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Ask HN: Do you think the Passenger drones have a very serious design flaw? - supervillain All the new passenger drones that are coming out have the propellers sticking out, which clearly is a design flaw, and have a serious safety hazard issues around people. Why don't they consider a passenger drone with the des...
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These charts show how the Edward Snowden story is overwhelming the NSA story - CrazedGeek http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/03/how-ed-snowden-became-a-bigger-story-than-nsa-spying-in-two-charts/ ====== skwirl Just don't imagine that HN is sitting on some moral high ground. Any time there is a sto...
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LSP Change char offsets from utf16 to codepoints - Avi-D-coder https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/pull/709 ====== Avi-D-coder Related: My survey distinct implementations shows 11 UTF-8, 10 UTF-16 and 6 codepoints.
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Infinity (life is short) - thibaut_barrere http://www.awful-drawings.com/post/3502040865/infinity ====== thibaut_barrere My brother always has healthy reminders.
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Kanban beats SCRUM (at Mozilla) - _ciembor https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2013/04/22/kanban-for-mdn-development/ ====== trcollinson I don't know if this article actually claims that Kanban beats SCRUM but it was a great example of someone moving away from SCRUM. One thing I have noticed is that far too many people ...
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Streaming accounts for 75 percent of music industry revenue in the US - arayh https://www.engadget.com/2018/09/21/streaming-75-percent-music-industry-revenue/ ====== bilbo0s 1999 Revenue > USD40 Billion If I'm understanding this article correctly, then the revenue for 2018 _should_ be somewhere around USD9.2 Billion....
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Twitter announces Site Streams beta - abraham http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/10592ec9038be810?hl=en ====== studer I guess the fact that Twitter employees use bit.ly to map from short url:s to slightly longer url:s even in mails means something, but I'm not sure what. (the <...
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Ron Wayne, Apple's forgotten third founder - farmer http://extras.denverpost.com/books/chap0411h.htm? ====== far33d dupe.
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Making Cloud a Reality on the ZSystems Mainframe - dsheynin http://www.techbetter.com/making-cloud-reality-zsystems-mainframe/ ====== degilio This is an awesome way of taking systems that have been around forever and using them in a new and different way.
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Fliggo Lets You Build Your Own YouTube [YC S08] - RWilson http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/25/y-combinator-startup-fliggo-lets-you-build-your-own-youtube/ ====== anuraggoel I know techcrunch is(are) full of shit and Arrington is on vacation, but their posts aren't even spell-checked anymore? teh, athough, sItes, Wr...
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Stack Exchange tag correlations - mwsherman http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack-correlation/ ====== mholt How do I correlate questions tagged "go"? ~~~ mwsherman Should be good now: [http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack- correlation/#stackoverfl...](http://clipperhouse.github.io/stack- correlation/#stackoverflow/go)...
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ATS-Analytical Trouble Shooting, formal problem solving - dublinclontarf http://www.itsmsolutions.com/newsletters/DITYvol6iss19.htm ====== dublinclontarf When I was at Sun as part of the Solaris testing team we all did Kepner Tregoe (SGRT) Sun Global Resolution Troubleshooting training, which was a formalised method...
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Continuations in Racket - MichaelBurge http://www.michaelburge.us/2018/03/06/continuations-in-racket.html ====== gus_massa > _`begin` does not create a new continuation frame, so its expressions are in > the top-level prompt._ Just a reminder. (begin ...) sometimes is too magical, specialy inside modules. If someone ...
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Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul dies aged 54 - okket https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44586238 ====== contras1970 __I 'm Broken __ I wonder if we'll smile in our coffins while loved ones mourn the day, the absence of our faces, living, laughing, eyes awake. Is this to...
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care - primodemus https://meaningness.com/metablog/post-apocalyptic-health-care ====== shrike About 8 years ago I broke my leg and eventually developed a methicillin- resistant infection where screws had been inserted. Fighting this type of infection in the bone is difficult. I...
