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Ask HN: Best resources to to understand BTC/Blockchain and its implications? - jrudin ====== tai_hn I find these three books entertaining. [Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott]([https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology- Chan...](https://www.amazon.com/Blockchain-Revolution-Technology-Ch...
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Free Graphics Software Vectr 1.4 Launched - NickFromVectr https://vectr.com/blog/updates/vectr-1-4-brings-grouping-of-layers/ ====== NonEUCitizen If you download, does it run completely offline or does it still rely partially on your servers?
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IPad MiFi Conversion - hanskuder http://dishtvhdstore.com/ipad-mifi-conversion-for-verizon/ ====== acgourley Wow that's an impressive hack. ------ hanskuder Here's hoping this starts a vibrant community of HackenPad enthusiasts. Void your warranty, lose a bit of bass from your sound, and you've got Verizon for your...
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OpaLang: Concise language for writing distributed webapps - xtacy http://opalang.org ====== saiko-chriskun this is seriously the coolest language I've seen come out in a long time. super excited :D
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"Make people want something" - counterpoint - Domenic_S https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BIjuNDECYAAjPzt.png ====== Domenic_S In response to <http://alvybrooks.com/ycposter>. An interesting counterpoint by @pricklynettles on twitter. How much startup failure is not making something people want, and how much of it is fa...
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Understanding the Stellar Consensus Protocol - synesso https://medium.com/interstellar/understanding-the-stellar-consensus-protocol-423409aad32e ====== 1053r The authors of this protocol made a valiant effort to defend against sybil attacks by requiring intersecting quorums. However, it's not clear to me that they suc...
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Chinese Textile Mills Are Now Hiring in Places Where Cotton Was King - danso http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/03/business/chinese-textile-mills-are-now-hiring-in-places-where-cotton-was-king.html ====== kelukelugames Reminds me of the episode of daily show where the overseas call center outsourced to Americans who had...
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Drop Dropbox - PhilipA http://www.drop-dropbox.com/ ====== grellas Think about what it means to the HN culture to have a subject that normally would have been flagged out of existence as overtly political suddenly be featured front and center in the apparent belief that ideological purity is now a litmus test for who ...
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Show HN: Diceware Passphrase Lookup and Generator - iamben http://www.diceware.net/ ====== iamben After reading The Intercept article posted on HN earlier this afternoon I thought I'd stick this together. Comments welcome!
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YC Winter Application Notification - LiveTimeCards So, we are getting close to the deadline for YC choosing the groups for this winters session.<p>Does anybody know if they e-mail both the `chosen` ones and also the groups that were not picked all on the 29th? Do they ever make phone calls?<p>Thanks. ====== pg We'll...
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Qt Creator 2.1.0 brings enhanced Qt Quick and mobile applications support - Tsiolkovsky http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/03/01/qt-creator-2-1-0-released/ ====== MrUnderhill Most people I talk to seem to think QtCreator is only any good if you're developing Qt applications. Not so! It's imho actually a marvellous IDE fo...
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Time travel: Light speed results cast fresh doubts - gps408 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14289114 ====== btilly It should be noted that this result was completely expected. It turns out that light traveling through a medium can have 3 different velocities: phase, group and signal. Typically the latt...
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Atrium lays off lawyers, pivots to tools - janeshmane https://www.axios.com/law-firm-startup-atrium-lays-off-most-of-its-lawyers-e4637120-27a7-44c5-8a52-37e2b0194928.html ====== tempsy I think anyone considering a job at a company founded by a serial entrepreneur should heed this as a warning. These founder raise pre...
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The only laws on the Internet are assembly and RFCs - atestu http://www.phrack.org/issues.html?issue=65&id=6&mode=txt ====== markup Too bad the tor server for elettra looks dead -- or is it just me?
