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25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools - SQL2219 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/16/reader-center/us-public-schools-conditions.html ====== awat I wish I could upvote this more than once. Both my parents were teachers. The disparities that children face from day one neighborhood...
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Ask HN: What design services have you had luck with? - broose_goose A fellow developer and I are about to start working on a new Web App in our free-time, and I wanted to use a design service to expedite the process.<p>If you have used a design service before: what was the service and would you recommend it? Any tips ...
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5 Reasons Why I Switched from Mint to a Spreadsheet - dend https://www.dennisdel.com/why-spreadsheet/ ====== osullivj Some good points explaining why spreadsheets are so sticky. I do my books for my limited company in Google & Excel. Points 2 & 5 are key for me: flexibility and awareness. I tried freeagent.com a while...
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Show HN: StarTrack – GitHub star history and stats - seladb https://github.com/seladb/StarTrack-js ====== ecesena Really nice! If I can suggest: 1) update the browser url so I can share directly, no need for the copy button (I shared it with my team, then the link was wrong, then I went back and found the copy butto...
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Chargify New Pricing - MicahWedemeyer http://chargify.com/blog/chargify-news-new-pricing-features-more/ ====== jacquesm > we do need to migrate everyone to the new pricing You can't change your pricing upwards for existing customers, ever. You can change your price to anything you want for new customers. You can de...
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Why the MBA 11 is now my sole computer - pmarin http://antirez.com/post/apple-mba11-my-sole-computer.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+antirez+%28antirez+weblog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== shade I have the 2011 11" MBA (i5, 4GB, 128GB) and also the base 2011 15" MBP (i7, 4GB, 500G...
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JQuery 1.6.1 released... - tcarnell http://docs.jquery.com/Downloading_jQuery#Current_Release ====== timdown This release is a fudge, and a partial backwards step. The jQuery team seem uncertain about what the prop()/attr() change is trying to achieve (an uncertainty that probably stems from the uncertainty underlyi...
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Ristretto: A High Performance, Concurrent, Memory-Bound Go Cache - ngaut https://blog.dgraph.io/post/introducing-ristretto-high-perf-go-cache/ ====== sethammons This is a seriously great write up. So many links to research and papers. There were some truly new-to-me concepts and they implemented some stuff that are op...
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Poetry: Dependency Management for Python - jtanderson https://poetry.eustace.io/ ====== SmirkingRevenge After years of python dev professionally, I just quit worrying about it, and embraced: \- vanilla virtualenv: I don't even bother with the wrapper most of the time. \- vanilla setup.py/setup.cfg: Its just really n...
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Show HN: ML toy that tells you if you sound like Trump or Hillary on Twitter - sarim http://thedonaldtest.com/ ====== stephenr So apparently ML doesn't understand sarcasm either. ~~~ sarim I think it could. Our ML doesn't. Here's what a quick google search brought up...[http://cs229.stanford.edu/proj2015/044_report.p...
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Google Search: site:*.*/phpinfo.php - elwell https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:*.*/phpinfo.php&start=20 ====== getdavidhiggins You can find more here: [https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking- database/](https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/) These are called "Google Dorks" for some reason, e...
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Product Hunt Team Live – Let's chat about how we can make Product Hunt better - minimaxir https://www.producthunt.com/live/product-hunt-team ====== minimaxir My comment, since there is a nonzero chance of it getting downvoted/deleted on PH: \--- Hi Ryan & the Product Hunt team. As the person who wrote the Most-Reco...
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Ask HN: What's your top plugin/tool to help consume ever-increasing information? - abhimskywalker Recently I discovered https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;igrigorik&#x2F;videospeed a chrome plugin. And now I can easily breeze through most videos on internet at 2x-3x speeds. It&#x27;s been awesome! Saves lot of time and...
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Worque – CLI written in Ruby to manage and push your daily notes to Slack - hqc https://github.com/huynhquancam/worque ====== jquast I've solved this issue with a chat bot in the past, answering phrases such as, "!open jira issues assigned to jquast" or "!github issues closed by jquast since yesterday" Expand or int...
