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An Overview of Quantum Computing - ukd1 http://blog.caffeinatedanalytics.com/an-overview-of-quantum-computing ====== redlollipop This is really interesting. Do you have a recommendation for a good quantum computing intro book?
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Why Economists are often Cheapskates - cwan http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB126238854939012923-lMyQjAxMTIwNjAyMzMwODM4Wj.html ====== michaelkeenan We often measure charity in dollars donated. Occasionally we measure charity by percentage of wealth donated[1]. What would happen if we measured charity in terms ...
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Can you submit a review of your VPS/dedicated provider on our website? - ServerHunter https://www.serverhunter.com ====== ServerHunter If you are or were subscribed to a VPS or dedicated server, we encourage you to rate your server provider on serverhunter.com. It would be much help to our growing community to learn ...
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NPM has been partially down for a while now - harrychenca See github thread: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/13284 ====== Juha They are still down (7+ hours after creating that ticket), with zero communication from NPM and status page showing all green. Not the way to go. EDIT: They fi...
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An introduction to integrated circuits - DyslexicAtheist https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/i2c ====== twtw The submitted title doesn't correspond to the true title.
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Show HN: DevDash – Creating highly configurable dashboards in your terminal - thanato0s https://github.com/Phantas0s/devdash ====== angelmass Is there a significant difference between this and [https://wtfutil.com/](https://wtfutil.com/) ?
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Why Microsoft's "Scroogled" Campaign Is Childish - srathi http://itechtriad.com/articles/2013/12/30/why-microsofts-scroogled-campaign-is-childish ====== aspir Did anyone really need convincing that the Scroogled campaign was childish? This campaign is so bad, it's going to be used in case studies for years to come. W...
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Remy – Computer-generated TCP congestion algorithm - JoachimS http://web.mit.edu/remy/ ====== donavanm A key point that's glossed over is computational complexity on the senders side. The existing congestion & flow control mechanisms are quite simple. In contrast these "algorithms have more than 150 rules." Additional...
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Ajit Pai wants to cap spending on broadband for poor people and rural areas - onemoresoop https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/03/ajit-pai-wants-to-cap-spending-on-broadband-for-poor-people-and-rural-areas/ ====== t3hprofit Makes sense. I was thinking based on the title of the article that this would be a good thi...
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Autistic Burnout: The Cost of Masking and Passing (2017) - depressed https://boren.blog/2017/01/26/autistic-burnout-the-cost-of-coping-and-passing/ ====== robotresearcher "Common life strategy for autistic people: achieve/overachieve until burning out and maybe the overachievement will result in enough social and econ...
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Twibble.io – A Better RSS-to-Twitter Automation Service - ryanlum http://twibble.io/ ====== jonocoulton Nice job man. ~~~ ryanlum Gracias.
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Why your data scientist interviewer won't ask Pandas questions - data4lyfe https://www.interviewquery.com/blog/data-scientist-interviewer-wont-ask-pandas ====== enahs-sf Literally every person I interview I look for a baseline understanding of sql. Nothing tricky, but just the core concepts. So key to basically every ...
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Can Brian Chesky Save Airbnb? - msoad https://www.theinformation.com/articles/can-brian-chesky-save-airbnb ====== maxtesla > Monopoly Lies > Monopolists lie to protect themselves. They know that bragging about their > great monopoly invites being audited, scrutinized, and attacked. Since they > very much want their m...
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Someone memorialized my Facebook profile but I'm still alive - phwd http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/28268/40 ====== mkjones I just searched for "memorialized" on our help center and got a link to the page that lets you fix this: <http://mkjon.es/memorialize.png> If I search for "facebook memorialized" on the googl...
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A Note from Mark Zuckerberg - Icer5k https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/03/a-note-from-mark-zuckerberg/ ====== turtlegrids I'm trying to not read too much into the fact that "Photo of Mark Zuckerberg and Chris Cox" is under a "Downloads" heading at the end of the... "article". Makes it feel more like a PR puff piece t...
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A YouTube built for gamers - SalGnt http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/06/a-youtube-built-for-gamers.html ====== VikingCoder Smart move to focus on this segment.
