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Docker 1.6: Engine and Orchestration Updates, Registry 2.0, and Windows Client - bfirsh http://blog.docker.com/2015/04/docker-release-1-6/ ====== mpdehaan2 I'm finding that the distinction between Swarm, Compose, and Machine is not _immediately_ obvious. Docker would probably benefit to "you should use this when", kin...
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How the pandemic should make us rethink college financial aid - hhs https://nypost.com/2020/06/12/coronavirus-should-make-us-rethink-college-financial-aid/ ====== remotists College financial aid is not feasible at the moment. The world should strongly look at alternatives to the regular college with so many people now...
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The Windows Driver Frameworks are on GitHub - canacrypto http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windows_hardware_and_driver_developer_blog/archive/2015/03/18/windows-driver-frameworks-source-on-github.aspx ====== kriro There are actually some strong OS voices in Microsoft. I was at Solutions Linux in France (around 2006 iirc) and th...
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ICANN gTLD director resigns - larrys http://www.icann.org/en/news/announcements/announcement-3-21jun12-en.htm His linkedin page:<p>http://www.linkedin.com/pub/michael-salazar/3/136/314 ====== makecheck I actually wonder why they need a "director" of something that probably should have been managed more like an RFC sy...
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Right now is the worst time to buy a new laptop - TBloom http://blog.travisbloom.me/post/16983058458 ====== simon It's always the worst time to buy technology hardware. Just go ahead and buy if you need something and don't look at the adverts for a few months so you don't kick yourself silly for not waiting for the ...
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Panic – Nova Private Beta - sergiotapia https://panic.com/nova/ ====== steve_adams_86 I'm a heavy user of VS Code and recently RubyMine (JetBrains does a wonderful job on their IDEs), but I'm really excited about this. I wonder mainly about two things. One, how can Panic compete with a free tool like VS Code? Its ex...
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Ask HN: Tool to post new referrers from Google Analytics to Slack? - mmohebbi I&#x27;m starting to build a tool that I imagine already exists. I want to have all new referrers from the real time section of Google Analytics be posted to a Slack channel. Hard requirements are:<p>1. Based on the real time data from Goo...
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Hackers crack Apple's iTunes gift card algorithm - sahaj http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/10/hackers_crack_apples_itunes_gift_card_algorithm.html ====== eli Why does this need an algorithm at all? Why not make them all random numbers? People have to connect to your server to redeem them anyway. Sounds like ...
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Arianna Huffington: Sexism isn't a 'systemic problem' at Uber - ZoeZoeBee http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/20/technology/arianna-huffington-uber-quest-means-business/ ====== seijaku Given everything that has happened over the last few months this unfortunately comes across as sounding pretty apologist... ------ draw_down...
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Ask HN: Any point in opening up bank account prior to forming company? - a_lifters_life I mean opening a business bank account prior to actually legally forming a company? ====== code_Whisperer It's likely that you won't be able to open a business account UNTIL the company is formed. Most banks will ask for copies of ...
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Hacking the CloudPets Unicorn with Web Bluetooth - pdjstone https://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/hacking-unicorns-web-bluetooth/ ====== mikekij It's amazing how many BLE devices are this easily hackable. I'm not a software engineer by any means, and I've been able to make at least 6 different BLE devices in my hou...
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Is Hainan the new “blockchain island?” Meet the contenders - HipGeeks https://decrypt.co/12887/is-hainan-the-new-blockchain-island-meet-the-contenders ====== pretfood My money is always on China.
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Software Update changes in the latest macOS releases - bangonkeyboard https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/software-update.html ====== bangonkeyboard Ignoring software updates is deprecated. The ability to ignore individual updates will be removed in a future release of macOS. Fuck this.
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Ruling Passions (an essay on David Hume) - gruseom http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1941 ====== quinndupont Wow, HN just combined two of my loves: computers and philosophy. How many others are interested in philosophy on HN? ~~~ noblethrasher Triple majored in mathematics, history and philosophy; now working as ...
