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Former Twitter Employee Says Fake Russian Accounts Were Not Taken Seriously - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-03/former-twitter-employee-says-fake-russian-accounts-were-not-taken-seriously ====== NN88 Twitter didn't care. They let it happen because they're broke.
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Splash Screens Are Evil, Don't Use Them - Alupis http://cyrilmottier.com/2012/05/03/splash-screens-are-evil-dont-use-them/ ====== BetaCygni So what's the alternative? If you've got an app that loads slowly, what are you supposed to do?
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Clojure's missing piece (2017) - tosh http://nathanmarz.com/blog/clojures-missing-piece.html ====== vemv As one can see in two other top-level comments in this thread, the choice of an all-caps DSL is off-putting. It would be more idiomatic to have a hiccup-like API, where data is passed - not code, not syntax. And t...
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Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers - headShrinker http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/06/29/2240245/Massive-Botnet-Indestructible-Say-Researchers ====== kevin_morrill Comments are at <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2712628>
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Avoiding quasiparticle decay may allow control&stabilization of quantum matter - bookofjoe https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-019-0535-3 ====== bookofjoe >Scientists Find Evidence a Strange Group of Quantum Particles Are Basically Immortal source: [https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-find-evidence-a- stra...]...
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XKCD: Meeting - dceddia http://companyname.website ====== frikk I'm curious as to why/how this post thinks the URL is (companyname.website)? It's obviously from the comic, but I'm curious about the mechanics. edit: derp. the url points directly at companyname.website and my Chrome build has a bug that prevented me fr...
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Microsoft shows off universal translator that preserves your voice - mrsebastian http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/122083-microsoft-unveils-universal-translator-that-converts-your-voice-into-another-language ====== nextparadigms Microsoft has been showing off a lot of these lab projects lately. I guess they think i...
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Ask YC: Who would you pay to read? - pchristensen Along the same lines as yesterday's discussion, whose writing would you pay to read? Keep in mind that for high quality, sporadic writers, payment might mean more frequent writing.<p>Here's my list (going alphabetically through my Google Reader list:<p>Definitely:<p>-...
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The Gloves Are Officially Off: Google Vs. Apple - edw519 http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/20/the-gloves-are-officially-off-google-vs-apple/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=My+Yahoo ====== blhack _“We discovered something really cool, it’s called the Int...
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T7.js: alternative to JSX that compiles template literals into vDOM objects - tilt https://github.com/trueadm/t7 ====== chowes What's the advantage of this over using JSX? You can already go JSX->virtual- dom [https://www.npmjs.com/package/virtual-dom- jsx](https://www.npmjs.com/package/virtual-dom-jsx), and the fact ...
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Bitcoin Gains Correlate with Tether Issuance, Researcher Says - chollida1 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-03/bitcoin-gains-correlate-with-tether-issuance-researcher-says ====== Fjolsvith Can you say, "Insider trading?"
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Artist Uses 99 Phones to Trick Google into Traffic Jam Alert - kpetermeni https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/artist-google-traffic-jam-alert-trick-scli-intl/index.html ====== ColinWright A wonderful thing, the main discussion is here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22216821](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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I want to run an agile project - jester5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u5N00ApR_k&feature=related This is funny.. ====== jester5 lol..
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Ask HN: How does project management work in your small / tiny startup? - akor For some context I work for a tiny startup where I&#x27;m the only tech person. I am frequently handed a task that is unclearly defined and I work with the business owner to tease out the spec over time or am expected to come up with the &q...
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Comprehensions and Generator Expressions in Python - kaunta https://johnlekberg.com/blog/2020-07-16-comp-genexp.html ====== sohamsankaran This is a test of a potential bug in the HN API, please ignore.
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Show HN: Mobile friendly Hacker News reader, with built-in memory - arcticmill http://hn.arcticmill.com ====== arcticmill We’ve hacked together this reader for Hacker News that helps us better consume all those juicy news items. It keeps track on what you've seen and read before. Hopefully some of you will find it...
