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Ask HN: boilerplate incorporation documents? - thatoneguy I&#x27;m looking to incorporate my side project that&#x27;s getting out of hand &amp; noticed that the boilerplate YC docs don&#x27;t appear to be for an initial Delaware filing but raising money after you already have a business entity.<p>Does anyone have a ...
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Private Browsing Without a VPN - mikehotel https://medium.com/@mattholt/private-browsing-without-a-vpn-e91027552700 ====== mikehotel Caddy plugin developed by Sergey Frolov while interning at Google [https://github.com/caddyserver/forwardproxy/blob/master/READ...](https://github.com/caddyserver/forwardproxy/blob/mast...
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Meet the tireless entrepreneur who squatted at AOL - streeter http://news.cnet.com/8301-32973_3-57440513-296/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-squatted-at-aol/ ====== edw519 _...given just $20,000 by the incubator, and after the four-month program ended, the money was gone..._ _...after pivoting and focusing solely...
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Cultural Cringe - tin7in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_cringe ====== tnester1 Similar to how we percieve our food as normal compared to other countries food; we all see things differently, where you grow up changes perspective a lot. In my experience, I have never been negative enough to think badly about my ...
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How Mayvenn built community and raised from A16Z - nbhartiya http://blog.sendsonar.com/2015/06/19/how-mayvenn-grew-its-community-using-sms/ ====== pulkitpulkit I wonder if SMS is being effective now because it's under-utilized by companies and is known to be a channel more typically free from business notifications....
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Let’s Destroy Democracy - hsnewman https://blogs.cisco.com/security/talos/lets-destroy-democracy ====== oblib This sure feels a lot like an attempt to spread FUD for profit.
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The daunting aftermath of releasing your dream game - danso https://www.pcgamer.com/the-daunting-aftermath-of-releasing-your-dream-game-as-told-by-the-devs-of-stardew-valley-owlboy-and-more/ ====== Negitivefrags We released our game in 2012. Since that time we have had 17 expansion releases. You might think that by n...
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Docker WILL crash. Docker WILL destroy everything it touches - paulygarcia https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-production-an-history-of-failure/ ====== drugme Fine article, but (2016): [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304) ------ gvb (2016)
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Repo with same name as username and a README.md adds it to your profile - manojlds https://github.com/manojlds ====== manojlds Not available for all. A previous post got flagged since people were asking for examples so posted this one with my own profile as example.
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I Quit a Six-Figure Existence to Create My Own Destiny. (Why You Should Too) - joebalcom https://joebalcom.blog/2020/07/08/destiny/ ====== matchbok The numerous subtle boasts are really a turn off. A lot of it is also just... wrong. > You will never be truly free or become wealthy by working for someone else. Simpl...
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Ask HN: Career Development Plans. Is there a point to this madness? - johnward I have never really gotten anything out of "Career Development Plans". In the end they just seem to add overhead to the task I already don't have enough time to accomplish. Actually, each time the development planning period comes a long ...
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Looking for a Technical Cofounder - jameswcookiv Looking for a technical cofounder for a reservation based site geared at overlanders. UX research completed. Working on wireframes and user flow.<p>Email me at: drumdemon101@icloud.com if interested.<p>Thanks ====== PragmaticPulp You'll get better responses if you state...
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Gos: Armed Golang - 475783185 https://github.com/storyicon/gos ====== gus_massa Comets of the author in the duplicate submission: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969644](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969644) > _gos is compatible with all go commands and has go mod /get equipped with > smart `GOPROXY`...
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Microsoft is closing all old bug reports they couldn't fix - ianderf That&#x27;s a letter I received today:<p>This notification was generated for feedback item: &lt;...&gt; which you submitted at the Microsoft Connect (http:&#x2F;&#x2F;connect.microsoft.com) site.<p>Thank you for taking the time to report this problem...