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P = NP - gzanitti http://feedly.com/k/1bh7aoX ====== saidajigumi [Meta: please submit the direct link, not a link-shortened version] This arXiv paper[1] is apparently from 2012. A good meta-resource and summary of attempts on P ?= NP, including this one, can be found at [2]. From [2]: > Among all these papers, the...
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Show HN: Decoupled – A lightweight music player for iOS - tzahola https://decoupled.app ====== jens-c I have been looking for something like this for a long time on iOS. I am not into streaming at all, but I have a large collection of physical media converted into electronic form. (I also very much appreciate your no ...
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HN has ads? - efnx http://efnx.com/hn-has-ads/ ====== super-serial 'Jobs? Where we're going we don't need jobs.' I've always wanted to have a parody shirt with that phrase on it, with a pic of Doc Brown wearing his metallic glasses... above it it would say "Entrepreneur" in 'Back To The Future' text. If I had money I...
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Ambient AI Is About to Devour the Software Industry - artsandsci https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609635/ambient-ai-is-about-to-devour-the-software-industry/ ====== jclay Is anyone else clear on what this article is saying? Being able to call AWS services from a cloud based IDE is going to "Devour the Sof...
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Show HN: Avengers List PWA - amitmerchant https://www.amitmerchant.com/pocket-avengers/#/ ====== jgaudette Awesome job! One suggestion, when going to a new page scroll the user back to the top of the page automatically. Great design!
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SoftBank's investment fund dumps entire $3.6B stake in Nvidia - trimbo https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/06/softbank-vision-fund-sells-nvidia-stake.html ====== FreedomToCreate There is more to this sell off than simply Nvidia earnings report. With such a large investment, this is a fairly short duration to sell after, espe...
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U.S. children read, but not well or often: report - kevin818 http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/12/us-usa-reading-idUSKBN0DS04L20140512 ====== ap22213 Recently, I stopped over a friends house. And, I was surprised to see a group of 7 or so 9-11 year olds all watching their computers or devices. At first I thought ...
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The Myth of “In-Memory” - prostoalex http://www.interana.com/blog/the-myth-of-in-memory ====== dalke When this was posted yesterday, I commented at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10268465](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10268465) about the following: "The legend of “in-memory” seems to have been born fro...
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Pharmacy flu vaccine: Health insurance policies should cover drug store shots - jseliger http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2015/09/pharmacy_flu_vaccine_health_insurance_policies_should_cover_drug_store_shots.html ====== dogma1138 Well out of all the cases against health insurers in the ...
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GMail Can't Read a Period - mlaccetti http://www.laccetti.com/post/225198201/this-is-interesting ====== shrike Not a bug. Feature. GMail ignores periods in email addresses. [http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont- kn...](http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about- serious...
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Swift 5 Release Notes for Xcode 10.2 beta - Austin_Conlon https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode_release_notes/xcode_10_2_beta_release_notes/swift_5_release_notes_for_xcode_10_2_beta ====== favorited Though it is underplayed in the release notes, the biggest initiative with Swift 5 is the stable ABI. Now tha...
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One SaaS Marketing Experiment Produced These 80/20 Insights… - danhodgins http://www.saastimes.com/saas-pay-per-click-marketing-experiment-data ====== jtchang I'm not as familiar with adwords as I want to be. What exactly are the ad groups? Is it the positioning he is referring to? What exactly is suppose to jump ou...
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YC vs Reddit vs Digg: Orders of Magnitude of Difference, Literally - parker http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details/ycombinator.com?site0=ycombinator.com&site1=reddit.com&site2=digg.com&y=t&z=3&h=300&w=610&u%5B%5D=ycombinator.com&u%5B%5D=reddit.com&u%5B%5D=digg.com&x=2008-03-27T23%3A11%3A03.000Z&check=www.a...
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Ask HN: Are you writing a journal? - mindrun After I heard good things about writing a personal journal from some friends a few months ago, I also started writing one myself.<p>But I recently stopped writing because I noticed that the Application I was using is saving all entries completely unencrypted in the Cloud....
