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Random thoughts on a PGP based social network - zemanel http://zemanel.eu/random-thoughts-on-a-pgp-based-social-network ====== RiderOfGiraffes FWIW - Doesn't load for me on either of the platforms I have easy access to right now. ~~~ zemanel direct link: [http://www.slideshare.net/MyCatStoleMyPPT/pgp-based- social-...
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The HPV Vaccine Doesn’t Deserve Its Reputation. Get It for Your Kids - bitcuration http://vitals.lifehacker.com/the-hpv-vaccine-doesn-t-deserve-its-reputation-get-it-1748529758 ====== DrScump This is a really sloppy article with a number of factual errors: 1) there is not "a vaccine", there are SEVERAL, each with dif...
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RMS: A GNU manual, like a course in history, is not meant to be a “safe space” - rhabarba https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-05/msg00017.html ====== eesmith We all have and want "safe spaces". I'm pretty sure that Stallman wants an FSF conference to be a safe space where he doesn't have to hear people talking ...
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Amazon's growth is a systemic risk to Seattle - crabasa http://www.geekwire.com/2015/commentary-amazons-unprecedented-growth-is-too-risky-for-seattle/ ====== ethanbond Interesting, and I think Seattle is at least vaguely aware of this. It's worth noting that in recent years tons of other companies have been setting ...
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Vaccinating the World's Top Predators May Be the Only Way to Save Them - DiabloD3 http://motherboard.vice.com/read/vaccinating-the-worlds-top-predators-may-be-the-only-way-to-save-them ====== ars They should do it. Almost every extinction I've read about was caused at the end by an infection of some kind (fungus, p...
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The planets of our solar system viewed in the Moon's orbit - ukdm http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/the-planets-of-our-solar-system-viewed-in-the-moons-orbit-2012084/ ====== derefr Oh, I interpreted this headline slightly differently--I was expecting to see a set of epicycle-orbit-diagrams given the Moon as the...
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Modern-day 'Yellow Peril' of Google's Chinese links is just the same old racism - saligne https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/17/google-peter-thiel-yellow-peril-racism-tech ====== nutcracker46 More fascist propaganda from the far right extremists in power in the USA. The situation has nothing to do with treason...
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Say Hello to Cortana, Microsoft’s Siri Equivalent - btimil http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/say-hello-to-cortana-microsofts-siri-equivalent-24441 ====== parfe I hope Microsoft decides to target Google Now instead of Siri. Google Now provides so much more depth than a voice interface; Siri offers so little in compari...
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The difference between the US and Europe - jseliger http://meganmcardle.theatlantic.com/archives/2010/01/the_difference_between_the_us.php ====== josmala Actually the things he pointed out where, A) London is really expensive city to live, by European standards. B) Europeans do make different lifestyle decisions. B...
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Simple Facial Recognition Search Engine Can Track You Down Across the Internet - aspenmayer https://onezero.medium.com/this-simple-facial-recognition-search-engine-can-track-you-down-across-the-internet-518c7129e454 ====== aspenmayer Product is PimEyes [https://pimeyes.com/en/](https://pimeyes.com/en/) Original titl...
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Vayable Guides Travelers Off the Beaten Path - timr http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/goldman-sachs-progress/archive/2012/11/vayable-guides-travelers-off-the-beaten-path/265495/ ====== waitwhat _Vayable launched with 70 guides in April 2011 [...] Since then, the company's been growing at a rate of 30 percent each w...
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Docker user? Haven't patched Dirty COW yet? Got bad news for you - nwrk http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/11/01/docker_user_havent_patched_dirty_cow_yet_bad_news/ ====== gtjay As I've discused before, seccomp can block ptrace and thus this VDSO-based attack (and currently does by default in some distros). Shameless se...
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Apple Using iCloud to Lock in Users - acak http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-10-12/apple-using-icloud-to-lock-in-users-after-online-misfires-tech.html ====== warmfuzzykitten Yes and no. What they're actually doing is reducing friction. People have more than one information device but they have only one set of da...
