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Never Trust a Programmer - iamwil http://johnnance01.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/never-trust-a-programmer/ ====== mwsherman It's a problem of incentives. When I worked in a corporate environment, I worked very hard to ensure that people asking for things were the ones who paid for it -- even internally. A project # to bi...
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Ask HN: Solo app-developer, to incorporate or not incorporate? - iaw So I'm working on an iOS app that could bring in a fair amount of revenue (compelling product with no direct competitors).<p>What I'm trying to ascertain is whether it makes sense to try to incorporate/start an entity or to publish as an individual...
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Meritocracy and Discrimination in Tech - marcia http://bjk5.com/post/43249906199/meritocracy-and-discrimination-in-tech ====== rjknight One of the commonly-stated reasons for why discrimination persists in a field is that people making hiring decisions are biased. They might not know that they're biased, but they ha...
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Time travelling RTS (Achron) accepting Pre-orders - gridspy http://www.achrongame.com/index.html ====== roundsquare Interesting... a nice stab but I think there is a critical aspect missing. t = 0 No one is attacking me t = 1 I attack someone t = 2 They wish they attacked me t = 3 They jump back to t = 0 to atta...
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Node.js Application Hosting Service running on Digital Ocean - 0stanislav http://stackful.io/ ====== felipebueno I have some questions and, please, don't get me wrong, I'm not being sarcastic. I am really interested in your services. I got a cheap server on DO I use to deploy some apps just for testing purpose and,...
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Enough with the QR Codes - ramisayar http://ramisayar.com/enough-with-the-qr-codes/ ====== veidr I see people scan QR codes often, and even occasionally do myself; but then, I live in Japan. Here, QR codes became popularized well before the 'smartphone', because everybody's regular phone has been able to scan them ...
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Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule - joshmoz https://letsencrypt.org/2015/06/16/lets-encrypt-launch-schedule.html ====== diafygi I'm suuuper excited for this to launch! However, it's worrisome that the ACME protocol (what Let's Encrypt uses) still has a ton of bugs open[1] and they are still changing the protocol often. Ju...
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DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox - slederer https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/dash-playback-of-av1-video/ ====== mmastrac Very cool. I hope we can start seeing WebAssembly-pluggable codecs in all of the video/audio paths in the browser. Imagine being able to turn on a brand- new codec (or select a customized code...
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Local SIM – find the nearest store of local mobile provider while travelling - lashkhi I would like to introduce an iOS application that can be useful for every traveler - Local SIM. Before making a trip, or if you are already traveling, you can find on the map nearest store where you can connect to the local networ...
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Beta testers wanted for new survey/feedback tool - responster We are working on the final bits and pieces of our new survey&#x2F;feedback platform Responster (www.responster.com).<p>We are now in need of more beta users to try out all the new features!<p>Public Beta will be open up to 1000 registrations. we are curr...
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No, Tesla Is Not the Largest US Automaker Ever – CleanTechnica - djrogers https://cleantechnica.com/2020/01/08/no-tesla-is-not-the-largest-us-automaker-ever/ ====== RugnirViking Perhaps this is a sign that value in the stock market is largely disconnected from current value? it's entirely speculative. On the face of ...
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Hackerne.ws is registered with godaddy - throwaway64 http://whois.domaintools.com/hackerne.ws ====== volida Although that this is true for now, it wont be for long as I've initiated the transfer to name.com 3-4 days ago. ------ mooism2 GoDaddy's whois [http://who.godaddy.com/whois.aspx?domain=hackerne.ws&pro...](ht...
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Get your coder stats - kracekumar http://coderstats.geeksta.net/ ====== rg81 Nice work, I made something similar <http://gitcv.com> The Github API is pretty cool.
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The top five lessons Game Of Thrones can teach us about online security - evanjacobs https://www.getcloak.com/blog/2013/05/06/top-five-lessons-game-thrones-can-teach-us-about-o/ ====== momchenr Also, the fact that Ned Stark has bastard children is an allegory for "Don't have multiple inferior browsers installed on t...