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Show HN: Optimized trading algorithms using IPython parallel and ec2 - twiecki http://twiecki.github.com/zipline_in_the_cloud_talk/ ====== smnl Cool technical presentation, but trying to optimize moving average trading strategies is a fool's game - you might find a set of parameters that work in all out-sample/cross...
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Ask YC: How do you project web traffic? - jon_dahl As I raise funding for my startup, investors want to see pro forma financial projections. I think I can estimate our expenses fairly well for a year or two, and some of our revenue assumptions (e.g. subscription cost, ad CPMs). But our revenue depends on two unpredi...
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How To Get Startup Ideas On Demand - IonRocket http://compxpressinc.com/startup_ideas.html ====== darkmoon This app may help get startup ideas.
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Stop Trying to Hire with Titles Like ‘DevOps Engineer’ or ‘Cloud Engineer’ - mrmondo https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/08/08/camels-and-unicorns.html ====== cgraham 100% Absolutely this. When I hear companies talking about their "devops" team I cringe. The entire concept of DevOps is lost when we throw up even more silos....
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A tiny Python exception oddity - luord https://aroberge.blogspot.com/2019/12/a-tiny-python-exception-oddity.html?m=1 ====== mherdeg I'm impressed by the humility here from someone who (a) is writing a library to replace core traceback behavior in pypi; (b) has doubtless read both cpython and pypi code; (c) nevertheles...
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How recreational marijuana in California left chemists in the dark - Tomte https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/22/16808964/california-weed-laws-legal-prop-64-safe-labs ====== staunch > _“It’s not like people are dying from pesticides in cannabis... "_ It's entirely possible that many people are dying from carcinogenic p...
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The sports footage you won't see on TV this Thanksgiving - brownie http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203716204577015903150731054.html?mod=googlenews_wsj ====== keeptrying You can figure out whats happening on the field just from what they show on TV. I wrote an answer on quora on how to do this: What I ...
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Notepad++ 6.0 Released - kefs http://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/notepad-6.0-release.html ====== LVB This personal favorite from their About page lives on: "By optimizing as many routines as possible without losing user friendliness, Notepad++ is trying to reduce the world carbon dioxide emissions. When using less C...
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Python Internals: PyObject - kercker http://www.gahcep.com/python-internals-pyobject/ ====== harrisi Although it's been posted here (only twice, though!) before, Philip Guo put up a 10-hour series of lectures on CPython internals[0]. I am nearly done with them, and have found them very useful and well-paced. Posting h...
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Why IQ matters more than grit - wslh http://www.vox.com/2016/5/25/11683192/iq-testing-intelligence ====== CuriouslyC The frustrating thing for me with IQ as a measure is that realistically, it conflates a couple of factors. Specifically, it is testing both the efficiency of your thought process (which is _extremely_ t...
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In Utah, a plan to cut 12th grade -- altogether - robg http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-utah-school15-2010feb15,0,906102.story ====== dsplittgerber Instead of cutting public employees numbers, their salaries or pension plans, they're focusing on cutting the actual benefits the state provides for its ...
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Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for first time - pseudolus https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02054-5 ====== koeng I used to be a mitochondrial engineer. This advance is fantastic, and not surprising. In 2006[0] they showed that you could get zinc fingers (similar to TALENs, which is what th...
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A Primer on Quantitative Easing (QE) and Its Inherent Limits - joshuafkon https://medium.com/@joshuafkon/a-primer-on-quantitative-easing-qe-and-its-inherent-limits-391a0c2a3cbc ====== jacoblk1 >QE is essentially an asset swap where the amount of money in circulation remains unchanged. It does not increase or decrease ...
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Most Requested Languages for Games - kris-master https://www.gamedev.net/tutorials/business/production-and-management/the-top-ten-languages-for-game-localization-r5255/ ====== RenRav That website looks horrible on mobile, I can barely even see the content behind the banner and navbars. "Let's make games" is such an un...