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A new type of book - aen http://aenism.com/end-of-passive/ ====== Vaskivo I don't believe that reading is a "passive" activity. "[Tom] saw a new girl in the garden--a lovely little blue-eyed creature with yellow hair plaited into two long-tails, white summer frock and embroidered pantalettes." (Tom Sayer, by Mark Twa...
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Promoting your iPhone app in print - alex_c http://blog.indieiphonedev.com/2010/01/27/promoting-your-iphone-app-in-print/ ====== patio11 I love people trying to innovate, but this is going to run into the brick-wall reality of conversion math. My site, where 6 cents gets me a guaranteed visitor: ~20% download or si...
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Ask HN: I'm 24, coding since 14, and I don't know what to do - frostbytes I&#x27;m absolutely lost. I have been coding for so long but I have never had a software development job, I&#x27;ve been self taught and been on this road for so long. Surprisingly I have been extremely active in sports, I&#x27;m extroverted, I ...
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Y Combinator Founder Paul Graham Issues New Warning to Start-ups - azazo http://www.inc.com/kathleen-kim/y-combinator-advisor-sends-seed-funding-warning.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+inc%2Fheadlines+%28Inc.com+Headlines%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher ====== pg Just so everyone unde...
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Show HN: My Django book, Hello Web App, is now free online - limedaring A couple of years ago I wrote Hello Web App (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hellowebapp.com) to teach beginner Django web app development. It&#x27;s aimed at non-programmers and designers, and walks folks through building and deploying a basic web app.<p>I&#x27...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to learn how to create a font/typeface? - Kinnard What&#x27;re the best ways to learn how to create fonts&#x2F;typefaces? ====== spoonie Knuth's Metafont book.
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WebM Decoder in Flash using Alchemy - robin_reala http://www.bluishcoder.co.nz/2011/01/15/webm-decoder-in-flash-using-alchemy.html ====== alanh Instead of using hardware acceleration like browser-native video decoders can, this involves compiling C to ActionScript and running it on Flash’s VM. So don’t expect his f...
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Hyperloop | Blog | Tesla Motors - ghosh http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop ====== gunshor Here is the 57 page PDF for Hyperloop. [http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop](http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/hyperloop)
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Program diagnosing cancer more accurately than humans can - nopinsight http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2011/11/diagnosing-cancer ====== nasmorn Well it's back to some e-commerce programming for me. It's a good feeling to know I make a difference in peoples lives.
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Ask HN: How much do you charge your clients for mobile app development? - cronjobma The numbers are all over the place, obviously because each type of app can be totally different. But how much have you been averaging per project, the last 12 months or so? ====== niravbond It totally depends on what client will get if...
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Freemium Model for Lawyers - MediaSquirrel http://www.metamorphblog.com/2010/01/dear-startup-lawyers-please-blog.html ====== grellas This a very insightful piece, as I learned from experience when I began a while back to add useful content for startups to my firm's website. We are a smaller, boutique firm but have b...
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Twitter Announces @Anywhere - mattwdelong http://blog.twitter.com/2010/03/anywhere.html ====== jasonlbaptiste can someone explain this without the useless buzzwords? ~~~ benologist They appear to have made a javascript widget that lets you put twitter on a page. ~~~ orblivion Specifically, I think it uses the visi...
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Qt Weekly #21: Dynamic OpenGL implementation loading in Qt 5.4 - koopajah http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2014/11/27/qt-weekly-21-dynamic-opengl-implementation-loading-in-qt-5-4/ ====== koopajah I've encountered a lot of issues on Windows XP with QT/Angle but also quite a lot on Windows Vista/7 where the graphic drive...
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Does Apple deliberately slow its old iPhones before a new release? - angadsg http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2709502/Does-Apple-deliberately-slow-old-models-new-release-Searches-iPhone-slow-spike-ahead-launches.html ====== lgas Betteridge says no, others say yes.
