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GREATS Is Building The Next Great Footwear Company - Ataub24 http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2013/10/03/greats-is-building-the-next-great-footwear-company/ ====== sunsure Is there a great demand for hipster shoes?
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Making Time: Does it matter why we help others? - simonbrown http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24457645 ====== namenotrequired _Behaviour in some animal species is indeed genetically determined, he says, but with humans "that certainly isn't the case". He argues that culture sets us apart from animals in that respe...
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A Twitter Decision - timf http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2009/02/09/a_twitter_decision.html ====== moe Twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter twitter. A new twitter story every week. Will the hype ever end? I'll freely admit: I don't get twitter. I tried it, looked ar...
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Show HN: Subreddit-based Product Recommendations (weekend project) - nathan_f77 http://www.youshouldbuythese.com/ ====== nathan_f77 Have been waiting all day to post this.. I built it over the weekend, using Rails 4 and Zurb Foundation. ------ mindcrime This looks really cool, and of all the "personalized product r...
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Why Google is Right to Fear Windows Phone More Than iOS - kristiandupont http://www.reddit.com/r/windowsphone/comments/20kb5e/whats_wrong_with_search_in_the_windows_store_in/cg4680p?context=10 ====== valarauca1 The real problem for Google is that corporate business and windows are attached at the hip. Even if Google...
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Have 2 private GitHub repositories for the price of one. Documentation + Coding - mgonto http://www.blogeek.com.ar/2013/02/07/have-2-private-github-repositories-for-the-price-of-one-for-example-documentation-coding/ ====== mgonto 2 private repositories are awesome! ------ mgonto :)
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How to make Google index AJAX content (with Django) - pornark http://blog.pornark.com/ajax-indexing-with-django ====== mmavnn I'd love to read this, but unfortunately my work firewall blocks your domain as a 'sex' site! Yet another aspect to bear in mind when choosing domain names, I suppose. Between IE6 and the 'd...
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Models vs. Modules - brm http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1553-models-vs-modules ====== raganwald Reminds me of... _Favour object composition over class inheritance_ , only we are talking about mixin inheritance instead of class inheritance. ------ zepolen Summary: Object oriented beats monkey patching. ~~~ jamis ...
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FDA warning brings young-blood transfusion company to a halt - mips_avatar https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/19/fda-warning-blood-transfusions-ambrosia-medical/ ====== duchenne I am now reading "Red Star" a 1908 utopian novel by Alexander Bogdanov, where another advanced Humanity is living on Mars. In this Utopia, people...
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Making Sense of Super Smash Bros. Melee - panic http://planetbanatt.net/articles/ambistats.html ====== jpk Interesting article, but this stood out to me. _It frustrates me to see people in the smash community treat measures like elo as "the truth" because they "don't have any human input". This simply factually inco...
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Teoria: JavaScript music theory framework - DanielRibeiro https://github.com/saebekassebil/teoria ====== MichaelAza By and far one of the most creative projects I've seen on HN. Kudos.
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Moving Fast with Software Verification - ot https://research.facebook.com/publications/422671501231772/moving-fast-with-software-verification/ ====== omouse I like it, finally someone is talking more about real-world user-facing impact of software verification. Facebook is using OCaml and their partnership with INRIA ...
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Is there a CMS system designed primarily for the developer blogger? - aligajani ====== Wyndsage Try Orchard CMS, it has a built-in blog from the default installation and takes a slight bit of customization to work, plus it can run on Microsoft Azure cheaply ------ thegreenroom You sound like a lazy developer. Plus...
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Secretive fusion company claims reactor breakthrough - sparrowlisted http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/secretive-fusion-company-makes-reactor-breakthrough ====== carapace I keep wondering why this talk doesn't get more traction? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6z1vP4Eo8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk...
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Bitbucket Pipeline now in beta - eloycoto https://bitbucket.org/product/features/pipelines ====== SanDimasFootbal That escalated quickly..... unlimited repos and CI.
