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Ask HN: Open Source Call Routing Software for Text Adventure Game? - germinalphrase Greetings,<p>Simply for fun, I’m interested creating a basic choose-your-own adventure game inside of a regular push-button telephone. Premise is that after some simple directions the user would make decisions in the text-based adventu...
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The Sad State of Open Source in Android Tablets - angusgr http://projectgus.com/2010/07/open-source-in-android-tablets/ ====== sprout Couldn't the same sort of mass-lawsuit strategy recently used by certain copyright holders work here? I mean, if it's really this widespread I could see the FSF getting a court to iss...
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Bitcoin has a usability problem - abrkn https://twitter.com/abrkn/status/911179354381574145 ====== nikcub This is in need of a disclaimer or at least a bit more transparency. The poll is part of an argument being made for support of the recent Bitcoin fork Bitcoin Cash The user submitting here is OP and he also paid...
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$250K a Year Is Not Middle Class - applecore https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/28/opinion/campaign-stops/250000-a-year-is-not-middle-class.html ====== dragonwriter Middle class is not principally about income, its about the method by which you participate in the economy. If your primary means of support is applying _you...
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Why don’t we fill bike tyres with helium? - wlkr http://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/791/why-don-t-we-fill-bike-tyres-with-helium ====== aurizon go flat in minutes. Helium is the smallest solitary gaseous element, as does not form molecular aggregates, like most other gasses. Hydrogen exists as H2 = a far larger molecul...
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White America Is Dying, Literally - kushti http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/10/29/1518393112 ====== dang Please do not editorialize the titles of stories you submit here.
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Nobody Understands Probability - kmod http://jsteinhardt.wordpress.com/2010/09/13/nobody-understands-probability/ ====== frossie For those who didn't make it all the way down: _People often intuitively think of probabilities as a fact about the world, when in reality probabilities are a fact about our model of the w...
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Mesosphere Turns Data Center into One Huge Computer - florianleibert http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2014/12/11/with-data-center-os-mesosphere-turns-data-center-into-one-huge-computer/ ====== florianleibert Related articles: GigaOM Jonathan Vanian [https://gigaom.com/2014/12/07/mesospheres-new-data- cen...
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Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr - jbegley https://theintercept.com/2020/07/09/twitter-dataminr-police-spy-surveillance-black-lives-matter-protests/ ====== nullc This kind of surveillance is not very effective for preventing or solving crimes. It is much more effective at ...
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Vbot: a new player in virtual regression testing - katat http://katat.github.io/2017/01/09/vbot/ ====== katat A command line tool to do visual regression testings, support interaction flows with JSON based configurations without needing to write any JS code. Particularly helpful for testing SPA or complicated web apps...
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Ethereum: a decentralized software platform - dsr12 https://www.ethereum.org/ ====== bikamonki Please explain this to me as you'd explain it to your grandma. Thanks!
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Windows Azure Service Disruption on Feb 29th, 2012 - FrancescoRizzi http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2012/03/09/summary-of-windows-azure-service-disruption-on-feb-29th-2012.aspx ====== panarky tl;dr 1\. On February 29, 2012, new certificates created with a one-year expiration date by adding 1 to the year....
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The cortex is a neural network of neural networks - curtis https://medium.com/the-spike/your-cortex-contains-17-billion-computers-9034e42d34f2 ====== skywhopper This is a good article for deepening the complexity model of the brain, but mere physical structure and behavior of subcomponents of neurons is only a tiny pi...
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Ask HN: Please review my startup: TheSunnyTrail - octavdruta Hello guys &#38; girls, we are looking for a helping hand from the HN community (especially from people that run web apps that use the SaaS model)<p>We enable founders / CEOs to easily to track the financial performance of their web apps in order to make b...
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JSCaml: A compile-time transformation from JavaScript to OCaml - henridf https://github.com/facebookexperimental/JSCaml ====== systems Nice to see FB investing so much in OCaml, hope it is not just a phase like how they did with D And I sure hope Parallel OCaml gets done I believe I saw a video for Yaron Minsky (jan...
