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My Favorite jQuery Plugin Template - kolodny http://kolodny.github.io/blog/blog/2013/12/27/my-favorite-jquery-plugin-template/ ====== 5vforest Neat. I also like this one (Coffeescript): [https://gist.github.com/rjz/3610858](https://gist.github.com/rjz/3610858) ------ maemilius I'm not a huge fan of the double wrap ...
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Why Is Front-End Development So Unstable? A Perspective - jbreckmckye http://www.breck-mckye.com/blog/2018/05/why-is-front-end-development-so-unstable/ ====== slededit At the end of the day the front-end is heavily tied to the visual design of the site. When the visual design changes drastically it makes sense to thro...
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Blogging begins turnaround for homeless woman - edw519 http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/09/11/homeless.blogger/index.html ====== onreact-com Inspiring story. It won't work for all homeless though. Giving homeless people a voice, via Web access is a good idea though.
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Show HN: Good use of Covid-19 social distancing spare time dev projects - kkielhofner Once I got done scrubbing my entire house down for the third time I got to looking around for some potentially fun development projects to make use of my (ample) time indoors.<p>What fun stuff have you gotten around to these days? ==...
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Fake online stores reveal gamblers' shadow banking system - rbanffy http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-gambling-usa-dummies-idUKKBN19D13E ====== michaelbuckbee This sounds somewhat similar to the polite fiction of Japanese Pachinko parlors [1]. "Taniguchi swapped the tray of thousands of winning silver balls for a rece...
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Show HN: Frop.io, instant remote presentations. In your Browser - derwildemomo https://frop.io ====== derwildemomo Hi HN! [https://frop.io](https://frop.io) is a simple application that allows you to present content (PDF presentations, Images, Text, YouTube videos) on a remote screen without installing any software. ...
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Ask YC: What to do if burned out, and have dozens of deadlines for tomorrow - burnedouthacker Just wanting to ask for your advice, on how you deal with this problem. I pulled an all-nighter yesterday in order to meet with my deadlines for today, but have a dozen more for tomorrow. I can't seem to find the focus and ...
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Ask HN: How long until ramen profitability with iphone apps - phd_student I'm considering dropping out to focus full time on iphone apps.<p>I'm curious to hear stories from people who've already taken the plunge.<p>How long did it take you to ream ramen profitability with iphone apps?<p>(Responses like "3 months ......
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F.C.C. Vote Sets Precedent on Unfettered Web Usage - robg http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/02/technology/02fcc.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all ====== mdasen I'm not trying to be a downer or anything, but what the FCC did might have been a lot more narrow than what everyone in our community is advertisi...
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Show HN: Luc - JS Improved - pllee http://github.com/pllee/luc ====== pllee I'm looking to get some input on this. I'd really like to hear what everyone has to think.
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The Primordial Gound - diodorus http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-primordial-gound/ ====== marssaxman I don't know Kant well enough to clearly see the edges of the game being played here, but this species of game is delightful, and this, despite my confusion, is an enjoyable instance of the form.
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Paleo Diet Lawsuit Dismissed By Court in Blow to Free Expression - cwan http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/11/paleo-diet-lawsuit-dismissed-by-court-in ====== Evbn Incredbly confusingly written story written by the plaintiff. Does anyone have a news story explaining what actually happened that they are challenging? "Sta...
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Helping the Travel Industry Rebound - odyssey1 http://www.aitravelers.com ====== odyssey1 We are working on our MVP and beginning to create an ai-fueled matching engine to help our subscribers, as well as travel suppliers, bounce back from these hard times. ~~~ SONtraveltech I like it, but I don't want to just hand m...
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Geolocation with 3m accuracy and error correction in 10 symbols - pjkundert http://hardconsulting.com/products/13-reed-solomon#EZCOD ====== mtmail The only advantage I see is the checksum and in my opinion it makes more sense to check the whole message and not just a pair or coordinates. Google's open location code...
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AMA with webpack Team - tilt https://hashnode.com/ama/with-webpack-team-cilqks5re00038g53qqgpvqza ====== vvoyer It's live now and awesome answers!
