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Pat - A Sinatra style library for Go - gourneau ====== michaelwww <https://github.com/bmizerany/pat> ------ skram Awesome - thanks for sharing!
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Shoelace formula - jonbaer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula ====== jguffey For those who, like me, need to visualize such a method- I found an explainer: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KjG8Pg6LGk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KjG8Pg6LGk) ------ travisjungroth I worked at a company, HouseCanary, w...
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A list of over 4000 fintech startups and companies - pankmahar https://drive.google.com/open?id=1akR9F_JfVEvOleXn_mUB9hKmmtm5-1V8iQmhAWTqTc8 ====== zucchini_head Being serious here: What exactly is a "fintech" company? Every financial company on earth that isn't in someone's backyard is at-heart now purely technologic...
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Stamper: An Artboard-Oriented Creative Coding Environment - bobbiechen https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3334480.3382994 ====== faizshah Prototype link: [https://p5stamper.com/](https://p5stamper.com/) Glad to see they used Processing. In high school I introduced my CS classmates to Processing after hearing about it...
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Why the U.S. Pays More Than Other Countries for Drugs - prostoalex http://www.wsj.com/articles/why-the-u-s-pays-more-than-other-countries-for-drugs-1448939481?mod=e2fb ====== a3n > The upshot is Americans fund much of the global drug industry’s earnings, > and its efforts to find new medicines. “The U.S. is responsibl...
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Show HN: Searchmysite.net – a simple search for the non-commercial web - m-i-l https://searchmysite.net/ ====== m-i-l There have been a lot of comments on HN recently about how the advertising funded search model is broken and how hard it is to find all the fun and interesting content from personal websites and blogs[...
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CSS single-file stylesheets that you can drop into an HTML5 document - varunramesh https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1030985251940491266 ====== dpfu A nice way to compare how various CSS resets and frameworks style HTML elements is [[https://kemar.github.io/html- elements/](https://kemar.github...](https://kemar.githu...
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Free.cloudbrowser Not Working? - rspbrryrbtssn hey look i know little to nothing about internet or browser-esque things but i use this on my school chromebook because i am 16 without a phone, i opened a ssl server reader thingy and it said it is expired its pathetic but i need to use this, i cant really go into too mu...
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Open-guides/og-aws:Amazon Web Services – a practical guide - axiomdata316 https://github.com/open-guides/og-aws ====== QuinnyPig Community Lead of the project here. We’re always willing to fieldnideas of how we can make this project more accessible / useful to folks. ------ dbingham This is awesome and really helpful...
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Man places his genome in public domain, on Github - metabrew http://manu.sporny.org/2011/public-domain-genome/ ====== sandipc Technically this isn't his entire genome - just SNPs. (<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism>) One major problem with developing a "Google for the human genome" is tha...
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Show HN: Build gql apps using tests - joshmarlow http://massiveinference.com ====== joshmarlow Founder/maker here - I'm happy to discuss and answer questions.
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Tektronix 5 series oscilloscopes - ChuckMcM http://www.tek.com/oscilloscope/5-series-mso-mixed-signal-oscilloscope# ====== ChuckMcM In an industry that moves forward from 'existing practice' very slowly and carefully, these new scopes represent a huge leap. Kudos to the engineer at Tektronix that managed to sell manag...
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Fortran for .NET - fortran77 http://www.lahey.com/docs/lfenthelp/nlmgswhatis.htm ====== Bostonian I don't think this compiler from 2004 is worth much consideration. It does not have all the features of Fortran 95 and 2003. Lahey/Fujitsu did make a good Fortran 95 compiler, which I used, but its latest compilers are ju...
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Scaling MySQL to 700 million inserts per day - bluesmoon http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2009/09/scaling-writes-in-mysql.html ====== cperciva This article was mis-titled: The title should be "how to get poor performance by using a completely inappropriate tool". Quoth the article: " _Several million records a day need to ...
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Neovim's Next Feature Poll - tambourine_man http://neovim.org/development-wiki/polls/ ====== chroma I am convinced that Vim's greatest asset and risk is Bram Moolenar. Bram is a talented, experienced developer, and I commend him for creating Vim. But he is the only person with write access to Vim's codebase. The prima...
