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Stop writing milliseconds and hating JavaScript's setTimeout & setInterval - avk https://github.com/avk/jQuery-Chrono ====== kragen Why would I add 1.8K of possibly buggy minified code, compiled from 247 lines of possibly buggy un-minified code, to my web app, just in order to avoid having to write ...
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Search IRS 990 forms from non-profits - BruceM http://lukerosiak.info/irs/ ====== BruceM He's working through OCRing over 7 million of these documents. He could use some help doing so, so contacting him would be great.
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Paravirtualization With Xen On CentOS 5.3 (x86_64) - joschi http://www.howtoforge.com/paravirtualization-with-xen-on-centos-5.3-x86_64 ====== spkthed Does Howtoforge actually have created content? Every time I see one of their articles I see probably 5 absolutely identical articles on other sites. I'm not sure which w...
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The History of Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” Album Art - bravura http://adamcap.com/2011/05/19/history-of-joy-division-unknown-pleasures-album-art/ ====== NelsonMinar This whole article reads like it's written by someone who has never been inside a library. "it would be nice to have an original copy of those 3 af...
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All Your Fountains Are Belong To Us - jheitzeb http://www.hackthings.com/all-your-fountains-are-belong-to-us/ ====== peteforde My friend Jeff Chapman would have really appreciated this. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountaineer> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninjalicious> <http://www.yip.org/oases/> ------ hndud...
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Django tests are now fast - forsaken http://ericholscher.com/blog/2009/jan/15/django-now-has-fast-tests/ ====== brandonkm Best news i've heard about django recently. This will undoubtedly make many 'testing obsessive' developers very happy, not only from a performance view but from a django feature set view as well....
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Jim Mattis: Duty, Democracy and the Threat of Tribalism - inflatableDodo https://www.wsj.com/articles/jim-mattis-duty-democracy-and-the-threat-of-tribalism-11566984601?mod=rsswn ====== inflatableDodo The text is also up on MSN without the paywall [https://www.msn.com/en- us/news/opinion/jim-mattis-duty-democ...](https...
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Ask HN: FAQ Pages useful? - kineticac I just put together a FAQ page for http://browseology.com to help clarify the new technology. We found that people are often times associating real-time collaboration with signups, installs, and such, so that's what they keep looking for on our page, when all they need is to cl...
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Surveillance Capitalism as Threat to Democracy - jashkenas http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and-a-the-age-of-surveillance-capital.html ====== AbrahamParangi There are two points that I strongly disagree with: 1) The characterization of capitalism as a novel acquisitive behavior. This is ridicu...
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Post-Brexit Rumblings Spook U.K. Tech Boom - antouank http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-22/post-brexit-rumblings-spook-u-k-tech-boom ====== muzz Does this article literally start off mentioning the blatant age discrimination in tech? "If you are under 35, possess an entrepreneurial spirit, speak Python a...
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Popular Science Writing: A Challenge to Academic Cultures [pdf] - lainon http://ou.edu/content/expo/brainstorm/jcr%3Acontent/contentpar/download_37/file.res/Erickson-Popular%20Science%20Writing.pdf ====== veddox Alexander von Humboldt believed that a scientist never interacts with nature in a purely rational manner,...
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Online M.Sc CS UT Austin, $10K - barry-cotter https://www.edx.org/masters/online-master-science-computer-science-utaustinx ====== barry-cotter It seems that it is either at par with or inferior to the GA Tech OMSCS in every way but the minimum time to completion. You can do it in 1.5 years whereas IIRC the minimum for...
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Ask HN: How to impove in CI/CD - chaoz_ CI&#x2F;CD concepts are crucial parts of each not-so-small software project. Proper automation and consideration of probable issues support team through the whole journey.<p>I&#x27;ve seen companies ignoring it or doing it wrong in their concrete case.<p>I want to improve in thi...
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Pebble is dead and hardware buttons are going with it - allenleein https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/27/16936922/pebble-smartwatch-hardware-button-physical-controls ====== ElKoji The author purposely ignores Garmin, who is one of the biggest player in Smart watches, after Apple and among Samsung and Fitbit. They make a ...
