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Murdoch: Future of Journalism Is Promising - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107104574569661532881656.html ====== sophacles Why oh why wouldn't the wsj promote the commodification of news? Isn't commodification a basic economic principle? Shouldn't we start working out business models around ad...
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Apple Gets More Explicit About Bitcoin Apps - testrun http://techcrunch.com/2014/06/02/apple-gets-more-explicit-about-bitcoin-apps/ ====== dang A dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836067](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7836067).
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What It Was Like to Be a Woman at Goldman Sachs? - khuey http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2012/11/what-it-was-like-to-be-a-woman-at-goldman-sachs/265572/ ====== qq66 Another factor may be the fact that Goldman Sachs, and investment banking more generally, requires sacrifices that, even to me (a college inter...
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Who's Afraid of Michael Arrington? - scarmig http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/04/whos-afraid-michael-arrington/63933/ ====== scarmig I'm surprised this hasn't turned up on HN yet. If there's truth to the allegations AND it's been widespread knowledge among the Powers that Be for awhile, it's a truly di...
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Men Only: Inside the charity fundraiser where hostesses are put on show - DanBC https://www.ft.com/content/075d679e-0033-11e8-9650-9c0ad2d7c5b5 ====== thecortado It's about time someone reported it.
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Does Twitter have a secret weapon for silencing trolls? - rograndom http://www.theverge.com/2014/11/12/7188549/does-twitter-have-a-secret-weapon-for-silencing-trolls ====== paulhauggis "gendered harassment" I'm curious to see if the "anti-harassment" techniques enabled at twitter are motivated by politics or views ...
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Goats fighting America's plant invasion - fidotron http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30583512 ====== ndespres When my coworkers see news like this they start telling me that I ought to bring my fleet of Nubian goats out on jobs like this. They do great work, easily digesting poison ivy (and destroying its seeds so it c...
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Uber is treating its drivers as sweated labour, says report - haliou https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/09/uber-drivers-report-sweated-labour-minimum-wage ====== superninja234 If you find yourself making less than minimum wage, then get a job making minimum wage. They aren't that hard to find. While that...
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Drupal 7 SQL Injection Vulnerability - foofoobar https://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/advisory-012014-drupal-pre-auth-sql-injection-vulnerability.html ====== anonfunction The patch is only one line[1], so if you're scared to update Drupal for fear of breaking things you can just patch the vulnerable part. In this fi...
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Protecting People On Facebook - dbloom https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-security/protecting-people-on-facebook/10151249208250766 ====== ghshephard There is one specific step that everyone can take to eliminate approx 90-95%+ of drive-by-zero-day-exploits without really impacting your web browsing habits that ...
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Create a blank virtual machine for VMWare's VMPlayer online - nickb http://vmcreator.com/virtual-machine.html ====== imsteve Nice little tool, but what we really need is something like this for XEN, plus more options. ~~~ wmf Doesn't Xen already come with tools to create VMs? If you find them too hard to use, maybe t...
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Algodoo – 2D physics playground - roryokane http://www.algodoo.com/ ====== roryokane Someone asked ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230807](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230807)) in the discussion of _507 Mechanical Movements_ for a tool that could simulate those movements. This is such a tool. You co...
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Java 9 has six weeks to live - md365 http://blog.joda.org/2018/02/java-9-has-six-weeks-to-live.html ====== paulddraper > The new Java release train means that there will be a new release of Java > every six months. And when the next release comes out, the previous release > is obsolete. > In practical terms it means ...
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How to choose a domain name - akkartik http://swombat.com/2011/4/14/domain-names ====== pbhjpbhj Domain name choosing advice from "swombat.com"? Quite a good summary piece nonetheless. ~~~ swombat Hey, what's wrong with swombat? ;-) Anyway, as I say in the article, the domain must be appropriate to the audience. If...
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The WWII-Era Plane Giving the F-35 a Run for Its Money - da02 https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/low-and-slow ====== geezerjay Calling the super tucano a WW2 plane is rather disingenuous. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano) ...
