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Ask HN: How do I build cross-platform phone apps? - bakbak
Instead of making apps for different platforms (iphone, ipad, android etc.) , is there a way to build cross-platform apps ? can we build it in HTML5? what are the challenges?
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filipcte
You should look into Appcelerator Titanium (<http://www.appcelerato... | {
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Ask HN: Email token service - siscia
Hi HN,<p>there is any "email token" service out there ?<p>I mean that I would like to generate every time a new email address (something crazy like: b4ver94v89ir@crazydomain.io) and use that email address to register to only one single service.<p>When I receive an email... | {
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Ask HN: How HN helps you? - seriousQ
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gallerdude
I keep a curated list of a bunch of interesting quotes I find here. When I'm
not quite feeling like working but don't feel like descending to Facebook or
YouTube, it's a great read.
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pouta
Mind to share that list?
~~~
gallerdude
[https://pastebin.com/nGdTsKXx]... | {
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Show HN: Simple SSL Certificate Monitoring for You and Your Team - CertCheckr
https://certcheckr.com?ref=hn
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ansien12
I built this (minimum viable) product in response to a problem we were having
at my current company. Which was managing hundreds of SSL certificates for
different websites and different customers... | {
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You got your Erlang in my Ruby - coglethorpe
http://brainspl.at/articles/2009/04/30/you-got-ur-ruby-in-my-erlang
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futuremint
We're using Nanite on a project for delivering e-mails in the background (for
now). We have bigger plans for it, but its pretty easy to get running once you
get RabbitMQ going.
It has a... | {
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What are the most productive ways to spend time on the Internet? - wolfgke
http://www.quora.com/Intelligence/What-are-the-most-productive-ways-to-spend-time-on-the-Internet
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pskittle
MOOCS,edx,udacity,udemy,
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Democracy Doesn't Exist Anymore Because of Facebook - fagnerbrack
https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy
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gruglife
Is it just me or are other people sick of all the finger pointing at Facebook
for the worlds ills. Sure FB isn’t perfect but it’s hard for ... | {
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Malicious Subtitles Threaten Kodi, VLC and Popcorn Time Users - seycombi
http://blog.checkpoint.com/2017/05/23/hacked-in-translation/
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ConfucianNardin
Was annoying to find the details.
Looks like PopcornTime was rendering subtitle text as HTML, inside their app
(html/js-based), creating an XSS vector (looking a... | {
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Debt Ceiling: China Calls for World to Be 'De-Americanised' - rpm4321
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/513431/20131013/china-debt-ceiling-shutdown-xinhua-de-emericanised.htm
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paulhauggis
This is funny coming from a nation that regularly violates the freedoms and
basic human rights of its citizens.
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Dialogflow and Sendgrid = AI Mailbox - ushakov
https://github.com/mishushakov/dialogflow-sendgrid
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zanek
People really need to stop using AI in everything. It reduces the meaning.
There is zero AI in this , just a scripted workflow .
I’m sure it’s not as catchy as saying “Scripted Actions for Email”
~~~
shish... | {
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Things I've learned from hiring interns for IBM - acangiano
http://programmingzen.com/2010/09/20/things-ive-learned-from-hiring-interns-for-ibm/
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wooster
I could literally hear them typing as I presented
them with questions that they weren’t familiar with.
I've had this happen to me while con... | {
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Communist Principles in Design - zan2434
http://zainshah.net/blog/2012/09/communist-principles-in-design/
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jicksta2
"With too much freedom comes far too much responsibility; not that users
aren’t entitled to full responsibility but, honestly, they don’t want it."