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How Google Maps has moved so far ahead of the competition - anthraxstars http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/20/fascinating-read-google-maps-moved-far-ahead-competition/ ====== jrnichols This is an area where Apple needs to seriously reconsider all of the third party sources. They just aren't where Google is by thems...
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A Path to Programming Language Theory - rspivak https://github.com/steshaw/plt ====== krat0sprakhar I've been taking a PLT[0] class in school and while the list above is extremely comprehensive and thorough, I'd argue that you do not need to read up all of it to get a good idea of programming languages. Without even ...
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A Closer Look at Crankshaft, V8's Optimizing Compiler - wingo http://wingolog.org/archives/2011/08/02/a-closer-look-at-crankshaft-v8s-optimizing-compiler ====== tzs Minor style suggestion: it would be helpful to toss in the phrase "Google's JavaScript engine" or something similar in there somewhere, perhaps right af...
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Flammarion – browser-based Ruby GUI Toolkit - MrBra https://github.com/zach-capalbo/flammarion ====== MrBra Some discussion [https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/42xxsp/flammarion_the...](https://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/42xxsp/flammarion_the_nifty_ruby_gui_toolkit/) ------ acveilleux I wonder if Flammarion, ...
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Linux on Samsung Galaxy smartphones - djvdorp https://seap.samsung.com/linux-on-galaxy ====== JorgeGT It's quite interesting that with the power of today's mobile devices (multicore 1GHz+ CPUs, GPUs, 2Gb+ RAM) we still don't have a standardized interface to plug them into desktop peripherals and launch a desktop OS/GU...
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Kickstarter has no clue how drone startup raised $3.4M then imploded - pavornyoh http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/11/kickstarter-learned-of-zano-collapse-through-a-bare-bones-project-update/ ====== DigitalSea Kickstarter is the stock market for amateurs to buy into other people's dreams. You are always going to ha...
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Why the US is #1 in philanthropy and how it differs by country - dcaldwell http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704243904575630340322011652.html ====== fmw The article touches upon cultural differences in how publicly flaunting wealth by openly giving large sums to charity is perceived. In Europe, from my p...
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Show HN: Boomla – A free website for everyone – simple UI, JavaScript back end - zupa-hu https://boomla.com/blog/show-hn-boomla-website-builder ====== newman8r Good luck. I like how you don't have any trackers on your site (according to my browser bar at least, didn't actually look into it). I'm sure you could use tha...
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How not to test that mysqld is alive - kirubakaran http://code.openark.org/blog/mysql/how-not-to-test-that-mysqld-is-alive ====== KC8ZKF 'ps ax | grep [m]ysqld' (The regex '[f]oo' will match 'foo' but not itself.) ~~~ kree10 That's one of my favorite shell techniques. Still, I think they're doing it wrong. For kee...
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Meta (YC S13) raises $50M series B - svig http://techcrunch.com/2016/06/13/meta-raises-another-50m-as-it-gears-up-for-the-next-version-of-its-ar-headset-and-china/ ====== danielmorozoff I very optimistic about what AR can bring. To me, the biggest roadblock for AR as well with VR, is user interacting with the digital ...
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Job destruction by robots could outweigh creation - JumpCrisscross http://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21599525-job-destruction-robots-could-outweigh-creation-mighty-contest ====== chroem And water is still wet. Really, it doesn't make sense for robots to not be a net drain on employment. As a thought experi...
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Martin Fowler: An Open Letter to Pearson about SOPA/PIPA - juandg http://martinfowler.com/articles/pearson-sopa.html ====== famousactress Glad to see more high-profile open letters, but I'd really rather see all of these come with ultimatums. Nowhere in the letter does Fowler say that he feels strongly enough about ...
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Gitlab: Defending CI/CD Security - Avyiel https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2019/11/19/defend-cicd-security/ ====== samanthalee233 GitLab employee, thanks for sharing this article!
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Software Design Review - tjr http://philip.greenspun.com/software/design-review ====== mdemare Note that Greenspun is inviting comments. I think the biggest drawback is finding good software design reviewers. If you haven't got the technical expertise to judge the work of your programmers, you're not equipped to ju...