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Thinking critically about and researching algorithms [pdf] - lainon http://futuredata.stanford.edu/classes/cs345s/handouts/kitchin.pdf ====== rodionos It's an essay on algorithms in general, not related specifically to computer sciences. They talk about algorithms in journalism, for instance. The difference between al...
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From Zero to Podcast in 10 Hours - phprida https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-zero-podcast-10-hours-john-valentine?trk=hp-feed-article-title-publish ====== chenster 10 hours is a long time.
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A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts - psim1 https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-the-mystery-shopper-leaving-behind-all-those-online-shopping-carts-11593617464 ====== whoisjuan This bot is simply trying to get the final price (with tax and shipping) which is ridiculous because e-commerce storefro...
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What I Really Do When I Work From Home - johnjlocke https://medium.com/philosophy-logic/68d1846ddc41 ====== poseid not sure if I get the point, working from home increases the work motivation? Work from home makes you work less?
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas [1993] - ValentineC http://books.google.com/books?id=HhIEAgUfGHwC&printsec=frontcover&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false ====== mflindell This is probably the most important book I have read in my entire life. The book started out talking about how to teach children p...
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Show HN: Q&A for HN users - shazad http://www.askolo.com ====== darxius I would suggest having MUCH more information about what I'm signing up for before I actually hand over my information. All I know from the homepage and the about page is that its some form of Q&A website. You should have screenshots of what it l...
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Getting started with OpenWrt - fcambus http://www.cambus.net/getting-started-with-openwrt/ ====== malandrew I looked around and couldn't find any real good information on OpenWRT support on the Ubiquiti UniFi UAP-AC[0]? In a previous thread, when I asked about the best devices to use with open router firmware, Ubiq...
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Don't follow your passion - joe_developer https://80000hours.org/articles/dont-follow-your-passion/ ====== yellowapple > If your passion is dealing crack cocaine, should you do it? I actually think so, if the passion is indeed that specific. If not, then perhaps it's a passion for dealing in general, in which case ...
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Ask HN: which of JavaScript's features slow it down the most? - yangjerng I'm trying to sketch out a spec for a "restricted JavaScript" which throws out a few features, and in return compiles to much faster machine code. I'll get the ball rolling:<p>1. Throw out dynamic typing. 2. ... (your answer here) ====== phiha...
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ASK HN: I completely lost access to my main Gmail account - SeckinJohn What are my options?<p>Google is not helping at all. I don&#x27;t have backup codes, I broke the phone that had the 2FA app and I don&#x27;t remember the password. There is no manual processing, no passport photo etc verification process. I lost a...
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Ask HN: How do you choose a new library for your project? - macando What do you rely on? Your intuition? Docs? Examples? GitHub? Search engine? History? Blogs? Do you have any process in place? ====== davismwfl Most people just pick a library they are comfortable with or they think will solve their current need. The r...
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Introducing AQL – a super efficient query language for Artifactory - larleys https://www.voxxed.com/blog/2015/05/a-quick-leap-to-aql-a-new-query-language-for-repositories/ ====== hoare hi there, theres already a sql like query language out there called AQL. Heres the link: [https://docs.arangodb.com/Aql/index.html](...
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Ask YC: Suggestions for great "how to" EC2 articles - PStamatiou I'd love to get my hands dirty with EC2 but don't even know where to start. I've searched around and found some articles that show how to get an instance up, load an AMI etc but the end result is the long Amazon url for the instance. How can I setup a ...
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It is time to stop rewarding failure - srikar http://om.co/2014/07/17/rewarding-failure/ ====== minimaxir I'm surprised the article discusses failure at the corporate level when first thing that came to mind is stopping rewarding at the startup level. (e.g. pity acquihires of zombie startups)
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A new way to edit a stack of commits [pdf] - jordigh http://files.lihdd.net/hgabsorb-note.pdf ====== webmaven I don't understand the problem this is trying to solve. What is wrong with just adding a fourth commit? Why mess around with altering history?