Equating communism in general to a restriction... | {
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First Look: Blossom - A SproutCore Spinoff Using Only HTML5 Canvas For Rendering - devongovett
http://badassjs.com/post/18610722419/first-look-blossom-a-sproutcore-spinoff-using-only
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Me1000
Until people try building a desktop class application using te DOM, I think
it's probably best for them to reserve judge... | {
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Mea Culpa: GitHub works well, my mistake made them look bad - NoKarmaForMe
http://www.andrewljohnson.com/article/Mea%20Culpa:%20GitHub%20works%20well,%20my%20mistake%20made%20them%20look%20bad
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adelevie
Very classy apology. While Andrew's quickly jumping to conclusions is
certainly not something to emulate (as... | {
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Classic RAND Papers - miobrien
https://www.rand.org/pubs/classics.html
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indescions_2018
Hmmm. "Vietnam -- US Relations: 1945-1968" seems to be missing from this list
;)
I love Space Technology textbooks from the 1960s. Largely because the physics
and math of orbital mechanics can still be provided for good simu... | {
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The Power9 Rollout Begins with Summit and Sierra - rbanffy
https://www.nextplatform.com/2017/09/19/power9-rollout-begins-summit-sierra/
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equalunique
Anyone interested in having an open-source-friendly Power9 system may
currently pre-order a Raptor Engineering Talos II:
[https://www.raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prereleas... | {
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A circuit board from the Saturn V rocket, reverse-engineered and explained - mcrute
http://www.righto.com/2020/04/a-circuit-board-from-saturn-v-rocket.html
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tectonic
This reminds me of this short piece about debugging a live Saturn V
([http://www.zamiang.com/post/debugging-a-live-
saturn-v](http://www.zamiang.co... | {
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Lack of sleep boosts levels of Alzheimer's proteins - dnetesn
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-12-lack-boosts-alzheimer-proteins.html
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DrScump
Blogspam of
[https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/lack-sleep-boosts-levels-
alz...](https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/lack-sleep-boosts-levels-alzheimers-
proteins/)
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Mobility Blues - naish
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/07/18/Mobile-Net-Gloom
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Tichy
"[...]iPhone net clients[...]And, for the first time ever, they’re decently
programmable in a somewhat-uncrippled way."
Actually, my impression is that iPhone is going through all of the steps of
the J2ME evolution,... | {
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Ask HN: What's the fraction of lurkers vs active users? - Anon84
In your respective blogs or collaborative sites, what is the proportion of "lurkers" vs the number of active users?
By active I mean creating content in one form or another (commenting, tagging, etc...). I imagine this information would be useful in pl... | {
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Ask HN: Simple screen recorder for Mac? - chatmasta
I’m looking for a really simple screen recorder to use to keep clients updated on local development. It needs to record smooth video (so react interactivity doesn’t look janky), and preferably make it very easy to share those videos.<p>Any recommendations?
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mtm... | {
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Apt: please make the moo reproducible - teddyh
https://bugs.debian.org/848721
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smcl
Took me a while (after reading through the reply, to no avail) to figure out
what this refers to. Here's the feature this is referring to:
$ apt-get moo
(__)
... | {
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Jim DeMint: No Internet Taxation Without Representation - JayNeely
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444226904577559414267708728.html
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daninus14
This is ridiculous! We should try to stop this!
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Artificial Ovaries Could Expand Fertility Options for Chemo Patients - ArtWomb
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/how-artificial-ovaries-could-expand-fertility-options-chemo-patients-180969547/?no-ist
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trdtaylor1
Their answer of grafting ovarian tissue into place is a terrible choice, for
all the reasons ... | {
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Show HN: Minimal puppeteer pool - jgalvez
<a href="https://gist.github.com/galvez/0b4f0bc752b1e6cf4d4b15343dee1020" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/galvez/0b4f0bc752b1e6cf4d4b15343dee1...</a><p>I couldn't find any example of this so I thought I would share one I put ... | {
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Write code every day - brettlangdon
https://brett.is/writing/about/write-code-every-day/?hn=1
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copsarebastards
> _More times than not the above exercise leads me to a problem that I then
> can go off and solve. For example, a few weeks ago I sat down and decided I
> wanted to write a web server in go (think ngin... | {
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Fun with UB in C: returning uninitialized floats - luu
http://yosefk.com/blog/fun-with-ub-in-c-returning-uninitialized-floats.html
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Filligree
Can I just suggest that... forcing programmers to become language lawyers just
so their language-lawyer compilers don't get overly clever and optimise away
half their prog... | {
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Ask HN: Do you get stressed/bummed when your code review contain bugs? - reimertz
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abronan
I definitely don't get stressed when people are pointing out errors in my
code. It's a sign that you can trust your coworkers. As some people mentioned
already, I become stressed when people just approve a big and complex c... | {
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RetroBSD: Unix for microcontrollers - fanf2
http://retrobsd.org/
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unwind
Pretty cool.
