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Why Are We Still So Fat? - JBReefer https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/health/obesity-genetics-surgery-diet.html ====== mcfunk This article is disturbingly enthusiastic about bariatric surgery, an extreme procedure with limited success and serious side-effects. The long and short of it is that we understand far too l...
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Deploying Decentralized Microservices at Certara with Hedera REST API and Docker - ycombi42 https://medium.com/hashgraph/deploying-decentralized-microservices-at-certara-with-hedera-rest-api-and-docker-bd87eb1b9d39 ====== axgodwin A great post, it's good to see how Hedera is already been applied to important industry ...
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Startup Data Trends - pitdesi http://startupdatatrends.com/ ====== joshuaxls They've open-sourced it: <https://github.com/bocoup/StartupDataTrends> ------ tbranyen We have a post on it as well on our blog: <http://weblog.bocoup.com/startup-data-trends/>
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Major University Dumps Gmail Over Security Concerns - transburgh http://mashable.com/2010/05/05/uc-davis-gmail/ ====== va_coder Your email may be less secure in the hands of a local sysadmin than with a company like Google, which has a valuable reputation to defend and sophisticated systems in place to guard your data...
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Google Is Giving Inbox Invites Out to Anyone Only for the Next Two Hours - alexbash http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/03/google-is-giving-inbox-invites-out-to-anyone-who-asks-but-only-for-the-next-two-hours/ ====== dutchbrit Just sent a random email to inbox@gmail.com as mentioned in on TechCrunch, immediately got a rep...
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Amazon AWS Outage Shows Data in the Cloud Is Not Always Safe - turrini https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-aws-outage-shows-data-in-the-cloud-is-not-always-safe/ ====== oxymoron It seems awfully odd to write a full article about this without mentioning that S3 has completely different guarantees du...
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Netflix to raise prices by 13% to 18% - jmsflknr https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/15/netflix-to-raise-prices-by-13percent-to-18percent-its-biggest-increase-ever.html ====== jeffwass Has anyone felt that Netflix’s UI has deteriorated massively? I’ve had it on appleTV for several years. It used to be really easy to browse ...
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Stephen Harper sells Canada: China can secretly sue to repeal Canadian laws - rberger http://boingboing.net/2014/09/13/stephen-harper-sells-canada-c.html ====== walterbell Previous thread: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312411](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8312411)
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Ask HN: How to distribute wildcard subdomains to different servers - NameNickHN I have a list of subdomains pointing to one server (1.2.3.4) right now.<p>1001.example.com 1002.example.com 1003.example.com 1004.example.com 1005.example.com 1006.example.com<p>I want to run the next set of subdomains on a different ser...
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Adafruit Learning System (v2.0) - taylorbuley http://learn.adafruit.com/ ====== glennos Poorly titled post, is this a Flora announcement or just a link to the product in general? Reading the page, the content fails to clearly address why this is better than their previous gen "wearable" board, the Lilypad. From what...
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Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store - Avalaxy http://www.wpcentral.com/google-microsoft-remove-youtube-windows-phone-store ====== shadowmint The Microsoft PR machine in full motion again I see. 1) Build app that clearly violates spirit and word of TOS, steals content, blocks ads....
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I am Peter Roberts, an immigration lawyer who does work for YC and startups. AMA - proberts I am excited and honored to provide (hopefully) helpful advice and information to the community. It can be tough to respond to very fact-specific questions, because relevant information often isn&#x27;t included, so the best q...
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Show HN: HastyScribe – a CLI tool to generate self-contained HTML documents - h3rald https://h3rald.com/articles/hastyscribe/ ====== h3rald Couldn't decide on whether to post the article describing the development of the tool or the actual project page... In the end I went for the article, but if you don't want to rea...
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HP printers can be remotely controlled and set on fire, researchers claim - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/hp-printers-can-be-remotely-controlled-and-set-on-fire-researchers-claim.ars ====== famousactress In a former life I worked at HP testing printer firmware. It was definitely not unheard of for...
