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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's timeline of art history - jstrieb http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ ====== pradn I wish I could see examples of art from around the world at the same time period. I'd love to do a comparison of pottery styles and techniques in China and the Americas. There's often surprising commonalities...
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Hello Opera 12 - Juha http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/hello-opera-12 ====== kevingadd From testing out my demos in Opera Next over the past few months, I've been really impressed with the quality of their JS runtime and the UI. Unfortunately, their hardware-accelerated canvas support doesn't really keep up and their Web...
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ZeroTurnaround's 2014 Decision Maker's Guide to Java Web Frameworks - Sharlin http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/the-2014-decision-makers-guide-to-java-web-frameworks ====== Sharlin Full disclosure: I work at Vaadin.
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England first country to mandate programming in primary and secondary schools - juliangamble http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10410036/Teaching-our-children-to-code-a-quiet-revolution.html ====== NAFV_P _Many teachers will have to re-train, and some schools are likely to struggle to provide the computing r...
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(Virtually) No one should own an Echo or any other “voice assistant” product - walterbell https://boingboing.net/2017/12/06/can-you-hear-me-now.html ====== blacksmith_tb Dupe - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852773](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15852773) ------ colek42 I don't understand why this is ...
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Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones - Bostonian https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-have-a-problem-safer-human-driven-ones-11560571203?mod=rsswn ====== ChicagoBoy11 As a private pilot it astounds me how the self-driving car industry has seemingly taken every lesson we've learned from a...
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Tech companies are helping bosses monitor everything you do at work - jrepinc https://jacobinmag.com/2020/03/tech-companies-bosses-monitoring-surveillance-workers-technology ====== planetzero 15+ years ago, I was working on my first development job out of college and I noticed that there was a strange process running ...
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Movable Type vs Wordpress? - alexknight I've been contemplating for a while now moving my blog from Tumblr to my own hosted solution. I've been doing some research on both Wordpress and Movable Type, and they both look like excellent solutions.<p>What I can't seem to come to a conclusion though is the pros/cons weig...
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Swarm robots can learn by simply observing - chwolfe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160830083653.htm ====== phren0logy Obligatory: "I learned it by watching YOU!"
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What is the true price of Rwanda's recovery? - gruseom http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8593734.stm ====== selflessGene I am a part owner of a business in West Africa, and I'll say that I'm an enthusiastic supporter of Kagame's leadership and hope to see similar leaders rise in Africa. The West and t...
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SpaceX CRS-5 launch aborted, next attempt Friday - kid0m4n https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacex/2015/01/06/actuator-issue-triggered-abort/ ====== ceejayoz [https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/552432830912151552](https://twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield/status/552432830912151552) > Launch scrubs reassure me. It means that th...
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Show HN: Deck of Cards – A playing card API - crobertsbmw http://deckofcardsapi.com ====== aarondf Hey, you did a thing and told people [0]! Good for you. Is it perfect? No idea, but from reading the comments here a lot of people don't think so. Who cares though [1]! You're so far ahead of so many people because you a...
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Ask HN purchasing a new laptop. - levicampbell Around the 16th or so, my laptop quit booting, and while it's being looked at by my best friend, I’m looking for a new laptop. I have two problems that will make affording a new laptop hard;<p>1. I take home around $670 a month. (SSI, because it’s next to impossible to ...
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Current Article Popularity Trends on Hacker News - Cieplak http://hn.metamx.com/ ====== bravura I believe that the note on the bottom, about machine learning, is not germane to the graph displayed. The graph is a straight visualization of hacker news post rank. The machine learning discusses this earlier blog post:...
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Unfair advantages grow from irrational habits - llambda http://thestartuptoolkit.com/blog/2012/01/unfair-advantages-grow-from-irrational-habits/ ====== beefman It may not be evil but it is really stupid, because it means Google results no longer give insight into the structure of the web (things like normalized google...