Made me wonder if it would make sense on these SoC targets to dynamically load
a program from external storage and write into internal flash for execution,
then start running it without a reboot.
Since such flashes are typica... | {
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Why Google Just Got Hit with a Record $5B Fine - hippich
https://gizmodo.com/heres-why-google-just-got-hit-with-a-record-5-billion-1827683622
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nikonyrh
I wonder what kind of criteria Apple has for phone manufacturers in this
regard ;) Are they more permissive?
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mhkool
in simple words: Google got fined for... | {
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Augmenting Human Intellect (1962) - seanmcdirmid
http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
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awinter-py
One truism of AI research (and 'human augmentation' is fairly in the AI space)
is that the best brains have overestimated our ability to write useful rules.
In a sense our legal systems and national e... | {
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Jeep Grand Cherokee’s recalled Monostable transmission shifter explained - quotha
http://www.tflcar.com/2016/06/jeep-grand-cherokees-recalled-monostable-transmission-shifter-demonstrated-and-explained/
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quotha
This poorly designed shifter has/will cause deaths and injuries.
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Behind The Scenes At Homejoy, A Cleaning Startup That's Really A Tech Company - mlinsey
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/18/homejoy-behind-the-scenes/
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nugget
The potential for client->platform->service provider disintermediation here
seems high. If I use the service and find a cleaner that I like, why wouldn't
I j... | {
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Stickam shutting down today, Jan 31st - tinok
http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/scene-kids-cry-as-streaming-site-stickam-shuts-down/
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tinok
Why would they shut it down instead of selling it? I'll take it off their
hands for $500K today.
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Ask HN: Evaluate my side project please? - maxbrown
I've been working on a side project lately and I'd love to get some basic feedback and marketing advice - randomfreeapp.com.<p>1. How do you feel about the page? Is it intuitive? What would you change?<p>2. How would you market it/drive traffic?
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heynk
I'd co... | {
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[ChromeOS] Self-Titled Planet - sallywu
http://web-poet.com/2009/11/23/chromeos/
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mbrubeck
sallywu, you've posted about 200 of these over the last two years. None of
them has ever made it to the front page, and only a handful of people have
ever given them a single vote. Maybe they're just not a good fit for t... | {
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Google hosted videos shutting down - ars
http://video.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1233300
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iuguy
Given that it's shutting down, what's HN's favourite videos? I'll start.
<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077214414651731007> \- The Union:
The business of getting high
[http://video.g... | {
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Ask HN: Unable to detach emotionally from work? - throwawayzza
I really care about my work and I'm having a hard time taking a more relaxed approach after a few incidents at the workplace.<p>I don't work well in agile environments with strict tasks and sprints because I'm all over the place doing projec... | {
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Is MoviePass Here to Stay? - IntronExon
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/01/is-moviepass-here-to-stay/551741/?single_page=true
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nugi
Looks like a classic power play ala ticketmaster, albeit with better prices,
for now.
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bfuller
I am not renewing. Turns out I prefer watching movies at... | {
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Hackers Lurking in Vents and Soda Machines - wallflower
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/08/technology/the-spy-in-the-soda-machine.html?hp
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stcredzero
_“When you know you’re the target and you don’t know when, where or how an
attack will take place, it’s wartime all the time,” Ms. Hallawell said. “And
most organiz... | {
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Ask HN: What app or type of app am I looking for specifically? - gxs
I am having a hard time articulating what I am looking for, but it's some combination of the following:<p>-Reminders every X minutes to take a break, stretch, look away from the monitor, etc.<p>-A way to log a thought - either during the break o... | {
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Rovio valued at $9B - eyes IPO - camlinke
http://macdailynews.com/2012/05/07/angry-birds-maker-eyes-ipo-golden-egg/
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Codhisattva
OK I think I just understood something about "Valuation". It has nothing to do
with the value the company brings to customers but it solely means the
potential value (pay off) a comp... | {
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NASA Maps Surface Changes from California Quakes - infodocket
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7448
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blululu
That is a very cool finding. Though I must say that visualizing the data with
a jet colormap and no legend is a little disrespectful to anyone who is sober.
