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California's Broken Jaywalking Law - cozzyd https://systemicfailure.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/californias-broken-jaywalking-law/ ====== menssen Anecdotally (I'm posting this to see if I'm the only one who's noticed), there's something culturally (or legally) unique about jaywalking in California. The ambiguity of coun...
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FSF Europe launches peer-to-peer search engine - jfruh http://www.itworld.com/software/228393/free-software-activists-take-google-new-free-search-engine ====== jshen I like the idea, but I think a p2p search should also include human filtering and trust. I.e. i know the keys of my trusted friends and sites/pages the...
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Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go - janisz http://allegro.tech/2016/03/writing-fast-cache-service-in-go.html ====== pcwalton From the article: > [Go] also has managed memory, so it looks safer and easier to use than > C/C++. But most of the post describes a sophisticated way to work ar...
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How not to be a better programmer - utternerd http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/01/how-not-to-be-better-programmer.html ====== jacalata "Don't ask for help and don't help other people" I think the author is confusing being a better programmer with being a more politically successfully programmer in a shitty organisation....
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Ask HN: How do you organize all your photos? - rajesh-s There&#x27;s a drastic change in the number of pictures we take of every memory. What tools&#x2F;flow do you use to organize and build a db of photos? Maybe even backups too.<p>There are ways to organize movies, shows, music that I&#x27;ve come across but nothing...
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Jeff Sessions, Next Attorney General - Animats https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/18/10-things-to-know-about-sen-jeff-sessions-donald-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_sessionsdoj-954am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory ====== Animats Quote: "Legal immigration is the primary source of lo...
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Ask HN: How do I create a freely accessible, no login required DIY dropbox - usermac I just want a place that is free and easy for our staff to drop files, upload files without any login. It could be a separate machine used just for this. I&#x27;ll clean it out every now and then. What do you think? Can you suggest ...
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Ask HN: Can I surf your couch? (Seattle YC meetup) - rriepe I'll be coming into town for the meetup on Thursday, and I'm looking for a couch to crash/surf. I'll be in town Wednesday night through Sunday night, but any single day of letting me stay on your couch would be super helpful. Things I like: hiking, kayaking...
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Ask HN: How can I prepare for PM interview? - waystand Hi,<p>For software development position I passed technical interview. Next step is project manager interview. I know that I missed different opportunities because I fail this part of interviews. Technical part is piece of cake but this kind of interview is my soft...
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Ask HN: Twitter Bootstrap for "everyone else"? - davidw I'm thinking of using Twitter Bootstrap for a site of mine, but I began to have some doubts while looking at it: it's a fairly small font, and has small icons, and come to think of it, Twitter itself is generally oriented towards the young and more technically ...
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SVG has more potential - kp25 https://madebymike.com.au//writing/svg-has-more-potential/ ====== c-smile SVG is too complex/heavy for simple tasks and actually is not that good for complex tasks - more or less complex image requires special editing WYSIWYG application to create it. Let's imagine that you need to rende...
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Ask HN: Where can I sell the software of a failed startup? - rsinmtl I was involved in a startup that failed. The startup was supposed to be a solution to ridesharing, let&#x27;s say similar to Uber. We never launched but we developed a lot of code that represented at least a solid portion of the product.<p>Is there a...
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Leaders should create gaps - alphadevx http://www.alphadevx.com/a/518-Leaders-should-create-gaps ====== gumby > Creating silence A tremendous tool not just if you're a leader. People feel compelled to fill the gap, often in an interesting way.
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Peer Networks and Health Innovation - kategleason https://speakerdeck.com/nickgrossman/peer-networks-and-health-innovation ====== zaroth You think SpeakerDeck could put the forward and back buttons a few pixels apart so smartphone and tablet users would have a prayer of being able to navigate through a deck? Am I...
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Rules of Logo Design - jwilliams http://www.tannersite.com/rules-of-logo-design/ ====== neilk Every successful design breaks at least one "rule". Because information is retained when it's distinct from the norm. Talent in design consists not in following rules but knowing when and how a rule can be broken. IBM's lo...
