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Shaken Beliefs: Seismic Lessons from Japan’s Tohoku Earthquake - Thevet http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/shaken-beliefs-seismic-lessons-from-japans-tohoku-earthquake ====== lovemenot I wonder what kind of person could have felt _that_ quake, at closer proximity than I felt it in Tokyo, heard the sirens, been exp...
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Ask HN: What are the best way to learn advanced SQL? - slinger As a web developer what are the best resources and exercises to learn advanced SQL? How do you choose which open source database best fits an application use-case? ====== lastofus PostgreSQL is hands down the way to go when you need a relational DB (which ...
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Tell HN: Cinch, W7-like window management for OSX - pxlpshr http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/ ====== ghempton What a milestone for windows when people on OSX are using 3rd party apps to emulate its UX. ~~~ boredguy8 Still doesn't handle multiple monitors as elegantly as Win7 though, unfortunately. The Win7 w...
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Why I Will Never Hire Anyone, Even at $1/Hour - dismal2 http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2015/11/why-i-will-never-hire-anyone-even-at.html ====== xlm1717 The author does make many compelling points. I almost want to buy the book he was pushing now. ------ DougN7 This post leads to the popular idea of a basic inco...
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Show HN: Customize your Facebook Page in minutes - dawie http://tabtrick.com/ ====== pdenya What are the benefits vs something like pagemodo.com?
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Bitcoin is an Energy Hog - EdwardIrby https://medium.com/@adaburrows/bitcoin-is-an-energy-hog-bd0a69e8ae89 ====== xg15 I find this thread quite hilarious. With PoW + self-adjusting difficulty, bitcoin is quite intentionally _designed_ to encourage ever-higher energy consumption to "secure the blockchain". Yet HN is t...
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Google Censorship of Health Information - labatbell https://www.brighteon.com/d5f1c412-7bc9-4904-919c-5061eff324a9?mc_cid=e675310e80&mc_eid=9851493571 ====== labatbell This caught my eye because over the past few months I have felt finding information on Google has been more difficult. Don't know if recent algorithm c...
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Protestors march on Ebola centre in Sierra Leone - archgoon http://www.trust.org/item/20140726160952-f3p5c/?source=jtTheWire ====== msie Argh, I say. As if Ebola isn't bad enough, pile on a fearful and uneducated public making the situation worse. My sympathies and admiration to the people trying to get a handle on ...
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The Economics of Anime - michaelpinto http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2012-03-05 ====== patio11 A corollary to this is that resources are eventually going to get diverted to produce the kinds of things which appeal to hyperconsuming outliers who actually spend money on anime rather than e.g. a broader demograp...
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App Store Video Preview Is a Gamechanger – See Why - daveciccarelli http://blogs.voices.com/voxdaily/2014/09/apple_app_store_video_preview.html ====== eximius cue "Android had it first" posts. ~~~ th0br0 While no "Android had it first" post, I just find it interesting that they don't mention Android in their articl...
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Electron 5.0 Released - burtonator https://electronjs.org/blog/electron-5-0 ======
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21 Day No Complaint Experiment - jlthom2113 http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2007/09/18/real-mind-control-the-21-day-no-complaint-experiment/ ====== old-gregg I don't really share everyone's obsession with fighting "negativity". Actually I find the lack of nonconstructive bitching to be quite annoying: sometimes...
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Best Posts of 2008 for Developers - nreece http://aytemir.com/best-of-2008-for-developers-2008-tips-tricks-scripts-and-sources/ ====== comatose_kid Sadly, the op's definition of 'best' excludes anything that isn't a compilation of tips.
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Making Elm faster and friendlier in 0.16 - jwmerrill http://elm-lang.org/blog/compilers-as-assistants ====== boubiyeah I find the Elm language quite fun and I think it has potential. However, I'm absolutely not convinced about "the Elm architecture" for anything but the simplest UIs. Is pure functional reactive progr...
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Is Google fearing pg's call on reinventing search startups? - RuggeroAltair I thought this deserved some attention.<p>In response to pg's essay on ambitious ideas for startups, Matt Cutts said: "Paul's #1 suggestion is reinventing search. I happily welcome competition in search because it keeps us on our toes, but h...
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Songs in the key of life: What makes music emotional? - wallflower http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18367-songs-in-the-key-of-life-what-makes-music-emotional.html ====== discolemonade I think the reason music makes us emotional goes beyond language. I think music also taps into the Amygdala, which is the part o...
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Female entrepreneurs - #4 Digital Agency on AdAge A-List wants to help - laklak24 On Sept. 24, Resource will launch RI:30; an opportunity for one female-owned business seeking a robust digital presence to work together with Resource Interactive's digital experts for free for up to one year. The lucky winner will wor...
