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MIT and IBM establish joint AI research lab - ffwang2 http://news.mit.edu/2017/ibm-mit-joint-research-watson-artificial-intelligence-lab-0907 ====== blueyes IBM bought visibility with its ad campaigns, and it's trying to buy credibility with this sponsorship, but I'll bet you anything that the only part of IBM that MI...
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How to speed up LZ4 decompression - zX41ZdbW https://habr.com/en/company/yandex/blog/457612/ ====== alesapin Usage of multi-armed bandits for low-level optimizations looks fairly unusual, I cannot remember any other examples in open-source codebases. ------ kochetovnicolai Have you considered other integer compressio...
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The Internet of Things has a dirty little secret: it's not really yours - tdrnd http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/7/12/12159766/internet-of-things-iot-internet-of-shit-twitter ====== ankurdhama Welcome to the "innovation" era of all time. Our innovations are cool.. yeah that's it.
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Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? - dwynings http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/01/is_entrepreneurship_a_manageme.html ====== jbarciauskas The mere title (but the article as well) begs the question, to what extent is management a science at all? While there's a lot of pseudo-science in pop business nonfiction, there...
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Calling it quits? When do you think enough is enough HN? - Stonewall9093 Hey HN. I'm a budding entrepreneur, with a team equally as enthusiastic as me. We're still in college, which makes things a bit different in various regards. Nonetheless, we've been working on a startup for about two and a half years now (www.c...
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Smart grid with time series and tick database Kerf - IDanceOnAPole https://getkerf.wordpress.com/2016/05/16/kerf-meets-the-smartgrid/ ====== eggy Kerf looks to be a more readable contender in the KDB+/Q market of time series, columnar, in memory databases with built-in language. IOT, will and already is providing, all...
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The Day the MicroISV Movement Died - mtaber http://www.singlefounder.com/2009/11/17/the-day-the-microisv-movement-died/ ====== gacba Everyone likes to trumpet the VC-backed companies--the drama, the turmoil, the exit strategy....but what about all those single-founder companies? Eric Sink's experiment has a lot of l...
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Hacker Takes Responsibility for Wikileaks Takedown - tyng http://mashable.com/2010/11/29/hacker-wikileaks/ 11/29/10 by Stan Schroeder ====== raganwald _obstructing the lines of communication for terrorists, sympathizers, fixers, facilitators, oppressive regimes and other general bad guys_ And there, in plain sight, ...
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Riak 1.1 Released - seancribbs http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2012-February/007573.html ====== rb2k_ I love to go back to Riak every now and then and throw one of the bigger datasets I have sitting around at a single node using Ruby. It is one of the most interesting databases out there ...
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Firebug Plugin: Illuminations for Developers - sroussey http://www.sencha.com/blog/firebug-plugin-illuminations-for-developers/ ====== mustpax This looks like a useful utility but also underscores a problem with Ext/Sencha. Namely that it is a tad overengineered and does not work well with other tools in the web dev...
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Ask HN: Coinbase alternatives? - cft I have an account that I opened in 2013, with several BTC transactions per year. I am carrying a decent BTC balance there. My linked bank account has been the same. I tried to buy 2 ETC. The transaction got declined by Coinbase and my account got limited with no explanation: buys a...
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Ask HN: What kind of ad rates can I expect on mobile game apps? - sixQuarks What kind of fill rates and CPM rates can I expect with mobile apps on ios? I'm particularly interested in your experience with full-screen video ads or interstitials.<p>thanks! ====== nhangen Don't have game app data, but I have a lifestyl...
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There Are Plenty of Jobs Out There, America - hourislate https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-15/there-are-plenty-of-jobs-out-there-america ====== twoquestions As someone else has already said, the biggest shortage is skilled labor, not unskilled. Trouble is, it's unwise to dedicate months/years of trainin...
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The Putnam Mathematical Competition’s Unsolved Problem - alexyes http://inside-bigdata.com/2014/07/20/putnam-mathematical-competitions-unsolved-problem/ ====== chriscool I think it starts like this: 1) at most nb of stone increase by one each time one player plays 2) nb of stone cannot decrease unless the board is...