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Ask HN: What are some problems on earth that need to be solved? - ronnwer I'm tired of companies that try to solve the same problems over and over again. What are some real world problems you can think of that will make the world a better place? Here are some posts that I found here on HN: http://news.ycombinator.c...
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The youngest person to be cryogenically preserved - yinghang http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34311502 ====== martin-adams I find cryogenics such a thought provoking field. If you're going to be frozen after death, you would probably want the restoration process to be fully mature before you are restored. But yet, s...
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DailyBooth Conga Line - ujeezy http://chaircongaline.com ====== paul9290 Youtube video set to hidden is playing the conga(music). Maybe I was the only one wondering that but Firebug answered my question. ~~~ Timothee Actually I did wonder how the music was played (though I didn't start Web Inspector), since I have ...
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Fee likely for Times's news via iPhone - FluidDjango http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2009/06/24/fee_likely_for_timess_news_via_iphone/ ====== jgrahamc I'm ready to pay for access to newspapers via electronic means. If I could get a Kindle DX in the UK I would buy one and use it for magazine and news...
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Meet The Team - ashitvora http://www.6wunderkinder.com/about/ ====== juliamae I guess I'm the outlier, but I think this page is trying too hard. It turns me off because it seems fake, sugary sweet, attempting to be cute for the sake of being cute. The bios barely say anything of value about the people; they're ideal...
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Ask HN: what's in your Mac menu bar? - subpixel I find that I learn about an interesting app and&#x2F;or workflow when I check out other people&#x27;s menu bars. Here&#x27;s mine.<p>TOP LEVEL<p>- ActionAlly (I&#x27;m an evangelist)<p>- Degrees (simple weather app)<p>- MyPrivateInternet (VPN for watching BBC iPlayer)...
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RIM's claim against kik - fertel http://www.scribd.com/doc/44486617/RIM-Statement-of-Claim-Against-Kik ====== PatrickTulskie Should be an interesting battle if Kik survives the financial burden. Basically, they allege that \- Kik's CEO used inside knowledge of RIM's BBM platform to develop Kik \- Kik infringes on...
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Harvard-scientists manged to reverse aging in mice. - Yrlec http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/29/eternal-life-scientists-reverse-aging-mice/ ====== RiderOfGiraffes Same story: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1953309> \- ctv.ca <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952077> \- businessweek.com <\- this has...
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Lead Front-End Designer/Engineer – Toronto, ON - crsssl Your main responsibility will be to create user interface for our clients to administer their promotional offers and online sampling strategies. They will rely on Sampler’s UI to make important decisions regarding the objective and design of their campaign. Sam...
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Google and Mastercard reportedly partner to track offline purchases - BeqaP https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/31/google-and-mastercard-reportedly-partner-to-track-offline-purchases/ ====== mtmail discussed in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881157](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17881157)
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Alex Karp: I’m a tech CEO, and I don’t think tech CEOs should be making policy - doppp https://beta.washingtonpost.com/opinions/policy-decisions-should-be-made-by-elected-representatives-not-silicon-valley/2019/09/05/e02a38dc-cf61-11e9-87fa-8501a456c003_story.html ====== clintonb I agree CEOs shouldn’t make government...
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Show HN: Wikifeedia - The best Wikipedia articles delivered as Newsfeed - vishnuks http://www.vishnuks.com/Wikifeedia ====== hennerw looks like it wont load jquery..
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‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place - mpiedrav https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/dec/12/humans-were-not-centre-stage-ancient-cave-art-painting-lascaux-chauvet-altamira ====== rdiddly _" War led to the institution of slavery, especially for the women of the defeated sid...
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What are the new big ideas in tech? - babesh Deep learning? Massive adoption of mobile and Internet? Big data? Software eating the world? ====== dm2 IMO, advanced biotech and nanotechnology in general, it's coming eventually. I personally think that we are at a point that we can make some significant advances in mi...
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TellHN : This is my new app, AzankaLyrics - dan_sim I created a minimal lyrics formatter (http://lyrics.azankatech.com). It's a "scratch your own itch" kind of app and I implemented only the features I needed.<p><i>No more scrolling or tiny fonts while you're singing a song, your lyrics will be formatted to be the b...
