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If C++ Objects Are Unrelated, Are They Equal? - AndreyKarpov http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/if-c-objects-are-unrelated-are-they-equa/240146950 ====== Sharlin A nifty way to implement a lexicographic ordering in C++11: struct Thing { int a, b; }; bool compare(const Thing& t1, const Thing&...
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Free MS Exam 70-480 Voucher: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 - jjkmk Found this on slickdeals earlier today. Microsoft is offering a free voucher to take their Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3 Exam.<p>Find a local testing site at this URL: https://www.prometric.com/en-us/clients/Microsoft/...
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Ask HN: I want to leave Instagram, what are the best options? - cyrusradfar With the recent TOS update and my general fear of them being assimilated in to the Facebook borg, I hoped for some guidance on which apps are the best out there.<p>If you own an app, feel free to share it and why I and others reading should ...
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Haystack – The only source you need for stock photography - remx https://www.haystack.im/ ====== vachi Hey everyone, I am vachi, one of the founders at Haystack.im. Let me know if I can answer any questions.
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Yehuda Katz's 10 Favorite Things About Ruby - wifelette http://yehudakatz.com/2009/08/24/my-10-favorite-things-about-the-ruby-language/ "I work with Ruby every single day, and over time have come to really enjoy using it. Here’s a list of some specific things that I really like about Ruby. Some of them are obvious, ...
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Apple "Back to the Mac" Event Oct. 20: New OS X - hop http://gizmodo.com/5662920/apple-back-to-the-mac-event-october-20th ====== robgough And so it begins...
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The 8th DO for SaaS startups - Stay on top of your KPIs - marban http://christophjanz.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-8th-do-for-saas-startups-stay-on.html ====== mattschmulen Timing couldn't be better, I just happen to be putting together a metrics board for my start-up.
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Show HN: Get clean readable content from any webpage - bndr https://github.com/bndr/node-read ====== Theodores Thanks for posting that, it is exactly what I need. I want to scrape a diverse selection of web pages for 'the gist' of the main content purely to put into a solr search engine. At the moment I am doing surp...
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The British Virgin Islands’ Struggle to Protect Its Dark Offshore Economy - ucha https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-07-03/the-bvi-s-struggle-to-protect-its-dark-offshore-economy ====== darawk > Not surprisingly, many people in Road Town argue there are perfectly > legitimate reasons to use a jurisdiction suc...
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Intercom Raises $35M - dh http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/26/intercom-series-c/ ====== jjgreen Fantastic product, well deserved.
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Ask HN: How will Microsoft-Skype deal affect the Linux client? - jagtesh ====== chalst The better question is: how will it affect the Windows client? Don Marti writes: _Really, this is good news. While users are trying to figure out whether to download "Skype Live Small Business Edition" or "Skype For Windows Profe...
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Women Slowly Shifting to Higher-Paying College Majors - Bostonian https://www.wsj.com/articles/women-slowly-shifting-to-higher-paying-college-majors-study-says-11570179600?mod=rsswn ====== Bostonian The paper is [https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/a-cross-cohort- analys...](https://bfi.uchicago.edu/working-paper/a...
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Ken Burns Tackles Lincoln, Education and Money in 'The Address' - ewood http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/04/15/303210779/ken-burns-tackles-lincoln-education-and-money-in-the-address ====== ivancamilov I half expected to see the image in the article to slowly pan and zoom. ~~~ McGlockenshire It shouldn't surp...
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The long process of creating a Chinese font - f14ist http://qz.com/522079/the-long-incredibly-tortuous-and-fascinating-process-of-creating-a-chinese-font/ ====== Ericson2314 I've always hated the mingti--serif comparison. Mingti looks too artificial and beholden to technology (woodblock printing) for that to hold up. ...
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Show HN: Feedback tool built to give you data-backed insights on your + and - - alexragalie https://rethinker.com ====== alexragalie We’ve built Rethinker as a platform to help people develop faster and get more fulfilling jobs. Our first product is called Rethinker Feedback, and is built on a Ray Dalio- like belief ...
