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Discovery Channel Buys Revision3 for $30 Million - protomyth http://allthingsd.com/20120503/discovery-channel-gets-a-web-video-arm-courtesy-of-revision-3/?mod=tweet ====== sp332 Here's a press release: [http://revision3.com/blog/2012/05/03/discovery- communication...](http://revision3.com/blog/2012/05/03/discovery- co...
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Beauty Shots of Retro Machines - sohkamyung http://podstawczynski.com/retro/beauty_shots.html ====== contingencies Please, if anyone takes old hardware images, do put them on Wikipedia Commons, where there is a shortage. Recently I donated a bunch of old systems and peripherals to a museum in Australia. Before doing s...
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Yocto: Tools for building a custom embedded Linux distribution - based2 https://www.yoctoproject.org/ ====== lowercased [https://www.yoctoproject.org](https://www.yoctoproject.org) "The Yocto Project (YP) is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the...
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Ask HN: How to find an “entry level” job? - startDestroyer I will graduate engineering very soon and I&#x27;m starting to look for an entry level job.<p>The problem is, every job with titles like &quot;Graduate, Junior, etc..&quot; end up with 3 to 5 years of experience in the requirements.<p>Am I doing something wron...
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MapLatency.com – check latency to your website from any country - forcer http://www.maplatency.com/ ====== lucb1e Cool, it works quite well. Get the feeling it's being hammered though, with 500ms GETs in the UK for a Dutch site (would expect 40ms) and 24000ms pageloads (onready; simulated browser; costs quite a few ...
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France's TV5Monde 'hit by Islamic State Hackers' - DangerousPie http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-32229152 ====== DangerousPie Struggling to find a better source for this, but German news reports say that not only their website but also their actual TV channels have been down for hours now: [https://translate.g...
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Ask HN: How to get started with Linux kernel developing/debugging? - jesusofsuburbia Hello HN,<p>I&#x27;m a developer and Linux user for quite some time. I run Arch Linux and already experienced with different kernels, also with building some special Kernels from AUR and applying some patches, etc.<p>Now I have a mino...
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What to Expect at Google I/O 2015:Google Cloud, Google Now for Apple Watch SWAG - stevep2007 http://www.networkworld.com/article/2925083/opensource-subnet/what-to-expect-at-google-i-o-2015-google-cloud-google-now-for-apple-watch-and-swag.html?nsdr=true ====== stevep2007 Google will celebrate independent software dev...
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If you want to understand Silicon Valley, watch Silicon Valley - trequartista https://www.gatesnotes.com/About-Bill-Gates/Silicon-Valley ====== snowwrestler Amazing anecdote from a 2016 New Yorker article on the show: > During one visit to Google’s headquarters, in Mountain View, about six > writers sat in a conferen...
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Effect of treating Covid-19 with hydroxychloroquine with azithromycin - AaronFriel https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1198743X2030505X ====== AaronFriel From the abstract: > Results > The initial search yielded 839 articles, of which 29 articles met our > inclusion criteria. All studies except one we...
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The Oatmeal fights back, snaps photo of cash, sends money to charity - evo_9 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/the-oatmeal-fights-backs-snaps-photo-of-cash-sends-money-to-charity/ ====== Vivtek Carreon's wife sounds even crazier than Carreon himself, apparently saying that there is a conspiracy of actual gram...
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How do the rest of you feel about Quora.com? - AwesomeTogether https://www.monosnap.com/image/I2Q29GVCDfHcYtgi7DAzLjw3P ====== Fuzzwah I receive the Quora Weekly Digest emails and will tend to open them up and have a skim when I'm looking for something to read. I'd say that roughly 50% of the time they include a top...
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Hacking Ruby's Default Arguments - pwim http://blog.mobalean.com/2009/02/28/hacking-rubys-default-arguments ====== jamesbritt I don't quite see this as "hacking" anything, but it's a useful thing to know. Along similar lines, I was coding some Ruby and calling a method that took a flag argument. E.g. ...
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The American origins of Telegram - doener https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/11/23/the-secret-american-origins-of-telegram-the-encrypted-messaging-app-favored-by-the-islamic-state/ ====== nickpsecurity Interesting backstory. I didn't trust the app early on and now trust it less. Far as ISIS, onl...