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Bank of America analysts think there's 50 per cent chance we live in the Matrix - obvio http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/bank-of-america-the-matrix-50-per-cent-virtual-reality-elon-musk-nick-bostrom-a7287471.html ====== marmot777 They're likely privy to some inside information on this matt...
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2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi [pdf] - sounddetective https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2016/press.pdf ====== dekhn I wish they'd rename the prize to "Nobel Prize in Fundamental Biology". Medicine is important but this is clearly a fundamental biology...
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Learning Advanced Javascript - songzme http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/ ====== techrules "javascript : the good parts " is a very good book to keep handy.
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$20 bill, not $10, may now feature a woman in favor of keeping Hamilton - ourmandave http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016/04/18/20-bill-not-10-may-now-feature-a-woman-in-favor-of-keeping-Hamilton/3031460976606/ ====== tomohawk With the big banks winning more and more, it was only a matter of time before they got rid of...
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How This Ends. (The Pandemic) - gloriosoc https://realscience.community/2020/08/26/how-this-ends/ ====== legerdemain I'm a little surprised by the author's tendency of wondering abstractly and suggesting cataclysmic shoot-from-the-hip solutions. There still hasn't passed enough time for us to make confident statement...
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The TPP isn't 'free trade,' it's corruption - walterbell https://www.fightforthefuture.org/2016/Stop-TPP-corruption/ ====== oliwarner It feels like confirmation bias, but every time I read about TPP, that it's blatant corruption appears to be fully known and that's why [whoever's talking] is decrying the whole thing. ...
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Ask HN: What trustworthy sources of general news do you use? - JacobEdelman What trustworthy sources of general news do you use? ====== cubitesystems I use Reddit's Worldnews subreddit /r/worldnews for a nice crowdsourced news source. It will often contain breaking news at incredible paces. The news agency Al Jazee...
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5 Things I’ve Learned in Four Years at a Startup - ohjeez http://emzingo.com/5-things-ive-learned-in-four-years-at-a-startup/ ====== joekozPHL Great advice to "be good to people that helped you, and people in general". Never hurts to share some goodwill!
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The 7 Habits Of Highly Ineffective People - Janteh http://danariely.com/2010/06/14/the-7-habits-of-highly-ineffective-people/ ====== bena On 5. I'd take the higher $ regardless of what other people make. Even if I had the choice of taking a job where I'd make half what the lowest paid person makes in a company where e...
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Thunderstone (folklore) - benbreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstone_(folklore) ====== andrewl This reminds me of the brontotherium ( _thunder beast_ ), a giant prehistoric mammal similar to a rhinoceros, but much larger. The Sioux sometimes found fossilized brontotherium bones after heavy rainstorms. They be...
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Cool AI guides-you to learn linux on the cloud. Interested? simtry.com/contact - kim0 http://simtry.com/cloudlabs/4e3e64bf9b156e40a3000006 ====== kim0 Hey folks, We're a startup doing AI based online learning. We're currently focused on "IT training". Since we're all a bunch Linux and open-source geeks, we've start...
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The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories (2014) - gmays http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/21/the-categories-were-made-for-man-not-man-for-the-categories/ ====== elsherbini The article was very interesting, and I know this isn't the main point of the article, but this is an interesting fact I like t...
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How to Go Bankrupt - bussetta http://jacquesmattheij.com/how-to-go-bankrupt ====== gregpilling There are three accounting reports that every business owner should understand. Profit-Loss, Balance Sheet, Statement of Cash Flows. Most small business people that I have met only look at the Profit-Loss (P&L) and do not ...
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Loyalty is Underrated - lhartwich http://lhartwich.com/post/33743989767/loyalty-is-underrated ====== craigslistmodel Good post ~~~ lhartwich Thanks!