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Ask HN: What are the best European accelerators/incubators? - thecodingmonk ====== philippz I hear mixed things about Techstars ~~~ thecodingmonk > Techstars contributes $20,000, which is commonly used as a stipend to > support living expenses during the program, and in return receives 6% common > stock from each comp...
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My crazy 2016 resolution: MVP every two weeks - olegkikin http://www.olegkikin.com/devblog/2016/01/01/mvp-every-two-weeks/ ====== bikamonki Don't. Better spend a couple of weeks selecting one and do a damn good product. I know where you come from, I mean that feeling of having muchas 'great' ideas and wanting to try...
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Real-time map of Uber surge pricing - markmassie http://www.uphail.com/ ====== Herald_MJ If this isn't affiliated with Uber, isn't it pretty likely this will be shut down? ------ rabbimarshak SF is on fire now with Dreamforce in town!
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Probably the most bicycle-friendly city in the world - lkozma http://kevytliikenne.ytv.fi/?lang=en ====== mdemare Bicycle culture in Amsterdam: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk6YxhKH590> ------ ptman Helsinki is not that bicycle-friendly at all. More space for bicycles on the roads would help a lot more than a ro...
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Beautiful People Are the Hardest to Draw: Interview with a Courtroom Artist - dwwoelfel http://ratter.com/ratter/all/inverse-published/213837-courtroom-artist-l-d-chukman ====== tmalsburg2 Not an expert for face perception but I think faces are believed to be stored in memory in terms of their deviation from the stand...
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MariaDB Cassandra Storage Engine - philips http://kb.askmonty.org/en/cassandra-storage-engine/ ====== simpsond I like the idea but I am not familiar with dynamic columns in maria. Is it possible to query dynamic columns in a way that map to a column slicing operation in cassandra?
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Show HN: Bug in reply to comment on HN. - source99 Could be user error but it looks like some line breaks that are entered into the text box are not reflected properly.<p>Broken example - http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;VR4WXBL<p>Working example (extra line break)- http:&#x2F;&#x2F;imgur.com&#x2F;1vRF7G8<p>Screen ...
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Bootstrapped Companies with 1 Million+ Revenue - pppggg http://37signals.com/bootstrapped ====== hko That list is a bit out of date: [http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally- raises-funding-1...](http://gigaom.com/2012/07/09/github-finally-raises- funding-100m-from-andreessen-horowitz/)
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Google Replaces “Alphabet” Wiki with “Alphabet Inc” - thewisenerd http://imgur.com/HKv31VZ ====== Nadya The user is signed in which will skew their results. It is above the Alphabet wiki, does not replace it, and both are far below articles related to Alphabet Inc. [0] [http://i.imgur.com/pFoR2hw.png](http://i.imgu...
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Our Government Runs on a 60-Year-Old Coding Language, and Now Its Falling Apart - gHeadphone https://onezero.medium.com/our-government-runs-on-a-60-year-old-coding-language-and-now-its-falling-apart-61ec0bc8e121 ====== theincredulousk COBOL isn’t falling apart, the systems are exceeding their design limits. “Oh if it ...
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Minimizing Computations in your Rails App - artellectual https://www.codemy.net/posts/optimizing-your-rails-app-part-2-minimize-computations ====== pedalpete I don't know, they've got a lot of code to gain a 1.5 second lookup speed on 10 million lookups! To me, that sounds like over engineering. Even at Facebook sc...
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Show HN: Crafting Interpreters – A handbook for making programming languages - munificent http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ ====== trishume A fantastic book covering similar things that you can read right now is [https://pragprog.com/book/tpdsl/language-implementation- patt...](https://pragprog.com/book/tpdsl/langu...
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How ContextLogic moved from Scribe to a cloud service to power their A/B testing - kzk_mover http://blog.treasure-data.com/post/24923649237/using-treasure-data-at-contextlogic ====== kitevc Really low friction way to get up and running with a super fast cloud data warehouse. 5-6 x faster than standard mapreduce solu...
