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Hacker Monthly: One year old, 5000 subscribers - bearwithclaws http://hackermonthly.posterous.com/one-year-old-5000-subscribers ====== bearwithclaws This might sound a bit cliche but without the support of the readers and subscribers (especially when we started charging for digital edition), the help of contributors (...
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Ask HN: What is a better way of weighing up pros and cons? - nodata I frequently have the problem, almost exclusively on mailing lists or in e-mail, where the pros and cons of an argument are sidetracked or waylaid or lost.<p>What are some better ways for weighing up pros and cons. I'm leaning towards a customised w...
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The Case for Free Online Books - jimsojim http://from-a-to-remzi.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-case-for-free-online-books-fobs.html ====== devnonymous Reminds me of Alan Downey's Green Tea Press effort: http://greenteapress.com/wp/ http://greenteapress.com/manifesto.html http://greenteapress.co...
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Ask HN: Recommend an IDaaS/Login provider? - jdlshore I&#x27;ve been using Mozilla Persona to manage logins for letscodejavascript.com since 2012. But Persona is reaching end-of-life in November.<p>I could replace it with my own code, but managing email queues, worrying about password security, and maintaining it all ...
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PuTTY 0.68 has been released - based2 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/releases/0.68.html ====== based2 Release Notes: Security fix: an integer overflow bug in the agent forwarding code. See vuln-agent-fwd-overflow. Security fix: the Windows PuTTY binaries should no longer b...
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Ask HN: Stay in west coast tech scene or join hedge fund? - throwaway91243 I&#x27;m a fairly senior data scientist&#x2F;machine learning engineer at a major tech company. I recently got invited to apply at a major hedge fund, and decided to give it a shot. It looks like I might get an offer, which surprises me, give...
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Enabling of Ad Blocking in Apple’s iOS 9 Prompts Backlash - santaclaus http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/technology/apple-ios-9s-enabling-of-ad-blocking-prompts-backlash.html ====== ratfacemcgee Actually asking a genuine question here, do you feel that the fear and hate that web publishers feel towards ad-blocking is ...
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Enabling innovation isn't magic (Adobe) - fjabre http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplatform/2010/01/enabling_innovation_isnt_magic.html ====== steveklabnik > On the iPad, it looks like developers won't be able to write applications in > Java, .net, Python, Ruby, Perl, or any number of other languages (including > Flash). ...
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Announcing Image Scanning for Amazon ECR - smn1234 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2019/10/announcing-image-scanning-for-amazon-ecr/ ====== smn1234 [https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/image...](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/image- scanning.html) indicates the use...
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Scala Vector operations aren't “Effectively Constant” time - dmit http://www.lihaoyi.com/post/ScalaVectoroperationsarentEffectivelyConstanttime.html ====== kbenson I'm a little disappointed that I bothered to read what turned out to be a massive act of pedantry. A few sections are devoted to showing that O(log32(n)) ...
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Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm - hprotagonist https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/03/27/strn-kyboard ====== vnchr Actual article: [https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its- mac...](https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-macbook- keyboard-problem/) ------ yingbo I...
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Medicine works, why are smart people still drinking out of control? - rosandor https://blog.dxrxmedical.com/rss/ ====== nkkollaw Link seems to be broken.
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Introducing Fresco: a new image library for Android - vierja https://code.facebook.com/posts/366199913563917/introducing-fresco-a-new-image-library-for-android/ ====== seanwilson I wrote a painting app with layer support a while ago for Android that had to use similar tricks (the app is coincidentally called Fresco: [...
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Study doubts quantum computer speed - ColinWright http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25787226 ====== claudius One should note that the ‘quantum computer’ in question is the D-Wave, which is generally assumed not to be a real/general quantum computer but rather a sophisticated device to simulate a specific s...
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Investing Time vs. Spending Time - bradly http://tynan.com/investingtime ====== taylan I'm having hard time wrapping my head around the time-money analogy here. In the case of money, by investing it or delaying spending, you can have more of it in future. In the case of time this does not hold, because time is essen...