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Ask HN: How do you backup personal documents? - burgerquizz ====== simonblack Two levels of backup. 1\. Daily backup. Personal documents take up one directory tree amongst the many directory trees of my /home/username directory which is backed up in full every day. Those daily backups are discarded in a reverse-expone...
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Show HN: TryScribe, modern document creator - tankenmate http://www.tryscribe.com ====== koopajah I love the concept of branching which really take something great from (D)VCs to apply it to document reviewing. I always had trouble using word's revision system and having multiple people correcting/working on the sam...
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Ask HN: Where to buy .ly domains? - jimbobimbo Where one buys .ly domains? I did a quick search and none of the choices that nic.ly offers does look legit. ====== arfrank I have used <http://libyanspider.com/> in the past and have been totally satisfied. ------ d_mcgraw I used <http://www.libyanspider.com/> for my ...
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How American Jews Toppled Paris Couture and Redesigned the Fashion Industry - robg http://www.momentmag.com/Exclusive/2009/2009-08/200908-Ghetto-to-Glamour.html ====== brianliu Again, this is article has a title which is extremely misleading. Ethnicity is improperly cited as cause, instead of traits that are commonly ...
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Microsoft Edge DevTools Z-Index 3D View - cyptus https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index-3d-view-edge-devtools/ ====== app_config Doesn't seem to work in the chromium version of edge tho ~~~ cyptus It is the chromium edge version, but only in canary for now
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Google talk bots - davidw http://googletalk.blogspot.com/2007/12/merry-christmas-god-jul-and.html ====== marcus Cool idea, but I'm having an IRC chatbot flashback.
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Show HN: I built this to help people know their severe weather risk - hayley A common theme with the recent tornado tragedies has been to say that people had no warning.<p>For people who rely solely on civil defense sirens for their weather information, this may well be true, but as I've come to learn, the severe we...
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Ask HN: Good documentaries for children - Smrchy My daughter is 5 and interested in everything about the universe, the creation of life, dinosaurs, space flight, middle ages, castles etc. Just about everything.<p>I would love to show her some good documentaries about those topics but are having a hard time finding th...
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Introducing twittastic, a twitter client for windows - gtzi http://twittastic.net/ ====== amarkos Promising...
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NFL Bans Purses, Bags at All Games - jsherry http://abcnews.go.com/US/nfl-bans-purses-bags-games/story?id=19416287 ====== onion2k "It really does dramatically increase our security posture at our stadiums." "posture" is a great choice of word there. This doesn't really improve security very much, if at all, but it ...
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Bill Gates says the success rate on VC is “pathetic” compared to development - JDDunn9 http://qz.com/187959/bill-gates-says-the-success-rate-on-venture-capital-is-pathetic-compared-to-development/ ====== dragonwriter Actually, no, he didn't -- while that's the title of the linked article, the actual quote said that ...
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Ask HN about Server Side Javascript - IsaacSchlueter What's the best server-side javascript implementation? Why?<p>There are a few out there. mod_js, Rhino, various Spidermonkey implementations. Have you used any or some of these? What were they good for? What did you like about them? What would have made them ...
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Reusable pre-paid payment model (similar to one skype has) - savior I would like to know if there is any pre-paid payment module that can be used in my web application for handling the payment functionalities. Essentially, its a model where people load it with cash and use it till it expires.<p>I am intersted in any...
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Show HN: Major Rebuild FreeSurveyCreator.com - filvdg We Launched the rebuild of freesurveycreator.com today<p>History : FreeSurveyCreator.com was started by @WillEWallace as a side project with good base traction but he could not find the time to continue to develop it We took over the service and relaunching today...
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More than 50 nations, but not U.S., sign onto cybersecurity pact - tareqak https://www.axios.com/cybersecurity-paris-call-for-trust-france-21e434df-8a59-48bc-8cde-cd1c1f43dfd0.html ====== tareqak Choice quotes: The original signatories included more than 50 nations, 130 private sector groups and 90 charitable groups ...