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Show HN: Project Lovelace–Learn science and programming through problem solving - bazram https://projectlovelace.net/ ====== MrTonyD While I like the idea of this site, I think it is good to understand how it is fundamentally flawed. I do training. And most outside of training don't stop to think about how there are ...
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Ask HN: I'm visiting SF for 3 days, what do I do? - idiotb Hi HN&#x27;ers, I&#x27;m visiting SF for 3 days from May 15th to May 17th. What meetups&#x2F;cafes&#x2F;events can I go to to network with VC&#x27;s, founders, tech people, other awesome companies, etc? ====== jowiar Forget all of that. The most interesting pe...
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Ask HN: an ethical dilemma in recommending an Android DRM solution fix - rndmcnlly0 An alternative Android app store invited me to sell my apps in their marketplace, which requires integration of a complicated in-house DRM scheme to protect apps from piracy. Upon investigating the docs and sample code for the integr...
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Show HN: I've built this promo to help people build their products - s-stude http://mvp.sstude.com ====== dinwal This is like [http://prostart.me](http://prostart.me) but without the long term partnership. Cool idea, but one-size-fits-all does not work. ~~~ s-stude You are right. The problem here is that it's hard to...
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Calculus, rope swings, and the optimal release angle - squeakynick http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september42014/index.html ====== richcuteguy34 This reminds me of one of their earlier posts about Calculus and monsters [http://datagenetics.com/blog/october12013/index.html](http://datagenetics.com/blog/october12013...
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GitHub Down - jcla1 https://status.github.com/#14102013 ====== brennebeck Is it really necessary to always broadcast Github being down? They have a perfectly good status page for this express purpose. ------ PLejeck It's rather sad that DDoS attacks seem to just be the norm at this point. ~~~ yeukhon Well, a lot of ...
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Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers - chmike http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/storm_worm_dwarfs_worlds_top_s_1.html You may also read <a href="http://tinyurl.com/2dydfa" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/2dydfa</a> reporting about a ciberwar against Estonia in April. ====== wmf Of course, ...
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Ask HN: How to take advantage when a competitor shuts down? - jpn A competitor of ours has shut down (Fotopedia).<p>Seems like a lot of people are upset, especially since they only gave a 10 day notice for users to download their own content.<p>What are the best ways that I can reach out to their customers and invit...
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Font Awesome 5 - kauegimenes http://five.fontawesome.io ====== StavrosK I quite like Font Awesome, but it strikes me as a bit bloaty to include 200 KB (best case) of files (i.e. all the icons) just to add a few icons. Would the old method of a bunch of small png files in a directory work much better, now that HTTP/2 ...
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Ask HN: Is the noidea app the same? - plamb Is it just me or is the noidea app the same as the regular app? ====== pg It's a proper subset of the questions, although the wording had to be changed in a few. ~~~ plamb hmm i wonder if something is wrong with my cache or browser... I'm pretty sure when I click through ...
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Nanomsg postmortem and other stories - profcalculus http://sealedabstract.com/rants/nanomsg-postmortem-and-other-stories/ ====== n00b101 I personally traveled to Slovakia to meet with Martin, Mato and Pieter, a few years ago. I commissioned them to fix some annoyances I had with ZeroMQ. I just want to say that they a...
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Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS - rgrove http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/06/28/mobile-browser-cache-limits/ ====== modeless Why do browsers have such ridiculously low default cache limits? Desktop browsers do the same thing; Firefox's default cache size is 50 MB. That's 0.01% of my available st...
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Show HN: Sortedchef track nutrients and calories - loblollyboy http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sortedchef.com&#x2F; - too much pie and gravy? I made an app that allows you to make meals and drag-and-drop them into meal plans. Nutrient daily % calculated relative to your specified desires. ====== brudgers Link: [http://sortedchef.com...
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Ask HN: Single repo vs. repo for each service? - BhavdeepSethi Recently I’ve been working with having the entire codebase in a single repo way and it’s not really been a good experience. Every time someone modifies code in a separate module, I have to recompile&#x2F;generate sources to fix the compilation errors. No...
