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Painless Decorators in Python - Suor http://hackflow.com/blog/2013/11/03/painless-decorators/ ====== Goopplesoft >to reduce clutter and expose your intentions. However, there is usual cost. This as any abstraction brings an additional layer of complexity on top of python. And python could be seen as a layer on top of ...
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Ask HN: How do you fight elitism in startups? - diminium How do you fight elitism in startups? ====== se85 I have dealt with it in the past by using their egos against them to force them to be accountable for their actions to the point where they back themselves into a corner which is usually when the lies and decei...
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Why Men Don’t Want the Jobs Done Mostly by Women - markwaldron http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/upshot/why-men-dont-want-the-jobs-done-mostly-by-women.html?_r=0 ====== jenkstom Ohhh... now they've done it. As an EMT, I can attest to the fact that "Ambulance Driver" is insulting. "Drivers" don't know how to provide pa...
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Two million Facebook, Gmail and Twitter passwords stolen - swasheck http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/technology/security/passwords-stolen/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 ====== codeka 2 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication, 2 Factor Authentication! I've had 2 factor authentication enabled on my gmail account for over a...
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Typing the Technical Interview (2017) - guiambros https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview ====== platz 2017 - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078852](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14078852) > This is the Old type art. Modern Haskell makes this sort of think nicer. Of course, if one ...
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Show HN: Interactively View, Categorize, and Tabulate the Russian Facebook Ads - phrixus https://qunc.co/russia_facebook_project/ ====== phrixus Some stats about the data set: There were 3,419 ads. They had approximately 40 million impressions. Approximately 3.7 million clicks. And, surprisingly to me, cost only aroun...
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His Mood Changed and Our Marriage Imploded. Then He Took a Blood Test - heshiebee https://www.elle.com/life-love/sex-relationships/a27608740/his-mood-changed-and-our-marriage-imploded-then-he-took-a-blood-test/ ====== Double_a_92 Summary: He had hyperparathyroidism (some small gland in the neck being overproductive) w...
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What it took to save the Twinkie - alwillis https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/07/05/what-it-took-to-save-the-twinkie/ ====== hedora I've seen a lot of stories that blame robots and unions for the job losses, and praise the new managment's tough choices, but it is all a distraction. They reformulate...
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Why Ubuntu’s creator still invests his fortune in an unprofitable company - MarcScott http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/08/why-ubuntus-creator-still-invests-his-fortune-in-an-unprofitable-company/ ====== toblender Once Linux gets full PC game support, Ubuntu will be profitable.
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IFIII – If I Invested In - jbigmac http://www.ifiii.co.za ====== PhaZZed Good share! :)
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Alan Greenspan: Economy will 'fade' dramatically because of entitlement burden - hhs https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/12/alan-greenspan-says-economy-will-start-to-fade-out-because-of-growing-us-entitlement-burden.html ====== efficax Why would anyone listen to greenspan after 2008? A dotty old randian who doesn't know what...
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The Story of the World's Biggest Diamond Heist (2009) - zakelfassi http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds?currentPage=all ====== ondiekijunior Is it just me or it doesn't render well in 4 inch screens? ~~~ ablation It's an old article. Doesn't appear to be ported over to Wired's new, respo...
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Evolutionary gene loss may explain why only humans are prone to heart attack - rjzotti https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190723182255.htm ====== crabLouse Since the driver of the selection against the related gene seems to be malaria, I wonder if this is linked to prevalence of body hair on human ancestors...
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The Facebook API Craziness - Nikos http://blog.socialcaddy.com/the-facebook-api-craziness ====== Mistiki I don't get it - so is the old FQL query still valid but in a different format? I can't believe there is not more documentation about that. Good job.
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Ten apps is all I need - sant0sk1 http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2959-ten-apps-is-all-i-need ====== jdietrich The iPhone had sold millions of units before the app store launched. A significant proportion of iPhone and iPad users have downloaded less than a handful of apps. I'm very much of the opinion that apps were ...