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Drop out. Or don't. - dabent http://areallybadidea.com/drop-out-or-dont ====== snprbob86 This matches my experience reasonably well. Some other random tips: 1) If you do go to college, _live on campus_! Commuters tend to fall into two categories. Those who miss out on lots of fun stuff and those who live at home and...
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Amazon Got What It Deserved–And So Did New York - TheAuditor https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/02/amazon-cancels-new-yorks-hq2and-thats-a-good-thing/582844/ ====== kdmedev Tax government subsidies at 100% percent? That is absurd and I doubt that is constitutional. Or is it? Can US politicians do this? Its...
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Mobclix owes thousands to indie app developers - rbchv Just when I thought I was the exception, it seems a lot of indie developers are fighting to get their payments from Mobclix.<p>This has been going on for months.<p>Some revealing links:<p>This forum thread started June 2012 and is still quite active: http://ipho...
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Give your django app a mobile dashboard - huseyinyilmaz http://django-numerics.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ ====== pnslpshr I've been trying to get in to django, but it seems a bit hard for a newbie like myself. :/
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The Surprising Relevance of the Baltic Dry Index - kawera http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-surprising-relevance-of-the-baltic-dry-index?&currentPage=all ====== Animats But compare the Port of Los Angeles container movement statistics, which are published monthly.[1] Those are actual counts. They're going...
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The Trollable Self-Driving Car - tptacek http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2016/03/google_self_driving_cars_lack_a_human_s_intuition_for_what_other_drivers.html ====== centizen I feel like the author of this article is placing altogether too much trust in human intuition and being very selective wi...
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Boeing Has An Airplane Problem, Not a PR Problem - bane http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathansalembaskin/2013/01/10/boeing-has-an-airplane-problem-not-a-pr-problem/ ====== senthilnayagam Bringing jobs back to America is not solution to all the problems. Most of all new planes are ordered by China, India, Middle East...
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Voyager 2 Spacecraft will cross "termination shock" in Late 2007 or Early 2008 - nickb http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1720 ====== pg What's significant about whether particles there are travelling above or below the speed of sound? Surely there are not enough of them to produce the sort of compress...
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AWS Service Catalog - rjsamson https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-available-aws-service-catalog/ ====== s_dev Amazon have the interns upvoting in droves today. 6 or 7 seperate AWS articles on the front page as of now. ~~~ rjsamson Nah - I happen to be at the AWS summit in NYC today and submitted a few things as I...
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Twitter isn’t a Social Network - dshah http://www.tonywright.com/2009/twitter-isnt-a-social-network/ ====== ashley I think of Twitter as a space to move large-scale messages to a broad public, rather than as a social net-working site. Twitter has proven effective in organizing political protests, encouraging feedback ...
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Apple's Internal Guide to iPhone X Battery Replacement - Eduardo3rd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGv7qHlCX0Y ====== samstave It rolls the tweezers to remove the adhesive strips or it gets a brick again. Seriously, though, I do find it interesting that Apple seems to have treated component replacement as an afterth...
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If someone can do it for free, then it will be inevitably free - mtw http://montrealtechwatch.com/2008/07/27/building-a-profitable-business/ ====== mattmaroon This is a simple failure to understand economics. Most things cannot be done for free. It might be possible to code them for free, but hosting on an ongoing b...
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BMW E-Scooter - ronaldsvilcins https://designzine.net/transport/bmw-e-scooter/ ====== milkytron 12mph? That seems too slow for the road and bike lanes, but too fast for sidewalks. I wonder why they went with a slower top speed than the competitors.
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Western Digital’s Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins - MikeCapone http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3691 ====== MikeCapone I'm actually surprised this change hasn't happened before. 512 bytes is ridiculously small (and useless) these days.
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3D Audio From Ordinary Speakers (Video Demo) - shawndumas http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2011/04/23/3d-audio-from-ordinary-speakers-video-demo/ ====== abcd_f Wouldn't his technique require the listener to be sitting still and have his ears in exact specified locations? Not very practical then if that's the case. I ...
