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Command line one-liners - iamtechaddict http://arturoherrero.com/2013/11/29/command-line-one-liners/ ====== phaer Maybe I am getting old and elitist, sorry if so. But it seems like those 'one- liners' are mostly stuff you could find in the man page of your favorite shell or in any introduction to Unix. There's nothing...
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WebGPU demos - tilt https://webkit.org/demos/webgpu/ ====== blauditore Note this is not about WebGL, but about WebGPU by Apple, claiming it "generally offers better performance" than OpenGL/WebGL. I'm not an expert in this area, but isn't it a bad idea to introduce another standard if there's already WebGL with great...
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If Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his time again he'd probably leave // out. - nopassrecover http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8306515.stm ====== nopassrecover He has also said he'd leave out the colon. I thought the whole point was to distinguish the protocol from the path. I can't believe the BBC article compl...
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Readernaut Launched, Gorgeous book sharing site. - forsaken http://readernaut.com ====== pclark you're joking. This website _redirects_ to the signup page. Bizarrely, its far more than a signup page. Why did you design it this way? It isn't a bad thing - slightly odd. I was tempted to close the window when I saw th...
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Ask HN: Would you buy/sell encrypted dataset for machine learning? - bartolomej Hi, would you buy or sell quality datasets to teach your AI on? The thing is that the data and model would be encrypted, so both would stay hiden from the other parties. What pros/cons do you see in such approach? Thanks, TB ====== ve...
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Let's Make Software Great Again by Nadia Eghbal - mxstbr http://www.slideshare.net/NadiaEghbal/lets-make-software-great-again-18f-talk ====== tdeck Is there a video I'm missing somewhere? Paging through these slides, they're mostly prompts for the presentation (a good thing!), but I think I'd enjoy the talk more. ~~~...
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Moodle: Official Music Video - Thr4wn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCQtwZuqChc ====== Thr4wn This is a video project for a Taylor University COS class by David Perkins (transfered from Full Sail University). So far, only the CSE department here uses Moodle (by lead of Dr. Cramer and Dr. Toll), but hopefully we can...
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Paraplegics learn to walk after years with the help of VR and exoskeletons - ENadyr http://qz.com/757516/paraplegics-are-learning-to-walk-again-with-virtual-reality/ ====== afarrell I wonder how expensive it would be to build a patch that someone who suffered from excessive tension in a certain muscle could stick on, ...
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Phil Schiller on App Store Upgrade Pricing, Echo-Like Devices, Swift - heisenbit http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/phil-schiller-upgrade-pricing-google-home-amazon-echo-swift-1690180 ====== heisenbit Upgrade pricing and/or subscriptions would make a huge difference to the app store. Particularly to the Mac app sto...
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Elvish – An experimental Unix shell in Go - networked https://github.com/xiaq/elvish ====== xiaq Author here. Wow, I completely didn't expect this to hit HN this early. I did a talk at FUDCON Beijing 2014 (slides: [http://go- talks.appspot.com/github.com/xiaq/elvish-fudcon201...](http://go- talks.appspot.com/github.co...
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Autocorrelation, Correlation and Causation - ca98am79 http://macroquantpdx.tumblr.com/post/116656634625/autocorrelation-correlation-and-causation ====== plg So a correlation in the first difference (i.e. the first derivative) implies causality? Is that what he's saying? ummm
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Google Announces High Replication Datastore for App Engine - shawndumas http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/01/google-announces-high-replication-datastore-for-app-engine.php ====== lylejohnson Announcement on Google's blog is here: [http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/01/announcing- high-...](http://googleappen...
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Top 100 Startups Disrupting Cloud and SaaS - usiegj00 http://blog.rightsignature.com/2012/03/rightsignature-named-to-ondemand-top.html ====== leroypa Great company with the greatest product since sliced bread. -PL
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Bad Code Offsets: An Update - bdfh42 http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Bad-Code-Offsets-An-Update.aspx ====== andrewljohnson Personally, I wouldn't write an essay for $500. Maybe some students with open source projects would consider doing this. ------ billpg Yet again, the underheight among us are discriminated agai...