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(Slashdot successor) What Have We Created? - ableal http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/02/20/1936232 ====== davidcollantes They created Slashdot, with a different name. At least, that is what it seems.
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Better Kernel#require profiling information - wwarneck https://github.com/ruby-prof/ruby-prof/issues/159 ====== vidarh While this is interesting, for every Ruby app I've worked on where startup times became an issue, the culprit was trivially found with "strace" to be caused by excessive pollution of the load path t...
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Migrating from OS.PATH to PATHLIB Module in Python - amitness https://amitness.com/2019/12/migrating-to-pathlib/ ====== RMPR Didn't know about the division operator, when I used the pathlib module to resolve the correct paths, I almost always ended up Frankensteining with os.path.join, thanks for making this. ~~~ ami...
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Google’s AMP Poised to Take the Lead from Facebook’s and Apple’s Walled Gardens - webdisrupt http://www.mondaynote.com/2016/01/18/googles-amp-poised-to-take-the-lead-from-facebooks-and-apples-walled-gardens/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=UK%20Daily%202016-01-19&utm_term=Digiday%20UK%20Newsletter ==...
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Leonardo da Vinci’s Resume - ggonweb http://www.cenedella.com/leonardo-da-vincis-resume/ ====== angersock tptacek had (perhaps still has?) a clever riff on this in his profile.
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Trump’s FCC: Tom Wheeler to be replaced, set-top box reform could be dead - distantsounds http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/11/trumps-fcc-tom-wheeler-to-be-replaced-set-top-box-reform-could-be-dead/ ====== hood_syntax Just kill me now: "Top down power grab" my ass. The one guy punching up for consumers is gonna ...
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Running Kubernetes Example on CoreOS, Part 1 - kohlerm https://coreos.com/blog/running-kubernetes-example-on-CoreOS-part-1/ ====== kohlerm doesn't work for me: < -h [http://127.0.0.1:8080](http://127.0.0.1:8080) -c kubernetes- coreos/pods/redis.json create /pods F0711 00:42:59.424059 03183 kubecfg.go:182] Got request...
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The weird criticism that Big Tech is too digital - buboard https://theweek.com/articles-amp/885308/weird-criticism-that-big-tech-digital ====== snowedin I think there are real improvements made by the tech industry. For example cellular and smart phones are brand new and overall have improved quality of life and produ...
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A Baccarat Binge Helped Launder the Bangladesh Cyberheist - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-08-03/a-baccarat-binge-helped-launder-the-world-s-biggest-cyberheist ====== Retric $81 million seems small potatoes to call it the worlds biggest Cyberheist. By comparison: £650 million [http://www.telegra...
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It’s A Facebook World … Other Social Networks Just Live In It - sammville http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/its-a-facebook-world-other-social-networks-just-live-in-it/ ====== nvictor inception.
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Pinterest reports 40% growth YoY, now at 200M monthly active users - askafriend https://blog.pinterest.com/en/celebrating-200-million-people-pinterest ====== stevesearer I've been a happy recipient of their growth as my readers pin thousands of images to their boards each month netting millions of impressions on Pinte...
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Spore: Open source, Open standards encrypted VOIP client and network for Android - mooneater https://myceli.al/projects/spore-android-client? ====== freeborn Mycelial dev here.. full disclosure: Ive been working with guardian project on a few things including the Open Secure Telephony Network. This project and beta ...
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US Patent: Method of Recording and Saving of Human Soul for Human Immortality - caustic http://www.google.com/patents?id=CS20AAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false ====== nudge It's a patent application, not a patent. The difference is important. ~~~ caustic Thanks for pointing out, I cannot make the title any ...
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How China Unleashed Twitter Trolls to Discredit Hong Kong’s Protesters - samfriedman https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/18/world/asia/hk-twitter.html ====== dirtyid What is stopping Twitter from releasing server logs for others to independently authenticate attribution? Facebook, Google have not declared. The...