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The Cybersecurity Effects of Fourth-Parties on Websites - Reflectiz https://www.reflectiz.com/the-cybersecurity-effects-of-fourth-parties-on-websites/ ====== rikroots I think this article is a useful overview of the risks associated with relying on 3rd party software loaded into a website, which in turn rely on their ...
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Ask HN: VC funded startup downsides? - mr_puzzled I&#x27;m starting to question the whole thought process behind VC funded startups : take money -&gt; grow fast -&gt; get to a liquidity event so investors can make returns. VC funded startups are all about growth growth growth. I feel like there are serious downsides t...
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Using GitHub Webhooks to rebuild static web sites - markchristian https://writing.markchristian.org/2019/01/26/watchnrun.html ====== Klonoar Alternatively, just... have a git endpoint on your server with some post- commit hooks.
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Storytelling: what story should I tell? Part II - abarrera http://blog.press42.com/index.php/2012/11/07/storytelling-video-pitch-part2/ ====== rilinho talking to users is an incredibly important exercise, though its not exactly straight forward how to approach it - i.e. what questions to ask to get to those "golden ...
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The Oscillation of R33 - yread http://airminded.org/2015/09/30/the-oscillation-of-r33/ ====== aaroninsf Fascinating read. NB: it's about purported trolls ('wild men of the ether') of the 20's and 30's believed to be intentionally disrupting local radio reception by tuning to beating frequencies on either side of true...
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Why save a language? - gpvos http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/opinion/sunday/why-save-a-language.html ====== austerity As the man in the back row, I am not convinced. He reduces the need to save languages to the need to save cultures and leaves it at that, implicitly assuming the latter to be an axiom. To me it's eve...
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European Space Agency (ESA.INT) Hacked – Full Disclosure - kmfrk http://tinkode27.baywords.com/european-space-agency-esa-int-hacked-full-disclosure/ ====== beaumartinez These are just account logins (and not "disclosure" on how the break-in was accomplished). I see no real use in this other than to create havoc. ~...
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That’s No Phone. That’s My Tracker. - wallflower http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/sunday-review/thats-not-my-phone-its-my-tracker.html?_r=1&hp ====== comex Subjecting a real problem to faintly ridiculous exaggeration and paranoia does not help. (I'm not sure whether to be surprised this made it into the New York Ti...
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Datasette-atom: Define an Atom feed using a custom SQL query - simonw https://simonwillison.net/2019/Dec/3/datasette-atom/ ====== Hitton For those who didn't know Datasette[0] either, it's a tool for exploring data. Apparently it's an API above SQLite. [0]: [https://github.com/simonw/datasette](https://github.com/sim...
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Guile 2.2.1 released, includes sandboxed execution support - paroneayea https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2017-04/msg00034.html ====== paroneayea More docs on the sandboxed execution stuff: [https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Sandboxe...](https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_nod...
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Is RSS dead? Take a look at the numbers - cygnus http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/rss-dead-look-numbers/ ====== MichaelCrawford On my own website, I have a "What's New?" link with the date of the most recent new stuff. On the page itself I have a list of the new stuff, with the newest at the top. It actually works prett...
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Hervé This: The world's weirdest chef, building food molecule by molecule - gwern http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/herve-this-the-worlds-weirdest-chef ====== tptacek Some Dave Arnold on Herve This (no love lost): [http://www.cookingissues.com/2009/06/01/molecular- gastronomy...](http://www.cookingissues.c...
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Arabic Translators Did Far More Than Just Preserve Greek Philosophy - bootload https://aeon.co/ideas/arabic-translators-did-far-more-than-just-preserve-greek-philosophy ====== yuip1238 Translation is made worse when one doesn't have a "synchronizing" mechanism. This is very common in India where the state is quite laz...