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Google bans BitTorrent clients - FossHub https://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/comments/6obxsa/google_bans_bittorrent/ ====== dkonofalski I don't know that this title is accurate. It doesn't seem like Google is banning BitTorrent clients. It seems like the qBitTorrent page was falsely marked as an illegal file-sharing sit...
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Show HN: Flying in for a YC interview? Zenner will protect you from disruption - wsdan https://gozenner.com/yc-interview-flight-protection ====== wsdan Hi HN - Zenner cofounder here. For those of you fortunate enough to receive a YC interview, congratulations! We've built a free tool that will analyze the risk of you...
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Google Reader to shut down July 1st - halffullheart http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/13/4101144/google-shuts-down-reader-rss-aggregation-service ====== superchink This is the worst news I've read all day. ~~~ niggler Did you read it in google reader? ~~~ superchink Of course! Which explains why I missed the other HN...
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One programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code (2016) - tosh https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/ ====== raxxorrax ('chchchchchch' \+ str).slice(-len)? But yes, maybe you want to pad a lot of characters. That is why I always define a constan...
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Real Go Projects: SmartTwitter and web.go - pufuwozu http://blog.golang.org/2010/10/real-go-projects-smarttwitter-and-webgo.html ====== ed I've been thoroughly impressed watching web.go come together. It's now the top Go project on Github in every category they track: <http://github.com/languages/Go> Personally I'm...
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Show HN: The powerful software development tool designed to eliminate boundaries - cyber_brain http://elastic-it.net/ ====== GwynBleidd This is an awesome concept, well under way towards being feature complete enough to shatter the whole world of programming as we know it - robust, simple, scalable, cross-platform. C...
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Send SMS for Free via AIM on iPhone - nickb http://db.tidbits.com/article/9690 ====== snewe Just tested this. It sends a text from 26950. If the receiver does not know your AIM screen name, the text will be very confusing. Also, if you have the Gen 1 iPhone, you get 200 texts by default with the data plan so this won...
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Baltimore Is Getting Its First Startup Incubator - llimllib http://bmoremedia.com/features/startupcity030811.aspx ====== subelsky I know there are a lot of incubators starting up now, but there aren't so many on the east coast. I wrote in more detail about the vision of this project and why we're doing it in this Go...
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The Famous Ethics Professor and the Women Who Accused Him - hownottowrite https://www.buzzfeed.com/katiejmbaker/yale-ethics-professor?src=longreads&utm_term=.ffwo67e6O#.jlMmoRloe ====== chmaynard If Yale really tried to silence an accuser with an NDA and a cash payment, they are co-conspirators in an attempt to cover ...
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Dog's Device (Python grammar edge-case) - lhgaghl http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15955948/how-does-this-lambda-yield-generator-comprehension-work ====== jaimebuelta Oh, that's really hideous code...
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Ask HN: What if my startup is acquired twice? - acq_question Hi all,<p>Quick question for those in the know. If I sold off the assets of my startup for stock in the private acquirer and then 1 year later those exact same exact assets were sold off for 10x value in cash to another acquirer am I basically screwed? How w...
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Ask HN: Exercising stock options with imminent new round of funding (AMT panic) - tootall Hi,<p>I am likely looking to leave (within the next few weeks) the startup I am currently working for, and go to one of the top 4 for several reasons.<p>(Un)fortunately, the startup appreciated considerably since I joined 3 years...
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Ask HN: Cheap and Reliable IAAS Provider for a web app? - yawz If you had an on-line product&#x2F;web app to launch, which IAAS provider would you pick, knowing that initially your funds are very limited? You don&#x27;t want to break the bank but would like to have the option to scale out if necessary without it bec...
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Is AOL buying Techcrunch? - mg1313 http://www.quora.com/TechCrunch/Is-AOL-acquiring-TechCrunch-How-much-are-they-paying-for-it ====== mg1313 Summary of Om Malik story from September 27: * AOL is on the verge of acquiring TechCrunch. * The deal is at a sensitive stage and might fall apart yet, but I don’t think so. *...