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Fixing Mobile Platforms - vnorby http://philosophically.com/8-ideas-for-fixing-mobile-platforms ====== georgemcbay "No default apps on a new phone" Speaking as a user and not a developer (though I am a mobile app developer), this is a horrible idea. I would be so pissed if I bought a new Android phone and gmail/Goog...
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Getting Your Video in Google News - wisdomtalks http://wisnetsol.com/blog/getting-your-video-in-google-news/ ====== wisdomtalks Videos are one of most important tool of SEO
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An open letter to Techcrunch editors - agentbleu http://startupcrunch.org/an_open_letter_to_the_techcrunch_editors_0 This is an open letter to Techcrunch in a last-ditch attempt to bring some sanity back to the main blog in the startup sector! ====== imsteve Really great advice.
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Ask HN: Should I charge for my product (20k Users) - sabbakeynejad Hi HN,<p>I am looking for some advice, I am the founder of http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veed.io&#x2F; an online video editing platform. We have around 20K Monthly users and we have doubled that month over month for the last 3 with no marketing.<p>The site has been...
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Show HN: Branded QR Code Generator - irunbackwards http://qr.thinglet.com Release Post - http://thinglet.com/releases/branded-qr-code-generator<p>It's in extreme alpha form, showing off and taking feedback on utilitarian usage right now. Hope you guys enjoy and find some use out of it. Design coming soon, I promise! ...
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FDA releases 20+ years of medical device data - drewvolpe https://open.fda.gov/device/event/ ====== minimaxir Under the Devices headings, most of the sample queries have "null/no value" as the most frequent type of device in adverse events reports, which isn't a positive sign for the data integrity. ------ dang [ht...
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Ask HN: Why can't coders code? - exBarrelSpoiler Jeff Atwood has been sounding the alarm about interview candidates who can&#x27;t Fizzbuzz since nearly a decade ago (https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.codinghorror.com&#x2F;why-cant-programmers-program&#x2F;)<p>In today&#x27;s discussion about the usefulness of HackerRank, and co...
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Do you hate JavaScript? - rbanffy https://dev.to/reverentgeek/do-you-hate-javascript ====== megamindbrian2 I love javascript.
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Web Design is 95% Typography (2006) - volument https://ia.net/topics/the-web-is-all-about-typography-period ====== HocusLocus Choose the right typeface, then \- put too many columns on the screen so that content scrolls down for a mile and the right side is always clipped \- after 'mobile' users complain, replace th...
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Flynn 101% Funded - danielsiders https://flynn.io/?funded= ====== jaytaylor Shameless plug: In search of folks who'd like early access to my open-source Heroku-esque PaaS: ShipBuilder ShipBuilder is a freely available open-source project which aims to make it fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications. Get t...
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IndieWeb - pandatigox http://indiewebify.me/ ====== mawburn > _What is the IndieWeb?_ > _We should all own the content we 're creating, rather than just posting to > third-party content silos. Publish on your own domain, and syndicate out to > silos. This is the basis of the "Indie Web" movement. ~IndieWebCamp_ So.....
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Ecuador Spikes Halts Snowden's Asylum Because Julian Assange Is a Fame Hog - cobrausn http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/ecuador-snowden-asylum-julian-assange/66704/ ====== gee_totes I hope this spurs Snowden to take a step back from having Assange and WikiLeaks do his PR. I always thought this was a te...
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Amber Smalltalk 0.10 released - bromagosa http://amber-lang.net/ ====== klibertp Totally awesome! Some time ago there was a Smalltalk for Java announced - I wasn't particularly thrilled, because I have nothing to do with Java. This time, however, I'm more than excited - I'm starting to play with Amber right now! E...
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Favoriting A Tweet Can Say So Much - mrtnkl http://martinkool.com/post/51497453404/favoriting-a-tweet-can-say-so-much ====== mkandler I always wonder how changing "Favorite" to "Like" would affect the frequency of the action on Twitter. To say something is your favorite is kind of extreme, right? - you can like lots...