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Investor Emails Startup Employee: 'I'm Not Leaving Without Having Sex With You' - ardit33 http://www.businessinsider.com/pavel-curda-allegedly-sends-sexually-harassing-email-2014-8 ====== gdilla I see things like this talked about as an illustration of harassment, but I also wonder, do the men who do this get away w...
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Firefox to go with native UI on Android - tbassetto http://mozillalinks.org/2011/10/firefox-to-go-with-native-ui-on-android/ ====== revorad The original announcement - [http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/...](http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.platforms.mobile/browse_thread/thread/ff...
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Ask HN: People whose advice you value highly? - pygix ====== pyrophane To put it very simply: people around me who are competent, modest, and kind.
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Big 5 personality prediction based on user behaviors at social network sites - bootload http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4809 ====== bootload Abstract, you can find the pdf (220Kb) ~ <http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.4809v1>
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Hacker News without the Hacker News (on Meteor) - gerrys0 http://hn.meteor.com/ ====== nloui cool! have you (or have you considered) open sourcing this? ~~~ zacharydenton Yeah, the code's on GitHub: [https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackernews](https://github.com/zacharydenton/hackernews) p.s. thanks for posting t...
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Are you an advanced rubyist? - Denzel Try to do this by memory without using a ruby interpreter.<p>Given:<p><pre><code> class Test def attr @attr end def attr=(value) @attr = value * 2 end end </code></pre> Evaluate:<p><pre><code> t = Test.new t.attr = 5 # Returns =&#62; ? t.attr...
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Money can't buy friends, but it can buy Twitter followers - deutronium https://stephenwattam.com/blog/?/20160716/money-friends ====== webtechgal > It seems these services are used as ‘seed followers’ to convince people of > their legitimacy. Crowd begets crowd? This has been going on for years and presumably, will c...
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Concepts to help developers master JavaScript - alexgrcs https://github.com/leonardomso/33-js-concepts ====== zachrose One intuition I’ve had while learning Elm is that it’s a fundamentally simpler language with a smaller number of concepts to learn than JavaScript. In this list of 33 JavaScript concepts, I count 11 ...
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Ask HN: Why do you do this during tech interviews? - throwaway9129 I&#x27;ve got a few popular open source projects (1000+ stars on GH), I&#x27;ve got a side business that does around 10K monthly, and at my last job, I supervised a few programmers. Those might not be the best measures of my technical capabilities, but...
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How I accidentally made a startup - _august https://shridhargupta.com/i-accidentally-made-a-startup ====== hyperpallium It can seem impossible to create a business out of nothing, but because businesses tend to focus on _how to get money_ , just trying _to make something useful_ is a transcending advantage. > _Make s...
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How to Design a Marijuana-License Lottery - coloneltcb http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-to-design-a-marijuana-license-lottery?mbid=social_twitter ====== sibrahim Lottery designer here. Some clarifications on the article: Re: getting a random number from 1 to 5 from a d6, my point got stripped out of the art...
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DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode - frabcus https://duckduckhack.com/ ====== Nib As someone who has actively participated in DDH for a while now, here are my views: \- A non-trivial part of the current contributions included "cheat sheets" which IMO, really required a lot of effort to ensure correctness/usabili...
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Many computers/displays, 1 keyboard/mouse to control them all - jefe78 http://nethackz.com/two-computers-two-monitors-one-keyboard/ ====== pedalpete I've been running Synergy across 2 computers 3 monitors for a few years. Very cool how the author synced the background image. I should take the time to do that. ~~~ j...
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A Basic HN Client in React - armujahid https://github.com/armujahid/hnreact/ ====== armujahid I developed it last year in few hours and it's currently hosted at [https://hn.armujahid.me/](https://hn.armujahid.me/) ~~~ vital [https://news.ycombinator.com](https://news.ycombinator.com): 7 requests 61.86 KB / 20.48 KB t...