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Ask HN: Time tracking - ctingom Hi all, I'm building a time tracking application. I'm curious about your personal time tracking preferences:<p>Do you track your time mostly after the fact?<p>Not at all?<p>Track time mostly throughout the day (stopwatch)?<p>I ask, because we have a Stopwatch mode in our application a...
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A robot will take your order now - ArtDev http://www.marketwatch.com/story/a-robot-will-take-your-order-now-2016-05-25 ====== ArtDev It seems like the robot doesn't actually carry the food to the table? Hard to tell from the video.
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Apple Marina Bay Sands Opens Thursday in Singapore - todsacerdoti https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/09/apple-marina-bay-sands-opens-thursday-in-singapore/ ====== supernova87a Am I misremembering, or was this some kind of museum building before? Or was it specially built by Apple? Whatever it is, pretty amazing looki...
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Elon Musk Is Wrong. We Aren't Living in a Simulation - kordless https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/we-dont-live-in-a-simulation?utm_content=buffera2008&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer ====== squozzer I agree with the author, but their refutation of Musk's argument takes the wrong t...
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How "junior" developers can become regex wizards - joshuakemp1 http://joshuakemp.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-junior-developers-can-become-regex.html ====== tghw A couple things: 1\. Be careful what you use regex's for. Email addresses are very difficult[0]. HTML is impossible[1]. 2\. There are a number of tools that ma...
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Nothing is certain, except death and taxes .. and chargebacks - mahmoudimus http://blog.balancedpayments.com/death-taxes-chargebacks-balanced/ ====== jasonlotito I'm surprised the part on combatting friendly fraud (4.2) didn't include a part about contacting the customer directly, most likely via phone. If you are in ...
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Give me a name suggestion for bootstrap/wordpress theme website - hasibrsohel I want to publish a website for the bootstrap&#x2F;wordpress themes but I am still confused about the name of this website. Currently, I have two domains, rowbootstrap.com and bosstemplate.com but I could not understand if they are good to g...
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Learn Python via Spaced Repetition - coolgeek https://www.srsoterica.com/product/learn_python_essentials_srs_spaced_repetition ====== dang We took "Show HN" off the title because there doesn't appear to be any way to try it out. In such a case users will complain that the post is just an ad. The rules are at [https://...
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Ask HN: do you value Github profile more or StackOverflow? - codegeek So I know that there is no zero sum game etc but I was wondering how do you evaluate another hacker based on their online profiles ? Github lets you see someone actual work/code samples etc. but a forum like stackoverflow gives you insights about ...
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Ask HN: If you had 15-20k to take a 2-4 week trip, solo, what would you do? - throwaway9er ====== hprx The important part isn't money, it's time. Go see the wonders of the world. Be in awe. I would suggest India because it's a microcosm. Go north to the Himalayas and you can feel the majesty. Head to the west to the ...
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FBI file on Aaron Swartz - gasull http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/05/fbi-file-on-aaron-sw.html ====== biohacker42 Dupe.
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Ask HN: Why hasn't Edward Snowden been captured yet? - alexhakawy If the FBI CIA and NSA is so powerful how come they can&#x27;t just snatch him up and bring to the US for the crime he allegedly committed? ====== BjoernKW I'd say diplomacy. Russia is a powerful nation with an at least reasonably proficient secret serv...
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Zuck & Me: What I Learned Competing Against Mark Zuckerberg’s The Facebook - socialmediaisbs http://socialtimes.com/zuck-me-what-i-learned-competing-against-mark-zuckerbergs-the-facebook_b136315 ====== OafTobark The irony here is plenty of colleges I was familiar with had a forum/marketplace/craigslist like competit...
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The Coming Changes of K-12 Science Education - grumblefoo http://www.livescience.com/40283-ngss-science-standards-change-education.html ====== ColinWright Does anyone else get annoyed by the fact that when you page down you miss stuff because the banner at the top isn't considered in the calculation of how far to st...