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I wish this was hosted at hackernews.com - iammerrick I always type in hackernews.com only to find some weird blog. I wonder how much traffic that guy is getting, anyone else fall into this trap? ====== OedipusRex If CloudFlare didn't prevent it you could just edit your host file on Windows to make hackernews.com pu...
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Ask HN: If anyone can code, why does hardly anyone pass interviews? - fitpolar ====== davismwfl I'd argue the premise that anyone can code. Yes anyone can type what they saw in a book or online, but not nearly as many can comprehend what they typed and understand what they are doing and the implications of it long term...
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How to Stay Focused When You’re Working from Home - rbanffy https://hbr.org/2017/09/how-to-stay-focused-when-youre-working-from-home?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social ====== skate22 Paired programmining in a skype call is not ideal, but it keeps me on track.
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Interface Design with a Homeless person - MIT_Hacker http://www.delian.io/post/26331301430 ====== weego This rather confused me. Even more so because some of the details seem to being live edited. A cycle courier for legal documents that gets to read the documents. He crewed on a sub (initially im sure it said comma...
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Mountain Lion Mail Perturbs Sending Behavior - superchink http://tidbits.com/article/13189 ====== smparkes Royal PITA
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Seven Reasons Why the New iPhone Sucks - transburgh http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/37/52271-seven-reasons-new-iphone-sucks ====== aggieben I always like a good, consumer-informing post like this, but this seems overly reactive: 5. Wimpy 2 MP camera. In the world of 5 MP Smartphones and 10...
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I Developed a $3.5K/Month Tool That Converts HTML to PDF - cx42net https://www.starterstory.com/convert-html-to-pdf ====== totaldude87 Nice to see details around the implementation and decision process, would it be possible for you to share your architecture/monthly expenditure?
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Apple releases iOS 13.5 to the public with Exposure Notification API, Face ID - raybb https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/20/ios-13-5-released-features-exposure/ ====== aavalle This is pretty incredible! I'm excited to see some of the innovative projects that public health agencies build around this. I applaud Google and Appl...
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Ask HN: What should I do? - stasy I&#x27;ve been making a game for iOS and have recently made some pretty good progress. After I release this game, I&#x27;m going to start working on a social app which I have been planning for about 6 months on sketches and notebooks.<p>There is an app that has a similar purpose to ...
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From Doom and Gloom to BOOM and Bloom (2016) [video] - espeed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voQKPymcCfA ====== jdonaldson This is actually a much older talk from 2011.
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IRS electronic filing system breaks down hours before midnight deadline - cos2pi https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/irs-electronic-filing-system-breaks-down-hours-before-tax-deadline/2018/04/17/4c05ecae-4255-11e8-ad8f-27a8c409298b_story.html ====== sp332 Official status page, if anyone wants to keep an ey...
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Facebook Is Worth More Than ... - Interactive Feature - taytus http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/05/18/business/dealbook/facebook-is-worth-more-than.html ====== kristopolous Let's play this game again in 7 days. ~~~ kristopolous and 7 days have lapsed! FB is down 28%. Wonderful. ------ johnrob While I'm not go...
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Ask HN: Work as .NET independant contractor in SF/Bay Area? Or re-specialize? - ThrowawayUry I wanted to ask you if you think if there&#x27;s interest for a SF&#x2F;Bay Area company to hire a senior .NET developer as a semi-remote independent contractor &#x2F; consultant, or if it&#x27;s better to shore up other skill...
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Ask HN: Review my project (1000memories for pets) - msencenb Hey guys,<p>I submitted a show hn 5 days ago that only managed to garner 1 upvote so I thought I would ask you guys for some feedback instead.<p>Basic idea here is 1000memories for pets. There are actually a number of other sites (go ahead and search onlin...
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IPFS gateway blocked by some ISPs in Spain - Sirikon https://twitter.com/cfenollosa/status/912057183159951361 ====== basicplus2 "IPFS is The Permanent Web A new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol" Until it is blocked by everyone because DRM ~~~ alexandrerond Except it's not about DRM. Except the P2P network is not bl...