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As Mobile Networks Speed Up, Data Gets Capped - timr http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/technology/as-mobile-networks-speed-up-data-gets-capped.html?_r=1&hp ====== americandesi333 Thats why I have Sprint. It does not have any data cap and Sprint service is actually pretty good in the San Francisco bay area.
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NeoHabitat – a relaunch of Lucasfilm's Habitat, the first MMORPG game - guiambros https://frandallfarmer.github.io/neohabitat-doc/docs// ====== guiambros You can access a C64 live emulator at [http://v.ht/habitat](http://v.ht/habitat) Also there was a nice roundtable with Randy Farmer at VCF West happening this weeke...
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Show HN: Aspect-oriented mixins in JavaScript - yangmillstheory https://github.com/yangmillstheory/mixin.a.lot ====== drostie Very cool. I'm very interested to see what you'll build with it. With any cross-cutting abstraction like this, it's kind of like developing a new potting soil: I feel like I need to know what ...
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Google Adds 'Kodi' to Autocomplete Piracy Filter - portofcall https://torrentfreak.com/google-adds-kodi-to-autocomplete-piracy-filter-180328/ ====== AdmiralAsshat >Google has banned the term “Kodi” from its autocomplete feature, meaning those who look for information on the set-top box will have to type out the full t...
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What I Did When I Couldn't Find a Job [in the US] - kranner http://chronicle.com/article/What-I-Did-When-I-Couldnt/66281/ For anyone curious about what Sikkim looks like... http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=sikkim ====== patio11 _grumble grumble_ I would never have expected legions of twentysomethings who want to work ...
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Show HN: The Plainsight Collection – Play Games at Work Disguised as Ads - gtrevorjay https://github.com/plainsightcollection/plainsightcollection.github.io ====== gtrevorjay We just debuted this as an art piece at Brisbane's "Game On" event: [https://www.facebook.com/GO423](https://www.facebook.com/GO423) as a commen...
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Even Poor Countries Can Excel in Education | Co.Design - ttunguz http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662376/infographic-of-the-day-even-poor-countries-can-excel-in-education ====== yummyfajitas Next question - does excelling in education make them less poor? Everyone assumes this to be true, but I've seen very little hard e...
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Social Design of P90X - lordmax http://skibinsky.com/social-design-of-p90x/ ====== DonGateley Really clever promo add for FitMob! Hard sell something known to be successful, then criticize it just a bit and substitute something "better" at the end. About FitMob, I might signup after I find out what's in my area but...
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Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #7, Friday 26th of August - sparto http://www.makeleaps.com/blog/en/2011/08/english-hacker-news-tokyo-japan-meetup-7-friday-26th-of-august/ ====== 0xfaded Registered. I'll be coming up from Osaka, but I'm feeling a little poor at the moment. If anyone happens to have a floor on loan I ...
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Mossberg: the iPhone 7 had better be spectacular - davidiach http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/23/11286052/walt-mossberg-apple-iphone-7-preview-predictions ====== PaulHoule Smartphones are depressing. It used to be tomshardware, anandtech and such had interesting articles. Now it is "there Is a new iPhone", I guess someb...
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Digital Representations of Light/Sound Fields for Immersive Media [pdf] - opticalflow https://jpeg.org/downloads/jpegpleno/wg1n72033_20160603_report_jahg_light_sound_fields.pdf ====== dharma1 That was a very in depth report, thanks for posting. The data rates will be challenging. Here's a good panel discussion with L...
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Scientists warn we may be creating a 'digital dark age' - curtis https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-01-01/scientists-warn-we-may-be-creating-digital-dark-age ====== HarryHirsch A similar phenomenon happened in Late Antiquity - the cultural upheaval during and after the Crisis of the Third Century caused most literature ...
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Trump's Immigration Agenda - kull https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html ====== xtreme I don't see the benefit of not enforcing immigration laws on illegal immigrants or offering lottery based diversity visas. Most people agree that skilled immigrants are good for the economy, so make t...
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Five Tips For the Effective Use of PNG Images - luccastera http://blog.httpwatch.com/2008/05/29/five-tips-for-the-effective-use-of-png-images/ ====== jexe Is pngcrush still in vogue, or is there something better these days? That tool was a huge help over the years. <http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/> ~~~ rtf pngo...