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Ask HN: Most comfortable keyboard? - quantumpotato_ I use Microsoft Ergonomic 4000. They keys take a lot to press, so I&#x27;m considering a mechanical keyboard like a rat7.<p>However, I feel the layout of most keyboards (rectangular) isn&#x27;t adapted to a natural form of my hands (more open, spread away from the to...
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The Mobile Phone Addiction - jseliger http://avc.com/2015/02/the-mobile-phone-addiction/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AVc+%28A+VC%29 ====== jseliger I also left this as a comment: I've seen this too, and I notice in particular that phones and Facebook seem to be bad for relationships ([h...
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Tell HN: Fun side project pebkac-stories - Omnipresent I've been a long time lurker on HN, though, not giving my value in comments but I visit the site on a daily basis. I plan to share all my upcoming sideprojects with the community.<p>This one might get my karma further down but we needed a perspective on site we...
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Show HN: Buckets for Mac - nrj http://bucketsapp.net ====== joshstrange I have no problem paying for quality software and I have paid for many apps from the OS X App Store but I find it highly misleading when your launch page uses the word "Download" when it really means "Buy". I've seen this tactic used on quite a ...
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British scientist 'solves' mystery of Himalayan yetis - aritraghosh007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24564487 ====== api One one hand you could call this "debunking." On the other hand if it's true it demonstrates that many of the people who claimed to see Yetis were not stoned, drunk, hallucinating, making thi...
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American ISPs to launch massive copyright spying scheme on July 1 - antr http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/american-isps-to-launch-massive-copyright-spying-scheme-on-july-12/ ====== ecubed Is this legal? ~~~ wmf Yes.
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Worst Programming Language Names - chobeat https://write.as/chobeat/worst-programming-language-names ====== sorokod languages with a noun as their name require <name>\+ lang in Google searches, so: Rust, Julia. ------ Millennium This list fails for lack of Brainfuck. ------ PaulHoule I think scala is short for "stai...
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A Year with MongoDB - mitchellh http://blog.engineering.kiip.me/post/20988881092/a-year-with-mongodb ====== rdtsc > Safe off by default I think that is fixed now. But this the single most appalling design decision they could have made while also claiming their product was a "database". (And this has been discussed h...
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True confessions: I wrote for an Internet content mill - galaktor http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/07/inside-an-online-content-mill-or-writing-4156-words-a-day-just-to-earn-lunch-money/ ====== angdis There was quite a bit of outrage about "content farms" a few years ago. Not so much now. Did reader...
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The Man Who Stuck His Head Inside a Particle Accelerator - hhm http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.12/science.html ====== phaedrus I would have thought the chamber these beams travel through would have to be kept at vacuum to work -? ~~~ RK They don't really provide details, but generally yes. If you have achieved...
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Ask HN: Web hosts that support Perfect Forward Secrecy? - eliot_sykes I&#x27;m waiting to hear back from Heroku to see if&#x2F;when they&#x27;ll support Perfect Forward Secrecy, and thought in the meantime I&#x27;d ask this here: do you know any hosts already supporting Perfect Forward Secrecy? ====== cloudflare Not...
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Smartphone-based earthquake alert system triggered by Mexican football fans - okket https://www.reuters.com/article/us-soccer-worldcup-ger-mex-mexico/mexicans-jubilant-over-world-cup-win-trigger-earthquake-sensors-idUSKBN1JD125 ====== JorgeGT There's a lengthy explanation published in Facebook [1](in Spanish, sorry). ...
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Elon Musk Shows off the Dragon Capsule, Back From Space (video) - thenextcorner http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/06/14/2032230/elon-musk-shows-off-the-dragon-capsule-back-from-space-video ====== confluence Cue comments about how Elon Musk is doing so much more with his money than everyone else, and how SpaceX/Tesl...
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Adrian Chen from Gawker pretends to be cancer patient? - dhughes http://twitter.com/#!/Adrianchen A post on Reddit from a person who said they were going to end their life using Oregon's 'Death with Dignity' program is a hoax according to Adrian Chen from Gawker, he's bragging it was him all along. ====== dhughes Or...