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Save Net Neutrality in Europe - ashitlerferad http://savenetneutrality.eu ====== blatant Except Britain. ~~~ fattire They're still EU members for a while... ~~~ daenney Yap. Once they invoke article 50 of the Lisbon treaty they're still a member of the EU for at least another year or two, bound by the same rules and...
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Python Gangsta Rap - gar1t http://shardingdevnull.com/python-gangsta-rap ====== mdg kewl, if we r lucky then ppl will do this for other languagez 2!!!
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Stop Focusing on What You Don't Have - fourspace http://timcheadle.com/posts/2013/08/06/stop-focusing-on-what-you-dont-have/ ====== mattm Like a lot of good advice, this is easy to say but sometimes difficult to implement. But it's good to be reminded of this. When you say "If I only had X, I could do Y" what you ar...
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Imgur XSS - tetrep https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/3lutoo/imgur_is_doing_fishy_things_with_4chan_screencaps/cv9lqrt ====== mgo This was a pretty major exploit. Imgur has acknowledged the exploit: [https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000](https://twitter.com/imgur/status/646109742004224000) Looks ...
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Ask HN: Open sourcing my project, how to enforce the “social” license I chose? - nfc I&#x27;ve created a suite of products for restaurants<i>. I started this project to try new models of development with a positive social impact.<p>I&#x27;d like to license everything (code</i><i>, marketing and legal materials...) und...
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Why Slack is no longer using a cross-platform C++ library - felixrieseberg https://slack.engineering/client-consistency-at-slack-beyond-libslack-c9cfbe778fb7 ====== mikece "We were spurred to write an update when Dropbox published this post about why they also decided to stop using a C++ library in their mobile apps."...
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Silicon Valley: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, by David DuPouy - ekianjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aqfKvXvXXk&feature=youtu.be ====== chmaynard David Dupouy gives a very high-level presentation about Silicon Valley business culture and why it is so unique and successful. By high-level, I mean that he generaliz...
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'The Simpsons' Explains Its Provocative Banksy Opening - davewiner http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/ ====== bradly It must have been weird for the workers in Korea to produce this opening. ~~~ mechanical_fish I wouldn't know, but I would imagine that...
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Why Does Anyone Tolerate Skimlinks? - tpiddy http://www.digital-dd.com/pinterest-skimlinks/ ====== tpiddy Until sites like Pinterest can actually share affiliate revenue somehow down to their users, these sites will "send exactly as much [traffic] without the modified links." This leaves no incentive for a merchant...
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Schizophrenia and genius – TempleOS and the strange, sad case of Terry a Davis - MilnerRoute https://steemit.com/computers/@winstonalden/schizophrenia-and-genius-templeos-and-the-strange-sad-case-of-terry-a-davis ====== jetti > but the America of the early 21st century is not kind to the mentally ill. This line reall...
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Soylent Thinks It Found What Was Making People Sick: Algae - Rifu https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-07/soylent-thinks-it-found-what-was-making-people-sick-algae ====== old-gregg Soylent's problem is not a seemingly overlooked ingredient. Their biggest problem is inability to run the continuous food proce...
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Ask HN: YC & other programs - is this data correct? - jedc As part of my master's dissertation (which I'm writing on YC &#38; similar programs) I'm trying to collect data on all of the startup incubators/programs that exist and all of the companies that have been funded through them. I hope this is at least interes...
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Ask HN: Who is using Kubernetes or Docker in production and how has it been? - chirau ====== penguinlinux I worked at a company where they started using kubernetes very early on. It was a mess, we configured it and provisioned with CoreOS and Ansible. it was suck a Mess. Then I moved to another company and we used ECS...
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Google Acquires Wildfire Interactive and Zuckerberg's Sister - benblodgett http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/08/01/mark-zuckerbergs-sister-now-works-for-google/ ====== brk No, this was Mark's long con to get more moles inside Google.