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Startup founder evolution (or, the biz guy *is* valuable, just not at first) - ph0rque http://www.tonywright.com/2008/startup-founder-evolution/ ====== ryanwaggoner Excellent post. Too often, product guys and business guys don't really understand each other or the value that each bring to the table. I've lost count ...
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Hey, Apple Here's why I am not buying more iPads - robomartin <p><pre><code> TL;DR: Data Plans and Carrier Tethering. Data Plans: Too expensive and unfair. Should be like DSL. Carrier Tethering: I want to buy an iPad, not a life-long hardware dependency to a carrier. </code></pre> Here's the long vers...
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How Apple Does Controlled Leaks - prat http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/how_apple_does_controlled_leaks/ ====== pohl What's more interesting to me is how they avoid unintended leaks. I've been told of a keycard system that knows if two different people are working on different components of a product, and won't ...
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How To Get Covered In a Major Tech Blog - dshipper http://dshipper.posterous.com/how-to-get-covered-in-a-major-tech-blog ====== Mystalic Actually, this is pretty much in line with the advice I give to entrepreneurs when they're pitching me for a story on Mashable. The big things to remember: \- We get hundreds of em...
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Why I Switched to Git From Mercurial - pilif http://blog.extracheese.org/2010/05/why-i-switched-to-git-from-mercurial.html ====== mbrubeck I've used Git for three years, at two different companies and various personal and community projects. I sync my home directory between hosts using git, I have administered multi-u...
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There’s Nothing Magical About Breakfast - hvo http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/upshot/sorry-theres-nothing-magical-about-breakfast.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 ====== mmastrac This reads like "I don't eat breakfast, so ...
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Crowd-sourced Music Video - nate_martin http://donottouch.org ====== brennannovak WOW! This is absolutely incredible. I can't believe no one up voted it here!
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Australian Political Parties Hit by 'State Actor' Hack - LinuxBender https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-47274663 ====== brobdingnagians How do they ever know it is a state actor? It always seemed to me that a sophisticated attack should be fairly untraceable? but then it always seems that they always know where ...
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AVIF for Next-Generation Image Coding - el_duderino https://netflixtechblog.com/avif-for-next-generation-image-coding-b1d75675fe4 ====== webmobdev It's a cool coincidence that this came up just when I was considering how to create more space in my disk. I have around 20GB of image files from my old graphic designing ...
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Ask HN: Do you have to read a lot as a programmer? - Onixelen Not just code, I mean a lot of text in English. Can you rely mostly on videos, if you have a hard time reading, and minimize reading to small amount of text? ====== mspaulding06 There's some you can learn from videos and other tutorials, but really you need...
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The US spends more on healthcare for no gain says new report from Johns Hopkins - grecy https://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2018/us-health-care-spending-highest-among-developed-countries.html ====== mikeg8 The book _The Healing of America_ by T.R. Reid, 2010 was a phenomenal look at this subject and the conclusio...
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Apple's ping is a big pile of steaming dung - Swizec http://swizec.com/blog/apples-ping-is-a-big-pile-of-steaming-dung/swizec/1444 ====== crad I pretty much had the same experience. For comparison I found Muse had a stream on Ping so I checked it compared to their Twitter account. Ping's stream for them was sanitized...
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Google doesn't want you to limit its ability to follow you around the internet - rosser http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/26/google-ability-follow-users-internet-advertisements ====== leepowers In principle, I have no problem with web companies tracking my movements and habits online. The problem with ...
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Simple Set Game Proof Stuns Mathematicians - retupmoc01 https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160531-set-proof-stuns-mathematicians/ ====== Xcelerate > The paper soon set off a cascade of what Ellenberg called “math at Internet > speed.” Within 10 days, Ellenberg and Dion Gijswijt, a mathematician at > Delft University of ...
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Js_of_ocaml: a compiler of OCaml bytecode to Javascript - ColinWright http://ocsigen.org/js_of_ocaml/manual/ ====== mas644 Awesome! I love OCaml and this is a great way to get some apps running in the browser. I particularly like the simple OpenGL example with the 3D globe. Great way to get your app onto multiple pl...
