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SOAP: The 'S' stands for simple (not really) - preek http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple ====== Sidnicious This is great. My (so far, only) experience with SOAP started when my boss asking me to investigate the new version of a (very big) vendor's SOAP API. Support for the old version of the API was bein...
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Ask HN: Why has Bill Gates become a conspiracy magnet? - tempsy Maybe I haven’t been paying close attention, but I feel like as soon as Bill Gates reemerged in the public eye during this pandemic as part of his foundation’s effort to back vaccine research for the coronavirus he’s suddenly become the primary target for...
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The primacy of the US dollar looks unsustainable - signor_bosco http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21669875-americas-economic-supremacy-fades-primacy-dollar-looks-unsustainable-dominant-and ====== todayiamme I get more than a little bit worried when I look at the American political circus. The soft power the US onc...
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It's Better Over There - sasvari http://www.thenation.com/article/154477/its-better-over-there ====== lmz I have to agree with the author's friend that it's easier to share with those that are similar to you. Europe is getting quite tired of the wave of mass immigration, partly fueled by the welfare state. The hard ...
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NSA provides German intelligence service with tools for eavesdropping - LinaLauneBaer http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de%2Fpolitik%2Fausland%2Finterview-mit-edward-snowden-im-spiegel-nsa-und-bnd-arbeiten-zusammen-a-909800.html Better translation...
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Weapons of Math Destruction (The Dark Side of Data Science) - oldbuzzard http://boingboing.net/2016/09/06/weapons-of-math-destruction-i.html ====== trendia The problem with most of these is not adjusting for cohort changes. For instance, in the SAT example, the author writes: > In the 1980s, the Reagan administration...
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Venture capitalists see their industry shrinking - timr http://www.reuters.com/article/innovationNews/idUSTRE5545HV20090605 ====== steve_mobs The VC sector was too bloated to begin with and it is nice to see a shakeout happening.VCs had so much capital then they should have that they have invested in a lot of companie...
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How to Get a Job - nsedlet http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/29/opinion/friedman-how-to-get-a-job.html ====== aliston Did anyone else catch the irony in Friedman talking about employers that "increasingly don’t care how those skills were acquired: home schooling, an online university, a massive open online course, or Yal...
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Court Says Privacy Case Can Proceed vs. Google - 001sky http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/11/technology/court-says-privacy-case-can-proceed-vs-google.html ====== magicalist discussed earlier today as well: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6362221](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6362221) As I said there, wha...
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Time to buy Bitcoin? - Zine https://cryptorunner.com/why-use-bitcoin/ ====== nxsynonym This doesn't really present any new information. All the advantages listed are the same ones that have been staples of the selling point since inception. If you're asking if it's a good time to buy since it's been on a general upsw...
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Submittable (YC S12) raises $750K to replace email - kirillzubovsky http://pandodaily.com/2012/11/09/submittable-raises-750k-to-replace-email-for-real-this-time/ ====== jacques_chester I am finding it really difficult to understand what this tool is or does from the hand-wavy description in the article. The part wher...
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Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian Library - diodorus http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/news/2015/jan-27 ====== ommunist Not exactly released. And not exactly to public. As the site says "Please note that it is very rare for us to set up free trial access for individuals. Individual pr...
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The Hunt for Robot Unicorns - extarial https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/the-hunt-for-robot-unicorns ====== wtvanhest The most successful robot in the world is probably a washing machine or dishwasher, not an iRobot. ~~~ mmt If you mean "will be" rather than "is", I'd agree. Otherwise, it...
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Show HN: Community Events - kpasa - mixmastamyk http://lax.kpasa.co/ ====== mixmastamyk Hi, I needed a side project to teach myself Django & AWS but couldn't think of anything Earth-shattering to work on... After searching and coming up empty I decided instead to build the kind of events site I've been waiting for f...
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Don't name your variables after types:you wouldn’t name your pets “dog” or “cat” - kiyanwang https://dave.cheney.net/2019/01/29/you-shouldnt-name-your-variables-after-their-types-for-the-same-reason-you-wouldnt-name-your-pets-dog-or-cat ====== munchbunny I highly disagree with this advice. I understand the intent of t...