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Ask HN: How to get first Dev Job with no shipped code - gremlinsinc I&#x27;ve got a ton of starts, startups I had ideas for... even working on some projects on Assembly.com as lead dev, but my problem is I make 30k per year now(Tech support), and I get depressed and lose focus.. If I could just up to 60k I&#x27;d be...
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VeryNginx – OpenResty-Based Nginx with WAF, Control Panel, and Dashboards - nikolay https://github.com/alexazhou/VeryNginx ====== nodesocket The web UI looks solid, I wish there was a translated version of the README into English. Currently I am using NGINX Plus for load balancing and love it. The NGINX Plus web inter...
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Virginia's $40 Toll Road Better Be the Future of Driving - em3rgent0rdr https://www.wired.com/story/virginia-i66-toll-road/ ====== tomohawk The Northern Virginia traffic situation is more the result of a failure to follow the projections put out in the 60s and build the required roads for the expected growth. I66 was ...
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Show HN: Mobile Version – Tracking Covid-19 Cases and Testing by State - gboesel http://virustracking.net/track-covid-19-by-state.html ====== gboesel I quickly hacked a website together last weekend based on the COVID Tracking Project[1] data because I wanted to see how much COVID testing was being done at the state l...
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Pentium Appendix H fiasco - yuhong http://www.agner.org/optimize/blog/read.php?i=82 ====== Locke1689 If you go into to the ISA for hardware assisted virtualization, they just drop all semblance of compatibility. The memory models just work completely differently. When you're writing a VMM you'll need to write two se...
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Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009) - julianpye http://ru-submarine.livejournal.com/17486.html ====== ge96 Man phenomenal.Engineering. Metal. I used to be obsessed with submarines. Russians have some nice ones, Akulla class... the g Americans and their Seawolf. Of course the iconic German...
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Stupid Patent of the Month: Movies from the Cloud - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/11/stupid-patent-month-movies-cloud ====== james143dotcom is 143movies.com safe to use?
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Samsung Galaxy Tab or iPad? - shashank261 I am planning to buy a tablet. Should I opt for Samsung Galaxy Tab or iPad? ====== SquidLord Me, I'm a Google fan so the Galaxy Tab running Froyo (Android 2.2) is always going to be a winner unless you want to get seriously into iPad synthesizer aps (where it has a huge adva...
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Show HN: Coffee Chats – Schedule virtual coffee chats without the back and forth - chptung https://www.trycoffeechats.com/ ====== chptung Problem: I wanted to host virtual coffee chats to help others with their careers during this time but scheduling over emails / DMs is a huge pain and wastes a ton of time. Calendly ...
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Tornado tracks - xyzzyb http://flowingdata.com/2012/05/26/tornado-tracks/ ====== xyzzyb I'd love to be able to step through this graph year by year. An animation tracing each tornado would be fantastic too.
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The world’s losers are revolting, and Brexit is only the beginning - walterbell https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/27/the-losers-have-revolted-and-brexit-is-only-the-beginning/ ====== sremani I have not read beyond the head line(which is revolting), and I can guess the contents. This is new low for Wa...
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Google Translate proxies others, why can't we all do it? - marichards http://accessify.com/visit?domain=onlinebanking.usbank.com ====== marichards On mobile I get an alert to move me on. On desktop I get an online banking page.
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Ask HN: How should I report my gender when applying for a job? - cyorir Sometimes a job application will request certain demographic information - race, gender, etc. In the gender field, I most often find that there are only 3 options: male, female, and decline to self-identify. There are almost never alternatives lik...
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6 Great Ways for Programmers to be more Effective at Work - pstepin http://10clouds.com/blog/6-great-ways-for-programmers-to-be-more-effective-at-work/?utm_source=HackerNews&utm_medium=HackerNews&utm_campaign=HackerNews ====== espressodude Planning the work day works well for me too. Great list in here by the way. ...