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The Scots Language - pshaw https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/scots-language ====== sleavey I'm Scottish, but I work with a lot of Germans and every so often I try to learn some. I have found that Scots has a lot of similar works to German, sometimes more so than English. I guess this must be because it comes from ...
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Why Facebook is scarier than Google (ZD blog) - litepost http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1437 ====== willarson I honestly still find myself shocked at the low quality of ZD Net blogs. The analysis is often minimal, the length is usually 300-500 words, and the originality is non-existent. Trying to read that a...
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Wallets that Metamorphose Depending on Your Financial Situation - robg http://www.good.is/post/proverbial-wallets-wallets-that-metamorphose-depending-on-your-financial-situation/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+good%2Flbvp+%28GOOD+Main+RSS+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== pdx Hmmm, I...
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Treating acute psychosis with drugs can prolong the anguish - dghf https://aeon.co/essays/treating-acute-psychosis-with-drugs-can-prolong-the-anguish ====== tcj_phx Several good points in this article, thanks for the link. I think that psychosis is a symptom of exhaustion. It's never appropriate to treat exhaustion w...
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Ask HN: Hiring managers what would it take for you to reply to every applicant? - deedubaya Anyone who has applied for a job in the last few years knows the routine: take the time to apply to numerous job postings, maybe get an interview or two, but mostly never get a response yay or nay. You might even get a few inte...
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Two-Headed Go - luu https://www.jefftk.com/p/two-headed-go ====== cjbprime Interesting! I would have guessed going 2:1 against a stronger player wouldn't help much. Maybe I'm digging in, but I'd expect that it stops being true soon -- I'd be surprised if a 1-kyu didn't beat two collaborating 6-kyus most of the time. ...
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Startup Quote: Fred Wilson, co-founder, Union Square Ventures - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/3923883167 ====== raychancc If you have an idea that you can’t get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup. \- Fred Wilson (@fredwilson) <http://startupquote.com/post/3923883167>
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Graphwidth.com – Learn graph width measures through visualization - FrederikJ http://www.graphwidth.com/ ====== FrederikJ I created an app that teaches graph width measures interactively.
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Poetic.io – the simplest way to transfer files (for free) - alvises https://poetic.io ====== hobblin Seems sketchy... how are they offering their services for free? What's the gotchas? ~~~ alvises why sketchy? The biz model is beautiful ads (on the free side) and a pro version (still to come). ~~~ fasteo Terms of ...
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What ancient DNA tells us about humans and Neanderthals - Vigier https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/9/16448412/neanderthal-stone-age-human-genes-dna-schizophrenia-cholesterol-hair-skin-loneliness ====== throwaway25070 In case you're wondering why so much research (and articles summarizing said research) emphasize the ne...
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Facebook Refuses to Remove Fan Pages for Colorado Killer - neya http://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-page-colorado-killer/46629/ ====== raikia Good. It would be 100x worse if internet companies started (or continued) to constantly take down content that had alternate views.
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No, you are not "running late", you are rude & selfish - bootload http://gregsavage.com.au/2010/06/07/no-you-are-not-%E2%80%98running-late%E2%80%99-you-are-rude-and-selfish/ ====== btilly I'm reminded of a talk at a medical conference about patient interaction. The talk was scheduled. People showed up. No speaker was...
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Ask HN: Why are there no software projects on Kickstarter? - sroussey Why are there no software projects on Kickstarter? I see hardware projects from both small teams and large companies. But I don’t see any software projects. Why is that? ====== thijsvandien Several projects related to the Django web framework were f...
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Reddit: can anyone clean up the mess behind 'the front page of the internet'? - prostoalex http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/12/reddit-can-ceo-ellen-pao-clean-up-the-mess ====== toxicFork “That’s more than double the population of the entire UK, so it makes about as much sense as generalising every single...
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The Ars Technica System Guide, Winter 2019: The One about the Servers - Tomte https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/the-ars-technica-system-guide-winter-2019-the-one-about-the-servers/ ====== leemailll This guide reads like a /r/homeserver post without the rack, and lack a introduction to fun stuff on /r/selfhosted ...