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W – A simple programming language - networked https://www.vttoth.com/CMS/projects/49-w-a-simple-programming-language ====== vorg I particularly like the keywordlessness of W's syntax. Virtually every other language divides identifiers into 2 arbitrarily defined classes: the somewhere from 20 to 100 special identifiers...
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Harvard, MIT sue govt over order revoking visas for foreign students - samizdis https://phys.org/news/2020-07-harvard-mit-sue-trump-govt.html ====== ra7 Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769558](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23769558) ~~~ dang Comments moved thither.
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Show HN: Fix All Conflicts – command line app for fixing merge conflicts - mkchoi212 https://github.com/mkchoi212/fac ====== topher200 Discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056271](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16056271)
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Decision theory and the Underpants bomber - wallflower http://www.samefacts.com/2010/01/terrorism-and-its-control/decision-theory-and-the-underpants-bomber/ ====== jacquesm The more information authorities have to deal with the bigger the chance they'll miss the needles. After all, there is a relatively constant num...
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A deep and fuzzy dive into search - janemanos https://www.arangodb.com/2020/07/deep-and-fuzzy-dive-into-search/ ====== gnusi Hey, I'm the author, if you have any questions feel free to ask me
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Ask HN: Anyone read Tibetan Book of Living and Dying? - rblion Just curious. I've met a lot of interesting people through this discussions about this book. ====== kunley This book is actually a tibetan manual for a dying person on how to proceed with his mind during the process. It's not a poem nor mystical metaphor...
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Social.com launches - BlueSkies I just completed the launch of a new site at Social.com. This is a collection of the same tools (bookmarklet, WP plugin, widget, Google Reader integration) that was formerly called BigTweet. The bookmarklet in particular is useful for posting to Twitter, Delicious and Ping.fm withou...
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Ask HN: Is Hackernews still using the file system as database? - tosh I&#x27;d love to learn a bit about what the current hosting&#x2F;tech stack setup looks like. IIRC the posts were stored in files on the file system and scaled quite well vertically. Is that still the case? ====== dchuk While on the "how HN works" t...
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Hackers steal card data from Neiman Marcus - panarky http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/01/hackers-steal-card-data-from-neiman-marcus/ ====== nikcub Notice the pattern to all of these - the hacks are only discovered _after_ the cards have already been charged and the card companies piece together where the possible sou...
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Show HN: Pogo – Host your own podcasts - gmemstr https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pogo-3 ====== bernardhalas Nice presentation page, but it doesn't explain how does this work. It says I can host my own podcasts. What exactly is meant by that? I can host podcast on a hard-drive on a machine with public IP. Or I can ho...
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Internet Companies: Confusing Consumers for Profit - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/internet-companies-confusing-consumers-profit ====== Animats A few days ago, I posted "Unicorns aren't ad-supported" on HN.[1] There, I pointed out that, of a list of the top 50 "unicorns", non-public startups with > $1...
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California to become first U.S. state mandating solar on new homes - SQL2219 https://www.ocregister.com/2018/05/04/california-to-become-first-u-s-state-mandating-solar-on-new-homes/ ====== Eridrus I have to imagine this will get voted down. Home solar is a kludge that is basically only workable because of subsidies. ...
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Ask HN: Active Common Lisp communities? - jobeirne I've recently been exposed to CL. Hacked up a few trivial evolutionary computation problems, but I'm itching for something else; alas, I haven't any ideas of my own. I'd really like to contribute something to CL community (to help revive Lisp, etc.) but I'm not sure...
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Gordon Murray-designed ‘OX’ flat-pack truck - kaishiro http://www.topgear.com/car-news/big-reads/can-flat-pack-truck-save-world ====== sandebert ”Three trained (but not necessarily expert) people can put an OX together in approximately 12 hours.” (from [http://oxgvt.com/the-ox-all-terrain- vehicle/](http://oxgvt.com/t...