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Show HN: How to host a live website on your laptop (or anywhere else) - HerraBRE http://pagekite.net/ ====== Animus7 Reliability? Scalability? Apparently if your lappy goes down, so does your site, and if your site ever makes the front page of HN your ISP will probably cut the figurative cord to your house. Unless ...
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Ask HN: anybody working on a non-profit startup? - vijayr something like Kiva, for example. ====== cperciva I think most startups are non-profit, actually. Startups which are _deliberately_ non-profit is quite a different matter, of course... ~~~ vijayr I meant startups that are deliberately non-profit, thats why ...
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Against privacy defeatism: why browsers can still stop fingerprinting - randomwalker https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2018/06/29/against-privacy-defeatism-why-browsers-can-still-stop-fingerprinting/ ====== fpgaminer Over the years I've noticed this, privacy defeatism, amongst other excuses used to push back against secur...
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Getting 100x better search performance on Riak - gwf http://blog.clipboard.com/2012/03/18/0-Milking-Performance-From-Riak-Search ====== gfodor The deficiency with AND queries due to term based partitioning reminds me of a hack I did a few years ago trying to build a basic IR system on simpledb: [http://codingthrill...
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The UBI Bait and Switch - chrismealy https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/01/ubi-finland-centre-party-unemployment-jobs/ ====== aminok How utterly shameful that programs based on imprisoning people who refuse to hand over a share of all currency they receive in private trade are the primary political objective of major sub...
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Codecademy Launches New API Course Track with Parse - csmajorfive http://blog.parse.com/2013/01/09/codecademy-launches-new-api-course-track-with-parse/ ====== sergiotapia Previous discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5032504> ------ 6thSigma The Parse documentation is already pretty good but the Codeaca...
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I have a different view on stack ranking - jamesjyu http://theludwigs.com/2013/08/i-have-a-different-view-on-stack-ranking-than-the-spate-of-critical-microsoft-articles/ ====== pjungwir As someone interested in someday building a development firm on a partner/associates model, I really appreciated reading the differen...
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Ask HN: Are there other developers trying to learn design? - mattedigital Just curious as to whether the big recent &#x27;designers should learn to code&#x27; idea goes the other way for any developers out there? ====== BjoernKW Absolutely. I've been more actively learning more about design for about 4 years or so and...
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The epic startup story of Karl and Bertha Benz - geopsist https://medium.com/@Giorgosps/a-tale-of-karl-bertha-a-revolutionary-startup-and-the-importance-of-marketing-f38b9ea77bf#.jjecvusye ====== devnonymous Oh that last statement... Such a disappointment. The entire post was well written and brought out the point of ...
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Learn data science in your browser - emre https://dataquest.io/ ====== vikp Hi everyone: Very exciting to see this posted here. I'm the maker of dataquest. I'm a self-taught data scientist/coder, and I wanted an easier way for people to get into the field. I've been working on it for the past three months, and I'm ...
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An Update on Facebook Ads - the_watcher http://www.facebook-studio.com/news/item/an-update-on-facebook-ads?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+facebook-studio%2FhxhX+%28Facebook+Studio+Blog%29 ====== the_watcher I'm disappointed that they are removing offers. We've had great success with them,...
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First “Appstore” for WordPress and Drupal Coming Soon - felicianotech http://melitix.org ====== mixologic Considering that virtually every plugin for Drupal is available on drupal.org, for free, and that all drupal modules are released under the GPL, I think you're going to have a hard time including Drupal in this. N...
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Havana syndrome: Exposure to neurotoxin may have been cause, study suggests - goodcanadian https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/havana-syndrome-neurotoxin-enqu-te-1.5288609 ====== aug_aug Possibly related tidbit - I used to roll my own cigarettes when working in the field as a geologist, left a pack of papers under the seat...
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Ask HN: Would the economy be better off with $18,126.88 per person - throwaway_jobs Tomorrow the government will likely pass a stimulus bill that could pay each person in the US (based on a pop. of 331M) $18,126.88 each.<p>Some taxpayers will receive direct payments, up to $1,200, and the rest is going to businesses a...
