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Hacking GCN via OpenGL - Impossible https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=EBE7DEDA70D06DA0!107&app=PowerPoint&authkey=!AD-O3oq3Ung7pzk ====== striking > GPU-based OS, anyone? This makes me... uneasy. Incredible work, though. I had no idea GPU shaders were run as Von Neumann programs. I always thought they were r...
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Re-live your memories with VR - tnn225 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/teleport-capture-relive-your-best-memories ====== nontechwingman A creative way to re-live with your memories. Can not buy time, but you can turn it back with VR tech. Nice design also. ------ doilanhuthe23 Love idea, Goodluck Anh Duy
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Sawppy the Rover - msadowski https://github.com/Roger-random/Sawppy_Rover ====== msadowski This rover has been inspired by NASA's Open Source rover: [https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/](https://opensourcerover.jpl.nasa.gov/). A shameless plug: If you like this kind of content then you will probably enjoy my Weekly...
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Audio over Bluetooth - tosh https://m.habr.com/en/post/456182/ ====== sam1r I wish there were more technical write ups as such in the music space!
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Show HN: NimbusBase, a HTML5 application data storage powered by Dropbox - taskstrike http://nimbusbase.com ====== septerr An HTML5 application. Unless you pronounce H as Haytch (<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11642588>). An is for words beginning with vowel sounds. The letter the word begins with may or may n...
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Pig brains kept alive outside body for hours after death - fmihaila https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4 ====== ggm Alive at the cellular level but no coherency to neural signals. ------ namirez This brings the concept of "brain in a vat" to a whole new level.
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Chili's Has Installed More Than 45,000 Tablets in Its Restaurants - jseliger http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/chilis-is-installing-tablet-ordering-at-all-its-restaurants/372836/ ====== jessaustin _The machines automatically suggest a tip of 20 percent; you can go lower than that (or higher), but y...
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Steve Jobs – Thoughts on Music (2007) - walterbell https://web.archive.org/web/20101007143742/http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/ ====== ywecur I don't understand. Both Google and Amazon sell music completely DRM-free today, and their music selection is as big as the one on iTunes. What's their excuse tod...
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The former US congressional intern behind Venezuela’s cryptocurrency - hapnin https://nypost.com/2018/03/19/the-former-us-congressional-intern-behind-venezuelas-cryptocurrency/ ====== bitxbitxbitcoin Apparently he's been working on this in Venezuela since 2015. Just being honest, this article actually gives me a littl...
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Firespotter, a Google Ventures funded incubator - turoczy http://www.firespotter.com/ ====== endtwist "Firespotter isn’t an incubator. We aren’t looking for ideas or teams to back. We will instead be building products that we want to use ourselves and quickly get them out into the world."[1] [1] <http://www.firespott...
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Linting 400kLOC of Python Code with Black - jbbarth https://medium.com/botify-labs/paint-it-black-2b1b015f8f18 ====== rgacote Using black has improved my level of concentration while writing Python. No longer do I need to worry about a line getting a bit too long, or if I have the right number of blank lines between ...
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The Power of the Doodle: Improve Your Focus and Memory - mbchoe http://online.wsj.com/articles/the-power-of-the-doodle-improve-your-focus-and-memory-1406675744?mod=trending_now_3 ====== contingencies My brother is a conventional architect and urban designer, whereas I do software. When we discuss complex areas togethe...
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How to build a secure burner laptop - marklittlewood http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hackers-activists-journos-how-to-build-a-secure-burner-laptop ====== jandrese It sounds like he's going down the road of Trusted Computing, which would be pretty effective at keeping malicious software off of the machine, but is gene...
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Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Opens Door to Attackers - Kenan https://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/vulnerability-in-microsoft-xml-core-services-opens-door-to-attackers ====== Kenan See also the patch: <http://technet.microsoft.com/en- us/security/advisory/2719615>
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The natural borders of Azure Cloud Queue scalability - hleichsenring http://codingsoul.de/2016/01/25/the-natural-borders-of-cloud-queue-scalability/ ====== lostmsu TL;DR; Azure Queues (and any other component of Azure Storage) have 20000ops/sec limit per storage account. Those guys used a single storage account for al...