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Ask HN: What's your favorite monitor for dev work? - whitepoplar I use a 2016 13&quot; MacBook Pro and I&#x27;ve been looking at the 21.5&quot; 4k LG and 27&quot; 5k LG Ultrafine displays that Apple sells, along with a Dell 27&quot; Ultrasharp U2715H. I&#x27;m unsure what screen size&#x2F;resolution would be best for ...
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WePay (YC S09) Launches WePay Stores For Easy, Embeddable Storefronts - revorad http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/20/wepay-launches-wepay-stores-for-easy-embeddable-storefronts/ ====== ChuckFrank Congratulations WePay. Having carefully watched WePay's slow and methodical exploitation of their much bigger, and better fun...
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Ask HN: Does programming make you more creative in other artistic pursuits? - piyushahuja ====== eesmith No. The artistic pursuit I have done in most depth is dancing - primarily pair dancing - and nothing from my programming experience has ever contributed to my creativity in that field, other than funding. ------ bl...
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Microsoft files patent for augmented reality smart glasses - nealabq http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20462840 ====== nealabq What I really want to know: What is Apple planning for this space? Of course were this 1990 I'd ask What Would Sony Do. ~~~ meaty Apple are planning: [http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph...
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Ex-Google engineer describing the company's role in China censorship - seapunk https://threader.app/thread/1051725524064591872 ====== mocae > 6/ The other thing I find disturbing, after all these years, is the > willingness of my former colleagues to not only comply with the censorship > but their enthusiasm in ration...
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The end of Nvidia proprietary Drivers on Linux - webaholic https://forum.manjaro.org/t/the-end-of-nvidia-proprietary-drivers-on-linux/15325 ====== ldng Hum this has implications beyond Nvidia I suppose. Some WiFi driver will be affected I guess. Not necessarily a bad move though. Might give a boost of interest to the ...
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The Pandemic Shows What Cars Have Done to Cities - jgwil2 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/pandemic-shows-what-cities-have-surrendered-cars/610423/ ====== jgwil2 Even the most pedestrian-friendly cities in the US (New York, DC, Boston) are really fundamentally designed for cars. I would love to have s...
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Ask HN: Have developers become a commoditised resource? - bdv500 ====== greenyoda It depends a lot on what you're hiring developers for. If you need a developer to add some new UI features to a web app, there will be thousands of junior developers you can hire. On the other hand, if you need to reduce the time it takes...
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Apple Now Worth More Than Google - sant0sk1 http://www.macrumors.com/2008/08/13/apple-now-worth-more-than-google/ ====== martythemaniak That's rather meaningless, but its interesting to compare the competitors there: Apple, RIM and Nokia. Apple and RIM seem to be on par - Apple is valued at ~2x compared to RIM, but t...
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This Car Runs on Code (100 million lines of it) - timf http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/feb09/7649 ====== timf From the article, kind of amazing: \- "The avionics system in the F-22 Raptor, the current U.S. Air Force frontline jet fighter, consists of about 1.7 million lines of software code." \- "The F-35 Joint Strik...
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Dringend – iOS and Mac development on your iPad - davidbarker http://www.dringend.cc/ ====== MarcScott I'd like to point out that the developer of this application is 17 years old. He's a student at the school I work at and a fantastic programmer. I don't know whether he'd be annoyed at me for mentioning this or not,...
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OASIS -- Building 1000 citizen-sensors for the globe - a5huynh http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/oasis-building-1000-citizen-sensors-for-the-globe ====== wesvetter Not one of the engineers here, but I hang out with them a lot. Exciting work being done in the fields of machine-learning, hardware (potentiostats), and ...
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Show HN: Uilicious Snippet – Catch, replicate and share website bugs - eugeneqin http://snippet.uilicious.com ====== eugeneqin Hi Everyone, creator here. The idea behind this, is to allow users to write clear test scripts, and bug reports that can be easily understood, repeatable, and most importantly publicly sharab...