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Spreeder: Learn to Speed Read. - mustapha http://www.spreeder.com/ ====== cinitriqs Excellent to quickly read some articles online, copy paste, set speed to what u like, n go!
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The Browser Cold War - mrsebastian http://www.extremetech.com/computing/109127-the-browser-cold-war ====== RyanMcGreal If the browsers are going to battle each other by parsing javascript faster, rendering styles more correctly and driving adoption of the newest version, the 'collateral damage' will be a better web ...
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27000 errors in the Tizen operating system - matthewwarren https://www.viva64.com/en/b/0519/ ====== edejong This sounds so familiar. Some 6 years ago, I joined a team of engineers developing a large (1.5M LOC) classic java/spring/hibernate application for administration in higher education. The software was buggy and ...
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Grantland and the Surprising Future of Publishing - ghosh https://stratechery.com/2015/grantland-and-the-surprising-future-of-publishing/ ====== danso Good piece, the OP sums up why even as analytics show that a diminishing number of users visit news site homepages, I still will type in the URLs to domains such as Gra...
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Greasemonkey script to remove iPad stories from HN - tomh- For convinience I also included the keywords "lisp" and "clojure" in the recommended version:<p>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2196687/ybs-lisp.user.js<p>or you can download the ipad only version at:<p>http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2196687/ybs.user.js<p>Have fun! ====== ...
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Hulu a consumer success but still a small business: Est. $12.5-25mm net revs - fromedome http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/7/hulu-a-consumer-success-but-still-a-small-business ====== JimEngland They need to 1) includes ads into small clips (3-5 min) and 2) vary the advertising on full television episodes. Seeing the ...
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Uber without Internet - natiginfo https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.nicapp&ref=producthunt ====== natiginfo Why I built this? I travel often, and I don't have internet access in every country. If we consider internet prices are higher than SMS prices while you're in roaming, this is much better for me. ...
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iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid' - grhmc https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6050 ====== gnachman Given the level of concern, I will change the default and release a new version right away. ~~~ gnachman This is done. A summary of the issue and apology can be found here: [h...
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NYC’s tech boom will turn it into a ghost town - pointillistic https://nypost.com/2019/11/02/why-new-york-citys-tech-boom-will-turn-it-into-a-ghost-town/ ====== gshdg Yeah, that’s just the Post doing it’s usual scaremongering. Yes, what it says about the character of the city is true. No, it has nothing to do with the...
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The Senate’s new anti-encryption bill is even worse than EARN IT - DiabloD3 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/senates-new-anti-encryption-bill-even-worse-earn-it-and-thats-saying-something ====== abecedarius Longer discussion at [https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2020/06/there%E2%80%99s-n...](https://cyberlaw.sta...
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Ask HN: What headless CMS do you recommend? - somtum ====== feistypharit I like forestry.io. it's not API based, so you just use stock Hugo backed by git. The change you make get committed back to git. So the nice thing is you're not tied to them. If they go away, you still have Hugo and can generate manually. You can ...
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Ask HN: Best books you read in 2017? - gatsby ====== mgos 1\. The power of a positive no 2\. Black box thinking 3\. Difficult conversations 4\. Transcending loss 5\. Braving the wilderness 6\. Motherless daughters 7\. The happy medium 8\. Deep work 9\. The golden sayings of Epictetus 10\. The best interface is no inter...
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Government to borrow nearly $1 trillion this year 84 percent jump from last year - gscott http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-spending-debt-analysis-20180203-story.html ====== seba_dos1 US government, in case you're like me and start with reading the comments before checking out the article. ~~...
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Ask HN: My company is about to get acquired, how do I best manage this money? - crcme Hello.<p>I work for an Australian company based in Sydney. I&#x27;m not a founder, I&#x27;m just an early employee (engineer #2). I&#x27;ve been here since the start and we&#x27;ve been running for about 8 years. We are in data ana...