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Chef on steroids - timparker http://tech.picklive.com/2011/09/02/chef-on-steroids.html ====== teoruiz What I don't get is why their Chef server has to be publicly reachable at all. Shouldn't it be available only through their internal, private network? I might be missing something here. ~~~ semanticist The chef s...
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They Called My University a PhD Factory – Now I Understand Why - dpflan https://www.theguardian.com/higher-education-network/2018/mar/23/they-called-my-university-a-phd-factory-now-i-understand-why ====== nwhatt I'm extremely grateful for having quality advisors and mentors as an undergrad. I went to SLAC I feel like ...
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Discovered a New Band? Find Out Which Songs To Check Out First With GoRankem - thewordpainter http://mashable.com/2011/07/15/gorankem/ ====== mattstech Love seeing something I've put so much passion into get coverage...something that people working day jobs will never know. ------ ringingears a few people are compa...
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France Bashing Is So 2012 (Here Is Why) - cyrillevincey http://insights.qunb.com/france-bashing-is-so-2012 ====== Yoric Oh, also, don't forget that we have a few "minor" companies represented in France, such as Mozilla, Microsoft R&D, Apple R&D, Google R&D, IBM R&D, Intel R&D, etc. all of them involved in some exten...
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Ask HN: How Much Do Devs in Rich Europe (SUI, GER, LUX, MON and Scandinavia) Make? - chirau I am considering making a move out there. I am also curious to know how tough it is for foreigners to get jobs there and what fields of software development are lucrative. ====== junto For information regarding hourly rate in...
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Why Every Big Player in Silicon Valley Goes to This Chinese Restaurant - karajamon http://nextshark.com/chef-chus/ ====== joshu I live a few blocks away. It's alright. Been there three or four times in the years I have lived nearby.
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Show HN: Invertris (made by a friend of mine) - ltamake https://market.android.com/details?id=au.com.twosquared ====== GavinB This is extremely clever. Well done! Your friend needs to explain what the goal of this game is up front! As soon as I saw the video I got the mechanic immediately--but had no idea what sort...
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Submetrics – Search for your favorite show - fgeorgy http://www.submetrics.org/ ====== alexholehouse I don't understand; 1) What's the 'top words' which appears when you search for a site? I just get a bunch of profanities (for basically any show, even those which are PG-13). Is this meant to be the top words found i...
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5400-line Player class (C#) from Celeste - minimaxir https://github.com/NoelFB/Celeste/blob/master/Source/Player.cs ====== minimaxir More detail in original Tweet: [https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/969336877663764481](https://twitter.com/MattThorson/status/969336877663764481)
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Show HN: Vandium – a security wrapper for serverless infrastructure - tomtau https://www.vandium.io/ ====== brudgers Curious regarding how the various algorithms providing security were vetted.
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Abolish the CIA and FISA - classicsnoot https://americanmind.org/essays/abolish-the-cia/ ====== bediger4000 From the article: "Intelligence officials abuse their positions to discredit opposition to the Democratic Party, of which they are part." Ummm.... ~~~ classicsnoot Can you refute the statement or do you just f...
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How to Sort a List in Python - aogl https://ao.gl/how-to-sort-a-list-in-python/ ====== dalke Python has a sorting HOWTO at [https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sorting.html) . I was the original author, back in around 1998 or so. This new article covers a subset of that HOWTO....
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What happens when your server is compromised and you get help from the FBI? - imjustsaying Often when a company announces that its servers have been compromised, the company also states that they have begun working with the FBI or a similar law enforcement agency.<p>What does this actually entail? I&#x27;m imagining...
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Ask HN: Mac OS X High Sierra Problem - sahin-boydas I am getting the following error while installing<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;a&#x2F;n0VoX<p>&quot;MacOS could not be installed on your computer&quot;<p>An error occurred while verifying firmware...&quot;<p>is anything having the same problem? ====== t90fan Do ...
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Immunity Passports Could Create a New Category of Privilege - Farbodkhz https://onezero.medium.com/immunity-passports-could-create-a-new-category-of-privilege-2f70ce1b905 ====== vanniv Do you want people to seek the virus? Because this will accomplish that. ~~~ Farbodkhz Off course not. It's one of the worst things ...