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Kevin McCarthy leads charge against Silicon Valley - petethomas http://thehill.com/homenews/house/404642-mccarthy-leads-gop-charge-against-silicon-valley ====== saagarjha > After sharing a screenshot of a tweet from Fox News host Laura Ingraham that > was covered by language warning of “potentially sensitive content,”...
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Is it better to take notes with a pen than by typing? Much better.‎ - azewail https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/ ====== anoncoward111 I've been given the task of handwriting thank you cards at my job, and within the first 4 or 5 cards, I had already memorized t...
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GitHub Marketplace - dewski https://github.com/marketplace ====== chobberoni More information on the GitHub Marketplace here: [https://github.com/blog/2359-introducing-github- marketplace-...](https://github.com/blog/2359-introducing-github-marketplace- and-more-tools-to-customize-your-workflow)
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Learning Node, Express, Jade, MongoDB from scratch - pranavpiyush http://www.pranavpiyush.com/web-app-with-node-express-jade-mongoose-and-mongodb/ ====== jedireza This is the same stack that Drywall is built with. When you're ready to get past a simple hello world app, please take some time to checkout the project. ...
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Material Design is design science - daviducolo https://medium.com/@danhollick/material-design-is-design-science-6c99c1d76498 ====== TheSpiceIsLife From the article: "Time is a heavily neglected aspect of user experience. Humans don’t just experience states of a device, they experience the transition between states ...
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Show HN: Automate Multiple RSS Feeds in Mailchimp Newsletters - jamesq https://fliprss.com ====== jamesq We've just launched the public beta of FlipRSS and would welcome any feedback on the website, brand and product. It's been a fun 4 week project based on the needs of a client and it's been great to ship beta.
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My Internship Experience as a 13-Year-Old - shainvs http://www.shalinshah.me/my-internship-experience/ ====== onedev Man when I was that age, my only concern in the world was trading Pokemon cards after school. I wouldn't have given up that carefree experience for the world. I don't know how I feel when I read about ...
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Alexa: Amazon's Operating System - misiti3780 https://stratechery.com/2017/amazons-operating-system/ ====== JoeCortopassi Alexa has a fundamental short coming that stops them from being a robust operating system like the writer describes: the cognitive load in memorizing all possible variations of 3rd party apps on th...
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Wait, Who Says My Tweets Belong to Google or the Library of Congress? - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/sausage/2010/04/14/wait-who-says-my-tweets-belong-google-or-library-congress?page=full ====== doron Why, the EULA you agree to in order to use the service. question answered.
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Performance of Javascript (Binary) Byte Arrays in Modern Browsers - fogus http://blog.n01se.net/?p=248 ====== nkassis This is interesting because I've been working on a project that uses ArrayBuffers and I noticed an odd behavior while doing random read with Firefox 4 on Linux (issues does not occur on OSX). I hope m...
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What iOS Can Learn from Unix - ananddass http://blog.inkmobility.com/post/60759200492/what-ios-can-learn-from-unix ====== tuxracer So really this is, "What iOS can learn from a 2008 Android device"? The author is wrong in his footnote. Android intents are both action and file type based or even wildcard URL based. [ht...
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Apple's new battery case is awful - williswee https://www.techinasia.com/disconnect-apples-battery-case-awful-buy/ ====== stephgonnasteph The Verge has a pretty nice write up about how they might've been designing around Mophie's patents. They make a good point, but still doesn't make the design any better.
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Cinpy - or C in Python - at http://amundblog.blogspot.com/2008/12/cinpy-or-c-in-python.html ====== jcl You might also want to look at Scipy's weave: <http://www.scipy.org/Weave> It's not as small or self-contained, but it looks to be more actively maintained. A comparison with some other optimization methods: <htt...
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Floating point explorer - ingve https://kayru.org/articles/float/ ====== nebgnahz Alternative FP explorer: \- double precision: [http://bartaz.github.io/ieee754-visualization/](http://bartaz.github.io/ieee754-visualization/) \- single precision: [https://nebgnahz.github.io/ieee754-visualization/](https://nebgnahz.gi...
