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Ask HN: How to Multitask Effectively? - nelliprashanth I have full time job. I spend my free time during the weekdays and weekends on my side projects. But I am finding it difficult to progress effectively in both of the areas.<p>Has anybody solved similar issues if yes how should I solve it. ====== yokaze So, your "f...
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We got a takedown notice from LifeShield for our positive review - adulau http://www.pskl.us/wp/?p=722 ====== nicksergeant LifeShield is a horrible company. They've been a horrible company ever since their name changed from "InGrid". I originally purchased my system when they were InGrid about 6 years ago. When I bo...
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Ask HN: What's your preferred development stack? - at-fates-hands Just about every day a new Javascript framework emerges, or a responsive design framework, or a new programming language. Each one has its own hype and various companies jump on and off the bandwagon (GO and Dart comes to mind right away). Trying to k...
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Dogs of Character - Hooke http://www.vqronline.org/profiles-articles/2016/03/dogs-character ====== petepete An interesting read, but I'm with the author in that those 'desired' breed characteristics are no longer relevant to almost all owners. > Some liked one another just fine, but others might get into gruesome, > ...
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Electrode: A universal react/node application platform by Walmart Labs - workingBen https://medium.com/walmartlabs/introducing-electrode-an-open-source-release-from-walmartlabs-14b836135319 ====== kory Here's a link to the basic boilerplate, if you'd like to see what the code looks like: [https://github.com/electrode-...
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Is this even legal? See anyone's Real-Time Analytics - titusblair https://www.nachoanalytics.com/ ====== nachodaddy I'm the founder of Nacho Analytics, and I can confirm it's 100% legal. Love the question, though. We're not hacking into anyone's Google Analytics account or intercepting their javascript tracking - it'...
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Should RescueTime Help Get You a Job at your Favorite Company? - bfioca http://blog.rescuetime.com/2011/02/24/should-rescuetime-help-get-you-a-job/ ====== mckoss Thanks for posting this straw-man, Brian [disclosure - I'm an investor in RescueTime, and talked to Brian about this idea earlier]. If I might kick off thi...
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BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen at last releases Chia cryptocurrency whitepaper - euphemized https://decrypt.co/7793/bram-cohen-at-last-releases-his-chia-network-green-paper ====== pretfood "“proof of space and time”—an alternative to the energy-guzzling proof of work that underpins networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum th...
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SCO Reboots, Lawyers Rejoice - sutro http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3728201/SCO+Plans+Rebound+Thanks+to+100M+Lifeline.htm ====== sarosh I think there are more then a few lawyers who are groaning at this turn of events. Sometimes market forces don't always do the 'right' thing... ------ noonespecia...
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Ideal Co-founder word cloud according to Hacker News Google Docs spreadsheet - osipov http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/files/thumbnails/ca1b9068-013a-11df-901b-000255111976.wm.png ====== dkokelley Top words (so far): Business, design, marketing, technical, skills, web.
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MasterCard will approve purchases by scanning your face - galapago http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/01/technology/mastercard-facial-scan/ ====== MichaelCrawford Thats why I now wear a ski mask when I go shopping.
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Hack a meal in 10 minutes or less. No ramen allowed - rokhayakebe what is your best Hacked meal in 10 minutes or less. No ramen allowed ====== brk The options are endless... My wife and I both work, I do 99% of the cooking, often late at night with a less-than-stocked selection of ingredients. A couple of ideas... ...
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Automated Bitcoin Escrow - lukashed https://coinguard.org/ ====== jdlshore Sorry to be a downer, but there's a typo on your front page which immediately turned me off: "Let's face it ADD COMMA HERE conducting a bitcoin transaction on the internet can be risky, and having to trust a total stranger can be scary." Aw...
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Niall Ferguson: The Destructive Power of Social Networks - SQL2219 https://www.advisorperspectives.com/articles/2018/10/29/niall-ferguson-the-destructive-power-of-social-networks?bt_ee_preview=uuW%2F%2FJJlE46SkhT2eumuO7xSWp3EJFpELCDdlvU6FM%2FbKkDdyn4h33FR52aqQqJC&bt_ts_preview=1540867238596&bt_ee=Y9ZOa3IixfWEtQ1RDNtBy...