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Startups should not use React - nbmh https://medium.com/@raulk/if-youre-a-startup-you-should-not-use-react-reflecting-on-the-bsd-patents-license-b049d4a67dd2 ====== cbhl It's worth noting this "you can't sue us for violating your patents if you use our non-free open source software" is working as designed. Facebook c...
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Eating Jell-O with Chopsticks - oftenwrong https://granolashotgun.com/2019/05/27/eating-jell-o-with-chopsticks/ ====== oftenwrong I see this as hacking the overbearing regulation of the built environment. More about the "stealth triplex": [https://granolashotgun.com/2017/07/17/the- stealth-triplex/](https://granolash...
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RIBs: Uber's cross-platform mobile architecture - stablemap https://github.com/uber/RIBs ====== cocktailpeanuts This looks cool, but "Cross-platform" is a misleading adjective to use here. By that standard, you can put "cross-platform" on anything. Like MVC is a "cross platform" architecture. And so is CRUD. ~~~ sta...
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What does Climate Model output look like? - iamelgringo http://scienceblogs.com/illconsidered/2009/07/what_does_climate_model_output.php ====== blhack A good friend of mine is working on his masters in GIS right now. I was talking to him about climate models the other day (he works with climatologists) and he said s...
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The Universe Is Programmable. We Need an API for Everything - hbe_ http://www.wired.com/2014/04/the-universe-is-programmable/ ====== sprobertson Even though I already agree with the premise, this article seems to go on for a long time without convincing anyone of anything. Needs some examples or something. And what...
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China Blocks Foursquare; Too Many People Checking Into Tian’anmen - derekc http://www.techblog86.com/2010/06/china-blocks-foursquare-too-many-people-checking-into-tiananmen/ ====== cgranade It seems like the eventual trajectory of such censorship is the creation of a completely separate Internet that is China-only. ...
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Concepts Behind Association Rule Mining - Nisha10 http://www.techleer.com/articles/238-concepts-behind-association-rule-mining/ ====== kwillets >To achieve more efficient results we need to reduce the itemset and for this we apply Apriori algorithm whose principle states that if an itemset is infrequent, then all its ...
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Show HN: Dropbox Apps can be cool - BoxySign.com - scottmotte http://boxysign.com ====== jerrya Wait what? You tell me of this service. You promote it here. You tell me of its features. You encourage me to "connect" it to my Dropbox account and thus authorize your app to my dropbox account. ONLY AFTER I CONNECT ...
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You Don’t Need a DevOps Team - babich https://medium.com/@101/you-don-t-need-a-devops-team-78a89165fc5b#.b7yeg2i4l ====== chucky_z Isn't the whole point of a devops individual/team to reduce friction to "... break down barriers, increase automation, bring collaboration and iterate."? I understand that there should be...
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Ask HN: I want to start my own web development agency - lewisflude By my early teens I'd scored my first client, made my first website outside of personal projects and filed my first invoice. I've been involved with several startups over the years and wanted to use my entrepreneurial experience to create my own agen...
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Alibaba partner announces 16 core RISC-V chip - rwmj https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-07-25/alibaba-chip-subsidiary-launches-first-product-using-open-source-architecture-101443785.html ====== tgtweak Article explaining the relevance of this news: [https://technode.com/2019/07/24/chinas-chipmakers-risc-v- san...](http...
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Do you own 400 companies? So, you are not too busy - paulovsk http://www.ajkesslerblog.com/you-are-not-too-busy/ ====== sfall and he doesn't worry about the day to day operations of any of those 400 businesses
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Light sentence for 200 seniors who cheated on finals - yangez http://www.click2houston.com/news/Seniors-caught-cheating-on-final-exam/-/1735978/7646450/-/bjbhwwz/-/index.html ====== mcherm I see two problems with this: (1) They are apparently not attempting to discipline the students who cheated. (2) They are requir...
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Ask HN: How do you handle small web/tech requests from friends? - dotBen I'm sure most HN'ers are the resident geeks in their wider circle of friends and get a lot of requests like:<p>* Can you set up a WordPress blog for me?<p>* Can you migrate my website from sharedHostX to sharedHostY?<p>* Can you help me pick an...