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PostgreSQL's Powerful New Join Type: Lateral - craigkerstiens https://blog.heapanalytics.com/postgresqls-powerful-new-join-type-lateral/ ====== ak39 T-SQL has this as CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY. Like pgsql’s LATERAL JOIN, CROSS APPLY has been a game changer in the way you think iteration in sets. Highly recommended....
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U.S. Patent Office Cancels Redskins Trademark Registration - kanamekun http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/sports/football/us-patent-office-cancels-redskins-trademark-registration.html ====== Alupis Previous discussion here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910168](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7910168) ...
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What Programming methodology is this? - YDude What is the programming methodology where only one person, at the time, is writing code while others developers, DBA, even the client are behind of him providing ideas or corrections, rotating the person who is writting code.<p>Months ago i read an article here at Hacker N...
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Rebuilding Rails Build Your Own Ruby Web Framework - conorwade http://rebuilding-rails.com/ ====== nalidixic I'm willing to up vote anything that is being bootstrapped by one hard working person! Cheers!
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Instagram Proves Santa Is Real And He's A Narcissistic Techie [Infographic] - altryne1 http://visual.ly/instagram-proves-santa-real ====== jumpwah [http://xkcd.com/838/](http://xkcd.com/838/)
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New Orleans' Tech Scene is Not on Bourbon Street - mollyoehmichen http://siliconbayounews.com/2012/01/27/new-orleans-is-more-than-bourbon-street/ ====== mohene1 Ok, but how do we readers act upon the article?
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Street Art View with Google Street View - mgrouchy http://streetartview.com/ ====== microtherion While there are some excellent pieces of street art, a lot of it just seems to be puerile vandalism, and by giving this a worldwide platform, I'm concerned that this will just motivate vandals to deface more walls. For ...
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Languages For Every Sysadmin - duck http://commandlion.com/2012/06/03/every-sysadmin-three-languages/ ====== gingerjoos I often find it difficult to talk about problems to some sysadmins because they don't understand how the MVC model works (I am a web dev). They point to a URL and ask me, "So where is this file/dir...
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Tensions Flare as Hackers Root Out Flaws in Voting Machines - humantiy https://www.wsj.com/articles/tensions-flare-as-hackers-root-out-flaws-in-voting-machines-1534078801 ====== humantiy Since it's paywalled: [http://archive.is/f8S0K](http://archive.is/f8S0K)
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Getting Tech into the Boroughs - PretzelFisch https://avc.com/2019/12/getting-tech-into-the-boroughs/ ====== greenyoda The biggest obstacle to locating any business outside of Manhattan is the transit system. Most subway lines run between the outer boroughs and Manhattan, and the regional commuter railroads (LIRR, NJ ...
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Ask HN: Developer to pitch idea for side project? - throwawayrtc Hello HN.<p>Where are the best places to pitch developers, so that they may take on a side project in their spare time?<p>I&#x27;m looking for an experienced backend webrtc developer, that knows Golang and is well versed in Video and Telecom.<p>It&#x27;s...
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Ask HN: How can HTTP/2 be used to get GraphQL like performance? - lostPoncho I am new to these stuffs. So as I understand HTTP&#x2F;2 comes with some improvements over HTTP&#x2F;1.1. So how can HTTP&#x2F;2 be used for data intensive request without needing to use GraphQL? ====== PaulHoule HTTP/2 is just a transport th...
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Electric or Not, Big SUVs Are Inherently Selfish - CaptainZapp https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7q7eb/electric-or-not-big-suvs-are-inherently-selfish ====== timwaagh It might all be true, I don't know. Still I think this comes from the wrong mindset. Rather than celebrating the fact that there will soon be an elect...
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Microsoft mocks Internet Explorer haters in new ad [video] - vsloo http://venturebeat.com/2012/11/29/microsoft-mocks-internet-explorer-haters/ ====== JoeCortopassi This ad isn't about the merits of IE as a browser, this ad is about building a preformed thought in the common users mind whenever they hear someone bash...