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Hackers can trick self-driving cars into taking evasive action - ikeboy http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/07/hackers-trick-self-driving-cars-lidar-sensor ====== detaro Probably possible with the radar based distance-keeping/collision avoidance assistance things of modern cars as well. "Only" slams the b...
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​Why Penn and Teller need each other - kposehn http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-penn-teller-need-each-other/ ====== hyp0 > 'Look, I made a hat where there never was a hat.' I mean, that just pretty > much summarizes anybody who makes something artistic. > "The joy of it is, there was nothing there, and now something t...
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The problems with HTML5 audio - skybrian http://cromwellian.blogspot.com/2011/05/ive-been-having-twitter-back-and-forth.html ====== micheljansen This is true, but that is not to say solutions are not on their way. From this script that was submitted yesterday (<https://gist.github.com/9c4955e5a3662e4cd5e1>): <https...
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"PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization" - DavidChouinard http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html ====== timdellinger I'll suggest an improved title for your submission: "PR is the news equivalent of search engine optimization" (2005)
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Inside Stripe - px http://www.fastcompany.com/1813087/stripe-startup-paypal-google-checkout-peter-thiel-elon-musk?partner=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fastcompany%2Fheadlines+%28Fast+Company+Headlines%29 ====== PStamatiou Stripe has been amazing for us. We've even gotten emails from...
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The 'Samsung Was the Real Winner' Theory - shawndumas http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/08/31/the-samsung-was-the-real-winner-theory ====== uvTwitch It would be nice if his flippant and biased opinion was backed up with any sort of supporting evidence whatsoever.
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Just finish it - pknerd http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2012/02/19/just-finish-it/ ====== rob_zim As a habitual 'starter' I think an important step in reaching 'finished' is to pick a domain where you have sufficient experise. If too much learning or experimentation will be required the project has the potential to ...
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Ask HN: How to persuade the CEO to remain focus on his role - alanmorph Hello HN,<p>The CEO at my startup is a great guy with solid salesmanship and communication skill.<p>However he&#x27;s neglecting his role of making contracts and relationships with 3rd parties and is discretely &quot;communicating&quot; with int...
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WHO study on Covid-19: We estimated that the median of estimated R0 is 5.7 - paganel https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/7/20-0282_article ====== Endlessly If R0 is truly 5.7 - roughly 82.46% of the population must become immune before “herd immunity” kicks in. ((R0 − 1)/R0) is known as the “herd immunity threshold”...
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Ask HN: Should I approach poorly made web sites with better designs? - chrisshroba I&#x27;m a college student and would love some extra money, and I have some experience with web development. Do you think it would be worthwhile to approach small companies and venues whose web sites appear outdated and poorly mainta...
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Google Wallet is here and it looks awesome | Front Side Bus - matteodallombra http://www.frontsidebus.net/2011/09/19/google-wallet-is-here-and-it-looks-awesome/ ====== albahk Its a great step for NFC adoption in the US but permit me to brag a little by showing you the NFC-payment system in Hong Kong (Octopus Card) whi...
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Using Jupyter Notebooks for SysAdmin, CloudOps and DevOps Workflows - rb808 http://www.informaticslab.co.uk/process/2017/05/08/jupyter-for-sysadmin-devops-cloudops-workflows.html ====== rb808 I really like this idea - notebooks are a nice hybrid between scripts and command lines. I've seen a few mentions around the w...
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John Baez Responds To Eliezer Yudkowsky Interview On Existential Risks - bermanoid http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/04/24/what-to-do/ ====== jeffcoat Seeing Baez mention Yudokowsky is a bit surreal -- it's a bit like Amazon talking about the book-selling startup I'm totally planning to launch someday. If th...
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Clojure: A Lisp that wants to spread - simonpure https://simongray.github.io/essays/spread.html ====== tensor Startup time isn't what is holding the language back. In my opinion it's: 1\. Tooling. You end up spending way more time getting your tooling setup than it should be. 2\. Difficulty in learning. 3\. Clear bes...