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GitLab Direction - jmilloy https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ ====== whitepoplar GitLab is like the average kid in class that everybody makes fun of for constantly asking questions, but the joke's on them because "a little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept." While GitLab may have warts, I feel that they'...
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Real world examples using homoiconicity? - jasonwatkinspdx I'm interested in example code that uses homoiconicity well. I'm not interested in pedagogical examples, such as the excellent and oft cited meta-circular evaluator.<p>I'd also be interested to hear the opinions of lisp users and the like on the benefits of ...
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Write a Shell in C (2015) - pvsukale3 https://brennan.io/2015/01/16/write-a-shell-in-c/ ====== chubot If you want to see a pretty complete shell in a higher level language (Python, 11K lines of code), check out: [https://github.com/oilshell/oil/](https://github.com/oilshell/oil/) And a blog here: [http://www.oilshel...
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MySQLTuner - paraschopra http://blog.mysqltuner.com/faq/ ====== piers If you want to download it just wget mysqltuner.pl ~~~ paraschopra There is another one: <http://www.day32.com/MySQL/> But it throws error on my Ubuntu box.
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Trump.css (Lets Make Padding and Margin Great Again) - rakibtg https://github.com/rakibtg/trump.css ====== leonatan I always shy away from projects that mix politics with code, even if it is just a playful satire. Especially when such a revolting figure is chosen. ~~~ lizardskull CSS has some poor ideas but calling i...
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Google Play reviews delivered into Slack and your inbox - zsedbal http://reviewcatz.com/ ====== zsedbal Can you recommend me other services like this?
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Tilted Toilet: The corporate poo patrol is coming after your toilet time - smacktoward https://www.wired.co.uk/article/battle-toilet-workplace ====== sp332 I'm still not convinced this is a real thing. All the images seem to be renders. The link that's supposed to show that the BTA "approved" the toilet is just a pres...
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The Swedish Loneliness - mwidell https://micaelwidell.com/the-swedish-loneliness/ ====== randcraw I wonder, why do Swedes feel the need for independence? Is it a need for security? Or difficulty sharing life with others? And why does this problem seem to get worse as people gain wealth? Why does increasing affluence ...
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Looking for founders for three startup ideas - rchaudhary https://medium.com/@henrysward/carta-ventures-looking-for-founders-d22b2baf7f75 ====== quacked Perhaps I'm misunderstanding the intent of this post, but I'm reminded of a hilarious Facebook group I used to be in called "I'll handle the business side". Example ...
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Virtual Envelopes - minton http://michaelminton.com/post/25364062274/virtual-envelopes ====== minton Does anyone know if Simple (formerly Bank Simple) has this feature?
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The New Golden Age of Renting? - jasonlbaptiste http://worldaccordingtocarp.wordpress.com/2010/02/01/the-new-golden-age-of-renting/ ====== cianestro Any europeans here on HN? I had a german professor last semester tell me many schools/teachers don't require students to buy specific textbooks and do homework problem se...
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Ask HN: To what extent is everything a matter of the amount of funding? - julienreszka ====== PaulHoule What is that supposed to mean?
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Create a Game Engine but don’t ever use it - majikarp https://zeroequalsfalse.press/posts/build-game-engine/ ====== mimixco TL;DR = Unity already did it.
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Unique IPv6 prefix per host [pdf] - fanf2 https://ripe76.ripe.net/presentations/143-rfc8273-v5.pdf ====== ddtaylor For anyone interested in playing with IPv6 I recommend Vultr their routing seems to work instantly, where other providers seem to have some churn. On Linode for example once I start actually using more th...
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Show HN: Gutenberg – A simple interface to the Project Gutenberg corpus - c-w https://bitbucket.org/c-w/gutenberg ====== c-w Hey all, OP here. I built this because I think that Project Gutenberg is a great resource for NLP (e.g. stylometry, tracking writing styles over time, authorship detection, ...) - I wanted to u...