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I’m Stopping the Fan-Supported Podcast Experiment - laurex https://tim.blog/2019/07/11/why-im-stopping-the-fan-supported-podcast-experiment/ ====== ar0 Of course, podcast ads are also the opposite of almost all the other ads on the Internet: They don't send your personal data and web browsing history to hundreds of sh...
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Integer Factorization - subhendra https://www.slideshare.net/SubhendraBasu3/a-method-for-factorizing-arbitrary-length-integers-in-real-time ====== gus_massa See the discussion in [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345059](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14345059)
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Melbourne researchers uncover privacy lapses in transport dataset - rbanffy https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252468664/Melbourne-researchers-uncover-privacy-lapses-in-transport-dataset ====== tastroder > Continue Reading This Article Enjoy this article as well as all of our > content, including E-Guides, news, tips...
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Seminal Work Or Sloppy Thinking? - ojbyrne http://editor.blogspot.com/2009/09/seminal-work-or-sloppy-thinking.html ====== pg Man, these journalists are so nice compared to the Internet trolls I'm used to. I barely feel goaded into responding. But... \- Do _Time_ and _The Economist_ actually switch lengths? It's true ...
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Bringing search to Angular - iam4xzor https://blog.algolia.com/bringing-search-to-angular ====== brennanbl I really like how they credit the contributors at the end
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Show HN: Sendfiles.online – Share, send, or recieve any file up to 2GB for free - lou_alcala https://sendfiles.online ====== cryo "Our platform stores the files you want to send as you have uploaded them, that is, we do not make any kind of understanding so that your files reach their destination completely and as you...
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A VC's perspective of NYC, entrepreneurs and PSDs (Poor, Smart, and a Desire to get rich) - ilamont http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/04/10/bear-stearns-and-psd-spirit ====== sdurkin This is an interesting account, as its contrary to most of what I've heard about Bear. At my school, where the majority of students...
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Why Everyone Is Talking About Node - andre3k1 http://mashable.com/2011/03/10/node-js/ ====== jasonkester Does anybody else get a little question mark over their head whenever they read about the "novelty" of being able to use javascript on the server? Certainly everybody must remember ASP, which let you write all you...
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MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs - elsherbini http://news.mit.edu/2016/mit-announces-the-engine-for-entrepreneurs-1026 ====== Dangeranger A) What is the application process expected to be like for The Engine? B) It appears that the resources are spread out across Cambridge, Boston, and South ...
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Googling stuff can cause us to overestimate our own knowledge - kostandin_k http://digest.bps.org.uk/2015/10/googling-stuff-can-cause-us-to.html ====== louisswiss As a web dev (and not a very good one) I spend a lot of time googling coding problems which normally turn out to either have simple solutions or to be based...
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The Great Debate - deathanatos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Debate_(astronomy) ====== SomewhatLikely It's amazing to think this was less than 100 years ago. ------ thunderbong >> It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe; Shapley believed that distant nebulae were relativ...
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China orders US consulate, Chengdu closed following US demands CN consulate shut - aspenmayer https://twitter.com/i/events/1286518729052835840 ====== aspenmayer If the US doesn’t close their consulate in Chengdu, things are going to get _interesting_? [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23936665](https://news.ycomb...
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Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013) - Tomte https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415 ====== SJSque Here in the Netherlands, they tend to kick the mother out of hospital as soon as feasible after the birth (typically after one night, or even on the same day), but as soon as you get home, the home nurse...
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DeepDive – System that enables developers to analyze data on a deeper level - DyslexicAtheist http://deepdive.stanford.edu/ ====== rstoner This could be a huge value-add to the groups that have invested heavily in human-directed knowledge graph construction (e.g. Project Halo/Aristo at the Allen Institute for AI). ...
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Open Source UAV projects giving comfort to the enemy? - ivankirigin http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2007/08/can-open-source.html ====== Hexstream I'd never keep myself from an Actual Good to mitigate a Possible Evil... ~~~ ivankirigin I think makers need to be proactive though. Regulators could start to treat h...