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ABCD study enrollment done, announces opportunities for scientific engagement - myinnerbanjo https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/abcd-study-completes-enrollment-announces-opportunities-scientific-engagement ====== josephagoss Doesn't everything change the structure of a kids brain? What experiences would cau...
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Google to train 2M Indian Android developers - drdoom https://thestack.com/world/2016/07/11/google-to-train-2-million-indian-android-developers/ ====== alansmitheebk Seems like that would translate into lower salaries and / or less work for Android developers in the US and Europe...
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Ask HN: How did you learn another spoken language? - ramoz ====== yorwba The simplest way is to sign up for in-person lessons, do your homework and keep attending until you are fluent. In addition or even as an alternative, there are a few things you can study on your own: 1\. Phonology. Learn the International Phone...
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The outlook for Bay Area startup space in 2017 - jtbed https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/10/the-outlook-for-bay-area-startup-space-in-2017/ ====== jedberg I still don't understand why software startups get offices today. I don't see any value in pissing away half my capital enriching a landlord when there are perfectly g...
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Mathematicians Catch a Pattern by Figuring Out How to Avoid It - otoburb https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-catch-a-pattern-by-figuring-out-how-to-avoid-it-20191125/ ====== DavidSJ I was confused by this article. It says that for every k, then all sufficiently large sets have an arithmetic progression of le...
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Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags - franze https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.xml?showone=Optional_Tags#Optional_Tags ====== kgtm Maybe it will make more sense once it fully sinks in, but I think in general it is a mistake to make developers think about when and where certain things can be...
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Amazon Instant Video on Xbox 360 - joshstrange http://amazon.com/gp/video/ontv/xbox ====== mrsteveman1 I have an Xbox 360, I actually like it a lot. All these nice capabilities are available now on the Xbox, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu, etc. Even some cable companies are offering the use of the...
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White House calls for cell phone 'unlocking' - anigbrowl http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323494504578340623936989386.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories#articleTabs%3Darticle ====== anigbrowl The WSJ story just summarizes the outcome of the recent petition, but the comments thereon are hilarious/depressing...
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Why Goldman and Pritzker Sank Millions into a Startup Before Suing It for Fraud - jamix https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-goldman-and-pritzker-sank-millions-into-a-startup-before-suing-it-for-fraud-1516881601 ====== jamix > With guaranteed upside, investors agreed to earmark $225 million—nearly half > of the equity inv...
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Show HN: ProtectedText.com - The safest site on the web for storing your text - mojuser http://www.protectedtext.com/#a ====== bowerbird this'll be useful for people who do not have their own site, where they can put files in a password-protected directory. -bowerbird ------ vadvi this is pretty cool! is there a len...
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Why It’s OK to Block Ads - __Joker http://blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/2015/10/why-its-ok-to-block-ads/ ====== makecheck I think that the ability to filter out content is a basic right that should be _built-in_ to any Internet application, not forced to be an "add-on" and vilified by being seen as synonymous with att...
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Bringing cron workflows to distributed systems - dwhitena https://medium.com/pachyderm-data/pachyderm-1-6-periodic-job-execution-access-control-advanced-statistics-extended-ui-and-more-f3a975867300 ====== detaro Please use the original title when submitting something to HN. [https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines...
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Taming Callback Pyramids in AnuglarJS App Using Async/Await - prabhatjha https://engineering.wootric.com/taming-callback-pyramids-in-our-angularjs-app-using-async/await ====== sharkenstein Are there any performance penalizations because of this? The code for the state machine looks very complex and I'm curious about w...
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Make a Pseudoscope (2005) - mattbierner https://pseudoscope.blogspot.com ====== dandare I was always wondering, why don't we have periscope windows? What I imagine is a "light intake" on a roof, from which the light is concentrated into a straight long NARROW tube that takes it to an underground flat where the light ...
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Analysis of a Kubernetes Hack - jc_sec https://medium.com/handy-tech/analysis-of-a-kubernetes-hack-backdooring-through-kubelet-823be5c3d67c ====== terom kubeadm seems to configure the kubelet with `--authorization-mode=Webhook`, which prevents the use of the exec API by unauthenticated users: $ curl -...