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Show HN: Kdo – Deployless Development on Kubernetes - stepro https://github.com/stepro/kdo ====== stepro Kdo is a command line tool that enables developers to run, develop and test code changes in a realistic deployed setting without having to deal with the complexity of Kubernetes deployment and configuration. With ...
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The Palm Pre Will Be an iPhone Killer - nreece http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/162528/the_palm_pre_will_be_an_iphone_killer.html ====== grinich The iPhone has been out for nearly two years now. Besides from a mild software and hardware update, it largely is the same product. In those two years, I don't ...
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Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain - a_w https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/well/move/why-sitting-may-be-bad-for-your-brain.html ====== anoplus I started stretching and walking around once an hour or so few years ago, and it is the simplest most efficient prevention to various pains. Even in harsh deadlines, when I...
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Show HN: ESENT Serialize, a .NET Persistence and Query Layer for ESENT NoSQL DB - Const-me https://github.com/Const-me/EsentSerialize ====== Const-me Got some spare time, ported my old open source project to UWP platform. Used the library in several commercial projects, works OK. MS-provided ESENT API is too low-leve...
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Should You Comment Your Code? - jsonmez http://simpleprogrammer.com/2014/02/13/comment-code/ ====== eridal Leaving aside code documentation (aka dockblocks), I can think of dozen of examples where you MUST comment you code.. - strict order of execution - math formulas in the code (or its resul...
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A happy ending for Seattle’s Bop Street Records: a nonprofit buys the collection - wallflower https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/a-happy-ending-for-seattles-bop-street-records-a-nonprofit-buys-up-the-entire-collection/ ====== bergstromm466 > In a phone interview confirming the sale, Kahle said the goal o...
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Google Trends Electionland - wlj http://electionlandtrends.appspot.com/ ====== dmix Apparently a bunch of states (23?) are using a software system called Interstate Crosscheck to look for "double voters". > Election officials in more than two dozen states have compiled lists of > citizens whom they allege could be re...
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Show HN: Emaildrop – a free disposable email service with a GraphQL API - mtusman https://www.emaildrop.io ====== fiatjaf This is awesome. Just added it on [https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome- loginless](https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless). ------ kevsim Several times I’ve been in need of a nice way to buil...
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TechStars offering $2k / mo. for developers and designers - thesausageking http://www.techstars.com/hackstars/ ====== thesausageking Why would anyone do this ? $2k / month with no benefits or equity for a full- time job helping someone else build a start-up. ~~~ dabogy My thoughts exactly. Getting no equity, and be...
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Are cars the next hacking frontier? - bishvili http://www.thecarconnection.com/marty-blog/1048876_could-connectivity-and-smartphones-open-your-car-up-to-hackers ====== markstansbury I'm pretty sure that cars are the _old_ hacking frontier. As in, kids into computers today would have been into cars 50 years ago. Inst...
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Show HN: jQuery Folder-Like Collapsible Lists - sergiocampama https://github.com/sergiocampama/jquery-collapsible-list ====== sergiocampama Added support for tree view
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Best ways to get traffic/sales for my recently launched site? - bigheartbaby I just launched a site called Big Heart Baby (www.bigheartbaby.com) that sells baby clothes and donates 50% of profits to children's charities. Our initial charity partners are focusing on Autism, Children's Cancer, Child Hunger, Juvenile D...
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Jeffrey Epstein: ABC stopped report 'amid Palace threats' - tomohawk https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50296742 ====== drak0n1c ABC's excuse of the allegations not meeting their journalistic standards at the time doesn't hold up. The evidence against Epstein in 2016 was very solid compared to other accusation s...
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Ask HN: What's up with Data Scientist in 3 months programs? - arisAlexis I have a bunch of friends especially female lately that are telling me that they will quit their job and become data scientists.<p>There is apparently a program that costs around $3k and takes you as a totally non-tech person working in sales or ...