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Airbnb to Remove Listings in Jewish West Bank Settlements - mbgaxyz https://www.haaretz.com/amp/israel-news/airbnb-to-remove-listings-in-jewish-west-bank-settlements-1.6662443 ====== dragonwriter > Airbnb to Remove Listings in Jewish West Bank Settlements _Israeli_ West Bank settlements is the issue, though the Isra...
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AWS Import/Export Goes Global - jeffbarr http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2009/12/aws-importexport-goes-global.html ====== PStamatiou While I know much of the HN community employs AWS services, this place is starting to seem like an Amazon PR Newswire with the past 2 in the last week that I've noticed being posted directl...
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Interact with R from Python - kirubakaran http://www.daimi.au.dk/~besen/TBiB2007/lecture-notes/rpy.html ====== apathy This is cute, RPy is " _the simplest thing that can possibly work_ " (and it does!), and most of all, it's awesome to see an R story high on the front page of YC.news. But I would encourage readers (o...
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The Limits of Emacs Advice - metajack http://nullprogram.com/blog/2013/01/22/ ====== metajack I had no idea about impatient-mode. It looks awesome: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6XVyXjBO8> Also, defadvice is great for fixing annoyances in various modes. It's really easy to use too. Hopefully they'll find some w...
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Ruby "with statement" - otobrglez http://blog.mrbrdo.net/2013/02/ruby-with-statement/ How would you implement "with statement"? ====== dragonwriter Article claims that this implementation provides something like the "Pascal or Python" with statement. But its nothing like Python's "with" statement (PEP-343), which is ...
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Ask HN: What is the problem you face everyday and can't find a solutions 4 yet? - karimo As A User - not developer - What is the problem that you face everyday and you couldn't find a solutions for yet?&#60;p&#62;Example: Information Overload, there is a lot of news and feeds that you don't have time to read every d...
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Utopia: USB power sockets on every wall - ukdm http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/118187-utopia-usb-power-sockets-on-every-wall ====== ars 300 watt sockets? So now I need a high power DC power supply with a fan in every outlet? Someone is not thinking this through all the way. Even at 90% efficiency you are wasting 3...
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House expected to vote on search and browsing privacy this week - arunbahl https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/05/browsing-and-search-history-protections-gain-momentum-in-the-house/ ====== notadog Specifically, this is about the Section 215 provision of the Patriot Act. The EFF published a piece on why it needs r...
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Analyzing the constitutional foundation for U.S. patents and copyrights - grellas http://ipwatchdog.com/2011/05/04/patents-copyrights-and-the-constitution-perfect-together/id=16769/ ====== bediger Warning: article is essentially legalese by Gene Quinn, a lawyer who's what you might want to call an "Intellectual Prop...
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Google to Censor Blogger Blogs on a ‘Per Country Basis’ - stfu http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/01/google-censoring-blogger/ ====== domador Why does Google need to operate locally in each country in the first place? Isn't that just a needless expenditure? More employees, more domain names, more dealings with lo...
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Programming Strategies and Mood and how they affect your decisions - scarletbegonias https://medium.com/@latoza/programming-strategically-aab8ed572cfb ====== scarletbegonias What are programming strategies, how can we leverage them to be better developers? what kinds of things impact the strategies we choose? When you...
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Show HN: HR code – Designed to be recognized by humans and OCR - emrehan https://github.com/hantuzun/hr-code ====== citilife The problem with this is that it's prone to error (doesn't have error correcting bits). Unfortunately, that combined with speed of scanning is really what's key for codes. I have worked in the ...
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Ask HN: Does Apple's new section 3.3.1 mean I cant use Boost? - jason_slack Slightly confused. I can still use a 3rd party library like Boost in my ipad apps, but the point of 3.3.1 is that I must use Objective-C, C++ or C or any combination of the 3 (essentially..)<p>True? ====== st3fan No you can use whatever libr...