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Why are introspective verbs used for data in programming? - petar Why are verbs like “be”, “believe”, “understand”, “sense”, and so on rarely seen in source code? When they are seen, why are they usually names of variables and not names of functions, as would befit a verb? ====== tjr Just guessing / offering persona...
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World's deepest pool to open in Poland - HillaryBriss https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-deepest-pool-scli-intl/index.html ====== tomatotomato37 I wonder what engineering challenges are involved in this. I'd imagine it's more complicated than just digging a bigger hole and adding more water filters ~~~ gpm Eve...
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Software Transactional Memory in Clojure - llambda http://java.ociweb.com/mark/stm/article.html#Overview ====== kristianp Are there any benchmarks for parallel algorithms done with/without STM? What is the performance hit? ------ nandemo If you want to learn about STM, I recommend Simon Peyton-Jones' _Beautiful Concu...
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Assange Smeared Seth Rich to Cover Russia - JudasGoat http://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-report-julian-assange-smeared-seth-rich-to-cover-for-russians ====== averros Moar conspirology! It used to be Trump in cahoots with GRU. Now it's <s>reptiloids</s> Assange. Since when leaking the evidence of shady dealings is s...
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Ask HN: What apps can we build to help stop the spread of Coronavirus? - harrisreynolds A friend called me yesterday to discuss ways we could help with the coronavirus pandemic. It got me wondering if there are any ideas in the HN community for apps we could stand up quickly to help in some way.<p>My friends idea was...
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Webtendo: a game console for the internet - ben_mann https://benjmann.net/a-game-console-for-the-internet-8e9dddb01892#.kjgs9fwj0 ====== jjyoung135 Loved playing Spacewar with friends! Keep it up :)
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ISPs and Tunnel Vision (2019) - cy6erlion https://cy6erlion.keybase.pub//tunnel-vision.html ====== dsr_ Once upon a time, we had a functioning FCC that was contemplating the difference between content and infrastructure. The goal of an infrastructure business is to provide the best service to end-users. The goal of a ...
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An Economist Goes to a Bar (and solves the mysteries of dating) - bluishgreen http://www.slate.com/id/2177637/nav/ais ====== mynameishere _from Columbia University's various graduate and professional schools_ There's a random sample for you. ------ adrianwaj Interesting that females go toward someone of their own ...
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UC Berkeley: Coronavirus Has Mutated, Appears More Contagious New Study Finds - jzer0cool https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/coronavirus/coronavirus-has-mutated-and-appears-to-be-more-contagious-now-new-study-finds/2357412/ ====== linuxftw Unsurprising, mutation is the hallmark of the corona viruses in the wild. I re...
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Streaming Cassandra at WePay - matchagreentea https://wecode.wepay.com/posts/streaming-cassandra-at-wepay-part-1 ====== georgewfraser There's some excellent choices in this design, but using Kafka in the middle makes no sense. The Cassandra change-data segments are written in batches, and BigQuery loads in batches. So...
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No salary for Elon Musk but a $7bn payout if Tesla reaches $650bn valuation - sjcsjc http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/01/23/elon-musk-wont-take-salary-bonus-tesla-pursues-650bn-valuation/ ====== inetsee The headline is incorrect. The Telegraph article says that Elon Musk's potential payout is $70 billion, not ...
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Venezuela President Maduro 'survives drone attack' - DanAndersen https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45073385 ====== DanAndersen Footage from Venezuelan TV: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0RN8ozA8I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew0RN8ozA8I)
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Top Iranian General Qassim Suleimani Is Killed on Trump’s Orders, Officials Say - boyd https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/02/world/middleeast/qassem-soleimani-iraq-iran-attack.html ====== arkadiyt A few weeks ago 5 senior pentagon officials resigned [1], probably over this. This can easily be the start of war with Iran. ...
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Ask HN: Any Startups in Portland? - jkaykin I will be in Portland, Oregon on July 31st and August 1st and would love to check out the startup scene and meet any developers working on something cool? Where do all the startups hang out&#x2F;work? Thanks! ====== mountaineer PIE is an incubator that just kicked off thei...