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Show HN: Personal time tracking to aid in becoming more productive - mentationaway http://www.attainr.com ====== MegaLeon It's a bit unsettling that, from the pursuit screen, clicking on the logo sends me back to the landing page (I would want it to stay logged in), and logging back in from there asks for my details...
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Status Quo Effects Upon Hiring Bias - brudgers https://hbr.org/2016/04/if-theres-only-one-woman-in-your-candidate-pool-theres-statistically-no-chance-shell-be-hired ====== coffeedan Wait, so you're saying the odds of a woman being hired increase when there are more women in the candidate pool? I think my five-year-old...
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SpaceX uses powerful rocket technology that NASA says could put lives at risk - fmihaila https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/elon-musks-space-x-is-using-a-powerful-rocket-technology-nasa-advisers-say-it-could-put-lives-at-risk/2018/05/05/f810b182-3cec-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html ====== caio1982 The a...
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Why does Gmail delay outgoing email? (for up to two days) - feklee http://sites.inka.de/W1787/Google/2017-01-17+01_delayed.eml ====== Arnt That message is short and consists of just a link to something, and one of the addresses may be tainted by recent SPF failures. At a guess, some heuristics may have decided to wait...
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Report: For The First Time In Decades, US Is Bleeding High-Skilled Immigrants - saurabhpalan http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/07/report-for-first-time-in-decades-us-is-bleeding-high-skilled-immigrants/ ====== tokenadult See previous HN discussion with links to related documents on the same issue: <http://news.ycombinato...
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What Laibach Learned in North Korea - Kristine1975 http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/cannabis-and-the-sound-of-music-what-laibach-learned-in-north-korea-20150825 ====== CurtHagenlocher Laibach are master trolls.
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NYC BigTime CityTime Fraud Charges Ripples On - wglb http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/nyc-bigtime-citytime-fraud-charges-ripples-on ====== tgflynn I once developed a web based time card system for $3K. I'm certainly not comparing that to a system for all of NYC but $60M ballooning into $700M that's c...
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Social tagging and voting was invented at Xerox PARC... 15 years ago - nickb http://datastrategy.wordpress.com/2007/06/27/social-tagging-and-voting-was-invented-at-xerox-parc-15-years-ago/ ====== Hexstream Xerox PARC: The reality of tomorrow, yesterday! ------ KeshRivya They also invented the mouse and original Mac...
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Ask HN: Is there any way to ACTUALLY stop biodiversity loss? - rblion The amount of species disappearing every year is scary to think about, 100 to 1,000 times the natural rate. I&#x27;m aware of many of the causes, they have been written about extensively. However, the solutions proposed don&#x27;t sound too convin...
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Quit Current Job that Involves Work I wasn't hired to do, or Stay? - jrkemerer I graduated with my BS in Computer Science around a year ago, and have been employed by my school's web development department to do PHP web dev for about a year.<p>The problem is that I haven't been doing much web application development...
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Facebook Kills Social Roulette - ireadqrcodes http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/13/social-roulette-deletes-your-facebook-account/ ====== ireadqrcodes " ... the app did allow users to circumvent Facebook’s account deactivation feature, which is designed to let people turn off their account but turn it back on later without...
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Dell's XPS 13 Developer's Edition: My Missed Opportunity - autotravis http://linuxterm.com/dells-xps-13-developers-edition-my-missed-opportunity.html ====== hapless It is worth mentioning that Lenovo has a very significant "Certified for Linux" program. Virtually every laptop model has at least one "Certified" SKU. <...
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PyBrain: modular Machine Learning Library for Python - rayvega http://pybrain.org/# ====== djacobs Python v. Ruby. The eternal question. The languages might not be different, but the communities definitely are. This just convinced me I need to switch my efforts from Ruby to Python. ~~~ slpsys SciPy, OpenCV bindings,...