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U.S Justice Dept Reversal on Online Gambling Tracked Memo from Adelson Lobbyists - petethomas https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-departments-reversal-on-online-gambling-tracked-memo-from-adelson-lobbyists-11547854137 ====== pseingatl Doncha just love the rule of law?
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Maps that show how much time Americans spend sleeping, grooming, and thinking - ilamont http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/20/ten-maps-that-show-how-much-time-americans-spend-grooming-eating-thinking-and-praying/?hpid=z8 ====== chatmasta What about exercise?? Seems like a glaringly missing piece...
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Vuzix to build 'Smart Glasses' with transparent displays - AharonH http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/6/2686410/vuzix-nokia-smart-glasses-transparent-display-hud ====== dkersten Head mounted displays with both transparent and opaque displays have existed for a long time, but have so far been both expensive and low resolut...
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Building a video distribution network in 48 hours - jon_dahl http://railspikes.com/2009/8/28/buiding-a-video-distribution-in-48-hours ====== nopal It's a slick site, but the lack of streaming from the CDN would be a deal breaker if I were looking for a Web video hosting solution. ~~~ brandonarbini Another developer...
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Show HN: Future Plans for Compelling Science Fiction - mojoe http://compellingsciencefiction.com/blog/blog.html ====== mojoe I've posted about my science fiction magazine side project here before, and you all have given me great feedback: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11469135](https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...
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15 Incredibly Creative Resumes - onosendai http://www.demilked.com/creative-resumes/ ====== SenorWilson If I were an employer these would make me laugh and annoy me. ------ mnicole Most of these do more to underscore the lack of creativity in the candidate than it does to emphasize it.
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Decentralization Dilemma - molus https://www.molus.org/blog/decentralization-dilemma/ ====== gojomo An important extra dimension is whether, within a certain system, the natural tendency towards centralization-for-convenience also generates centralization lock-in. If there's a dependence on canonical global registrie...
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AES.png - galapago http://thepiratebay.se/aes.png ====== nailer So... what is this? ~~~ millzlane [https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-domain-back-online- wavin...](https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bay-domain-back-online-waving-a- pirate-flag-141221/) ~~~ nailer I've read that, but what specifically is this key? ~...
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Compile Ruby into WebAssembly - pmontra https://github.com/jasoncharnes/run.rb ====== _hardwaregeek I'm a little confused by this. Did someone manage to write a YARV to WASM compiler? I kind of doubt this is a wholly new Ruby to WASM compiler, so my best guess would be a YARV to WASM compiler. Except...even that would...
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Some Sessions from the Python Language Summit - lukastyrychtr https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/821412/9fbb4093d7945bdb/ ====== miohtama Nice points about the mobile Python. My old company ported Python to Symbian operating system (Nokia phones) around 2008. The problem for Python in mobile is the same as for JavaScript ...
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Haskell: mistakes I made (and how to fix them) - 0xmohit https://jaspervdj.be/posts/2016-04-11-haskell-mistakes-i-made.html ====== 0xmohit Link to slides: [https://github.com/meiersi/HaskellerZ/blob/a19f6c28cd999efda...](https://github.com/meiersi/HaskellerZ/blob/a19f6c28cd999efdae86d38b1871378cbc3c0645/meetups/201603...
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Big Mac Prices Just Went Up 26% in Argentina - mattobrien http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/06/13/big_mac_prices_soar_26_in_argentina.html ====== jstalin Argentina is the very definition of economic schizophrenia. People are put in jail for reporting the actual inflation rate (instead of the "official" inflat...
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How iTunes crushed music sales - mshafrir http://money.cnn.com/interactive/technology/itunes-music-decline/ ====== mikestew The source for the chart is the RIAA (lower left, tiny gray print)? The data may be accurate, they may not, but I'll consider the source. The full article sounds a lot like a puff piece for the p...
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The Right Response to the Libra Threat - hhs https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/regulating-private-money-facebook-libra-by-katharina-pistor-and-co-pierre-georg-2019-08 ====== kashaiahyah85 Those seem like scenarios that would necessarily involve this crypto currency actually being successful. That in itself ...