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This Is What the GOP's War On Science Looks Like - Kroem3r http://io9.com/this-is-what-the-gops-war-on-science-looks-like-1556202056 ====== tinalumfoil So now republicans asking questions about how science is furthering humanity in a hearing about funding science programs is a conspiracy to stop the progression of s...
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Mozilla’s plan to fix internet privacy - DvdGiessen https://www.protocol.com/mozilla-plan-fix-internet-privacy ====== walrus01 Firefox on Android has become my go to choice now, because it supports the full set of desktop firefox plugins, including the essential ublock origin. I can't even imagine mobile browsing with...
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Ask HN: What was the first site to use “karma” voting? - gitgud Some of the best sites on the internet use the concept of crowd-sourced rating of content and comments by&#x2F;from the users. It probably doesn&#x27;t matter anymore, but I&#x27;m interested to know who came up with the idea? Or who did it first?<p>- Hac...
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When is a ‘travel hack’ unethical? - dribel https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/when-is-a-travel-hack-unethical/2015/11/19/694b455a-88a0-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html?h ====== JoeAltmaier I disagree with everything in this article. The assumption is that Americans should be scalped for airline tickets ...
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The Immediate Future of Jekyll - parkr http://blog.parkermoore.de/2012/12/18/the-immediate-future-of-jekyll/ Had a chat today with Tom Preston-Werner about the future of Jekyll. Here's what is in the works. ====== laktek While Jekyll is cool to run a blog, it could be a PITA if you want to run a marketing site or som...
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We’re supposed to be so damn “passionate” that we’d do this work for free - cygnus https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-other-half-works-an-adventure-in-the-low-status-of-software-engineers ====== edwhitesell This has some great pieces of information. Though, it might flow better if it was written...
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Ask HN: How do you choose a good font for your next project. - cschmitt I need to start by saying that I'm not a font guy. I know people who are, and they can wax poetic about the differences between two fonts that look almost identical to me. That being said, I do recognize there is a difference between the righ...
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Tell HN: Creators of Chef offering to help start-ups w/infrastructure - thesethings I thought this was interesting. Opscode, the creators of Chef, are offering to help a start-up or two design and automate their infrastructure.<p>If your startup runs on Ruby or Java (their requirement), you should strongly consider ...
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TypeScript vs. PureScript vs. ReasonML vs. Elm - tirumaraiselvan https://hasura.io/blog/why-we-chose-typescript-for-hasura-console/ ====== samhh I think it's unfair to categorise TypeScript as the easiest for interop if you've asserted that static type safety is important to you. If the typings aren't already availabl...
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Keith Flint, Prodigy front man, dead at 49 - adamnemecek https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/03/04/uk/keith-flint-prodigy-dead-scli-gbr-intl/index.html ====== daveslash I discovered The Prodigy in an odd way. I was walking down the sidewalk in 2003 in northern Utah. and a car drove past me on the road. They hit a pot- hole...
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The Problem with RELRO/ASLR in Statically-Linked Executables or Lack Thereof - alyptik https://www.leviathansecurity.com/blog/aslr-protection-for-statically-linked-executables ====== wahern AFAICT OpenBSD already does RELRO (inc. GOT RELO) and ASLR for static PIE, and has for several years. (Maybe since 2015?) I thin...
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What do founders do once they hit 35 and are officially over the hill? - Aloisius http://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silicon-Valley-plan-to-do-once-they-hit-35-and-are-officially-over-the-hill ====== pedalpete Amazing to see the number of Founders of VERY successful start-ups who have responded to...
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Linus Torvalds, Creator Of Linux, Shows Off His Home Office - yiedyie http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2014/07/linus_torvalds_creator_of_linu.html ====== schrodingersCat His desk is so cluttered he "need[s] to burn it down someday." In other news from the Linux world, Linus's Mercedes is so dirty, h...
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The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and bureaucrats - soundsop http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2015/12/07/brain-surgeon-tortured-by-software-developers-and-hospital-bureaucrats/ ====== vonklaus > Fuck Off 45. He hates computers.’ > ‘Why forty-five?’ > ‘It’s the forty-fifth month since we signed o...