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LinkedInLabs: visualise your network - xtacy http://inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/ ====== nobody_nowhere Fascinating... but so many lines! I'm sure there are some really cool unexpected connections in there, but it's just a mass of arcs and circles...
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Elon Musk shares the first progress of the Boring Company - artsandsci http://mashable.com/2017/05/12/elon-musk-boring-kickoff/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial#9QqMdxDVAaq0 ====== uptown Who owns the land he's boring under?
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The Great Brazilian Sat-Hack Crackdown - ffernan http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2009/04/fleetcom CAMPINAS, Brazil — On the night of March 8, cruising 22,000 miles above the Earth, U.S. Navy communications satellite FLTSAT-8 suddenly erupted with illicit activity. Jubilant voices and anthems crowded the c...
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Software: Immaculate, fetid and grimy - WestCoastJustin http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2015/09/03/software-immaculate-fetid-and-grimy ====== douche I think the last point is the best one, and something that I'll try to keep in mind > And what do you do when that awful, black day arrives? Here’s a qu...
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The secret nuclear bunker built as the UK's last hope - PuffinBlue http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170103-the-secret-nuclear-bunker-built-as-the-uks-last-hope ====== PuffinBlue There is also an accompanying 360 video here: [https://www.facebook.com/BBCFuture/videos/vb.279678448760878...](https://www.facebook.com/BB...
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Think Like a Martian About Money and Universal Basic Income - imartin2k https://medium.com/basic-income/think-like-a-martian-about-money-and-universal-basic-income-ubi-d543922f06d3 ====== Joky > Think about that fact for a moment through Martian eyes. Humans are the only > species on planet Earth who have to pay to li...
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Stable OpenAI baselines - aidanrocke https://github.com/araffin/rl-baselines-zoo ====== aidanrocke A collection of pre-trained RL agents using Stable Baselines [http://stable- baselines.readthedocs.io/](http://stable-baselines.readthedocs.io/) developed by Antonin Raffin([https://araffin.github.io/](https://araffin.gi...
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Ten things that will change your future [loopt included] - ivankirigin http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/ten-things-that-will-change-your-future/2007/12/31/1198949747758.html?page=fullpage ====== ALee Adrian Holavarty's (creator of Django) startup Everyblock is also on the list. I know millions upon millions of so...
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Inside a Powerful Silicon Valley Charity, a Toxic Culture Festered - KKKKkkkk1 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/business/silicon-valley-community-foundation.html ====== Bucephalus355 This is fascinating article. The main complaints are actually against a woman, the foundation’s top fundraiser. One of her quotes to a...
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New-less JavaScript (2013) - voltagex_ http://jfire.io/blog/2013/03/20/newless-javascript/ ====== Rygu I use `delete object[key]` all the time to unset a property. I do think in the JS world the use of `new` is inconsistent, but avoiding the keyword does not rid of that fact. Your new-less libraries may be consisten...
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Connect Any Service to Zapier with the New and Improved Developer Platform - carrja99 https://zapier.com/blog/connect-any-service-zapier-new-and-improved-developer-platform/ ====== gleb Zapier is one of these things that totally blew away my expectations. It works really well and is easy to use even for non-technic...
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Ask HN: Should I offer my app on a daily deal site? - flippyhead I&#x27;ve got offers to put my desktop &#x2F; cloud application (it comes in two versions) up for sale on several discount daily deal websites (similar to AppSumo). They all take a steep cut, in most cases I end up having to discount my app by over 60%...
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What Kind of Mother? - wglb http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/01/09/Chinese-Mothers ====== petercooper _Reading this piece shook me and made me wonder, because either Ms Chua is bringing her kids up wrong, or we are._ That's a false dichotomy. There are not two ways to treat children (hard vs soft). I thi...
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Choosing a JavaScript MVC Framework - cmckeachie http://www.funnyant.com/choosing-javascript-mvc-framework/ ====== lapdragon This was just what I was looking for. We are researching various MVC frameworks and discussing single page applications. This will give us some good insight on weather we use Angular, Backbone...