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Zstandard – Fast real-time compression algorithm - pierreneter https://github.com/facebook/zstd ====== pvg Bunch of previous discussions: [https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&da...](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=zstandard&sort=byPopularity&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) ...
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Facebook CTO Bret Taylor's Biggest Mistake? Buying Servers - alexwilliams http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/02/facebook-cto-bret-taylors-bigg.php?utm_source=ReadWriteCloud&utm_medium=rwchomepage&utm_campaign=ReadWriteCloud_posts&utm_content=Facebook%20CTO%20Bret%20Taylors%20Biggest%20Mistake?%20Buying%20Servers =...
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America Is Flint - pavornyoh http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/opinion/sunday/america-is-flint.html?ref=opinion&_r=0 ====== grandalf The broader point is that incompetence and corruption plagues institutions (public and private) of all sizes. Regardless of one's politics, it's critical that we hold our institutions a...
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How The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked Us - wglb http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2014/02/20/how-the-syrian-electronic-army-hacked-us-a-detailed-timeline/ ====== mr_spothawk > The editorial staffer, who had “super-administrator” privileges on Forbes’ > WordPress publishing platform... facepalm ------ coldcod...
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1+1=? - lwc123 http://larrycheng.com/2009/09/29/11/ ====== khafra Critique which might be taken personally, please don't read unless you're prepared: You might want to run these blog posts past a proofreader before submitting to avoid things like"1+1=5-4." Also, if you're trying to impress a site full of hackers, y...
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Ask HN: What's your best marketing automation techniques? - rloc I run an online SaaS business.<p>I discovered (as many before me...) that marketing is probably the hardest aspect of growing a business. It takes time, patience and perseverance.<p>I spend a fair amount of time everyday trying to be creative on how I co...
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NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails - philippelh http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/07/nsa-says-it-cant-search-its-own-e-mails/?fb_source=ticker&fb_action_ids=10201357828524764&fb_action_types=og.likes ====== ColinWright Previous submissions of this story: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6093243](h...
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What It’s Like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class - dot https://medium.com/travel-adventure/what-its-like-to-fly-the-23-000-singapore-airlines-suites-class-17d9f3fee0d ====== dalke Also posted about 9 hours ago at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8387276](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=838...
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LinkedIn's new search architecture - rsumbaly http://engineering.linkedin.com/search/did-you-mean-galene ====== ksec Why this never made it on to the frontpage?
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Epoll is fundamentally broken - Philipp__ https://idea.popcount.org/2017-02-20-epoll-is-fundamentally-broken-12/ ====== ktRolster The article explains how to use epoll() correctly to solve all the problems he raises. That's not 'fundamentally broken,' because it works. The worst you can say is _confusing and painful._...
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Blueprint for a microwave trapped ion quantum computer - estefan http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/2/e1601540 ====== mr-Chip I wonder how many real entangled cubits it has
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Video Games Satisfy Basic Human Needs - dnetesn http://nautil.us/blog/-how-video-games-satisfy-basic-human-needs ====== nkozyra > Except, of course, aside from its pre-set storyline, Grand Theft Auto > doesn’t prescribe any of these things. This is not a fair characterization of the game. Yes, you can avoid doing tho...
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Yahoo Officially Rejects Offer - german http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11cnd-yahoo.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin ====== alexfarran I love the sprinkling of items from Mr. Liddel's resume throughout the article: a former banker from New Zealand who calls himself Microsoft’s “gatekeeper of funding,” who jo...
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So just what's going on with the DiggBar? - moses1400 http://www.centernetworks.com/diggbar-analytics-ads-pageviews ====== Devilboy I can understand how the DiggBar is going to benefit Digg but as a casual Digg user this doesn't sit well with me. And you can disable it... but you need to be logged in to Digg to have...
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Disque: a distributed message broker - anikdas https://github.com/antirez/disque ====== bryanlarsen Disque is being reimplemented as a redis module rather than a standalone project. It's scheduled for the next redis release. [https://gist.github.com/antirez/a3787d538eec3db381a41654e214...](https://gist.github.com/ant...