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PDFKit - A PDF generation library for Node.js. - jenhsun http://pdfkit.org/ ====== jashkenas The source code is a nice read, and quite illuminating, if you've ever wanted to dig under the hood of a PDF: <https://github.com/devongovett/pdfkit/tree/master/lib> _edit:_ In particular, some of this TTF font handling s...
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Show HN: An app that models a self-driving car intersection - Kamogo https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/self-driving-car-simulator/id956632055?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4 ====== Kamogo Gifs: [http://imgur.com/a/h1RZT](http://imgur.com/a/h1RZT) Android: [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nealagarwa...](https://p...
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SQL for NoSQL: Couchbase N1QL Tutorial - porker http://query.pub.couchbase.com/tutorial/#1 ====== jchrisa This is an interactive step by step introduction to our new SQL style query language.
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How I made $40K in 16 days with a technical eBook - DVassallo https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1216175468681940992 ====== Nicksil This has been submitted a number of times in the last ~24 hours: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22024794](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22024794) [https://news.ycombinat...
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Gulf Seasfood Deformities Raise Questions Among Scientists and Fisherman - wtvanhest http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/gulf-seafood-deformities-raise-questions_n_1434268.html ====== wtvanhest I'm interested to see if other people think this may be over blown or not. In any case it is interesting.
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Solving Nim, a mísere game - peter_l_downs http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fcarc-games4 ====== Tipzntrix Your link to the rules of Nim is down. ([http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/home.pacbell.net/fran...](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/home.pacbell.net/fransg/nim.htm))
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Developer Book Club - turingbook https://henrikwarne.com/2016/11/08/developer-book-club/ ====== cableshaft We didn't introduce books to read at our company, but we did start what we call 'dev learning sessions'. Once a week, one of the developers (it cycles by name) has to prepare and present about a topic approved by...
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Ask HN: How should I set up an online script review service? - Artifex Hey HN, I'm hoping someone out there will be willing to guide me in the right direction.<p>I'm gearing up to launch a new screenwriting-related website soon. I'll be publishing many articles, but I will also be setting up a script review service,...
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C.S. Lewis on Writing - taylorbuley http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/04/c-s-lewis-on-writing.html ====== danso >> _In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you are describing. I mean, instead of telling us a thing was "terrible," describe it so that we'll be terrif...
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Updating Secure Boot dbx with fwupd and the LVFS - ohazi https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2020/08/17/updating-secure-boot-dbx-with-fwupd-and-the-lvfs/ ====== ohazi BootHole woke a lot of people up to the fact that we don't have a a well- tested approach to updating the UEFI revocation list on Linux systems that doesn't...
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The Fundamental Laws of Sofware Engineering: A Satirical Short Paper - pedrodelfino https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.07818 ====== pedrodelfino Best part: "Take these two examples of desired universal laws of software engineering: FU: every system, big and small, should have provisions that allow it to be FIXED and UPDATED...
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The Like Button Ruined the Internet - jgrahamc https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/03/how-the-like-button-ruined-the-internet/519795/?single_page=true ====== na85 Up- and downvotes did some damage, too. I'm convinced that the best way to encourage creative and engaging content is anonymity. Let the co...
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Ask HN: Prefer being tracked and seeing ads, or pay small subscription? - elamje I am curious, after seeing so many consumer tech companies in the news about data collection, if you would rather pay a small fee, (something like $1 a month) for all of the big tech companies you use that are currently &quot;free&quot; t...
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NYC scientist fired after raising questions about a DNA test gets $1M settlement - ekovarski https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/nyregion/dna-testing-nyc-medical-examiner.html ====== sophacles The people who criticized her and fired her need to be removed from their positions and barred from working in the public secto...
