game code - sp332 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/report-gamestop-opening-deus-ex-copies-removing-free-game-code.ars ====== dotBen Digital distribution is coming, whether GameStop like it or not. Removing the free codes for OnLive is not going to stem t...
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Plangrid (YC W12) Builds A New Market For The iPad: The Construction Industry - rsuttongee http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/02/plangrid-builds-a-new-market-for-the-ipad-the-construction-industry/ ====== reneherse Very very exciting! Assuming a thoroughly brilliant execution, I'm certain that this app will find its fans...
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Evidence SARS-CoV-2 Emerged from a Biological Laboratory in Wuhan (Updated) - nextalt https://project-evidence.github.io/ ====== rolph >>An earlier version of this document referred to us as "Project E.P.S.T.E.I.N." (Evidence Plausibly Supporting Theories Explaining Infection Naturality). It was intended be a humorous...
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Show HN: We Opened Up Our Transcription Tool - braindead_in Audio&#x2F;video transcription tools are quite rudimentary. The audio player is separate from the editor which makes it very cumbersome cross-reference between the audio and the text.<p>Our transcription editor solves this problem. It provides the audio and a...
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Order of Magnitude Physics Material - nickb http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sanjoy/oom/ ====== mhartl I love this stuff! Sanjoy wrote his brilliant Ph.D. thesis based partially on an Order of Magnitude Physics course taught at Caltech by Sterl Phinney (his advisor) and Peter Goldreich. He is a brilliant teacher and...
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Secret government plans leaked: UK manhunt for "George Orwell" - microkernel http://translate.google.de/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.der-postillon.com%2F2013%2F08%2Fgeheime-regierungsplane-geleakt.html ====== sehugg Might mention that the website in question is satire...
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The Fast Supper (Calorie Restriction) - eru http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=The+Fast+Supper&expire=&urlID=30475243&fb=Y&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnymag.com%2Fnymag%2Ffeatures%2F23169%2F&partnerID=73272 ====== DanielStraight Original: <http://nymag.com/nymag/features/23169/>
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Corporate CEOs have failed to engage with startups - ekpyrotic https://venturebeat.com/2017/04/30/corporate-ceos-have-failed-to-engage-with-startups/#article-masthead ====== cal2016 "First, we know that tech, innovation, and R&D departments themselves do not have enough exposure to the top team. In fact, only 34 perce...
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25 Great Talks from the Atlanta Ruby Users Group - vanstee https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqZY2tk6rSRn2Vapk2raOTFjXGiDbpQUU ====== vanstee If you're in Atlanta and want to say hi, our next meetup is this Wednesday (July 9th) [http://www.meetup.com/atlantaruby/events/183306632/](http://www.meetup.com/atlantar...
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NIST reopens draft recommendation on random number generation for comment [pdf] - healsjnr1 http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistbul/itlbul2013_09_supplemental.pdf ====== lmgftp It should probably be noted that this is not some sort of validation to the fact that "the NSA owns this particular DRBG". Surprisingly (...
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Sample Chapter From "Ruby Best Practices" - sandal http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/329554 ====== sandal This chapter is basically the meta-programming / DSL stuff if not by that name. It gives a good sampling of the overall feel for the book. Feedback is very welcome. The book will be rel...
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Video lectures of mathematics courses available online for free - llambda http://mathoverflow.net/questions/54430/video-lectures-of-mathematics-courses-available-online-for-free ====== conroy Instead of just watching lectures, I'd suggest taking one of the many available math courses: Coursera (23 courses) [https://w...
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Space Elevator Science - doc4t http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaellaine/space-elevator-science-climb-to-the-sky-a-tethered?ref=category ====== lutusp The original title wasn't accurate (something like "help launch a space elevator"). The proposal is to put a balloon at a 2 kilometer altitude. I say this for ...
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SockJS benchmark (with PyPy, CPython, and Node.js) - ericflo http://mrjoes.github.com/2011/12/15/sockjs-bench.html ====== scubaguy A websocket client library that works against Node.js and Python, sweet! Now if we can only have a .Net and Java server interface to go with it. Any it falls back to good 'ol polling too...
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APIs Are Forever, Wait No...They Can Go Away at Any Time - apievangelist http://www.apievangelist.com/2012/04/20/apis-are-forever,-wait-no...they-can-go-away-at-any-time/index.php#.T5IIrH2siH8.hackernews ====== DHowett This makes me think of the not-so-recent deprecation of Offline Access by Facebook. I do not know wh...
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Ask HN: Best Online Courses? - ambivalents I searched but there hasn&#x27;t been a thread about this in a while.<p>What is the best online course you&#x27;ve taken? Doesn&#x27;t have to be confined to CS -- I&#x27;m personally interested in expanding my horizons and learning new things in different fields.<p>Thanks al...
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6 months ago, Kevin Rose created this. Does anyone subscribe? - DanLivesHere http://tinyletter.com/foundation ====== KMEthridge I watch it when it's posted on Revision3, but there must be enough subscribers for him to keep filming it.
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First Bitcoin-to-cash ATM card - mrb http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cryptex-card-debuts-first-global-100000730.html ====== samstave I have said this so many times: There are always methods to spend BTC... I see very few methods to create/earn BTC... The whole ecosystem is fiat modeled... Fuck that. How about an ...
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There are no bugs, only unintended causation - dawie http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/706-there-are-no-bugs-only-unintended-causation ====== edw519 "Bugs are always about a lack of good information" Wrong. Bugs are the result of either: \- not knowing what you're doing or \- kn...
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Google developed a school curriculum to help kids fight trolls and hackers - rbanffy https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/6/15739412/google-be-internet-awesome-interland-hacking-phishing-troll-curriculum ====== DarkKomunalec "includes sections on how to limit sharing personal information with people online" No word on if ...
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New York governor approves short-term apartment rental ban in NYC - kvs http://travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatches/post/2010/07/new-york-governor-approves-short-term-apartment-rental-ban-in-nyc/101054/1 ====== nphase I was in NYC with my team this past Jan, trying to raise money with a few angels in the area. ...
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Thinscript: language that compiles to both WebAssembly and JavaScript - DAddYE https://github.com/evanw/thinscript ====== constexpr Oh wow I did not expect this to be up here this soon. Warning: two-week-old project. I've got a lot of plans for this but it'll take at least a few months for this to be anywhere near use...
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How (not) to sell iOS apps - harper_ http://www.onslaught.io/article/how-not-to-sell-ios-apps ====== vellum I looked at a bunch of the free apps and yours. Nothing about your app really jumped out at me. ~~~ harper_ You might be right. "Solve a new problem or an old one better than anyone else". Solving an old prob...
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