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Ask HN: Which is more valuable: technical or personal experience for career? - vtoliveira I am facing a dilemma where I can choose to go for a medium startup, with a relatively consolidate team (I lot of work to do of course) where I would work with Data Streaming, Functional Programming and Machine Learning, basicall...
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Ask HN: How to sell a start up. - digamber_kamat Let us say I have completed coded and prepared a project. Hypothetically lets say its the Twitter. i have the entire code ready. Now I just want to sell it. What do I need to do ?<p>I know that if I put it in public domain and it gets millions users it is a successful...
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Snowden: 'Not all spying bad' but NSA program 'divorced from reason' - azth http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57617680-38/snowden-not-all-spying-bad-but-nsa-program-divorced-from-reason/ ====== azth A couple of quotes from the article > The people at the working level at the NSA, CIA, or any other member of the > [...
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Housemate just had that video come up - dredmorbius https://mastodon.social/@dartigen/101754389608830780 ====== dredmorbius Or: Why media autoplay is manifestly evil.
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Internet data plan back on political agenda - whyleyc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30166477 ====== k-mcgrady It's interesting the the internet has been a tool that has allowed people in repressive states to rebel and at the same time has made states that were supposedly 'free' become more and more like that s...
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Google Bus Protest Organizer: "We'll Take It to Their Homes" - frostmatthew http://recode.net/2014/04/11/google-bus-protest-organizer-well-take-it-to-their-homes/ ====== dylz This is just disgusting; these people should be thrown in prison.
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Show HN: Rebrickable - Combine your LEGO sets to create other sets - someotheridiot http://rebrickable.com/ ====== iqster I came across your site a few months ago and thought it was extremely cool. Great Job! Can you please tell us about your tech stack? Ultimately, the site didn't solve my problem though, which was ...
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SEC director calls for private markets to open up for retail investors - rchaudhary https://www.ft.com/content/23556406-b462-44db-bb90-a595448e056e ====== gruglife As they should. Not being an accredited investor is another way of saying your too stupid to know how to invest your money. But hey, I can yolo on penny st...
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Show HN: ShameYour.company –Report companies endangering workers during Covid-19 - shameyourco https://ShameYour.company ====== jonathanstrange Public shaming and vigilante sites are always a bad idea. ~~~ profunctor Why? ~~~ monkin There is no authority behind them. Author will just remove the site/comment if first...
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A statistical study of inversions (slash chords) in popular music - davec http://www.hooktheory.com/blog/statistical-study-inversions-slash-chords-popular-music/ ====== rumcajz Pretty in line with classical music theory. Further, one would expect that I6/4 chord which was not functionally analysed in the article wil...
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Google wants to monitor your social media - Sumitmic https://www.protocol.com/google-wants-to-monitor-your-social-media ====== 1f60c Wouldn’t it be better to link to Google’s patent application itself? ~~~ forgotmypw17 Maybe you can link to it here in the comments? I personally find patent applications to be so dry ...
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Valve plans to sell apps via Steam ranging from “creativity to productivity” - dkroy http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/08/08/valve-plans-to-sell-apps-via-steam-ranging-from-creativity-to-productivity/ ====== yeap What will this mean to the Ubuntu Store (and other distros "appstores") since steam is arriving on linux? ...
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Introduce Time Namespace (2019) - luu https://lore.kernel.org/linux-api/20191112012724.250792-1-dima@arista.com/ ====== infogulch It looks like there are 8 different namespaces now [1]: filesystem root, network, device mounts, IPC, process id, (now) time, users, and hostname. What other kinds of namespaces are people...
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Death of Matt Lightner (creator of Site5) - auxbuss http://ryanbigg.com/2011/12/matt-lightner/ I just read on Ryan Bigg's blog that Matt Lightner, the guy who started Site5 when he was 15, has died. His facebook account "is currently unavailable". I have no idea of the circumstances, and it would be wrong to speculat...