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How to Create a Firefox Plugin (hacker-friendly javascript framework) - trevelyan http://blog.popupchinese.com/?p=19 ====== catch23 firefox plugins aren't really all that hard to begin with. i'm not sure if you're gaining much with this framework ~~~ nick007 firefox plugins are actually pretty tough to get started ...
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Symfony 4 Released - SnaKeZ https://symfony.com/4 ====== SnaKeZ Here the post: [https://symfony.com/blog/hello-symfony-4](https://symfony.com/blog/hello- symfony-4)
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Love Is Like Cocaine (2016) - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/33/attraction/love-is-like-cocaine ====== gaspoweredcat great article. due to various mental health issues i dont really have the full range of emotion that others do so "love" is something thats out of my sphere of experience however i have experimented wit...
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Accessing the Accelerometer and Gyroscope in JavaScript - seminatore http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2012/03/accessing-the-accelerometer-and-gyroscope-in-javascript.html ====== untog Does anyone know if it is possible to get meaningful movement measurements from the combination of these two? i.e. get an ini...
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I failed a Twitter interview - mostelato http://qandwhat.apps.runkite.com/i-failed-a-twitter-interview/ ====== acchow This question involves an "a-ha" moment (for the linear-time solution) and was thus banned from interviews at Google last year. Don't use questions involving eureka moments. They reveal nothing about ...
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A malicious module on npm - gburnett https://blog.liftsecurity.io/2015/01/27/a-malicious-module-on-npm ====== bizzbuzz now you've made me all paranoid, I hope you're happy
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Rebrand America - caiobegotti http://mgmtdesign.com/flags/ ====== core-questions Most of these are absolutely terrible, or are political commentary in image form. None of them look like something people would want to wave to represent themselves and their nation. As a non-American, absolutely none of these convey any...
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How Uber, valued at billions, was sent packing by a startup in Singapore - kschua https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/cnainsider/uber-grab-singapore-ride-hailing-southeast-asia-private-hire-10630396 ====== akhatri_aus So it had nothing to do with Softbant, who also has a stake in Grab, asking Uber to leave. The title...
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First free file transfer service for files up to 20GB - hshojaee https://www.transferbigfiles.com Now you can send files that are up to 20GB in size through any modern browser without flash or any other plugins. It's free. ====== hshojaee For those interested to know more about this...we rebuilt TransferBigFiles.com ...
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Ron Rivest: Keys Under Doormats – Mandating Insecurity [video] - mzl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqacHM6Wm0Q ====== Intermernet This talk is (as expected) a very level headed summary of why exceptional access in encryption is a _very bad idea_. The only point I think it's worth adding to those in the talk (which ...
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The trouble with Linux: it's just not sexy - theandym http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/the-trouble-with-linux-it-s-just-not-sexy-679859 ====== retube I'm not sure Windows is especially sexy either, altho Apple clearly is. Linux will struggle for years to come in the corporate desktop market: a...
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Twitter discussion – Docker threatening legal action over naming - avitzurel https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/775657952430596096?lang=en ====== wmf Many trademark holders have a policy that you can't use their name as the _prefix_ of the name of something else. So e.g. JavaCache would not be allowed but Cach...
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Ask HN: How do you handle billing by the day? - rquantz Several prominent members of the HN community advocate billing <i>at least</i> by the day for freelancers/consultants. This is extremely appealing to me, and I've begun discussing changing to this billing structure with some of my existing clients.<p>That being...
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Plant your own tree in California - lasharela Hi guys, In case if someone wants to help California, we launched a website: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;treespond.com<p>In few clicks, you can plant your own trees in California&#x27;s National Forests Damaged by wildfire.<p>Any Comments, Questions, Recomendations are appritiated....
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Arc: Build Apache Spark Jobs Without Code - seddonm1 https://github.com/tripl-ai/arc-starter ====== aissar What a clever framework and clever bunch of people behind this. Take it for a spin and find out for yourself just how great this is.
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Understanding Python decorators - spoon16 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739654/understanding-python-decorators ====== mkramlich this is RTFM material and i wish i could downvote it ~~~ weaksauce I don't think that it is quite RTFM material. I looked at the documentation on decorators in the python manual(actuall...