~~~
nemetroid
This was my initia... | {
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Ask HN: How redundant is S3? Do I need another backup? - marcamillion
How often does S3 lose/delete your files? Or is there some backup feature/functionality built in, that is pretty robust?<p>If it will be storing all the user uploaded files, should I also be pushing those files to some other CDN - like Rackspace's... | {
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Hardware is Expensive, Programmers are Cheap - WalkingDead
http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com/2009/01/hardware-is-expensive-programmers-are_29.html
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patio11
Isn't the real story of this "incompetence is expensive"? Seriously, that
application design is worse than the worst implementation we've ever had in a
fa... | {
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Secret trade agreement covering 68 percent of world services - xkarga00
http://rt.com/usa/167088-wikileaks-tisa-secret-trade/
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xkarga00
[https://wikileaks.org/tisa-financial/](https://wikileaks.org/tisa-financial/)
| {
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Give a Dime – Donate Spare Change to Local Charities - deegles
https://www.giveadime.org/
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deegles
This is my friend's startup. He would appreciate any comments or feedback!
| {
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Using machine learning to predict the best distributors in the 2018 draft - connorgreenwell
http://dribbleanalytics.blogspot.com/2018/07/draft-class-distributors-ml.html?m=1
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connorgreenwell
Posted to r/NBA yesterday:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/8zanxy/oc_using_machin...](https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/... | {
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Developer hits back at Intel's Android fragmentation claims - sylviebarak
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4231220/Developer-hits-back-at-Intel-s-Android-fragmentation-claims
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nextparadigms
Intel is just upset because they wanted Android to work _only_ on Atom, and by
that I mean they didn't want it to wo... | {
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Python Programmers Support the Ada Initiative - inglesp
http://jacobian.org/writing/python4ada/
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jMyles
Wow, so the goal is already reached?
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Microformats.org at 5: Two Billion Pages With hCards - hazelnut
http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets
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hazelnut
i never thought that there are so many sites out there using microformats -
especially hCards.
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How do Zynga employees feel about the company's summer 2012 stock price drop? - benwerd
http://www.quora.com/Zynga/How-do-Zynga-employees-feel-about-the-companys-summer-2012-stock-price-drop
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benwerd
Worth noting that we can't verify if these are Zynga employees, of course.
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Capehart Communications Collection – For Sale - perceptron2go
https://telemuseum.info/
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haltingproblem
This is super cool, it would make for an amazing exhibit paired with an
interactive audio/video tour. Having said that, I seriously doubt this is the
largest collection in the world by any measure.
~~~
chronom... | {
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Redeye VC: Validate Your Own Damn Market (aka Entrepreneur Pickup Lines) - jkopelman
http://redeye.firstround.com/2008/06/validate-your-o.html
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aston
If your market was thought to be niche or relatively inconsequential, I think
it's pretty fair to say the entrance of a major player validates your
hypothesis th... | {
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1 year since I quit my job to learn how to code - emilepetrone
http://www.proudn00b.com/post/7764086648/i-year-since-i-quit-my-job-to-learn-how-to-code
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kacy
Proud of you Emile. Keep up the hard work!
~~~
emilepetrone
Thanks Kacy!
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Just Room Enough Island - zeroonetwothree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Room_Enough_Island
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warent
What I love most about this is that there seems to be some form of nominative
determinism at play here because the surname of the original owners is
Sizeland, which doesn't take a big leap of the imagination t... | {
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What to Do If Your Blog Goes Viral: 10 Tips - Apple-Guy
http://birdabroad.wordpress.com/2011/08/20/what-to-do-if-your-blog-goes-viral-10-tips/
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wgx
While I sympathise with OP's frustration at others making money from their
work - there is provision in UK copyright law: "using any work, for the
purpose of repor... | {
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Antichrist2020.com My blog archives from 1996-2019 - ZguideZ
http://www.antichrist2020.com
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ZguideZ
These are all of my personal/tech/political blog archives over the past 24
years. Not proud of everything there, but fuck it - there it is.