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Rollendurchmesserzeitsammler (Real Time Garbage Collector) - jvoorhis http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/rollendurchmesserzeitsammler/ ====== jvoorhis This is a real-time conservative garbage collector designed specifically for computer music with a mechanism to simulate worst case. The overview also contains even wei...
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How did we make the DOS redirector take up only 256 bytes of memory? - profquail http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2004/11/08/254108.aspx ====== jgrahamc This sort of stuff used to be really common. When I first started programming on networks we were using something called Z-NET (800kbps running over co...
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Ammonia: Zero-carbon fertiliser, fuel and energy store - mhandley https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/low-carbon-energy-programme/green-ammonia/ ====== mhandley I posted this because I haven't heard much about ammonia being used as both a fuel and an energy store for renewable energy. The full report goes ...
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Amazon Kinesis - nphase http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/11/amazon-kinesis-real-time-processing-of-streamed-data.html ====== zhaodaxiong As a team member helped built the service, I would like to offer some of my personal understanding. I am not with Amazon now, and all my views are based on public information on the w...
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Singular Value Decomposition Tutorial - roundsquare http://www.puffinwarellc.com/index.php/news-and-articles/articles/30-singular-value-decomposition-tutorial.html ====== ivankirigin After I learned all the details in grad school, I found out how to implement it in a real world setting: [U,S,V] = sv...
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The Dog Days are Over - alagu http://notmysock.org/blog/misc/the-dog-days-are-over ====== sanxiyn Contrary to my expectation, this post was quite upbeat. Good for him. ------ tomkit Great insight and objective elaboration into the Zynga culture. "Adapting to thrive" and "treat[ing] crises differently" is what made ...
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An Open Letter to Brogrammers - rosser http://tacit.livejournal.com/588807.html ====== baweaver As much as it sucks to be in the recieving end of misogynistic douche bags, can we all get over this nonsensical notion that one sex is objectively better? While we're at it, that how hardcore a programmer us is just as irr...
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Why You Can’t Trust Google - dnewcome http://gigaom.com/2009/09/24/why-you-cant-trust-google/ ====== vijayr Yet another misleading headline - it should be something like "Why google apps is not reliable" or such. This headline reads like Google violated some privacy stuff...
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Language complexity, measured by how many rules GitHub's .gitignore has - acidflask https://gist.github.com/jiahao/8b19775cee3a6d51706acf0a8c0ec376 ====== dietrichepp I love these metrics that are 99% meaningless but you still want to know how your language compares. Like average identifier length, source tree directo...
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Thanks for the Advice, Grandpa – Debunking Conventional Startup Wisdom - jv22222 https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/thanks-for-the-advice-grandpa-debunking-conventional-startup-wisdom/ ====== compy234 Great article! I think this really highlights and challenges some of the assumptions that newcomers make about how they a...
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Show HN: K8up – Kubernetes Backup Operator Based on Restic - tobru https://k8up.io/ ====== bryanlarsen Any advantages over velero? [https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html](https://heptio.github.io/velero/master/restic.html) ~~~ yebyen It says 404 there isn't a GitHub Pages site here... where did heptio do...
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Ask HN: What is causing this bug in HN? - bhudman This may be old news to you, but there seems to be a bug in the comments count being displayed.<p>I was looking at an old news item that was on HN, and it was pushed way back. When I did get to the article (the item was in the 14 hundreds..), I noticed that the # of ...
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Chernobyl zone shows decline in biodiversity - all http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10819027 ====== blots Why don't they cite the publication? Is there a publication?
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Show HN: Live Twitter Sentiment Analysis for #GE2017 - DizzyEwok http://xavkearney.com/sentiment ====== adamwoodetc > The results are only based on the tweets posted in the last few seconds, > hence the sometimes dramatic variation that you may see. This thing is going to be wild to watch during the televised debates...