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What’s Right and Wrong with Media Now - vaksel http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/04/whats-right-and-wrong-with-media-now/ ====== newsio Her comments about media are shallow, and the main point of this post is to plug her book. I am surprised TechCrunch prints this kind of thing. No value-add, IMHO. ~~~ wmeredith Aft...
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Opinionated view of Swift from a Ruby/Objective-C/JavaScript Developer - ankurpatel http://blog.encoredevlabs.com/post/88236228430/opinionated-view-of-swift-from-a ====== msie I'm glad that Swift is more like Python and less like Ruby or Javascript. Too much meta/DSL capability means I won't be able to easily unders...
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An Ancient Virus May Be Responsible for Human Consciousness - bcaulfield https://www.livescience.com/61627-ancient-virus-brain.html ====== bcaulfield Original paper here: [http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31502-7](http://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674\(17\)31502-7)
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NSFW: Show HN: Vintage Porn [video] - dittes http://vintasy.com ====== dittes This is what we built the last 4 hours. For alternative content see what we built last time: [http://vintagecartoons.tv](http://vintagecartoons.tv)
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Oxford's Covid Vaccine Front-Runner Is Months Ahead of Her Competition - mherrmann https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-07-15/oxford-s-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-coronavirus-front-runner ====== nabla9 The problem with this first across wins race is that if regulators accept accept a vaccine with low efficacy, the...
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The birth of ARM, a UK tech giant. - RiderOfGiraffes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11821504 ====== sambeau I can highly recommend "Micro Men" the BBC's dramatisation of the story of Acorn computers, the pre-curser to ARM. It's a shame they didn't keep its original name: "Syntax Era".
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Wide Color Photos Are Coming to Android - el_duderino https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2019/05/wide-color-photos-are-coming-to-android.html ====== jasonkester I really just want Android to stop messing with the camera and let it take pictures. It's getting harder to take a photo without it stripping all the t...
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What's up, bot? Google tries new Captcha method - nickb http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10222514-2.html ====== pavel_lishin I think one fascinating aspect of this whole thing is that by creating tougher and tougher captchas, Google and the like are actually helping make great strides in the field of image recognit...
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The All American Aldi - briandear https://www.theawl.com/2017/12/the-all-american-aldi/ ====== linkmotif There’s a lot wrong with this piece, starting from the subhead: > unfriendly German efficiency. Aldis are some of the friendliest grocery stores I know. Their employees always seems happier than employees other p...
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Tree-nation: tree-hugger facebook (buy a tree and watch it grow) - s2r2 http://www.tree-nation.com/ ====== s2r2 This actually is a great present for someone. „Look, I give you a tree in Senegal and you can watch its growing process.“
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Show HN: Chrome extension – Keyword search volume for Google analytics and GWT - spocked https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keywords-everywhere/hbapdpeemoojbophdfndmlgdhppljgmp ====== zeeshanm Every time you search on Google a request is made to [https://keywordkeg.com/service/1/getKeywordData.php](https://keyw...
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Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings? - sethbannon http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/05/27/is-silicon-valley-only-interested-in-the-problems-of-twentysomethings/ ====== ritchiea The title is deceptive because shortly after asking that question in the article, the aut...
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Tech companies giving away free face masks to combat coronavirus - BethGagaShaggy https://www.combatnerd.com/news/companies-giving-away-face-masks-free-charge/ ====== e03179 I wouldn't mind getting one myself
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Incomprehensible job titles are an elitist affectation - happy-go-lucky https://theconversation.com/calling-all-time-ninjas-lets-put-a-stop-to-ludicrous-job-titles-79544 ====== pluma > Yet a nationally representative study of 1,000 British adults, with which I > assisted, found that 75% of British adults thought “scru...