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Why all programmers should earn their master’s - prostoalex http://qz.com/414542/why-programmers-should-get-a-masters-degree/ ====== hwstar When everyone has a Master's, employers will start stating Phd as the minimum. In San Diego, most large companies won't even talk to you if you only have a Bachelor's Degree. Up...
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Reverse image search - roye https://ctrlq.org/google/images/ ====== roye Thinking along these lines I also found this: [http://reversedictionary.org/](http://reversedictionary.org/)
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Home Terminals (1999) - ecliptik https://www.multicians.org/terminals.html ====== russellbeattie For years, I could never understand what was special about vi, in that it was short for "visual". What was particularly visual about it? I also couldn't grasp the idea of "line editors" like ex and ed that came before it.....
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Anticensorship in the Internet's Infrastructure - wglb https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/jhalderm/anticensorship-internets-infrastructure ====== lifeisstillgood Is it just me or does this smack of security by obscurity - as long as the great firewall of China/Iran/Whomever does not recognise the packets are hiding t...
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Ask HN: Best Cross-platform development tool that you've come across? - ramanujank Apple Filemaker vs Force.com vs Microsoft Powerapps vs Zoho AppCreator.<p>The space seems to be crowding at the moment. Could users share their experiences?<p>It will help my ongoing evaluation. Thanks. ====== brudgers Curious as the cu...
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Metaprogramming for madmen (2012) - Ivoah https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/metaprogramming-for-madmen/ ====== teolandon >So what did we learn? >Honestly? I’m not quite sure. The story has a nice poetic justice to itself though, and I promise that I really didn’t make any of this up – all of this actually happ...
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Play2 Simple HTTP API - etaty https://gist.github.com/3026886 ====== dinedal Took me a bit of googling to figure out the context. It's in reference to the Java based Play framework version 2.0. ~~~ densh Currently it's mostly written in Scala but does support Java alongside. ------ notJim This article should real...
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Show HN: JOBBOX.io – Refer a friend, get rewarded - ftpaul http://jobbox.io/?utm_source=hn&utm_medium=hn&utm_campaign=hn ====== andrewstuart Refer to the top comment in this post. [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7908067) ~~~ pcbo Hi Andrew, you're right on multip...
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Digia to pay Nokia €4 million for Qt [...] - palebluedot http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/10/3233105/digia-nokia-qt-acquisition-4-million-euros ====== pkmays Glad to hear this. Digia has treated Qt very good.
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Petition the U.S. Government to Force the TSA to Follow the Law - thoughtsimple http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/07/petition_the_us.html ====== user49598 We all realize that there is no direct measurable effect on government from signing these petitions. And we also realize that signing these petitions and t...
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How to Talk to Congress - BuuQu9hu https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/01/how-talk-congress ====== RichardHeart I've heard that some congressmen are genuinely surprised when you bring up an issue to them that they didn't know about, because they "hadn't seen any money on it." Meaning, I think that they're used to getti...
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CBP Can’t Detain Domestic Flight Passengers for Refusing Suspicionless ID Checks - jseliger https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/cbp-cant-detain-domestic-flight-passengers-refusing-suspicionless-id-checks ====== perl4ever You can't un-detain people who have been detained illegally. ------ kn0where If CBP can’t...
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Russia blocks ProtonMail - tdurden https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/11/russia-blocks-protonmail/ ====== PeterZhizhin This situation really pissed me off. FSB (Russian FBI) had problems with receiving bomb threats coming from Protonmail addresses. So, they secretly ordered (with an almost classified order) major ISPs to ...
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Teaching CS in the schools - luu http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/archives/monthly/2018-09.html#e2018-09-30T10_31_14.htm ====== badlogic I'm currently teaching basic computing with a focus on introductionary programming to 14-18 year olds. The myth that kids that age are all digital natives and hence much more ade...
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Tech workers find communal living a solution for high rents - finid http://www.reuters.com/article/us-san-francisco-tech-images-idUSKBN16H2EE ====== hpcjoe I try to help recruiters calling me from the Bay Area understand how profound a negative impact the housing prices are for my modest standard of living. I'm in the...