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The woman who swapped home for a hut near Chechnya (BBC) - solstice http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30796537 ====== Geekette The story reads so bizarrely: A man who loses interest in his wife orders her to move countries to his ancestral home as opposed to just divorcing her? Then she obeys and leaves her children ...
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You’re being secretly tracked with facial recognition, even in church - uptown http://fusion.net/story/154199/facial-recognition-no-rules/ ====== cafard Yes, obnoxious. But 30 churches? A couple of years ago, I cam up with an estimate of 30 churches (and two synagogues and two Buddhist temples) along 16th St, NW, in...
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NYTimes Opinion: Let’s Ban Porn - mandazi https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/lets-ban-porn.html ====== meri_dian Porn is an outlet for many people who have trouble finding as much sex as they want. Or can't get. If we deprive these people of porn, we are essentially depriving people who are underpri...
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Ask HN: How does your company handle downtime internally? - vasusen Downtime is inevitable. I&#x27;d like to know more about strategies&#x2F;tools&#x2F;processes that you use when your company&#x27;s website&#x2F;api goes down. Do you have an email alert system or physical red blaring lights? Does each department kn...
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Ask HN: Extrovert programmer without programmer friends, where do I find energy? - antonapa Hi HN, I&#x27;m a really extrovert person, now doing remote CS studies. My classes are going fine (translated to US grades they&#x27;re all A or B).<p>However, I constantly feel stressed and depleted, since I meet so few peo...
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Tamgucalc: A spreadsheet in character mode with Lisp formulas - clauderoux https://github.com/naver/tamgu/wiki/tamgucalc-(en) ====== joseph8th Cool project for sure, but it does provoke the obligatory Emacs org-mode as a spreadsheet plug. [1] I use it often, mostly for my D&D character sheet, but occasionally for wor...
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How FarmVille Scales to Harvest 75 Million Players a Month - z8000 http://highscalability.com/blog/2010/2/8/how-farmville-scales-to-harvest-75-million-players-a-month.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HighScalability+%28High+Scalability%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== ehsanul They use...
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Ask HN: How do you organize your files - locococo Seems like a Silly Question, but how do you organize your files. I struggle to find a way to keep my reference documentation organized such as ebooks relevant for programming or other related tasks.<p>thanks for reading ====== kusmi I made an automatic document tagger ...
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CSS Click Events - pbotelho http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/17/css-click-events/ ====== bluetidepro > _"This blog post is about showing the possibilities of CSS and some clever > hacks. It’s clearly not for “real life” use cases. Please, consider the > whole article as a playground for experimenting, not as a tu...
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NSA XKeyscore Tool ‘Could Crack VPNs And Expose The Anonymous' - filipmaertens http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/nsa-xkeyscore-vpn-cracking-123499 ====== junto I had also noticed this and commented on it in another HN discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6145932](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...
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Plaid Launches in the UK - jessedhillon https://blog.plaid.com/plaid-in-the-uk/ ====== lapusta Open Banking is a big buzzword at the moment. It is good to distinguish different aspects of it: 1) Regulation. What you heard as "PSD2" \- is essentially a directive by European Commission and EBA demanding banks to open u...
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A Career Cold Start Algorithm - zdw http://boz.com/articles/career-cold-start.html ====== ghotli Here's my programmer cold start algorithm for those interested: 1\. Go to indeed.com 2\. Type in 'software engineer' or 'data scientist' or something like that. 3\. Don't put in a city. 4\. Put the money slider all the...
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Show HN: Login with Matrix - redsolver https://loginwithmatrix.tiktalk.space/ ====== mike-cardwell Not sure about this claim: "More secure than E-Mail or SMS, because the codes are end-to-end-encrypted (Not in this demo, but supported by Matrix)" Assuming encryption is turned on for a room, it's opportunistic unless...
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Antialiasing: To Splat or Not - mnem http://www.reedbeta.com/blog/2014/11/15/antialiasing-to-splat-or-not/ ====== eridius For some reason I find the test image that was used to be quite fascinating on its own. Were I given that image in isolation and told "write a program to generate this" I wouldn't have any idea w...