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I just subscribed to 60 blogs via RSS and maybe you should, too - imartin2k http://meshedsociety.com/i-just-subscribed-to-60-blogs-via-rss-and-maybe-you-should-too/ ====== cjmcqueen This is the exact same path I'm heading down. I had hundreds of feeds in Google Reader and am slowly reconstructing my news sources after...
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Scientists Estimate At Least 17 Billion Earth-Size Planets Inhabit Milky Way - G5ANDY http://www.space.com/19157-billions-earth-size-alien-planets-aas221.html ====== Symmetry This is sort of terrifying, given that we haven't observed any space-faring species from any of those other Earth-sized planets yet. <http://...
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The Fallacy of Execution, or Why Mark Doesn't Talk About Facebook's Origins - thinkcomp http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/sex-and-the-fallacy-of-ex_b_309304.html ====== olefoo It's somewhat sad to see someone so obviously talented waste that talent on building a career focused on the resentful reliving o...
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Why are there two possible arcs for the path of MH370? - txsl In all of the reports and images of where MH370 could be (based on Inmarsat data) eg http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F;news&#x2F;world-asia-26503141, they show two possible (and opposite in direction) arcs where MH370 could be. How come this is the case...
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Amazon sells 'autism cure' books that suggest drink toxic bleach-like substances - whalabi https://www.wired.co.uk/article/amazon-autism-fake-cure-books ====== anm89 I'm sure amazon sells books that say that the moon is made of cheese and that people can fly if they put their minds to it and an endless list of other a...
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Ask HN: How did you learn programming? - michael_fine ====== shane-armstrong I am a 19 year old programmer, I began in 2009, learning PHP via debugging a broken PHP script for a friend. It took me a long time, days, as the script was 2,300 lines long and I was a complete beginner. w3cschools was a great help durin...
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What's the Real U.S. Unemployment Rate? We Have No Idea - T-A http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-08-27/whats-the-unemployment-rate-new-research-suggests-we-have-no-idea ====== curiouscats The article provide interesting information on the process for calculating the unemployment rate. But it also misleads in s...
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Robustness Principle - dml_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle ====== jloughry Postel's law is a good principle when your threat model is nature; it leads to robustness in the presence of random failures. But it is _not_ a good design principle in an environment of intelligently malicious failures, i....
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Pump manufacturer programs their devices to fail prematurely and lowers price - bkraz http://www.xavitech.com/setting-prices-suit-service-life-want-pumps/ ====== daxelrod What's fascinating is that they're being upfront with their customers about this, rather than trying to sneak it in. They're also explicitly letting...
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Armory Enterprise Spinnaker Release v0.61 - danielodio http://blog.armory.io/how-to-install-armory-spinnaker-release-v0-61/ ====== danielodio We've created v0.61 to solve the following problem: Spinnaker is powerful but hard to install and configure; lots of sub-services. We've created a package that 'just works' to m...
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Ask HN: How do you keep up with project dependency updates? - dchuk Let&#x27;s say you&#x27;re working on a Rails project with an AngularJS front end. You use a gemfile to manage your Rails gem dependencies and you use Bower to manage your AngularJS dependencies.<p>How do you keep up to date with all the new release...
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Stripe open-sources Skycfg, a configuration builder for Kubernetes - jmillikin https://github.com/stripe/skycfg ====== londons_explore I'm just waiting for someone to make a kubernetes config generator based on googles GCL (not opensource, but this is an opensource clone of it, although without k8s integration/example...
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Why write a 3D engine from scratch? - Peroni http://alainrichardt.info/splash.sys ====== shousper I used to do this kind of stuff for fun in my high school days. Now I don't have the time =( Kill to be able to get into game dev professionally (without winding up in a sweatshop, lol) ------ fbomb Why not? ~~~ biinui ...
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Show HN: Top 10,000 Hacker News Posts of All Time – Interactive Visualization - aaronhoffman https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/Boards/sizzle/Hacker-News-Top-Posts-All-Time/dfb2af8e-67fa-47a7-892c-435de6321378 ====== aaronhoffman Hello HN, I am one of the developers that built sizzleanalytics.com. We built this tool usi...