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Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test - mzs https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/20/boeings-starliner-flies-into-wrong-orbit-jeopardizing-trip-to-the-international-space-station.html ====== jacquesm That is a very expensive mistake, but it could have been a lot worse, at least they mad...
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The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why? - d0mine http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/ ====== nkurz On the advice of people here on HN, I've started reading Whitaker's "Anatomy of an Epidemic", which is one of the books reviewed here. It's a solid book, but not doing a lot for ...
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On “White Fragility” - andrenth https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility ====== zdragnar I am amazed that I work at a company full of extremely intelligent individuals, some of whom are truly cream of the crop types given the work we do. Yet, during the Floyd protests, our equity committee sent out an email w...
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Amazon solved the payload problem in drone delivery system - nitin_flanker http://www.whatafuture.com/amazon-finds-creative-way-solve-payload-problems-drone/ ====== NicoJuicy This already existed long before amazon filed this. It won't hold in court ~~~ Eridrus I have a feeling that Amazon probably provides financia...
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From Shader Code to a Teraflop: How Shader Cores Work (2008) [pdf] - Tomte http://s08.idav.ucdavis.edu/fatahalian-gpu-architecture.pdf ====== DuckConference This is excellent, this clarified things in a way past block diagrams hadn't for me.
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Shutterfly to acquire Tiny Prints Inc. - watchmaker http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110321006813/en/Shutterfly-Acquire-Tiny-Prints ====== byrneseyeview ...for $333mm.
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Introducing Selmer: A new fast templating engine using a Django inspired syntaxt - llambda http://yogthos.net/blog/48-Introducing+Selmer ====== bhauer I am really liking this. It's awesome to see performance given a priority in template engines.
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Indian IT firms unfairly targeted in Boeing 737 Max fiasco, says industry - hef19898 https://m.economictimes.com/industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/indian-it-firms-unfairly-targeted-in-boeing-737-max-fiasco-says-industry/articleshow/70018756.cms ====== duxup >According to a report by news agency Bloomberg, en...
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Foreign students have begun to shun the United States - sharjeelsayed https://www.axios.com/international-students-are-staying-away-from-the-united-states-2509719080.html ====== jmiller099 awwww
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Google Pixel phone leaked before unveiling - nyodeneD https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/03/google-pixel-phone-leak-carphone-warehouse ====== lallysingh It's a rectangle with a screen in the middle. Like an iPhone without the button. I didn't need to see a leak to know that, and don't see why this is news...
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TypeScript 3.7 - nerdkid93 http://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-7.html ====== achou I just did some refactoring on a medium size code base and here are a few things to watch out for when adopting optional chaining and the new null coalescing operator: foo && await foo...
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Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011) - projectmeshnet http://youtu.be/eFu71XeM998 ====== tgs I've had no experience with radio but find this stuff really interesting. You never know what you'll need to do come the zombie outbreak when the internet goes down. Packet radio, HAM, CB... it is all a mystery to me. Is there a be...
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How developers use API documentation: an observation study [pdf] - fanf2 http://sigdoc.acm.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/CDQ18002_Meng_Steinhardt_Schubert.pdf ====== kaycebasques I write the Chrome DevTools docs. "Empathy" is a buzzword in technical writing. Recently I wrote a post [1] imploring technical writers to ...
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Redraw state borders, see the election results - yoloswagins http://kevinhayeswilson.com/redraw/ ====== yoloswagins By moving Portland, OR into Washington, and OR flips red. Move the three most western Florida panhandles out of Florida, and it flips Blue. With an intense amount of Gerrymandering, you can really mess...
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The trouble with text-only email - corbet https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/735973/17bdb163fddd41ae/ ====== makecheck I don’t understand this sort of “right to track” that so many organizations seem to have. I don’t care if modern technology gives them a way to do it, I have a right to block or otherwise avoid loading wh...