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Using ES6 with D3.js - philipcdavis https://learningd3.com/blog/using-es6-with-d3/ ====== josiahjd Concise and to the point. Well done!
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Scary: Plane Crash Caught on Dash Cam - nashequilibrium http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfVsql38oc&feature=youtu.be ====== nashequilibrium This just shows that you have no chance of survival in this situation! It happens so quick.
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Parsing continued-multiline data in Python - flittr http://iswwwup.com/t/d1934baf95dc/parsing-continued-multiline-data-in-python.html ====== dalke This links to a StackOverflow mirror. The original is at [http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29337063/parsing- continue...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29337063/pa...
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) available on Linode - uggedal http://blog.linode.com/2010/04/29/ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-lynx/ ====== megalogeek For anyone pondering upgrading their existing Linode to Lucid, we published an article in the Linode Library that explains a couple of thing you need to do for it to work. [ht...
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Smalltalk in small talks: The Setup - Autre http://blog.redline.st/2010/12/15/smalltalk-in-small-talks-the-setup/ ====== joev I have high hopes for this series; I really enjoyed Peter Michaux's "Scheme from Scratch" series, from which the author says gained inspiration for his series: [http://peter.michaux.ca/artic...
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SIRC Guide to Flirting - nostrademons http://www.sirc.org/publik/flirt.html ====== pkaler I'm not the greatest looking guy around, but I've dated some very hot women by breaking most of these "rules". When you can sit down at a table of 4 gorgeous women without being invited you've hit gold. I'm ballsy, bordering on ...
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Show HN: Plainflow, behavior-based customer journeys for your SaaS - anacleto https://www.plainflow.com/ ====== anacleto HN, this is a simple way for SaaS companies to integrate SaaS services and create behavioral based customer journeys. Some examples: \- Send onboarding emails when you have new signups \- Send a ...
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Ask HN: Tea or Coffee? - lewisflude I'm a coffee man myself! ====== loungin Tea... the taste/smell of coffee is so disgusting to me that it makes me nautious for as long as I can remember. Even as an ingredient in food, there is something about coffee that is completely repulsive. ------ victorhn Used to be coffee,...
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Show HN: Spy on Optimizely customers' experiments - zjgreen Here is a bookmarklet you can use you browse or spy on an Optimizely customer&#x27;s experiments!<p>javascript:window.jQuery &amp;&amp; jQuery.getScript(&quot;&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;optimizelyspytool&#x2F;7a7f573ec1657fb7db97&#x2F;raw&quot;);<p>(h...
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CSS Triggers - callum85 http://csstriggers.com/ ====== onion2k What the site fails to explain is _why_ these things are important. Changing a property that effects a layout change means the browser will need to redraw that element and anything that the geometry has pushed around. A full repaint is _slow_ so if you'r...
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Ceefax Final Broadcast: 'Goodbye, cruel world.' - laumars http://h4ck.in/g/a/14/Ceefax-Final-Broadcast%3A-%27Goodbye%2C-cruel-world.%27#.UIcBm60drmg.hackernews ====== ashleyblackmore This is what I would play around with before I had a computer. You could only use it with a certain remote (with coloured buttons) and m...
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Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.? - pzaich http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/26/upshot/where-are-the-hardest-places-to-live-in-the-us.html ====== valar_m I am from Bell County, Kentucky, ranked 3110 out of 3135 counties. I no longer live there, but my parents do. I was there just yesterday for Thanksgivin...
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Show HN: Tcpkit – A tool to analyze TCP/UDP packets with Lua - git-hulk https://github.com/git-hulk/tcpkit ====== benkillin How does this differ from scapy other than lua vs python? ~~~ git-hulk tcpkit offer embedded Redis/Memcached/DNS latency monitor, and export latency's data to the user, you can store it to influ...