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GeoFire: Location Queries for Fun and Profit - shiftb https://www.firebase.com/blog/2013-09-25-location-queries-geofire.html ====== kav-ya (I worked on the GeoFire library) GeoFire converts the latitude-longitude coordinates of a data point to its geohash, and stores the data in Firebase at the geohash. The properti...
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HELP: Join as cofounder or first employee? - gfenny I have the possibility of joining a startup (still working on prototype, no sales or funding yet)<p>Im being offered to join as first employee, which would mean some equity but probably nothing comparable to the founders.<p>I feel I can add a lot of value to the star...
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Gala Dalí’s Life Wasn’t Quite Surreal, but It Was Pretty Strange - drjohnson https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/arts/design/gala-salvador-dali-exhibition.html ====== rmason I've been a fan of Dali since I was a boy. You can't study him without owing a huge debt to Gala. Without her promotional efforts on behalf of his...
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Capitalism vs. Democracy - flurpitude http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/opinion/capitalism-vs-democracy.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=1 ====== pedalpete What I fail to understand in many of these arguments regarding income inequality, is why inequality matters? Personally, I think the argument shouldn't be focused on how...
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Ask HN: Review My App: www.shoutreel.com - ammaryousuf www.shoutreel.com This is a microforum application that makes it super simple and easy to start a forum about any topic. No users accounts are required to do free shouting, just a one-time captcha. Forums are called Reels and you have to login to create one.<p>We...
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Heptio Contour – An ENVOY powered ingress controller - lazypower https://github.com/heptio/contour ====== tsakas123 Thank you lazypower and Heptio for Contour. Here is how to get the Contour on Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes. [https://medium.com/@ktsakalozos/heptio- contour-on-the-canoni...](https://medium.com/@...
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What matters more than your talents: Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com - sandeshkumard http://sandeshkumar.com/2011/04/03/what-matters-more-than-your-talents-jeff-bezos-founder-of-amazon-com/ ====== hunterjrj A small note taken from this great article: Bezos started Amazon when he was 30. A nice reminder that you don'...
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Designing the Windows 8 file name collision experience - recoiledsnake http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/designing-the-windows-8-file-name-collision-experience.aspx ====== benaston Frankly this is a good example of over-engineering what should be a non- problem. In the vast majority of cases the option I...
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Launch HN: We.fo – Smart landing pages for any podcast - christianholman https://we.fo/?ref=hackernews ====== mmili Most landing pages that I've gone to for podcasts are rather dated and not aesthetically pleasing. This seems to kind of remove that for me. Wondering what people with actual podcasts think though.
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Ask HN: How do you license music for web only playback? - jfornear As expected, Lala shut down today.<p>I already miss streaming entire albums on Lala for free (for the first time). My Tuesday morning ritual for the longest time has been to listen to new albums on Lala before deciding whether or not to buy.<p>What w...
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Ask HN: What font do you use while programming? - navd ====== Tiksi I use Tamsyn (6x12 on lower res screens, 7x14 on 4k monitors), [http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn-font/](http://www.fial.com/~scott/tamsyn- font/) but it's getting more and more difficult to use bitmap fonts these days. Firefox recently dropped support...
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RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried - sant0sk1 http://camendesign.com/blog/rss_is_dying ====== angrycoder I have used RSS for years now. I check google reader about as often as I check hacker news. I start my morning off with a cup of coffee while I read my feeds using Reeder on the iphone or ipad. Not once ...
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How Dead is WebOS? - spicerunner http://www.kiwiluv.com/techblog/?p=1297 New HP devices are coming out and folks are migrating to HTML/CSS/Javascript frameworks, which was always the case for WebOS. Does it have a chance for third place in the smartphone market after it's precipitous downfall? ====== modernerd I was...
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Hey, Remember Us? - Facebook Data Viz - chanderson0 http://heyremember.us/ ====== stevenp Interesting idea, but I had to reduce the Safari font size in order to see the login button, since I'm on an 11" MacBook Air. For some reason they've turned off overflow on the entire page.