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Show HN: Dali – A pure-Nim indie assembler for Android dex and apk files - akavel https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4840 ====== dom96 Fun off-topic fact: the Nim forum that this announcement is hosted on is written in Nim and completely open source, give it a go: [https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum](https://github.com/ni...
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High Performance SBC Alternative to the Raspi3: Running Linux on Khadas VIM2 - wolframio https://medium.com/@tomac/from-tv-box-to-high-performance-single-board-computer-running-linux-on-the-khadas-vim2-max-5c00f6e95aa4 ====== azurit It runs an Amlogic CPU, Amlogic made a move for mainlinux support and GPU support last...
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Ask HN: Why is Markdown so difficult to work with? - libeclipse I find it&#x27;s inconsistent across services at best, and a complete pain at worst.<p>Github is one of the few places that render it beautifully. There are a few services that do this, but they never work with each other. They all decided to add their ow...
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Tech Startup Founder Says Women Are Like Men, Only Cheaper - tokenadult http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-22/tech-start-up-founder-says-women-are-like-men-only-cheaper ====== steanne not only stupid from an illegal point of view and from an offending-his-own- employees point of view, but if his talk convi...
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What will Y Combinator look like in three years? - dwynings http://areallybadidea.com/what-will-y-combinator-look-like-in-three-yea ====== aristus Someone asked this question 4 years ago today. PG joked about getting Trevor to build him a robot: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7554> ------ Samuel_Michon Not ...
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Quantum Bogosort - __hudson__ http://www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca/Issues/mn11103/QuantumBogoSort.php ====== JeffBain I'm suprised to see that popping up everywhere. I was one of the editors of that campus paper when that was written.
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How to Boil the Perfect Egg - Kaibeezy https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/23/dining/how-to-hard-boil-eggs.html ====== Kaibeezy tldr: steam 11 minutes ~~~ madacoo Which apparently yields a boiled egg with not too tough whites that has a relatively easy shell to peel.
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Zuckerberg claims top spot Vanity Fair 100, followed by Steve Jobs - tyng http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/the-vf-100-201010?currentPage=all ====== tyng Digital/Web entrepreneurs really are the new cool, claiming 6 of the top 10 spots on Vanity Fair 100. Warren Buffet is only No. 11
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Reflections on trusting SGX - darkmighty https://www.sigarch.org/reflections-on-trusting-sgx/ ====== Boulth I wonder what effect does it have on Signal's Contact Discovery [0] (is this in production yet?). [0]: [https://signal.org/blog/private-contact- discovery/](https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/)
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TLDR pages: Simplified and community-driven man pages - signa11 http://tldr.sh/ ====== JdeBP For more, see * [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166257](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166257) * [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7308852](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7308852) * [https://news.yco...
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Agile is a Sham - willvarfar http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/20054342100/agile-is-a-sham ====== plinkplonk I personally think Agile _is_ mostly a scam built around some very small nuggets of common sense wisdom, which has then been propagandized by legions of clueless methodology consultants to mediocre tea...
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Human-pig hybrid created in lab to help grow donor organs - hsnewman https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-pig-hybrid-chimera-stem-cells-experiment-mouse-rat-a7548001.html ====== ohiovr In 2019, we don't question bioethics in the news. ------ hsnewman Wasn't there a Seinfeld episode on this?
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Graveyard Keeper: How the graphics effects are made - thrower123 http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/SvyatoslavCherkasov/20181023/329151/Graveyard_Keeper_How_the_graphics_effects_are_made.php ====== gavanwoolery Note on the usage of lookup tables: Color transitions are _hard_ \- their example here looks pretty good but in ...
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Elon Musk’s New Boring Co. Faced Questions Over SpaceX Financial Ties - adrianscott https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-new-boring-co-faced-questions-over-spacex-financial-ties-11545078371 ====== jonathankoren Whoa. So he's diverting employees and equipment from investor backed SpaceX, to a side venture where he o...