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Cheap Arduino Wireless Communications - profquail http://www.glacialwanderer.com/hobbyrobotics/?p=291 ====== proee The wireless modules in this article are pretty weak sauce (In fact they make me cringe) If you're going to do anything that requires reliable data transfer or data rates higher than a few k, consider ...
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C Language Resources - RBerenguel http://www.mycplus.com/featured-articles/top-ten-c-language-resources/ ====== svag Today I was trying to find some resources(sites, books, etc) in order to keep up to date with some programming languages. One of them was C and I found the following site: <http://www.di-mgt.com.au/cpr...
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We Mailed 100K Stickers Around the World, Made a Million Mistakes Along the Way - rbanffy https://dev.to/thepracticaldev/sending-100-thousand-stickers ====== F_r_k I still don't know why companies insist on only accepting a specific address format. As they said, every country has its own format: some with the house nu...
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Welcome to the New Techno Feudalism - deevolution https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/24/the-new-feudalism-silicon-valley-overlords-advertising-necessary-evil ====== jrepinc Also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-2TEwdRnX0)
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In California, It’s U.S. vs. State Over Marijuana - ghshephard http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/us/14pot.html?hpw ====== nestlequ1k Looking forward to another 4 more years of this "hope and change". For the record DOJ is directly under the President's control. You can't blame Republicans for this one. If we can't ...
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Wikipedia links to HN - lelf https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALinkSearch&target=news.ycombinator.com ====== nonchalance Some of these make perfect sense: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeScript](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoffeeScript) links to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2037801]...
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Ruby On Rails – Services vs Object Classes - enricribas http://infinitemonkeys.influitive.com/services-vs-objects/ ====== mercurial When I look at the "good" enterprise codebases, I see more and more functional-style code written in non-functional languages. Dumb entities, service layers which would be single functi...
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Pirate Bay Founder: “Future copy fights will need something better” - llambda http://torrentfreak.com/shut-down-the-pirate-bay-founder-says-130708/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter ====== area51org What he actually said seems to be more along the lines of "shut it down and replace it with something better." I t...
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H1-B petitions drop - perseusprime11 http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/H-1B-visa-applications-drop-for-first-time-in-11078751.php ====== ziszis The numbers in the headline measures the # of H-1B petitions that were received before the USCIS decided to stop accepting more because they can meet the "mandated 6...
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Enough with the dead butterflies - mjn http://emilydamstra.com/news/please-enough-dead-butterflies/ ====== syphilis2 I'm glad to have this pointed out to me. It's so "obvious" now that live butterflies don't look that way, I'll never not notice this now. It's similar to all the tricks video media uses for aesthetics a...
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The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War - samclemens http://www.psmag.com/navigation/politics-and-law/the-merry-pranksters-who-hacked-the-afghan-war-60873/ ====== drpp World is small. I spent a winter there, working with the Synergy Strike Force. One thing led to another and I ended up coaching the regional bas...
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Ask HN: HIPAA Compliant Hosting Providers? - USNetizen I have over a decade of experience in medical application development and support. Recently, I've been exploring the possibility of establishing my own company based on an idea and prototype product I've developed for the medical community over the years.<p>Lon...
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MadMen Inspires HubSpot's New Vacation Policy - nate http://www.hubspot.com/blog/bid/5455/MadMen-Inspires-HubSpot-s-New-Vacation-Policy ====== brk I'm interested in seeing how this works out for them. We had the same policy at another startup I worked at years ago (Ucentric). The problem was that while the idea was...
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Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with your employer? - dm03514 Has asking for a raise ever ruined your relationship with an employer? I have a good job, generous benefits, stock options, lots of PTO. I have 5 years experience in open source technologies. I believe in the company I work for, it...
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The Virtual Currency of Social Media: Gratitude - messel http://messel.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/virtual-currency-of-gratitude.html ====== gengstrand Reciprocity is a strong driver in an abundance economy but reputation is a better one. Take a look at <http://stackoverflow.com/> for an example and check out the ...