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4D Toys: visualizing in the fourth dimension - michael_nielsen http://4dtoys.com/ ====== pmilla1606 This looks like fun, going to try this out over the weekend. This is the same person who made this game (that also looks like good fun): [http://miegakure.com/](http://miegakure.com/) that I remember reading about some...
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Show HN: Fig, a feedback system for your side projects - Soupy https://usefig.com ====== adityar You should consider having a version that does not print the email in the invocation - it may get picked up and be spammed. one might not want to publicize the backend email recipient of the support/feedback. Another reaso...
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"I never agreed to that. Here's what I signed." - kmfrk http://www.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow/comments/ev9k8/10_tips_before_you_sign_a_housing_rental/c1b9973 ====== aaronsw [Since reddit is under severe load, here's the actual text...] ZorbaTHut 319 points 1 day ago > A contract is a two-way agreement, so if you s...
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Do 10x Programmers Exist? Says Who? - Edmontonian http://medium.com/@rheinmainwein/do-10x-programmers-exist-says-who-283138a8f454 ====== dalke "there are certain people in every profession who stand head and shoulders above their colleagues" The analogy bloodletting is quite good. If the above statement is true, th...
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Microsoft must finish the job of opening .Net - ABS http://www.infoworld.com/article/2847372/open-source-software/microsoft-must-finish-opening-net.html ====== CmonDev Open-source cross-platform WPF with a light scriptable syntax, getting improvements every month... Visual Studio on Mac and Linux... XNA-powered Mono...
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Numerous celebrity/company twitter accounts hacked - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/05/either-fox-news-had-their-twitter-account-hacked-or-bill-oreilly-is-gay-or-both/ ====== paulgb Look at the twitter feed: <http://twitter.com/foxnews> Looks like the feed is updated automatically from RSS feeds or some o...
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Ask HN - stream database open source hackers unite - gord Im exploring some ideas in the land of stream databases [data which has strong sequential properties] and wonder if there are others already working in this space, or who might like to contribute/discuss/argue/hack open source code.<p>Ive put up some thoughts...
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Adi.js - mariusbalaj https://github.com/balajmarius/Adi.js ====== skrowl This is broken. Going to [http://mariusbalaj.com/dev/Adi.js/](http://mariusbalaj.com/dev/Adi.js/) in Win 10 / Firefox 43 (dev ed / aurora) + uBlock Origin 1.2.1 + all 3rd party filters clicked other than multipurpose & easylist w/o element hidin...
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CI/CD on a budget for open source projects - danielmunro https://danmunro.com/posts/ci-cd-on-a-budget-for-open-source-projects/ ====== MaulingMonkey > For open source projects, everything except the droplet in Digital Ocean is > completely free. Alternatively, Appveyor & Travis have fully free tiers. They don't even ...
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Linux Performance - Walkman http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html ====== fasteo I would recommend his book [1] to anyone interested in systems performance. What really caught my attention is the focus he puts in having a goal and applying a method to solve performance issues. Many times, I have found myself "lo...
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Practicality: PHP vs Lisp - sajid http://briancarper.net/blog/386/practicality-php-vs-lisp ====== tsally Mahmud is one of the few HNers that actually has practicle experience deploying Lisp in the real world. You might be interested in what he has to say on the issue of practicality: "Today, Lisp is nothing like what...
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Why C++ is a viable alternative to C in embedded systems design - Anon84 http://www.embedded.com/design/opensource/212100638?cid=RSSfeed_embedded_news ====== tristmegistus I developed C++ software for a launch vehicle. It flew fine. The toughest thing was convincing the old timers to change. They were much more comfor...
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The next USB plug will finally be reversible - shawndumas http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/12/4/5173686/usb-type-c-connector-specification-announced ====== cnvogel "no more frustrated attempts to charge your phone with an upside-down cable" \-- Is this really an issue for _anyone_? Seriously? Please enlighten me, if yo...
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Ask HN: I'm in the Bay Area, now what? - Killah911 I just came to the Bay Area (Cupertino to be exact), to meet with some potential clients for my startup. Things have gone great so far. But I need some advice on where I can run into a more startupy crowd, where I can look into maybe getting some working (coworking...