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Ask HN: How to get into Data Science as a hobby? - jxm262 I&#x27;ve been programming for about 4 years now (full-stack web) and had a couple previous years doing Database related work (PLSQL, Oracle apps).<p>After taking a few coursera classes on the subject I&#x27;m don&#x27;t know where to turn now. I had a few c...
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Ask HN: What are words that you cannot spell without a spell checker? - tenpoundhammer ====== tenpoundhammer Seperate and reccommendation (spelled wrong for context) are the ones I get wrong the most.
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OLPC's a con - former insider - edw519 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/16/krstic_olpc/ ====== mechanical_fish _"I’ve thought for a while that sending laptops to developing countries is simply the 21st century equivalent of sending bibles to the colonies," adds Python language author Guido van Rossum in the comm...
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Samsung Group Is Doing a Cozy Merger - dsri http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-07-01/samsung-group-is-doing-a-cozy-merger ====== treme Considering Samsung's been paying off justices & politicians for decades, it's very unlikely that they will lose any sort of legal battle in Korea. About a decade ago, the chi...
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It’s the future - prostoalex https://medium.com/@boopathi/it-s-the-future-7a4207e028c2 ====== angersock This is the pure distillation of everything I hate about front-end development right now, especially as presented by posts on HN and meetups. Look upon my frameworks, ye mighty, and despair. I can't really blame t...
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Show HN: Bit of News - sinzone http://www.bitofnews.com/news/ ====== MojoJolo Awesome! Hi guys, I'm the creator of TextTeaser API that was used by Bit of News. :) I first thought that bitofnews is just a bot in Reddit. I'm really surprised that this is now a full blown website/app. Thanks for Bit of News for using t...
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Five Chrome extensions to get the most out of Hacker News - czzarr http://www.slideshare.net/stanislasm/hacker-news-15387250 ====== sergiotapia Here are the extensions for those who don't want to load Slideshare (it's kind of heavy on slow connections): [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr/ohmamcbkcmfal....
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Lumnify – an interesting project that helps you hire the best developers - stanislavb https://lumnify.com/ ====== throwaway_374 This is a very welcome and refreshing change to the usual "lets rip off old ACMICPC and Computing Olympiad O(N) dynamic programming problems and sell them off to gullible lazy recruiters". Ye...
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How many ways can you bow in Japan? - JacobAldridge http://www.slate.com/id/2244063/ ====== patio11 _Why is the car company called Toyota, if its founding family goes by the name Toyoda? The former is more auspicious. The written form of Toyota requires eight brush strokes—as opposed to 10 for Toyoda—and eight is co...
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Google created a fake pizza brand to test creative strategies for YouTube ads - CrazedGeek https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/20/google-doctor-fork/ ====== drdeadringer This reminds me of a hotel that elected to advertise its own "Room Service Pizza" as a local commercial business. It went something like this... A given ...
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Show HN: GiLA – Visualizing how issue labels are used in GitHub projects - softmodeling http://atlanmod.github.io/gila/ ====== joksnet "You are accessing from an HTTPS connection and our service is located in an HTTP server." What? ~~~ softmodeling In short, this is the sad life of researchers in Software Engineer...
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New Report Looks at Trends in Mobile Continuous Integration - awilson820 https://ship.io/the-state-of-mobile-development-ios-vs-android-in-2015/ ====== timrosenblatt Is "more frequent commits" really a good thing? ------ amberkaplan Great stuff!
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Lisp as an Alternative to Java (1999) - nwhitfield1 http://norvig.com/java-lisp.html ====== lisper This article appears on HN on a regular basis, so I thought people might be interested in a bit of historical trivia: the reason this article is called "Lisp as an Alternative to Java" instead of some other language is t...
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Using Sleeper Cells to Load Test Microservices - weirdedhimself https://www.sumologic.com/2015/06/22/sleeper-cells-for-microservices/ ====== devendra +1
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Read deleted comments on Reddit - handwashand http://decomment.com/ ====== avinassh An alternative solution which I regularly use: [http://uneddit.com](http://uneddit.com) It has a bookmarklet and activating on any Reddit thread will load the deleted/removed comments. ------ rfotino Very little information on the si...