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MakerBot lays off 20 percent of its staff - Opossum http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/04/makerbot-lays-off-20-percent-of-its-staff/ ====== ChuckMcM Seems significant, and they are closing their retail stores. I have a Makerbot Replicator/Dual which was probably the last fully open source printer they made, and i...
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Ask HN: Keeping a research/work log - SandB0x I see a lot of discussion about to-do lists, but less about keeping a record of your work.<p>Sometimes at the end of the day I will sit and write up a few short paragraphs summarising what I've done and what I've learned. - technical notes and general thoughts about my ...
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Ask HN: Help my 11 year old sister not get put off of science - cvigoe I&#x27;m an Electronic Engineer at a top US research school and I have an 11 year old sister (I&#x27;m 22). She is smart and quite good at math for her age and is a solid rational thinker. Unfortunately her teacher &quot;finds science boring&quot; ...
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Neither the Will nor the Cash: Why India Wins So Few Olympic Medals - nikunjk http://m.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/08/neither-the-will-nor-the-cash-why-india-wins-so-few-olympic-medals/260693/ ====== cinbun8 It comes down to whether you can make a living in India if you get into sports. The economics a...
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Ask HN: Is it wrong to steal someone's design, but then change the theme? - nmaio Ethically? Legally? I've already started building the front-end and it's pretty much complete. Even though the theme/idea of the site will be totally different, should I be having second thoughts? ====== staunch You shouldn't literally...
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China will scrap limit on presidential term, meaning Xi Jinping can stay on - antman http://www.scmp.com/news/china/policies-politics/article/2134624/china-will-scrap-limit-presidents-term-meaning-xi ====== jacquesm Did anybody seriously doubt this would pass? This vote was utterly meaningless.
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I Know You’re Mad at United But… (Thoughts from a Pilot Wife About Flight 3411) - coryfklein https://thepilotwifelife.wordpress.com/2017/04/11/i-know-youre-mad-at-united-but-thoughts-from-a-pilot-wife-about-flight-3411/ ====== taylodl This "pilot wife" provided a better response than United's CEO. That's the _real_ st...
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At 97, lithium-ion battery pioneer says his work is not done - sohkamyung https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Podcast-97-lithium-ion-battery/97/i35 ====== hwillis I'm torn on Goodenough's (and his other main author, Maria Helena Braga) academic contributions lately. They are doing a lot of investigation into glass ele...
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Ask HN: How much of Techcrunch's reporting is just re-blogs of stories from HN? - nighthawk Is it just me or are other people noticing that a lot of TechCrunch's content showed up on HN several hours before it shows up on TechCrunch?<p>Which leads me to wonder, how much longer will mainstream media outlets be releva...
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Are you an early adopter? - AndrewLeeMiller Guys:<p>I do marketing and growth for a b2b SaaS company in the travel space. We&#x27;re launching this really sweet concept that uses Big Data(in the form of millions of uncategorized traveler reviews) to match users to hotels...without them needing to search and sift thr...
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FogBugz is Developer-Driven (Thank Goodness) - bmccarthy http://www.userdriven.org/blog/2007/9/19/fogbugz-is-developer-driven-thank-goodness.html Joel and his crew are so very user-driven in my estimation because they themselves are the users. ====== nirs Zed Shaw thinks FogBugs is junk: <http://www.zedshaw.com/rants...
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Someone used my IPFS gateway for phishing - jstanley https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/hardbin-phishing.html ====== imhoguy Sorry to hear, but you are not alone [0]. It was matter of time for a new tech to be exploited like that. Providing IPFS gateway is like opening up public HTTP proxy (popular back in 90s). Y...
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Apricity beautiful Linux distro based on Arch - acd http://apricityos.com ====== dzsekijo Why is Chrome, a proprietary software packaged when there is a practically equivalent FLOSS software (Chromium)? Or, the more general question -- how Pacman packages and Apricity apps relate to each other? The answer seems to ...
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Show HN: Interviews with open source maintainers and developers - Jefro118 https://sourcesort.com ====== Jefro118 Hey, "editor" here. When I started working as a developer a few years ago, I barely considered that there were people devoting their free or paid time to all of the open source software I depended on. Of c...