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Fury at 'Bodega' tech startup that aims to put corner shops out of business - kawera https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/13/tech-startup-bodega-corner-stores ====== arkitaip I don't see how these tiny "vending machines" can be considered to compete with bodegas. Especially since many bodegas carry products...
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Is the purpose of school to create obedient workers? Questioning a narrative - paulpauper http://greyenlightenment.com/is-the-purpose-of-school-to-create-obedient-workers-debunking-a-popular-narrative/ ====== gregjor Author should study some of the people who already “questioned the narrative.” Ivan Ilich, John Holt, ...
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Show HN: I Remember My First Time – Share fun and informative 1st time experiences - IRMFT http://www.iremembermyfirsttime.com/ ====== fiatjaf I think there are already too much "sharing" in this world. Also, there was a Google service for people to publicize experiences they had and incentivize other people for do...
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Plastics Pile Up as China Refuses to Take the West’s Recycling - tenkabuto https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-ban.html ====== fyfy18 Does anyone know why more countries haven’t taken a stance like Germany with glass bottles? For those who aren’t aware, in Germany there are standard glass bottle...
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Ask HN: Distributed Call Center - nyc111 Where can I find a phone forwarding system for cell phones? I was thinking to utilize people working from home for a distributed call center. When a call comes in the forwarding software will call an available person. I don&#x27;t even know where to look for such a system. Than...
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Ask YC/HN: Where/How Do You Find Your Consulting Contracts/Gigs? - Mystalic So I'm currently working a full time job, a part-time job, and side projects. I've decided that I'm moving from Chicago to San Fran in April, no matter what.my situation is.<p>I already have a part-time gig lined up (contract essentially), ...
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Ask HN: Is it possible to sign up for a Google account without Gmail and phone? - throw_throw Normally you can sign up for a Google account using your own (non-Gmail email address) here:<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;accounts.google.com&#x2F;SignUpWithoutGmail?hl=en<p>But of late, the reCAPTCHA has been replaced with a phone nu...
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The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) [pdf] - typedweb http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/byz.pdf ====== mjb If you're interested, here's some other interesting reading in this area: * Castro and Liskov, "Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance", [http://www.pmg.lcs.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf](http...
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Startup Quote: Jim Collins, author, Good to Great - raychancc http://startupquote.com/post/7284306657 ====== raychancc Good is the enemy of great. \- Jim Collins <http://startupquote.com/post/7284306657>
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Ask HN: Why are there so many Amazon stories on the front page? - _Understated_ Am I imagining this? It seems that there are loads of Amazon-related stories on the front page all of a sudden. I count 8 at the time of this post. ====== kafkaesq A big developer conference going on, combined with one of their employees h...
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Ask HN: Who invented GUI data binding? - pier25 Data binding is all the rage these days in the JS world, but where did it originate? ====== eesmith Try using Google Scholar? It's at least 20 years old, if I read [https://patents.google.com/patent/US6065012A/en](https://patents.google.com/patent/US6065012A/en) correct...
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Germany, Not Greece, Should Exit the Euro - cs702 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-10/forget-greece-a-german-euro-exit-might-be-better.html ====== cs702 This article is obviously proposing something that Germany would never agree to, but in doing so the article lays bare an important truth: the adjustments necess...
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Wirify lets you turn any web page into a wireframe - tortilla http://www.volkside.com/2010/12/introducing-wirify-the-web-as-wireframes/ ====== petervandijck That is really quite nifty :)
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Relational Program Synthesis - lainon https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.02283 ====== platz cf: Recurrent Relational Networks: Complex relational reasoning with neural networks. [https://rasmusbergpalm.github.io/recurrent-relational- networ...](https://rasmusbergpalm.github.io/recurrent-relational-networks/) ------ slaymake...
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25 things I learned from Fred Wilson - asanwal http://25iq.com/2014/07/05/a-dozen-things-ive-learned-from-fred-wilson/ ====== asanwal I think the point Tren makes about dilution and how the fancy office and Aeron chairs which are funded by investor capital all can be translated into equity given up is spot on. Think...