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Dear Google Chrome Team: Please Add An SSH Client To Google Chrome - travisglines
http://www.travisglines.com/uncategorized/dear-google-chrome-team-please-add-an-ssh-client-to-google-chrome
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nbpoole
Or you could use Portable PuTTY:
<http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/portableputty.php>
Edit: A differen... | {
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Data Mining gone wrong - package addressed 'Daughter Killed in Car Crash' - grej
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-officemax-mail-20140119,0,6457094.story
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greenyoda
Previous discussion:
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7087683](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7087683)
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Ask HN: Best approaches for Javascript game graphics? - thomanil
I'm wondering what the most viable approaches are for 2d (or 3d) graphics in straight browser Javascript?.<p>Canvas, SVG? Are there other straightforward approaches that offer primitive graphics operations like drawing lines, circles, pixels? Experienc... | {
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Show HN: The static, static site generator - Xeoncross
https://github.com/xeoncross/Jr
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chavesn
What a great idea, I'm really impressed with the cleverness and execution.
A few thoughts and questions for you (you may have already thought of/know
about):
\- Have you thought about "well-formedness" for the HTML?... | {
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Fan-In - jsnell
https://codahale.com/fan-in/
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draw_down
> _Like almost all interview questions, it was ultimately just a vehicle for
> my own prejudices and superstitions but it passed for clever at the time and
> no one, including myself, noticed._
Oh.
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Walmart launching its own line of aggressively-priced Overpowered gaming laptops - commoner
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Walmart-is-launching-its-own-line-of-aggressively-priced-Overpowered-gaming-laptops.354171.0.html
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gaspoweredcat
they look a lot like lenovos Y series to me, not that its a bad thing, at
leas... | {
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How to Quit Your Job - hunterwalk
http://www.onlyonceblog.com/2013/09/how-to-quit-your-job
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georgemcbay
This may actually be true at Return Path, but in my nearly 20 years of
software developer experience, I've only seen a couple of companies for which
I believe this would be good advice.
At most places the com... | {
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Introduction CSS Modules - anthonydillon
https://css-tricks.com/introducing-sass-modules/
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CM30
Not sure why this submission is dead, seems like web developers and hackers
would be interested in seeing how Sass now works more like modern JavaScript
frameworks with proper module imports and what not.
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Michael Atiyah has died - ColinWright
https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/31190
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nabla9
"I always want to try to understand why things work. I’m not interested in
getting a formula without knowing what it means. I always try to dig behind
the scenes, so if I have a formula, I understand why it’s there. And
understan... | {
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Spring – A library to simplify iOS animations in Swift - mattstrayer
https://github.com/MengTo/Spring
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GreenStorm
You might want to re-think the name. To avoid confusion with
[https://spring.io/](https://spring.io/)
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kyllo
Or this [https://github.com/rails/spring](https://github.com/rails/spring)
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Brian Williams on Wall Street's Free Fall - david927
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRNrl-858qA
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jsz0
After the subprime debacle I can't look at any financial institutions or
markets as being anything other than a facade for what's really going on
behind the scenes. Was the whole event just rigged to make some... | {
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} |
Android on a Nokia N95 captured on video - terpua
http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/18/android-on-a-nokia-n95-captured-on-video/
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fromedome
Not convinced this is real. But fun.
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From Selling Scoops of Ice Cream to Founding ZeroCater - rguzman
http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/06/how-i-started-zerocater?query=4664
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justin
Arram followed the advice I normally give people applying to startups for non-
technical jobs that have no relevant experience: he prepared tremendously for
his interview a... | {
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Understanding the Causes of Consistency Anomalies in Apache Cassandra [pdf] - luu
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p810-fan.pdf
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arielweisberg
I think that measuring propagation delay at CL.ONE isn't very interesting
because if you care about propagation delay you also don't use CL.ONE.