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Oristand – A New Kind of Stand Up Desk - devNoise http://oristand.co ====== embro I wish this could hold a 27 inch monitor. ------ devNoise This looks good if you're using a laptop. Unfortunately this doesn't work as well for people with a large monitor or dual monitor setup. ------ burnallofit A better, cheaper opt...
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Fitbits seem to be haiving issues with time - tiernano https://twitter.com/tiernano/status/953511144693616645 ====== tiernano was woken up 2hrs earlier than usual this morning by my fitbit thinking it was 6am, when it was only 4... phone the fitbit is connected to shows correct time, so does everything else in the hou...
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Ask HN: Most engaging forms of online interaction between strangers? - neel980 ====== neel980 Trying to understand the most effective ways in which users online engage with each other, especially with people we don’t know. They could be games, groups /forums or comment threads. Conscious that this is context depend...
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Ask HN: project ideas for a noob - kunqiana Hi, I just learned programming for about a year. I am familiar with a few programming languages such as python, scheme and java. My experiences with them include 1 OO programming course using Java and 2 courses using scheme and python. I feel I want to advance working on som...
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Alphabet-made Chrome extension is designed to tune out toxic comments - lnyng https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/14/18265851/alphabet-google-jigsaw-tune-chrome-extension ====== etayl About the same matter, can I suggest trying out my own (private, safe, fun) extension which blocks comments and turn them to cute cats? [h...
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Qt 5.8 released - reddotX http://blog.qt.io/blog/2017/01/23/qt-5-8-released/ ====== lultimouomo New features: [https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8](https://wiki.qt.io/New_Features_in_Qt_5.8) ------ justinclift Weirdly, the download page is busted (for me) on both Firefox ESR & Opera (latest versions, on OSX). ...
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Show HN: PDF.co virtual reality pdf reader - eumm https://pdf.co/en/virtual-reality ====== eumm Hi all, This online tool takes PDF document (from url or from file) and creates a virtual reality room with up to 12 pages from the document flying around. It should work on Gear VR and Oculus as well as in Chrome and othe...
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Levi Felix, a Proponent of Disconnecting from Technology, Dies at 32 - xwowsersx https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/obituary-levi-felix-digital-detox.html ====== xwowsersx Digital Detox [1] is an interesting idea. I think that we, as a species, still don't have a great handle on how to use technology without being ...
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New Documentary Features Y Combinator-funded Wattvision - jtflesher http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1480255348/sourlands-stories-from-the-fight-for-sustainabilit?ref=live ====== d136o Savraj is innovating on many fronts, from being a hardware based startup, to entering a field that hasn't seen much disruption in...
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Largest Known Prime, 49th Known Mersenne Prime Found - taylorbuley http://www.mersenne.org/#resubmit ====== sp332 Discussion from yesterday [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931234](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10931234) ------ kazinator Google "hacker news 49th mersenne prime" ... and here it is: [htt...
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Ask HN: What are you currently working on in your spare time? - SoundAndBug I have a lot of spare time at the moment and I&#x27;m thinking about a new project to add to my portfolio.<p>I&#x27;m exploring the Canvas and WebGL APIs. I&#x27;ll probably do something with it and add WebSockets for multiplayer functionality...
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Airtel,telecom provider in India breaking net neutrality and web censorship - koolhead17 http://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/2qabsd/airtel_breaking_net_neutrality_and_web_censorship/ ====== anuj_nm Thanks for bringing this up. Hate to see how unethical telecom companies across the world can be.
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Is Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS)responsible for the Epsilon Breach? - teksquisite https://twitter.com/#!/BruceHallas/status/55373394945912832 ====== teksquisite According to a comment made in USA Today by OnAnIsland "...Alliance Data Systems Corporation (ADS) as the company responsible for the data loss. Eps...
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What I Learned Building LittleIpsum - k-mcgrady https://medium.com/what-i-learned-building/f03b96aa6533 ====== madsravn I like small apps like this. They do their job and they don't try to reach outside of their domain. However, I felt like the article was misrepresented by it's title. No real talking about what wa...