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Ask HN: What job did you leave IT for? - JerryMouse I&#x27;ve recently been diagnosed with an illness that has left me little to no concentration and a very low level of comprehension,as such I will most likely have to leave my job as a software engineer as it&#x27;s becoming overwhelming. So my question is, if you ha...
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Colored Diamonds Are A Superconductor's Best Friend - jcr http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/06/colored-diamonds-are-a-superconductors-best-friend/ ====== jcr The mentioned paper, "Diamond Magnetometry of Superconducting Thin Films", published in "Physical Review B" can be found here: [http://www.bgu.ac.il/atom...
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Ask HN: I/O Ventures? - JCThoughtscream Out of curiosity, does anybody know what happened with I/O Ventures? Their program was supposed to kick off at the beginning of this month, but my last correspondence with them indicated that they had postponed it due to a high influx of applications. I haven't heard from them...
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Interesting Non-Software "Startup" - Wave Power Generator - davy http://www.ecogeek.org/content/view/1030/ I'm pretty sure most everyone here is (like me) interested in software startups, but I found this link and thought it would be interesting to those with entrepreneurial bent. What I found so interesting is that ...
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Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale - fogus http://lethain.com/introduction-to-architecting-systems-for-scale/ ====== 3amOpsGuy Good read. I don't think you were controversial :-) Spotted a wee typo about 1/2 way down: >> LRU works by evicting less commonly used data in preference of more frequently used ...
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Tesla Smashes Earnings And Revenue Expectations - Pasanpr http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-q1-earnings-2013-5 ====== mikeyouse A good article to help understand the massive afterhours movement: [http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/autos-tesla- idUSL2...](http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/08/autos-tesla-...
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Amazon closing LoveFiLM - piqufoh I can&#x27;t find a press release, but Amazon have just sent me an email announcing the closure of their LOVEFiLM service - inevitable post acquisition I always assumed.<p>&gt; We have very much enjoyed delivering the LOVEFiLM By Post service to you. However, over the last few years w...
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Ask HN: Multi-touch CAD Controller (New Menu designs for the iPad) - Feedback? - okstr http://blog.maideinc.com/maide-cad-control-developments-new-menu-for-t ====== viraptor Please switch the videos around... without reading the text I looked at the first video and thought "ok, that's pretty basic and seems to be ca...
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Twitter moves away from 140 characters, ditches confusing and restrictive rules - hackergirl88 http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/twitter-moves-away-from-140-characters-ditches-confusing-and-restrictive-rules/?ncid=tcdaily ====== detaro official announcement: [https://blog.twitter.com/express-even-more- in-140-character...
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Aeroflot Flight from Moscow to Havanna avoided US airspace yesterday - phreeza http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AFL150/history/20130711/1005Z/UUEE/MUHA ====== phreeza Compared to the previous days flights, which all crossed the US. Might just be turbulence though. ------ jaachan Also made a landing at L.F. Wade I...
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Who is hiring (remotely)? - sabon There have previously been "Who's hiring" type of posts. Those attracted much attention and many people either found or changed their job thanks to those posts. However almost 100% of offers were for onsite work and most of them were in Silicon Valley.<p>There's world outside of Sil...
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Comprehensive overview of New Tab alternatives - mikelennon http://newtabalternatives.com ====== J_Darnley The correct content for a new tab in a browser is a blank page.
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Amazon cloud outage takes down Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest, & more - amnigos http://venturebeat.com/2012/06/29/amazon-outage-netflix-instagram-pinterest/ ====== meiji From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers." No it doesn't....
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Google Compute Engine MPI Latency - gpoort http://blog.rescale.com/mpi-latency-on-google-compute-engine/ ====== montecarl This isn't that interesting or surprising. 100-200 microseconds is the latency of all ethernet that I have ever seen. Infiniband or other high performance networks can achieve about 10-100x lower l...
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Only Working When You Feel Like It? - thecombjelly http://thintz.com/essays/work-when-you-feel-like-it ====== eavc The big lesson here that might be more pragmatic is to avoid quasi-working, the state of half-working that feels like full-bore work without actually getting much done. ~~~ stretchwithme I recently cam...