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Expresso? The x spelling has considerable historical precedent (2014) - edward http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/08/18/espresso_or_expresso_the_x_spelling_actually_has_considerable_historical.html ====== vilhelm_s I guess even if "espresso means not just ‘fast’ but ‘pressed out’", spelling it with an x st...
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Why Flash Doesn’t Suck - nreece http://pixelborne.com/blog/why-flash-doesnt-suck/ ====== glhaynes "some obnoxious people who dare dub themselves members of the “web elite” [citation needed]" Anyway, I clicked the examples the author gave of good all-Flash sites. As expected, they act weird, they pop up "loading" indi...
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Android phones to automatically share your location during 911 calls in US - craigferg501 https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/19/17878382/android-phones-location-sharing-emergency-911-calls-us ====== Havoc Seems like a good idea. I'm totally OK with the concept of phones ignoring all privacy concepts (within reason) once...
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Show HN: Toby the Tab Manager - rohamg http://www.gettoby.com/ ====== arthurcamara Hey guys, I'm Arthur and I developed Toby. The motivation behind Toby was basically to have a UI where I could see all my tabs, organize them, have them "on my face" and treat them as stickers or cards that I could drag around and searc...
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A Critic Looks at His Own Early Artwork, 35 Years Later - prismatic http://www.vulture.com/2017/04/jerry-saltz-reviews-his-own-early-artwork.html ====== amsilprotag This slide show is a follow-up to [0]. I'd argue the context is more interesting than the content. The original article is a kind of counterweight to surv...
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Detroit 1967 – A bristling tension, a revolt and the death of a dream - rmason http://www.freep.com/story/opinion/contributors/2017/07/02/marsha-music-detroit-1967-riot/439448001/ ====== rmason There's a movie coming out on the story of the 1967 Detroit riots. [http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/movies/julie- h...
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Quizscript: simple markup language for quizz - vmorgulis http://dbweb.cs.uvic.ca:8080/servlet/MMPServlet?filename=quizscript.mmp ====== vmorgulis The post about it: [https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/quiz- script/](https://billwadge.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/quiz-script/)
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Ask HN: I’ve burnt out at a megacorp and don’t know what to do next - xyyyrz (This is a throwaway account)<p>I’ve been working for a megacorp for the past 3 years, with some time at other megacorps and a startup before that. I’ve had my own company on the side but recently sunsetted my products as they were not goi...
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On Having No Head: Cognition Throughout Biological Systems (2016) - DimiD https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4914563/ ====== leesec Was recently floored by Michael Levin's (one of this papers authors) talk at NIPS. Possibly the most amazing talk I have ever seen. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjD1aLm4Thg...
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Nosotek -- North Korean software development - drinian http://www.nosotek.com/ ====== drinian The most incredible part is that they developed two mobile phone games, "Big Lebowski Bowling" and "Men in Black: Alien Assault"... for a company that later became part of News Corp. [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-...
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Gaming the System: How to Really Get Ahead in the Game Industry - req2 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/4133/gaming_the_system_how_to_really_.php ====== petercooper Not entirely relevant but this is the latest in a long ling of Gamasutra articles I've seen in the last year and.. man, they do a really good job. ...
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U.S. Launches Attacks on Syria - plessthanpt05 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/04/13/601794830/u-s-launches-attacks-on-syria ====== Nuzzerino Keep an eye on the DEFCON Warning System Twitter. A few minutes ago, they stated that a counter-attack has been launched, according to Syrian National TV. [https://...
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Why Wolfram Tech Isn’t Open Source–A Dozen Reasons - yigitdemirag https://blog.wolfram.com/2019/04/02/why-wolfram-tech-isnt-open-source-a-dozen-reasons/?source=frontpage-latest-news ====== mimixco Nonsense. Wolfram isn't open source for one and only one reason: it depends on a proprietary cloud-based library in order...
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Ask HN: What's the best way to get search engine traffic? - visualm I don't want to become a spammer. ====== spooneybarger easiest but most expensive: buy tons of banner ads that get people to search to find out more about your product. hardest but least expensive: get people talking about your product so that othe...