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Ask HN: Is it unethical to finish project from a company that never finished it? - casper345 I worked on a mobile application for a project that I was really invested in but after graduating, different developers with different coding beliefs - the project just fell apart. I still love the idea and put so much time in...
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Gitlab 12.0 Released - bjoko https://about.gitlab.com/2019/06/22/gitlab-12-0-released/ ====== dsumenkovic Here's the brief overview of the top 3 features: 1\. Visual Reviews GitLab review applications are a fantastic tool to enable stakeholders from Operations to QA to business owners to evaluate and approve applica...
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Show HN: Cloudron – Selfhosting made Simple. Instantly run 50+ ready-to-use apps - nebulon Hi HN!<p>This is Girish&#x2F;Johannes from Cloudron - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudron.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;cloudron.io</a>!<p>We have been working on a platform that makes it easy to run apps on your server. ...
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Amazon Takes Fresh Stab at $16B Housekeeping Industry - prostoalex https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-28/amazon-takes-fresh-stab-at-16-billion-housekeeping-industry ====== 2_listerine_pls Amazon and Google will end up being the middle men for everything. You simply can't compete with a company that has a...
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Debugging Behind the Iron Curtain (2010) - e1ven http://archive.is/O70Rg ====== mav3r1ck Wow. I’ve discovered many bugs in my life. But none caused me to fear for my life. >There were often significant food shortages in the Soviet Union, and the government plan was to mix the meat from Chernobyl-area cattle with the ...
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Tegra K1 Glass Fracture Demo [video] - rinesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGPK__0Vnz0 ====== IgorPartola And apparently Acer is about to ship a Chromebook with the K-1 as the graphics card: [http://gizmodo.com/acer-chromebook-13-hands-on-gaming- guts-i...](http://gizmodo.com/acer-chromebook-13-hands-on-gaming-gu...
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A veritable Venn diagram of beverages ... - RiderOfGiraffes http://twitgoo.com/1zdeec ====== RiderOfGiraffes Technically it's an Euler diagram, because not all intersections are shown: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_diagram>
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Tiny Helicopter Piloted By Human Thoughts - smaili http://www.livescience.com/37160-tiny-helicopter-piloted-by-human-thoughts.html ====== zsombor Downscaling the myriad of signals from your brain to 64 electrodes controlling four spacial dimensions seems tricky. I can see that making a fist may turn left, but what p...
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Ask HN: How to get better at large system design? - zodvik There are a lot of resources for learning algorithms, code design patterns, etc.<p>As you grow, what are the good resources for system design patterns? How did you get better at it? For large system designs, like say a fulfilment ecosystem, the choices become ...
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No Man’s Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim - radley http://indiestatik.com/2013/12/07/mans-sky/ ====== Derbasti There is an incredible amount of negativity in this thread. They said all the landscapes are procedurally generated. They did not say that there won't be any missions or tech trees...
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I Miss My Mac - Derbasti https://bastibe.de/2020-01-21-i-miss-my-mac.html ====== paulrpotts I've been using Macs since 1985 and I've owned several, going back to the SE, PowerBook Duo 230, PowerBook G4, and 2008 Mac Pro, which is still my basic workhorse machine. I've also done a lot of development for "classic" MacOS...
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An LLVM backend for GHC: implementation and benchmarks: PDF - dons http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf ====== yan That paper is for a BS thesis. Some MS students in my old school would struggle to even understand it. There were always pockets of us that did interesting things on the side, but t...
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Individualism, Self-Selection, Cultural Change During the Age of Mass Migration [pdf] - monort https://annesofiebeckknudsen.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/thosewhostayed.pdf ====== joshe Great paper. Some good discussion from the author (and other interesting research links) here: [https://twitter.com/ASBeckKnudsen](...
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Ask HN: Business implications of open sourcing our framework? - EGreg I&#x27;ve spent the last two years building a framework called Q, in order to enable a consistent, easy creation of social apps and everything that goes with it (realtime collaboration, mobile, addressbook integration, facebook integration, and mo...