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ArtistPage.me - ArtistPage http://www.artistpage.me/ Create an electronic presskit as an artist or dj that looks professional and is always up to date. Be the first to know about our launch. The first 100 signups get a pro account for free. ====== ArtistPage It's about.me for artists and dj's!
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What does HN think about Oracle APEX? - dalacv https://apexea.oracle.com/i/index.html ====== dalacv Followup question: Has anyone seen anything similar to this?
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What Great Artists Need: Solitude - jseliger http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/02/what-great-artists-need-solitude/283585/?single_page=true ====== jseliger See also "Solitude and Leadership:" [https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude- and-leadership/](https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-lead...
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How Postgres Makes Transactions Atomic (2017) - dmitryminkovsky https://brandur.org/postgres-atomicity ====== rosser Submitter, or a moderator, please edit the title to re-add the word "How". That's done automatically, but sometimes it's wrong. It's especially so here. Also, this remains as fantastic an article on Po...
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Silicon Valley turned true innovation into an overhyped delusion - libraryofbabel https://www.fastcompany.com/90546794/how-silicon-valley-turned-true-innovation-into-an-over-hyped-delusion ====== libraryofbabel A review of a new book called _The Innovation Delusion_ by Lee Vinsel and Andrew Russell
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Heimcontrol.js – Home Automation in Node.js with Raspberry Pi and Arduino - jsingleton https://ni-c.github.io/heimcontrol.js/ ====== balloob For the people that prefer their Home Automation to be in Python, have a look at Home Assistant [https://home-assistant.io/](https://home-assistant.io/) ------ onaclov2000 If yo...
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The Tyranny of Structurelessness - xwvvvvwx http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm ====== ghotli Key takeaway, structure is emerging whether or not you want it to, so take care to put in place a minimum viable structure that is malleable. One such list of properties of what she considers an effective structure is...
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Torvalds and Theo harsh quote battle - sberder http://torvaldsortheo.com/ ====== ScottBurson Cute. I did better than one might have expected considering I don't know either of them well. But once it started recycling questions I got bored. (What? No score?) And why not "Linus and Theo"?
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Ask HN: What new website/platform do you think is useful to have? - 123user ====== bobsadinook platform or website for what ~~~ 123user a new website or platform useful for you.
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Hundreds More Artists Whose Tapes Were Destroyed in the UMG Fire - Anechoic https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/magazine/universal-music-fire-bands-list-umg.html ====== jumelles This is a follow-up to an article that was previously discussed here: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20154327](https://news.ycombinator...
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April 28th in Menlo Park – Mattt Thompson of NSHipster.com and Kat Li of Stripe - blake_lucchesi I wanted to let everyone know about an upcoming tech talk that we&#x27;ll be hosting at SendHub in Menlo Park on Monday, April 28th. We have two great speakers lined up for the event along with free food and drink (and ...
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Show HN: Level-Up "game" for people trying to lose weight - AznHisoka Our first iPhone app is finally out: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/slimkicker-calorie-counter/id512812753?ls=1&#38;mt=8 . We also got a website: slimkicker.com for those without iPhones.<p>As the title suggests, we try to apply gamification for p...
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Aks HN: What requirements for downvote activation? - erikb I know this question was often here. I read before that you need 100 karma to be able to downvote. Now I have 201 and never saw a downvote button anywhere. What other requirements are there? ====== reemrevnivek According to the FAQ, downvote arrows only occu...
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Apple Reports Q4 Results, $108B in annual revenue, $26B in earnings - acak http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/10/18Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html ====== mpakes To me, the biggest news here is the 1QFY12 guidance of $37 billion. Guidance of 30% above their best recorded quarter ever. Wow. ~~~ jcdavis Ye...
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How I could have hacked any Facebook account - phwd http://www.anandpraka.sh/2016/03/how-i-could-have-hacked-your-facebook.html ====== cphoover Frankly I think the amount being award by these companies is minuscule when you compare it to the amount of damage this information could have caused Facebook in the wrong han...