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Ask HN: Mid-level developers, what does it take to qualify as Mid-level? - morbidhawk I&#x27;m currently in the interview process for a Mid-level position, but my experience situation is kind of different from most as I interned for several years while going to school to make enough to provide for my family. I&#x27;ve...
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Drawing Spirograph curves in Python - chmaynard https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/08/30/drawing-spirograph-curves-in-python/ ====== erikschoster These are really fun shapes to play with -- here's another little python script to draw animated hypotrochoid frames that can be stitched together with ffmpeg: [https://git...
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National Day of Service - peter123 http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/01/national-day-of.html ====== jonas_b Great idea Seth, there's a lot of really driven, sometimes older people that contribute heaps to society that would be able to leverage their effort with a little help from someone with tech skillz. ...
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Show HN: Cli-money, a simple Unix finance utility - veddox http://www.launchpad.net/cli-money ====== veddox Does anybody have any feedback on this? I'm only an amateur programmer, I always appreciate hearing from more experienced pros...
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Node.js callback counter - frankpinto https://github.com/frankpinto/canicas ====== frankpinto Whipped it up really quickly, just looking for some feedback :D
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Ask HN: What are things I can learn within 1 hour that will make me a better SE? - bpatel576 I&#x27;m a self taught developer that has been working in the industry for a couple years now. I was pursing a part time master in CS but decided to take time off from the program due to the time commitment. I have about a sol...
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Evercoin: A cryptocurrency exchange platform - mcone https://evercoin.com/ ====== uncletammy Oh, so it's like [https://shapeshift.io/](https://shapeshift.io/) except subject to the arbitrary and Orwellian US financial regulations! All jokes aside, I'm not knocking Evercoin. It looks beautiful and I welcome anyone and...
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Google: Steve Jobs - johnx123-up https://www.google.com/search?q=Steve+Jobs ====== TobbenTM Why is this even upvoted?
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The Idled Young Americans - startuup http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/sunday-review/the-idled-young-americans.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 ====== com2kid As someone who is in his 20s (for another year!) and dating of the same age, my belief is because the current generation has a real lack of motivation. I think ...
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Build a Web 2.0-like application in haskell, with HAppS. - tphyahoo http://www.happstutorial.com ====== bootload _"... There is one minor detail... Unfortunately, the documentation for HAppS is cringeworthy ..."_ Nothing kills the urge to learn something quicker than incomplete docs. But it doesn't have to be this...
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Tesla – Great things are launching at 2pm - traviswingo https://www.tesla.com/soon#travis ====== BenoitEssiambre "To achieve these prices while remaining financially sustainable, Tesla is shifting sales worldwide to online only. You can now buy a Tesla in North America via your phone in about 1 minute, and that capabi...
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AMD Responds to Intel's 9th Gen Benchmarks - jrepinc https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-intel-benchmarks-ryzen-principled-technologies,37956.html ====== deforciant Few months ago I switched from i7 to Ryzen 2700X. Honestly, I don't know what would have to happen so that I would switch back to Intel :) In my develo...
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Ask HN: What is the one (impossible) thing you wish your editor could do? - tisker If you could magically wish an IDE&#x2F;Editor feature into existence, possible or impossible, what would it be? ====== themodelplumber I have a separate Batcave editor which I use in parallel to my coding editor... Anyway, for the Bat...
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Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumping - jpm_sd http://news.mit.edu/2019/two-legged-robot-mimics-human-balance-while-running-jumping-1030 ====== clairity while the headline is technically correctly phrased, it buries the lede on the interesting bit here: the bi-directional feedback mechanism. ...
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How do Unix pipes work? - v3gas https://www.vegardstikbakke.com/how-do-pipes-work-sigpipe/ ====== nneonneo This article promotes bad practices for dealing with SIGPIPE. 1\. Closing stderr in Python is not a good idea because that’ll swallow any other errors that occur at exit. Redirecting stdout to devnull is really ...