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SearchYC is back up - ivank http://searchyc.com/? ====== tokenadult It has very current results too, as I just verified by test. P.S. I'm curious why the parent post, which just opened this thread, is now dead. ~~~ ivank It was probably [dead] because it wasn't up for everyone, due to slow DNS propagation. It was u...
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Researchers Find that Parasitic Flies are Turning Bees Into Zombies - rosser http://inhabitat.com/researchers-find-that-parasitic-flies-are-turning-bees-into-zombies/ ====== olb1ue There are all kinds of theories on how a Zombie apocalypse could actually happen. From parasites to neuro-toxins. The most far out there I...
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Exploring Euclideon's Unlimited Detail Engine - timknauf http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/11/22/exploring-unlimited-detail.aspx ====== dmbaggett The article sensationally positions this as some incredible breakthrough that the "old guard" of gaming is trying to suppress. More likely, the code works,...
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How much should you pay developers? - brianwillis http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/how-much-should-you-pay-developers/ ====== hammerdr Experience = Full Time Work Experience. That's the only measure that they accept (and this is a _formula_ dammit! We cannot go against that!). This seems to me to be a complete ...
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Ask HN: Anyone use Windows Server? - breck I'm getting a virtual dedicated box to launch a new product on(currently I maintain 6 linux servers). For fun, I was thinking of trying Windows Server. The box will primarily be used for hosting webapps(php &#38; python, mysql db) and processing incoming email.<p>I have a f...
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Gameduino: an Arduino game adapter - potomak http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2084212109/gameduino-an-arduino-game-adapter ====== potomak Want to share with you hackers my birthday present. Can't wait to hack it!
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Why Aren't Schools Grouping Kids By Intelligence Level? - mcnabj As we look at ways to improve and update educational systems, does it still make sense to have kids grouped by age rather than by their level of intelligence? Should less intelligent kids have to be overshadowed by geniuses? Should Geniuses have to wai...
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Attackers Demand $2.5M After Coordinated Ransomware Attacks on Texas Government - mojoraja https://cyware.com/news/attackers-demand-25-million-ransom-after-coordinated-ransomware-attacks-on-texas-government-entities-79af8a80/ ====== zelon88 All of those managed service providers do the same thing. 4 full time employee...
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WebGL Water (2011) - joubert http://madebyevan.com/webgl-water/ ====== SXX Anyone who want to check one of the best WebGL demos should try this: [http://codeflow.org/webgl/craftscape/](http://codeflow.org/webgl/craftscape/) ~~~ FraKtus Nice! ------ mkilling Are there any more modern real-time water effects out ther...
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Animatable: One property, two values, endless possiblities - Dekku http://leaverou.github.io/animatable/ ====== jwarren I highly recommend front-end developers keep up to date with Lea Verou's blog and talks. She's a great ambassador for standards-based development and maintains a great sense of whimsy. I really reco...
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The Evil Within the Comparison Functions - AndreyKarpov https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0509/ ====== Animats Oh, I thought this was going to be about floating point comparisons. The IEEE floating point people thought this through, and a NaN is generated when there's no meaningful numeric value for a result. But they were...
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The Mystery of the Havana Syndrome - dbuxton https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/the-mystery-of-the-havana-syndrome ====== LeifCarrotson > The name is a pseudonym, which she requested in order to protect her > privacy.) Her life in Havana was fascinating but orderly. She lived with her > husband and their tw...
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Google Buzz data to be copied to Google Drive for shutdown - tekacs Dear Buzz user,<p>In October 2011 we announced that [Google Buzz was shutting down]. On or after 17 July 2013, Google will take the last step in the shut-down and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your [Google Drive], a service for storing file...
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Show HN: Short Lessons from 21 Long Books - durmonski https://durmonski.com/21-lessons-from-21-books/ ====== m10i This is a wonderful idea! But I can't help but wonder... is this legal? Seems like a litigation nightmare. ~~~ durmonski I believe this type of work falls under the Fair use doctrine, where you can use a ...