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Ask HN: Any open source production react projects? - longsangstan Like the reddit mobile site: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;reddit&#x2F;reddit-mobile Not examples&#x2F;clones like some HN reader, sound cloud client. ====== acemarke Someone ran some queries of Github's data and generated a list of React-based proj...
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Zynga CEO: "Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers." - EvilTrout http://www.sfweekly.com/2010-09-08/news/farmvillains/?repost ====== danilocampos The "social" games space is ripe for revolution. There's no fun there, nothing virtuous in what they consider gameplay. You don't even play with your f...
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Legislation to stop US border agents from demanding passwords is on the way - JoshTriplett https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/20/wyden-letter-dhs-passwords-warrantless-border-searches/ ====== blazespin I stopped reading after "In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, Oregon Senator Ron Wyden called ..." Unl...
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October surprise - Nuance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_surprise ====== symplee How can we avoid the disproportionate influence of late information? What if we allowed people to voluntarily "lock in" their votes anytime after the party candidates are chosen? These early votes could only be changed at some cos...
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This is how you healthcare - buro9 https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/this-is-how-you-healthcare ====== tokenadult Previous submission, with lots of discussion on the main page: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5245321> (Hat tip to you for submitting the canonical URL.)
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Why only 57% of visitors to TPM are using Windows - jeffreymcmanus http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/11/the_changing_web_geeks_only.php ====== bsphil The word 'why' should be removed from the title. Usage statistics are fine, and TPM admits to not being a representative demographic of the Internet at large,...
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The new, cheaper, MacBook Air includes ~35% slower SSD compared to 2018 model - dcu https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/15/cheaper-macbook-air-cheaper-ssd/ ====== duxup >A 35% slower SSD does not automatically translate into an overall performance loss of 35%. Yeah I was wondering about this. For a MacBook Air... could it be...
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Danish board calls for retraction of controversial paper - tokenadult http://retractionwatch.wordpress.com/2013/11/13/citing-scientific-dishonesty-danish-board-calls-for-retraction-of-controversial-paper-on-decline-of-western-civilization/ ====== popularopinion Here's a link I found to the paper in question: [https...
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Ask HN: Review New Startup - Trafficspaces (its like having a Facebook Ads for your site). - DJN I would like to get comments from the community about our startup - Trafficspaces.<p>http://www.trafficspaces.com<p>Trafficspaces is an ad management service that helps publishers create self-service user interfaces for ...
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A better namedtuple for Python - tjomk http://benno.id.au/blog/2014/11/30/a-better-namedtuple ====== dalke Interesting article. The author asks "So, is the namedfields decorator better than the namedtuple factory function?" I have another observation. I like namedtuple as a quick-and-dirty class constructor when th...
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Joi extension for validating mobile numbers ONLY - jhnferraris https://github.com/jhnferraris/joi-mobile-number ====== Fjolsvith Would be nice if someone could write this into a $2 app and push it onto the Google Play store.
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An Island to Oneself - 8_hours_ago http://www.janesoceania.com/suvarov_tom_neale/index.htm ====== samcheng This reminds me of some awesome documentary footage of a man who built a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss) Alone in the ...
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A Look at the Formula 1 Steering Wheel - dmmalam http://www.wired.com/2014/05/formula-1-steering-wheels/?mbid=social_fb ====== cl8ton A Bit Off Topic: If anyone has interest in how it was before smart steering wheels, here is a vid clip of the master Ayrton Senna at Monaco in real-time as it happened. [http://youtu.b...
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A Tiny container to watch other containers on a docker host - omerh https://github.com/omerh/gowatcher ====== omerh A Tiny container to watch other containers on a docker host, once the other containers exits, gowatcher will terminate and reduce autoscaling group count
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Apple makes mobility data available to aid Covid-19 efforts - feross https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/04/apple-makes-mobility-data-available-to-aid-covid-19-efforts/ ====== Grif_fin "Maps does not associate mobility data with a user’s Apple ID, and Apple does not keep a history of where a user has been. Using aggre...