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10 Years of Red Hat Enterprise Linux - zhiping http://www.redhat.com/10yearsofrhel/ ====== edwinnathaniel I'm very happy to see Red Hat to grow every day. Let's hope one day Red Hat could supplant the dominance of Microsoft/IBM in the "enterprise" area (so instead of the expensive .NET tools, we could use JBoss wit...
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From the Brains Behind TiVo, a New Vision for Internet Video - superchink http://www.wired.com/design/2014/02/guys-behind-tivo-trying-revolutionize-tv/ ====== zoowar "Brains behind TiVo"? TiVo just modernized video recording by digitizing it.
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Show HN: Lightweight Threads, Channels and Actors for the JVM - pron http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-pulsar ====== zmmmmm Ignorant newbie here, but would love to hear views on this: I always treat with great skepticism claims that you can implement an inherent operating system function (eg: thr...
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Foobar2000 - the ultimate audio player - shin_lao http://www.foobar2000.org/ ====== buster I loved that player a few years ago, it's great. Ever since changing to Linux i have missed it :( ~~~ iamdave Wine.
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The Story of the GnuTLS Bug - bqe http://blog.existentialize.com/the-story-of-the-gnutls-bug.html ====== tunesmith Is that first snippet accurate? It makes it look as if it would never return a positive value. It returns only 0 or a negative value. ~~~ mpyne It's accurate, but the calling convention of the top-leve...
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Responsive Web Design is bad for performance - craigkerstiens http://www.guypo.com/technical/responsive-web-design-is-bad-for-performance-there-i-said-it/ ====== jfaucett Personally (probably dreaming here), I'd just like to have a standard http header like "Screen-Width: 958", that I could then parse on a per request...
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Ask HN: Should one give honest feedback after quiting a job? - DrinkWater You quit your job because management sucks. Do you give honest feedback?<p>Imho, i dont know what to do in that situation. I feel that it will gain me nothing, but brings me in a risky situation concerning my future.<p>Be completely selfish fo...
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Do Developers Need Free Perks to Thrive? - conductor http://www.datamation.com/careers/do-developers-need-free-perks-to-thrive.html? ====== conductor Related discussion: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1007750>
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Show HN: Deskzero – Find inspiring spots to work remotely with wifi and coffee - lorenzobr http://deskzero.co ====== lorenzobr Hi HN! I and a friend of mine made this in our spare time just for fun and because we need it. The whole website is powered by WordPress that seemed to us the easiest solution to do things ...
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Ask HN: Dealing with Burnout - dlikhten Hi, I have been dealing with the issue of programmer burnout for the last few weeks. The problem is that I cannot just stop working for a week or so.<p>I think its affecting my productivity on all areas and am looking to make adjustments in my life to help cope with the burnou...
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Percentages for New Hires... - far33d Engineer, 5 years experience. Product close to launch, series A finished, in a specialized field. What option percentage should this engineer expect? ====== cperciva It depends. A company such as you describe ("Product close to launch, series A finished, in a specialized field...
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IPhone fantasies, Android phones realities: Android outsells it - CrankyBear http://www.zdnet.com/iphone-fantasies-android-phones-realities-7000004154/ ====== mtgx Google pulled off what Microsoft couldn't with Windows Mobile. They made it the "Windows" of smartphones.
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Faster pathfinding using Jump Point Search - harada http://harablog.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/jump-point-search/ ====== praeclarum "speeds up pathfinding on uniform-cost grid maps" How useful are uniform-cost grids? Every implementation of A* I've ever used has been applied to varying-cost grids. ~~~ jemfinch Any g...
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Solo – Time Tracking and Invoicing for Individual Professionals - activis https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1169529109?pt=118068070&ct=HackerNews&mt=8 ====== activis Last weekend I published my new app for time tracking and invoicing on AppStore. I will be happy to get some feedback.