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Show HN: A site that helps you find the perfect gift by showing you random stuff - sufyanadam https://itsonsale.today/ ====== luxegift That's cool dude! This site also shows you gift ideas [https://luxegift.co](https://luxegift.co) and [https://luxemiss.com](https://luxemiss.com)
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Flickr Accidentally Wipes Out Account: Five Years And 4,000 Photos deleted - barredo http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/02/flickr-accidentally-wipes-out-account-five-years-and-4000-photos-down-the-drain/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== ...
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Beginner's Intro to Coding Fundamentals - jdaudier http://blog.learnstreet.com/fundamentals-of-coding/ ====== saiprashanth93 I am new to programming.How much truth is there in the statement"90% of code consists of for,while,if loops"?Even though the page states it is a made up statistic? ~~~ songzme I write if whil...
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How Computer-Hacking Laws Make You a Criminal - ck2 http://www.livescience.com/26383-are-you-looking-at-this-website-you-might-be-breaking-the-law.html ====== maxharris "Computer criminals" doesn't get us anywhere conceptually in this instance. When people bring up Gates, Jobs and Woz, it's nearly always because they...
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Getting screwed out of rent by my non-ebooks - xrd http://www.webiphany.com/2011/05/20/ebooks-are-only-licensed-well-at-least-they-are-not-living-rent-free-in-my-house/ ====== josephcooney The true cost of books is not the price you pay for them, or the space they take up on your shelf - it's the time you spend read...
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Show HN: Google Meet Studio Mini – Change your appearance with a browser script - xingyzt https://x-ing.space/mercator ====== skybrian This looks like pretty clear trademark infringement to me, unless you work for Google and I think that's unlikely. I'm surprised Google lets anyone post a Chrome extension with a titl...
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Microsoft Whiteboard - pizza https://blogs.office.com/en-us/2017/12/05/microsoft-whiteboard-preview-the-freeform-canvas-for-creative-collaboration/?eu=true ====== taylodl "It’s designed for teams that need to ideate, iterate, and work together both in person and remotely, and across multiple devices." _So long as all ...
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Absence of evidence - henning http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/02/22/absence-of-evidence/ ====== baddox The big point here, which the author doesn't mention, is that you can have absence of evidence _without searching for evidence_ or you can have absence of evidence _after rigorous searching_. I believe that the...
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A Call of Duty exploit - danso https://momo5502.com/blog/?p=34 ====== movover Interesting read - This is actually how a ton of game trainers/bots are made (especially ones used by Chinese gold farms in MMORPGs), along with private servers (except the other way around, where you send packets to the client). For some ga...
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How I Sold My Bible App Company - reuven http://trevormckendrick.com/how-i-sold-my-bible-app-company/ ====== trevmckendrick Trevor here, creator of the Spanish Bible app. IkmoIkmo got this spot on in his/her comment. Biggest two mistakes people are making in this thread: 1\. $100k was revenue, not profit. 2\. I ge...
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Climb In, Tune In: A Renaissance for Sensory Deprivation Tanks - phodo http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/us/climb-in-tune-in-a-renaissance-for-sensory-deprivation-tanks.html ====== Zelphyr I tried that very location in Colorado. My experience was good though not earth shattering like Joe Rogan makes it out to be. Then...
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U.K. to Trigger Brexit March 29, Starting Two Years of Talks - antr https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-20/u-k-to-submit-formal-brexit-notice-to-eu-on-march-29-pm-s-spokesman ====== cstross I would just like to note that March 25th (Saturday) is the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which created the...
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Apple deletes an entire galaxy - scottshea http://boingboing.net/2011/08/11/apple-deleted-a-galaxy.html ====== mwexler They were dropped for not adhering to the App Store guidelines. They are appealing, but it's unclear which star violated which guideline, so they are probably out of luck. ~~~ raganwald I don't fin...
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Syrian Electronic Army Hacks DNS Records Of Twitter, New York Times - gz5 http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/27/syrian-electronic-army-apparently-hacks-dns-records-of-twitter-new-york-times-through-registrar-melboune-it/ ====== ballard At present time: tw is back, nyt returns 500.