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Google this: - oliverdamian sqrt(cos(x))<i>cos(300x)+sqrt(abs(x))-0.7)</i>(4-x*x)^0.01, sqrt(6-x^2), -sqrt(6-x^2) from -4.5 to 4.5 ====== calciphus [http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)%2Bsqrt(abs(x))-0....](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sqrt\(cos\(x\)\)cos\(300x\)%2Bsqrt\(abs\(x\)\)-0.7\)\(4-x*x\)%5E0.01%2C+sqrt\(6-x%...
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Can Canonical count users without uniquely identifying them? - alonswartz http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2010/08/can-we-count-users-without-uniquely.html ====== macemoneta Model numbers? Isn't that why UUIDs were created? Unique identifier, and anonymous: <https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/UUID> ~~~ ...
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$100M/Year to Shut Down: The Rise and Fall of CountryOutfitter.com - patwalls https://www.starterstory.com/stories/country-outfitter ====== anoncoward111 This is actually an excellent anecdotal account of how you can go from wage laborer to partner of a 9 million dollar company, and then watch the business explode bec...
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Ask HN: Twitter Account Ownership Issue? - mknappen A coworker just set up a Twitter account and, apparently, inadvertently took over another person&#x27;s active account. I haven&#x27;t been able to recreate the problem using my own account. Twitter dev support has &quot;encountered an unexpected error&quot; both t...
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Ask HN: Help deciding between Angular and React - Gootch We have a product that is currently using Ionic 3, and we are deciding what to do since we are moving away from native apps in favor of a full web based experience. It is a small app with a very limited number of pages.. but heavily used by end users.<p>We are ...
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An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo - djrogers http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc1713344 ====== mrguyorama Wow, half way through I was specifically thinking to myself how this could have been a drunken mistake, and the report directly addressed that! I'm also happy that they were able to find the official...
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Show HN: Owl.js – Backbone-like library without jQuery and Underscore dependency - omegascrop https://github.com/owljsorg/owljs ====== anilgulecha Is there a TODOmvc or something built with this? It would give a good comparison to Backbone.
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Ask HN: Any ideas for mobile coupon validation? - gofl1 Hey everyone, I am working on designing an app that involves mobile coupons. Can anyone offer suggestions for how a coupon could be redeemed and tracked at retailers that don't have barcode scanners in place, aside from providing external hardware? Is POS integ...
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Why I would bet against Bitcoin - elephant_burger https://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2017/12/16/why-i-would-bet-against-bitcoin/#1c96eeb77fe8 ====== informatimago It's really funny how "serious" people can be dumb when the write about bitcoin... (and in general, the big lesson of the Internet, is that it all...
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Ask HN: Ctrl/Shift with same hand or opposite? - cammil I have been contemplating the techniques in efficient typing. In particular, whether it is more efficient to press a Ctrl or Shift key with the same hand that you press a number or letter, or with the opposite one.<p>Have you any thoughts on this? ====== 271828...
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Huawei P30 Pro Review – Better Than P20 Pro but No Mate of Mine - PrimeVinister https://elitegamer.com/2019/04/04/huawei-p30-pro-review-better-than-p20-pro-but-no-mate-of-mine/ ====== PrimeVinister Huawei’s P-Series unapologetically aims to be a camera with a decent phone attached. Borrowing from the Mate 20 Pro made ...
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HSBC IT staff at risk as bank announces 30,000 job cuts - Netadmin http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/careers/3294543/hsbc-it-staff-at-risk-as-bank-announces-30000-job-cuts/ ====== wccrawford Noting that the IT staff might get cut seems like a desperate attempt to make the news relevant to tech sites.
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Automatically generating a concept index for freeform notes - rsaarelm http://jsomers.net/blog/semantic-notes ====== samstokes Worth a read for the vector maths interpretation: _I could calculate the vectors for all of my notes and use something like the k-means algorithm to find semantically-related clusters of n...
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Would you rather use: QBasic + worlds best IDE or (favorite language) + Notepad - joeyespo http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/01/its-the-ide-dummy.html ====== marssaxman I could hardly disagree more. Surplus complexity is a cognitive tax. I want to use the simplest tools which get the job done so that I can focus m...