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OPEC 2.0: Bandwidth is the New Oil - pierrefar http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/opinion/30wu.html?hp ====== biohacker42 I can't upmod this enough. The higher telco profits come at a great cost to the economy as a whole. Bandwidth is today just as important to economic growth as any other basic infrastructure. The...
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How to build a Java buildserver - Garbage http://www.zenbi.nl/en/blog_how_to_build_a_java_buildserver.php ====== mthomas Why not simply use Hudson: <http://hudson-ci.org/>. It has a bunch of plugins <http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Plugins>
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New Developers: Want to Hack Your Coding Interviews? Start with This One Item - jjashcraft https://hackernoon.com/new-developers-want-to-hack-your-coding-interviews-start-with-this-one-simple-item-3de3022e490e ====== chemicalcrux This reminds me of how you're suggested to take notes in a lecture, then read and re-writ...
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A Wyoming Creek Flows into Two Oceans (2017) - DoreenMichele https://www.cntraveler.com/story/this-wyoming-creek-flows-into-two-oceans ====== cjensen There's a creek like this in Banff National Park in Canada [1]. It is amazingly fake. It was rebuilt when I was younger and the rocks that keep the creek in place are no...
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All of Mozilla Is Out There in the Open - bevacqua http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/ ====== bevacqua For reference, see [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949446](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=949446)
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Lens Dashboard for Kubernetes Updated: Performance Through the Roof - xfiler https://blog.kontena.io/lens-2-3-released/ ====== java-man what is the point of animated transitions in charts?
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Why passenger jets could soon be flying in formation - pseudolus https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airbus-formation-flight/index.html ====== gervwyk This is cool. I actually did my Masters on autopilot design for the follower aircraft back in 2015, also under a Airbus future project. Nice to see it make some headline...
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Top Programming Languages Survey – Coding Infinite Poll - shehryark https://codinginfinite.com/top-programming-languages-survey-poll/ ====== bsg75 This survey asks for the “best” programming language. Best for what? No one language is best for everything. Is this more of a popularity contest?
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Ask HN: What'd you do with an extremely short domain-name? - kmbd i got my hands on an extremely short domain name, like t.co, j.mp etc. A quick solution is to deploy a URL shortening service or resell it for a much higher price. What else would you do with it? Commercial or otherwise. ====== mr_ali3n Sell it if not...
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40% of babies use a mobile device before they can even speak full sentences - prateekj http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2478328/40-babies-use-mobile-phone-tablet-speak-sentences.html?ico=sciencetech%5Emostread ====== tymathews It's a lot of fun watching a child learn how to interface with a touchscreen...
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Redditors share the way the world was 20 years ago - socratees http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/esid8/from_sex_to_phones_to_star_wars_what_would_older/ ====== melling About twenty years ago I was trolling around the Internet explaining how Microsoft was going to screw over IBM and OS/2. I went by melling b...
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Is it allowed in India to earn an extra money online while working in a company? - alokbanjare I am working with a reputed MNC, Currently I am running a website and want to monetize my site using adsense. Is it allowed in India to earn an extra money online while working in a company? ====== jacquesm You should ask ...
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ADVICE NEEDED: Alternative ICO Bounty System Instead of the Viral Exchange? - merubin75 Hello,<p>In the past year, I&#x27;ve managed two ICOs and used The Viral Exchange to manage the Social Media bounty. I found it an easy way to gain Social Media traction quickly. Unfortunately, TVE&#x27;s owners are no longer accep...
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How Twitter is supercharging jihadist recruitment - casca http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/08/14/zero_degrees_of_al_qaeda_twitter ====== claudius I can’t believe Foreign Policy didn’t black out Y __ __ __. Apart from that, if these people are allowed to use Twitter to spread their messages, they shouldn’t...
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Fedora 18 Isn't Looking Too Good, Anaconda Problems - ari_elle http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTIxODk ====== nodata This problem is going to get worse: Red Hat's "thing" these days is to develop software internally, then release it open sourced. Which is nice: except you skip all of the community ...