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Ask HN: Snapchat for documents? - saimiam FD: this is part tongue in cheek, part market research.<p>The other day, I had to hire someone to do some writeups for me. They generously provided me final samples on the subject under discussion. It got me thinking that I could have taken their samples, told them I hated the...
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Bank economists warn of disruptive threat from mobile and crowdfunding - Irishsteve http://www.finextra.com/News/FullStory.aspx?newsitemid=24986&topic=internet ====== oofabz For now, banks continue to profit from crowdfunding. They get a percentage of each credit card transaction. However, they could be in serious ...
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Why we don't develop for platforms other than iPhone - niyazpk http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2009/04/11/please-dont-mistake-my-apathy-for-a-lack-of-understanding/http://www.thisismobility.com/blog/2009/04/11/please-dont-mistake-my-apathy-for-a-lack-of-understanding/ ====== dejb Repost from comment by Tom Hume (...
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Show HN: Introducing – Hacker Fund - brezh http://blog.hacker.fund/introducing-hacker-fund/ ====== vinay427 I'm excited to follow their progress. I've had the privilege of following Justin's Facebook posts for a while now, and his passion for the mission seems unstoppable.
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FontSprite - a new approach to custom fonts on the web - digitalclubb http://jasper.clarkberg.org/fontsprite/index.html ====== winestock From the website: "By using the FontSprite generator, you can create sprite images of glyphs from your chosen font. Then, give the FontSprite engine your image, and the metrics da...
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CIA Offers Proof Huawei Has Been Funded by China's Military and Intelligence - karambir https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/20/cia-offers-proof-huawei-has-been-funded-by-chinas-military-and-intelligence/#68bfd7647208 ====== contingencies A country with 1.4 billion people and a centralist governance stratag...
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Ask HN: Industry standards for locking down a SAAS product to prevent abuse? - Terpaholic I've just finished the software side of my first SAAS product, and was wondering if there are any industry standards or pre-made solutions/API's for signing up/email recovery, managing billing to those accounts, and enabling f...
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YC News Users / Startup School Attendees - Drinks @ The Bus Stop (Downtown SF) on March 23? - semigeek ====== semigeek I've left this note on the Facebook group but also wanted to put it on YC News. A few of the attendees that I know will be gathering at The Bus Stop for drinks on Friday Night. If you're attending, o...
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Why don't humans have a penis bone? Scientists may now know - vezycash https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/14/why-dont-humans-have-a-penis-bone-scientists-may-now-know-baculum ====== gomijacogeo I always figured it was fallout from moving to bipedalism. So many structural changes going on - femur, pelvis, spi...
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Can't override procrastination settings anymore - sanj For anyone who was also surprised, PG has made good on removing the override switch on the no-procast settings.<p>Now I can't undermine myself. As much. ====== ars Can I ask for an option to _yes_ override myself? Otherwise I'm going to have to turn it on and o...
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Should We Abolish User Access to rm? (2011) - giis http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7950/ ====== TallGuyShort This would break _so_ many scripts. In such environments, surely it would be preferable to transparently implement "trash can" functionality behind RM transparently? (As on commenter on that site mentioned). Rath...
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We cannot afford to be indifferent to internet spying (2013) - octosphere https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/09/internet-surveillance-spying ====== gpvos (2013). _> However, I believe that we have turned a corner: we have finally attained Peak Indifference to Surveillance. We have reached the moment aft...
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Quasar Framework about to hit 1.0 (Vue for web and mobile apps) - digitaltrees https://medium.com/quasar-framework/quasar-1-0-sneak-peek-727b4e490899 ====== digitaltrees I thinking about Quasar for a new project but wondered if anyone familiar with something similar in scope.
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When Value Judgments Masquerade as Science - donohoe http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/when-value-judgments-masquerade-as-science/?src=twr ====== Retric This blogger _appears to have_ an extremely superficial understanding of economics. Economists have no problems talking about economic efficiency when a fe...
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Facebook, Carnegie Mellon build first AI that beats pros in 6-player poker - moneil971 https://ai.facebook.com/blog/pluribus-first-ai-to-beat-pros-in-6-player-poker/ ====== maximilianroos What's its edge in some understandable units (e.g. BB/hand)? This doesn't mean anything: > If each chip was worth a dollar, Pluri...