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The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition - shawndumas http://www.davidflanagan.com/2011/02/javascript-the.html ====== telemachos Probably many people will recognize the book right away from the URL of the page (author's name and all), but why not add "Javascript: " to the title of the post?
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Ask HN: Feedback on Startup Idea – digital business card - aszoke Hi HN,<p>I&#x27;m thinking about an idea for mobile application and I wanted your advice. Here is my hypothesis:<p>We are living in a high-speed economy. The paper business cards provide static engagement. So modern business men &#x2F; women want a more...
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Influence and influencers, the thin line between sharing and spamming (2015) - wslh https://medium.com/digital-identity/influence-and-influencers-online-the-thin-line-between-sharing-and-spamming-e759ee47bfb ====== wslh I find this topic and discussion super relevant in 2020. I Just tried to share some of my companies...
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Cannot Measure Productivity - alexfarran http://martinfowler.com/bliki/CannotMeasureProductivity.html ====== lifeisstillgood I am going to get my drum out and bang on it again. Software is a form of literacy - and we measure literacy completely differently. In fact we measure it like we measure science - you are not ...
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Decrypting the Aphex Twin Soundcloud - pizzosteez https://medium.com/cuepoint/making-some-sense-of-the-aphex-twin-soundcloud-f551b6f81344?source=latest ====== strictnein If you're an Aphex Twin fan, this, along with his new album, has been a goldmine of great music. Really like this track: [https://soundcloud.com/us...
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GDB 8.3 - lelf http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2019-05/msg00007.html ====== kjeetgill > GDB is a source-level debugger for Ada, C, C++, Go, Rust, and many other > languages. Wait, really? I'd used it for C/C++ programs but I had no idea it could support other languages. Ada and Go are especially surprising...
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Tutorial: Writing an Android Location-Aware App - openmobster http://code.google.com/p/openmobster/wiki/LocationApp ====== openmobster Integrating Location based functionality into your apps makes them more feature rich and robust. In this tutorial you will learn how to use Android's built-in Location service. The t...
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Google wins final approval to acquire Motorola; deal to close imminently - raldi http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-05-19/google-wins-final-needed-approval-for-motorola-mobility-purchase ====== DHowett "This page is not available for mobile viewing at this time." I am assuming that the article is just text, and ...
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How often does it happen that the oldest person alive dies? - SandB0x http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/349155/how-often-does-it-happen-that-the-oldest-person-alive-dies ====== StavrosK I love mathematicians. They give a complicated function, explaining how they derived each term, and then consider the problem...
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Show HN - Relatable.io, turn spreadsheets into customizable apps - rschooley Hi HN,<p>We&#x27;ve been working on a product idea and would like your feedback.<p>The product site and app can be found at: www.relatable.io<p>The target consumer is small businesses that run their companies out of spreadsheets. Our web a...
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Billionaire wants Michigan to reject free bridge to Canada & use his bridge - slaven http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/23/greedy-u-s-billionaire-urges-michigan-voters-to-reject-free-bridge-to-canada/ ====== alanpca I live in Windsor, so it's pretty cool to see this make HN. I don't know what will happen if they d...
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This is how you leave a company - danryan https://gist.github.com/9cfe62fe0ba1348aa670 ====== cema Did he receive his PTO? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Is It Time Gauguin Got Canceled? - sillysaurusx https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/18/arts/design/gauguin-national-gallery-london.html ====== sillysaurusx I submit this not because I agree with it but because it marks a striking change in the lens through which we view history.
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Building Browser Extensions at Scale - pritambarhate https://tech.grammarly.com/blog/building-browser-extensions-at-scale ====== pritambarhate Comprehensive coverage on various guidelines on building browser extensions.