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How Apple has shaped the user interface - edu https://www.punchkick.com/blog/2015/08/07/how-apple-has-shaped-the-user-interface?utm_source=designernews ====== vilmosi Ugh, what garbage. Apple invented/popularised windows, grid of icons and flat design apparently. ~~~ calciphus They also invented circles, squares, ...
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ML Beyond Curve Fitting: An Intro to Causal Inference and Do-Calculus - dil8 http://www.inference.vc/untitled/ ====== smallnamespace Something to note about this formulation is the explicit assumption that in p(y|do(x)), the 'do' operation is supposed to be completely independent of prior observed variables, e.g. the ...
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Do you care about animals? Then you really shouldn't eat octopus - prawn http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/26/do-you-care-about-animals-then-you-really-shouldnt-eat-octopus ====== Alexey_Nigin A potato has 2 more chromosomes than I do. Does it mean that I shouldn't eat potatoes?
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Cactus (Crowdsourced Decisions; Beta) - darweshsingh http://cactustheapp.com ====== darweshsingh Hey guys: I'm working on an app (will enter beta very soon) that lets users post polls and vote on them. Atm it's a bit rudimentary (UI will change, push notifications will be added, gamification features upcoming, etc.), ...
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Ask HN: if DNA is the code, are proteins the processes? - niels_olson I'm a physician, teaching myself python (hat tips to LPTHW, Codecademy, and Lutz). If DNA is the code. I'm guessing RNA is ... like the front-side bus and proteins are the running processes? Does that sound about right? ====== vaxdigitalnh What is...
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Show HN: Startup Tools List - Procrastes https://github.com/BrightCanopy/startup-tools ====== Procrastes OP here. Nothing to promote, just replacing my bookmarks with a collaborative list, so I can share what I run across and learn about new tools or services from other people.
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Ask HN: Managing Translated Texts - glun We have come to the conclusion that we need a separate program to manage the lifecycle of the translated texts that appear in our software. We&#x27;re looking for features such as the following:<p>* The ability to query for all texts that lack translation in a given language. *...
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Ask HN: Are you wearing computer glasses? - ecaron I&#x27;d love to know if the HN community is wearing those yellow-tinted glasses (discussed on places like http:&#x2F;&#x2F;lifehacker.com&#x2F;5980509&#x2F;do-computer-glasses-really-work), or if they&#x27;re just a gimmick&#x2F;subject to the same suspicion at coppe...
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Obama Administration Announces Massive Piracy Crackdown - jayro http://www.dailytech.com/Obama+Administration+Announces+Massive+Piracy+Crackdown/article18815.htm ====== byoung2 _"It's smash and grab, no different than a guy walking down Fifth Avenue and smashing the window at Tiffany's and reaching in and grabbing w...
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Stravinsky’s “Illegal” Arrangement of “The Star Spangled Banner” (2015) - wrongc0ntinent http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/stravinskys-illegal-arrangement-of-the-star-spangled-banner-1944.html ====== rurban I want to bring this comment to the articles author and readers attention. > Terry Vosbein says: July 5, 2015 ...
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Break Up the Liberal City - bootload https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/opinion/sunday/break-up-the-liberal-city.html?_r=0 ====== bootload Interesting response by Noah Smith [https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/846057873721372673](https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/846057873721372673) and comparison "The High-Res...
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Electoral map over population density - weinzierl http://i.imgur.com/gPoFk.jpg ====== weinzierl Creator is <http://www.reddit.com/user/Felicia_Svilling>, unfortunately there is only an imgur link to this.
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Show HN: Dumbass – UI Made Simple - highlysyntropic https://github.com/dosyago/dumbass.git ====== Meph504 The ever immature concept of using something edgie as a name, that will likely result in you having to change it, or never getting broad adoption. ~~~ carapace "Dolt" [https://www.dolthub.com](https://www.dolthub...
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