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Comparing Mesos and Kubernetes - mooreds http://www.developintelligence.com/blog/2017/01/comparing-contrasting-apache-mesos-vs-googles-kubernetes/ ====== davelnewton This report is written by a company that provides Kubernetes support. The thing I found most offensive was that it implies Apache Mesos isn't an open sou...
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Unapologetically Plastic, Artisanal Buns - jordaninternets https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/9655fd3ea2c7 ====== replicatorblog If you want an amazing way to blow an afternoon, read some of the abstracts published in the "Journal of Consumer Research" ([http://www.ejcr.org/](http://www.ejcr.org/))...
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Google and Facebook Team Up to Open Source the Gear Behind Their Empires - rey12rey http://www.wired.com/2016/03/google-facebook-designing-open-source-data-center-gear-together/ ====== franciscop Not only Google and Facebook [1]: Facebook, Intel, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman S...
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Apple adds 192-room hotel to plans of Northwest Austin campus - ingenieros https://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/05-20-20-apple-adds-surprising-element-to-1-billion-campus-in-northwest-austin/ ====== karlkatzke To add to the information in this story (because I live in the neighborhood), there aren’t a ton of h...
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Ask HN: How does one form business partnerships with universities? - omginternets I&#x27;m the co-founder of a small US-based startup. As an applied research company, we&#x27;d like to form a partnership with my a certain laboratory in my <i>alma mater</i> that would involve the following:<p>- Joint research projec...
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Is Amazon Cloud Drive Down ? - jbub https://forum.rclone.org/t/acd-429-too-many-requests/1792/66 ====== jbub [https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1351](https://github.com/ncw/rclone/issues/1351)
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Seth's Blog: Dewey defeats Truman - twampss http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/dewey-defeats-t.html ====== aristus This link you sent me... there is no flow, or thesis. What does it say? All headlines. Trashed.
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German police will be able to hack WhatsApp encrypted messages by end of 2017 - ayi https://www.rt.com/news/397504-germany-state-hacking-whatsapp/ ====== swerner The headline and the rt.com article are a bit misleading, German speakers should rather read the original source: [https://netzpolitik.org/2017/geheimes-doku...
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Show HN: Play Go Against a Deep Neural Network - c-clark https://chrisc36.github.io/deep-go/ ====== thaumaturgy It was OK. I'm only about 6k, and I slaughtered it pretty badly (32 for black to -47 for white), but it did a respectable job of playing fuseki and there was an exciting semeai that pretty well decided the g...
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A toy generational garbage collector - devshorts http://onoffswitch.net/toy-generational-garbage-collector/ ====== obl at first glance it seems to be missing a write barrier to catch new references from old gen to new gen, which is a very important part of any generational collector ~~~ devshorts It's a simplified to...
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An open, more distinctive BBC - paublyrne http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/more-distinctive-bbc ====== paublyrne I suspect that were they to open up access to the iPlayer for non UK users and charge a fee in the region of Netflix's, the Beeb would fix their funding crisis. And as they would circumven...
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A potentially fatal blow against patent trolls - donnemartin http://www.computerworld.com/article/3153924/technology-law-regulation/a-potentially-fatal-blow-against-patent-trolls.html ====== Fjolsvith Dupe: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311737)
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Indexes Beat Stock Pickers Even Over 15 Years - dsacco https://www.wsj.com/articles/indexes-beat-stock-pickers-even-over-15-years-1492039859?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=170413&utm_campaign=ritholtz ====== nabla9 Recent paper giving new insight why indexing works so well. Why Indexing Works, Heaton...
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Submittable Releases Vimeo & YouTube integration for Film Festivals - mfitzerald http://blog.submittable.com/2012/08/new-feature-custom-form/ ====== waterlesscloud I wish someone would shake up withoutabox a little. It's hard since they have such a lock on the market, but everyone would benefit from them being pushe...