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Carbon emissions could be halved by not wasting food, clothes, electronics - pmoriarty https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/carbon-emissions-cut-food-waste-clothing-electronics-climate-change-green-alliance-a8345641.html ====== WheelsAtLarge It's true. We can reduce carbon emissions by reducing consumption but at...
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Bill Gates on Pharmaceuticals: The System Isn't Working - bootload http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/bill-gates-what.html ====== superchink I don't think it's fair for him to compare the development models for open- source software and pharmaceuticals; it's like he's comparing oranges and apple.
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China to Lift Ban of 400,000 DWT 'Valemax' Mega-Ships - protomyth http://gcaptain.com/china-to-lift-ban-of-400000-dwt-valemax-mega-ships/ ====== t0mas88 This reads like a warning against doing too much business in China? They basically blackmailed a Brazilian company into setting up a joint venture with a local Chines...
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Show HN: Encourage your teams on slack with sticker chart - thogg4 https://www.stickerchart.party/ ====== android521 At first i thought this is intended as a joke. But then they seem to be serious. ------ AznHisoka emojis, badges, whatever dont motivate me. just the intrinsic feeling of accomplishing something. and o...
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'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer by Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle - daegloe http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/07/12/536812206/living-drug-that-fights-cancer-by-harnessing-the-immune-system-clears-key-hurdle ====== jfarlow Congratulations! The Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) deployed here is ve...
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Ask HN: Apple TV or Mac Mini? - winanga I'm looking at buying an Apple TV or Mac Mini to use as a home media centre. Which one would you recommend? And have you tried running Linux on either of them? ====== brk I have several of each running for the same application. I'd recommend the Mini. It does everything the...
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Actually eat healthily for £1 per day - gabemart http://supplementsos.com/blog/how-to-actually-eat-healthily-o-1-per-day/ ====== king_jester Eating cheaply is really difficult to do for the folks with the least amount of money to spend on food, as working is counter to the things that make eating cheaper: cooking your...
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Best States for Tech Workers Willing to Relocate - Baustin213 http://www.cio.com/article/2856264/careers-staffing/top-10-states-for-tech-workers-willing-to-relocate.html ====== madcaptenor This is quite close to just the top ten states in population - compared to that list it omits Ohio and Michigan (7 and 8) and ha...
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Peter Seibel's talk at Justin.tv (why syntax [does|doesn't] matter). - abstractbill http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/53433/Peter_Seibel_on_syntax_part_one ====== abstractbill Part two: [http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/53442/Peter_Seibel_on_syntax_p...](http://www.justin.tv/hackertv/53442/Peter_Seibel_on_syntax_part_two) ...
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The Dark Path, Or, What If I Don't Want to Quit My Job? - crux http://blog.zdsmith.com/posts/the-dark-path-or-what-if-i-dont-want-to-quit-my-job.html ====== wyldfire > This is rather absurd and I won’t address it any more than to point out that > many ordinary programmers intuitively grasp the basic value of safety an...
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Crawl Bank Accounts with the Ghost of Wesabe - abraham http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/02/crawl-your-bank-account-with-w.php ====== there screen scraping should only really be needed for banks that don't support direct OFX access (or i suppose if your bank charges extra for direct access and you don't want to ...
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Here's how to avoid owning stock in gun companies - umitakcn http://time.com/money/4366155/gun-companies-stocks-orlando-shooting/ ====== waterphone Why would I want to avoid that? Ridiculous. ------ ATroom4 This is neat idea..I will definitely share this with my friends.
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Xkcd/now - jonshariat http://xkcd.com/now ====== ggchappell Look at Alaska. In physical reality, it nearly touches the eastern tip of Asia. And the Aleutians stretch all the way across. But to stay more in tune with the rest of the U.S., Alaska is almost entirely in the -9 timezone. So I guess the map is all about t...
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Finding Developers for Your Startup Is Like Dating. And How to Master It - _recurse https://blog.nontechfounder.co/finding-developers-for-your-startup-is-like-dating-a2335664971a#.pujhxnifh ====== _recurse Why your opening line might put off your perfect match.