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How to Fail - tdavidson http://www.unstructuredventures.com/uv/2008/09/23/how-to-fail-25-secrets-learned-through-failure/ ====== wildwood Aren't the first two points mutually contradictory? It seems to me that 'making decisions early' is roughly the same as 'planning'. Why not plunge ahead with a design approach, an...
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Ask HN: Why won't Go compile with unused imports? - fhood I am very curious as to why this particular &quot;feature&quot; was implemented in the language. I find it very annoying and was wondering if there was a logic to its inclusion in the language. ====== detaro [https://golang.org/doc/faq#unused_variables_and_impo...
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Microsoft, Google and the Bear - Flemlord http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/26/microsoft-google-and-the-bear/ ====== gamble This is basically what I've been saying about Android since it was announced. The iPhone comparisons and controversy over 'openness' were inevitable, but Google's motivation for Android was a...
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Flickr to delete free accounts with 1000+ images - kodisha https://twitter.com/s10wen/status/1081467383796195328 ====== ChrisGranger They're not deleting the _accounts_ , but any content above and beyond the new 1000-image limit.
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Ask HN: Seeking General Marketing Feedback - 100-xyz Our product is a platform (called 100) for local information via Wifi. If a user sees a Wifi SSID that starts with 100-, she knows 100.here will get him to the business&#x27;s page (menu, about us, recipes, hair styles....)<p>Our website - http:&#x2F;&#x2F;100-xyz....
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Hackers Were Inside Citrix for Five Months - feross https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/02/hackers-were-inside-citrix-for-five-months/ ====== arminiusreturns One thing I have learned as a sysadmin who has had the privledge to see the inside of hundreds of companies from medium sized law firms to F500 oil companies: Ther...
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Real Email Validation - pythonist http://www.djangotips.com/real-email-validation ====== roc The only E-Mail validation involves sending an actual email with a response link. Because even if people happen to give you a _functional_ email address, it isn't necessarily _their_ email address. And I say that as someone ...
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk - ericdanielski https://auphonic.com/blog/2018/06/01/codec2-podcast-on-floppy-disk/ ====== dahauns Aside from the seriously impressive WaveNet based results, I think the article doesn't do the codec itself enough justice. I mean, low-bitrate speech codecs have been around for s...
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Troll Submits Game to Steam Greenlight Without Developer's Consent - kaushalkpr http://www.dominantwire.com/2015/06/SteamGreenlightTrolledFollowingKickstarterScam.html ====== Zekio at least those games now get a lot of free publicity, for when they apply themselves to Steam Greenlight.
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Jonathan's Card Experiments And Outcomes - robryan http://sam.odio.com/2011/08/13/jonathans-card-experiments-and-outcomes/ ====== Terretta This post stil feels disingenuous. Part of the experiment? Odio came along and scraped all the carbohydrates out of the Petrie dish, to give to ants _outside_ the lab. As pointe...
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Bill Gates: Responding to Covid-19 – A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? - bjourne https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762 ====== gowld Bill Gates is an epidemiologist? ~~~ paulddraper Surprisingly, no. He's founder and ex-CEO of Microsoft. Popular public figure, plus famously finances medical research and char...
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Battery Optimization for Android Apps - vinnyglennon http://www.slideshare.net/MuratAydn3/battery-optimization-for-android-apps-devoxx14 ====== kec One other thing this deck doesn't go into but has a huge impact (for games at least) is frame rate. Higher frame rates require the GPU to get the work done in a shorter ...
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Is Google Glass Dying? - RyanMcGreal http://gizmodo.com/is-google-glass-dead-1659023012 ====== RyanMcGreal With apologies to Ian Betteridge for the headline, which is taken from the original article.
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Ask HN: How did you deal with depression? - welldepressedaf I am starting to get a little bit hopeless on this one. Once I had passions and stuff I wanted to do, I learnt enough JS to build a small app that has proven to be incredibly useful for my family. Then came university and almost all my passions have gone, I a...