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The Invisible Labor Economy Behind Pirated Japanese Comics - rockdiesel http://motherboard.vice.com/read/meet-the-scanlators ====== Torgo Something that seems to have been overlooked in the article is that in response to ubiquitous piracy and scanlations, Inuysha was released almost simultaneously in English and Jap...
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Heroku Reveals Cross-Region Followers for Disaster Mitigation - estromlund https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/disaster-mitigation#crossregion-followers ====== pvh We haven't announced cross-region followers. When we announce it, there will be an announcement. This is an internal feature we've been using for a wh...
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Forget that tired-old coffee ring effect: “Whiskey webs” are the new hotness - AdmiralAsshat https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/whiskey-webs-serve-as-fingerprints-to-distinguish-between-american-whiskeys/ ====== blaser-waffle Is this that big of a problem? Is China pumping out tons of counterfit whiskey along wit...
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House pares NASA's 2013 spending back to 1959 levels, suggests Europa mission - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2012/05/us-house-pares-nasas-2013-spending-back-to-1959-levels-potentially-forces-nasa-to-explore-europa.ars ====== unreal37 Wow. That article is eye-opening. I had no idea that Congress had so mu...
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Help Wanted: America’s love affair with amateur advice - behoove https://www.weeklystandard.com/caitrin-keiper/asking-for-a-friend-review-help-wanted ====== nimbius As an auto mechanic by trade, ive got a theory about this. People love amateur advice because they cant afford the shop rate. In the US im guessing we li...
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Is Google+ just one big SEO play? - primesuspect http://www.tmprod.com/blog/2011/is-google-just-one-big-seo-play/ ====== sippndipp I think Google+ is the glue to connect all of google services (next to search). Imagine Mail, Photos, Music, YouTube just tied together in one place. It's not about SEO.
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"If there's gold in them hills..." - gaika http://one.valeski.org/2008/10/if-theres-gold-in-them-hills.html ====== gabrielleydon Thats why you build these things before you build your product.
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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes - ColinWright http://theconversation.com/after-400-years-mathematicians-find-a-new-class-of-solid-shapes-23217 ====== gus_massa I still don't understand what the new class is. Convex polyhedral with all equal edges? Some additional symmetry? The faces ar...
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Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounders? - mlejva ====== jppope I went solo... It's more likely that you'll succeed
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Ask HN: Best Practices for Bringing Devices Through US Customs? - marymkearney Apparently a lot of folks entering the United States are being asked by Customs and Border Protection officials for the passwords to unlock their phones and laptops.<p>If you say yes, and you have the usual apps on your device, then CBP can...
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Be More Productive: Avoid Task Switching - Kop http://www.not-implemented.com/be-more-productive-avoid-task-switching/ ====== Ensorceled It's called "cognitive drift" and it's was a critical concern when I was working on medical imaging applications, there have been a number of studies on it including this google ma...
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No sessions on Hackernews? - handzhiev Every single time I want to vote or comment here I have to login again even if another browser tab is open and I am logged in there (I use the Clickpass option). Refresh does not help. Anyone else having the same problem? I'm with Chrome on Ubuntu ====== steventruong I had this...
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Something Borrowed: Kenneth Goldsmith's Controversial Conceptual Poetry - mrks_ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/05/something-borrowed-wilkinson ====== willstepp There's something hollow about this kind of art. It's too much of the intellect. I prefer the writing of someone like Cormac McCarthy - done with re...
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Tailwind: style your site without writing any CSS - dankohn1 https://jvns.ca/blog/2018/11/01/tailwind--write-css-without-the-css/ ====== shubhamjain How would have React adoption looked like if it wasn't backed by a tech giant? React propounds a very controversial idea: to put HTML inside Javascript. Of course, once y...
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Ask HN: Who “triggered” the biggest stock decline in history? - xichu Something like NatGeo Investigation Report on the Facebook stock decline. ---CR | |,, ====== pandasun Didn't Facebook break that record the other day? (Seriously, I could have sworn I read that). ~~~ xichu Twenty Sixth of July but what happe...