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Ask HN: Has anyone made money on Amazon Mechanical Turk? - cdvonstinkpot I&#x27;m out of work at the moment, &amp; am considering trying this to make at least something until a real job materializes. What are people&#x27;s experience with this? I&#x27;m curious to hear what users have to say. ====== tinkerrr Check o...
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Show HN: Flint – The filesystem linter in go - z0mbie42 https://github.com/astrocorp42/flint ====== z0mbie42 Hi, author here. This is commonly accepted that naming convention and style convention have no place in code reviews so we invented style linters (eslint, prettier, golint...). But what about filenames and di...
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If the US Government used personal finance software - ry0ohki http://budgetsimple.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/the-us-government-budget-in-budgetsimple/ ====== adestefan That's not a budget, that's a cash flow statement. Budgets are expected income and expected expenses. The problem with the US budget is that income is...
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The Al Jaffee / Mad Magazine Fold-In Effect in CSS - thomaspark https://thomaspark.co/2020/06/the-mad-magazine-fold-in-effect-in-css/ ====== fluxsauce This is fun, thanks for making that! There's a treasure trove of Al Jaffee's work that can be shared with future generations. Al Jaffee just retired at 99! Here's arti...
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Glassomer: Glass shaping at room temperature - lucioperca https://www.glassomer.com/ ====== cududa Not sure if this is supposed to be a marketing plug or generate discussion? Either way, the company would’ve been better off making a blog posting and posting HQ images of what they can do. The images on the site kind o...
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XXY Oscilloscope - rbanffy https://dood.al/oscilloscope/ ====== flowless This needs some samples https://dood.al/oscilloscope/#-0.05,-0.8,0,0,0,0,0.0,3,1,sin(a*t-t/5)*cos(a*t/b)*cos((a+b)*t),sin(a*t+(t/11))*cos(t*t/(b*a)),3,5,0,0.74,125,0,0,0 https://dood.al/oscilloscope/#-0.05,-0.8,1,0,0,0...
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Show HN: I ported this classic DOS game to HTML5 - woj http://www.heartlight5.com ====== e1ven It looks like a great accomplishment, and I'd love to read a blog article on the process of porting it. Perhaps you could share that ? ;) ~~~ woj Sure. I wasn't certain anyone would be interested in it, but will do a writ...
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Windows non-LAN, wormable RCE 0-day discovered - nerdy https://twitter.com/taviso/status/860681252034142208 ====== buster I'm curious what "don't need to be on the same LAN" means. If it would be exploitable over internet wouldn't you just write that oder even leave the part about LAN out? ~~~ rdtsc Because other rem...
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Apple to release OS X 10.9 with new power-user features, more from iOS - uladzislau http://9to5mac.com/2013/04/29/apple-to-update-os-x-with-new-power-user-features-more-from-ios-later-this-year/ ====== dljsjr Rumors. All rumors. Why is this here? I'm one of the biggest OS X 'fanbois' in the world, and I read the rumo...
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Sex robots to “feel” human touch with new ‘smart skin’ - oedmarap https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8030636/sex-robots-feel-human-touch-smart-skin ====== fastbeef Every day it seems more and more like were living in a Black Mirror episode. How do I get off? ~~~ jandrese When we realize that the these smart skins are frag...
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PayPal Restores Seafile's Account after File-Monitoring Row - TimWolla http://fortune.com/2016/06/22/paypal-seafile-monitoring/ ====== mtgx Sure, an apology - because the negative PR is starting to hurt Paypal. But how many other tens or hundreds of other companies experience the same kind of censorship from Paypal, ...
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Produce different behaviour in all versions of your language - lelf http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/48898/produce-different-behaviour-in-all-versions-of-your-language ====== PaulHoule I am amused that Python is the most popular language here, since the Python 2 to Python 3 transition was so badly botched. ...
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Ask HN: Review my new product (startup) - rogerthat_au We are a web agency startup (langoor.com) who recently launched a mobile website building tool:<p>www.langoor.mobi<p>We would love your feedback on the tool and whether you think it is useful for SMEs. Thank you! ====== aioprisan One piece of feedback on the 4 s...