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This guy rap-pitched his product and got viral - akubonin https://twitter.com/ProductHunt/status/927611573824241664 ====== akubonin This guy from Berlin invented a music app and created a rap-pitch video, where he is using his app and rapping about his project. And doing it not only fun, but also rather sharp and stra...
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What do you call the lead developer's offsider? - singingfish I just realised that my resume needs to be updated, because the project I&#x27;ve been working on has hit a major milestone. An amateur computer programmer done good, I&#x27;m a subcontractor for one of the big guys. Basically I&#x27;m the principal con...
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JuicyDrop – Winamp Music Visualization with JavaScript and Canvas - auchenberg http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/juicydrop/ ====== rplnt Actually, no. That's a winamp-like skin with some random audio player. I doubt that skin is in javascript and the player is generic something. Nothing like winamp at all. Audio visualizat...
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An “Operator Pattern” Experience Report - Graphguy https://www.ibm.com/blogs/bluemix/2019/01/an-operator-pattern-experience-report/ ====== kocolosk Lots of nuggets of wisdom in this post, many of them informed directly from experiences in production. I hear plenty of people talking about "building operators" as the ne...
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Lucene: The Good Parts - pixelmonkey http://blog.parsely.com/post/1691/lucene/ ====== MichaelGG Lucene is quite fantastic and Elasticsearch makes it a joy to use. Still, I wonder what the overhead of Java is adding in this case. Even minor things like integer decoding can be done very fast with SIMD... but such appro...
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Build a Compact Cryptocurrency System Purely Based on PoS - YAYERKA http://eprint.iacr.org/2014/330 ====== josephagoss The paper should be titled "POS Cryptocurrency with no blockchain" as that is the most innovative idea they are talking about. There already exist pure POS coins, Nxt through a concept called transpa...
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Apple’s holding a Mac event on October 27th: “hello again” - javiercr http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13333830/apple-event-october-27-invite ====== exabrial Good god, please don't don't remove any more ports. ~~~ mmagin Well, you don't need to charge your laptop and listen to headphones at the same time, do you? ...
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Ask HN: Double Major CS/Math or Single CS Major? - coreyja I am going to be a Freshman in college next year attending Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. I figured out that if I just do a Single Major in Computer Science I can probably graduate in three years. To do a Double Major with Computer Science and Math it wo...
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Ask HN: What would your ideal jobs board have/do?(Developers and Employers of HN) - dsinecos Hi, I was thinking to build a remote jobs portal awhile back. I decided otherwise given all the portals already online. However I am not completely satisfied with what is on offer.<p>Just wanted HN&#x27;s views on what they th...
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Intel’s Atom C2000 chips are bricking products, and it’s not just Cisco hit - Dotnaught http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/06/cisco_intel_decline_to_link_product_warning_to_faulty_chip/ ====== jepler Reminds me of the Sandy Bridge SATA flaw. "The problem in the chipset was traced back to a transistor in the 3Gbps P...
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Flint, MI: So much lead in children’s blood, state of emergency declared - uptown https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/15/toxic-water-soaring-lead-levels-in-childrens-blood-create-state-of-emergency-in-flint-mich/ ====== rickdale I'm glad to see this on HN. Flint is often a forgot about place in ...
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Why people say NO when you ask for informational interviews or mentoring - BrookeTAllen http://www.noshortageofwork.com/pages/499 ====== BrookeTAllen I like helping people a lot but not so much if they are only trying to help themselves. In 2004 I changed how I hire people and you folks discussed that (see: [http:/...
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Ask HN: How do you automate your server provisioning? - ryanmccullagh My goal is to fully automate spinning up servers&#x2F;environments, with, for example, a MySQL installation with users&#x2F;data. I would like to automate this provisioning via a script or some sort.<p>I know docker can do this, but I need to be abl...