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Ask HN: How would you split ownership in this scenario? - Axsuul My friend, who is the CEO of a company in this industry that this startup will be in, and I came up with a great idea and we're going to pursue it. However, he wants to split it 50/50 but I'm not comfortable with that because<p>* I don't have a job so ...
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Ask HN: Post-YC Startup Numbers - matt1 Just trying to make sense of some numbers...<p>According to the Inc article, 27 out of YC's 145 funded startups have failed, 7 have been acquired, and 2 have merged with other YC startups, meaning that the majority of the startups--a full three-quarters--are still hard at work...
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Ask HN: Are there medical practitioners who understand founders and engineers? - hagmonk I&#x27;ve seen a lot of threads on HN recently where health issues have come up. Quite often the comments are filled with anecdotes that lead me to believe engineers and startup founders have unique health concerns.<p>Our work l...
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BrainFuck inspired scheduler successfully replaced the Python GIL - dryicerx http://bugs.python.org/issue7946#msg101612 ====== janzer To clarify a little, this patch does not eliminate the GIL it just schedules the next thread to acquire the GIL using the BFS scheduling algorithm. Also and perhaps more importantly ...
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Implementing a Chroma Key Algorithm (Step-by-Step) - leirbagarc http://marvinproject.sourceforge.net/en/examples/chromaKey.html ====== jararaty Is there a video of it working?
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Pwn2own day one: Safari, IE8 fall, Chrome unchallenged - sigzero http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2011/03/pwn2own-day-one-safari-ie8-fall-chrome-unchallenged.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss ====== jedsmith > This is because, in a change to historic competition rules, the system > configuration...
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Only 31% of California voters want to keep paying for bullet train - gok http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-usc-poll-bullet-train-20180525-story.html ====== rayiner This is the upper middle class robbing poor people. The projected fare would be $86 per ticket, about triple the cost of driving for a family of fo...
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Exercise Tied to Lower Risk for Some Types of Cancer - hvo http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/exercise-tied-to-lower-risk-for-13-types-of-cancer/?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fhealth&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront...
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The Art of Madness - antigizmo https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/06/the-art-of-madness/ ====== Jun8 No discussion of Outside Art would be complete without mentioning Henry Darger ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Darger)) and his uber-epic _In the Realms of the...
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How the Twitter Grinch Stole April Fool’s Day - shawndumas http://technologizer.com/2011/04/01/how-the-twitter-grinch-stole-april-fools-day/ ====== mindcrime I liked AFD just fine, pre-Internet. The problem is, this kind of humor is tolerable in _limited doses._ But now - on AFD - everybody in the frickin' world is ...
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Apple will invest $100 million to bring Mac production back to the US next year - alinzainescu http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/12/06/apple-will-invest-100-million-to-bring-mac-production-back-to-the-us-next-year-says-tim-cook/ ====== rohansingh This really reminds me of The Alantic article this month entitled "The In...
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Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day - tysone https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/world/asia/china-tiananmen-1989-photographs.html ====== SurrealSoul Kind of a personal story, but my fiancé is from Beijing. She found out about Tiananmen square about a year ago. She only knew that she sh...
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Groove Deletes Their Facebook Page - micah63 http://www.groovehq.com/blog/focus ====== snowwrestler So is Hacker News on the list of marketing tactics that work, or don't work?
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NewtGingrich.com Redirects to Tiffany.com - benackles http://newtgingrich.com ====== arkitaip Here's the source code <http://pastebin.com/83N6j2FK> The redirects are: arLinks[0] = "[http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/gingrichs- ca...](http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/12/gingrichs-campaign- ...
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Agile is Poisonous - tablet http://mdubakov.com/post/46844381610/agile-is-poisonous ====== api "We tried 1 week and 2 weeks iterations. Neither worked out. With short iterations there was a constant pressure to get shit done and technical debt accumulated like a huge garbage heap. It is impossible to squeeze a good so...