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Go to www.owl.com and you get AOL.com with an Owl background - ry0ohki http://www.owl.com ====== rachelbythebay Set-Cookie: adCanvas=Paper_Owl; Path=/ That would do it.
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Vivaldi Browser and Open-Source - baal80spam https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/ ====== latexr If someone from the Vivaldi teams reaches this comment section, I have a few questions. As I understand it, the major reason you don’t publish everything as open- source is to protect the Vivaldi brand, wh...
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The Need for Data Engineers - eaguyhn https://thenewstack.io/data-scientists-get-the-glamour-but-there-is-also-a-need-for-data-engineers/ ====== FZ1 I feel the term "Data Engineer" gets used for a lot of catch-all "we have problems that need an owner" situations. There's not much consistency across job postings and i...
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MSI CEO Charles Chiang “Dies Suddenly” at 56 - chrismmay https://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-ceo-charles-chiang-dead-56 ====== russellbeattie "MSI general manager and CEO Charles Chiang passed away after falling from one of the company’s buildings." Yeah, that would definitely qualify as "sudden". Most likely it's...
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Are Antiferromagnets the Next Step for MRAM? - rbanffy https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/memory/antiferromagnets-next-step-mram ====== physicsguy I did my PhD in a related area of magnetics to this. One of the problems is finding appropriate materials, and that applies for all magnetic devices. Crys...
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Ask HN: Which WordPress theme, code snippet and Math eq plugins you use? - sytelus There is just too much noise in search results and general information is not optimized for technical blogs anyway. I'll be going through lot of these myself but wanted to know if community here has some strong preferences or glo...
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Kim Dotcom shares his *secret* to living a good life - TaylorGood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDiili2Gs-0&ab_channel=MrKimDotcom ====== kgc How does he have time for making these videos when this is happening? [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f0d30b6-a927-11e5-843e-6269289097...](http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9f0d30b6-a927...
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QuestDB – Fast open source relational time series database - beagle3 https://www.questdb.io/ ====== bluestreak Hi, QuestDB's author here, thanks for posting! I wanted to post this on Show HN, but someone beat me to it! We are an open source (Apache 2.0) time-series database, programmed in zero-GC Java. You can find u...
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An Alternative Approach to Archiving Blog Posts - stevenjames http://freemontpost.com/calendar/view ====== stevenjames Most likely not a perfect solution, but thought I'd share it anyway :)
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Ask HN: What are the most annoying things about tech recruiters? - plvch ====== gabrielblack 1\. Sometimes they pretend to have an open position "X". They do them to increase their database of candidates, just in case a customer will require that kind of profile in future. You know what's happening because, even if you...
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Matrix Multiplication - tosh http://matrixmultiplication.xyz ====== s1t5 1\. Needs a back button. 2\. It might be more illustrative if the transposed vectors pass over the matrix one by one. In the default example - you take the [2 6 1] vector and show how its dot products populate the final matrix, then do the same ...
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White House Petition Response: You have a right to unlock your cell phone - philsalesses http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57572391-94/white-house-you-have-a-right-to-unlock-your-cell-phone/ ====== jamesbritt Other discussion here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5319577>
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Ask HN: What's the easiest way to unblock Hotspot on the iPhone? - wkoszek I have AirVoice Mobile carrier SIM card with iPhone 6s. AV blocks Hotspot feature for some reason. Is there any hack without rooting of the Phone to get it enabled? ====== DrScump The answer may be specific to the carrier, so I would suggest ad...
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Save electricity by "hoarding" it - nreece http://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2006/10/10/save-electricity-by-hoarding-it/ One company decided to create a device that cuts your electricity bill by 10-15%. How do they do it? ====== zach "A TiVo for electricity" is a very clever line. Puts a smile on your face and yet des...