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(2012) – Epic 20,000 Dice Roll Randomness Test - programmingpol https://www.awesomedice.com/blog/353/d20-dice-randomness-test-chessex-vs-gamescience/ ====== laumars I’d be interested to know how the test we carried out. Eg how randomly was the die shaken? Was the die placed on the same side each time prior to shaking?...
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Ask HN: Which are some of the most expensive off-the-shelf sw products? - digamber_kamat We all buy windows and at the most photo shop for few hundred dollars. But which are some of the most expensive software products around?<p>I have heard of SCADE suite and SCADE graphics each costing around $100k ====== Shooter ...
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The trouble with exponential discounting and how we undervalue the future - gabaix http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-28/einstein-on-wall-street-time-money-continuum-commentary-by-mark-buchanan.html ====== agalmicvinegar Are people actually making long-term decisions based on that kind of obviously-too-simple mod...
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Understanding the math behind 0x5f3759df and the fast inverse square root (2012) - ColinWright http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df.html ====== lemoncucumber Be sure to read the appendix, which is an easy-to-miss link at the end: [http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5f3759df- appendix.html](http://h14s.p5r.org/2012/09/0x5...
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How to Become a Successful Corporate Trainer - johnastuntz http://www.dotnetcurry.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=521 ====== smiler Ensure the participants can not have access to the web or their work e-mail should be number 1. That way they can't get distracted by either and will pay attention, thus ensuring the training i...
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Why Groupon is not in Australia (domain squatter) - elvirs http://www.groupon.com/blog/cities/why-groupon-isnt-in-australia/ ====== phunel Karma? From Andrew's Mixergy interview, <http://mixergy.com/andrew-mason-groupon- interview/> - Talking in regards to the original British owner of Groupon: "...We’re doing somet...
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How the Library of Congress Unrolled a 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Scroll - sohkamyung https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gandhara-scroll-library-of-congress ====== hprotagonist By 2016 we had figured out how to take very high resolution microCT scans of things with ink on them and "unroll" them virtually. This was succ...
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Ask HN: C/C++ adjusting variables at runtime - scraft I recall hearing of a library that can be linked into a C&#x2F;C++ program that allows you to register variables. When your application is launched, the library would start a webserver, which you can then connect to. The displayed webpage would then show you all ...
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Recurse Center switches to online-only until at least May - tosh https://www.recurse.com/blog/152-RC-is-online-only-until-at-least-May ====== epoch_100 A silver lining: this is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to attend RC but can’t pack up and move to NYC for three months. ------ optimaton Isn’t the prim...
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How to Get Hired at Fog Creek, Part 1 - gecko http://hicks-wright.net/blog/how-to-get-a-job-at-fog-creek-part-1/ ====== henning The question presents itself: why would someone that good want to work on project management software with such a funky user interface and oddball feature set? ~~~ epall That's the same se...
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Ulas family is a Kurdish family of 19, five of whom walk on all fours - doener https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulas_family ====== doener BBC documentary about this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwiz- yhLpT0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwiz-yhLpT0)
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Strategy HN: How to choose an area for launching my social netork? - starter My new social network can be ready for launch just after school begins this September.<p>Should I launch at school(s) in the Northeast first?<p>Or, should I choose a launch location based on how many people I know in that specific network? ...
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The Quality, Popularity, and Negativity of 5.6M Hacker News Comments - sinak http://minimaxir.com/2014/10/hn-comments-about-comments ====== nopinsight > The minimum average points score of any given comment was about 2 points, > meaning that all comments received atleast 1 upvote on average. This trend > has been incr...
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I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare - ytNumbers https://nypost.com/2018/05/28/i-wrote-a-negative-yelp-review-and-it-made-my-life-a-nightmare/ ====== jastanton I was nodding along until this: > They posted my entire medical record, including notes about my mental > health, my bills, my insur...