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Apple marks Chrome as 17+, keeps Safari as open for all - srathi http://www.webpronews.com/is-apple-restricting-google-chrome-for-ios-out-of-spite-2012-09 ====== DeepDuh Now look, I don't want to defend Apple for everything they do, but now it's getting ridiculous. If the author would calm down first and think for a...
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How to Understand Developing Native, Hybrid and Progressive Web Apps - digidondraper https://creatorsneverdie.com/blog/item?q=the-cost-of-developing-native-hyrbid-progressive-web-apps ====== b_t_s "It can take up to 2x-3x times longer to make an Android app" . Is this still true? Was it ever really true? I've seen and...
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iPhone XS – A12 Bionic - tambourine_man https://www.apple.com/iphone-xs/a12-bionic/ ====== newfocogi It was interesting to hear apple state that one of their goals for building products was to make them last longer in order to minimize waste. People often accuse hardware manufacturers, including apple, of intentional ...
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Is “always use /dev/urandom” good advice in an age of containers and isolation? - jMyles https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/186086/is-always-use-dev-urandom-still-good-advice-in-an-age-of-containers-and-isola ====== jMyles I'm inclined to think that the answer is "no", but it's also interesting to me that ge...
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Obama lawyers asked secret court to ignore public court's decision on spying - uptown http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/09/obama-fisa-court-surveillance-phone-records ====== randomname2 As a The Guardian reporter summarized: June 2, 6:03pm: Obama says he'll sign law banning bulk collection...
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Ask HN: How do you know you're ready to quit your day job? - BadassFractal This has been puzzling me for a while now and I was hoping HN would be so kind as to provide advice and feedback.<p>I'd love to quit my day job to pursue working full time on a project I've been working on with a couple of people for more tha...
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Creating honeypots using Docker - mistaken http://itinsight.hu/blog/posts/2015-05-04-creating-honeypots-using-docker.html ====== jamescun This is a bad idea. Concerns about Docker's security (or lack thereof) aside, containers provide "good enough" separation of concerns to apps. They are not security hardened and d...
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TLS mutual-auth now works with elliptic curve client keys in iOS 8 - josephhainline https://github.com/josephhainline/AppleBugTLSConnectionFailsWithEllipticCurveClientCert ====== josephhainline Retested a year old EC bug, and it's now working in iOS 8, but not in iOS 7. Have not tested in OS X. My older post of thi...
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Is there a 'bamboo ceiling' at U.S. companies? - cwan http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/07/asian-americans-promotion-us-companies/?iid=SF_F_River ====== byoung2 _About 5% of U.S. residents identify themselves as Asian, but Asian Americans hold fewer than 2% of executive jobs at Fortune 500 companies_ I have...
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The Internet Isn’t Killing Books (In Reality, It’s Probably Going to Create a.. - alexjmann http://philalawyer.net/?p=569 ====== fawkestrot Then what is killing books? It isn't magazines. It isn't newspapers. The writer's approach is interesting. Where it fails is in comparing any data on how many people have shifted ...
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MA's Opsware bought by HP for $1.6B - terpua http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/07/hp-buys-my-comp.html ====== zach Hmm. That's pretty good, I guess. How many Jr. Bacon Cheeseburgers is that?
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Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007) - Jarred https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2007/feb/08/business.comment ====== dvt Back in 2003, I would've found it absolutely _inconceivable_ to not chat with my HS classmates on AIM. For me, even bigger than MySpace dying was AIM dying. It still kind of blows my mind...
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Now Google is grooming a biotech firm / Company invests $3.9 million in business begun by Brin's bride - gibsonf1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/23/BUG0QPVKGF1.DTL&type=tech ====== andre This is like throwing a nickel into a homeless hat.
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Cloud Based Rendering and Light Field Displays - zmanian http://www.themill.com/millchannel/631/looking-ahead:-cloud-based-rendering-&-light-field-displays ====== billconan cloud based rendering has too much latency. you will feel dizzy in VR. ~~~ zmanian There are ways of coping with that like sending volumetric inf...