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Show HN: Marketplace for programmers that have contributed to open source - rhc2104 https://www.codedoor.com ====== zackmorris This might be a good place to list some issues I have encountered while being a contractor online: * I've been burned a few times charging by project or by milestone instead of hourly. So I...
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Latest Ebola Statistics - natural219 http://ebolastats.info/ ====== lotsofmangos Donation pages for Médecins Sans Frontières: [http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation](http://www.msf.org.uk/make-a-donation) [https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/](https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/) I have been posting thes...
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Mayor Bloomberg Unveils New York City Venture Fund (NYC Seed) - fortes http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/mayor-unveils-new-york-city-venture-fund/ ====== johnrob One has to wonder, if a government institution gets involved in a fund, what kind of regulations would be at play? Quotas for race/gender ratios...
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Reporter: Google successfully pressured me to take down critical story - MBCook https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/09/reporter-google-successfully-pressured-me-to-take-down-critical-story/#p3 ====== sctb Yesterday's discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15145176](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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Ask HN: How did Microsoft hold back the Internet for 6-7 years? - biznerd I binged (jk googled) and couldn&#x27;t find anything.<p>This was in a comment located here: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=8673760<p>And it piqued my interest.<p>How did this happen? Or did it happen? ====== wrs The very sh...
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Ask HN: What's the job market like in Alaska? - xzatious Thinking of making a drastic switch and moving to Seward, Alaska. A lot of puzzle pieces are falling into place making it seem possible. Just wondering about the IT market there. I&#x27;m specifically a BI and database developer in the Microsoft stack, not sur...
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Facts No One Really Checks (2012) - aburan28 https://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/facts-no-one-really-checks/ ====== llull What a strange statement/article. I had to check all three of those as an undergrad, associativity of matrix multiplication was definitely first year linear algebra, and I think elliptic curv...
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Computer animation software from 1969 - GENESYS - aeontech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIPKLxoTcQ ====== aeontech So amazing, I had no idea they were doing anything this advanced at that time.
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Show HN: My two Linux tips – terminal titles + local wiki - NY_hudson http://vsido.org/index.php?topic=1040.0 ====== NY_hudson Just to give a little motivation, the first is changing your titles on a terminal when you use man, less or vi...so instead of having 5 terminals open all with the same cryptic title of "som...
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Ask HN: Complex tech idea with no coding experience - what to do? - stocktradr As my name suggests, I do a lot of stock trading. In my past experience, I&#x27;ve ran website development divisions and what not. I have a lot of tech experience but minimal coding experience.<p>I have an idea uses a lot of principles fr...
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How Hard Could It Be?: Lessons I Learned in the Army - terpua http://www.inc.com/magazine/20080301/how-hard-could-it-be-lessons-i-learned-in-the-army.html ====== xirium Dup. See <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=125572>
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Watch Out Facebook Connect, Apple Pushes Twitter Sign-Ins In iOS 5 - fjabre http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/06/watch-out-facebook-connect-apple-pushes-twitter-sign-ins/ ====== ignifero Excellent choice, but a little odd. Is Apple planning to buy twitter? They could use a few extra servers ....
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The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes - pat2man https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/feb/23/truth-world-built-for-men-car-crashes ====== mcv Not only is it bizarre that crash tests are done only with male dummies, it's also bizarre that they're only done with average du...
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Elon Musk is now richer than Warren Buffett - heshiebee https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/business/elon-musk-warren-buffett-billionaires/index.html ====== SCAQTony His spectacular monetary gains are unrealized. ~~~ xkjkls So are Warren Buffett’s
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On the prowl for local startups - itsa_phire Hi, all. I&#x27;d like to introduce my &quot;ugly baby&quot;, Startupolitan; a site bridging local startups with the people in their community. From launch date, local startups will have exposure to the crowd that matters most. Users can select their location and browse t...
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What are you using to track sales leads and customers? - wensing What are startups using for CRM these days? I just started a 14-day trial with Salesforce.com, but perhaps I'm missing out on a cool alternative? My main reason for wanting some sort of CRM is as an organizational tool--Gmail + labels isn't cutting i...
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