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Ask HN: Pricing: How would you price Code Pal? - sshrin Our product is Code Pal: http://www.codepal.me<p>It is a way to learn programming in a fun and engaging way. Basically, we allow students to learn programming by using their own social data (imagine writing a for loop to print out the names of all your Facebook...
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Fly Straight, Dammit (2019) - lelf http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2019/08/12/fly-straight-dammit/ ====== wruza a_a =: 1 + + a_b =: [ % +. py (a_b ` a_a @. has_gcd) y I know it is math and all that, but when we commit something like this at day job, it doesn’t give you applause. Can the ide...
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The RAMCloud Storage System - bluejekyll http://blog.acolyer.org/2016/01/18/ramcloud/ ====== tyingq Apparently from John Ousterhout, creator of Tcl/Tk. ~~~ jzelinskie Also, the Raft consensus protocol was designed to power the LogCabin project which was designed to manage the configuration for RAMCloud. ------ akeck...
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Faster than C? Parsing binary data in JavaScript. - tuxychandru https://github.com/felixge/faster-than-c ====== tabbyjabby I am _extremely_ doubtful that optimized C is going to be equally performant as optimized JavaScript. There is innate overhead when using an interpreted language, no matter how advanced the interp...
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Improving Linux networking performance - sciurus https://lwn.net/Articles/629155/ ====== zelos I love reading articles like this: _" So, for example, a cache miss on Jesper's 3GHz processor takes about 32ns to resolve. It thus only takes two misses to wipe out the entire time budget for processing a packet."_ Then I ...
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Ask HN: Fair buyout price for my partner? - buyingout I'm using a shadow account but I've been a member of HN for a while. My partner has asked me to buy him out of our business, and we're trying to come up with a fair buy out price.<p>Details:<p>- launched an app mid 2010 with a partner (50 / 50 split, not incorporat...
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The Next Wave - chermanowicz http://edge.org/conversation/john_markoff-the-next-wave ====== mcshicks I really enjoy John Markoff's writing and happened to read that article before this was posted. If you really want to understand more of where he is coming from with respect to this article I would recommend reading hi...
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Show HN: Horsey – Progressive and customizable autocomplete component - bevacqua https://github.com/bevacqua/horsey ====== fiatjaf Needs to autocomplete with tab. ~~~ bevacqua And break navigation? No thanks
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French Government Looks To Create Great Firewall Of France - nextparadigms http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110616/01431614712/french-government-looks-to-create-great-firewall-france.shtml ====== d0ne This already happens in almost every major country, US included, with the use of various Gag order like methods. E...
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K-means clustering is not a free lunch - __Joker http://varianceexplained.org/r/kmeans-free-lunch/ ====== darkxanthos On the one hand the article is saying, "Look at your data." On the other it's saying, "Visualizing data is hard in more than two dimensions." It doesn't really offer any suggestions to fix that. I i...
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Firefox OS for Raspberry Pi with WebGL demos - mariuz http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/oleg-romashin ====== nitrogen I look forward to one day getting my hands on an Rpi. That is, if Allied ever ships the board I ordered _ages_ ago (the page I ordered from no longer exists on their site). Seriously, with all...
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How we failed, then succeeded, at migrating to TypeScript - drob https://heap.io/blog/engineering/migrating-to-typescript ====== AriaMinaei I was looking at some of my old repos today. Enjoyed the nostalgia. Lots of CoffeeScript there. I had to switch to ES and then TypeScript because CoffeeScript was abandoned at the...
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SinGAN: Learning a Generative Model from a Single Natural Image - groar https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.01164 ====== jeeceebees I think the approach is really cool but the processing time required is too much for this to be very useful at the moment. On a 1080 Ti it takes 45-90 minutes to train networks for the various ta...
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Show HN: Trin Trin: Text That Rings - bharath_trin https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.trintrin.app&hl=en ====== bharath_trin Trin Trin is a social messenger which let's you text your friends in most alerting way. Tap on a contact, type and TrinTrin - Your friend receives a flashing text with ringtone an...