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Ian Keough – How to Make Better Decisions Faster - nonoesp http://gettingsimple.com/9 ====== nonoesp Ian Keough (@ikeough) is the founder of Hypar. He writes code from his garage to automate the generation of the built environment to help stakeholders make better decisions faster. Trained as a fine artist and architec...
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Theirself or Themself? - user_235711 http://cliffhays.weebly.com/1/post/2014/01/theirself-or-themself.html ====== BjoernKW If you absolutely have to use one of those it would have to be 'themself'. 'their' clearly is wrong in that place because it's possessive pronoun. The reason why 'their' can be used in the same p...
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Ask HN: Why are English and Spanish the only languages that trend on Twitter? - CodeFoo I'm especially surprised I never see trending in Arabic, Chinese, Korean or Japanese. Does Twitter intentionally hide them or do they just not Tweet much? ====== meerita Probably is cultural. As a spaniard, my guess can be that p...
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Features are faults redux - vog http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/features-are-faults-redux ====== simplyalaa Not directly tied, but another old simplifying call. And is considered by some as extremist. [http://archive.is/YLh6I](http://archive.is/YLh6I) This is a description of his method (by Jeff) [http://www.ultr...
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Reddit's unpaid "internship" offer is apparently against labor laws - vaksel http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/c7vdo/call_for_interns/ ====== viraptor This is confusing... looking at it from the "if I was the target audience" perspective: General idea: unpaid work is a strange idea, but I didn't have anything e...
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Ask HN: How do you share screenshots? - C0x Here is my startup http://floomby.com. Floomby captures and shares screenshots. What tools do you use to share screenshots? ====== asmosoinio I use Jing: <http://www.jingproject.com/> The way it works is really nice, it is easy to capture and share. Unfortunately the app...
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How to Make Plutonium - brainopener http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a27359/how-to-make-plutonium/ ====== brainopener NASA requires plutonium-238 for radioisotope power systems for spacecrafts. Plutonium-238 was a by-product of now defunct Cold War–era nuclear weapon factories. Oak Ridge National Labora...
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Running .NET apps in Docker containers - friism http://friism.com/running-net-apps-on-docker ====== Guillaume86 I experimented wih docker a few month ago and made a docker image for the .NET kooboo CMS running on monofastcgi/nginx as an exercise. Here's the link if someone is interested: [https://github.com/guillaume8...
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Do without English in Computer architecture? - taiyangong Is it theoretically or/and practically possible to make a new computer architecture and subsequent devices and technologies like Desktop, Tablet's, Smartphone, Camera, Video Recorder etc. without using the anything of the English Language from hardware level ...
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PEdump – Online PE Dump - peter_d_sherman http://pedump.me/ ====== peter_d_sherman Related: [https://github.com/zed-0xff/pedump](https://github.com/zed-0xff/pedump) Also, if the page gives you a screwy popup (why would this be?), then disable JavaScript -- and try again...
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The True Purpose of Microsoft Solitaire, Minesweeper, and FreeCell - personjerry http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-amazing-facts-about-Google-or-Microsoft/answer/Saran-Udayakumar?share=1 ====== scholia That's just someone quoting a whole blog post from mentalfloss.com [http://mentalfloss.com/uk/technology/32106/th...
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Snapchat already has a 'sell' rating, and the analyst thinks it will crash 58% - rock57 http://www.businessinsider.com/snap-stock-sell-rating-pivotal-research-2017-3 ====== fullshark _The_ analyst said that?? ~~~ detaro the analyst behind "the" (singular) sell rating discussed in the article probably?
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Flatpak – Standalone Apps for Linux - macco http://flatpak.org ====== SwellJoe Previous discussion of Flatpak, including some technical discussion and useful links: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697678](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11697678) ------ Nullabillity I'm not at all sold on this idea of "...
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Ask HN: Where are the complete PRISM slides? - captn3m0 The WP report mentions PRISM being described on a 41 slide presentation. Both Guardian and WP have only shared the first 4 slides only. Both the reports hardly mention any facts that are not mentioned in those 4 slides. It makes me put my tinfoil hat on, and wo...