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Ask HN: Why is there no activity indicator when an iPhone's camera is on? - jakemor I never understood this. They indicate when your mic, location and even mobile hotspot is on, but there is no indication of whether your camera is on. Apps with permission to use the camera can use it without you knowing! ====== wincy ...
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Adobe Launches Acrobat.com, Acrobat 9 (With Flash) - kimboslice http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/01/adobe-combines-online-word-processing-file-sharing-and-meetings-with-the-launch-of-acrobatcom/ ====== pxlpshr I've used Acrobat Connnect a few times... and while it's a lot better than Citrix's GoToMeeting, both lack a...
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Decades after Chernobyl disaster, engineers slide high-tech shelter over reactor - d_e_solomon http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/11/decades-after-chernobyl-disaster-engineers-slide-high-tech-shelter-over-reactor/ ====== Tempest1981 30 years later, what a project: "More than 40 governments have contributed to funding...
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Turn any link into a suspicious-looking one - defaultnamehere https://verylegit.link ====== rjbrock A similar site has been around for a long time: [http://www.shadyurl.com/](http://www.shadyurl.com/) example: google.com -> [http://www.5z8.info/dogs-being- eaten_x2r3rq_5waystokillwitha...](http://www.5z8.info/dogs-be...
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Guided meditation for beginners - spaceboy http://quietkit.com/ ====== sharkweek I'm a full-blown a cynic, but after OCD and anxiety got the best of me, my therapist recommended I try meditation to both start and end my day, I've started to notice huge improvements. Can't recommend it enough. It's frustrating at firs...
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If Tesla Would Stop Selling Cars, We’d All Save Some Money - ericcumbee http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/tesla-would-stop-selling-cars-wed-all-save-some-money ====== LandoCalrissian "Tesla can’t increase demand by dropping the price very much. " That's a pretty big leap on the Authors part, one that isn'...
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Show HN: I Was Unlucky – DuckDuckGo to Google Fallback Firefox Extension - lkiss I think a lot of people from our community has the same experience as me. I tried using DuckDuckGo as my primary search platform a few times due to privacy concerns, but I always went back to Google because I wasn&#x27;t satisfied with th...
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U.S..charges American engineer, Chinese with stealing GE’s trade secrets - ycombonator https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-charges-american-engineer-chinese-businessman-with-stealing-ges-trade-secrets/2019/04/23/cb32c78a-65f5-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html ====== ycombonator _Several years ago...
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A True Story (150 AD) - apsec112 https://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/luc/wl2/wl211.htm ====== mellosouls [https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story](https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_True_Story) "A True Story" \- Lucian _It is the earliest known work of fiction to include travel to outer space, alien lifeforms, and i...
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Red Programming Language 0.6.1: Reactive Programming - akavel http://www.red-lang.org/2016/06/061-reactive-programming.html ====== akavel Quoting from the beginning of the article: _[We don 't mean] yet-another-FRP framework[, but rather an idea] close to spreadsheet's model (i.e. Excel formulas). That model has oft...
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Einstein Was Right: NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment - tableslice http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/04may_epic/ ====== tzs It's not all that epic. These effects had already been measured by other experiments and were found to agree with general relativity to much more accu...
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The Golden Age of Hollywood Tax Avoidance - graeme https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-01-29/hollywood-stars-didn-t-pay-90-percent-tax-they-created-loopholes ====== WalterBright Left unsaid by the article is that the tax shelters the wealthy invested their money in, were less productive investments. When R...
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Should the first world bother about Africa? - koushikn http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/first-world-problems-and-the-crisis-in-africa/ ====== iwwr Drop the subsidies and trade barriers and let African competitive advantages lift them out of poverty. Drop aid to African warlords and governments (who have a money i...
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Ask HN: Can I write a recommendation engine for HN? - kvh Simple item-based (hackers who upvoted this article also upvoted...) and/or user-based (hackers who upvoted similar articles to you, upvoted ... ) recommendations would be cool to see on HN, possibly as a way to access (relatively) older content that one migh...
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Why S3 went down - slackerIII http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html ====== sgrove I think amazon is approaching this in the right fashion - when you have a major outage, show that you understand exactly what the issue is, and why it won't happen in the future. That's quite a while to be down, but their openn...