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Show HN: A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs - aswinmohanme https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.aswinmohan.hacknews ====== aswinmohanme Since Ads are universally hated, I have made a decision. The free version will not have ads no more and the Premium version will have a beautiful dark theme. What do you...
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Pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged - sigzero http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/03/pwn2own-day-one-safari-ie8-fall-chrome-unchallenged.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss ====== jedsmith > This is because, in a change to historic competition rules, the system > configuration...
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Rosalind, a platform for learning bioinformatics and programming - aarestad http://rosalind.info/ ====== chaoxu I'm still looking for a open source version of this so I can create a nice collection of algorithm problems. ------ doug1001 excellent name! (i assume the choice is a tribute to Rosalind Franklin, the cryst...
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Quantum setback for warp drives - Anon84 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/23292/ ====== jerf So, previously, if you applied an impossible amount of impossibly-stable negative mass in an impossible configuration that was impossible to maintain due to impossible-to-predict interactions with the interstellar me...
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Tesla 4Q net loss widens on costs for new car - tokenadult http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2013-02-20/tesla-4q-net-loss-widens-on-costs-for-new-car ====== tokenadult An assortment of other stories following up on today's fourth quarter 2012 results report from Tesla Motors: "As Tesla Eyes Profit, Elon Musk Wants to ...
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Great commercial from Stride Gum that copies Apple - zackbigdog http://www.fireoneout.com/post/29689851507/great-commercial-from-stride-gum-that-copies#disqus_thread ====== LaniAR great screenshots of the ad: [http://designtaxi.com/news/353353/Gum- Commercial-Pokes-Fun-A...](http://designtaxi.com/news/353353/Gum-Com...
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New tech/developer focused Podcast: Building for the Next Billion - jburrski https://soundcloud.com/building-for-the-next-billion ====== carlmungz Interesting concept. Will this be a podcast featuring a lot of interviewees from developing countries where the next billion users come from?
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Apple's Smart Bike - organicgrant http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662066/apples-smart-bike-could-squash-all-other-bike-tech?partner=homepage_newsletter ====== pmccool Ironically, the UCI is pushing to get rid of radios, so the communication side of it is probably here nor there in pro cycling. I suspect, though, that ...
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A Man Who Found Stuxnet (2011) - swatkat https://eugene.kaspersky.com/2011/11/02/the-man-who-found-stuxnet-sergey-ulasen-in-the-spotlight/ ====== Diskutant Another interesting read about Stuxnet: [http://arstechnica.com/tech- policy/news/2011/07/how-digital-...](http://arstechnica.com/tech- policy/news/2011/07/how-dig...
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Is CSS or HTML a programming language - abula http://naijafixer.com/webmaster/is-css-or-html-a-programming-language/msg84/?topicseen#new ====== wsgeorge I find the argument for HTML/CSS being a programming language as more of a status issue. People want to be called programmers.Not every language is a programming lang...
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How Google understands language like a 10-year-old - gibsonf1 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/BUJ61FTF9I.DTL ====== jakevoytko I found this article wanting. It seems like they took an official Google Blog post from January [0] and stripped out all of the interesting information. I have a m...
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Show HN: Feedback that anyone can launch gather, share, and use - jackbwheeler https://sprint.dscout.com/s/smcs2kak ====== jackbwheeler Hey HN - Wanted to share what I've been working on. It's a product called dscout Sprint - which is geared to help design teams get quick feedback outside their walls and hear from re...
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Nth-child CSS pseudo-class Christmas colors. - init0 http://h3manth.com/content/nth-child-css-pseudo-class-merry-christmas-numbers ====== calciphus [dead link]
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France’s government is building its own encrypted messenger service - lnguyen https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-privacy/france-builds-whatsapp-rival-due-to-surveillance-risk-idUSKBN1HN258 ====== Arathorn This isn’t a case of NIH; France has adopted Matrix for the project, which is a lightweight fork of Riot.im...