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iPhone's “Field Test” debug screen: Dial *3001#12345#* for real signal strength - Mojah https://ma.ttias.be/iphones-field-test-debug-screen-dial-300112345-for-the-real-signal-strength/ ====== roflchoppa if you want to keep the numerical signal strength, just press the sleep wake button until the "slide to power off"...
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Does This Near-Immortal Life Form Need Saving Soon? - LJone7 http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2015/07/13/does-this-near-immortal-life-form-need-saving-soon/ ====== buserror Ahh the good old days of jesus christ. When was that again?
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New Apple maps app under fire from users - option_greek http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-19659736 ====== cletus Since the passing of Steve Jobs there has understandably been a lot of speculation about what will happen to Apple given Steve's laser-like focus on user experience above almost all else. Some self-proclai...
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Never get another marketing email again - kine http://blog.zackshapiro.com/never-get-another-marketing-email-again ====== danmaz74 This way you're going to receive only the real spam (that doesn't give a damn about any CAN-SPAM act) and stop all the legitimate newsletters you could easily unsubscribe from... not to ...
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Nodejs dev needed by Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon award winner - rudeegraap We recently won the Social Commerce award at the Techcrunch Disrupt Hackathon and sponsored a booth at the X.commerce ebay / paypal / magento event last week and got a ton of interest and customers and are now looking to roll the complete pr...
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Abolish the Department of Homeland Security - nextparadigms http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/01/abolish_the_dep.html ====== carbocation DHS is too inconsistent to be credible. The only flight I've ever missed (I was running late to a wedding), I missed because I had a tube of toothpaste in my carry-on. It ...
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[not NIST] PHC – password hashing competition – source code - fubarred https://github.com/bsdphk/phc ====== atoponce More details at: [https://password-hashing.net/](https://password- hashing.net/) Finalists (marked in red) at: [https://password- hashing.net/candidates.html](https://password-hashing.net/candidates....
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Ask HN: One-handed typing aids - stegro32 I broke my wrist, and need to type one-handed for a few weeks. I'm looking for hardware/software recommendations, preferably suitable for an Ubuntu-using developer.<p>Things I'm already considering: http://goo.gl/jtp3J ====== lloydwatkin Having broken both wrists in separate...
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How big would the Earth by relative to the size of the internet? - dfischer If the internet was the universe, and the earth was measured in bytes, how many bytes would the earth be relative to the size of the universe? ====== dbrush Here is the factor for Earth vs. Universe By approximate age: 3.017 By approximate...
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Notes on a Pulse Generator Circuit - cushychicken http://cushychicken.github.io/ckt-notes-pulse-generator/ ====== deutronium I thought this was pretty damn impressive [https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/3m1bao/13ghz_o...](https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/3m1bao/13ghz_oscillator/) I didn't know ...
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This patent application seems coherent. Then, a dedication to 50 Cent. Then... - zach http://www.freepatentsonline.com/20070156594.html Scroll down to see the description. ====== yubrew 20070156594 - This number refers to a published patent application, which does not mean that a patent has been granted. I have a ...
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Bulletproof demos using Chrome's playback mode - zackbloom http://dev.hubspot.com/blog/bulletproof-demos ====== gojomo Anyone know where the recorded content is stored, and whether it's kept segregated from other cached content? This could be a really interesting archival format... ~~~ inafield Even more awesome woul...
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Narcissists, Psychopaths, & Manipulators: “Virtuous Victim Signaling” Says Study - SQL2219 https://reason.com/2020/07/07/narcissists-psychopaths-and-manipulators-are-more-likely-to-engage-in-virtuous-victim-signaling-says-study/ ====== SQL2219 "Moral immunity shields the alleged victim from criticism about the means t...
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Show HN: Indemandly – Typeform meets Intercom: Contact forms 2.0 - jeremycs http://indemandly.com ====== jeremycs Hey all, We recently released an early version of indemandly - a free, simple, and customizable contact form that you can add to your website, social media, & marketing emails. It takes less than 1min to ...
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Jobs with prolonged standing double the risk of heart disease - Ice_cream_suit https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020132 ====== Ice_cream_suit Abstract: "While a growing body of research is examining the impacts of prolonged occupational sitting on cardiovascular and other health risk factors, relatively little wor...