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Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast [2007] - mparramon http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html ====== bognition Its not clear how allowing the state machine to be in all states at the same time consitutes "guess[ing] correctly", but the article is nonetheless quite informative
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Clipboard | Home - chrismealy http://www.clipboard.com/ ====== mweibel As far as I can see is this more or less what Memonic, a swiss startup, already does: <http://www.memonic.com/> ~~~ gwf I think there are some pretty significant differences. First, our clips look pretty much the source. For example, [http://www.c...
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I hate Lisp - divia http://funcall.blogspot.com/2009/03/i-hate-lisp.html ====== SwellJoe _This_ is exactly what I've been complaining about lately. Hacker News seems to have been mobbed with people who have zero sense of humor and no ability to recognize satire. Hackers like to laugh. They like to laugh at _themselves...
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Show HN: A Pseudo-Random Number Generator Predictor in Java - ponsuke https://github.com/yutarochan/PRNGPredict ====== lun4r So from the first two 'randomly' generated integers it is possible to derive a value that can be used to as a seed value to 'sync' two PRNGs? that can't be good. :S ~~~ seandougall The docs d...
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) SDK for Java - andrevoget http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/03/22/announcing-the-aws-sdk-for-java/ ====== mark_l_watson I think this is an old link. That said, one of the best things about AWS is their great online documentation. A few years ago a customer wanted a web service ...
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Show HN: AMP for Shopify finally done right - ShopSheriff http://apps.shopify.com/shop-sheriff ====== ShopSheriff This is likely welcome news to some people who struggle with mobile page-speed and Shopify (a platform not exactly known for its speed). It's now possible to have highly customizable AMP e-commerce pages ...
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Nebula Graph: A Linearly Scalable, Distributed Graph Database Written in C++ - jamie-vesoft https://nebula-graph.io/ ====== jandrewrogers It looks like a competent and thoughtful implementation but, as best I can determine and not to take anything away from it, using an old design. The performance and scalability is t...
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Carriers Sweat As Texting Cools Off - bproper http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304778304576373860513481364.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_LEFTTopNews ====== ChuckMcM There was some commentary here about whether or not Apple's messaging system was a threat to texting or not. This suggests that the SMS market may be l...
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Trollala – Fight patent trolls by banding together confidentially - ideaphore http://trollala.com ====== rdtsc This is great. Would like to see more of these kinds of efforts. Just watched The Patent Scam video by Austin Meyer (developer of X-Plane flight sim who was sued by patent trolls). [https://www.youtube.com/...
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Is it time for schools to try to boost kids' emotional intelligence? - robg http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/05/the_other_kind_of_smart/?page=full ====== tokenadult "In recent years, the results have started to come in, and they suggest that emotional knowledge can indeed be learned in the clas...
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Using WhatsApp for low-tech distance learning - samizdis https://phys.org/news/2020-08-whatsapp-low-tech-distance.html ====== tekkiweb yeah, that's a really good initiative. Thanks for sharing buddy!
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Show HN: Metachat, a news feed for unread Slack messages - drenerbas http://metachat.io ====== drenerbas Co-founder of MetaChat here. We’re NLP nerds who have been playing with the Slack API for a while. Lots of people complain about notification overload (e.g. Wednesday's article in The Verge[0]), so we’ve been tryin...
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Ask HN: Would you consider this as a valid path to learn web development? - nicoschuele Last week, I wrote what I believe is a very valid path to teach yourself web development, starting with no prior knowledge. It can be found on my blog here: http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;1246qMU<p>Do you think I missed something? ...
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Show HN: TurboPFor – Bringing Fastest Integer Compression Incl. SIMD to Java - powturbo https://github.com/powturbo/TurboPFor ====== powturbo \- Direct Access w/o decompression \- Fastest Variable Byte implementation \- Novel Variable Simple faster than simple16, better than simple8-b \- Scalar Bit Packing decoding...