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One Game A Month - lza http://www.onegameamonth.com/ ====== lza Make this your New Year's resolution. Visit the site and watch the keynote. Hope to see many of the HN readers there:)
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Ask HN: Fixed vs Dynamic pricing. - bobo82 Let's assume you've got a product that you can sell with two different pricing stratiegies:<p>A: three-level-pricing: basic - normal - pro<p>B: Custom pricing: The customer set the complexity (not the single features) on a horizontal slider, and the price adjusts accordingl...
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Ask HN: corporate IT stories & startup ideas? - petervandijck From recent HN threads: "our corporate IT department blocks most foreign domains, such as .ly, .io, .tv, and .ng." and "What should I do, corporate IT has blocked Dropbox?"<p>Maybe we should share corporate IT war stories, and connect them with ideas for ...
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The secure smartphone that won’t get you beaten with rubber hoses - oldgregg http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/the-secure-smartphone-that-wont-get-you-beaten-with-rubber-hoses/ ====== oldgregg This could be huge. The first messaging app that is user friendly and protects message content and meta data is going ...
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Ask HN: What is the next bubble in your opinion? - ooonotooto It&#x27;s been a while since financial systems in US and around the globe went through massive shock. We have massive supply of money and artificially boosted demand.<p>Murphy&#x27;s law says that, &quot;if everything seems to be going well, you have obviou...
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Ask HN: What kind of bussines is 'antifragile' during these times? - walclick ====== tlb An antifragile business should be antifragile period, not just in certain times. N.N. Taleb would surely give you a vigorous public thrashing for mis- applying his term :-). Most online services will grow while people are stuck at...
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Tesla and other EVs will be overtaken by hydrogen cars by 2030 - Corrado https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-evs-will-be-killed-by-hydrogen-cars-continental-executive/ ====== jppope I had to double check when this article was released... to my surprise it was written in 2019. I assumed it was from the early 2010s back wh...
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Ask HN: riak/luwak vs openstack swift for private S3 clone? - shedam Hello, what is the best choice for a private cloud storage between openstack's swift and a riak/luwak solution? The purpose of the storage is long term archiving of files (1MB - 500MB), what would you choose and why? ====== rzezeski I know nothing ...
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Ask HN: Apple webserver hardware - mechanician I am trying to decide what type of hardware to buy to use as a personal webserver. I am an Apple guy, so my initial thought was to go with a Mac mini. Is there value in going with a laptop instead? Yes it is more expensive, but it also seems like a more compartmental...
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Ask HN: Bluetooth File Sharing App. Is the idea feasible? - anujkk People carry their mobile phones with them 24x7. They may have various files such as music, pictures, videos that they don't mind sharing with even strangers. So I guess it would be nice if we provide them with a bluetooth file sharing app that allow...
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New financial reform makes it harder to become an angel investor - joss82 http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2010-05-07-financial-reform-and-small-business_N.htm ====== hga " _We've had an explosion of entrepreneurial growth in this country over the last 20 years, financed in large part by ...
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My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein - Anon84 https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apology-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/ ====== whowhatwhy "I met Epstein in 2013 at a conference through a trusted business friend and, in my fundraising efforts for MIT Media Lab, I invited him to the Lab and visited several of his residences...
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Damien Katz: CouchDB switching from Erlang to Java - iamelgringo http://damienkatz.net/2008/04/couchdb_language_change.html ====== brlewis Best part: _Developers in the US who've worked on a successful Erlang project probably number less than 10. But the number of developers who've worked on a successful Java projec...
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Show HN: Looma – swipe to make personalized meal plans - somewhat_stoic https://livelooma.com ====== somewhat_stoic Hi HN, I'm Kyle, co-founder of Looma ([https://livelooma.com](https://livelooma.com)), a swipeable meal planning app coming soon to iPhone. We want to spark inspiration by finding intriguing new recipes...