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Ask HN: Are you planning to move HN to IPv6? - lookforipv6 Are you planning to move HN to IPv6?<p>It would be great to see in IPv6 the content of this site. ====== wmf What's the benefit? I would expect pg to adopt IPv6 right after he replaces his table-based markup with CSS. ~~~ lookforipv6 honestly not many, but...
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Datos IO 2.0: Cloud Mobility and Cloud Data Protection for the Multi-Cloud Era - thakurtarun https://finance.yahoo.com/news/datos-io-unveils-latest-application-130000533.html ====== mrbee This is great solution!
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Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan on Science Friday in 1992 - carlosgg http://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/two-cosmic-explorers-investigate-the-world-within-us/ ====== carlosgg There's a Federation of American Scientists?! Sounds like Star Trek! :-) [https://fas.org/](https://fas.org/)
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Effective Testing with RSpec 3, Getting Real: Integration Specs - the-red-button http://blog.travisspangle.com/effective-testing-with-rspec-3-getting-real-integration-specs/ ====== the-red-button Completed Part 2, building an application top-down testing! Excited to get some use out of the bisect flag and learning mor...
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Tell HN: Triplebyte reverses, emails apology - trianx This just landed in my inbox. The discussion on hackernews (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23279837" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=23279837</a>) surely helped Triplebyte understand that it was a mis...
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How we get high availability with Elasticsearch and Ruby on Rails - konklone https://18f.gsa.gov/2016/04/08/how-we-get-high-availability-with-elasticsearch-and-ruby-on-rails/ ====== shockzzz I have no idea why the phrase "high availability" is in this post. ~~~ mburns >We call these extensions "high availability" bec...
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I Fooled the World into Thinking I Was a Successful EDM DJ–For an Art Project - kposehn http://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/i-fooled-the-world-into-thinking-i-was-a-successful-edm-djfor-an-art-project?utm_source=thumpfbus ====== MOARDONGZPLZ I'm reminded of a Key and Peele "How to Rob a Bank" skit: Now I know this pl...
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LendUp: Playing with people's lives - Bootvis http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2016/09/28/2176153/lendup-playing-with-peoples-lives/ ====== kchoudhu I am sure we will be seeing numerous comments in this thread braying for the CEO of this criminally negligent financial firm to be thrown in jail.
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The shockwave-less supersonic body - floater http://linux.osdn.org.ua/pub/mirrors/ftp.flightgear.org/docs/www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/swlbi.html ====== RiderOfGiraffes > The plates around the body are thin and do > virtualy not generate shock waves by their own. Well, that's just nonsense. Thin or ...
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Cloud-based monitoring for scripts, jobs, apps and batches - bdavid_tex http://www.pushmon.com/cms/ ====== bdavid_tex Hi. We're releasing a free, cloud-based monitoring solution for scripts, scheduled jobs and batches. PushMon is unique since existing hosted monitoring solutions check public facing services. It instea...
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Memristor cell scaled down to 10nm - mrb http://semiaccurate.com/2011/12/08/imec-scales-rram-to-10nm/ ====== Symmetry We already had MRAM which was non-volatile and was as fast as DRAM, but had horrible density. Now it looks like we have a workable device that can be both main memory and storage. However, modern op...
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The Trojan Horse wasn't a horse - alanfranzoni http://www.academia.edu/26945391/F._Tiboni_2016_The_Dourateos_Hippos_from_allegory_to_Archaeology._A_Phoenician_Ship_to_break_the_Wall_in_Archeologia_Maritima_Mediterranea_13.2016_pp._91-104 ====== alanfranzoni TL;DR The ancient greek word "Hippos" \- which, undoubtedly,...
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Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn shell scripting? - b2hack What are the best resources, courses, tutorial to learn shell script. ====== moonboots A good intro is a talk given by Ryan Tomayko called the Shell Hater's Handbook[1]. His POSIX Shell and Utilities is also a great reference[2]. For a more compr...