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Reactive PostgreSQL for Meteor - taylorwc https://github.com/numtel/meteor-pg ====== netghost If you're not using meteor, but are interested in using this in node, take a look at the library it's built on: [https://github.com/numtel/pg-live- select](https://github.com/numtel/pg-live-select) At a glance it looks like ...
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Completed Bitcoin transactions on eBay - anigbrowl http://www.ebay.com/sch/Coins-Paper-Money-/11116/i.html?LH_Sold=1&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=BTC ====== coryl Seems like one of the most inefficient ways to acquire bitcoin. ~~~ joezydeco Unless you convince the seller to transfer the bitcoin and then file a disp...
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The Lost City of Z (2005) - Vigier http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/09/19/the-lost-city-of-z ====== nsns A nice documentary here - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_1p37iX5g](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD_1p37iX5g) ------ MaysonL The meat is at the end, following the drama and jungle stories. Search fo...
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Your mid-2010 13-17" MBP's *will* support HDMI audio/video - tenaciousJk http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1824ZM/A?mco=MTgxMzM1NzE ====== agent86 You could also skip the dongle, and just get a direct cable instead. 10ft, $45 - <http://store.apple.com/us/product/H4637ZM/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY> It does up to 1080p vide...
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If SnapChat Is The Next Big Thing... - semilshah http://blog.semilshah.com/2013/02/09/if-snapchat-is-the-next-big-thing/ ====== jusben1369 What I think most fascinating about SnapChat is that we've always assumed that having a permanent online record was a byproduct of sharing. You know, that drunk tweet or party pi...
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Report of an NSA Employee about a Backdoor in the OpenSSH Daemon (2012) [pdf] - Audiophilip http://www.spiegel.de/media/media-35663.pdf ====== toyg This is more of a rootkit than a backdoor, since you have to replace the OpenSSH binary with a trojaned version. A backdoor usually implies that it was there from the st...
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Microsoft no longer allows admins to block Windows Store access in Win10 Pro - walterbell http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-no-longer-allows-administrators-to-block-windows-store-access-in-windows-10-pro/ ====== Someone1234 If Microsoft wants SMBs to use Enterprise then make the Enterprise edition more easily ava...
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Abusing IP: the story behind one studio's Portal 2 ARG adventure - abraham http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/04/abusing-ip-the-story-behind-one-studios-portal-2-arg-adventure.ars ====== jbermudes ARGs and similar types of viral marketing can be a novel way to engage customers into your brand, but at the same t...
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Life in a World of Pervasive Immorality: The Ethics of Being Alive - blasdel http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/immoral ====== tc Aaron, I believe you're getting confused because you haven't established for yourself a clear notion of basic morality or ethics. Many philosophers have covered what it means to act morally -- A...
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Urql: a GraphQL client library - smusumeche https://formidable.com/blog/2019/urql-2019/ ====== lewisl9029 I really like the simplicity of the core library and this approach of starting from a simple core and building on top of it with the same primitive for extensibility as the one you offer to users. Apollo has also...
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3D-printable ice house could be our home on Mars - jameslk http://www.cnet.com/au/news/3d-printable-ice-house-could-be-our-home-on-mars/ ====== stephengillie And we'll have servers racked in containers, powered by nuclear reactors, networked by quantum entangled ethernet, shielded and hardened, floating in the depths ...
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Erlang: An introduction to gen_server by creating a banking system - mitchellh http://spawnlink.com/articles/an-introduction-to-gen_server-erlybank/ ====== zandorg We had the bank account example so many times at University that I started to question that if they let any of us design a banking system, we'd just inst...
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Ask HN: Essential MacOS apps/tools/workflows? - zacsultan ====== Artemix I simply cannot stand working on a macbook without at least: \- Spectacle, to have a real UI window manager system \- Path Finder, to have a real file explorer \- ITerm This list could also interest you [https://github.com/serhii-londar/open- so...
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Student who hacked Bill O'Reilly gets 30 months - labboy http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110910-student-who-hacked-bill-oreilly.html ====== hop 2.5 years in jail for a DDoS attack seems disproportionately steep. He made a few websites temporarily inoperable, sounds more on the level of a bad prank than a felon...