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Node.js is the new PHP - nmerouze http://boldr.net/node-js-new-php ====== andreasklinger Isn't the strength of PHP the easy to learn and easy install on cheap shared hosts and the strong killer apps like wordpress/magento/drupal/etc ? Given the arguments in the article: Isn't Node.js rather the new RubyOnRails ? Ra...
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Devices can reduce fibers produced in laundry cycle by up to 80% - elorant https://phys.org/news/2020-07-devices-fibers-laundry.html ====== tomohawk You can put a mesh bag on the washer discharge to catch fibers before they go down the drain. Some people use nylon stockings, but the mesh used as a sock around drain ti...
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Using Artificial Intelligence to Engineer Materials’ Properties - prostoalex http://news.mit.edu/2019/artificial-intelligence-engineer-microchips-0211 ====== anton_tarasenko Milton Friedman on doing this in the 1940s:[1] > One of my problems was to provide statistical advice to the people who were > developing metals...
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Android Chief Andy Rubin Sends His First Tweet — And It’s Aimed At Steve Jobs - tzury http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/19/andy-rubin-twitter/ ====== apl That's all great and witty and so on. But his pseudo-definition of "free" is rather misleading. I don't think Jobs argues that Android isn't free in the sense of being ...
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PinBuddy – Google Chrome extension for the Pinboard bookmarking service - pawelgrzybek https://pawelgrzybek.com/i-built-a-thing-pinbuddy/ ====== darekkay Did you reach out to Maciej to include it on Pinboard as an unofficial extension? I think many users would find it useful (I'm not using Pinboard myself).
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Huawei: 5G Is About Capacity, Not Speed: One-on-one with CTO Paul Scanlan - Lind5 https://semiengineering.com/where-5g-makes-sense-and-where-it-doesnt/ ====== Arbalest This statement seems braindead and markety: I have a 5G phone, and I’ve had it since the end of last year. I suddenly realized that something was diff...
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Is SEO Dead? - flashinfremont http://www.startupwhisperer.com/2010/04/is-seo-dead.html ====== sunkencity SEO is not dead it's just been entered by players with more money to spend for each search than this author. It's pretty irritating that so many searches on google are compromised by pseudo pages that contain shi...
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GCP PubSub & CloudSQL are Down - nojvek https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-pubsub/19001 ====== nojvek > We are experiencing an issue with Cloud PubSub beginning at 2019-05-20 21:35 > US/Pacific. Current data indicates that approximately 1% of publish > operations globally (15% publish operations in asia-no...
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The Internet of Things Is Creating 1984's National Camera Surveillance Network - nickgrosvenor https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/20/the-internet-of-things-is-creating-1984s-national-camera-surveillance-network/#568e6dba2331 ====== michelinman UK here. Already done.
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First Preview of Android N: Developer APIs and Tools - krat http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2016/03/first-preview-of-android-n-developer.html ====== ubertaco Woah: >Improved Java 8 language support - We’re excited to bring Java 8 language features to Android. With Android's Jack compiler, you can now use many ...
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How a name can undermine your product - willsun https://www.intentapp.com/blog/naming-cost/ ====== gaspoweredcat very true and yet duckduckgo somehow insist on keeping their awful clumsy name
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Why Did Steve Jobs Decide To Make The iPhone Before The iPad? - npguy http://statspotting.com/2012/12/why-did-steve-jobs-decide-to-make-the-iphone-before-the-ipad/ ====== smegel The smartphone needed inventing, it was low hanging fruit (for Steve Jobs). Tablets had already been invented, and had already failed. It ...
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Making Phyramid's procedurally rendered 3D header using three.js - exogan https://www.phyramid.com/blog/making-phyramid-coms-procedurally-rendered-3d-header ====== edvinbesic Do they mean procedurally generated perhaps? Even so, I'm not sure that rnd() * MAX_HEIGHT * RANDOM_SIGN qualifies as procedural.