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Counting money 'makes people feel better about themselves' - fogus http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6199932/Counting-money-makes-people-feel-better-about-themselves.html ====== javery I have always thought that money isn't the most important thing in life, but it is the best way to keep score. Counting ...
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Dying 'Last Lecture' Prof's New Book Becomes Runaway Best Seller - edw519 http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/dying-last-lect.html ====== nazgulnarsil every few years something like this gets really popular so that people can go "see? we like positive uplifting things!" then they go straight back to their vio...
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How many of you tried kickstarter for raising money - RuchitGarg Did you find it useful? Did your attorney freaked out? Raised money for your tech project? ====== MaysonL While I haven't used it, a good friend of mine has used it successfully twice, once to help send a play [i.e. the actors, and musicians] she wrote...
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CDN for all the other scripts (backbone.js, modernizr, etc.) - ryankirkman http://www.cdnjs.com/ ====== KuraFire I checked out this site the moment it got linked on Twitter, but I haven’t been able to connect to it still. I asked on Twitter, and it seems quite a few people are having issues connecting to it: <http://...
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Microsoft's trivial patent on two-pass compression - alecco http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6037883/description.html ====== alecco Even if there's prior art I wouldn't have the money to fight something like this. So there goes a week of work on a faster gzip.
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Study of Face Masks Finds One Type That's Worse Than No Mask at All - pseudolus https://gothamist.com/news/study-face-masks-finds-one-type-s-worse-no-mask-all ====== chordalkeyboard here is the link to the study: [https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sci...](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/...
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Ask HN: pricing question - kinj28 whats better for SaaS pricing - pay per user or per usage? eg. we have a link sharing tool for teams. should the pricing be based on #of links shared or #of users? ====== fasteo "per user". The problem "per usage" is that most of the time the potential customer does not have a clue ...
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I need a user friendly and easy to add live chat application for my website - jemmybutton I need that live chat application to provide online customer support and to analyze performance of my website. ====== louiswilson Compatible and uncomplicated live chat features makes your live chat session more effective where...
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NetApp CEO departs - sfbay http://www.wsj.com/articles/netapp-ceo-tom-georgens-to-depart-1433191002 ====== sfbay [http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/netapp-moves- ceo-i...](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/01/netapp-moves-ceo- idUSL3N0YN55220150601)
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Google might be screwed - numair https://medium.com/@numair/google-might-be-screwed-740023587cf4 ====== lisivka In my case, Google always shows sites located in Russia first (first 10 results are always in .ru), despite that I located in Ukraine, and write queries in Ukrainian language, even lang:uk does not help, so ...
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Voice.Google.com insecure connection - hellbanner Hangouts.google.com works, but not voice. Please advise &#x2F; report to Google<p>Secure Connection Failed<p>An error occurred during a connection to voice.google.com. The OCSP server experienced an internal error. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_SERVER_ERROR<p><pre><code> ...
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Finished Minecraft CPU Calculates the Fibonacci Sequence [video] - ugh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sNge0Ywz-M ====== ugh Accompanying notes from the creator on reddit: [http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/e49q7/demonstrating_...](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/e49q7/demonstrating_my_minecraft_cpu_or...
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Building a BASIC Interpreter, '80s style - new_here https://able.bio/kerrishotts/building-a-basic-interpreter-80s-style--79a9d703 ====== rbanffy In most 8-bit BASIC interpreters, the LIST command is, actually, a pretty printer: it reads and parses the tokenized source from memory and outputs it to the "terminal". On t...
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Apple and Samsung Are Friendly Again, and the Competition Should Be Terrified - adventured http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-01/apple-and-samsung-are-friendly-again-and-the-competition-should-be-terrified ====== enlightenedfool some one finally realized that Samsung and Android in general are not really...
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Uber CEO Indicted in South Korea Over Its Taxi Service - webhat http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-24/uber-ceo-indicted-in-south-korea-over-its-taxi-service.html ====== debacle > “Uber does not believe it is appropriate for authorities to seek to punish > drivers who are trying to make a living through this service...