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Ask HN: What are the best Hacker Houses in SF? - meisterbrendan ====== gatsby A few I know of: Rise: <http://www.risesf.com/> Chez JJ: <http://chezjj.com/> The Glint: <http://theglint.com/> Rainbow Mansion: <http://www.rainbowmansion.com/> ------ joonix What is a Hacker House?
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When and How to Use Masks (WHO) - TakakiTohno https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/advice-for-public/when-and-how-to-use-masks ====== ilyaeck They lost me at the first sentence: "If you are healthy, you only need to wear a mask if you are taking care of a person with suspected 2019-nCoV infe...
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Intrade Betting is Suspicious - rplevy http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/09/intrade-betting-is-suspcious.html ====== mattmaroon Not so hard to believe, given that Intrade allows Americans and Betfair does not.
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Would anyone have any interest in “Who wants to be trained/certified?” threads? - selotapemeasure In a similar vein to the “Who wants to be hired?” posts which are extremely valuable, I was wondering if there is an apetite for a thread for people seeking certification. e.g. for ITIL, LPIC, Prince, PSM... etc. ? =====...
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How to Think Real Good (2013) - michael_fine https://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think ====== gyuserbti Interesting read that loops full circle to classic AI debates. I was frustrated a bit by the dismissal of probability theory, though, as if Bayes theory solved it, and by extension, and probability as a whole c...
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Ask HN: Best Noise Canceling Headphones - matt_the_bass Hi all, I have Bose Quiet Comfort nc headphones from 2004. I loved them. Electronically, they still work great, but mechanically they are on their last legs.<p>I’ve had a hard time finding what seem like good reviews online.<p>My use case is primarily for airline...
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Chinese tech giant Huawei has developed its own operating system as a 'plan B' - jonbaer https://www.businessinsider.in/Chinese-tech-giant-Huawei-has-developed-its-own-operating-system-as-a-plan-B-in-case-its-barred-by-the-US-government-from-using-Google-and-Microsoft-products/articleshow/68433984.cms ====== pjmlp Act...
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Ask HN: Living in Berlin, family of 4, working for tech - propeller_head Hi all Keen to hear experiences of people with families who made the move to Berlin in recent years.<p>I got an opportunity to live and work there (FinTech) on a good salary for at least two years.<p>Interested in lifestyle, safety and schools ma...
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Defining a new standard for online radio - knes http://supersteil.com/work/538/538_site/ ====== thisisroyal Fancy page for sure!
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LiveJournal data breach impacts 33M users with plaintext passwords - weleakinfo https://twitter.com/weleakinfo/status/1149904387374026752 ====== Fuccboi88 Plaintext passwords huh, that's about as bad as it gets when it comes to breaches. The only upside is that this data is from 5 years ago so _hopefully_ a percentage...
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The World's Most Influential Person Is... - asmosoinio http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1894028,00.html ====== syaz Isn't this victim of precision hack? [http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision- ha...](http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/15/inside-the-precision-hack/) ~~~ paraschopra Yep...
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Google Reader - RIP. Now go try something new - BenStroud http://www.thewhatnoise.com/2013/03/google-reader-rip-now-go-try-something.html ====== buddylw I'm actually getting a bit tired of having to evangelize google reader and RSS in general. I personally don't believe that this is the end of the world, and I believe...
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900 Workers Have Already Died Building Qatar’s World Cup Infrastructure - jonmrodriguez http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/over-900-workers-have-already-died-building-qatars-world-cup-facilities-180950088/?no-ist&1 ====== ChuckFrank Boycott FIFA. Call on the Architects and Engineers to end their working relation...
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Cameras on San Diego streetlights turned off until ordinance in place - loteck https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/story/2020-09-09/mayor-orders-san-diegos-smart-streetlights-turned-off-until-surveillance-ordinance-in-place ====== MurMan I'm a San Diego resident that was falsely accused of a seriou...