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring? (February 2012 Edition) - nitroscott It's a new month. Time for a new thread.<p>Please lead the post with the location of the position and make it clear if working remotely is a possibility. ====== trvlngwlbry Lead Developer and/or Designer - Remote Bungolow (www.bungolow.com) Bungolow is hiri...
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A new firm says it can link satellites to ordinary smartphones - sohkamyung https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/03/07/a-new-firm-says-it-can-link-satellites-to-ordinary-smartphones ====== londons_explore Every time you see a claim like this, remember the Shannon–Hartley theorem[1]. If you want to ge...
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How removing self-serve cancellations saved our business - duck https://baremetrics.com/blog/self-serve-cancellations-saved-our-business ====== mindcrime I'm sorry, but I don't care how you rationalize it, but this is "evil" to the extent that that word makes sense in a business context to begin with. If I'm a custome...
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Ads-free Solitaire will cost you $10 - joering2 http://gizmodo.com/if-you-want-microsoft-solitaire-ad-free-itll-cost-you-1720951270 ====== melling What's wrong with charging for software? Consumer software prices have been driven to $0 with annoying in-app purchase schemes. Developers then come up with crazy schemes...
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Carta for Public Companies - gwintrob https://medium.com/@henrysward/carta-for-public-companies-b256e873aaa3 ====== coreyoconnor Carta is "software to help companies, investors, law firms, and employees modernize the way they manage ownership" The homepage is [https://carta.com/](https://carta.com/) Or it's "Charles...
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Ask HN: What's your biggest struggle with Microservices? - mymmaster I&#x27;m working on a book about microservices and want to know what questions and topics you&#x27;d like to see covered.<p>What were your biggest hurdles when first adopting microservices? Was it hard for your team to determine service boundaries? D...
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing? (1981) [pdf] - reedwolf http://www.stafforini.com/existence/Nozick%20-%20Why%20is%20there%20something%20rather%20than%20nothing.pdf ====== scastiel Ricky Gervais gave a very satisfying answer to this exact question: [https://youtu.be/P5ZOwNK6n9U?t=70](https://youtu.be/P5ZOwN...
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Ask HN: How to get started writing as a programmer? - Nib Hi, I&#x27;m a programmer. Like most of us are.<p>There are a number of people, programmers, if not very good programmers, but yeah, programmers who are great writers, like for example Pual Graham, Aaron Swartz, Quinn Norton and others in the line.<p>But my s...
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Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny - vulpes http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/joe-hewitt-developer-of-facebooks-massively-popular-iphone-app-quits-the-project/ ====== evgen I find the irony of a developer working for one of the biggest walled gardens on the internet complaining about walls aroun...
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And man made life: Artificial life, stuff of dreams and nightmares, has arrived - yan http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16163154&fsrc=rss ====== jacquesm <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1364553> ~~~ swombat I prefer the Economist coverage myself, but agreed that we only need one on the f...
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Ask HN: Best Supply Chain Management Books? - Red_Tarsius Since I struggle to understand the logistics and distribution side of product management, I&#x27;m very reluctant to try out quite a few business ideas.<p>There are many SCM books out there, but I don&#x27;t know where to start, nor do I have the time to read e...
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Climatologist Judith Curry leaves academia over field's politicization - fedups https://judithcurry.com/2017/01/03/jc-in-transition/ ====== woodandsteel Could someone explain what is her overall position on global climate change is? Of the various positions I have seen advocated by skeptics, is it: We can be certain ...
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Understanding Regular Expressions 2: Groups and Captures - liquidise http://blog.benroux.me/understanding-regular-expressions-2-groups-and-captures/ ====== junto Python and .NET also have named groups/captures. I find that particularly useful when dealing with more complex expressions. [http://www.regular-expressio...
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A wireframe kit for Google Drawings and 4 reasons it beats Omnigraffle and Visio - mortenjust http://mortenjust.com/2010/04/19/a-wireframe-kit-for-google-drawings/ ====== hammerdr I use Mockingbird for wireframing. <http://gomockingbird.com> It doesn't allow collaboration but it is entirely focused on wire framing ...