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Wow Squarespace just shutdown a website of a group of doctors - ycombonator https://mobile.twitter.com/drsimonegold/status/1288178446569545734 ====== mariomariomario 1\. Squarespace is a private entity. They have no obligation to leave your website online, similar to how you have no obligation to spend money at busine...
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The commas that cost companies millions - happy-go-lucky http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20180723-the-commas-that-cost-companies-millions ====== pm24601 Short simple declarative sentences solve the "comma" problem. Do not use commas. Do not use complex subjunctive clauses.
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Ten Things You Should Know About Haskell Syntax - malloc47 http://fpcomplete.com/ten-things-you-should-know-about-haskell-syntax/ ====== ggchappell Very nice article. > 7\. Functions Have Precedence over Operators Yup. The killer for me has always been things like f x:xs Never does what I wa...
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Emojicode – programming language emoji based - dgellow https://www.emojicode.org/ ====== cannedslime Please tell me you did this as satire?!
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Apple will argue that the FBI's court order violates its free-speech rights - reverend_gonzo http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-me-ln-apple-legal-argument-free-speech-20160223-story.html ====== BinaryIdiot Honestly I think this is the best argument above all else. Yeah Apple can technically create the softw...
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Facebook scam post collects almost 100k shares 85k likes in ~19hours - stirlo http://www.traveller.com.au/thousands-fooled-by-fake-qantas-firstclass-giveaway-on-facebook-1lzwj2 ====== stirlo Page is here - [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Qantas- Airline/38377836514044...](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Qantas- Airli...
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Nothing Will Ever Be AAA Again - borism http://dealbreaker.com/2011/08/nothing-will-ever-be-aaa-again/ ====== jpluscplusm Fairly sure we're still AAA here in the UK. Sounds like sour grapes to me ...
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Did Trade with China Make U.S. Manufacturing Less Innovative? - endswapper https://hbr.org/2016/12/did-trade-with-china-make-u-s-manufacturing-less-innovative ====== sharemywin The cost(time and materials) to innovate in software is way smaller than physical things. My bet is a lot of that innovation shifted there.
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Intel made a huge mistake 10 years ago - molecule http://www.vox.com/2016/4/20/11463818/intel-iphone-mobile-revolution ====== AceJohnny2 TL;DR: Intel turned down the opportunity to make the iPhone's chip and gain a foothold in the mobile market. A more direct source, from Intel's own CEO (at the time): [http://www.th...
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Ask HN: How do you feel about job hunting? - ativzzz I am currently employed and a few weeks ago was considering searching for other jobs for financial and other personal reasons.<p>How do you guys feel about still going through the process now? From the &quot;Who is hiring&quot; post, clearly companies are hiring.<p>...
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A Python tutorial on Bayesian modeling techniques - gedrap https://github.com/markdregan/Bayesian-Modelling-in-Python ====== markdregan I am the author of this tutorial. If you are interesting in contributing a section to this tutorial, please get in touch. Some suggested topics: survival analysis, mixture models, cla...
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NSA can retain encrypted communications of Americans possibly indefinitely - pronoiac http://www.pcworld.com/article/2042673/nsa-can-retain-encrypted-communications-of-americans-possibly-indefinitely.html ====== pronoiac I had the terrifying thought that this could apply to HTTPS or SSH sessions. That's alarmist, th...
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Tell HN: Thank You - Mz http://micheleincalifornia.blogspot.com/2014/02/tell-hn-thank-you.html ====== Mz Just wanted to say "Thank You." (I don't know if a mod corrected the title or if I mistyped it initially. If it changes, I will assume a mod did it. If a mod did change it: Oops. Sorry. No offense.)
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Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead at 33 - mkr-hn http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/michael-hastings-rolling-stone-contributor-dead-at-33-20130618 ====== danso Hastings did an IAMA on Reddit a year ago: [http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/uaha0/iam_michael_...](http://www.reddit.com/r/...
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The Internet Is Making You a Not Nice Person - donsupreme https://rosakranse.com/2016/09/29/the-internet-is-making-you-a-not-nice-person/ ====== internaut Actually I wasn't that nice to begin with.