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The Anthropology of Hackers (2010) - christianbryant http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2010/09/the-anthropology-of-hackers/63308/ ====== peterwwillis They seem to fail to mention BBSes, which is arguably the most important influence on the creation of the hacker underground, and IRC, which is today still...
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Conway Law(1967)-sys/app design is a copy of the org's structure that designs it - sztwiorok http://www.melconway.com/Home/Conways_Law.html ====== sztwiorok defined over half a decade ago and it is still up to date. I think many IT organizations should seriously think about it ~~~ masonic half a decade ago ...
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Ask HN: Learning webdev - sillysaurus3 If you had to re-learn all that you currently know about webdev, what would your path toward re-acquiring that knowledge look like?<p>For example, which toy projects would you build as a way to learn it? Which tools would you focus on learning, and in what order? Which resources ...
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FPGA and Xeon combined in one socket - jsnell http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/18/intel_fpga_custom_chip/ ====== pjc50 The barrier to adoption of FPGAs is not so much the hardware issue as the toolchain issue. The toolchains are closed, frequently windows-only, slow, and not friendly to newbies. (Not that shader ...
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How Not to Sell Bitcoin on eBay for 300% Profit - dysruption http://whatilearnedtoday.jameslarisch.com/?action=view&url=bitcoin-ebay-profit ====== JumpCrisscross Venue (space) arbitrage in illiquid, disconnected markets necessitates holding collateral at each venue. In this case, it means holding USD and BTC at _both_...
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Janitor Monkey - Keeping the Cloud Tidy and Clean - Pr0 http://techblog.netflix.com/2013/01/janitor-monkey-keeping-cloud-tidy-and.html ====== purephase This is very cool. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to Netflix for opening up resources like this. Edit: If only Amazon would offer something similar... ------ pinko I...
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Algorithm to enhance low-res muscle mesh with high-res muscle mesh in real-time - flacle http://www.visualacuity.nl/2016/02/a-scalable-geometrical-model-for-muscle.html ====== austinjp Very interesting. What are the ramifications for improving the understanding of biomechanics? Does this allow for better investigation...
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WhatsApp Business API Sandbox - smranta https://autochat.io/whatsapp-api-sandbox ====== smranta Quick Start Guide added. Now trying out WhatsApp API is super easy. Please share your feedback.
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The truth about trade - walterbell https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2016/10/16/the-truth-about-trade/UWtu8jpAo8LTsTFlffaZ0K/story.html ====== sharemywin of course if your in the wrong bracket and your income is flat your screwed. of course, taxing trade goods and services directly is considered bad.
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Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation - browser411 http://www.braintreepaymentsolutions.com/blog/open-letter-to-the-ceos-of-paypal-and-authorize-net-help-end-the-credit-card-data-hostage-situation ====== browser411 Braintree is one of the most forward thinking payment providers out there...
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Startpad.org Lessons From Singularity University - Tues, Nov. 3rd in Seattle - Dmunro http://startpad.org/countdown/lessons-singularity-university ====== Dmunro It's free but I think there is limited seating. Anyone planning on going?
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Unix - The Hole Hawg - ibejoeb http://www.team.net/mjb/hawg.html ====== hollerith If you have patience, you will probably find like I did that anything computers can be understood without resorting to analogies, and that understanding is deeper without them. Stephenson's nonfiction about computers is _all_ analogies...
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We flightless primates (2009) - curtis http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/07/13/we-flightless-primates/ ====== ramgorur Interestingly, bat penis looks astoundingly similar to that of human. Of course, that has nothing to do with phylogeny, but with convergent evolution. ------ sliken Title should mention th...
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Developing Backbone.js Applications – a Creative Commons book - getcontext http://addyosmani.github.io/backbone-fundamentals/ ====== jcadam While I wouldn't want to use _just_ Backbone anymore, I've found Backbone + Marionette to be quite nice. About a year ago, I was beginning a new (personal) project, and thought m...