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Tetris Hack on MIT's Green Building - ilamont http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2012/tetris/ ====== albertzeyer If you like this, take a look at Blinkenlights: <http://blinkenlights.net/> Esp. watch the videos from the original Blinkenlights installation in Berlin and the Arcade one in Paris. ------ lukev I'd lik...
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Ask HN: Project ideas on Distributed/Cloud Computing - praveenaj Hi, I am not sure whether it is appropriate to ask this kind of question on HN, but since I couldn't get any favorable response anywhere, I decided to throw this on to my fellow innovative hackers! :)<p>What should be the next big thing for distributed...
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The Great Fish Market Migration of 2018 - ValentineC http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2018/10/08/the-great-fish-market-migration-of-2018/ ====== andrenotgiant Here are more photos of the new market: [https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/photos/in- pictures-t...](https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/photos/in-pictures...
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Nginx 0mq transport layer for communicating with upstream servers - wlll https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_zeromq ====== alberth How is this different than Mongrel2? Wasn't Mongrel2 created solely because NGINX didn't support ZeroMQ. @ZedShaw, thoughts - comments? ~~~ alexgartrell I was one of the first committers o...
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Show HN: SlickShare - Share links browser to browser and email effortlessly. - redmaverick https://github.com/karthikkottapalli/SlickShare ====== NirDremer Looks interesting. This might be helpful for some: [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slickshare/adhdcbp...](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/s...
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Ask HN: How do you come up with ideas for beer money? - napolux I usually read a lot about &quot;you should solve a problem&quot; for SaaS apps or startups.<p>But how do you come up with ideas for apps&#x2F;website etc... if you want to just get 2&#x2F;300$ &#x2F; month with no other needs?<p>It&#x27;s all about littl...
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Japanese researchers make brain tissues from stem cells - dhimes http://www.physorg.com/news145171200.html ====== wensing At first I found this positively fascinating, but then ... _Embryonic stem cells are harvested by destroying a viable embryo, a process that some people find unacceptable._ ~~~ lunchbox This i...
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Former SoundCloud Founders Launch Subscription E-Bike Service - atlasunshrugged https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/21/former-soundcloud-founders-launch-e-bike-subscription-service-backed-by-blueyard/ ====== atlasunshrugged I think this is brilliant, anyone who has been in Berlin knows that having your bike stolen is not a...
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Drug 'reverses' ageing in animal tests - abhi3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-39354628 ====== nabla9 They should test these with old volunteers first. Life expectancy of 90-year old is 4-5 years depending on gender. If the drug increases the life quality it's probably worth the risk even if it increases changes of ...
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ContextFree.js & Algorithm Ink: Making Art with Javascript - raju http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/contextfreejs-algorithm-ink-making-art-with-javascript/ ====== PidGin128 This is poorly related, however: Knowing that I've been to this page ages ago, but without a sense of how long, I am reminded that pages without a d...
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College or UnCollege? - sbashyal http://hacksandthoughts.posterous.com/college-or-uncollege ====== kls _I find it particularly amusing that two of the most vocal advocates of dropping out of college are Peter Thiel and Mike Arrington—both of whom completed Stanford Law degrees. College dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Z...
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File Destructor: Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer - kevinyun http://www.xnet.se/fd/ ====== kup0 While I initially thought this was funny- it's incredibly unethical... not that ethics really matters to a growing number of people anymore.
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HDCP master key allegedly posted - m0nastic http://pastebin.com/kqD56TmU ====== js2 Here's a paper discussing how this key could have been derived: <http://www.cs.rice.edu/~scrosby/pubs/hdcppaper.ps> <http://www.cypherpunks.ca/~iang/pubs/hdcp-drm01.pdf> Here's the fun bit: "We observe that attackers can exploit a ...
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Can't Sleep App – Android Beta - thomasdickson https://cantsleepapp.com/androidbeta/ ====== thomasdickson Sign up to our Android beta program to get early access to Can't Sleep and a free one year annual subscription.