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A new, non-Apache open-source revenue model - wisnesky https://www.slideshare.net/slidarko/mmadt-a-virtual-machinean-economic-machine?qid=0867e394-3c0c-4e40-9b58-e166e5c4aa57 ====== gardenfelder Slide presentation references [http://www.mm-adt.org/](http://www.mm-adt.org/)
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Working part time next to study in Tokyo - w8w00rd I only have classes for 24 hours a week at most at the moment and still have 4 months left in Tokyo, does anyone have experience in working part-time in Japan, where would you get a job in development in Japan? my visa is not an issue as long as work + study is not o...
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Stanford Large Network Dataset Collection - betolink https://snap.stanford.edu/data/ ====== themeek A note here that SNAP at Stanford is funded by NSF grants through DARPA SMISC, which is a research group in the DoD looking to learn how to get better at influencing social media groups online for propaganda. (Strategi...
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Distraction free writing and the simplest blogging platform in one - akos http://throwww.com ====== colmmacc I really like the design and look of throwww, and I don't mean to pick on it - but every time I see these minimalist low-friction writing engines, I feel like a very big thing is missing; facilitating editing...
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Startup Quote: Dennis Crowley, co-founder, Foursquare - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/4602710953 ====== raychancc Stop sketching and start building. \- Dennis Crowley (@dens) <http://startupquote.com/post/4602710953>
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Moving our privacy advocacy forward to protect Australia and you - trulyrandom https://fastmail.blog/2019/02/28/aabill-and-fastmail/ ====== Ultramanoid > _FastMail’s business is not directly affected by this legislation_ Well, they have declared themselves that after the passing of this asinine law, they've lost cust...
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Challenges of Buling a Proptech Solution - OlaSola https://themasters.io/blog/posts/3-challenges-of-building-a-proptech-solution ====== mattyg23 Hey, I'm Matt, co-founder of HeyAgents.com.au ([https://heyagents.com.au/](https://heyagents.com.au/)) I'm new to this forum, but here to learn and help provide value and adv...
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The moral standards of wikileaks critics - JJMalina http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/01/wikileaks ====== cafard How was Eliot Spitzer more a threat to Wall Street as governor than he had been as prosecutor?
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Randomness and Why I am No Longer a Fan of Coworking Spaces - rcavezza http://foundersblock.com/anecdotes/randomness-and-why-i-am-no-longer-a-fan-of-coworking-spaces/ ====== andrewjshults It seems that the new trend in "co-working" in NYC at least is towards startup focused spaces (e.g. Dogpatch Labs, General Assemb...
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New US $100 bill to debut Tuesday - daegloe http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/07/news/economy/new-hundred-dollar-bill/index.html ====== skue It absolutely makes sense for the Treasury to generate new bills with technology/features that stays ahead of counterfeiters. But changing bills every several years can also produce ...
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Use work-computer at home or have your own computer? - BobCoder My own computer has become unbearably slow and old. I am torn about buying a new computer or use the computer that has been provided by my company. The computer I have been provided with is very good and would be same one I buy for myself if I choose to...
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Entrepreneurs and Risk - jasonlbaptiste http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/running_small_business/archives/2009/08/entrepreneurs_a.html ====== wglb One person's calculated risk is another persons sheer terror. If you have been employed by a midwestern insurance giant for 20 years, your idea of risk might be heavil...
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Tech workers say poor leadership is number one cause for burnout - Raj7k http://blog.teamblind.com/index.php/2018/08/20/tech-workers-say-poor-leadership-is-number-one-cause-for-burnout/ ====== throwawayamzn7 I know of a team (~20 devs, a handful of managers) in the middle of a fantastic experiment in burning out the d...
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The cult of rotary mixers - richardwcollins https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3275 ====== antris I've been playing records for a few years and have had the pleasure of playing with a DJR400. Some personal additions to the article I'd like to share: 1\. The physical feel of the device is amazing. Every knob fee...