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Calling All Conservatarian Coders: Rand Paul Has a Gig For You - cpursley http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/05/calling-all-conservatarian-coders-rand-paul-has-a-gig-for-you/ ====== argumentum I would have considered going to this if the price was reasonable. As it is ($300 to $600), they are not going to get the...
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What's new in Python 2.6 - astrec http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html ====== rbanffy I loved the multiprocessing module. Getting rid of the GIL is a major win. I would prefer not having a GIL, anyway, but this is far better than nothing. ~~~ ii Removing the GIL won't magically solve any problems. _This ...
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Ask HN: Insurance - danvoell If the younger generations believe they have been screwed by housing and education, why don&#x27;t they figure out how to fight back on health insurance? Are they not subsidizing the older generation right now? I feel like this is another version of pension &#x2F; social security which is ...
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Co-Founder Agreements... - jhacks Does anyone have useful sample co-founder agreements? Something that includes the equity percentage split, vesting schedule(i.e. 1 year cliff, 4 year vesting), stock types, and so on...<p>I will be looking for a startup lawyer, but I want to do as much on my own as possible before ...
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An 18 Billion Mile Journey is almost complete. - sprout http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2010/08/an_18_billion_mile_journey.php ====== petercooper _Which means, for the first time since its discovery, Neptune is about to return to the same position in space that it occupied the day it was discovered. And what...
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Big data, Google and the end of free will - hunglee2 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/50bb4830-6a4c-11e6-ae5b-a7cc5dd5a28c.html ====== adenadel This was on the front page yesterday [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376695](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12376695)
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YouTube is down - pestkranker https://www.youtube.com/?down=down ====== eviltandem "YouTube" is so distributed I don't think it can be "down" anywhere but briefly in a single geographic area. ------ heavymark Been working here all day (East Coast US). Would be helpful to know where in the country it's down when posti...
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How did we make the DOS redirector take up only 256 bytes of memory? - tdeck https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/larryosterman/2004/11/08/how-did-we-make-the-dos-redirector-take-up-only-256-bytes-of-memory/ ====== tdeck I ran across this when I was reading about the "CALL 5" interface that exists in DOS. CP/M [1], the ea...
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Dear GitHub - msvan https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github ====== jonobacon Hi Adam, Addy, Andreas, Ariya, Forbes, James, Henry, John-David, Juriy , Ken, Nicholas, Pascal, Sam, Sindre, My name is Jono and I started as Director of Community back in November at GitHub. Obviously I am pretty new at GitHub, but I tho...
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The curious case of the mobile MOBA - bruizar http://www.bartverschoor.com/#!The-curious-case-of-the-mobile-MOBA/c1ld3/4770C7CC-7074-4466-B6E8-6C356055CECA ====== nugget I think the most competitive RTS games require a mouse (or other peripheral device) to achieve the desired level of immersion. I'm not sure how to be...
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Rewriting a large production system in Go (2013) - kid0m4n http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2013/08/rewriting-large-production-system-in-go.html ====== lbarrow Probably needs a [2013] tag. Previous discussion was here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234736](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6234736) ~~~ da...
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Modern life is lonely – We all need someone to help - dijit https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/16/modern-life-lonely-isolation-hardwired-lives ====== grondilu Lately I've become more and more convinced that indeed, modern society sucks, or at the very least that I, and people like me, am not well equip...
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Countries to Raise a Family in 2020 - ementi https://www.asherfergusson.com/raising-a-family-index/ ====== ementi Thoughts?
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The Xoom browser is not ready for prime-time, even for HTML4 - YooLi http://www.sencha.com/blog/motorola-xoom-the-html5-developer-scorecard/ ====== jmillikin I can't find any mention of testing HTML4 features in the article. Their HTML5 testing is limited to <audio> (somewhat works) and <video> (doesn't work), and t...
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Ask HN: How can a concurrency/python/back end dev help the refugees? - mezod ====== onion2k Not specific to refugees, but find your local tech4good meetup and join in. [https://www.meetup.com/topics/tech4good/](https://www.meetup.com/topics/tech4good/) ------ w3clan Blockchain is being used at some of the refugee cent...