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Heist (Scheme in Ruby) 0.2 adds proper list support, better documentation - ionfish http://blog.jcoglan.com/2009/04/02/april-fool-area-man-releases-worlds-slowest-scheme-interpreter/ ====== wheels ...running in JRuby in VMWare on an EC2 instance for an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstraction on an abstractio...
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Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by NSA and FBI - richardowright https://www.nsa.gov/news-features/press-room/Article/2311407/nsa-and-fbi-expose-russian-previously-undisclosed-malware-drovorub-in-cybersecu/ ====== iLemming Note that "drovorub" isn't even a Russian word, "drovosek" is. It means "wo...
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Vampire myths originated with a real blood disorder - finphil https://theconversation.com/vampire-myths-originated-with-a-real-blood-disorder-140830 ====== rurban He should have least mentioned the Carmilla story, which was the origin of the Vampire story. From an porphyria autopsy report from Graz, Austria about a de...
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China's Google Maps (zoom out for best effect) - pc http://shanghai.edushi.com/ ====== jmatt Looks like SimCity. I think the look adds something to the map. It's a bit easier to parse and understand than satellite images and adds more information than a standard overhead map. For those of us who don't read Chinese...
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Yakovlevian Torque - bookofjoe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlevian_torque ====== twic What's torquing my brain is that in the diagram, the left is on the right, and the right is on the left! ~~~ Someone Left and right are defined from “1st person’s perspective”, but that’s not how medics typically look at their...
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IPhone 4 in pure CSS3 - andrew_k http://tjrus.com/iphone ====== kulkarnic Perhaps I'm missing the point: besides a cool demonstration for what CSS can do (when aided by JS), why is this a useful idea? For anything practical, would one not be better off not being a purist, and using images etc? After all, image form...
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Mt. Gox Blames Bitcoin – Core Developer Greg Maxwell Responds - charlesism http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/02/10/mt-gox-blames-bitcoin-core-developer-greg-maxwell-responds/ ======
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Microsoft Pushes IE8 With Ads That Are Actually Funny - profquail http://www.pcworld.com/article/167617/microsoft_pushes_ie8_with_ads_that_are_actually_funny.html ====== paul9290 Interesting that they are doing these commercials for browsers when only 10% of the population or less could even tell you what is and or ...
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Ask HN: How to become a manager - technological Hi everyone. I am currently working as senior technical support engineer (L3) and have like 7 years of experience in various fields like Process development, Accessibility web developer, test engineer and support engineer. How do I take next step to become a manager ? is...
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Show HN: HackerBuddy.com - illdave I built HackerBuddy.com with the idea of helping the Hacker News community get one-on-one help with fellow hackers that know their stuff. It matches up people that are good at a particular skill (Ruby on Rails, Python, beta-testing, general startup advice etc) with people that need...
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OS/2 2.0 LA - ASipos http://www.os2museum.com/wp/os2-2-0-xmas-91-edition/ ====== ASipos Also see: [https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/os220/ind...](https://www.landley.net/history/mirror/os2/history/os220/index.html)
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Jason Fried: Never Read Another Resume - seanmccann http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100601/never-read-another-resume_Printer_Friendly.html ====== tptacek Broken down to bullets: * Don't hire until you've had to endure the pain of doing the job well yourself. If you don't know how to do the job right, you don't know how...
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Words to Avoid (or Use with Care) Because They Are Loaded or Confusing - falava https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html ====== legulere I think this is a bit extreme trying to change words to adhere to your own worldview and makes real discussions impossible. There's nothing wrong e.g. with speaking abou...
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Show HN: MapMe.io, AR platform for IoT, primarily for transportation awareness - craigm26 http:&#x2F;&#x2F;MapMe.io, a AR platform for the IoT, primarily for transportation awareness. Original motivation was to create an all-software solution for the bicyclist to be more aware of something coming up from behind - as I...
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