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Apple Profit and Revenue Slide as It Copes with Slumping iPhone Sales - monsieurpng http://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-profit-and-revenue-slide-as-it-copes-with-dwindling-iphone-sales-1477427419 ====== rplst8 I think the market for high-end phones and devices is probably starting to saturate. Apple has also been relyin...
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Inferring Canada's hockey-watching from water usage data - _delirium http://blog.canoe.ca/canoedossier/2010/03/09/portrait_of_a_nation_peeing ====== jmackinn This is a really cool graph to see. The gold medal hockey game was the most watched television event in Canadian history by far with 80% (26.5 million people) ...
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A curated collection of high quality gifs - qrush http://quaran.to/gifs/ ====== bazzargh Flagged for removing all authorship info from the images. eg it has this one from graphonaute [http://www.graphonaute.fr/post/66574508654/inspired-by- https...](http://www.graphonaute.fr/post/66574508654/inspired-by-https-www- ...
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Ask HN: I just inherited 700K+ lines of bad PHP. Advice? - ohmygord So, I've just inherited a very large, very badly written monstrosity. Including javascript, template files etc, it breaks the 1 million LOC barrier. I'm looking for some advice and strategies that you guys might have used in similar situations, in par...
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How an early telephone silencer took on AT&T - tintinnabula http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-battle-over-net-neutrality-started-with-the-1920s-era-hushaphone ====== alister > _A modern analogy would be if AT &T was somehow able to ban putting > protective cases on smartphones_ A couple decades ago, one of the...
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Ultimate Setup for Your Next Python Project - MartinHeinz https://towardsdatascience.com/ultimate-setup-for-your-next-python-project-179bda8a7c2c ====== bitfhacker A cookiecutter for this was a cherry in the top of a cake, but... Thank you!!! ------ pettycashstash2 Thank you. Added to my favorites
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Obama Administration Denies Record 77% of FOIA Requests - chishaku http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_SUNSHINE_WEEK_FOIA ====== yuhong OT, but on public record laws in general and the problems: [https://twitter.com/JonathanRabbitt/status/71028873888713932...](https://twitter.com/JonathanRabbitt/status/71028873...
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Ask HN: We Need a Bug Tracking Software Recommendation - Scott_MacGregor We have decided to implement an in-house bug tracking application on our development server <i>(dedicated RHEL5.3 64-bit box with 4 virtual machines via XEN)</i> and have narrowed the list to three possible candidates. This will run on the host...
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IPage web hosting is bad even for shared hosting - ebiggins http://y2kemo.com/2010/04/ipage-sucks/ ====== ebiggins Like this poor sap, I tried iPage and had nothing but issues. I understand shared hosting is cheap for a reason, but iPage is awful. Ended up with Hostgator.
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Show HN: Fireflies - octosphere https://martijnbrekelmans.com/generative-art/fireflies/fireflies.html ====== gus_massa Are the path random? Does a firefly see the other fireflies? Can I select the color of the background or the fireflies? (Perhaps also density, and path length.)
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Bringing HSTS to www.google.com - ejcx https://security.googleblog.com/2016/07/bringing-hsts-to-wwwgooglecom.html ====== chinathrow Doesn't that mean that wifi captive portals using www.google.com won't be able to take over the connection and re-direct to the captive portal? ~~~ jc4p This was my immediate first thoug...
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Map illustrates 'Russian GPS' failure - chris_alexander http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-26957569 ====== bobdvb I saw a presentation about "opportunistic radio SLAM" which uses naturally occurring radio signals: TV transmitters, mobile phone masts and even analogue music radio to passively provide relat...
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Future of AI - levlandau https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZdSb0bQCA7md5ax2aA3XEX6lQU4Ei63p ====== drsintoma shame that the audio is not a bit better.
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Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook - entelechy https://tiddlywiki.com/ ====== mih Ever since the decline of Evernote, I've been looking for something as convenient, but been pretty much disappointed in the alternatives. For a while Qownnotes was my choice, but it's not without its drawbacks. Currenlty Jop...