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Iter8 CoFounder Hackathon (San Francisco, only 8 seats) - matrixownsyou http://iter8.org/ ====== jlees Tell us more about who you are and what gets you excited before I waste time bragging about myself to an anonymous wall. Also, far more minor, lack of clarity with the question Skype or XMPP => I'd just reply "XMP...
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Show HN: Texttop – Interactive desktop rendered in TTY with ASCII - tombh https://github.com/tombh/texttop ====== xvilka May be image quality could be improved by using whole unicode set, rather than just plain ASCII. E.g. braille-fonts, like in blessed-contrib[1]. [1] [https://github.com/yaronn/blessed- contrib](htt...
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Using the Klout API in Google Docs - blarshk http://www.whitefireseo.com/tools/klout-api-google-docs/ ====== dtsingletary Just want to add that when consuming an API like this, it's always good to make sure you're adhering to the Terms of Service.
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The Unix and the Echo (2001) - charlysl https://everything2.com/title/The+UNIX+and+the+Echo ====== hunter2_ If you have a file consisting of some text, the file might or might not end with a \n If you have a file consisting of some lines of text, the file will end with a \n because a line of text (unlike text general...
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Why C# is not a good choice for web development? - afshinmeh http://afshinm.name/why-c-sharp-is-not-a-good-choice-for-web-development ====== coldtea The "one file to update whole up" is not really an issue (and you don't need to upload whole dll, if size's an issue, can always rsync (besides people appreciate getting ...
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The Bitcoin personality cult lives on – (I post without commentary) - dpcheng2003 http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/02/27/1783842/the-bitcoin-personality-cult-lives-on/ ====== gwern ft.com links don't do well here because of their paywall. ~~~ dpcheng2003 Reposted now as a pastebin text. Thanks!
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Product Management Frameworks IO - rakeshnc https://www.notion.so/nag/50-Must-Know-Product-Frameworks-6ea624ffceb647d7b706598af472aedf ====== rakeshnc 50 Must-Know Product Frameworks Use these frameworks in interviews, your day- to-day PM Job, or in your daily life for decision making! Benefits Utilize these framewor...
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Android fans: pay for your apps, please - cobrausn http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2012/04/27/android-fans-pay-for-your-apps-please/ ====== dlikhten I'm just going to say this right now: Windows is the primary place where video games are pirated. If you make a game, it WILL be pirated. Hell even multiplayer will be pir...
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Predict future by running 2.5M correlations in sec with GDELT and BigQuery - spountzy http://googlecloudplatform.blogspot.com/2014/08/correlating-patterns-of-world-history-with-bigquery.html ====== lutusp The title of this submission is misleading and isn't supported by the linked article. No one is suggesting that ...
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Ask HN: Should I testify? - goingtogetsued I&#x27;ve been contacted by a major law firm to testify against a former employer about how they&#x27;ve broken California and federal law. I have proof and witnessed it from a bunch of people inside so I&#x27;m not worried about that part.<p>But what will this do to my caree...
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Scribd puts your old documents behind a paywall, no permanent opt-out - slapshot http://support.scribd.com/entries/224907-my-document-is-in-the-scribd-archive-but-i-do-not-want-it-to-be-what-can-i-do ====== tzs How is the procedure described on that page in the "Exempting Your Documents From the Scribd Archive" sect...
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Programming less - bootload http://www.scripting.com/stories/2007/11/28/programmingLess.html ====== mojuba _Your code at its kernel level must have this simplicity. But at the edges, where you're accommodating the minds of users, inevitably it gets a little messy._ Absolutely. Your core code is usually targeted to ...
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The Media Has Neglected Puerto Rico - ryan_j_naughton https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-media-really-has-neglected-puerto-rico/ ====== curtis I think the quality and quantity of reporting coming out of Puerto Rico has suffered from both its political status and the fact that it is an island at a considerable di...
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HealthyReads.com - a Reddit for your health - cl42 http://beta.healthyreads.com/ ====== cl42 A friend of mine recently launched <http://www.healthyreads.com> and they're getting a good user base. The idea: share and discuss stories related to health -- your health, public health, etc. They're well meaning and are l...
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