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Mail for Good, a self-hosted Mailchimp alternative (like Sendy but FREE) - wiradikusuma https://medium.freecodecamp.org/our-nonprofit-needed-a-cheaper-way-to-send-email-blasts-so-we-engineered-one-167322e3f28e ====== snadwich so cool -- kinda like sendy but better! ~~~ wiradikusuma I updated the title to mention Send...
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Ask HN: What's Your Opinion On All New Suggestions For Domain Name Extensions? - kloncks Remember how back in the day there were only four or five main domain name extensions? Only .com, .net, .gov, .org, .edu (maybe .biz too)<p>Now, there are hundreds and more are proposed. All the countries have their special two ...
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About backdoors in crypto messengers - larma http://blogs.fsfe.org/larma/2017/signal-backdoors/ ====== dbalan Some observations, 1\. At this point its extremely hard to use XMPP - there are too many competing standards that implements encryption (of which a subset has forward secrecy), and if sender server doesn't imp...
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Ask HN: About to launch a web app, am I missing anything? - jmbmxer I am in the final stages of building up a web application that I have been working on for some time. Like many of you with startups on HN, I would like to start with a paid and free level of access.<p>Since I will be accepting payments, do I need to f...
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TclWise: Guide to the Tcl programming language (2004) - netten http://www.invece.org/tclwise/ ====== ofrzeta The author Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) is also the author of the Redis key value store. Funny, I didn't know he had written a book on Tcl. As an embedded scripting language for Redis he didn't pick Tcl but ...
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Ask HN: Rate My Startup - LetMeGo: Let lodgings bid for your stay - torrenegra http://letmego.com ====== mattwdelong I'm currently employed in the hotel industry. I really have no defined role, but I perform a lot of the GM roles. I can give you a few things to think about. First and foremost, the chain to which we b...
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What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace? - edward https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/magazine/what-happens-when-facebook-goes-the-way-of-myspace.html ====== AndrewSChapman Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how _not_ to run a social n...
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Does It Matter Where You Go to College? - KeepTalking http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/05/does-it-matter-where-you-go-to-college/257227/ ====== keiferski You know your value system sucks when the question "does it matter where you go to college?" is automatically assumed to be about salary. ~~~ jerf Y...
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Why is it so difficult to store energy? - diafygi http://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/26over/why_is_it_so_difficult_to_store_energy/ ====== diafygi From my answer: > Remember kids, when you fill your car up with 10 gallons of gas in 5 > minutes, you are transferring energy at a rate of 4.5 MW (36 MJ/L * 38 L / ...
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Vietnam: China is mislabeling products as Vietnamese to avoid US tariffs - ga-vu https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/06/10/vietnam-alleges-china-faking-made-vietnam-skirt-us-tariffs/1408023001/ ====== jtlienwis Pot to kettle: you are black. Chinese have been counterfeiting labels for US and European nock off...
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Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web framework for Rust - Dowwie https://docs.rs/actix-web/1.0.0/actix_web ====== Dowwie I'm using actix-web in my work and am familiar with the project, so I'll try to summarize for everyone why this 1.0 release is so significant. This is a major milestone for the entire R...
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Someone copied our website, what are things we can do? - zuhayeer We found out today that someone blatantly copied our website (levels.fyi). The bad actor is at levelsfyi (dot) com. Are DMCA Takedown notices effective or is it just for a good scare. Would appreciate any advice on any actionable things we can do ======...
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Billionaire Icahn Exits Apple Stake After Three Years - rezist808 http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-04-28/billionaire-icahn-exits-apple-stake-almost-3-years-after-buying ====== mmrezaie Saying he is worrying about china and claiming he is activist and then going and endorsing Drumpf. Something is rotten here...
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How to write a WordPress job description - tzaman http://www.woothemes.com/2013/09/how-to-write-a-wordpress-job-description/ ====== ppgr Nice article, with must see advice for anyone hiring a developer. ------ mayankg pretty cool. A good job description is always helpful for both the client and the contractor. It s...