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Bead sort: faster than O(N log N) sort - zkz http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bead_sort ====== amalcon There are "sorting algorithms" faster than O(n log n); that limitation only applies to comparison sorts. These typically have complexity depending on the keyspace (for example, counting-sort has linear complexity in wh...
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Sandvine Cancels Belarus Deal, Citing Abuses - jbegley https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/sandvine-says-it-will-no-longer-sell-its-products-in-belarus ====== avmich > “We don’t want to play world police,” said chief technology officer > Alexander Haväng. Well...
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What should have been an IMG element became this - seapunk https://twitter.com/csswizardry/status/1185604806901207045 ====== danShumway The hoops people are going through to justify this are crazy to me. The comparison is not no-JS vs a business-capable website. They could serve a static image tag that would load quic...
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Apply HN: Trely – Outsourcing on Demand for Latam - luisguzman Trely is a outsourcing platform that offer on-demand services for Latam made by curated freelancers.<p>Initially we are working with design and copywriting services.<p>For every task generated we take between 20-30% of the money.<p>Trely solves two problem...
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Khan Academy on Bitcoin - ricksta https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-w7SnQWwVA&feature=youtube_gdata_player ====== tawsdsnl That's informative...but I wish he didn't have a two-minute introduction that doesn't actually tell you anything...
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MIT scholar surprised by Amazon’s hostile response to her face-recognition work - johnshades https://www.fastcompany.com/90334982/mit-researcher-surprised-by-amazons-hostile-reaction-to-her-face-recognition-work ====== greenyoda Extensive discussion yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19660917](https://ne...
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The Long Road to Mongo's Durability - craigkerstiens https://brandur.org/fragments/mongo-durability ====== JoachimSchipper Indeed, MongoDB (with very careful configuration) has recently passed a round of Jepsen test, although patches were necessary after -rc3; see [https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3](https:/...
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Nicehash down – rumors of $60M in Bitcoin stolen - greg7mdp https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7hxxp3/hicehash_hacked/ ====== sundvor Confirmed. Posting this here rather than a new thread... [https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/official_p...](https://www.reddit.com/r/NiceHash/comments/7i0s6o/offi...
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NYC Subway Trains Might Start Moving Faster - daegloe https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/new-york-subway-delay.html ====== gen220 I remember reading the article linked in this one, from the Village Voice, at the beginning of this year. Strongly recommend reading it for you armchair MTA critics: it has a lot o...
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'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck? - cwan http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21693140#TWEET647219 ====== SiVal The BBC article mentioned refraction, but Iceland Spar makes it possible to see the direction of polarization of skylight, which means it could be used on small, clear patches of sky on an otherwise ov...
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Show HN: Grab a color palette for your next project - hasukimchi https://www.colourhunt.com/ ====== hasukimchi Good day everyone! The last few weeks I was working on a small color community. As a designer you can share your favorite color palettes and as a developer you can grab some for your next project. On most s...
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Amazon's Response to Botnet Incident - lmacvittie http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2009/12/18/amazon-response-zeus-botnet-privacy-security-cloud-computing.aspx ====== ShabbyDoo Doesn't Amazon have to protect the "cleanliness" of the IP addresses in its pool? I worked a bit in the past on email deli...
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Ask HN: Is Surveillance without cooperation possible? - sathishmanohar Google and Facebook has denied government access to servers and backdoors. What are all the possible ways for a Government with big pocket to obtain user data without co-operation of the service providers?<p>May be like, corrupting certificate au...
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Laravel Myanmar - HeinZawHtet http://laravelmyanmar.com ====== dbcjjch0r0us It's a new Myanmar community organized around Laravel web framework and related stuff. It was started by an attempt to translate Laravel documentation to Myanamar language. I hope to see the community continue growing in the future. ~~~ Hei...
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Universal React with Babel, Browserify - ponyfoo http://ponyfoo.com/articles/universal-react-babel ====== egauci Thanks for taking this on and writing about it. I learned several things already. One thing I've read in the past is that the React render method should always produce the same output given the same prop...