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5 Reasons Why Every Entrepreneur Should get Married - mjfern http://www.fernstrategy.com/?p=241 ====== fr0man This article could be titled '5 Reasons Why Every Person Should Get Married'. None of those benefits are specific to entrepreneurs. And marriage clearly isn't for every person, nor does every marriage offer al...
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Tool to create interactive information architecture charts - Zamake https://zachchang.github.io/inflow-chart/ ====== Zamake [https://medium.com/@chi_shienn/an-experimental-chart-for- vis...](https://medium.com/@chi_shienn/an-experimental-chart-for-visualize- information-architecture-and-user-interaction-361bebf44487) ...
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A way to manage modules for Deno - ramirez001 https://github.com/crewdevio/Trex ====== ramirez001 it's have been weeks when I started to learn Deno, when my team started to work in the Trex project. there are many people still want to a package manager for deno and I think deno doesn't need one, but sometimes we need...
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Solve ANY Math Problem. - Selfcommit https://www.mathway.com/ ====== dalke There's something wrong with the math. I tried the integral from 0 to 200 of e^(-x^2) and it gave me 0. It also gives me 0 for the range 0 to 1, and for using x^2 instead of -x^2. I then tried from 0 to 2 of e^(-x) and it gave me −0.86466471...
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Where Is Everyone? - nobodyandproud Hacker News used to have a vibrant and thoughtful population of commenters.<p>What happened? ====== Aachen Have you read the guidelines in relation to your apparent perception that quality is decreasing? ------ gradschool I clicked on here expecting a discussion of the Fermi parado...
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Geekstas Paradise (from Craigslist) - petenixey http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/rnr/1051070155.html ====== karanbhangui qft \--- Geekstas Paradise by Sinc (thanks to Gangstas Paradise by Coolio) As I walk through the valley of silicon of death I take a look at my screen and realize nothing's left Cause I've been...
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What If Bitcoin – Shoot I didn't invest - AshishGupta93 http://whatifbitcoin.com/ ====== TekMol But does that mean anything? You could have made this kind of ROI with many assets. For example with stock options. I have been telling people for years that "I am sure Bitcoin will grow a lot. I probably should invest. I'...
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Synode: understanding and automatically preventing injection attacks on Node.js - godelmachine https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/12/synode-understanding-and-automatically-preventing-injection-attacks-on-node-js/ ====== adumbledore The article doesn't actually talk about preventing injection attacks, but rather identify...
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Copy, a competitor to Dropbox, launches today - shamino http://www.copy.com ====== jacalata " as easy as sending a text file. " Without being snarky, why would you say a text file here? The only use case for 'sending a text file' that I can think of is a programmer sharing a .vimrc, or similar executable text file. T...
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The Art of Unix Programming (2003) - vermaden https://arp242.net/the-art-of-unix-programming/ ====== andrey_utkin What is special about the linked website with an opinionated reformat of this classical book? Imho a link to author 's site would be more appropriate. ~~~ Pimpus What I see posted here is light-years more...
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Slowing The Exodus Of Skilled Foreigners - terpua http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Slowing-The-Exodus-Of-Skilled-ibd-15191141.html ====== rdl I think everyone (except maybe self-interested immigration lawyers) thinks the current system in the US is broken. I think there are two extremes, and the US is inconsistently tak...
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Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange: our new heroes - yesbabyyes http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/03/snowden-manning-assange-new-heroes ====== yesbabyyes I'm not sure how to state this, but this is the second story I submit in a while which gets a few votes -- more than some on the fr...
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Show HN: Transform words accurately e.g. “hacker” to “hack”, “hacking” etc. - steinsgate https://github.com/gutfeeling/word_forms ====== steinsgate I have been working on a NLP project where I needed to identify different forms of the same word. Typically, this is done by Stemming and Lemmatization. These methods are ...
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If You Harvested Body Heat from 44,000 People You Could Mine 1 Bitcoin per Month - mgliwka https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vby7ny/bitcoin-body-heat-mining ====== Bucephalus355 Worth noting that the Matrix was originally supposed to be about harvesting CPU power from humans, not about using us as energy batt...
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