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Aaron's Law Is Doomed Leaving US Hacking Law 'Broken' - LukeWalsh http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2014/08/06/aarons-law-is-doomed-leaving-us-hacking-law-broken/ ====== LukeWalsh Silicon Valley Corporations are blocking this because they want a blanket law for punishing terms of service violations: [http:/...
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Ask HN: How do you contain complexity? - jmilinion Uncontrolled complexity is dangerous. It causes things to collapse on itself. Contained complexity is useful. It allows unimaginable things to be built.<p>You could say the result of contained complexity is this phrase "why of course, that's obvious" (after seein...
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Matlab–Python–Julia Cheatsheet - tomrod https://cheatsheets.quantecon.org/ ====== eigenspace The second example in the first section is a bit misleading. They say that to create a column matrix, ie. an (n, 1) matrix, the syntax is [1 2 3]' but that will give you the (lazy) hermitian adjoint of...
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Facebook Marketplace powered by artificial intelligence - jonbaer https://code.fb.com/ml-applications/under-the-hood-facebook-marketplace-powered-by-artificial-intelligence/ ====== solipsistnation ...and this is why it shows me endless streams of bikes. (I do look at a lot of bikes.)
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Yes, You Can Write a Game in Just 10 Lines of Basic - headalgorithm https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/tools-toys/yes-you-can-write-an-awesome-game-in-just-10-lines-of-basic ====== howard941 It's surprisingly difficult to find links to the winners. With DDG's help I found the 2019 entries collected here. [https://www...
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No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon - sohkamyung https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/no-lyme-diease-is-not-an-escaped-military-bioweapon-despite-what-conspiracy-theorists-say/2019/08/09/5bbd85fa-afe4-11e9-8e77-03b30bc29f64_story.html ====== hedora Private mode blocker. :-( ~~~ sohkamyung Try this ...
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Show HN: Stackboi – your thought stack assistant - milansm https://stackboi.com/ ====== wingerlang So is this just a blueprint of something you 'might' make if enough people are interested? ~~~ milansm Yes, it's just something I think it could be useful. At least some variation on that. I wanted to check what people ...
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Ask HN: Is it worth open-sourcing my early stage startup? - derwiki It's something I was interested in trying to do at my last job before I quit, but the battle was hand auditing an entire, mature codebase. The site I want to open source (http://www.cameralends.com) is less than 2 months old and could easily be audi...
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What Networks Does BuzzFeed Use? - etr71115 http://blog.naytev.com/what-networks-does-buzzfeed-use/ ====== ec109685 As a point of comparison to Buzzfeed's 1B views a month, YouTube does that in 6 hours: [http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/youtube- statistics/](http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/youtube-statist...
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Ask HN: How do computers 'know' when they've used the right encryption key? - jc_811 Probably a newb question, but security &amp; encryption really interest me.<p>In this example say I encrypt the word &quot;Coffee&quot; and after encrypting it I send it through cyberspace as &quot;37fbFFJKEBF79fdgueG&quot;<p>So if a ...
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Why CrossFit is the Workout of Choice for Entrepreneurs - shanellem http://blog.clarity.fm/why-crossfit-is-the-workout-of-choice-for-entrepreneurs/ ====== paul-woolcock I enjoy crossfit, but I try to remember what it actually is: a fad-y name for the concept of "functional fitness." I managed to find a crossfit gym ...
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Lightweight C library to parse NMEA 0183 sentences - XtalBlue https://github.com/jacketizer/libnmea ====== XtalBlue I have written a C library for parsing NMEA 0183 sentences in Linux. It uses a modular design where it loads each parser module as a dynamic library. Please tell me what you think. Contributions are more...
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The faulty logic of the "Math Wars" - antman http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/opinionator/2013/06/16/the-faulty-logic-of-the-math-wars/ ====== ZeroGravitas Are the 'traditional' algorithms really chosen because they are the best? I thought they varied by country/culture and they can't all be the best. I also recentl...