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Chinese manufacturers turn inward - jonbaer https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/06/03/1002573/pandemic-us-china-trade-war-impact-on-manufacturers/ ====== simonblack Why put the future of your livelihood on the whims of those weird foreigners, when you can supply the much larger local markets and have a better idea w...
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Show HN: Import Docker in Python and Run Anything - stephensonsco http://blog.deepgram.com/import-a-docker-container-in-python/ ====== stephensonsco We made a python module to run complicated non-python code in python (like stuff that needs ridiculous environmental gymnastics). It's called sidomo (Simple Docker Module...
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Claude E. Shannon – A Goliath Amongst Giants - zw123456 https://www.bell-labs.com/claude-shannon/ ====== todd8 A co-worker of mine grew up in Claude Shannon's neighborhood. He was a childhood friend of one of the Shannon kids and related to me that their basement was full of projects and inventions that the father bui...
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YC Summer '11 - victorp Do you know the dates for YC's Summer '11 cycle? ====== skowmunk I believe its the same months every year, that would make it June,11 to August 11 as the months one has to be there in SF for the Summer 2011 cycle. Regarding the start and end of the application process, assuming it would be s...
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Show HN: validator.py -- data/form validation in python - slucidi http://mansam.github.io/validator.py/ ====== soferio This looks really useful for validating rest endpoint data. Thanks!
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Rules for Remote Work - JoeCortopassi https://joecortopassi.com/articles/rules-for-remote-work/ ====== 6nomads Interesting rules, thanks for sharing. We've just made an online conference on remote work and team management with 12 industry experts, you can check out the recordings as well: [https://6nomads.com/remote- ...
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Underactuated Rotor for Simple Micro Air Vehicles - command_tab http://modlabupenn.org/underactuated-rotor/ ====== zan2434 This is so clever! Turning mechanical control problems into informational control problems is critical to the ubiquity of micro air vehicles. ~~~ fasteddie31003 There is a lot of potential in sol...
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A CTO should know what's going on in every startup function - blakenomad https://www.deekit.com/a-cto-can-wear-many-hats-an-interview-with-kristo-magi/ ====== timbuktutim Cool to see a CTO taking an interest in marketing. The critical aspect of this is if that input is based on a breadth of learning or just engineer-l...
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Ask HN: Stick with it or get out? - developer786 I am sure most of you will understand my reason to remain anonymous in this post, with that said: I have been offered the following post, and am deliberating on its acceptance, your help would be very much appreciated.<p>Firstly, whoami: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombin...
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Project Manager - kabartlett01 I am a seasoned IT&#x2F;Software Project Manager looking for remote work. If you have any or know of any openings then please let me know and I will send my resume to you. Thanks! ====== tejasm You might want to check out this link - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829042](https...
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Observations from 10 Months Working at a Small Startup - a-kill-ease http://www.tortoiseandachilles.com/2007/09/observations-from-10-months-at-startup_03.html Observations about startup life and manager after working for 10 months at a small venture-capital funded startup. ====== awt I like the point about keeping co...
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Chemists Confirm the Existence of New Type of Bond - denzil_correa http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chemists-confirm-the-existence-of-new-type-of-bond/ ====== quarterwave Why is the muonic hydrogen required? From the Bohr formula the Rydberg energy of the muonic hydrogen would be some 200 times larger than r...
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Please don’t organize ‘fun’ activities at hackathons - sathishvj https://medium.com/@sathishvj/please-dont-organize-fun-activities-at-hackathons-a3333f0bbc2c#.d19pnnape ====== yc-kraln Please don't organize corporate 'hackathons', as they are spec work of the worst caliber and are exploitative. More info @ [http://www...
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Microsoft Unveils AKS, a Fully Managed Kubernetes Service - gabrtv http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300094356/microsoft-unveils-aks-a-fully-managed-kubernetes-service-thats-looking-to-be-a-cost-leader.htm?itc=refresh ====== johnnycarcin Just in case you want to see the official announcement: [https://azure.microsoft.com...
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