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Copay, An Open Source Bitcoin Multi-signature Wallet - maraoz https://copay.io/ ====== dang This looks like it might be interesting, and didn't get much attention. You're welcome to repost it as a Show HN. If you like, email us (hn@ycombinator.com) and we'll be happy to explain more.
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Make your bootstrapped startup work - Lessons from the trenches - ibagrak http://codercofounder.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/make-your-bootstrapped-startup-work/ ====== fookyong Sorry to sound confrontational but: Why should we listen to startup advice from a startup that is still just a landing page and a mailing list...
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Amazon wins FAA approval for Prime Air drone delivery fleet - heshiebee https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/amazon-prime-now-drone-delivery-fleet-gets-faa-approval.html ====== zozin Drone delivery is going to happen, but most people aren't going to benefit from it in the immediate future. Drones are too loud and the self-...
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Ask HN: Modern Java tutorials? - OwlHuntr I have to, unfortunately, plunge into the world of academic Java development. I am wondering if there are any modern Java tutorials akin to _why's ruby or python the hard way. I just don't want to read oracle docs solely. ====== squidsoup In my experience most of the best Ja...
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Google Researchers Exploring Social Networking, Possibly for Google Me? - jolie http://mashable.com/2010/07/13/google-social-slide-deck/ ====== GiraffeNecktie A deck with 216 slides? Yikes. Those guys should come work in my government department, they'll feel right at home. I'm not sure that the separation of groups ...
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Halt the use of facial-recognition technology until it is regulated - hardmaru https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02514-7 ====== edejong Regulation proposal: all video data and derivatives (face recognition) of public areas must be publicly available. Sort of GPL-like. The resulting effects will force people t...
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YouTube only needs one spam flag to remove a video - phwd http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/37118/40 ====== mikecane I don't think this is true. I've flagged several videos as spam -- they were re-uploads of other videos to capture ad fees -- and have never seen a single one of them removed. The speed of this taked...
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List of inventors killed by their own inventions - jeremynixon http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_inventors_killed_by_their_own_inventions ====== ubersubtle Inventing can be dangerous work! Those who push the limits can change the world if things work out - but sometimes things don't, in the worst of ways...
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Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address - sds111 https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/critical-tor-flaw-leaks-users-real-ip-address-update-now/ ====== mirimir > TorMoil, as the flaw has been dubbed by its discoverer, is triggered when > users click on links that begin with file:// rather than ...
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Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend - skynebula https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/13/opinion/sunday/Silicon-Valley-Is-Not-Your-Friend.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur ====== 2close4comfort It just needed you to sell your information and for you to buy its shiny things. You were never a friend you are the prod...
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Ask YC: Friday Morning pre-release testers for my web app. - izak30 I have a hosted CMS, and I would like feedback on the functionality and usability and design.<p>This is in pre-release state.<p>It is an in-line CMS, so your administratin looks like your frontend, and it acts like microsoft word on steroids. It bu...
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Ask HN: What are your New Year's resolutions? - justswim I&#x27;m thinking about making some physical ones (getting more flexible, improving fitness) as well as some social ones (focus on building a better relationship &#x2F; dating life). What are some others? ====== LinuxBender About 30+ years ago, I made a resoluti...
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These ads will make you laugh or cry: Digiday Video Awards winners - Kittykn http://www.thememo.com/2016/01/21/digiday-video-awards-2106-adverts-that-make-you-cry-advertising/ ====== rendx People. Reminder: You are watching ads. In this case, completely voluntary. Stay away from this stuff. It's highly addictive, man...
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Ask HN: I need someone who is 100 times better than me - tootlol Basically I am a programming novice and I am wondering if I can work with some great programmers. What is the best way to get such opportunity? ====== tsewlliw 1) Open source 2) Got Money? 3) Got passion to work for next to nothing on something that ...
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Bradley Manning: MEPs' open letter to the US government - asto http://www.wikileaks-forum.com/index.php/topic,6479.msg25280.html#msg25280 ====== asto It's amazing what the US has turned into. US citizens are subjected to torture by the government and its agencies, citizens are put through hell and treated like crimi...