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Zawodny: Database Abstraction Layers Must Die (at least for PHP) - Shakescode http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/002194.html ====== Davertron I think this is just ridiculous. I'm not necessarily gung-ho about using database abstraction layers myself, but the author only argues against it on the basis of one of th...
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AirBnb is a rental economy, not a sharing economy - atmosx http://www.thepressproject.net/article/68073/AirBnb-is-a-rental-economy-not-a-sharing-economy ====== beyondcompute And quite expensive for that sake. As people seemingly charge travelers much more than what locals are paying for renting the same level apartm...
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IPhone is flush down the toilet... then (awesomely) retrieved - christangrant https://plus.google.com/110703832132860599877/posts/HwkciwGK5Bt ====== tantrumSeeker Nice try on trying to convince us that this REALLY happened, the Iphone was clearly TOO LARGE to fit into a small toilet opening...points for creativity t...
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See? Nobody Buys on Facebook. Nobody Cares - fezzl http://blog.zuupy.com/see-nobody-buys-on-facebook-nobody-cares ====== grovulent For every person who wants to believe that facebook is the biggest thing since word-of-mouth, there is someone equally hoping the whole thing collapses in on itself. Each party wants th...
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A Failure of Understanding - A response to "The Start-Ups We Don't Need" - blasdel http://enfranchisedmind.com/blog/posts/failure-of-understanding/ ====== voidmain The entire argument of this article is the broken window fallacy. The original article is not that great either, but I'm sure it's true that government pr...
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Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is? - usea http://serverfault.com/questions/496139/something-is-burning-in-the-server-room-how-can-i-quickly-identify-what-it-is/ ====== yardie You can tell from the responses who has a real DR plan and who are just winging it. The DR-backed c...
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Ask HN: Highest quality resources about anything? - bry_lnd What is just the outright best material out there on any topic? The most effective, straight-to-the-point material where anyone can dig in and learn something quick. Or it&#x27;s just high-quality content that you can&#x27;t miss if it is in your field of int...
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The four year vesting schedule doesn't make sense - groth http://stuckinthevalley.tumblr.com/ ====== tptacek I don't invest in companies, but if I did, having nonstandard vesting schemes would be a no-deal red flag, at least for any team that didn't have a mile- long pedigree starting and successfully building compani...
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Ask HN: Best way to recruit developers during a conference? - orbyone We are platinum sponsors in a major software developer conference, which means we have unlimited freedom (and for the sake of argument, budget) in order to come up with ideas to approach candidates during the conference.<p>What is the best way to re...
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Everything you need to know about Loading Animations - LisaDziuba https://medium.com/flawless-app-stories/everything-you-need-to-know-about-loading-animations-10db7f9b61e ====== JoeAltmaier Cute! I personally object to loading progress bars that don't actually show progress. They just start over. I'm waiting for the ...
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UC system's global rankings slip amid funding cuts, international competition - SemiEarlyGoogle http://www.latimes.com/local/education/higher-ed/la-me-uc-global-rankings-20180228-story.html ====== purplezooey Thanks Howard Jarvis
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Ask HN: To employees of a startup that later got acquired/IPO'd - ccdev How do you figure out you picked a &quot;winner&quot; startup before joining?<p>Let me preface this with saying, I&#x27;ll be so upset if the majority of answers boil down to having a lot of luck :D I&#x27;ve been burned out through a few early st...
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Show HN: Our 1st startup video. Any thoughts? - gqgy https://vimeo.com/54126768 ====== kevinconroy Great voice over, sound effects, and animation, but still doesn't show me why this will make me better. What happens when the product is released? What's the pain that you're taking away from me in the future so that ...
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NYTimes paywall easy to circumvent with bookmarklet - jrnkntl http://euri.ca/2011/03/21/get-around-new-york-times-20-article-limit/ ====== ultrasaurus As much as I appreciate the link directly to my site, the discussion from the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard ( submitted as <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=235...
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