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Ask YC: Oh no, I think I have serious competition - What do you guys think of this? - edw519 http://www.geticeberg.com/ ====== sanswork This types of products always fail because the more you dumb it down the less control you have and the less like what you want you will get. Thats ignoring the performance issues an...
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Beaqn.in – Organized list of front end tools and websites - orange_juice http://beaqn.in/frontend/ ====== thunderbong Why isn't there any mention of Sencha in these lists ever? IMHO they are a very mature Javascript front-end MVC framework. Sencha ExtJs is now almost 8 years old and Sencha Touch is over a couple of...
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Funding a website without selling user data or advertisements - dyladan I have been reading hacker news for quite a while and love what I've found on this site. I am thinking of starting a website but I am having a funding problem. I do not want to sell user data and I really do not like advertisements. I would lik...
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Show HN: I'm building a blog on how to build a remote team - dmonn https://nohq.co ====== nickfromseattle I'm building a remote team and I would pay for fantastic content and would absolutely pay $19/month for this, probably more. However, after clicking around I wasn't able to justify it. \- No social proof. There ...
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Why You Should Learn JavaScript in 2016 - kpthunder http://knpw.rs/blog/learn-javascript-2016/ ====== egwynn I think JS is a pretty bad language. It’s a down-and-dirty language that was in the right place at the right time 20 years ago. But if you want to do web stuff, then you absolutely must know it. In all, that’s...
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WSJ journalist John Carreyrou shares year-long Theranos investigation [video] - bakztfuture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgwJA-GOlg ====== w1ntermute I really liked the point made about how Carreyrou being an NYC-based investigative journalist (with a focus on healthcare, not tech) who is largely disconnected from...
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IPv6: What Are They Really Thinking? - sarfralogy http://www.patexia.com/feed/ipv6-what-are-they-really-thinking-20120608 ====== macavity23 _And it should go without saying that all of that now-unnecessary NAT hardware tends to provide firewalls and other security measures that will no longer be a protective gateway...
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MSDN Blogs Have an Interesting View of Time - BudVVeezer http://blogs.msdn.com/b/default.aspx?PageIndex=28842 ====== ChrisInEdmonton I don't get it. You've linked to page 28,842 of the Latest Blog Posts index. It shows articles more than ten years old. So what? What am I missing?
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We Studied 6,452 SaaS Companies. The Findings Will Make You Grow - constantinum https://www.chargebee.com/blog/saas-business-growth-findings/ ====== smt88 tl;dr Use our product
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Show HN: Ambient background noise mixing on web, iPhone and Android - gabemart http://asoftmurmur.com ====== gabemart The iPhone app was released today. The interface is made with react-native and the audio-playing part in objective-c. Happy to answer any questions.
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Wiring a Generator to Your House - savrajsingh http://blog.wattvision.com/wiring-a-generator-to-your-house ====== dsr_ This bears repeating: If you try to wire your generator to your breaker box as a DIY project, you probably will not be in compliance with local electrical codes. Also know that it's...
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Should FB be blocking friend sharing with G+? - nathantross http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoR0lirqRWE ====== nathantross Here's a another hacking example of how to get all your FB friends onto Google+, but the question I'm wondering, should FB even care? I've seen a few things here and there that FB has set up to b...
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Coming soon: First pictures of a black hole - swombat http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227091.200-coming-soon-first-picture ====== jsonscripter Black holes are visible, but emit less radiation than the cosmic microwave background. It's therefore possible to take a picture of one if you have very _very_ sensit...
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Google Pay app for Android - bdcravens https://blog.google/topics/shopping-payments/say-hello-to-google-pay/ ====== photonios In Europe, the availability of contactless payment has been growing like crazy. I live in Eeastern-Europe and even here I can pay contactless almost everywhere. And with almost everywhere, I re...
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GDPR: By far best explanation by Tim Walters - _o_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-stjktAu-7k ====== _o_ I have read most of the text on internet about GDPR but this explanation is for an order of magnitude better, it is a bit long but it covers most of conceptual questions that might rise implementing it.