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Show HN: Source release for “Is this loss? A TFLite app to detect Loss.jpg” - eigenloss <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eigenloss&#x2F;isthisloss" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;eigenloss&#x2F;isthisloss</a><p>Original thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=16...
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Google San Jose HQ Plans Expanded - gok https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/11/google-expands-plans-for-second-hq-in-san-jose.html ====== lacker I hope this encourages more tech companies to locate in San Jose. San Francisco is getting worse over time as a place to live, but there are plenty of nicer spots around the bay.
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Functionless event handlers in jQuery - johns http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/functionless-event-handlers-in-jquery/ ====== chops Even though the author didn't like it, I quite liked the ultra-chaining approach presented. So what if the readability relies too much on indenting, practically every language relies o...
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The Life of the Queen Bee: Superb Macrophotography - prakash http://www.scienceray.com/Biology/Zoology/The-Life-of-the-Queen-Bee-Superb-Macrophotography.302147 ====== dc2k08 With bees disappearing in the U.S., beekeepers have to regularly order new queens.They order new queens from China. And China is now taking over ...
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EPIC Sues DHS Over Covert Surveillance of Facebook and Twitter - nextparadigms http://epic.org/2011/12/epic-sues-dhs-over-covert-surv.html ====== josephmosby Hate to be the bearer of bad news to the interwebs, but this probably won't go anywhere. Facebook and Twitter are public outlets, and if you aren't monitoring...
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Current Senior Google Engineer Goes Public: Tech Is “Dangerous,” “Taking Sides” - Fjolsvith https://veritas.cmail19.com/t/j-l-mdtyujl-trihjlhlc-r/ ====== pashabitz [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Veritas) The group's productions have been widely criticized and dis...
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Dark Patterns at Scale: Findings from a Crawl of 11K Shopping Websites - mxfh https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/ ====== dspillett _> Countdown Timer_ This, and its equivalent "stock level countdown", has become an instant red flag for me. If I see one I cancel all interest in ordering that produc...
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Ask HN: Which keyboard do you use? - wojtczyk I am considering getting a new keyboard and am curious to learn what you use and what you value about yours. ====== auslegung I use the ergodox ez Shine with cherry mx clear switches. [https://ergodox- ez.com/](https://ergodox-ez.com/). This is my current layout (tweaking ...
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Ask HN: Should we apply for YC Fellowship if YC has funded similar company? - ismail We have launched a company but it has not been going as expected and have a few problems with the model.<p>See online Office hours that was held a while back. Since then we have been doing customer research and have been testing a f...
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Apple sued over 'shrinking' gadget storage - sdouglas http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30655176 ====== coralreef A fair enough lawsuit. I usually get the cheapest models (16gb) and if you take photos + videos (including slow mo 120fps) your storage is virtually useless. They really shouldn't even make 16gb model...
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The pitfall of using PostgreSQL advisory locks with Go's DB connection pool - gsempe https://engineering.qubecinema.com/2019/08/26/unlocking-advisory-locks.html ====== zeroimpl Seems like if you tried to use transactions, you'd have the same problem? ~~~ karmakaze A transaction executes all commands using the same co...
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UK metal detector enthusiast finds ancient Roman bronze artefacts - curtis http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/uk-metal-detector-enthusiast-finds-ancient-roman-bronze-artefacts-807584.html ====== empath75 I don’t really understand why archeologists always assume every single statue from the ancient world is religious in ...
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Schema migrations merged into Django master - Spiritus https://github.com/django/django/commit/9aa358cedd1ad93c0f4c20700db7016651dc0598 The Kickstarter:<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kickstarter.com&#x2F;projects&#x2F;andrewgodwin&#x2F;schema-migrations-for-django ====== andrewgodwin I'd like to point out that this is just ...
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How to generate a double-precision floating-point number in [0, 1] uniformly - danieldk http://mumble.net/~campbell/2014/04/28/uniform-random-float? ====== bhickey If you can live with [0, 1), there are simpler ways of doing this. Generate a number [1,2) by filling the 52-bit fractional component with a random integer...