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Twitter's GIF hack - kwntm http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs ====== ars This is not true: "A GIF is literally a sequence of independent images squeezed into the same file. An mp4 video can take advantage of all kinds of fancy compression techniques like keyframes and forwa...
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Why I Was Fired by Google - dpflan https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-i-was-fired-by-google-1502481290 ====== Upvoter33 I personally find the whole "Goolag" thing ridiculous. I've had relatives (great grandparents/uncles/aunts) in the USSR who were removed from their homes in the middle of the night by the government. O...
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Deciding among a hacker's best friend: pens - jseliger http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/product-review-pens ====== pasbesoin I used to have a Koh-I-Noor brass barrel Rapidomatic 0.5 mm mechanical pencil that was the best thing I'd ever written with. Foolishly, I took it to a training class one time and lost it...
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NYC Tech Boom: Not Just Mini Silicon Valley East - julien421 http://m.cnbc.com//id/100553792 ====== bsg75 Not the first time I have read about this, but I am always curious about the costs. NYC has some significant tax burdens, and property is difficult to find and costs are high, correct? Does the professional popu...
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A Theory of Neural Computation with Clifford Algebras (2005) [pdf] - adamnemecek https://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/inf/Sommer/doc/Dissertationen/Sven_Buchholz/diss.pdf ====== MrQuincle I'm not really aware about this application of Clifford algebra. I'll summarize it as the algebra that operated on sets of scalars, v...
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Webauthn – W3C's passwordless login specification - soulmerge https://webauthn.io/ ====== timClicks "Attestation type"? Why create something intended for general use and hinder its adoption by using words like that?
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Microbes Likely Abundant Hundreds of Meters Below Sea Floor - tellarin http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/microbes-likely-abundant-hundred.html ====== tellarin Very interesting findings. There is still so much we don't know about the oceans... But I guess this kind of news can be a show stopper for the r...
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Advice on obtaining an L1B visa - benlvink I&#x27;m currently working at an Amsterdam based YC company with offices in the United States. Does anyone have advice on obtaining a L1B visa. I currently have experience in marketing and my role will be marketing and event manager. ====== djsumdog Do you want to continue wo...
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Superconductivity theory comes a step closer - bookofjoe https://physicsworld.com/a/superconductivity-theory-takes-a-step-closer/ ====== bookofjoe >Exact theory for superconductivity in a doped Mott insulator [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-0988-4.epdf?shari...](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-...
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Polyglot stacks, alternative databases and performance fails - rebzees Polyglot programming is the focus of this issue of the digital magazine JAXenter. From Shutterstock’s gradual evolution from one to many languages, an intro to polyglot IDE Komodo from ActiveState, plus intros to HBase and RethinkDB (both big sal...
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Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous - Reedx https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/10/well/family/adventure-playgrounds-junk-playgrounds.html ====== devchix A recent episode of 99% Invisible: Play Mountain looked at how the playground got to be safe and boring. "A two-year-old boy named Frank Nelson was climbing a 12...
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Why walking makes you a better worker - pseudolus http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190304-why-walking-makes-you-a-better-worker ====== crooked-v Begin the countdown to businesses installing treadmills at every desk.
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Ask HN: ZFS on FreeBSD vs. expensive NAS for 100 TB backup over NFS? - reacharavindh Fellow HNers! I have a chance to upgrade our backup server that is an aging NetApp Filer costing us big money. Is it a good idea to setup FreeBSD-ZFS on Directly attached JBODs and use it over NFS?<p>Or are there any practical reason...
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Ask HN: I'm a chronic procrastinator – how do I break it? - procastatron For as long as I can remember I have been a super procrastinator. However, I&#x27;m also pretty smart which helps me fake it so that no one else notices. I think part of my problem might be that I grew up with an entitlement complex as I was vale...
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Developers, beware. Facebook really is the new Microsoft - nickb http://valleywag.com/tech/facebook/developers-beware-facebook-really-is-the-new-microsoft-283941.php ====== paulgb I don't see what the problem is. If I recall correctly, the videos application was developed in-house before the platform was ever releas...