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Detect red circles in an image using OpenCV - AlexeyBrin https://solarianprogrammer.com/2015/05/08/detect-red-circles-image-using-opencv/ ====== lettergram It would probably be better to use the Lab color space, and then you only have to look at the a channel (which is the transformation of color between red and green...
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No, Google and Facebook Ad Traffic Is Not 90% Useless - gk1 http://www.gkogan.co/blog/how-ad-campaigns-fail/?r=1 ====== jaymzcampbell This post makes what I think is a brilliant point and one that, if you apply the same thinking to any other situation, is extremely powerful - understand the _why_ (of something perform...
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Show HN: StreamE – Cross-platform live-stream viewing service - ngerrity https://streame.tv ====== ngerrity I wrote StreamE because I was tired of constantly switching back and forth between Twitch, Mixer, and YouTube to watch the live streamers I wanted to watch. StreamE lets you search for, follow, and watch live st...
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Why I Voted to Sell .ORG - danyork http://www.circleid.com/posts/20191127_why_i_voted_to_sell_org/ ====== ptest1 I don’t understand how this “sale” is legal in the first place. PIR is a legal 501(c)3 nonprofit. You can’t really sell a nonprofit to a for- profit company except in unusual and rare circumstances. In Ca...
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Democratizing Big Data - Is Hadoop Our Only Hope? - ahoff http://gigaom.com/cloud/democratizing-big-data-is-hadoop-our-only-hope/ ====== martincmartin I think the real question is "Is MapReduce Our Only Hope?" MapReduce has a lot of limitations. It doesn't have a query language, instead, you need to figure out the ...
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Two explanations for variation in human abilities - QuitterStrip https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ZwSrTsP3YkgnmHWnJ/two-explanations-for-variability-in-human-abilities ====== in3d The chess analogy doesn’t work because those other experts not only spent similar amounts of hours on chess as Carlson but they were most li...
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Computing planetary positions – a tutorial with worked examples (2003) - catilac http://www.stjarnhimlen.se/comp/tutorial.html ====== sizzzzlerz If you're interested in this type of computation and have some basic knowledge of Python, there is a package called pyephem that you can install that allows you to perform ...
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HTML5 Web-Based Music Player - simontabor http://audio.simontabor.com ====== TazeTSchnitzel Firefox doesn't support range, and this site doesn't using something to fill in for its lack of support. :( ~~~ simontabor Sorry! Unfortunately I haven't got round to doing extra support yet - Chrome is the only browser that...
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32c3: live recordings (unedited) - ibotty https://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/relive/ ====== ibotty Skip about 15 minutes to get to the talk.
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“Billion Dollar Bully” Highlights Why Yelp Feels Unfair - smacktoward https://slate.com/technology/2019/06/billion-dollar-bully-documentary-yelp.html ====== Fjolsvith I got this feeling about Yelp when I first investigated their site and advertising offerings for my business. Business owners beware.
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An Interview with Computing Pioneer Alan Kay - technologizer http://techland.time.com/2013/04/02/an-interview-with-computing-pioneer-alan-kay/ ====== alexjeffrey I'm a little disappointed that the interview didn't mention COLA/STEPS as I think this is by far the most interesting thing Kay has worked on of recent. Ob...
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Prototype 1.7 - kuahyeow http://www.prototypejs.org/2010/11/22/prototype-1-7 ====== nestlequ1k Anyone still using Prototype for new projects? I have a few legacy rails apps (over 3 yrs old) that use it, but like most people I've have moved on to jQuery. ~~~ jwpage I used to favour Prototype.js over jQuery for more ...
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PopBooth: A Real Photo Booth powered by your iPhone/iPad - plusbryan http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/15/popbooth/ ====== MartinCron Not directly related to this iPhone/iPad app, but I had a lot of fun setting up a simple party photo booth with pretty pedestrian camera gear a few years ago. [http://martincron.wordpres...
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Share your comments on my startup idea - logicb I am getting ready for the November's "Launch an App Month" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398) to launch AppsToWin.com.<p>I just updated the landing page with a sample contest. Would like to hear the comments from HNers on my app and also what kind off web a...