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Show HN: Be notified on new open source releases - scopsy https://releasly.co ====== lozzo please correct this typo: "Releasly is a tool for open source lovers like our- self." ... like ourselves. Good luck, but (in my opinion) even the most dynamic open sources don't change rapidly enough to justify your tool.
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Beta invites for lean startup http://qrcardmaker.com - kovlex Looking for beta testers/early adopters for a new service called <i>http://qrcardmaker.com</i>.<p>Practicing the lean startup methodology by Eric Ries. Trying to build measure and learn how users interact with the app. If you'd like to use the service for...
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My startup pivot idea. Comments? - fezzl Hi, I recently posted a thread to gather pivot ideas for my startup (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1734466). I got many ideas, and I thank HN for being so helpful.<p>Given our less-than-satisfactory traction, we would be willing to try a rather major pivot. Do give your...
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Why Sake Used to Be Made with the Spit of Japanese Virgins - tosh https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vvkz8a/why-sake-used-to-be-made-with-the-spit-of-japanese-virgins ====== indescions_2018 Wonderful scene in Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name" anime of the Kuchikamizake ritual!
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A Parser Combinator library for C - joubert https://github.com/orangeduck/mpc ====== enqk Another is Hammer, [https://github.com/UpstandingHackers/hammer](https://github.com/UpstandingHackers/hammer) ------ 0xCMP This is being used from another thing posted here about making your own lisp: [http://www.buildyourownlis...
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Here be dragons: the same 3D scene implemented with 10 different 3D APIs - adamnemecek https://github.com/kosua20/herebedragons ====== pierrec This is a really useful codebase to compare what the code looks like for different APIs and the tooling around each (not so much for directly comparing the graphics, which shou...
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Announcing hubot integration for Kandan - sgrove http://cloudfuji.com/blog/2012/05/11/hubot_stops_by_for_tea.html ====== tadruj hubot now counts as our official pet and as our new company feed provider. I'd wish for Stripe integration, so the gong plays every time we earn money. Great work with hubot on Kandan.
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Silicon Valley calls us unicorns - nuromancer http://unicornspeakeasy.net/ ====== jff Is there a secret handshake too? ~~~ Skywing Yes, it's mentioned in the linked page.
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Ask HN: Is there any way to avoid setting a Signal pin? - hedora Signal has stopped letting iOS or Android users into the app unless they set up a pin and turn on the new backup &#x2F; account recovery features.<p>Is there any way to opt-out? I don’t see an option in the app. At the very least, I’d like to access my...
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AskHN: Help me raise funds for my first Windows Phone for WP development - sygeek https://www.wepay.com/donate/181573 ====== MikeW I don't know why he needs $1000 either. I bought a cheap older unlocked WP7 device for under $250 just by keeping an eye out for bargains. Contact your local MS rep. I nearly every mar...
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How Your Airbnb Host Is Feeling the Pain of the Coronavirus - jennyyang https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/10/technology/airbnb-hosts-coronavirus.html ====== adelHBN I bet this will have a huge downside effect on the economy (along with everything else). My and four other families are scheduled to go on vacation in May. ...
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Paperboy: a small cli-based .pdf organization tool - 2mol https://github.com/2mol/pboy ====== 2mol I wrote a tool to help you rename and move those 200 pdfs out of that unholy mess that you call your download folder. You know, all those papers you keep downloading to "read them once you get around to it". ~~~ lixtra...
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Startup Quote: Henry Ford, founder, Ford - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/2543548511 ====== raychancc You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year. \- Henry Ford <http://startupquote.com/post/2543548511>
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GitHub vs. Resume: Why Bother with a Resume in the Age of GitHub? - To_soo https://blog.kickresume.com/2017/09/11/github-vs-resume/ ====== bsg75 > Why Bother with a Resume in the Age of GitHub? 1) Because not all experience can be public visible code 2) Because recruiters, who are often firewalls for candidates, can...