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BlackBerry cofounder Jim Balsillie is sounding the alarm about surveillance - walterbell https://thewalrus.ca/are-you-afraid-of-google-blackberry-cofounder-jim-balsillie-says-you-should-be/ ====== aresant This article is a long winded view of the sophisticated behavior modeling ad- targeting networks that google and o...
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Programming Can Ruin Your Life - jklubnik http://devizen.com/blog/2007/09/11/ruin/ ====== henryw I can relate to this: "The frantic pace of the software world will instill in you a sense of panic and urgency. You must do everything now. Tomorrow is too late. The thought of working constantly will no longer seem for...
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Proficiency of Black Students Is Found to Be Far Lower Than Expected - Alex3917 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/09/education/09gap.html?_r=2&src=twt&twt=nytimesnational ====== JabavuAdams I suspect that home and community culture is the main reason, and race is somewhere off in the noise. I'd like to see research on...
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Save the Males - echair http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article4448371.ece ====== msie I see men around me being as macho as ever and the popularity of mixed-martial arts, wrestling, NASCAR and the use of the word "gay" to deride stuff. My anecdotes cancel her anec...
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Yahoo acquires Ptch - bonchibuji http://blog.ptch.com/post/68919650988/ptch-joins-yahoo ====== aaronbrethorst I am so tired of the upbeat acquihire 'hey, users, this is good for you!' spin. Our passion and our mission was to give you the best way to make and share beautiful movies ...
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Learn Computer Graphics with Processing - octopus http://www.processing.org/learning/ ====== sipefree I had to do a Processing group project course as part of my CS degree. While it's a nice toolkit for doing very basic visualizations of data, it's a pain in the hole to do anything more advanced than that. They ma...
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Pharmaceuticals could be the prescription for trade war that truly hurts the US - ojbyrne https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/why-pharmaceuticals-could-be-the-prescription-for-trade-warfare-that-truly-hurts-america/ ====== erentz “That means that Canada’s symmetrical retaliation is not working...” That’s because Canada a...
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When Blockbuster Video Tried Burning Game Cartridges on Demand - szczys https://hackaday.com/2018/10/01/remember-when-blockbuster-video-tried-burning-game-cartridges-on-demand/ ====== patcheudor >Even if someone were able to obtain an unauthorized copy, a decent CD-ROM drive, sans burning capabilities, still cost in t...
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Faunus: Graph Computing with Hadoop - okram http://thinkaurelius.github.com/faunus/ ====== danielweber I have suffered buzzword overload. :( ------ hendler Anyone used this?
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A DataOps Perspective on App and Data Democratization - lensesio https://medium.com/@antonios_46161/a-dataops-perspective-on-app-and-data-democratization-99377aaeb2ad ====== mastergui "Extreme Data Nudity" lmao
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Show HN: Go Remote Jobs – Jobs to Go - tadake https://goremotejobs.com?=2 ====== meagher Before I can even view the site, a pop up prompts me for my email! Until you provide me some value (or I can at least see the site), then I'm a lot less inclined to give out my email. Are you trying to optimize for email sign ups...
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Who is Losing the Nile? - Thevet https://orientxxi.info/magazine/who-is-losing-the-nile,2276 ====== wehadfun "about US$1.8 billion are reportedly financed by Chinese banks" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da...](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Dam) ------ jessaust...
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Set Bing's photo of the day as your desktop's wallpaper, Automatically – Windows - guptarohit https://github.com/guptarohit/bing-wallpaper/ ====== coreyp_1 I myself have wanted this, but there's no way that I would run an exe like this without knowing what's in it! ~~~ rakshithbekal there are apps on the windows stor...
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How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors - dhotson http://vis4.net/blog/posts/avoid-equidistant-hsv-colors/ ====== viggity There is an alternative color space called YIQ that deals with perceived luminescence. I wrote a small function that can tell you given an arbitrary background color, whether white or black text woul...
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Illinois judge rules police entitled to SWAT raid over parody Twitter account - dreamweapon http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/19/illinois-judge-swat-raid-parody-twitter-peoria-mayor ====== cryoshon Horrendous precedent set here, but it props up my theory that people looking to the courts to strike down gover...