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Ask HN: Getting started with Solar Energy? - randuser34 I was looking into the solar technologies that stand out today that have the capability of being deployed and there is so much information out there that it is mind boggling.<p>For large scale deployment there are two companies that piqued my interest: eSolar[1...
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Dear Apple, We Need an Affordable and Upgradable Mac - sinatra https://namityadav.com/post/177983417975/dear-apple-we-need-an-affordable-and-upgradable ====== berbec I hate to play the devil's advocate here, but why would Apple make an upgradeable machine? Having everything built in drives sales and they've obviously ...
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A Bibliographic Miracle - benbreen http://www.abaa.org/blog/post/a-bibliophilic-miracle ====== mrec Why scramble the title? The article has "Bibliophilic", not "Bibliographic"; I was curious to see whether people really get that excited about a good list of references. ------ walterbell > _" Charles Ralph Boxer was...
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A working video player built in Factario - synthecypher https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?t=37490 ====== detaro (small typo in title: Fact o rio) Is this using a mod, or are those newer vanilla elements? Even earlier versions had lots of ways to do crazy logic if you wanted, but this seems a lot more streamli...
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An opinionated anthropology of the embedded programmer, its habits and habitat - eaguyhn https://labs.spotify.com/2019/04/09/an-opinionated-anthropology-of-the-embedded-programmer-its-habits-and-habitat/ ====== NikkiA > In short, the bar is set rather high and C is already awesome. Haha. no, just no. I can't speak f...
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#pretzel2018 – Bootstrapping my first SaaS from 0 to 50$ MRR - pretzelhands http://www.blechi.at/ ====== jay888 Best of luck with TaskZen.
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Representing Trees in PostgreSQL - mathie http://woss.name/articles/representing-trees-in-postgresql/ ====== Todd A good book on the subject is Joe Celko's Trees and Hierarchies in SQL for Smarties. [http://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Edition- Kaufmann-...](http://www.amazon.com/Hierarchies-Smarties-Edition-K...
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Piece of ethernet equipped art perpetually sells itself online - whalesalad http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190367275705#ht_2488wt_1167 ====== RiderOfGiraffes Dup: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1068575> Many comments there.
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QuakeCon 2011 - John Carmack Keynote - 6ren http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28&feature=player_detailpage#t=54m00s ====== there just make sure you don't do stupid things to quiet static code analyzers or compiler warnings. <http://digitaloffense.net/tools/debian-openssl/>
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World Master List of Resources on How to Dismantle Systemic Racism - cookingoils http://pfw.guide/ ====== kthejoker2 Someone didn't get the memo [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500093)
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This must be a Conspiracy - bane http://datunnel.blogspot.com/2016/04/this-must-be-conspiracy.html?m=1 ====== gus_massa This is the original title, but it deserves something more explanatory. I couldn't find a version that use the subtitle or the first sentence of the article following the extended guidelines, so I gi...
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Getting a Grip on GNU grep - obsaysditto http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/317617:getting-a-grip-on-gnu-grep ====== bnoordhuis From TFA: grep '[[:punct:]]$' files I suspect the author has grep aliased to `egrep` or `grep -E` because [:punct:] is an extended regular expression and GNU grep d...
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Clang reaches funding target - bjnortier_hn http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang?foo=bar ====== pubby I'm nitpicking, but it's CLANG, not Clang. One's a video game swords thing, the other is a compiler. ~~~ batista Thought the exact same thing! I clicked to read about new developments funded for Clan...
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Observations from a 4 year old's first interaction with MS Surface - nebula http://blogs.conchango.com/richardwand/archive/2008/11/19/breaking-down-traditional-barriers.aspx ====== decode I thought this was interesting: "She found selecting, moving and orientating the photos very intuitive using natural gestures. She ...
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Setting the Record Straight on Jedi - caution https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/setting-the-record-straight-on-jedi/ ====== ENOTTY Its been kind of entertaining watching random VPs in Microsoft and Amazon duke it out in passive aggressive blog posts. Undoubtedly, many of the same VPs' jobs are on the line. For...