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Game Theory Calls Cooperation into Question - etr71115 http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/game-theory-calls-cooperation-into-question1/ ====== nosuchthing Pack animals like dogs naturally discourage fighting amongst themselves [1]. Strife weakens the pack. Consider the effort it takes 1 person to build a house...
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Plan Your Digital Afterlife with Inactive Account Manager - hornokplease http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html ====== intopieces Still confused about why I should care, given that I will be dead. I'm not sure my Google Voice text messages will be of any use to anyone. M...
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"The Chaos" poem catalogues English word irregularities. Can you read all of it? - sumeetjain http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php#caos ====== dmlorenzetti The poem actually misses a word with multiple pronunciations, that's already embedded in the poem: console (line 9). I can console you if your co...
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“Architect” should be a role, not a position - bozho https://techblog.bozho.net/architect-role-not-position/ ====== mehh I disagree :)
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What FourSquare needs to do to fend off Facebook - ry0ohki http://www.startupdetails.com/2010/05/what-foursquare-needs-to-do-to-stay-relevant/ ====== brk This has some well thought out points, but the headline is a little misleading. Facebook could implement these same ideas (none are patentable) to "fend off" Fours...
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A faster, more flexible GitHub Enterprise - ins0 https://github.com/blog/1918-a-faster-more-flexible-github-enterprise ====== peteretep Is it still a bazillion times more expensive than BitBucket? ~~~ FireBeyond $5,000 per 20 users per year.
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Stop the music money stream scream: C.R.E.A.M. - rogueleaderr http://rogueleaderr.com/post/42695281885/stopping-the-music-money-stream-scream-c-r-e-a-m ====== hipsters_unite Pretty well-balanced article. Like in the 'bad old days' the mega-artists that appeal to the mass market are the ones reaping the rewards of ec...
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David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Languages - teklaperry https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/computing/hardware/david-patterson-says-its-time-for-new-computer-architectures-and-software-languages ====== philipkglass Are there languages that have first-class support for repres...
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Show HN: Tax, CLI Task List Manager - netgusto https://github.com/netgusto/tax ====== netgusto I coded this as I needed a simple tool to help keep track of my things to do. The hard requirements were: * command line operated * keep state in a standard markdown file * display the current task in my shell prompt and...
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Microsoft Releases 125M Building Footprints in the US as Open Data - seshagiric https://blogs.bing.com/maps/2018-06/microsoft-releases-125-million-building-footprints-in-the-us-as-open-data?PC=EMMX01 ====== rmc Microsoft has allowed the OSM community to trace from Bing aerial imagery for almost 10 years now. That's be...
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Ask YC: Is the Bay Area Much Better than Seattle for Startups? - arooni Long time reader, first time poster. Thanks in advance for reading this post and extra thanks if you can reply with your thoughts. <p>I'm working full time in a software company in Seattle area and will be leaving soon to work full-time on my star...
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Amazon pulled an Apple on the smart home - imartin2k https://staceyoniot.com/amazon-just-pulled-an-apple-on-the-smart-home/ ====== Tloewald If there’s one thing Apple did, with Steve Jobs, other than build fantastic user experience out of mature but unapproachable technologies, it was communicating the fact that it ha...
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Tracking Reality’s “Fuckedness Quotient”: An Interview with William Gibson - eliotpeper https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/tracking-realitys-fuckedness-quotient-an-interview-with-william-gibson/ ====== pmoriarty Is anyone here a fan of Gibson's post _Neuromancer_ trilogy work? After enjoying _Neuromancer_ and loving...
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Show HN: CurlMail – Quickly send email notifications using cURL - mrmattyboy https://www.curlmail.co/#?pk_campaign=hN2 ====== humbleMouse This is cool, but does it scale? What happens if 10,000 people start using it daily?