That said my passion is to... | {
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} |
Show HN: Get email notifications for new products and sales on ASOS.com - benedictlewis
https://asostracker.uk
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benedictlewis
This is a little side project of mine. I buy a lot of clothes from ASOS,
however often forget to check for a while and end up missing sales. This site
will send you an email notification ... | {
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} |
Videos of simulated gravitational lenses (in French) - thibautg
http://www.epm6604b.be/lentille/film/lentille_film.html
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thibautg
Translation:
[https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A...](https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epm6604b.be%2Flentille%2Ffilm%2Fle... | {
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Schneier on lock-in - brlittle
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/lockin.html?
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davidw
The way to combat lock in as a consumer is to negotiate a good deal for
yourself _before_ you sign up and get locked in - according to Varian and
Shapiro, whose book he cites.
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ced
> Economists Carl Shapiro... | {
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CyanogenMod support for find my device now live - zobzu
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CyanogenMod/posts/5gWMbGYQUah
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zobzu
I'd also point out that:
\- AFAIK the server side code has not been made available (no interest?)
\- if the server is compromised, all devices with this service can be remote
wiped (just ... | {
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Show HN: Classroom – One educative article in your inbox daily - hienyimba
http://classroom.ng/indexed.html
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wingerlang
Yellow text on yellow background, is not good.
EDIT: some more
[http://i.imgur.com/ouTy5Zm.png](http://i.imgur.com/ouTy5Zm.png)
EDIT2: Even more,
[http://i.imgur.com/PmNnrBg.png](http://i.img... | {
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} |
Amit Gupta needs you - mattangriffel
http://amitguptaneedsyou.com/
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oconnore
_IGNORANCE:_
The concept of donating bone marrow terrifies me. I imagine a doctor drilling
into my skeleton and using a large needle to suck out the gooey stuff that
makes my blood. It sounds absolutely horrific.
If I were ever to con... | {
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} |
Ask HN: What's been your experience with performance reviews? - raykanani99
Wondering if anyone has had good experiences with performance reviews? What's the biggest pain about them?
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daly
Edward Deming is honored in Japan with the Deming Prize (see
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deming_Prize](https://en.wi... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Poly/ML is a full implementation of Standard ML - fogus
http://polyml.org/
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oconnor0
Interesting that tho it started as a ML-like language with a different type
system, it morphed into an implementation of ML97.
Anyone know the reasons for this? And what advantages Poly/ML brings over
SML/NJ or MLton?
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... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Samsung patches 0-click vulnerability impacting all smartphones sold since 2014 - aspenmayer
https://www.zdnet.com/article/samsung-patches-0-click-vulnerability-impacting-all-smartphones-sold-since-2014/
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aspenmayer
SVE-2020-16747
[https://security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb](https://security.samsungm... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Lee Berger has a knack for finding fossils his own way (2015) - dnetesn
http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/the-man-who-used-facebook-to-find-an-extinct-human-species
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DrScump
The guy to Berger's left in the photo is Professor John Hawkes, who pops up
frequently in various PBS shows (like _Nature_ ) on prehistori... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Humans can see a single photon at a time - azazqadir
https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/humans-can-detect-a-single-photon-at-a-time
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aaron695
I feel like there's something fishy going on here.
~~~
rimunroe
When I was taking a psych course in college we went over the limits of human
perception for various senses... | {
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} |
How we reduced our cancellation rate by 87.5% - kareemm
http://blog.reemer.com/how-we-reduced-our-cancellation-rate-by-87-5
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patio11
Seriously, one of the best and most actionable articles you'll read this week.
(n.b. This sort of thing _prints money_ for companies at pretty much all
sizes. Well, after you've go... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The most advanced jail-break tool. Coming soon to all devices on iOS 13.5 - fheld
https://unc0ver.dev/
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somada141
Huh haven’t jailbroken my iPhones since my iPhone 5 back in 2014. Back then I
feel that iOS was severely limited in functionality and jailbreaking allowed
for custom solutions to problems Apple wasn’... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Critical Thinking: What Is It Good For? (In Fact, What Is It?) - zzygan
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/critical_thinking_what_is_it_good_for_in_fact_what_is_it/
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MichaelCrawford
Dave Johnson of Working Software was a direct mail marketing expert. He once
explained to me that the reason advertisements coomonly s... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: When did Firefox become so broken? - martokus
I don't want to sound like a rant but that's the reality for me.<p>TL;DR Been using Firefox as my main browser since 2005. Refused to move to Chrome when a lot of people did. As of today both my home and work machines default to Chrome. So what happened?<... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The AMD Fusion is not my ideal machine. - djinn
http://ghosting.posterous.com/the-amd-fusion-is-not-my-ideal-machine
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PythonDeveloper
I have two of these machines. One is a quad-core laptop, and the other is a
dual-core E-350 server.