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Introducing Espresso – LinkedIn's hot new distributed document store - johlo https://engineering.linkedin.com/espresso/introducing-espresso-linkedins-hot-new-distributed-document-store ====== brudgers Date: 2015
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Show HN: Ingwe - SMS/Email scheduling API - nautical https://ingwe.io ====== nautical Hello HN, I would like to show a product I am currently working on : Ingwe. On Ingwe you can store templates, insert data into templates while sending email or SMS( by APIs and variables ). I would love some feedback on the landing...
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OpenAI Charter - craigkerstiens https://blog.openai.com/openai-charter/ ====== 3pt14159 So I have a question. To "avoid enabling uses of AI or AGI that harm humanity or unduly concentrate power" what does one do with an idea or line of research that could potentially harm humanity or unduly concentrate power? The ma...
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Why You Need To Work For A Big Company - codegeek http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/33111/7-Reasons-Why-You-Need-To-Work-For-A-Big-Company.aspx ====== peterwwillis Some of the things I learned at big companies: \- Process is not the enemy, inefficient process is the enemy \- Project Management makes a huge differ...
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Colleges Spending Millions to Deal with Sexual Misconduct Complaints - jseliger http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/30/us/colleges-beef-up-bureaucracies-to-deal-with-sexual-misconduct.html?_r=0 ====== jseliger This article reminds me of an essay I wrote: "When there are too many administrators, which ones do _you_ fire?" (...
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Clone software to start my own business. Is it ethical? (discussion) - SingAlong http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.829048.17 ====== keeptrying Was google a clone of altavista? Was facebook a clone of friendster? Was the ipod a clone of all other mp3 players? Is Mockingbird a clone of Balsamiq? Jus...
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50 years after Apollo, conspiracy theorists are still howling at the ‘moon hoax’ - pseudolus https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/50-years-after-apollo-conspiracy-theorists-are-still-howling-at-the-moon-hoax/2019/05/23/ca5b4a3a-700e-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html ====== phakding There always will ...
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Washington State AG Bob Ferguson Sues Uber Over Data Breach - finnn http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2017/11/28/25591224/washington-state-ag-bob-ferguson-sues-uber-over-data-breach ====== finnn Original source (that i should have linked... mods wanna gimme a hand?): [http://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-ferguson...
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Show HN: Active Circles invite friends with snaps - rush86999 Hi, my name is Rushi and I launched Active Circles. The idea behind Active Circles is simple to gather a crowd and use the FOMO effect to pull it off.<p>So why did I build this? I have a whole article on it on medium: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&...
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Game developers must avoid the ‘wage-slave’ attitude - underscoremark http://venturebeat.com/2016/04/16/game-developers-must-avoid-the-wage-slave-attitude/ ====== underscoremark Just so it's clear, I think this guy is out to lunch: > "Don’t be in the game industry if you can’t love all 80 hours/week of it — > you’re ...
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Mapping out dev grants in Ethereum and beyond - gabriellemic https://medium.com/ecf-review/mapping-out-grants-in-ethereum-and-beyond-41394b7ca3ba ====== gabriellemic Have more dev grant programs to refer besides the ones included here? Send them on over: [https://ecfund.typeform.com/to/YaakUT](https://ecfund.typeform...
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Propagation of Error and the Reliability of Global Air Temperature Projections - vixen99 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2019.00223/full ====== vixen99 Author concludes: "The unavoidable conclusion is that a temperature signal from anthropogenic CO2 emissions (if any) cannot have been, nor presentl...
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The First Digg Developer Dispels the Myths Surrounding Digg & Startups in General - NewWorldOrder http://blog.mixergy.com/pr-lies-destroy-your-understanding-of-how-business-really-works-owen-byrne-digg/ ====== jonny_noog _Owen said: It’s a bit of a myth that it’s all young coders. There actually lots of people in th...
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Ask HN: Who is making the most awesome dumb phones? - 0xdeadbeefbabe ====== mtmail Simvalley, which is probably just one brand name of many for the same Chinese manufacturer, has a phone which you can also use as walkie-talkie. Quadband, dual SIM, waterresistent, rugged, 2 week standby. Should be ideal for construc...