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Congress Shouldn't Turn the Copyright Office into a Copyright Court - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/11/creating-copyright-court-copyright-office-wrong-move ====== nixpulvis The only bit that _really_ stood out to me here is the issue of timely registration, but it's hard for me to see how exactly this wi...
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In the Future, We Will Photograph Everything and Look at Nothing - bootload http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/in-the-future-we-will-photograph-everything-and-look-at-nothing ====== bjshepard “Several days later Murray asked me about a tourist attraction known as the most photographed barn in America. We drove...
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Show HN: A missing command line client for Codewars - shime https://github.com/shime/codewars ====== stockkid I kinda like using the browser for my Codewars challenges (or should I say katas). But this is a good work! ~~~ shime thanks. yeah, I'm a crazy Linux guy, so I always prefer terminal.
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Ask HN: Which Open Source projects need more maintainers - zingplex ====== git-pull I need help pretty desperately, I don't have the time to maintain them and at least 2 of them have an active user base (tmuxp and libtmux). If you like Python, tmuxp ([https://tmuxp.git-pull.com](https://tmuxp.git- pull.com)) and libtm...
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Sweden's Super Stealth Submarines Are So Lethal They 'Sank' a US Carrier (2016) - Tomte http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/swedens-super-stealth-submarines-are-so-lethal-they-sank-us-18383 ====== Doxin You mean the same way a dutch diesel sub managed to 'sink' half of a US Navy CTF in 1990?[0] The US navy isn'...
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'Accidental' Download Sending Man To Prison - edw519 http://cbs13.com/local/limewire.child.porn.2.1346842.html ====== chasingsparks I don't know about this specific case, but this doesn't seem plausible. I would assume the FBI targets egregious offenders who are deemed to be a significant threat. If they went after ...
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Core Graphics, Part 1: In the Beginning - WoodenChair https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/core-graphics-part-1-in-the-beginning/ ====== bringtheaction > It’s commonly said that Quartz is “based on” PDF, and in a sense that’s > true. PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) is the PostScript drawing model > without the arb...
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High-Performance GPU Computing in the Julia Programming Language (2017) - open-source-ux https://devblogs.nvidia.com/gpu-computing-julia-programming-language/ ====== maleadt Author here, happy to answer any questions! We've been developing and maintaining this toolchain for a while now, so the relevant packages (CUDAn...
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Is Amazon Building a Superkindle? - limist http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/is-amazon-building-a-superkindle/ ====== headShrinker It's unfortunate; It seems Apple watched Amazon "test market" a product. When Apple saw there was a viable market for such a product, Apple focused on it. Now everyone will be try...
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A standing desk for $22 - onecreativenerd http://iamnotaprogrammer.com/Ikea-Standing-desk-for-22-dollars.html How to build yourself a cheap Ikea standing desk on top of your current desk. ====== goodside I used to be an advocate of the standing desk. I bought an adjustable-height Fredrik workstation from Ikea, tried ...
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"AdBlock" in Youtube comment - soheil Post a comment on Youtube with the word AdBlock and its status becomes: &quot;Comment Pending Approval!&quot; ====== psgbg "The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club" Also, don't say "bomb" inside of a plain. And Never ever say "inflation" in front of a ...
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Ask HN: Which hype you bought which backfired? - xstartup Many times we buy into something because of hype, it could be a flavor of the month programming language or javascript framework. Any professional would probably have made many of such mistakes, in hindsight we deem stupid. Please tell us about your hype-driven...
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Show HN: EasyWrite- Write Only Using Top 1,000 Words - dallamaneni http://easywrite.parishod.com/ ====== dallamaneni Hi, I recently came across ClearText Mac app which does the same but it works only on a Mac. I also felt that it would be great if the app recommends using certain words instead of enforcing it. So I ma...
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Will We Ever Be Able to Download Our Brains Like in Westworld? - TechSquidTV https://techsquidtv.com/blog/will-we-ever-be-able-to-download-our-brains-like-in-westworld/ ====== java-man no.