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TSA halts private screening program - bconway http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/01/29/tsa.private/index.html ====== jdp23 Wow. It's like waving a red flag in front of the new Congress. Talk about a tin ear ... EDIT: Here's the FlyerTalk discussion: [http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel- safety-security/117809...](htt...
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Citibank hacked? - mtnboy I logged in and saw this note in my account. Anyone else can verify this? I tried searching but didn't see any public details.<p>Your Citi® Dividend Platinum Select® Visa® Card account ending in xxxx was illegally obtained as a result of a data compromise and is at risk for unauthorized use...
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Who do I trust and why? Digital Ocean, Google Chrome and Motion Sensors - lemonberry I just logged into Digital Ocean to update some DNS records. I notice a new icon in the address bar that looks like it represents radar or radio waves with a red square and a white x in it. When I click it I get &quot;This site has b...
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Of Course It’s Already Been Taxed - hodgesmr http://matthodges.com/2014/07/of-course-its-already-been-taxed/ ====== murbard2 Not all taxes have this effect. A land value tax, a poll tax, a value added tax, or a wealth tax do nothing of the sort. Income tax, corporate tax, capital gain taxes are some of the worst, m...
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Show HN: BOSO (Best of Stack Overflow) - marcamillion http://boso.herokuapp.com/ ====== gus_massa Remember that the names of the authors should be linked to the S.O. profiles: <http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/06/attribution-required/> ~~~ marcamillion Someone on reddit just pointed that out to me. Gonna fix tha...
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“Where do you get your ideas?” by Charles Stross - zzkt http://www.tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=24831 ====== DarkShikari I've found that writing is a lot like programming. For a skilled programmer, programming is easy. Designing a complex system might be hard, understanding complex programs may...
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Launch HN: Latchel (YC W19) – Rental Property Maintenance as a Service - wilbo Hi HN!<p>We&#x27;re Ethan, Jullian, and Will. We&#x27;re the founders of Latchel (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;latchel.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;latchel.com&#x2F;</a>). We handle 24&#x2F;7 maintenance for residential propert...
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NZ government leaks on TPP: copyright terms will go to life plus 70 years - sea6ear http://boingboing.net/2015/10/06/nz-government-leaks-on-tpp-co.html ====== marssaxman Why not 700 years? 7000? We all know that in practice they're going to keep extending it every time early-20th-century works near the end of copyrigh...
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Blacklist.co - Power to the People - valefebvre http://www.blacklist.co/ Hi guys, here's a beta version of a new Startup that is called Blacklist.<p>Blacklist empowers consumers to react and impact, while creating for brands this opportunity of “Defensive Marketing” channel.<p>Blacklist is a web application where use...
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A case for something, anything more simple than WordPress - cdevroe http://colin.getbarley.com/5466/a-case-for-something-anything-more-simple ====== homosaur I'm so weary of people pitching the solution to WordPress and then tossing a proprietary cloud hosted thing at me. That's a complete non-starter. All the time I...
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Clicktofriend: click a button, make a friend in real life - shuzhang http://clicktofriend.co ====== halleym Webpage copy is great... worth a chuckle. I've mulled over some sort of 'tinder for friends' and not had any new ideas. This seems straightforward enough to work.
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Airlander 10: Longest aircraft damaged during flight - teh_klev http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-37174417 ====== JoeAltmaier A spokesman said: "The flight went really well and the only issue was when it landed." Well, that's kind of every air flight ever. Its sticking the landing that's the hard ...
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Wow: Craigslist loses Craigslists.com domain dispute - ilamont http://domainnamewire.com/2012/08/10/wow-craigslist-loses-craigslists-com-domain-dispute/ ====== gmyachtsman Sounds like one of the Craig's needs some new lawyers.
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Tell HN : SparkFun Electronics $100 Give Away Tomorrow - kqr2 Just a reminder that SparkFun's give away is tomorrow.<p>http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/news.php?id=305 ====== migpwr Why didn't anyone make something like a best bang for 100$ on sparkfun.com guide? I'll show up to anything that's free but I'm not real...
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