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MongoDB will not prevent NoSQL injections in your Node.js app - ecares https://blog.sqreen.io/mongodb-will-not-prevent-nosql-injections-in-your-node-js-app/?utm_content=buffer25729&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== starptech "NoSQL means Not-injectable, right?" makes no sense for me. ...
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Ask HN: Convincing someone that constraints are useful? - staunch Some people don't believe in the idea that putting pressure/constraints on yourself can be helpful.<p>That raising $500k can be better for you than raising $2 million.<p>Or that paying yourself $75k can be better for you than paying yourself $150k (ev...
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Using the Unix Chainsaw: Named Pipes and Process Substitution - jlkinsel http://vincebuffalo.org/2013/08/08/the-mighty-named-pipe.html ====== turnersd Awesome - I never new about process substitution. I wanted to convince myself I knew what it was doing, so I started kicking this around a bit. I expected the first c...
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Google is changing the rules of email. Here’s what you can do - dhruvkaran http://blog.outbound.io/post/56850779286/so-google-pulled-a-panda-on-email-heres-what-you-can ====== tbrownaw If you're sending emails that most recipients aren't interested in, don't you have bigger problems than whether they had to waste te...
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D.C. court rules tracking phones without a warrant is unconstitutional - DINKDINK https://www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-court-rules-warrant-is-required-for-stingray-cell-phone-tracking/ ====== bhhaskin This is a big win, but it is going to be a long road ahead to gain back basic personal privacy.
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Ask HN: Best uptime monitor? - evertonfuller Looking around for uptime monitoring systems. What do you guys use? Thanks! ====== mariocesar I made my own service with a free Google App Engine instance, using this script as a base → <https://github.com/danawoodman/python-uptime-monitor> mainly to use the SMS gateway a...
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Tesla owner almost crashes on video trying to recreate fatal Autopilot accident - evo_9 https://electrek.co/2018/04/02/tesla-fatal-autopilot-crash-recreation/ ====== eddyg Previous discussion from a few hours ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16732436) Also wort...
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Inside Microsoft’s surprise decision to work with Google on its Edge browser - dfabulich https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18527550/microsoft-chromium-edge-google-history-collaboration ====== dfabulich These interviews with MS executives are quite revealing. I was especially shocked to see them on the record bad-mouth...
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Responsive design puzzle game - shacharz http://resize.thatsh.it/game.html ====== shacharz sigh, level 2 is broken
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F-35 hit with damning reports as Pentagon eyes full rate production - clouddrover https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28488/f-35-hit-with-cluster-bomb-of-damning-reports-as-dod-eyes-full-rate-production ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20169191](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id...
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Flash will be EOL by 2020 - Manishearth https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14848786), which has the original source and was submitted a bit earlier. ------ scott_karana...
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Monitoring and Architecting for Failure - mmcclure https://mux.com/blog/monitoring-and-architecting-for-failure-at-mux/ ====== therealwardo I'm the author of this post. Here are a few things I highlight in this post as things to consider when architecting for failure: Retry, Backoff and Rate Limit. Use a Cache. Add R...
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How to awaken a generation of lost mathematicians (Exploding Dots) - fjmubeen https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/how-to-awaken-a-generation-of-lost-mathematicians-44c267e3e4ca ====== schoen I just learned about the Exploding Dots thing for the first time from this article. It's an approach to representing and playing with ...
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Ask HN: How do I meet a co-founder? - thenerduk TL;DR I'm 18 and I need a co-founder but have no connections or knowledge<p>Let's ignore the fact that I have no real experience, startups are hard etc. but I really need a co-founder. Problem is, I'm a fairly good programmer, I can happily sit down and code pretty muc...
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Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace Rocket Crashes and Burns - nickb http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12522-crash-destroys-rocket-ahead-of-x-prize-contest.html ====== pfedor And to spice things up a bit, it seems that the reason for this crash was a bug in the vehicle's software: "Post-crash analysis has revealed w...