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Google Shopping: Upload Your Content Without Watermarks or Be Banned - johnnyg http://pastebin.com/TN2tzRnE ====== millzlane Let let me explain why one might watermark their photos. I sell aftermarket car parts for JDM vehicles. Most of these products don't have images from the manufacturer. Why? Well there lots of re...
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Back to school bill: pencil case, pens, rubber … and a £785 iPad - edward https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/09/back-to-school-bill-ipad-technology-parents ====== shams93 Android must be lacking professional curricula software. You would think Amazon would get more aggressive in the education arena, they m...
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A Primer on Bezier Curves: finding y, given x - TheRealPomax https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo/#yforx ====== TheRealPomax A small but important update to the Primer: after seven years there is now finally a section that explains how you can find a y coordinate, given an x coordinate, for functions that "look like the...
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ColourPop – Match the Colour, Pop the Bubble - danmunchie My first published game. Free on Android and iPhone.<p>The goal is to pop bubbles only when they match the colour of the falling bubble on the left.<p>Seeking critical feedback and advice for future game releases. Don&#x27;t hold back :) ====== danmunchie Downl...
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Mathematician Measures the Repulsive Force Within Polynomials - sandwall https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-math-measures-the-repulsive-force-within-polynomials-20200514/ ====== jefftk The title reads like a joke, but apparently it's not ------ LolWolf Wow, this is an absolutely lovely presentation of that result. Hu...
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Why Android-phones will never be at par with the iPhone (but still win) - mvip http://viktorpetersson.com/2010/11/06/why-android-phones-will-never-be-at-par-with-the-iphone-but-still-win/ ====== AndrewDucker Odd. He claims that almost no phones are running 2.2, when it was 28% back in September: [http://www.androidce...
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Tor On the Mac: Not as Hard as It Looks - twampss http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/03/tor-on-the-mac-not-as-hard-as-it-looks/ ====== smoody "Due to the large number of relays, the original source of the traffic (you) is virtually invisible." You gotta love the word 'virtually.' It almost always means "take out the wor...
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ReactiveMongo Roadmap: The Non-Blocking Scala Driver for Mongo on its way to 1.0 - sgodbillon http://stephane.godbillon.com/2013/01/17/announcing-reactivemongo-roadmap-reactivemongo-0.8.html ====== dkhenry There is way to little in the way of Examples and Documentation to really make this a useful announcement. Why ...
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Ask HN: Have You Ever Hired Developers to Work on Your Personal Projects? - marktangotango I&#x27;ve always had this idea in the back of my mind that I could find some talent on vworker or whatever to work on the miriad of personal projects I&#x27;ve wanted to do. I&#x27;ve never actually done it though. Have you done...
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Show HN: Tulip Indicators – Library of Technical Analysis Functions - codeplea https://tulipindicators.org ====== codeplea I have been working on this for some time (as part of a larger project), and published it as open-sourced a couple days ago. I'm wondering if there is any interest, and I'm hoping for some feedbac...
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Amber, a new tool to prevent linkrot on websites, is out in beta - cllns http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/02/amber-a-new-tool-to-prevent-linkrot-on-websites-is-out-in-beta/ ====== cllns Link to the project homepage: [http://amberlink.org/](http://amberlink.org/) GitHub repos: [https://github.com/berkmancenter?query=am...
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You can't parse [X]HTML with regex. - alexbosworth http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 ====== nailer You could shorten this to 'regexs are for strings, xml is tree shaped'. This is the reason etree is now a standard type in Python.
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Hacking Hacker News Headlines - pcr910303 https://metamarkets.com/2011/hacking-hacker-news-headlines/ ====== throwGuardian Another variable to consider: I don't be this for a fact, but I believe HN has some sort of weighing parameter that might affect your submission: like if your past submissions and comments are upv...
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GitHub for Windows (official) - dchristiansen http://windows.github.com/ ====== dchristiansen And the Github.com blog post - <https://github.com/blog/1127-github-for- windows> ------ dchristiansen Here's an introduction from Phil Haack - [http://haacked.com/archive/2012/05/21/introducing-github- for...](http://haac...