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Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just about honesty. - PixelRobot http://www.slate.com/id/2288514 ====== pwim _They're good at their jobs, too: The clearance rate for murder in 2010 was an unbelievable 98.2 percent, according to West—so unbelievable that some attribute it to underreporting._ High clearance ra...
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Why top Ivy Leaguers are the best sellers - 6g Was having this convo with some friends of mine, who all agreed with this...<p>They sold themselves ever since they were 14 and starting high school. Selling admissions officers of their achievements, selling teachers and counselors of their desires and passions... that...
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Bootstrap Design for Hacker-Founders - webwright http://www.tonywright.com/2007/bootstrap-design-for-geek-powered-startups/ This post was a response to a fellow YC Winter '08 founder, but I figured it might be valuable to other folks, so I threw it up on my blog. ====== dcurtis This is an awesome article. Lots of peo...
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Suspected AlphaBay Admin Takes Life as Feds Close Site - TaylorGood https://themerkle.com/suspected-alphabay-admin-takes-his-life-in-thailand/ ====== dmix Apparently he had 4 Lamborghinis and 3 houses registered under his name living as a 'programmer' in Thailand. He wasn't exactly living inconspicuously. I'm curious ...
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Installing Google Android for Mobile Browser Testing on Mac OS X - benhedrington http://www.buildcontext.com/blog/2009/11/06/installing-android-sdk-browser-testing-mac-os-x/ ====== hack_edu If you can essentially run Android in an OS X app, then it can't be too hard to get it running on an iPhone. ~~~ TwoSheds It r...
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Ask HN: Where Should I Look For A Programmer To Partner With For My Start Up? - GaryLivingston I am looking to find a programmer/designer or two to partner with in order to continue building my start up company's website.<p>I can only offer part ownership of the company in the form of stock issued to them. It is a l...
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Git for Windows: Change non-inclusive naming - drevil-v2 https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/2674 ====== drevil-v2 "Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it...
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Show HN: Notion- all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, databases - middle1 https://www.notion.so/ ====== PeOe It's great to see, that people see real value in the market for project management SaaS solutions. We started developing Zenkit ([https://zenkit.com](https://zenkit.com)) 1 1/2 years ago and have ...
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A Bloated Silicon Valley and the Madness of Crowds - mudil https://www.ft.com/content/968f2022-6878-11e7-9a66-93fb352ba1fe?segmentId=7ac5b61e-8d73-f906-98c6-68ac3b9ee271 ====== DrScump (paywalled)
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Flush+Reload side-channel attacks on secp256k1 used in Bitcoin protocol [pdf] - mukyu http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf ====== epaga Here's a great ELI5 summary by reddit user "underachiever" on the reddit discussion page linked to by p4bl0. Can't vouch for its accuracy, but it at least makes a bit of sense to me:...
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CS136: Economics and Computation - mubaris http://beta.blogs.harvard.edu/k108875/lectures/ ====== montenegrohugo Are all the materials posted here? As well as homework/assignments? Does Harvard release this free of charge?
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Javascript mode for Emacs - comatose_kid http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/03/js2-mode-new-javascript-mode-for-emacs.html ====== shaunxcode remotely related, but I've always wondered how hard it would be to do the opposite (for those who haven't read the article he mentions in the beginning that the round about g...
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Ask HN: Can you code friendship? - barce I know this is a philosophical can of worms, but if you can describe X, does it follow that you can code X? Let&#x27;s replace X with friendship. Are there any books that tackle this question? I guess I&#x27;ve been feeling lonely. ====== rdegges Being a friend is pretty simple...
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Google Chrome 2.0 - Fast but lacking features - soundsop http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4404 ====== arthurk _"For Mac and Linux users, there’s still no Google Chrome for you."_ You can grab the latest nighly build for OS X here: <http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/sub-rel-mac/> It works pretty well and...