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Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains - speeder http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains ====== Tycho I've been trying to learn a lot about investment finance in the last 18 months. I find that I probab...
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Ask HN: How much of your personal capital $$ have you invested in your startup? - youngdev 1. How long have you been bootstrapping your startup?<p>2. Roughly how much of personal money have you invested in your startup?<p>3. Are you profitable, if not then at what point do you make the decision of pulling the plug a...
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Computational fashion on your laptop - mgl http://www.rhymeandreasoncreative.com/portfolio/index.php?project=continuum ====== mgl Really interesting stuff, see also: [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhymeandreason/continuum...](http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhymeandreason/continuum- computational-couture) ...
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FCC to be led by Ajit Pai, staunch opponent of consumer protection rules - jawngee http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/fcc-to-be-led-by-ajit-pai-staunch-opponent-of-consumer-protection-rules/ ====== rashkov Is there a sympathetic view of Ajit Pai that anyone could offer? I can understand how he would be oppose...
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Raw Gadget is a kernel module that allows to emulate USB devices from userspace - SomeSnail https://github.com/xairy/raw-gadget ====== XMPPwocky A key bit of information that might clear up some confusion - USB gadgets are the main _peripheral-side_ USB interface in the Linux kernel. When you plug an embedded Linux d...
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Show HN: Mys – an attempt to create a statically typed Python-like language - eerimoq https://github.com/eerimoq/mys ====== BerislavLopac I was once toying with the idea to create a statically-typed Python-like language, and I had the perfect name for it: Typhoon... ;) ~~~ HhE3334R7hf1lLF Alternate idea: a language c...
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Mathematics is art (all the mathematicians say so) - adamnemecek https://medium.com/@fjmubeen/mathematics-is-art-all-the-mathematicians-say-so-d0d569f89976#.6g5zbk2uf ====== MrQuincle I'd politely disagree. I like the intro in Mumford's text. "The study of mental objects with reproducible properties is called mathema...
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Court has confirmed coordinated raids of Zwiebelfreunde in Germany were illegal - rendx https://blog.torservers.net/20180704/coordinated-raids-of-zwiebelfreunde-at-various-locations-in-germany.html#update ====== freeflight A small remainder: German police also confiscated donor lists for anonymity projects like Tails ...
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The Offline Cookbook: caching and serving offline-first - jaffathecake http://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/ ====== pavel_lishin I wonder if there's a support group for AppCache survivors. Someplace people can meet, and talk about how AppCache has hurt them. Someplace with a nice, strong cell signal, and c...
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What Is a Thought Experiment, Anyhow? (2006) [pdf] - lainon https://philpapers.org/archive/PIGWIA-2.pdf ====== GregBuchholz The parent article is about 99% fluff, but for people interested in Philosophy of Science, John D. Norton (from the article) has a treasure trove of interesting stuff. [https://web-beta.archive....
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Ask HN: Books and Courses for Wannabe CTOs and Heads of Engineering? - iforgotmypass How did you become the CTO or Head of Engineering at a larger organization? What books and courses did shape your growth and prepare you for this role and&#x2F;or solidify your knowledge as a CTO &#x2F; Head of Engineering?<p>---<p>I&...
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Agile Development for Designers - pius http://hoth.entp.com/output/agile_for_designers.html ====== VisuallyOn Knowing that most software are always 85% ready! Rapid Prototyping and Multiple Iterations is the way to go (I do).
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exFAT in the Linux kernel - UkiahSmith https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/ ====== pedrocr I'll believe Microsoft loves Linux when I can install Microsoft Office in my desktop Linux machine. Everything else is marketing. Edit: to expand, the corporate world runs on Excel/PowerPoi...
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Social and Cultural Aspects of Drinking - fanf2 http://www.sirc.org/publik/drinking4.html ====== LarryL A very interesting read. I did not know that alcohol effects varied that much between societies & context/circonstances. I found especially surprising the part about how in some cultures drunkenness is used as an ...