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For What It’s Worth: A Review of Wu-Tang Clan’s “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” - tintinnabula http://www.dancohen.org/2016/01/04/for-what-its-worth-a-review-of-the-wu-tang-clans-once-upon-a-time-in-shaolin/ ====== roywiggins > This is like someone having the scepter of an Egyptian king The point of a scepter is that y...
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Internetarchive.bak - edward http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK&hn ====== sp332 Current status: [http://iabak.archiveteam.org/](http://iabak.archiveteam.org/) Helping out is super easy: On Linux or Mac, git clone [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/](https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/IA.BAK/...
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How to teach informatics in 3 months (german satire) - chupa-chups https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Missing-Link-Migration-in-die-Industrie-4-0-Fluechtlinge-als-Software-Entwickler-gegen-4310106.html ====== chupa-chups [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...](https://translate.google.co...
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Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2016 - 11thEarlOfMar https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2017/income-povery.html ====== electrograv How is "all time high" income surprising, given that inflation essentially guarantees perpetually increasing dollar amounts of everything? ...
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Join Thinklab’s $1M effort to crowdsource a biomedical data translator - jspaulding https://thinklab.com/blog/join-thinklabs-1-million-effort-to-crowdsource-development-of-a-biomedical-data-translator/217 ====== jspaulding Hey folks. Thinklab founder here. Would be happy to answer any questions you have. ~~~ brudgers...
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Introducing Realm React Native - porsager https://realm.io/news/introducing-realm-react-native/ ====== kristiandupont I think this is a very exciting match for both eco systems. I look forward to seeing where it will go. ------ bleonard Congrats to the team. We've been really happy trying it out. It's a drop-in repla...
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Ask HN: How do you manage freelance projects when clients only want to email? - bennythomson I&#x27;ve been developing websites for businesses for a few years now, and like many freelance web developers, the people I work for are not particularly tech savvy. As such, email has been the prime way of communicating proje...
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The Emerging-Semantics Web ("The Semantic Web is Dead") - bootload http://yahooresearchberkeley.com/blog/2007/05/16/the-emerging-semantics-web-the-semantic-web-is-dead/ ====== bct The Semantic Web and tagging, etc. aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if Flickr's machine tags are machine parseable then they're part o...
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How a Mexican Drug Cartel Makes Its Billions - jlees http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/magazine/how-a-mexican-drug-cartel-makes-its-billions.html?pagewanted=all ====== guelo The only way to stop these large criminal enterprises is to legalize the stuff. Just like alcohol prohibition created some of the most notorious ...
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Probabilistic Machine Learning: Foundations and Frontiers - blopeur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEq96wib5tw ====== blopeur Slides: [http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers- of...](http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-forum/frontiers-of-machine- learning/ghahramani-ppt.pdf)
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Baumol's Cost Disease: Why Artists are Always Poor - mnemonicsloth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol%27s_cost_disease ====== cousin_it I don't see how the linked article supports your editorializing in the headline. ~~~ mnemonicsloth It would have been more precise to say BCD explains why most artists have troubl...
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“Create so much they can't ignore you” for coders - dillonraphael Just finished reading this post<p>https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artplusmarketing.com&#x2F;create-so-much-they-cant-ignore-you-230012615efe#<p>It sparked something in me, and made a serious point.<p>I&#x27;m mostly a frontend dev. I&#x27;m looking for ideas that wil...
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When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter (2017) - bryanrasmussen https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/ ====== pmoriarty By far the most terrifying movie I've seen on nuclear war has been _Threads_. If you can find a good copy of it, wat...
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Predictive Optimizing Code Loading - avodonosov https://github.com/avodonosov/pocl#readme ====== khc sounds very similar to [https://www.instartlogic.com/blog/dont-buy-the- javascript-yo...](https://www.instartlogic.com/blog/dont-buy-the-javascript- you-dont-use) ~~~ avodonosov Indeed, very similar! This confirms I...
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