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Analyzing VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes Trends - vegasbrianc https://brianchristner.io/analyzing-vmware-docker-kubernetes-trends/ ====== folkhack Doesn't surprise me but I think that the VMware trend will flatten out because there will always be a need for full system virtualization. I say this as a huge proponent of...
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Show HN: PonziCoin, a transparent, decentralized Ponzi Scheme you can trust - vertoc http://ponzicoin.co/ ====== saalweachter I am not a lawyer, but my gut says that a hilarious, tongue-in-cheek financial crime is still a financial crime. Any lawyers want to weigh in on whether you have some sort of first-amendment r...
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Path-finding simulator for grid based games - adito http://qiao.github.com/PathFinding.js/visual/ ====== sokoban My Sokoban game with path-finding for boxes. <http://sokoban.ws/sokoplayer/SokoPlayer_HTML5_en.php> ------ sciolizer I found a bug. A*, Chebyshev, Allow Diagonal: WWWWWW GW...
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Ask HN: How do you find new products? - mikey077 Hi,<p>I and co are currently at the start of our YC journey but have a couple of questions that will help us going forward.<p>How do you find new products? We are interested in the process you go through to discover new products.<p>What I mean by _new_ products is anyth...
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Internet Archive raises National Emergency Library: 1M free books no waitlist - mekarpeles https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-archives-national-emergency-library-has-over-a-million-books-to-read-right-now/ ====== sayhar This is a big deal ~~~ mekarpeles Thanks @sayhar! specially given so many libraries across the cou...
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How Not to Explain Success - davesque http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/sunday/how-not-to-explain-success.html ====== davesque The associated journal article, unfortunately, appears to be paywalled: [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886915...](http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/...
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Elixir Streams - pgr0ss http://blog.drewolson.org/elixir-streams/ ====== phamilton When people say Elixir is just syntactic sugar on top of erlang I point them to Stream and Enum. It's a great example of how polymorphism via protocols is an enabler for powerful designs. ~~~ MCRed Elixir is so much more than syntactic...
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The Art of the Propagator (2008) [pdf] - davexunit http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/gjs/6.945/readings/art.pdf ====== JadeNB In Higher-order Perl ([http://hop.perl.plover.com/book](http://hop.perl.plover.com/book)), MJD introduces local propagation networks, and says of them: > If you’ve ever seen a discussion o...
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Save the CR100 - userbinator https://en.community.sonos.com/controllers-software-228995/save-the-cr100-6800510 ====== amiga-workbench I'm getting really sick of appliances depending on smartphone apps, they're brittle as hell and have no longevity as OS updates kill them off (and eventually as mobile OS's die complete...
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Ask HN: Just how bad is the Valley economy - willheim So last night (Sunday October 24th) I was watching 60 minutes and they had a 20 minute segment on how the SV/San Jose area was in complete and utter economic meltdown. They were talking about the 99ers (99 weeks unemployed) and interviewed all these PhDs and oth...
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Machine VM + Cloud API - Rewriting The Cloud From Scratch - losvedir http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/10/21/machine-vm-cloud-api-rewriting-the-cloud-from-scratch.html ====== gruseom Given that there have been a few sprouts of Forth talk on HN lately, it's worth mentioning that an application-specific OS (written...
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iOS 7 Accessibility Improvements for Switch Users - shawndumas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ_nyIwep0k ====== shawndumas "Tecla is a set of tools that provides access to mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, for those who are unable to manipulate them due to disease or disability. With Tecla, you can...
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Process is Poison - redprophet http://blog.gosquadron.com/process-is-poison ====== karmajunkie TL;DR — Process bad, automation good. I agree with half of that. The problem in the article is that the example team didn't "pop the why stack" enough. "Engineer screws up a deploy. Why? <insert wrong command, lazy practic...
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Design Patterns are from Hell! - edw519 http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=44 ====== bayareaguy Here we have someone who decided to substitute several weeks of study of statistics with a 48 hour cram session powered by caffene pills and subsequently fail to properly analyze a problem on a test later refle...
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