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Show HN: Drogon becomes one of the fastest web frameworks - an-tao https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=26a79c95-5eec-4572-8c94-dd710df659d7&hw=ph&test=update ====== an-tao [https://github.com/an-tao/drogon](https://github.com/an-tao/drogon)
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Why You Should Put Your Content on Both Medium and Your Own Domain - michaelbuckbee https://sendcheckit.com/blog/why-you-should-put-your-content-on-medium-and-your-own-domain?rel=hn ====== fiatjaf Well, you should do a lot of things. The difficult part is to know what is worth doing. ~~~ michaelbuckbee In general, wr...
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Ask HN: Gmail spam filters acting up? - laurenia I just checked my Gmail spam box, and there have been over a dozen emails in the past month that were incorrectly sent to spam. Most were promotional (Yelp, Taskrabbit, a couple of hotels I&#x27;ve visited and newspapers I subscribed to), but some were personal -- a re...
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Gasper, Your Cloud in a Binary - alphadoze https://github.com/sdslabs/gasper ====== alexellisuk Have you seen OpenFaaS? [https://github.com/openfaas/faas](https://github.com/openfaas/faas) It seems like it covers most of your use-cases and with more modularity and scale-out on Kubernetes if needed. For single node us...
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AT&T Discussed Idea of Takeover in Time Warner Meetings - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-20/at-t-said-to-discuss-idea-of-takeover-in-time-warner-meetings ====== warrenm TWC is already merging with Charter (interestingly, it's the _smaller_ company (Charter) who's "buying" TWC) So .. ho...
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Unusual Red Arcs Spotted on Icy Saturn Moon - deviantkt http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4671 ====== DanAndersen Made me think of some sort of bloody monument a species of spacefaring conquerors might leave. (Did some back-of-the-envelope calculations out of curiosity and found that the amount of blood...
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MacOS VPN architecture from System Preferences down to nesessionmanager - Timac https://blog.timac.org/2018/0717-macos-vpn-architecture/ ====== teilo What boggles me about the VPN implementation on Mac is the massive amount of functionality that is not accessible unless you are using Apple Configurator to create a pro...
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Chariot for Women is a new ride sharing service for women only - gberger http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/08/chariot-for-women-is-a-new-ride-sharing-service-for-women-only/ ====== slg A premium ride sharing service that puts safety at the forefront and targets women sounds like a viable business. This doesn't. Not only a...
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How would you pick a uniform random element in linked list with unknown length? - polm23 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9401375/how-would-you-pick-a-uniform-random-element-in-linked-list-with-unknown-length ====== bediger4000 Seems like a job for Reservoir Sampling: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reservoir_sampli...
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Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x - doctorshady http://james.bertelson.me/blog/2014/01/level-3-are-now-hijacking-failed-dns-requests-for-ad-revenue-on-4-2-2-x/ ====== skymt Seems reasonable. Those servers were never intended for widespread public use, so they may as well make back...
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NodeMCU v2 – Lua-based ESP8266 development kit - kfihihc http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/NodeMCU-v2-Lua-based-ESP8266-development-kit-p-2415.html ====== TD-Linux I have been avoiding the ESP8266 because of the toolchain - when it was released, it was essentially a complete (buggy) proprietary firmware with the abil...
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Macroscopic quantum objects cannot exist if P ≠ NP? - sleepysort https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/the-astounding-link-between-the-p-np-problem-and-the-quantum-nature-of-universe-7ef5eea6fd7a ====== Dunnorandom For anyone interested, here's Scott Aaronson's response to the paper: [http://www.scottaaronson.co...
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iKe/oK/k5 Livecoding Demo - srpeck https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok/tree/gh-pages/ike ====== brudgers Recent discussions: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310842](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10310842) [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048046](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9048046)
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F.lux - satyampujari http://justgetflux.com/ ====== aroch I, and I'm sure the rest of HN, loves F.lux...but is there a reason why this needs to be posted every month or two? There hasn't even been an update (and the promised OSX update is no where to be seen) ~~~ crazygringo Honestly, for most things I would agree......