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Religion vs Science - shliachtx http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/2827/jewish/The-Torah-Science-Debates.htm ====== shliachtx This is really about Judaism (Torah) vs. science, but I think it applies to the general religion vs science debate. ------ moocowduckquack _We want to retain some kind of Jewish i...
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Twindr – Tinder for Cleaning Up Your Twitter Feed - rubencodes https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twindr-clean-up-your-twitter/id955230393?ls=1&mt=8 ====== whistlerbrk Cool. I have aggressively unfollowed companies in the past couple of weeks since New Years, but my follow list was never so large that I would need an a...
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MS OS/2 SDK Document Dump - eaguyhn http://www.os2museum.com/wp/ms-os-2-sdk-document-dump/ ====== zxcvbn4038 I love to see projects like this. I’ve always lamented that my father threw away his set of System 360 manuals while cleaning out the garage. He also had boxes of early computer science books - nothing like the...
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Show HN: Startup Slack Simulator, result of 2 day game jam - hurricaneSlider https://free-lives-jam-may-2018.now.sh ====== eat_veggies Woah, this is a really cool idea. I'm a huge fan of games like these--stuff like Life is Strange, Coming Out Simulator [1], and Bury me, my Love [2]. This also has great potential for...
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ūñįčødįńg - pyrotechnick https://github.com/feisty/unicoding ====== richo I'm confused, is this intended as the next zen coding, or do you intend to actually parse the symbols, like APL[1] [1]: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)> ~~~ pyrotechnick It's merely a guide to "unicoding". ~~~ richo...
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Seth's Blog: The problem with positive thinking - qeek http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/09/the-problem-with-positive-thinking.html ====== gruseom This piece is surprisingly profound. Here is the key insight: _Negative thinking feels good._ I think this is exactly right. A compounding factor is habit. O...
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Status of every startup incubated by Y Combinator and other seed accelerators - treyp http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkkhSN3vaY4jdF90b1l1Vnl5NmZjaTBNQWlJYVozMEE&hl=en ====== mixmax Doing some numbers: When you add the acquisitions together you get $56 mill. Assuming that YC has an average stake of 7% they've...
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Ask HN: What is some great fiction you've read? - lalmalang Read Labyrinths by Borges, and found it to be fantastic, the kind of stuff that leaves you a different person. So, HN, any good fiction you've read of late that I may have missed? ====== lmm Yukikaze. I wouldn't go so far as saying it left me a different pe...
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JPA-based JUnit Test Best Practices - mlaccetti This is a bit of an odd question, but it has been bothering me for a few months now. I have built a JPA-based web application using Wicket + Hibernate (built with Maven), and want to test the DAO layer directly. I created a specific src/test/resources/META-INF/persis...
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The Assumption Pile - natarius http://natari.us/post/27924050604/the-assumption-pile ====== sftueni Socks for Fish exist. And in the mobile carrier world, people still believe that fish would need them - and while we're at it, gloves as well. Funny that you mentioned iPhones. I remember from anecdotes of a former c...
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Maroon on Techstars - immad http://mattmaroon.com/?p=327 ====== rrival There's a lot of money in Boulder - far more than the random towns Matt mentions. As far as quality of life goes, it's utopian and not very expensive (4br house in a great part of town for $2200/month). The pace is a bit on the slow side, but I c...
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Show HN: JSON/REST API browsing tool - pzxc http://stray.io/tools/api-browser.aspx ====== andrewstuart We built an api browser. Demo starts 1:30 into the video. A strange and pointless idea but nevertheless something appealing about being about to write 10 lines of javaScript to browse any API. [http://youtu.be/yu...
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Rust async-await status report 2 - fanf2 http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/07/08/async-await-status-report-2/ ====== spinningslate Genuine question: can anyone comment on which alternatives to async/await were considered? And if so why they were rejected? It’s proliferation puzzles me: c#, python, nod...