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The one thing wrong with sites like Digg - mattculbreth http://onstartups.com/home/tabid/3339/bid/1393/The-One-Thing-Wrong-With-Social-Content-Sites-Like-Digg.aspx ====== mojuba That's unfortunately not the only problem. Socially selected content sucks because it is being selected by an Average Joe, while actually wha...
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The Vimes Boots Theory: Further Reflections - panic https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1477942.html ====== Androider Louis CK has a fantastic bit about this: "When you're broke, the bank starts charging you money... for not having enough money. If you have a lot of money, they give you money. Because you have a lot of mo...
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Prettier 2.0 – Opinionated JavaScript formatter - kristiandupont https://prettier.io/blog/2020/03/21/2.0.0.html ====== Waterluvian A bit irritating that formatting zealots are changing the defaults. What can possibly drive the decision to change whatever option it is they landed on and deployed? It's contrary to every...
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Ask HN: Must do's and must know's when switching to Windows? - Tenoke I am switching to Windows from Linux (and MacOS on my last work laptop). It used to be my main OS years ago, and I think the time has come for another try. I know I won&#x27;t be especially happy with it, just like I am not especially happy with Mac...
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How 6 people were rescued from an elevator at the Hancock - erentz https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-hancock-building-elevator-rescue-20181116-story.html ====== greenyoda Previous discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508693](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18508693) ------ ...
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Why business analysts and project managers get higher salaries than programmers? - Unosolo http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-business-analysts-and-project-managers-get-higher-salaries-than-programmer/45814#45814 Whether project managers get higher salaries than programmers and business analy...
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Redesigned GNU C Library manual - elmerland http://elmerland.com/gnu_manual.html ====== hurin It really doesn't work for me. Here is why: A big part of manuals is being able to read or scroll fluidly into the next or previous section - very often one doesn't know whether what they are looking for is mentioned in 1.3....
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The Making of Prince of Persia - alex_c http://jordanmechner.com/blog/2009/11/the-making-of-prince-of-persia/ ====== wlievens This is a totally awesome read. It's basically Microserfs or JPod, but for real. Total treasure trove for guys who grew up in the nineties with games like Prince of Persia. ------ there and ...
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We (Mozilla) Fight For the User - Garbage http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20110721 ====== michaelchisari I've sent Mr. Eich an email, I'm very interested to see where Mozilla is going in terms of open social networking. While Google+ might be the next centralized ship that everyone jumps to (after Facebook,...
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Steve Jobs' first boss: 'Very few companies would hire Steve, even today' - filvdg http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_22884138/steve-jobs-first-boss-very-few-companies-would ====== untog The only thing that worries me about bringing focus to stuff like this is that people will walk away with the reverse impression- that ...
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Machine Translates Thoughts into Speech in Real Time - dhbradshaw http://www.physorg.com/news180620740.html ====== dubcomesaveme wow. ~~~ anigbrowl x2. This is some really impressive work. I wonder which platform they will use for the synthesis? This (regrettably discontinued) device yields the most impressive resu...
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Emails prove traffic shutdown was political payback from office of NJ governor - ck2 http://www.northjersey.com/news/christie_kelly_bridge_lane_closures_emails.html ====== ck2 What's interesting about this is apparently you can get anything back from Google gmail via a warrant. Also, without the press, this would h...
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Linux Needs Open Multimedia on the Web - linuxmag http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7483 ====== loup-vaillant > Overall, the situation isn’t great. Flash works well under 32bit Linux but > only when using closed source, bug ridden proprietary software. There is a funny little contradiction: If Flash works well, how can you...
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Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013 - r0h1n http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-20/elon-musk-had-a-deal-to-sell-tesla-to-google-in-2013 ====== nakedrobot2 In an alternate universe, Google sold to Yahoo for $1M in 1998; Tesla sold to Yahoo in 2013. ~~~ higherpurpose Except it's more likely ...
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Ask YC: WoW items commodity exchange, why wouldn't it work? - andreyf http://andreyf.tumblr.com/post/61389798/wow-stock-exchange ====== ram1024 because unlike a standard material commodity, a playing card's value can be dramatically affected by whatever the publishing company decides to do to the game. whether it be...