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The African Hacker News - drethemadrapper There used to be a news website like the HN for Africa-related stories&#x2F;news sometime ago. I ran a search for it a lot of times in the past but no luck. Any news about it? ====== jkuria Yes, I was the creator/host of the site but decommissioned it because there was no wa...
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Managing "Unproductive" Meetings - tortilla http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2008/06/managing-unprod.html ====== terpua * But there is a lot of serendipity in this world and you never know when an unproductive meeting turns into a productive one.* "Money!"
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George Bell - MIT Startup Bootcamp (video) - venturefizz http://venturefizz.com/blog/george-bell-mit-startup-bootcamp-video ====== ijreilly George Bell at Excite: Decided not to buy Google for $1M. Decided to buy Blue Mountain for close to $1B. Flipping a coin for each decision would have yielded a better result wit...
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Please, Java. Do Finally Support Multiline Strings - javinpaul http://blog.jooq.org/2015/12/29/please-java-do-finally-support-multiline-strings/ ====== PaulHoule That's what resources are for!
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“Twitter has an algorithm that creates harassment all by itself” - cwyers https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1143925272464506880 ====== freehunter My business does a lot of posting on Facebook of sometimes controversial things (we're a news site and we sometimes cover local politics). By far the most engaged stuff ...
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RockMelt: Netscape's Andreesen Backing Stealth Facebook Browser - peter123 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rockmelt_netscapes_andreesen_backing_stealth_facebook_browser.php ====== figital It's more likely that Facebook (or Ning) would begin to dig into your desktop (or Jetpack) versus the other way around. (unle...
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At least one Vim trick you might not know - appleflaxen https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/intermediate-vim/ ====== ilvez Thanks. Found vim-swap and and vim-surround from there. Undotree also, but this is some corner case when I usually need that. Obviously I'm not a purist.
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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's - whyleyc https://blog.zamzar.com/2016/07/13/life-before-the-web-running-a-startup-in-the-1980s/ ====== martin-adams I think what really makes me appreciate building a startup today compared to the 80's is the low cost of entry. They had to travel to editors of ma...
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Show HN: iOS game teaching kids about Personal Finance - freshrap6 http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mindblownlabs/mindblown-life ====== Killah911 The Project is pretty awesome, and the guys/gals on the project are hardcore believers and doers. I just pitched in a little, hope this project and ones like it gets lo...
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The risks of someone calling you smart and how to avoid them - spodek http://joshuaspodek.com/risks-calling-smart-avoid ====== arscan Awhile ago I realized that it was extremely detrimental to think of myself first and foremost as a "smart" person. Not because that self-image was directly harmful to me in business/the...
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World’s First Carbon Fiber 3D Printer Announced - willwill100 http://3dprint.com/worlds-first-carbon-fiber-3d-printer-announced-the-mark-one ====== 542458 Count me as skeptical. The strength of high-quality carbon fibre comes from having many pieces of fibre woven together over the surface omnidirectionally (Okay, I'm...
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Mongoose - embeddable 40KB web server written in ANSI C - valyala http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/ ====== alperakgun a tribute to d ritchie, the inventor of C and unix along with others.
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Fast request routing using regular expressions - nikic http://nikic.github.io/2014/02/18/Fast-request-routing-using-regular-expressions.html ====== sjtgraham Are regular expressions are good choice for routing? A trie seems like a better choice than a sequence of regexps. O(n) vs O(log n). ~~~ skj Or, O(n^2) vs O(n l...
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What To Do With Failed Startup IP? - terpua http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/06/what-to-do-with-failed-startup-ip/ ====== wheels This is something that I've debated a lot personally. I've thought of setting up an arrangement similar in spirit to the FreeQt agreement between KDE e.V. and Trolltech (<http://www.kde.org...
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All Your Tomcat Are Belong to Bad Guys? - SanderMak http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/all-your-tomcat-are-belong-bad-guys ====== bediger4000 Another clickbait title. All the article describes is a JSP with a backdoor, and maybe some worm-like features. I think all the "X is a Brand New Malware!" type articles, ...