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Show HN: A full-featured public spreadsheet you can share and forget - fiatjaf http://sheets.alhur.es/s/z6nric ====== osullivj Where does the computation happen? Is it all handled by JS in the browser, or is any done on the server side? ~~~ fiatjaf All on the client side. If you look at the network tab, you'll see th...
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Salesforce, for Engineers - refrigerator https://tryretool.com/blog/salesforce-for-engineers/ ====== troydavis Please stop deleting and re-submitting this. Continuing to do so will probably have a different outcome than the one you desire.
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Why did a Train Carrying Biofuel Cross the Border 24 Times and Never Unload? - pebb http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Why-did-a-Train-Carrying-Biofuel-Cross-the-Border-24-Times-and-Never-Unload.html ====== icambron Lot of assumptions on this thread. The company involved here is claiming that hasn't c...
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On the Auction Site Swoopo, Paying to Place Each Bid - mjfern http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/technology/internet/17shop.html ====== dotcoma it's basically a scam, isn't it? ~~~ gjm11 Sure looks like it. I'm not generally a fan of Jeff Atwood, but <http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001196.html> gets this o...
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Tell HN: Please make this - hpvic03 I want a plugin to Gmail that will automatically re-send an email if no response is received after a few days. I would pay for this.<p>It seems nowadays that about half of people only respond to the second email you send them, so this would be a huge time-saver. ====== pook <http:...
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I don't hire unlucky people (2012) - shawndumas http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2014/10/04/i-dont-hire-unlucky-people.html ====== PhantomGremlin See link at end. 271 HN comments await, from about 1078 days ago.
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Urthecast – APIs for Earth Observation - sconxu https://www.urthecast.com/developers ====== sinzone which api proxy you guys use to do the management?
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Lobsters must be comfortably numb before cooking, rules Swiss government - owens99 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/10/lobsters-must-comfortably-numb-cooking-rules-swiss-government/ ====== WheelsAtLarge I totally agree with this. We forget that animals are living beings, not rocks. We've evolved to eating anima...
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You’ll Never Guess What’s Actually in Your Supplements… - xvirk http://blog.exoprotein.com/youll-never-guess-whats-actually-supplements/ ====== teilo A supplement company trashing other supplement companies. ------ LoSboccacc the trainers hate him?
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Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - prawn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qxu_y8ABajQ&app=desktop ====== DrScump [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917155](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13917155) The original site has the full set of materials, including original videos.
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OrderAhead claiming business listings on Google - dswiese http://www.geekwire.com/2015/orderahead-restaurant-website-deception-includes-widespread-violations-of-google-terms-of-service/ ====== blaincate need to be raised to google
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PyTorch – Internal Architecture Tour - perone http://blog.christianperone.com/2018/03/pytorch-internal-architecture-tour/ ====== adamnemecek “For that reason, the statement a = 200; b = 200; a is b will be True, while the statement a = 300; b = 300; a is b will be False.” This is kinda funny. ~~~ pedrosorio Same thi...
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LaunchNotes raise 1.8M and makes public release notes platform free for all - tylerdavis https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/26/launchnotes-raises-a-1-8m-seed-round-to-help-companies-communicate-their-software-updates/ ====== ewittman Phenomenal product that solves some serious pain with the communications process around r...
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Why My Mom Gets Path Over Founders and VC's - rxl http://blog.ryanshea.org/post/19000605105/why-my-mom-gets-path-over-founders-and-vcs ====== muneeb Yeah, my parents bought an iPad just to talk to me over Skype (I still need to take out time and get on Skype for that though). I do think parents will do anything to b...
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Ask HN: Biz owners – What problems do you have using/accepting cryptocurrency? - evbots I&#x27;m guessing it&#x27;s mostly tax, regulatory, and operational issues but would love to hear specifics. ====== itamarst What's my motivation for accepting cryptocurrency in the first place? Real money is much easier to deal wi...
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Tonido: A Dropbox alternative for SMBs - markshepard http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/itdojo/tonido-a-dropbox-alternative-for-smbs/3966?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter ====== explorigin As the owner of a TonidoPlug2, the wifi doesn't stay connected (proprietary kernel module crashes). Also the web interfac...