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Easy AngularJS Forms with angular-formly - kentcdodds https://scotch.io/tutorials/easy-angularjs-forms-with-angular-formly ====== kentcdodds If you're using AngularJS, I highly recommend you look into angular-formly. This is a fantastic introduction to angular-formly. There's a lot more power/flexibility behind angu...
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Are you keeping your product team focused and data driven? - patothon http://blog.experiments.io/post/54424766279/are-you-keeping-your-product-team-focused-and-data-drive ====== beg It's hard to align Marketing, Sales and Product team around common goals. ~~~ patothon that's why I think you should have missions for...
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Change in Real Home Prices Since 2000 - wjossey http://harvard-cga.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=0e9603b62db14611834fd3dfd8645316 ====== ucaetano Oh, looking at this it is worth remembering that NIMBYism and real estate prices are one of the biggest drivers of inequality in the world. Housing doesn'...
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The aliens are silent because they're dead - bootload http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160121110932.htm ====== orionblastar Or they could be so far away that we never got a signal from them yet. I can see how hard it is for life to survive and see that Mars and Venus are two examples of the planet going t...
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Zuckerberg Seeks Personal Privacy, Then Removes Online Privacy Feature - talhof8 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/229364 ====== blakesterz "But as Facebook makes it more difficult for users to maintain privacy, its co-founder is taking drastic measures to protect his own. Ironic timing, isn't it?" Doesn't it seem ...
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Qualcomm Insider: Apple 64-Bit Chip `Hit Us in the Gut' - bane http://blog.hubspot.com/uattr/qualcomm-apple-64-bit-chip-hit-us-in-gut ====== danielsju6 A lot of people miss how big of an advantage Apple is continually taking by being first to market. People try to pin their mobile success on Apple fanboys or their "m...
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Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro - seycombi https://www.newscientist.com/article/2113299-googles-deepmind-ai-can-lip-read-tv-shows-better-than-a-pro/ ====== bryanrasmussen this is a definitely a boon to espionage/police work. I wonder if you would have to get a warrant to make a video in p...
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Set up a Gmail account as a journal for my two year old and Google closed it - gremlinsinc So, I setup a gmail account for my two year old to send journal posts to, images, videos, etc...Also to preserve his name as a username.<p>Basically a way to communicate with him in case something happens to me.<p>Google closed ...
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Introducing NodeJS-Dashboard - weareformidable https://formidable.com/blog/2016/10/12/introducing-nodejs-dashboard/ ====== STRML A nice little dash. Surprisingly, I found the most valuable part of it is honestly just splitting stdout/stderr, as the rest of the data is relatively easy to access (except event loop lag, ...
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Rejection improves eventual impact of manuscripts - ananyob http://www.nature.com/news/rejection-improves-eventual-impact-of-manuscripts-1.11583 ====== JamisonM This makes sense from my experience, decent papers that are rejected are rejected by reviewers, who themselves are doing related research and publishing paper...
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The Least Liked Programming Languages - Garbage https://www.oreilly.com/radar/the-least-liked-programming-languages/ ====== goto11 I found this funny: > Ruby more disliked than Java? What’s going on? I’ve had some fun programming > in Ruby; it is, for the most part, a “do what I meant, not what I said” > language, an...
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Burrows-Wheeler Transform [video] - bane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WRANhDiSHM ====== daemonk Wow this is a great video. I was able to implement a simple python version of the BWT as described in the video here: [https://gist.github.com/damiankao/908fe1fd6562dc75f40c](https://gist.github.com/damiankao/908fe1fd6...
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William S. Lind, fourth generation warfare, conservatism, and “cultural Marxism” - aspenmayer https://4thgenwar.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/trump-meets-man-who-inspired-2011-terror-attack-deadlier-than-orlando-shooting/ ====== aspenmayer Original title was clickbait and lacked context. It was: Donald Trump Meets William...
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Rudimentary Currying and Partial Application in Python - ighost http://gist.github.com/128202 ====== jmillikin [http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.part...](http://docs.python.org/library/functools.html#functools.partial) This already exists in the standard library as functools.partial, except t...