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How to set up your own Certification Authority (CA) (2013) - Karunamon https://jamielinux.com/articles/2013/08/act-as-your-own-certificate-authority/ ====== vruiz certified[1] has been a great for me so far in this matter. [1][https://github.com/rcrowley/certified](https://github.com/rcrowley/certified) ------ Kar...
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Remote Working Niche-YouTubers Traveling Together - hoppingaround http://www.createabroad.org ====== hoppingaround There's quite a few startups popping up in the remote working/co-living community. However, they all cater to a certain crowd. Why not expand to other niches? Create Abroad is for YouTubers, actors, film...
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Lilliputian Nectar - USB 55000mWh fuel cell - baq http://semiaccurate.com/2013/01/08/lilliputian-systems-makes-a-fuel-cell-on-silicon-wafers/ ====== stephengillie 7.5w of heat output -- too bad we can't use a peltier/seebeck device[1], or a stirling engine[2], to generate additional electricity from this. [1] <http...
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How Uber Used Secret Greyball Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide - alphonsegaston https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/technology/uber-greyball-program-evade-authorities.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0 ====== joantune The q...
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The Supreme Court has fundamentally changed software patents - creamyhorror http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2014/09/07/the-software-patent-problem-not-emphasizing-the-technological-contribution-of-the-innovation/id=51028/ ====== creamyhorror What I find interesting in the comments section is the assertion by some of the p...
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After 20 Years, Maryland Man’s Mac IIci Finally Dies - _pius http://cultofmac.com/after-20-years-maryland-mans-mac-iici-finally-dies/12420 ====== mahmud My condolences to the man and his family. We all know how it feels to lose a beloved machine. An evil conspiracy of an ex-girlfriend and, hopefully soon, ex-mother, h...
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Ask HN: Clever ways to run a media-heavy website on a budget? - wild_preference I&#x27;ve been taking a break from working to relax and visit some friends in a few countries. So I don&#x27;t have a lot of money, but with my newfound free time, I&#x27;ve been inspired to take a shot at a few ideas I&#x27;ve always want...
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Delivery to Mr Assange - follow a package to Julian Assange in real-time - gori http://bitnik.org/assange/ ====== kfullert I'm sure sending parcels to an embassy which has an X-Ray representation that could potentially by the same as a bomb or similar is a really good idea, and isn't any kind of risk at all ...
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You've Built a Great Technology, Now What? (A Dilemma) - dpapathanasiou http://thecodist.com/fiche/thecodist/article/youve-built-a-great-technology-now-what-my-dilemma ====== gibsonf1 I think he meant to say Quandry as he has multiple options instead of dilemma ------ dpapathanasiou I can empathize with this quote:...
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The top 10 lies of entrepreneurs - brlittle http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/01/the_top_ten_lie_1.html ====== xirium From the article: "All we have to do is get 1% of the market." There's two fallacies in this argument. The first is that getting 1% is sufficient. The second that getting 1% is possible. I've seen th...
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Is it better to burn out or to fade away? - pclark http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/194694/is-it-better-to-burn-out-or-to-fade-away-kurt-cobain-vs-billy-corgan/ ====== rdl I feel horrible for thinking this, and it sets up a lot of bad incentives, but it's probably the case that Aaron Swartz will be ultimately more famo...
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Books for Product Managers - craigkerstiens https://www.kennorton.com/essays/books-for-product-managers.html ====== vewnew Thanks for sharing this! I would also recommend reading "The Startup Owner's Manual" by Steve Blank.
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XSV – A fast CSV toolkit in Rust - mseri https://github.com/BurntSushi/xsv ====== burntsushi Author here. I was really hoping to get binaries for Windows/Mac/Linux available before sharing it with others, but clearly I snoozed. I do have them available for Linux though, so you don't have to install Rust in order to tr...
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Startup School 2013 - Facebook's Group - ChrisCinelli https://www.facebook.com/groups/705664592796188/ ====== seiji How do we get around the signup wall? The site looks pretty shady and I don't want to give it my personal information. ~~~ alex1 Facebook looks shady? ~~~ ChrisCinelli It's a trolling comment ;-) ----...