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OpenIO: object storage and grid for apps - lormayna http://openio.io/ ====== mbrock Here's my feedback as a person being marketed to: After trying for a while to scroll through your landing page despite the extremely annoying custom scroll thing, I have no idea what your thing actually does. I know you have offices ...
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87% of all Smartphones are powered by Linux. Really? - ashitlerferad https://haydenjames.io/81-percent-smartphones-powered-by-linux/ ====== zerognowl From Wikipedia: "Android does not include the GNU C Library (it uses Bionic as an alternative C library) and some of other components typically found in Linux distribut...
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Undergrad improves CERN supercollider algorithm - joshwprinceton http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/23/23108/ ====== spoiledtechie Well I think Einstein said that if you haven't made your major contribution to society by 30, you will never make it. ~~~ jambalaya It's probably 35 or later nowadays considering ...
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Alaska's 34-year basic income experiment - mortenjorck http://www.marketplace.org/2016/03/12/economy/alaskas-annual-dividend-residents-adds ====== ZoeZoeBee The Price of oil cratered and now the fund does not have the money to provide the citizens with the income they've grown to depend on. The experiment is a succes...
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CoinLaunch – Launch your own cryptocurrency for free - AlaskaCasey https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/13/build-your-own-token-sale-with-coinlaunchs-coincreator/ ====== tonetheman The extension they use for chrome can watch everything you do on the internets... :( That stopped me. It looks interesting though. It would be...
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How to Talk to Anti-Maskers - mitchbob https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/opinion/coronavirus-health-experts.html ====== devenblake > Early in the pandemic, federal officials instructed Americans not to buy or > wear masks. The C.D.C. revised that guidance in April. That was stupid and a mistake, and I don't have the...
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Is it Possible for Me to Get Hired as an Intern? - isitpossible So.. here's the deal. I'm 19, live in Vancouver and been programming for ~2.5 yrs. I know, I started a bit late and I truly regret that.<p>Since I started programming, I fell in love with it and I tried to learn as much as I could (Linux, Windows, C, C+...
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Bitcoinfographics.com – infographics about Bitcoin - patestevao http://bitcoinfographics.com/ ====== thomasrossi mh.. bizantine consensous and bitcoins, mining saga, transaction explained as "calculation of a certain hash" (lol, certain) I don't believe these are good infographics, I am more puzzled than before. If...
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Fuzzing with AFL is an Art - moyix http://moyix.blogspot.com/2016/07/fuzzing-with-afl-is-an-art.html ====== vvanders Great to read real-world use cases. Tangent-ish question, I've seen some work on AFL for Rust[1], how much of this understanding maps to Rust? Is the instrumentation path pretty uniform for LLVM based ...
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Blue lights keep students alert, improves reading speed, reduces hyperactivity - allenp http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1333029/Blue-lighting-trialled-British-school-wake-drowsy-pupils-thing-morning.html ====== JonnieCache I would like to point out that the source, the daily mail, is a joke here in br...
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Show HN: System to manage ad-hoc SQL queries within small organizations - skun https://github.com/LogicSoftInd/LSQ ====== igauravsehrawat Nice. But isn't that more of an app rather than system?
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Real books are back. E-book sales plunge nearly 20% - MilnerRoute http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/27/media/ebooks-sales-real-books/index.html ====== Nomentatus The reduction in ebook purchases may not be quite what it seems. There's no call to buy an ebook in advance of the moment you're ready to read it, unlike a paper ...
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I’m tired. So I’m selling my game that just went viral - napsterbr https://medium.com/@renatomassaro/99e525f99f65 ====== masukomi Re the emails / support / whatever being stressy... dude. It's been like no time at all, and you had a spike. You don't have to reply to EVERYTHING ASAP. All things in moderation. Set up an...
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How did my password reset link expire so soon? - cardiffspacemon I asked for a password reset, and got the email, and clicked through. It said &quot;Unknown or expired link.&quot; instead of letting me enter a new password. I reviewed the email I received, and made certain that iOS had not accidently added the perio...