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1/3 of US Homes Cost More to Build Than They're Worth - masonhensley http://blogs.smartmoney.com/advice/2012/04/17/homes-cost-more-to-build-than-they%E2%80%99re-worth/ ====== aristus Title is editorialized and misleading. "One third of builders said that some homes were appraised at less than they were built for" is...
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US bosses now earn 312 times the average worker's wage - eplanit https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/aug/16/ceo-versus-worker-wage-american-companies-pay-gap-study-2018 ====== maxxxxx "the bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017, taking home an average of $18.9m in compensa...
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DNS results now being manipulated in Turkey - makmanalp Here is a valid reason for adopting DNSSEC or DNSCrypt. It&#x27;s likely they&#x27;re using deep packet inspection. Using VPNs seems like the only valid solution here for now.<p>Result from &quot;dig youtube.com&quot;:<p><pre><code> ; &lt;&lt;&gt;&gt; DiG 9.8.3-...
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Canadian Conservatives commit to Internet surveillance. - mrcharles http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/5733/125/ ====== joshes _The first prong mandates the disclosure of Internet provider customer information without court oversight. Under current privacy laws, providers may voluntarily disclose customer informa...
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Fred Wilson: A Lot Can Happen In Five Years - lrm242 http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/11/a-lot-can-happen-in-five-years.html ====== Alex3917 "Things take longer in the short run but they happen faster in the long run." The way I've heard it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, but underes...
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Ask HN: advice for working with a bad programmer - mxmpawn I&#x27;m working at a startup with another programmer, the founders are business guys and they don&#x27;t even look at the code.<p>We&#x27;re working on two different applications which communicate through different API calls. The problem is the other guy has ...
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Fisherman Interactive Music Video - andrewstuart http://andeinerseite.video/ ====== andrewstuart Here's some explanation as to what this is. Seems extremely well done. [https://www.unit9.com/project/kontra-k/](https://www.unit9.com/project/kontra-k/)
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Ask HN: Most effective path to become a solid systems practitioner? - fizwhiz Context: I&#x27;m a mid-tier dev at a BigCo, and I was never classically trained as a computer scientist. Lately, I&#x27;ve been interested in problem spaces where having a deeper systems knowledge (think databases, streaming systems, operat...
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Samsung Galaxy S4 due in February - nreece http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2012/09/182_120024.html ====== clarky07 Am I the only one that thinks 5 inches is far too big for a phone? I'm not sure how I feel about the 4 inch iPhone 5, but I'm certain I don't want anything that is 5 inches. ~~~ Trezoid I want t...
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Apple Hires Amazon Search Exec to Run Siri - scottchin http://allthingsd.com/20121015/exclusive-apple-hires-amazon-a9s-stasior-to-run-siri-does-hire-signal-a-bigger-move-into-search/ ====== ChuckMcM That is an interesting move for him. Given the amount of time Siri seems to go to the web for search it seems like App...
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Stop Dumbing Down The World with Bad Interview Questions - gacba http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/stop-dumbing-world-bad-interview-questions/ ====== ohashi I think it's easier with stump the chump type questions because some artificial filtering. Interviewing and trying to gain real insight into a person is ...
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Bill Gates and Warren Buffett Pick Up a Shift at Dairy Queen [video] - dennisgorelik https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQWkNXr2ujI ====== canada_dry You figure in the thirty minutes that Bill and Warren spent 'working' at that Dairy Queen their wealth probably increased by more than every employee in the entire chain co...
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Disneyland raised prices to shorten waits - t23 http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-disneyland-wait-times-20170712-htmlstory.html ====== skywhopper I don't go to Disney parks very often but the "expanded ride reservation system" mentioned in this article has actually gone from good to terrible, and I think it has co...
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GIF for CLI - lainon https://github.com/google/gif-for-cli ====== Sir_Cmpwn See also the venerable libcaca: [https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca](https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca) Demo: [https://asciinema.org/a/kjsWPMv5qtn87IHRd4th3EuNB](https://asciinema.org/a/kjsWPMv5qtn87IHRd4th3EuNB) ~~~ digi_owl Or if we go ...