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Google+ invites friends without asking - mittermayr Google+ just let me know I can open an account now with my Gmail/domain e-mail, and I did. It started recommending people, which I thought was interesting, since I didn't give permission to use my address book. I added them to circles anyway, only to learn (and again...
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5 Useful Tricks You Didn't Know for Git - tonatiuh https://densitylabs.io/blog/5-useful-tricks-you-didn%27t-know-for-git ====== blakesterz Those are pretty handy! I use git every single day, and have for about 6 or 7 years now. I still don't feel like I understand it well. I'm no expert, there's a million things it do...
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Show HN: Katib – A Markdown Editor for Arabic, Urdu, Farsi and Hebrew - aiaf http://katibapp.com/ ====== baltcode How do you put in diacritics (tashkil)? Can you use a regular English keyboard and do phonetic transliteration? ~~~ aiaf That is possible under Mac if you use the "Arabic QWERTY" keyboard. See this link...
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Today, I am announcing an announement - the_unknown It is time for an end to the &quot;I am writing to you today to announce....&quot; or the &quot;Today, I am announcing...&quot; intro. Please make your announcement, tell us how great it is and how our lives will be better now that your product&#x2F;service&#x2F;ide...
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How to be an Indispensable Programmer - kennethchu http://www.farbeyondprogramming.com/2010/07/41-how-to-be-an-indispensable-programmer ====== frossie Weird, weird list. Smile? Be a friend? Eh? Is this a social club? My list is a lot shorter: (a) write lots of good code out of personal inclination (rather than bein...
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How Safe Browsing Works in Firefox - ashitlerferad http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/posts/how-safe-browsing-works-in-firefox/ ====== hugefaggot Cookies set by the Safe Browsing servers to protect the service from abuse are stored in a separate cookie jar so that they are not mixed with reg...
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Why I won't be applying for Y Combinator - kd5bjo http://haleret.posterous.com/why-i-wont-be-applying-for-ycombinator ====== towndrunk The title makes it sound like there is a problem with Y Combinator when in fact, he is just not ready to apply. Not much of a post really.
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New Zealand reinstates coronavirus restrictions - SpicyLemonZest https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/11/world/new-zealand-restrictions-intl-scli/index.html ====== blaser-waffle Yeah was wondering why they were so self-congratulatory when they were trumpeting their 0-cases. Either they're missing them (not testing, etc), or th...
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1099 workers and the sharing economy - aml183 http://www.arilewis.com/1099-workers-and-the-sharing-economy ====== paulhauggis All of these restrictions on businesses will only make it that much more difficult for a small business owner to survive. The big businesses love it because it means that much less competitio...
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Dear Reddit Employees: No Desire to Move? Let’s Talk - zvanness https://www.odesk.com/blog/2014/10/dear-reddit-employees-desire-move-lets-talk/ ====== carlosdp This article misses a big point on remote vs local: culture. After reading all of the articles about remote work on HN, I thought it was awesome. But I inte...
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Using Photographs to Enhance Videos of a Static Scene - sarosh http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htm ====== marclar Wow. Amazing work -- congratulations :) ------ keefe I wonder how long rendering time was ~~~ chrisbroadfoot 5 minutes per frame
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A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012) - adgasf https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/completeness-anything-csharp-can-do/ ====== danite I used to be a big Haskell programmer. While I still love the language, I've really come around to the idea that strictly evaluated functional languages like F# or O...
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Ask PG: Can't flag or downvote anymore - bhavin Just realized I am unable to downvote a comment or flag a post anymore. Is there a change in threshold/policy for that? ====== GFischer I'm not PG but I remember reading that it was a sliding scale based on the average karma... so if your karma grows slower than the to...
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No. 1 state for female entrepreneurs is Texas: Study - amyjess https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2019/01/15/texas-no-1-us-forfemale-entrepreneurs-new-study ====== burlesona Not too surprising. The major cities in Texas are very diverse, dynamic places, with a lot of bootstrapping/entrepreneurship in the cul...
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