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Barter Exchanges - Startup Idea - mhb http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/03/unemployment-recessions-and-barter-a-test.html ====== yummyfajitas Interesting idea, but it presumes that our current recession is caused by insufficient liquidity. Most of the evidence suggests that the liquidity-induced...
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The first pictures of blood from a 10,000 year old Siberian woolly mammoth - phowat http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/exclusive-the-first-pictures-of-blood-from-a-10000-year-old-siberian-woolly-mammoth/ ====== endtwist The most interesting part of that article is the non-chalant last line: "Once the [woo...
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LA Speed Check, Becoming a Crew - slowhand09 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg73GKm7GgI ====== ColinWright The video is put together nicely, but for those of you who prefer the written word: [https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...](https://www.thesr71blackbird.com/Aircraft/Stories/sr-71-blac...
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Assume You're Wrong - adamb0mb1 http://verbadam.com/assume-youre-wrong ====== Jemaclus This is great advice. Just today I had a similar issue. I wrote some code a long time ago, and a new coworker who started about a month ago comes up to me and proposes an alternate solution. He asked why we didn't do it this way i...
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Lessons learned: writing really long fiction - wellokthen http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html ====== jonathanstrange I'm writing German science fiction novels as a hobby that are around 700-800 norm pages each and learned the hard way that at least in the German publ...
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Quit Your Job for a Better One? Not If You Live in Idaho - dmode https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/business/economy/boise-idaho-noncompete-law.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news ====== Boothroid Non-compete agreements are one step...
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VS Ramachandran on Your Mind - vinutheraj http://www.ted.com/talks/vilayanur_ramachandran_on_your_mind.html ====== prat Great guy. Gotta get his book "Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind"
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Tesla Plans to Acquire Maxwell Technologies in Deal Valued at $218M - Elof http://fortune.com/2019/02/04/tesla-maxwell-technologies/ ====== Elof I’m hopeful that this means Tesla will Open Source Maxwell’s patients - [https://patents.justia.com/assignee/maxwell-technologies- inc](https://patents.justia.com/assignee/ma...
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Time 100: Moot, by Rick Astley (Not Online Poll) - frisco http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1894410_1893837_1894180,00.html ====== SwellJoe Rick Astley is so much cooler than Chuck Norris, it's not even funny. ~~~ buugs Usually you can find some humor in chuck norris jokes the first time yo...
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On Anger, Disgust, and Love: Interview with Martha Nussbaum - Hooke http://emotionresearcher.com/on-anger-disgust-love/ ====== yestoallthat > I argue that political love needs to be particularistic in this way, but > that care must always be taken to harness that particular love to good moral > principles and keep peo...
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Publix cake ordering UI's obscenity filter rejects mom's 'summa cum laude' cake - bmpafa https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/05/22/grocery-store-censors-cake-with-request-for-summa-cum-laude/npFzLAzg2b7w54247o3MIO/story.html ====== metalliqaz > Jacob was ‘‘absolutely humiliated,’’ Koscinski said. Oh please. ...
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No Intelligent Aliens Detected in Gliese 581 - phreeza http://news.discovery.com/space/no-intelligent-aliens-in-gleise-581-are-home-120602.html ====== tzs I now think there might be a decent chance we really are alone, after reading this interesting timeline of the far future: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of...
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Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author? - chopin https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/who-is-anna-senpai-the-mirai-worm-author ====== ploggingdev Previous discussion : [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13428824) Mods, the current url points to somewhere in the midd...
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TI removes access to assembly programs on the TI-83 Premium CE - dTal https://www.ticalc.org/archives/news/articles/14/149/149342.html ====== nullc I'm really happy with the very well build swissmicros DM42 calculator: [https://www.swissmicros.com/dm42.php](https://www.swissmicros.com/dm42.php) It is inspired by the ...
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Improving advertising on the web - robin_reala https://blog.chromium.org/2017/06/improving-advertising-on-web.html?m=1 ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14465546](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14465546).