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Gab's domain registrar gives 5 days to transfer domain or they will seize it - DanAndersen https://twitter.com/getongab/status/909646893516414977 ====== thatonechad When you can't defeat someone in a debate, silence them. ~~~ ivraatiems Is a company morally obligated to serve all customers, and not permitted to exerc...
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Apple takes a few more bites out of cellular carriers - SlipperySlope http://www.gadgetbox.msnbc.msn.com/technology/gadgetbox/apple-takes-few-more-bites-out-cellular-carriers-823733 ====== SlipperySlope The Microsoft Network blogger is highlighting this issue because Microsoft itself faces headwinds with cellular ca...
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Dear Stack Exchange, Inc. - bmease https://dearstackexchange.com/ ====== xibalba I suspect that the average user of SE will not care one bit about this whole drama. I do find it frustrating, puzzling, and sad how SE appears to have treated Monica Cellio. She provides an excellent summary (from her perspective) here: ...
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Why the economic fate of America's cities diverged: deregulation - blahedo http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/cities-economic-fates-diverge/417372?single_page=true ====== sportanova This article is worse than useless without taking into account the cost of living. Yeah, people in San Francisco + NYC m...
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Hashids – Generate short hashes from numbers - yildizbe http://www.hashids.org ====== dsl > use them as forgotten password hashes Please don't. The author tries to trick you into believing it is secure by including a salt. However the resulting key space of the "hash" gives you the same security as a 5-6 character a...
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Nissan Leaf - dools http://www.nissanusa.com/leaf-electric-car/ ====== danenania Having used both (flash extensively, js less so), I agree that flash's closed plugin status completely sucks, and this is major. That said, for nearly every other aspect of developing thick client RIAs and complex visual experiences, fla...
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Angela Merkel’s record on environmental policy has been a disaster - Tomte https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/19/world-leading-eco-vandal-angela-merkel-german-environmental ====== marze Germany's generous subsidy and build out of solar, while solar was still really expensive, was key in driving the cos...
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Crowdsource Microsoft's new CEO - ray_sun https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Y62ugAoO58msPK4yDxXgHdI7lvivFWQXc7HvEuE_Wi4/viewform ====== ipodize A bit easy to game... Just submitted Bill Gates eight times.
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When work doesn't pay for the middle class - viggity http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2009/1005/taxes-financial-aid-college-roughing-up-middle-class.html ====== ajross I'm not following some of this. It's true that the marginal benefits of salary changes for wealthy[1] parents with children in private (US) colleges who al...
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Android's Expansion into China - flashgordon http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/05/androids-expansion-into-china-a-big-deal/ ====== mark_h What's most intriguing about this to me is the pics of the device (<http://www.eprice.com.hk/mobile/news/?news_id=6051>) don't seem to show a hardware keyboard. Has android picked u...
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Negative Cashback from Microsoft's Bing Cashback - jpuskarich http://bountii.com/blog/2009/11/23/negative-cashback-from-bing-cashback/ ====== petesalty But this could just be the vendor (not that I'm defending MS). It could easily be a different price for Google, and another for Yahoo, etc. It doesn't mean MS has an...
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Workspaces: A Super Awesome Feature Coming Soon To Chrome DevTools - twapi http://browserfame.com/1090/chrome-devtools-workspace ====== georgemcbay This is pretty cool. I had to do one other thing (I'm using Canary on x64/Windows 7) I didn't see mentioned in the post to get this to work, which is to add an empty fi...
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Remap Your Caps Lock As Backspace - RevRal http://www.michaeljaylissner.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-as-backspace ====== samdk I use my caps lock key as a right arrow key. Reaching for escape in Vim doesn't really bother me, and I find it surprisingly useful pretty much any time I'm typing. I use AutoHotkey (<http://ww...
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Working from home - ingve http://mattgemmell.com/working-from-home/ ====== cstross Just to note that I've been working from home for nearly 14 years now, and I have _always_ broken _almost all_ of these rules. Except the one about loving what I do. Because I do love it: if I didn't, I'd get a different job. I don't h...
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