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Memento: Adding time to the web - coderintherye http://www.mementoweb.org/ ====== lucasjung If widely adopted, this could be very useful for holding politicians, corporations, government agencies, or other powerful/influential/public individuals/groups accountable for their statements. It is common practice for such e...
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GIMP development - What’s the point? - unwind https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00019.html ====== pmoriarty People whining about GIMP not being as good as PS don't appreciate what life was like on Linux before GIMP existed, or how primitive GIMP was when it first came out. GIMP has...
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Hard Problems – The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest (2006) [video] - jimsojim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvroykxedDw ====== heinrichf Here is the website of the movie for background information [http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/](http://www.hardproblemsmovie.com/). ------ xyz09 Funny how most guys in t...
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I've used Amazon's text-to-speech API to create voice-over for my video - rayalez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGx-IVI3Cg8 ====== rayalez I have trouble speaking, I don't really like my voice and accent, so I decided to try using Amazon Polly and see if it helps me to create a watchable video. It ended up working ...
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Responsive Dashboard - tilt http://ehesp.github.io/Responsive-Dashboard/ ====== marco1 Compare this to any admin template from WrapBootstrap and you know why this is at the top. If you look at a WrapBootstrap template, it generally looks nice -- but as soon as you look at the code, your opinion will change. They li...
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Knowledge from small number of debates outperforms wisdom of large crowds (2017) - Dowwie https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.00045## ====== hobofan I would say that this has been known for quite some time in philosophy, but I guess it's good to have some real-life verification for it. This article on Belief Merging and Judgem...
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Ask YC: How do you handle locking in your app? - edw519 A simple scenario:<p>At 1:00, Jane pulls a record into her browser: Lakeside High School, 123 Main St., 555-1111.<p>At 1:05, Fred pulls the same record into his browser.<p>At 1:06, Fred changes the address to 123 Oak St.<p>At 1:08, Mary changes the phone number...
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The Illuminating Geometry of Viruses (2017) - devy https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-illuminating-geometry-of-viruses-20170719/ ====== blueboo High-brow pop science can be so precious. > Mathematical insights into how RNA helps viruses pull together their protein > shells could guide future studies of viral behavior...
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Why Learn Perl? - eCa http://perlhacks.com/2016/01/why-learn-perl/ ====== dozzie From my experience, companies that want Perl programmers are mostly big ones with plenty of inertia, that have some legacy build code slapped together years ago by a clueless guy that thought he can write Perl (though he really couldn't),...
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Nexo - Free and Easy Online Groups - gibsonf1 http://www.nexo.com/ ====== papersmith Looks like this site has an edge over meetup.com, considering that meetup charges $19 per month and this one is free.
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Tips for Alternative Funding (by Sean Murphy) - dennykmiu http://www.skmurphy.com/blog/2009/10/19/8-tips-for-evaluating-funding-alternatives/ ====== dennykmiu Short and sweet article. Bottomline is that entrepreneurs must bootstrap their companies through the R&D phase by forgoing salaries. By recruiting a small nu...
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Why So Many Millennials Experience Imposter Syndrome - jrs235 http://www.forbes.com/sites/christinecarter/2016/11/01/why-so-many-millennials-experience-imposter-syndrome/#54cb7c663d40 ====== DrScump It's bad enough that HuffPost can't spell "impostor" correctly, but _Forbes_? _Nine times?!_
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The Department Of Homeland Security Is Now Bitching At Me On My Blog - achalkley http://uncrunched.com/2013/02/23/the-department-of-homeland-security-is-now-bitching-at-me-on-my-blog/ ====== lutusp I love it when government representatives, who in principle have the right to shoot you on the spot if you break their ...
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Elon Musk exercises Tesla options, pays $50M tax bill with own cash - SCAQTony http://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-buys-tesla-shares-cheap-pays-hefty-tax-bill-with-own-cash-2016-01-29 ====== Havoc >priced at $6.63, according to the SEC filing. That is less than 3.5% of the current going rate for Tesla shares B...
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