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Fed Aims to Hasten Payments - prostoalex http://www.wsj.com/articles/fed-aims-to-hasten-payments-1422313936 ====== na85 Please stop submitting sites with paywalls. ~~~ prostoalex WSJ.com provides no visual indication of whether or not the article is behind one. Sometimes it's the full view of the article on the orig...
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Apple's 2013 Acquisitions - jason_slack http://m.tuaw.com/2013/10/29/a-look-back-at-apples-2013-acquisitions/ ====== jason_slack A better version: [http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/29/a-look-back-at- apples-2013-ac...](http://www.tuaw.com/2013/10/29/a-look-back-at- apples-2013-acquisitions/)
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Let's Dial Down our Enthusiasm over the Billionare Giving Pledge - dcaldwell http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-dorfman/the-giving-pledge_b_796159.html ====== nlwhittemore There are a bunch of fine reasons to be low-to-medium excited about the Giving Pledge instead of totally amped, but Dorfman's argument - that th...
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The Burden of iOS - mthwl http://thew.me/writing/the-burden-of-ios ====== frogpelt With no offense intended to the author, this post is 500 words of unsubstantiated generalities. Not that it's terribly written. It's just looks more like a preface to an article that contains the actual substance. The author makes this...
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Twitter begins rolling out audio tweets on iOS - themantra514 https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/17/twitter-begins-rolling-out-audio-tweets-on-ios/ ====== themantra514 Will Clubhouse offer 139 character slugs?
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Life With Arsenic: Who'd Have Thought? - barredo http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/12/02/life_with_arsenic_whod_have_thought.php ====== kragen This is the highest-quality discussion of the issue I've seen anywhere: both the blog post and the comment thread. ------ hartror Another HN discussion on this news: <...
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European Interoperability Framework: Promoting seamless services and data flows [pdf] - fghtr https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/sites/isa/files/eif_brochure_final.pdf ====== fghtr Recommendation 1: Ensure that national interoperability frameworks and interoperability strategies are aligned with the EIF and, if needed, tailor ...
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Former NSA chief warns of cyber-terror attacks if Snowden apprehended - Cbasedlifeform http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/06/nsa-director-cyber-terrorism-snowden ====== Cbasedlifeform How to make friend and influence people: _" If and when our government grabs Edward Snowden, and brings him back here t...
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Links were always supposed to go both ways. It just took decades to get there - awwstn https://capiche.com/e/roam-research-worldwideweb-xanadu ====== 8bitsrule Here's another article on Roam Research (I did appreciate the history in that link) that more clearly explains what it is they're up to. [https://nesslabs.com/...
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Problems with TypeScript - BarelyLit https://blog.logrocket.com/is-typescript-worth-it/ ====== sethc2 IMO, Yes (usually). Let me elaborate. If you are starting a new project, yes use typescript over JS. And configure it with all strict options. This doesn't magically give you well architected and well-tested code, ...
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TechStars in Boulder - dawie http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2007/07/techstars-in-bo.html ====== pg _Brainchild?_ <https://www.gtldna.net/> ~~~ brett Ha. Do you have a take on the "let's have all the startups work in one big room" decision? ~~~ pg I think that's a mistake. It's hard for programmers t...
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AWS Session Manager: SSH tunnels with less user management - jon918 https://blog.symops.io/2020/03/23/aws-session-manager-ssh-tunnels-with-less-user-management.html ====== jon918 This is a follow up to last week's post on session manager, a bunch of people had questions on SSH tunneling. Last week's post: [https://new...
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You are only cool if you own a brand - myearwood http://brands.tk ====== yakto Spaces after periods are cool, too. ------ mikerhoads Yeah....I'd rather be a billionaire.
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Tell HN: Scroogle's back - percept Good news, Scrooglers!<p>http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm<p>Unadorned:<p>http://scroogle.org/scraper.html ====== pierrefar How are you doing it this time around? ------ MikeCapone If you want to use the encrypted version in Chrome, add this to your search engine list: ...
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Microsoft says encryption laws make companies wary of storing data in Australia - technion https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-28/microsoft-says-companies-are-no-longer-comfortable-storing-data/10946494 ====== mastazi I have migrated to Australia many years ago and I have recently become eligible to become a citizen. ...
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