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Apple took out a CES ad to troll its competitors over privacy - bdcravens https://www.engadget.com/2019/01/05/apple-ces-2019-privacy-advertising/ ====== deadmutex I applaud Tim Cook being a privacy advocate, though there is an elephant in the room: [https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/25/18020508/how-china- compl...](ht...
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Tired of twitter and facebook? Here is one of my idea's. - Sthorpe I would love some feedback on my project, GettingPopular. I don't want to make a bajillion dollars. I just like building things. I hate the fact that facebook shares all my information with everyone. If I want to do that I have twitter.<p>So, I built...
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Ask YC: Games programming, JavaScript or Flash? - Tichy On the one hand, it seems to be golden times for flash games, with casual gaming booming and platforms like kongregate mkaing them popular. On the other hand, flash is still flash, and JavaScript seems to become an alternative.<p>So if you were designing a game...
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Introduction to Julia – Part 1 - Anon84 http://pyvideo.org/video/2754/introduction-to-julia-part-1 ====== EvanMiller I met David at JuliaCon a couple weeks ago -- he's a physics professor at the National University of Mexico and a charming interlocutor. I haven't made it through this (4-hour) tutorial myself, but the ...
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Ask HN: Little Snitch but with centralized rules? - dcf_freak We use little snitch in a small (10 people) company and everybody is running macbooks. I love little snitch, but for the non-technical persons in our company its near to impossible to identify &quot;good&quot; from &quot;bad&quot; connections.<p>Question: D...
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HTML5 vs Flash - pixelcort http://html5vsflash.tumblr.com/ ====== mortenjorck Guys. This isn't funny anymore. HTML5 is a set of markup standards that, in conjunction with other open technologies, can be used to create dynamic, standards-compliant web interfaces. Flash is a virtual machine. It is good for a lot of th...
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Study: Noise During Sleep Impairs Morning Performance - cwan http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/007242.html ====== lallysingh The 2nd Ave subway line started construction a few weeks after I moved in here. Just a few days sleep during a vacation made me a new man. A jackhammer makes a terrible alarm clock -- even ...
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What can Jevons' Paradox tell us about energy law? - Homunculiheaded http://www.questionable-economics.com/jevon/ ====== nvader One positive way of looking at this is we can get Jevon's Law to work for us by applying it to renewable energy sources: something that we see right now. As the price of solar energy in the...
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Show HN: I made an app to make it easier to use Google image search - samfisher83 I think Google image search is great. It helps you find out where a particular image comes from and sometimes images related to it. Some forums use attachments and you can't necessarily see if you aren't logged in, and that Google can'...
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DigitalOcean broken droplet. Cannot recover - smith2008 Yesterday DigitalOcean made an update on their nodes in NY3 location. After that one of my servers got broken. I received very limited support from them and still cannot recover it. I lost tons of user data and do not know what else I can do. Is there anyone who ...
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Health Care Just Became the U.S.'s Largest Employer - ourmandave https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/01/health-care-america-jobs/550079/?single_page=true ====== dv_dt First the article notes on the difficulty of replacing line medical workers with automation, but then it mentions this: "Recently, the gr...
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The calls to reign in Mark Zuckerberg have never been louder - johnshades https://www.fastcompany.com/90346111/calls-to-reign-in-mark-zuckerberg-facebook-have-never-been-louder ====== throwawaysea This is yet another clickbait article artificially amplifying the voices of a minority group of activists attacking [a tec...
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TRS-80 Trash Talk Episode 4 – Model I Buyer's Guide - pskisf http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/2016/04/episode-4.html ====== PaulHoule The Model I was a piece of trash. Why get a Model I if you could get a III? ~~~ davelnewton Because history. And, because when I got my Model I, there was no such thing as any other TRS-8...