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Robocalls: How to stop your phone from getting them - ihsoj https://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-stop-robocalls-to-cell-phone-explained-2018-5 ====== tonyquart I have signed up to the DNC list. I have also used some call blockers since years ago. However, I think it's not completely stop these robocalls. They are ne...
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Disrupting the roaming mobile data market - tensafefrogs http://blog.deconcept.com/2012/01/30/disrupting-the-roaming-mobile-data-market/ ====== tensafefrogs Dreamhost is having a "major network outage" right now. If you can't get to it, try again later.
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Ask HN: Your favorite IRC/Freenode channels? - codegeek Where do you hang out ? ====== EKSolutions I usually hang out on Espernet in channels that are dedicated to software topics or discussions that I want to be part of. Their #Coders channel is a nice place to ask for advice when programming too.
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Ask HN: Is there any relation between number of users and ad revenue? - ajaxguy Just to understand more of an app revenues. Say, a simple mobile utility app or game is used by certain number of users. How would that be related to the revenue from that app. I am not looking for any social side of the app to generate ...
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Driverless cars are going to spy on us. All the time - chapulin http://fusion.net/story/108336/driverless-cars-need-to-be-spy-machines-so-they-dont-kill-you/ ====== MollyR I think people are willing to sacrifice privacy for convenience. They did with smartphones,cloud data, etc, but maybe the average person simply i...
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Facebook In Free-Fall: Stock At All-Time Low After Swinging To Q2 Loss - cooldeal http://www.forbes.com/sites/abrambrown/2012/07/26/facebook-in-free-fall-stock-at-all-time-after-swinging-to-q2-loss/?partner=yahootix ====== cooldeal 10% down and testing $24.00 at this point (4:35PM Eastern).
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What will happen when Clock Speeds stop increasing? - jonnytran http://glomek.blogspot.com/2008/09/when-clock-speeds-stop-increasing.html ====== iigs I agree with the sentiment (wouldn't it be nice to not treat computers, particularly full of nasty chemicals, as items meant to be thrown away every other year). Unfo...
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Ask HN: If you were to make HN today, which platform/framework would you use? - krat0sprakhar I was thinking of making my own version of HN and wanted to decide upon which platform would be best(if any) for such a project. I'm sure this can be accomplished using any of the numerous frameworks/technologies out there,...
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Launch it like Google - Chirag http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/01/launch-it-like-google.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29 ====== swombat Uninformed. Paypal did not launch in obscurity - see Max Levchin's account in Founders At Work....
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Ask HN: Living in NYC - blah123 I'm completely new to NYC. I got a job offer in Manhattan recently. Des anybody have any suggestion of where to live for a family of two? Also, what salary range I should be expected to live comfortable in NYC?<p>Thanks ====== gyardley Comfy depends on your version of comfy. I'd want ...
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How to effectively build and manage a remote development team - Evrone https://evrone.com/remote-teams-management ====== onlyhackergirl Thanks for the article! Very useful tips considering the current situation
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Why Media Monetisation Won't Work - CM30 https://medium.com/@CM30/why-media-monetisation-will-never-work-605022a2ba19 ====== luckylion If your work can be replaced by anybody with a blog the moment you ask for money, maybe you're just not creating something that is special enough to be monetized. ~~~ CM30 To be fair,...
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GitHub Status – Incident on 2019-03-12 - fniephaus https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/tj58y1kx7tqy ====== msghacq I’ve been hearing from friends at GitHub and MS that things are on fire internally. The GitHub employees are in semi-revolt because they think Nat is integrating too fast with MS. Many people have quit...
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How to Talk to Little Girls - mshafrir http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lisa-bloom/how-to-talk-to-little-gir_b_882510.html ====== bluekeybox On the other side of the spectrum -- as an attractive young man who first bought into this philosophy that "looks don't matter" -- I realized only in the relatively old age of 26 th...
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Show HN: A site for learning Java - bharal http://35.165.5.118/about ====== c1yd3i Yeah, I'm not logging in through Facebook or my LinkedIn, lol.
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