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Zazzle’s anti-free-speech practices - triplesec http://ashleybmeyer.com/blog/?p=25 ====== caseyv Sensationalized title. It appears this person may be using someone else's intellectual property. I don't see any indication that this has anything to do with the NSA. I can't be certain, but that's my take. ~~~ caseyv T...
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Gimli Glider: When systems go wrong. - RiderOfGiraffes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider ====== jgrahamc Do not watch the movie version of this ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_from_the_Sky:_Flight_17...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling_from_the_Sky:_Flight_174)). It's inaccurate and overly dramat...
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Ask HN: Why don't companies replace code tests with open-source contributions? - fnwx17 I&#x27;m asking this in the context of code tests that are used during the interviewing&#x2F;hiring process.<p>There is a general consensus that generic code tests that are frustrating and time-consuming for the developers, but tha...
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Optimizing matrix multiplication in C - attractivechaos https://attractivechaos.wordpress.com/2016/08/28/optimizing-matrix-multiplication/ ====== makmanalp Attractivechaos's stuff blows my mind. Shameless plug - I've started dissecting his header-only hashmap library (khash.h) bit by bit, and I've been documenting my ...
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Git: Bram Cohen vs Linus Torvalds - Xichekolas http://wincent.com/a/about/wincent/weblog/archives/2007/07/a_look_back_bra.php ====== swillden I think an Bram errs when he thinks that his experience in studying and experimenting with merge algorithms gives him deeper insight than the apparent newcomer to the field, Lin...
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A really hard problem - rumcajz http://250bpm.com/blog:62 ====== AnimalMuppet "They're making it so that the _real_ lines are easier to use." At least, that's what the other lines are _supposed_ to be doing. As to whether they succeed or not, I suspect that opinions may differ... ~~~ rumcajz What do you mean by "use...
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The Linux Information Project - jorgecastillo http://www.linfo.org/ ====== WestCoastJustin Very, cool site. I have used it before, and it is nice to see someone posted it! As a meta note, if you are into this type of thing, I have created a couple screencasts along the same lines: Crash Course on the ...
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New Australian Laws Force Facebook, WhatsApp to Open Encrypted Messages - gravelc https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/07/new-australian-laws-force-facebook-whatsapp-to-open-encrypted-messages/ ====== throwawaymanbot Its laughable that the 5 eyes make this policy, and try to use sympathetic old politicians who have no idea...
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Aviary - 18 different web-based graphics tools - nickb http://a.viary.com/tools ====== fiaz I call vaporware. Another example of a concept site with impressive demos is streamy.com. I wouldn't be surprised if these were "honey pots" of sorts to collect email addresses of specific demographics (in this case it seems to...
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Unlearning the myth of American innocence - kawera https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/unlearning-the-myth-of-american-innocence ====== randcraw America is indeed an empire. Apparently the author was oblivious to this, and her epiphany that empire creates a reality distortion field for all those within it ...
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How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices - xmpir http://recode.net/2015/01/13/how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices/ ====== ecaron When I started working on [https://trackif.com](https://trackif.com), I thought the premise was thin because prices couldn't fluctu...
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Article | How Homo-Facebookiens will kill Homo-Sapiens? - bea85 https://plus.google.com/111297306144520956414/posts/JLQogwzooYd?hl ====== _delirium Slightly earlier submission: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033327>
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Lisp Lovers, how would you fix Lisp or bring it up to date? - bootload http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.373043.10 ====== Hexstream I'd start by asking a more specific question. For the rest, I'd say lisp is at least _fixable_ , unlike most languages, and that's already saying a lot. It just lack...
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The Builder's High - guptaneil http://randsinrepose.com/archives/the-builders-high/#HN ====== dkulchenko This line is brilliant: "This is a reminder not to let a digital world full of others’ moments deceive you into devaluing your own. Their moments are infinite – yours are finite and precious." For some time now, ...
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WinRAR and the infinite 40-day trial [video] - happy-go-lucky https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fTgZRVVr3_Y ====== tradersam The greatest feature of any app, ever.
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