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Best Espresso in NYC - bluepanda_ http://hery.ratsimihah.com/blog/nycafe/ ====== bluepanda_ Feel free to add spots by sending a pull request at [https://github.com/hery/hery.github.com/blob/master/_posts/2...](https://github.com/hery/hery.github.com/blob/master/_posts/2013-03-12-nycafe.markdown) pull or emailing me ...
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Tim Cook Speaks Up - replicatorblog http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-10-30/tim-cook-im-proud-to-be-gay ====== ForrestN I am incredibly grateful to Cook for this, not least because of how it will affect young gay people. When I was a child, I felt generally good about myself. I was reasonably smart, well-spok...
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Google details Chrome’s latest speed boost - Red_ http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/18/google-details-chromes-latest-speed-boost-thanks-to-script-streaming-and-code-caching/ ====== X-combinator Congrats for making the third front page. [http://i.imgur.com/A07YxCp.png?1](http://i.imgur.com/A07YxCp.png?1)
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Browsing Craigslist Made Easy - pic browsing - jerryblack we just launched launched this new feature that allows to browse craigslist by looking at the product images. Here is the link below:<p>http://spotli.com/index.cfm?activity=0&#38;dept_id=1&#38;store_id=6<p>please feel free to leave a comment for any changes t...
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Interspire Email Marketer - Remote Admin Authentication Bypass - redsec https://security.infoteam.ch/en/blog/posts/narrative-of-an-incident-response-from-compromise-to-the-publication-of-the-weakness.html ====== sokolovanton How much time did it take to spot this ? nice article by the way
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War reporters like me will cease to exist if the web giants aren’t stopped - humantiy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/28/war-reporters-internet-giants-news-journalism-facebook-google-eu-vote-copyright ====== nailer > But they (Google, Facebook) get paid for the advertising linked to content > that j...
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Why Block Size Increase Is Not a Solution to High Fees for Bitcoin - funyug https://blockchaind.net/block-size-increase-not-solution-fees/ ====== sova Good writeup, have you looked into iotacoin? ~~~ funyug I have not looked into their tech but i have heard that they have similar issues to bitcoin when bitcoin was 0 ...
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Hacker Toolbox - st3f4no What are the tools to help you get set and start developing awesome web products? ====== st3f4no # Coding [https://atom.io/](https://atom.io/) \- A hackable text editor [http://brackets.io/](http://brackets.io/) \- Lightweight opensource code editor # Local Server [http://www.mamp.info/e...
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Mobile is Eating the World - tomazstolfa http://a16z.com/2014/10/28/mobile-is-eating-the-world/ ====== cageface _There is no point in drawing a distinction between the future of technology and the future of mobile._ I find Evans' analysis of mobile a bit hyperbolic. Yes the growth of mobile is explosive and, in some ...
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Bioethicist proposes adding lithium to US drinking water - Alex3917 http://bigthink.com/ideas/21538 ====== hugh3 Seems more like professional-grade trolling than a serious suggestion. Still, on the offchance they do start doing it, I'll be first in line for rainwater tanks, so I can protect the purity of my preciou...
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Accurate CRT Simulation - jsnell http://gamasutra.com/blogs/KylePittman/20150420/241442/CRT_Simulation_in_Super_Win_the_Game.php ====== jloughry In the _analogtv.c_ source code, by Trevor Blackwell (part of XScreenSaver) is this comment [1]: A maxim of technology is that failures reveal underlying ...
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Golo 1.1.0 - lelf http://golo-lang.org/news/2014/09/22/golo-1.1.0/ ====== dozzie If it is for JVM, the language is not "lightweight" by definition.
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Ask HN: What is your favourite technical interview question? - svag I ask this question after reading this post http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1840774 [My Favorite Engineering Interview Question(skife.org)]<p>I didn't find any similar question in HN after a quick search in google, so please give your favourite ...
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Objective-C on its way to become programming language of 2010 - nexneo http://www.tiobe.com/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html ====== SamAtt It's pretty far ahead right now but I think this trend is going to start to reverse pretty soon. The combination of Apple loosening their restrictions, technology like Appcelera...
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