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Bad Elk V. United States - shawndumas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Elk_v._United_States ====== shawndumas "Most states have, either by statute or by case law, removed the unlawful arrest defense for resisting arrest"
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Air-powered LEGO V8 engine running at 1440 rpm (vid) - TriinT http://www.nicjasno.com/node/1019 ====== ynniv The complete drivetrain with automatic transmission is much more impressive: [ [http://www.lpepower.com/content/heavy-duty-automatic- transmi...](http://www.lpepower.com/content/heavy-duty-automatic- transmis...
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Why we have to boycott RSA - techinsidr http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/01/why-we-have-to-boycott-rsa.html ====== ics > I mention this because people on Twitter are taking the stance that instead > of boycotting RSA that we should attend their conference, to represent our > views, to engage people in the conversation, ...
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Show HN: “Who's Hiring” Trends - austinhutch http://austinhutchison.com/hntrends/ ====== austinhutch I built a tool that analyzes the frequency of strings in the monthly "Who's Hiring" posts over the past 12 months. It works with one word or two word strings. Here's a blog post with more explanation and a few inter...
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Ask HN: How to securely purchase a project? - bukka I am looking into purchasing a website&#x2F;project. How can I assure that I do not get scammed or tricked, which method should I use to perform the transaction. ====== iancarroll Put the money into [http://escrow.com](http://escrow.com) Get the files Release the m...
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Quantum effects in relatively large systems - JumpCrisscross http://nautil.us/issue/29/scaling/how-big-can-schr246dingers-kittens-get ====== biswaroop Superfluidity is briefly mentioned in the article, but it's a quantum effect that's visible in very large systems. A system exhibits zero viscosity when its particles ...
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Police to Seattle’s techies, streamers: Sign up for our anti-swatting service - tonyztan https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/10/police-to-seattles-techies-streamers-sign-up-for-our-anti-swatting-service/ ====== Reelin So... why don't we fix the problem at its source by trying to better assess the reliability of a...
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How Fast is the National Broadband Network? Broadband in Australia. - brotchie http://howfastisthenbn.com.au/ ====== jfoster This is getting quite a lot of media attention in AU today. [http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-speed-test- we...](http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-speed-test-website...
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Cars All but Banned on One of Manhattan’s Busiest Streets - ramzyo https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/03/nyregion/car-ban-14th-street-manhattan.html ====== mrpopo > “I think it’s extreme and there should be a compromise. Everybody pays taxes > — not just the people in the buses.” I would make the opposite argument actua...
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Good Practices for Writing Rust Libraries - jaxondu https://pascalhertleif.de/artikel/good-practices-for-writing-rust-libraries/ ====== jerf This isn't really specific to Rust, but, while I wouldn't necessarily do all this stuff while working through a tutorial on Rust, the start of a brand new language is a great tim...
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What Will Replace PDF? - chrisstpierre PDF-like documents are a very common need. However, PDF as a format is not the best. Documents are not reliably consistent across platforms&#x2F;readers, and have vulnerabilities. It really seems like something that should be replaced, but isn’t. What will replace it? ====== NonE...
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NoSQL East 2009 day 2: Pig/Twitter, Cascading, Neo4j, Redis, Sherpa/Yahoo - uggedal http://journal.uggedal.com/nosql-east-2009---summary-of-day-2 ====== antirez There is some problem with the numbers for Redis: "Can do 19,600 gets and 13,900 sets a second on a MacBook Pro" In my macbook (not PRO) Redis performs l...
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Bitcoin breaks $3K to reach new all-time high - janober https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/04/bitcoin-3000 ====== mmaunder That was quite a stair step up around 8pm PDT. Anyone know what happened? [http://imgur.com/a/W6m6n](http://imgur.com/a/W6m6n) ~~~ xiphias In the last week there was a fear of the Bitcoin Cash fork s...
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Show HN: OKR Example Directory – Incl. Roles Like DevOps, VP Eng, etc. - brennanm https://soapboxhq.com/goal-examples ====== brennanm Direct link if you want to skip straight to engineering examples: [https://soapboxhq.com/goal-examples/engineering](https://soapboxhq.com/goal- examples/engineering) The examples are a...
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