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Why China Silenced a Clickbait Queen in Its Battle for Information Control - danso https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/16/world/asia/china-bloggers-internet.html ====== threatofrain > But late last month, Ma Ling, a blogger who commanded an audience of more > than 16 million people, went conspicuously silent. > In the ba...
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Facebook Questions Goes Where Quora Can't - malouie http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_questions_goes_where_quora_cant.php?sms_ss=hackernews&at_xt=4d8c09a3f9c3c177%2C0 ====== pinko The fact that you're getting advice from people you know rather than strangers and spammers seems like a huge advantage, but I ...
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Ask HN: Review my app: Wappr - bearwithclaws http://wappr.com ====== bearwithclaws Wappr is my lil weekend side project (and also my first app!) that provides a votable list of app requests powered by Twitter. It's a simple app with the purpose of providing entrepreneurs/hackers/developers ideas & inspirations on w...
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Don't wait for motivation to find you; go find it today. - shin_lao http://www.schwarzenegger.com/fitness/post/motivation ====== codex It is easy to dismiss Arnold because techie types tend to disdain bodybuilding and acting as trivial endeavors. But, upon closer inspection, I find Arnold to have very impressive cha...
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Show HN: Open Source Show and Tell - justinelof http://opensourceshowandtell.github.io ====== justinelof Would love comments about how to add to or improve the event.
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Docker protects a programming paradigm that we should get rid of (2018) - lkrubner http://www.smashcompany.com/technology/docker-protects-a-programming-paradigm-that-we-should-get-rid-of ====== orf [https://www.google.com/search?q=ModuleNotFoundError%3A+No+mo...](https://www.google.com/search?q=ModuleNotFoundError%3A+...
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Bang & Olufsen design team avoids meetings/process and "sculpts" products little by little - hariskh http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/html_article.php?id=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB121372804603481659.html ====== derefr It seems like the process behind Wikipedia made physical: (almost) all of the edi...
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Ask HN: How to monetize a technical blog without bloating it - robschia ====== kiloreux Besides the obvious choices (advertisement), you could look for sponsors to sponsor your posts (if you have enough visitors). ------ GFischer Usually, technical blogs are vehicles to sell a product or service, or promote the author...
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Luther's Theses and the Role of the Printing Press [audio] - brudgers https://www.newberry.org/95-theses-you-wont-believe-what-32-is ====== RmDen Make sure to check out Dan Carlin's Prophets of Doom [http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore- history-48-prophet...](http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore- history-48...
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Chomsky on Google's contribution to 'fake news' - sideshowb Excerpt from video for those who, like myself, prefer to read:<p>Google talk interviewer: “How do you think Google can and should handle the fake news problem? We have a big hammer. We’re looking for nails.”<p>Chomsky: &quot;Well, by not contributing to it.&q...
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Support Hurricane Florence Relief Efforts Google Will Match Up to $1M - Rapzid https://www.google.org/crisis/florence-relief ====== Rapzid As a PSA on this, if you scroll down like I did not you will see the money goes to the American Red Cross.
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Memory Management – Changes for the programmer over the years - ingve https://uridiumauthor.blogspot.com/2018/06/memory-management.html ====== AstralStorm The other way where managed memory is a problem is when it fails to deliver the performance of the usual memory allocator, forces "stop the world" events similar to...
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Ask HN: If you can have only one pain in your life solved, what would that be? - nicksalt ====== danieka Lack of willpower/inability to build good habits. ------ nicksalt Although physical pain is an acceptable answer, im interested in all types of pain points ------ cimmanom Having to work for a living. Though I sup...
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The First 15 Years of PyPy – A Personal Retrospective - gok https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pypy.html ====== chrisaycock It's interesting to read the OP's response to _partial evaluation_ (employed by Truffle) and why he switched to _meta-tracing_ in RPython. Basically, the inlining/special...
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Those Build-a-Business-in-48-Hours Conferences are a Lie - pyrmont http://inqk.net/weblog/2011/857 ====== sarbogast The real lie in those events is the promise to create a team in 48 hours. And I say this from my own experience. Kodesk won the grand prize of the jury of the Startup Weekend Brussels in last January a...