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Over 80% of online ad effect is on offline sales - manojr http://sciencebulletin.org/archives/10024.html ====== MikeGale The study isn't published yet so I withold my judgement. Given that the results are beneficial to people selling adverts caution should be exercised. (Two of their big problems are that click throug...
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Proposed Chromium policy on JavaScript dialogs - r721 https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/03/dialogs-policy ====== kalleboo The proposal says that Safari "dismisses dialogs when a tab is switched away from" which clashes with what "dismissing a dialog" means to me. To me, "dismiss a dialog" means hitting ca...
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Age of Empires Definitive Edition Announcement Trailer - Ralfp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyPlECHiXcM ====== dakevster wololo, the sound of my childhood
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Bitbucket Down - Major Outage - Jake232 https://status.bitbucket.org/ ====== ericfrederich I've said it before and I'll say it again... It makes zero sense to centralize something that was meant to be decentralized. We need issues, pull requests, comments, milestones, wiki, etc... all to be decentralized. No reason t...
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For those that build web applications, do you use a framework - skcin7 I build PHP applications and have yet to use a framework. However, I am greatly considering to start. I was wondering what the general opinions here about using an existing framework. ====== kingofspain I never used to but I tend to for all but t...
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PHP introduces "goto" - zain http://www.php.net/manual/en/control-structures.goto.php ====== dflock The first user contributed note on that page: <?php wtf: echo 'For real!?'; echo 'Srsly!?'; goto wtf; ?> Heh. ------ jdp Why is everyone jumping on this as a...
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Team Behind Finnish Success Story Supercell Launches Nordic Startup Fund - dirtyaura http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2014/04/22/finnish-success-story-supercell-and-investors-launch-nordic-startup-fund/ ====== dirtyaura "... Applifier, which was acquired by a bigger American software tool developer Unity Technolo...
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Ask HN: Does your company renew option grants after initial ones vest? - equity-q-1212 Just hit four years at a startup and was expecting to receive another options grant to replace my now completed grant, but was disappointed to see it doesn&#x27;t work that way. What does your company&#x2F;startup do once your initi...
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FBI Special Agent Thinks a MAC Address Indicates Apple Hardware - Splendor http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131220/07264325650/fbi-agent-connection-logs-show-suspects-mac-address-so-look-apple-hardware.shtml ====== josephlord Err, MAC addresses are allocated to manufacturers so certain values indicate it probably[...
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Introducing SpotMini, a smaller version of the Spot robot [video] - jonnycowboy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf7IEVTDjng ====== Rezo It's all electric, and check out the fancy white armor at [https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng?t=117](https://youtu.be/tf7IEVTDjng?t=117) Looks like they've taken the criticism from Google ...
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GitHub vs. bitbucket - jxr006 Hey folks, what do you guys use for source control in the startup world? Github, bitbucket or something else? ====== SanDimasFootbal Bitbucket which combines Trello, Pipelines, Deployment Management and Source Control built in. ------ maephisto Github. Great integrations, familiar to mos...
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It's Not Capitalism That Causes Poverty, It's the Lack of It - ph0rque http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2015/12/19/its-not-capitalism-that-causes-poverty-its-the-lack-of-it/ ====== mempko "We must go and exploit them as the ruthless, red in tooth and claw, capitalists and free marketeers that we are. Simply bec...
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Digital Ocean DNS Down for 2nd Time in a Week - exabrial https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/c9wspjy7ktzv ====== exabrial Previous incident: [https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/bmh4fb6p4mw6](https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/bmh4fb6p4mw6)
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Using Perl 6 Grammars: Decompressing Zelda 3 GFX - leejo http://blogs.perl.org/users/sylvain_colinet/2019/01/mis-using-perl-6-grammars-decompressing-zelda-3-gfx.html ====== pornel Perl grammars look awesome. There's a parser for Rust that allows parsing is somewhat similar style: [https://github.com/Geal/gif.rs/blob/...
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