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Merrill Lynch “Macs are no good. Go to your library and use a PC” - rograndom http://www.rograndom.com/2011/04/merrill-lynch-mac/ ====== th0ma5 This might be a "knows enough to be dangerous" type of situation. An expert in one field seems like an idiot to an expert in a similar, but different, field. For instance I...
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Scraping every IPv4 WHOIS record - marklit http://tech.marksblogg.com/all-ipv4-whois-records.html ====== Joyfield I think you can download the assigned IPs from at least RIPE. Otherwise you could download a BGP-dump and then get the AS-number from every announced IP- span and then map AS->Country.
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Distributed Named Pipes - mhausenblas http://dnpip.es ====== techdragon This is an excellent idea... but I'm a little put off by the reference implementation using DC/OS and Kafka... Its a little bit 'heavy' for a reference implementation, at least that's my personal preferences. Id like to see a more 'low tech' vers...
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Jon Postel - rocky1138 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Postel ====== gaius Postel’s Law is good advice for life in general
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Tutorial: Apache 2.4 as reverse proxy - maus80 http://www.leaseweblabs.com/2014/12/tutorial-apache-2-4-transparent-reverse-proxy/ ====== SEJeff Perhaps I'm the weird one out that actually prefers Apache 2.4.x over Nginx for web and proxy services in much the same way. Huge fan of mod_proxy_balancer (not available in A...
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Comparing Heat Shields: Mars Science Lab vs. SpaceX Dragon - pinehead http://pinehead.tv/space/comparing-heat-shields-mars-science-lab-vs-spacex-dragon/ ====== sikhnerd I can't be the only one who continues to be impressed by SpaceX' consistent engineering and business prowess being displayed in these types of artic...
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Fastest way to iterate through ALL Guids Possible - hartleybrody http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10029651/fastest-way-in-c-sharp-to-iterate-through-all-guids-possible ====== dromidas lol... just... lol...
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Motion Experiments - davidbarker http://www.michaelvillar.com/motion ====== volaski I think 10% of these animations look cool AND actually don't harm experience, but the rest are just confusing. These morphing animations just distract users with something that shouldn't be the focus. There are too many apps that try...
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Ask HN: How do I get out of my unhappy coding job? - yacoder Hi all,<p>I need your advice; I'm working in an internal IT department at a non-software company which is, as you can guess, far from ideal. I live + work in the UK.<p>I am starting to feel very depressed about my situation and am desperate to find a way out...
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Ask HN: Tips for overheating laptop running linux - giis I brought a AMD-A10-7300 CPU laptop running centos. Problem is heats up in 20 minutes. Virtually, finger are burning. Just ordered a cooling pad. Considering the fact, I&#x27;m running Linux, Is it possible to tweak some kernel module or stuffs like that to redu...
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And the most in-demand tech skills of 2012 are … - azazo http://venturebeat.com/2012/02/14/most-in-demand-tech-skills-2012/ ====== allwein In the "key insights", he includes this: "Android is mentioned slightly more often than iOS/iPhone." But in his chart, it looks like Android is just shy of 100, so let's say 95. ...
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Backpack connects you with travelers so you can buy items in other countries - mind_heist https://intl.backpackbang.com ====== mind_heist I believe this is a YC backed startup and there was some press around the time of the initial Demo Day. Looks like they have a brand new website , and seems to have pivoted to just ...
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Ask HN: Best database for tree storage and traversal? - cookerware The gist of what I&#x27;m trying to do is have a tree, traverse through every possible branch until all leaf nodes have been visited.<p>I need to also be able to modify any node along a branch. I originally thought about using MySQL but it seems real...
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An App Platform for Dumb Phones - ramseynasser http://www.dumbsto.re/ ====== shadowmatter I like the idea. Note that if there is a lot of text traffic on a given number, carriers like AT&T, Verizon, et al will block texts to and from that number until the traffic subsides. What's worse is that if you send a message...
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