In both cases, the driver provided by AMD was horrific. The drivers that cam... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts - peter123
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/05/18/facebook-launches-openid-support-users-can-now-login-with-a-gmail-account/
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Alex3917
OpenID support has ruined Facebook. Please join my group 1,000,000+ strong
against OpenID.
/joke
--... | {
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} |
Proposal: Turn Waterfox 56 (a Fork of Firefox) into an Extended Support Release - greenyoda
https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/5ysn9e/proposal_please_turn_waterfox_56_into_an_esr_and/
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greenyoda
Note: This would provide a way to keep the old-style Firefox extensions
working after Mozilla de-supports them... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Why you PHP guys should learn Golang - mikespook
http://www.mikespook.com/2012/08/why-you-php-guys-should-learn-golang/
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slurgfest
It doesn't seem to me that there is a whole lot of overlap between the virtues
or sweet spot of PHP and those of Go.
Go is not a particularly hard language for the level it's design... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Using Blockchain to Short Circuit Recidivism - RBBronson123
Last summer, I announced the launch of 70MillionJobs, a YC for-profit platform for helping Americans with criminal records find jobs. We've grown our community of active job-seekers to over a million, and have placed hundreds of people in jobs.
Today, I... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: 6502 or Z80? - qwertyuiop924
Pretty self-explanatory, really.<p>The grandfather of ARM, or the cousin of x86?<p>Speccy or BBC?<p>The chip that made the Apple //, or the one behind your terminal?<p>CP/M, or 1000 BASIC variants?<p>Which one would you pick? And why?<p>Oh, and no saying that you pic... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask HN: Is there any fan/body cooling hacks or gadgets you know? - mc_hammer
Is there any body cooling/fan hacks or gadgets you know?<p>2016, 1:30 am, its like 85 degrees in my hotel room.<p>is there any way to cool off or any small portable fan i can buy for travel that will cool me somewhat better than a tiny p... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Developers guide to Garage48 hackatron - gryner
http://martingryner.com/developers-guide-to-garage48-hackatron/
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webjuice
nice!!
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Ask HN: Which code review tool do you use in your project/startup? - symbolepro
e.g. Codacy, CodeClimate, or some other tool (reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tools_for_code_review)<p>Also tell what do you like/dislike about that tool?
And how many people are there in your team... | {
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} |
After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit Simulator is now free - lightlyused
http://www.spectrum-soft.com/download/download.shtm
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garganzol
The website says that the company was closed.
Does anyone have an insight on why Spectrum Software is now closed?
P.S. The man behind the company, Andy Thom... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Made in NY Fellowships for Media Tech Startups - johnnymatson
http://nymediacenter.com/2015/08/apply-for-the-made-in-ny-fellowships/
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johnnymatson
The Made in NY Media Center by IFP partnered with The Mayor’s Office of Media
and Entertainment to offer TEN one-year Made in NY Fellowships to NYC based
individual... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
The Pentagon’s Bottomless Money Pit - joveian
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/pentagon-budget-mystery-807276/
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avinium
Incredibly illuminating. I'm not an American, but anyone who decries
government waste should be forced to read it.
Sure, money gets wasted on benefits programs and other... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
Ask Hacker News: Cost of living in Silicon Valley - Prrometheus
I’m trying to get a feel for what a single person’s burn rate would be in the valley. I know the cost of living there is supposed to be among the highest in the US. What can someone in Silicon Valley expect to pay each month in rent, food, utilities, car ... | {
"pile_set_name": "HackerNews"
} |
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