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Auto-Scaling and Self-Defensive Services in Golang - rayascott https://raygun.com/blog/2016/03/golang-auto-scaling/ ====== aftbit When I needed to solve this problem, I spun up 4x as many workers as I needed and managed them through supervisor. This handles two of the requirements: 1\. Autoscaling - Unless your worker...
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Free To Play Games Have Arrived on Steam - peacewise http://store.steampowered.com/news/5657/ ====== peacewise [http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/14/valves-steam-online- store-...](http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/14/valves-steam-online-store- launches-micro-transaction-games/)
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Open source community running on Google App Engine - livid http://github.com/livid/v2ex ====== juanefren I would be good to know how to change the language...
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Steve Wozniak says he may be “patient zero” for coronavirus in US - RayMan1 http://alugy.com/coronavirus/steve-wozniak-says-he-may-be-patient-zero-for-coronavirus-in-us/ ====== tabtab Woz is a known prankster. Take with a grain of salt. Pranks are how he and S. Jobs got to know each other well. My favorite of theirs ...
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Happy 55th birthday NASA To celebrate, 97% of you get an unpaid vacation. - tareqak http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/10/01/happy-55th-birthday-nasa-to-celebrate-97-percent-of-you-get-an-unpaid-vacation/ ====== tareqak Meanwhile, the President and Congress are still being paid to squabble over w...
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CentOS 7 potential release - lpinca http://seven.centos.org/2014/07/seeding-for-potential-release/ ====== ck2 Even this article title says "POTENTIAL" release. I am not even sure it is signed? They are still doing QA, it will be a week or two before GA Before you rush to 7.0 after 6.5 - things you are going to have ...
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JavaScript Text Summarization - spongeblob https://github.com/jbrooksuk/node-summary ====== spongeblob I was browsing through my GitHub stars and found this one. I also noticed that the owner of the repo is working on the project recently, so figured it was worth re-posting it. I notice also that this was posted 7 ye...
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A Source of Over-Abstraction – Or DRY Isn't Free - crazy_geek https://drew.thecsillags.com/DRY-Isnt-Free/ ====== AnimalMuppet Taking DRY too far can wind up "compressing" your code (think LZW or some such). That's not going to improve readability...
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Is Microsoft looking to buy RIM? - run4yourlives http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/30/tech-rim.html?ref=rss ====== run4yourlives Makes sense to me, but a hard deal to do for sure. RIM is not exactly a startup. With iPhone and the mysterious gPhone, Microsoft might find itself played out of this market... b...
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Show HN: Dendron – open-source, local first, anti-roam note-taking tool - kevinslin https://dendron.so ====== kevinslin [Dendron]([https://dendron.so](https://dendron.so)) is meant to be the fastest way for people to create, reference, and collaborate on knowledge. It is based on a [hierarchal first approach to note t...
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The Arduino popularity contest - fakedrake https://www.sparkfun.com/news/1982 ====== robotdad Very interesting data! Thanks for sharing. Does your IDE support boards like the Yun? How do new boards fare if you look at their usage from introduction as opposed to all time? ~~~ tzikis Great questions. In regards to the...
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Why CEOs fail cybersecurity (hint: they aren't asking the right questions) - bnb https://www.inc.com/schuyler-brown/5-questions-every-ceo-needs-to-ask-about-data-security.html ====== sasas Relevant to Equifax.. the article should have - 6) Do you have a up to date list of all assets in your network/platform with assi...
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Alien DNA, Demon Sperm, and Hydroxychloroquine? - jordhy https://www.thedailybeast.com/stella-immanuel-trumps-new-covid-doctor-believes-in-alien-dna-demon-sperm-and-hydroxychloroquine ====== ChrisGranger While it doesn't surprise me when an insane person says the sorts of thing one would expect an insane person to say...
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Learning Swift: Building an App from Start to Finish - ronyr http://www.airpair.com/swift/complete-guide-to-swift ====== culturestate I'm interested to see what Swift adoption will look like in the App Store going forward (now that it's at 1.0 [1]) especially on iOS vs. OS X. I wonder if it will be a glacial Carbon ...
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