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Mitt Romney Has A Santorum-Like SEO Problem - sbashyal http://searchengineland.com/now-mitt-romney-has-a-santorum-like-bing-google-problem-111061 ====== sbashyal Here is the HN thread for Santorum's SEO problem for those who missed it: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3426319> ------ paulhauggis Right. And when t...
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An oldy but a goody – BLAST - slyrus https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2231712 ====== slyrus It's too bad that while the implementation has been free all these years, the paper is still behind a paywall. ~~~ GFK_of_xmaspast There are literally dozens of copies of the paper available with minimal effort. ~~~ slyrus...
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With Graph Search, Can Facebook Kill LinkedIn, yelp--even Google? - EFathy http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2013/01/15/with-graph-search-can-facebook-kill-linkedin-yelp-even-google/ ====== general_failure Not sure about google but Its definitely going to kill Forbes. I can now get all news from Facebook with si...
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Get Paid Quickly and Securely - serferkid http://conffirm.com/ ====== serferkid Hi guys, I launched Conffirm to solve a problem I had working with clients esp new clients. I found it frustrating working with clients who had an issue paying upfront (or 50%) or were extremely late on payment. The only other option wa...
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A Sobering analysis of the current Android market share - jbrennan http://nearthespeedoflight.com/article/a_sobering_analysis_of_the_current_android_marketshare ====== grayrest The network isn't the only reason to pick an Android phone, though AT&T's lack of coverage in my apt completely eliminated the iPhone for my...
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘The idea of free information is extremely dangerous' - peterlk https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2018/aug/05/yuval-noah-harari-free-information-extremely-dangerous-interview-21-lessons ====== AnimalMuppet > Liberalism is based on the assumption that you have privileged access to > your own inner ...
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What's on the stack? - oskarth http://experiments.oskarth.com/unix02 ====== oskarth It took me a while to understand how the stack works on a low-level, so I wrote this. I hope someone finds it useful, and if you found something confusing please let me know and I'll try to clarify! The second part in this series, _...
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A World of Hardware Startups - nickpinkston http://upverter.com/hardware-startups/ ====== pedalpete Would it make sense that companies in more than one location show up on the map in more than one place? NinjaBlocks main base is Sydney, but they have an office in SF, so they show up as SF. Showing virtual offices a...
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Spotify is hiring Joe Rogan, one of the world’s most popular podcasters - pbui https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/5/19/21263967/joe-rogan-spotify-exclusive-deal-podcast ====== LinuxBender He said they are not hiring him. [1] He is just moving to their platform and utilizing his existing production team. [1] - [https://w...
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Physics-Based Animation - bssrdf http://www.physicsbasedanimation.com/ ====== batty FWIW, I created this site 7 or 8 years ago during my PhD, just as a way to keep track of and organize all the papers coming out in my research field. Happy to answer questions or comments if you have any. ------ santaclaus Nice aggreg...
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Ask HN: My kayak conundrum - wheresclark I've got a problem I'm hoping some of you may have a solution for. I've got a sea kayak that I store in a shed near Sydney Harbour. What I want to do is rent it out to five or so people who can all chip in x amount of money each month and get access to my kayak whenever they ...
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Ask HN: What's the single best decision you made as a founder? - dglassan Mine would have to be re-writing Disrupt.fm using the CodeIgniter Framework. Although I had already been live for about a month, I knew if I wanted to scale and add new features, my spaghetti code wouldn't hold up. I had read horror stories ab...
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Show HN: Visualizing Our Git Repository Activity - marclave https://medium.com/@marclave/visualizing-our-git-repository-activity-eb8842ecc174#.7bvx5yin7 ====== marclave A visualization of our git repo from the beginning to launch of [http://launchaco.com/](http://launchaco.com/) using [http://gource.io/](http://gource...
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Dmoz closed as of Mar 14, 2017 - scriptproof http://www.dmoz.org/ ====== exclusiv I remember when it was a big deal to get on DMOZ because it seemed to have a lot of SEO clout. It took me awhile to become an editor and then there were a lot of politics in making edits. Without having influence on search and no consum...
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