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Chomsky: spying does not protect you - wslh https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/06/19-3 ====== danenania There is a practical way to reduce terrorism and make the US and the world safer that won't cost a dime and doesn't require compromises on civil liberties. Stop starting and getting involved in foreign wa...
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Ask HN: Pancreatic Cancer Resources - LinkPlug This is still very new to us and I couldn&#x27;t think of a better place to try to get a head start on beating this.<p>I hope when future hackers go searching for this on HN that they will find a list of the best resources.<p>Thank you :) ====== melling Pancreatic cancer ...
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Show HN: Rotten Tomatoes for Amazon products - pierc3 https://bestbestlist.com/# ====== chrisco255 One comment I've got is you might want to give users the option to receive notifications and updates for when you add new product categories. Or write frequent blog posts about it. I can see it being marginally entertain...
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Microsoft's Windows 10 privacy headache extends into gaming - chris-at http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/17/9164153/windows-10-privacy-concerns ====== norea-armozel It seems to me that Microsoft needs to get better writers for their EULAs since they can be interpreted so freely. For example, I've had a discussion with so...
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Ask HN: What's the latest hot-topic about Speech Recognition? - TrollHammarenF ====== RNeff There is a lot of success in translating speech into a foreign language speech in near real time. The next step would be to convert heavily accented speech (example: English) into normal pronunciation speech (example: English). ...
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Raw Thought: The Weblog of Aaron Swartz in Markdown, PDF, and ePub - joshleitzel https://github.com/joshleitzel/rawthought ====== bguthrie I believe SBP (aaronsw's digital executor) is planning to make sure his domain is maintained and all the content remains available. But I do think it's nice to have this stuff in...
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The Death Of Point-and-Shoot Cameras - techblock http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/pointandshoot-camera-dying/ ====== nathanb "I’m sure I’ll catch a lot of flak for that prediction, but it wouldn’t be the first time. People called me crazy when I predicted the end of console gaming, too." The author makes t...
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Profitable social network for people with curly hair raises $1.2M - dirtyaura http://www.businessinsider.com/social-network-for-curly-haired-people-raises-12-million-2011-6 ====== BvS It were sites like that which made my realize we are in a bubble back in 2000. On the other hand they were far from being profitable...
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Atomo (programming language): giant 0.4 release - vito http://atomo-lang.org/notes/0.4 ====== vito The link is to the release notes, which has the documentation embedded - click Getting Started at the right if you've never heard of Atomo (which is very likely).
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Show HN: Cpp_Redis – C++11 Lightweight Redis client - cylix https://github.com/Cylix/cpp_redis ====== albeva Neat, but horrid naming for everything. Why does namespace need explicit "cpp_" prefix? Why do classes inside "cpp_redis" namespace still have "redis_" prefix? I would prefer simple "redis::client" so much nice...
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Technology the new engine of central Canada - mtw http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=1554656 ====== christofd Go Waterloo! Go Warriors (<http://www.athletics.uwaterloo.ca/>)! ~~~ pshc Seconded! Though OMGUW might have you think otherwise, I rather like the university. On the topic, here are s...
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Steve Wozniak Shares How the Name "Apple" Came About - patel http://blog.tvdeck.com/2010/11/steve-wozniak-shares-how-name-apple.html ====== Triplane Alan Turing killed himself by eating a bite of poisoned apple... ------ tiles Can someone transcribe loosely for the video-disabled? ~~~ david2777 Steve Job's was wo...
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Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos - ValentineC http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57559710-38/instagram-says-it-now-has-the-right-to-sell-your-photos/ ====== sgdesign I'm starting to realize that Instagram is not the service I thought it was. I initially thought it was Flickr with social features,...
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Understanding the Limitations of HTTPS - kawera https://textslashplain.com/2018/02/14/understanding-the-limitations-of-https/ ====== aplorbust More than 50% of the websites found through HN at present do not require SNI. Do you think this is also true of the https-enabled www as a whole? SNI was introduced to address...
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