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Governor Snyder signs a law to ban Tesla direct sales in Michigan - infinitebattery http://www.wxyz.com/news/state/governor-snyder-signs-a-law-to-ban-tesla-direct-sales ====== MCRed I believe that this law is in direct violation of the commerce clause[1]. The commerce clause was designed to prevent tarrifs from being ...
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Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (2006) [pdf] - lisa_henderson http://www.rgoarchitects.com/Files/fallacies.pdf ====== krat0sprakhar For more context, I'd recommend this resource - [http://www.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~tatebe/lecture/h23/dsys/ds...](http://www.hpcs.cs.tsukuba.ac.jp/~tatebe/lecture/h23/dsys/ds...
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Where are we on the actual math of solar power? - randomnumber314 I&#x27;ve seen several articles and threads lately that make claims of solar energy matching or surpassing that of more traditional (coal, gas) energy.<p>What&#x27;s the &quot;simple verdict&quot; on it--is there simple math? ====== CyberFonic As an app...
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Ways Streaming Services Are Getting Worse - nkurz http://www.cracked.com/blog/12-ways-streaming-services-are-getting-worse/ ====== jetrink It is shocking to me how few old movies are available on Netflix. Here is a complete list of English language movies from the 1960s on Netflix right now: * Color Me Barbara * My ...
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Ask HN: Best way to spent money to become better programmer? - dptd I know the title sucks but I have no idea how to say it better in just a few words - sorry for that.<p>Here is my situation - my current employer is giving every single employee around $1k per year for &quot;self development&quot;. It can be almost an...
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Twitterpocalypse - zombie apocalypse survivability rating - cgallello http://twitterpocalypse.com/ ====== cgallello Made this out of boredom. Also, the domain name wasn't taken. Just enter your twitter handle to see how well you stack up! ------ dkersten "500'd! Server messed up." ~~~ cgallello Really? Works fine ...
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Why does Google adsense have an invalid https certificate? (looks SCARY in Firefox 3) - petervandijck http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2008/06/27/4218/google-has-an-invalid-https-security-certificate ====== notauser The new unsigned SSL warnings are a massive overreaction - so much so that I think Mozilla must ...
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‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants - bra-ket http://news.rice.edu/2013/12/16/superbugs-found-breeding-in-sewage-plants/ ====== FreeKill Whenever I read a story like this (there have been dozens lately), I simply don't have the background to determine how big of a problem this is going to be. Are these bugs ...
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What we're up to at CivicSponsor...come work with us - wallacrw http://www.youtube.com/user/CivicSponsor ====== adrian1010 What a phenomenal video! I'm a designer in SF, interested in social marketing and am looking for work. Contact me if you have any openings. ------ rmouat Pretty ridiculous, but great stuff. So ...
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Dead pigs in Shanghai water supply don't ring alarm bells for Chinese officials - 42tree http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2013/0311/Dead-pigs-in-Shanghai-water-supply-don-t-ring-alarm-bells-for-Chinese-officials ====== wxl The article only mentions 2,813, not 5,000. ~~~ 42tree [http://www.nydailynews.com/...
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Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View, Starting With Zimbabwe - neom https://www.npr.org/2019/09/22/760572640/hes-trying-to-fill-in-the-gaps-on-google-street-view-starting-with-zimbabwe ====== stereo If you'd like to do this and aren't comfortable giving your work away without getting anything in return, yo...
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Ask HN: Is Bitbucket down, too? - vbv ====== nahcub [http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitbucket.org](http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/bitbucket.org) Looks like its down for everyone, at least according to that web service! ------ vbv Github is back and Bitbucket went down. [http://www.downforeveryone...
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Google 'down,' let's do an experiment - mkr-hn A lot of people are unable to get to Google services right now. Including me. I&#x27;m curious to see if there&#x27;s some commonality.<p>What is your<p>ISP:<p>Location:<p>Try to stick to this format so people who like to do data processing can easily make use of this thr...
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Show HN: Source small php page that shows the public source code of a Web page - Goldenromeo http://umbcnow.com/ ====== Goldenromeo Hi guys, I did this little self contained script in a little over a week to enhance my php knowledge. Some problems I've found are: redirects and non 200 status codes. I plan on redoing...