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How did I get 38 willing-to-pay customers before writing code? - kylebragger http://artsyeditor.com/2011/04/how-did-i-get-38-willing-to-pay-customers-before-writing-code/ ====== ajg1977 38 willing to pay customers isn't quite the same as 38 paying customers. Instead of spending a week getting ~$400 worth* of obligat...
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More than 60% of Ethereum nodes run in the cloud, mostly on Amazon Web Services - Jarqwiz https://thenextweb.com/hardfork/2019/09/23/ethereum-nodes-cloud-services-amazon-web-services-blockchain-hosted-decentralization/ ====== toxzic Original research: [https://chainstack.com/the-ethereum-cloud-vs-on-premises- nod...](...
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Ask HN: Review our website - jackflap http://isitopen.org.uk We've just recently finished a proof-of-concept site called 'isitopen'. It is designed to allow users submit and review consumer devices regarding how 'open' they are (i.e. available source-code, documentation, standardized plugs, etc.)<p>We've hit a point ...
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An OpenStack Crime Story solved by tcpdump, sysdig, and iostat (2014) - pmoriarty https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/09/openstack-crime-story-solved-tcpdump-sysdig-iostat-episode-2/ ====== Doubleslash "So many proxies, so many things happening in the shadows." A fairly accurate description of a typical experience of...
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Ask EU users: why are you using this shady site that doesn’t comply with GDPR? - ryanwaggoner Pretty sure that HN is not fully compliant with GDPR, and that only very shady sites that intend to misuse your data are not compliant as of today. How can you stand this blatant violation of your human rights?<p>OK, I’m bein...
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Detection of visible light from the darkest world - gsivil http://www.astro.princeton.edu/%7Edsp/PrincetonSite/Home_files/darkest_world.pdf ====== gsivil And something from the popular press: <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14476411>
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Facebook blocks Scoble for downloading his contacts, sparks revolt - nickb http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/01/03/facebook-blocks-scoble-for-downloading-his-contacts/ ====== sethjohn Again, the future of the web is being written by petty acts of criminality. (aka civil disobedience, aka breaking stupid rules) Just as t...
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Too often the basic rights of people with dementia are overlooked - bookofjoe https://www.economist.com/special-report/2020/08/27/too-often-the-basic-rights-of-people-with-dementia-are-overlooked ====== bookofjoe [https://archive.vn/NKNsD](https://archive.vn/NKNsD)
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Resilient SSH tunnel app (keep alive and conn retries) - davrodpin Latest version of mole, 0.5.0, adds two new features that increases the resiliency of an established tunnel:<p>* Idle clients do not get disconnected from the ssh server since Mole keeps sending synthetic packets acting as a keep alive mechanism. * Aut...
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The Local Innovator’s Dilemma (2011) - mw67 http://www.muckercapital.com/the-local-innovators-dilemma/ ====== soneca _It is not impossible to crack the nut (and I’ve came across a few companies in the last month or so that are almost there)._ As this is from 2011 (and the early success examples Groupon and Living S...
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Ask HN: What are less-known best practices for email deliverability? - hvass Hi all!<p>What are the best practices for email deliverability that you do that have helped you with open rates and making sure your subscribers engage? I am specifically asking for something that is outside the usual recommendations.<p>We ar...
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Bad Binder: Android In-the-Wild Exploit - el_duderino https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2019/11/bad-binder-android-in-wild-exploit.html ====== Groxx > _The Original Discovery of the Bug_ > _This bug was originally found and reported in November 2017 and patched in > February 2018. Syzbot, a syzkaller system that...
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Web Trend Map, built with CSS 3 & HTML 5 - slater http://webtrendmap.com/ ====== Hates_ What is it about CSS3 & HTML 5 that makes this impossible on "older" browsers? Maybe I'm missing the point, but I'm not really seeing anything that couldn't already be done cross most browsers? ------ ptn Pretty slow. ~~~ eswat...
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Show HN: NoDB - Mizza https://blog.zappa.io/posts/introducing-nodb-pythonic-data-store-s3 ====== Mizza I wrote this, let me know if you have any questions. It should be useful for online machine learning, simple landing pages, and prototyping microservices that will have real databases in the future.
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