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New cheap VPS provider, based in Sweden - klrr https://cloudroyale.se/ ====== p4bl0 If I understand correctly this is a VPS offer which is $22/month. It's not even cheap _at all_. I have a real dedicated server for less than that. Also, their offer is not available outside of Sweden. And they don't have an English v...
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Create Mock API Endpoints in a Few Seconds - pitchinnate https://testapi.io ====== AllenMay Great resource for those building with EmberJS, ReactJS or other frontend frameworks! ------ jakeboyles Great idea and service! ------ cdilling THIS IS AWESOME!
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A Web Developer Goes Native (with Android) - renaebair http://intridea.com/2010/9/13/a-web-developer-goes-native-with-android ====== briancooley _I know that it's the go-to solution for small, simple storage, but why on earth do mobile platforms have schema-driven data stores by default?_ There are a few other easy...
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Is it possible to make money off of advertisements if your primary audience are techies? - hashtable I am planning on starting a website primarily aimed at techies. The problem is that techies are very unlikely to click on ads and use AdBlock, further lowering the probability. Is it possible to make money off of adv...
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A New Way to Promote Your App on Google Play - bjonathan http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2015/02/a-new-way-to-promote-your-app-on-google.html ====== Someone1234 While I don't care either way if this exists or not, I do worry that this will further result in Google ignoring the "discoverability" problem in the G...
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Trump’s Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-30/trump-s-next-move-on-immigration-to-hit-closer-to-home-for-tech ====== fergie I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this may not be an altogether bad thing. From the article: ...
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Yale Covers for Rapists - jordanlee http://jezebel.com/yale-officially-declares-nonconsensual-sex-not-that-b-988475927 ====== dredmorbius Lifted from comments at Jezebel: FrothingLiberalUKatie J.M. Baker41L How dare Yale not give delicate little snowflakes the unilateral ability to expel any male student with a fal...
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Ask HN: Founders, how did you balance between increasing users and revenue? - adamfaliq Startup has limited resources. Hence, I found myself in catch-22 situation.<p>For example, if we want to increase revenue, we need more users. To increase users, we need to spend more. However we do not have enough revenues to just...
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GunJS: Forget Everything You Thought You Knew About Databases - sjones6 https://arsenalio.com/guides/forget-everything-you-thought-you-knew-about-databases ====== greatNespresso Looks interesting really, summarised gunjs is pouchdb + couchdb + rethinkdb + neo4j all in one.
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Considerations for programming language design: a rebuttal - BruceEel https://medium.com/hackernoon/considerations-for-programming-language-design-a-rebuttal-5fb7ef2fd4ba ====== BruceEel Not a D expert, I'm currently using D for a side-project and having a great time learning as I go. IMVHO Walter Bright is right and ...
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The Science of Insecurity, Meredith L. Patterson and Sergey - based2 https://media.ccc.de/v/28c3-4763-en-the_science_of_insecurity ====== based2 [http://langsec.org/](http://langsec.org/) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836) [https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5023](ht...
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47% of applications for our Hacker Retreat were women. Here is how we did it - AlexeyMK https://medium.com/@casey_rosengren/how-we-got-47-female-applicants-for-our-hacker-retreat-430b8a13a6fc ====== angersock A general comment, likely grounded more in my own frustration and : When did we become so concerned with awes...
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You Are Not A Product – So stop treating yourself like one - changisP https://medium.com/personal-growth/you-are-not-a-product-61acb6d208c5 ====== ksaj If you allow yourself to be treated as the product, then you are indeed the product. Don't use "free" services if you object to the designation, because to the owners...
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OnDeck IPO Proves Online Lending Is Red-Hot - greedoshotlast http://www.wired.com/2014/12/ondeck-ipo/ ====== greedoshotlast Just a week after the LendingClub IPO, I'm really surprised there has not been more buzz on HackerNews about these two online lending companies.
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Hypothes.is: an open platform for scholarly discussion on the web - sohkamyung https://hypothes.is/ ====== kristopolous I'm seeing yet another metaweb ... I think either NS4 or IE4 had a built-in tool do this and even with half the web having it at its fingertips it still flopped. The only real metaweb that has worke...
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