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A smartphone case that is harder than steel and as easy to shape as plastic - curtis http://news.yale.edu/2014/09/04/yale-professor-makes-case-supercool-metals ====== TheSpiceIsLife At the end of the video Jan Schroers says "and I think also as a consumer it's attractive because it's a very green process". Mining, re...
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Millennials' new retirement number? $1.8M (or more) - JSeymourATL http://college.usatoday.com/2016/03/30/millennials-new-retirement-number-1-8-million-or-more/ ====== WalterSear >The youngest of the Boomers, those born in 1964, would need $1.3 million earmarked for retirement. A Gen Xer born in 1975 would need about $...
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Ask HN: I'm bored at work and life, what should I do? - bigJavaLava I&#x27;m a little at a lost and could use some advice. I realize that I&#x27;m very fortunate and this is probably a problem of privilege, so I hate to lament the situation.<p>Truth be told, I&#x27;m really bored in my career and trajectory in life.<p...
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Comodo not really getting the concept of HTTPS - andygambles http://servertastic.tumblr.com/post/49923726926/comodo-not-really-getting-the-concept-of-https ====== davidddavidson Related: [http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/why-i-am-worlds-greatest- lov...](http://www.troyhunt.com/2013/05/why-i-am-worlds-greatest-lover-...
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Finish your CS degree - MojoJolo http://blog.jpbalb.in/post/51376691724/why-pursue-my-ms-cs-degree ====== txet Not Found The URL you requested could not be found
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Yunus fired from Grameen Bank - amirmc http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12619580 ====== gawker A desperate attempt to get him out definitely. Cannot believe their trying to pin a man who's done more for the country than the government ever will as a villain. I guess I better believe now? ------ BvS Inter...
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Why are we so bad at predicting startup success? - codegeek http://andrewchen.co/2013/04/08/why-are-we-so-bad-at-making-startup-predictions/ ====== lttlrck bad or unlucky?
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Age bias against startup founders is rampant by age 36 - laurex https://qz.com/work/1514739/startup-leaders-say-age-bias-is-rampant-against-founders-as-young-as-36/ ====== oldmancoyote Being 72, I'd never even consider looking for work in tech in spite of being very good at programing. While I have no experience in th...
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Functionless Programming - zackmorris http://zackarymorris.tumblr.com/post/17229036220/functionless-programming ====== akkartik I'm very reminded of this paper on LtU: <http://lambda-the- ultimate.org/node/4444> We're also discussing it desultorily at <http://arclanguage.org/item?id=15696> (Here's what I think of ...
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A 48 Hour Hack, A 100+ year Flood, and a Nenshi noun - lucasyyc http://lucasyyc.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/calgary-floods-of-2013-the-48-hour-hack-that-was-inspired-by-it/ ====== MonkoftheFunk Cool, I am in calgary and ya I wanted to know the same thing, I was wishing gps data was saved with all the photos posted so t...
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Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket - lbr http://www.getfixed.me ====== jrs235 "Up to 50% of tickets are dismissed when challenged." There is probably a high number (half according to them) of tickets that get dismissed because of selection bias. Tickets [that have been] challenged are probably challenged...
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BBC: Slack 'bans users' who have visited US sanctioned countries - jwildeboer https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-46642760 ====== troydavis This is a dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18730314](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18730314) Original discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=187241...
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Microsoft reportedly in talks to acquire GitHub - eknkc https://thenextweb.com/artificial-intelligence/2018/06/01/microsoft-reportedly-in-talks-to-acquire-git-hub/ ====== bradknowles OMG. They killed Skype. Now they're gonna kill Github? ------ mbfg it will never happen ;)
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A couple of reasons you shouldn't be moving your databases to the cloud anytime soon - vaksel http://sqlblog.com/blogs/denis_gobo/archive/2009/05/07/13862.aspx ====== Tichy Sounds like he is talking about a specific cloud, rather than clouds in general. ------ david927 10GB is just for SimpleDB. BigTable has no such ...
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