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Tradeoffs in Innovative Careers - mhunter http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/blog/2011/11/28/tradeoffs-in-innovative-careers.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thisisgoingtobebig+%28%3A%3AThis+is+going+to+be+BIG%3A%3A%29 ====== tptacek This post engages with three questions: * Should I go ...
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UK government proposes fine or block if website fails to tackle “online harms” - pmlnr https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47826946 ====== chatmasta Jeremy Wright, "Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in the UK" penned an op-ed in CNN about this. [0] The closing line is particularly infuriating ...
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Intellij downgrades Gradle support from version 12 to 13 - pdeva1 http://movingfulcrum.tumblr.com/post/76371418630/intellij-downgrades-gradle-support-from-version-12-to ====== kclay I guess Android studio is on v12 code because it has recent tasks, not to sure about the other
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The Extraordinary SVD - platz http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2338.pdf ====== jdale27 Link to abstract: <http://arxiv.org/abs/1103.2338>
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“Adds iOS build support to gomobile command” - ConceitedCode https://go-review.googlesource.com/#/c/11587/8 ====== wiremine So, let me get this straight: * You can write part of your app in Go * You can share that code across your Android and iOS apps? Is that right? If so, seems like a solid use case for Go. Until...
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Detect logical fallacies in text using Haskell - amsa https://github.com/amsa/fallacy-hunter ====== mskobe Cool Project~
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Ask HN: How to become a better coder without guidance from my company? - cebeve I graduated a year ago and have been working in consulting as a full stack dev since. On many projects I found myself to be the only developer, architect and sys admin. It’s been a decent learning opportunity but the long hours and high de...
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Iran Escalates Campaign Against Online Expression - zoowar https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/01/iran-escalates-campaign-against-online-expression ====== srl > Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 > at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with “pornographic” > content c...
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Ask HN: Sideline resources? - p0d Hi,<p>I&#x27;m very happy with my life working for the man and also myself. I&#x27;m a part-time company sysadmin (3 days a week) and run my own web business (2 days). I guess I&#x27;m wondering if there are any websites, forums or resources for those with sidelines? I think it would ...
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Syria Internet Down As Egypt Blackout Catches On In Middle East - chailatte http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/82156/Reports%3A-Syria-Internet-Down-As-Egypt-Blackout-Catches-On-In-Middle-East.html ====== jacquesm Interesting, are the Syrians afraid that the Egyptians will find ways to communicate or ar...
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The "$15 Billion" Nonsense - razorburn http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/10/the_15_billion.php ====== byrneseyeview That's true enough. Of course, it applies to every other stock, too: Google's ~$200 billion market cap is based on the price of the last trade, which for all we know was a 100-share buy that mostl...
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Chess grandmasters: Intelligent machines are about to revolutionize the world - edw519 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10017/1028615-109.stm?cmpid=newspanel ====== Quarrelsome Surely the whole Deep Blue thing is just a false dawn for AI. Beating a human player through brute force isn't _that_ impressive. If anything ...
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The Most Successful workplaces of the Future… - cwan http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2012/08/mba-mondays-guest-post-from-dr-dana-ardi.html ====== potatolicious Most of this advice can already be seen in the "top" software employers, except this one: > _"Don't buy resume or credentials. Buy competence, track record, charact...
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Palantir Buyback Plan Shows Need for New Silicon Valley Pay System - mathattack http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/business/dealbook/palantir-buyback-plan-shows-need-for-new-silicon-valley-pay-system.html ====== birken Boy this article is a very friendly interpretation of Scott Kupor's blog post. From NYTimes: > He [...
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Hipku – encode any IP address as a haiku - gabemart http://gabrielmartin.net/projects/hipku/ ====== e12e Two notable addresses: ::1 Ace ants and ace ants aid ace ace ace ace ace ants. Ace ants aid ace apes. 127.0.0.1 The hungry white ape aches in ...
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