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Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 - obilgic http://www.marco.org/2011/12/19/amazon-kindle-vs-ipad ====== Turing_Machine Personally I own both, enjoy and use both, and think that comparing the two is a mug's game. They're aimed at completely different use cases. Is it really worthy of so much virtual ink (not just in the ...
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I'm bored by web dev. Where is the cutting edge of tech and how do I get there? - lint_roller Hi all. Recent college graduate here.<p>Did a lot of hacking for a couple years back in the early 2000s as a kid in PHP, Perl, etc. before losing interest. Recently graduated with an unrelated non-STEM degree, turned down an ...
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Job hunting tips - MarkPearce https://www.markpearce.net/single-post/30-quick-and-simple-job-hunting-tips-for-job-seekers ====== karmel I disagree with many minor points here, but one strongly enough to comment: do not send your resume as a Word doc. Any modern tracking system parses PDFs, and Word docs make it look l...
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Xerox internal memo about the Alto (1972) - parenthesis http://research.microsoft.com/lampson/38a-WhyAlto/WebPage.html ====== pg A Word original? Can't have been the original original...
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Ask HN: simplifying credit card forms. - transmit101 This is 37signal's beautifully simple credit card capture form for Highrise.<p>http://img.ly/2u8H<p>I'd like to know how feasible it is to create a form with so few fields. Presumably there are some fraud checks being skipped? Is this something that many payment g...
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Tesla Owner Finds Torn A-Pillar on Freshly Delivered Model S - joatmon-snoo http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2017/04/tesla-owner-finds-torn-pillar-freshly-delivered-model-s/ ====== oblib Those photos don't provide enough info to know for sure, but I'm more than just a bit suspicious of the claim the car arrived like t...
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Ruby Summer of Code - jeremymcanally http://rubysoc.org ====== jackowayed They really need to make the requirements for students a little more clear (for example, I'm a senior in HS, can I apply?). I'd assume they'll flesh that out before they open the student app. Also, from the questions for students they list th...
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Comparing HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 on Aircraft WiFi [video] - velmu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqY1MfgTYmE ====== digi_owl Tried the test in desktop Firefox, and the HTTP1 gave me a "insecure connection" error. Apparently it is an expired certificate.
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Apply to 50 Schools? Why Not? - edw519 http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/12/why-are-colleges-so-selective/more-college-applications-means-rising-selectivity ====== akadien That article is useless.
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Next-Generation iPhone Parts Caught on Video? - dave1619 http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/05/next-generation-iphone-parts-caught-on-video/ ====== dave1619 I think this is the real thing. iPhone 5 is coming.
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Why Developers Leave Big Name Software Companies - fecak http://techbeacon.com/why-developers-leave-big-name-software-companies? ====== mitchpron My suspected reasons 1 work/life balance 2 most of the company is not as amazing as you think 3 managers are still just managers 4 working in silicon valley with that cost o...
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Curated list of Clojure-like programming languages - chr15m https://github.com/chr15m/awesome-clojure-likes ====== kebolio You mean Lisps? ------ velkyel Another one [https://github.com/candid82/joker](https://github.com/candid82/joker)
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Y Combinator Dataset Of Users Version 1.6 - 10,000 Posters - xirium A 1MB archive of Y Combinator user profiles is available by accessing http://www.rushy.com/ycombinator-news-profile20080821.tar.gz ====== j2d2 Please share any tools created to leverage this!
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analytics - build your own or off-the-shelf? - comatose_kid ====== danielha Mint (http://www.haveamint.com) is a great application with an exceptional interface. If you can design your own system that serves your needs better, then that's even better. ------ phil The nice thing about google analytics is you can hav...
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Plink (Collaborative Music Generation) - coreyp_1 http://plink.in/ ====== sigmaprimus That is quite fun, might be the highlight of my morning! Thanks for sharing! ------ p1esk Wow, this is so good! Loved it.
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Erlang On Xen is now Open Source - rellik https://twitter.com/erlang_on_xen/status/462175524870422528 ====== rellik Some interesting use cases: [http://erlangonxen.org/case/thwarting-a- combinatorial-explos...](http://erlangonxen.org/case/thwarting-a- combinatorial-explosion) ------ nmcfarl And a nice blog entry on...
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Ask HN: How do I find out what people will pay for my product? - rnochumo I have spent some time developing a feedback widget for startups to use on their own websites to entice their visitors to record their screens and submit their feedback. It is a free tool right now but that's largely because I have no idea wha...
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Ask HN: What are your struggles as a product manager? - sajthom A friend and I were discussing lately the struggles of building a product. We both worked at 3 different startups and noticed that most product managers face the same problems. A few problems we identified are:<p>- Prioritizing features<p>- Collecting fee...
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Truth does not exist - gioscarab fact = truth<p>fact = statement proven with evidence<p>evidence = anything presented in support of an assertion<p>so<p>truth = statement proven with anything presented in support of an assertion<p>source wikipedia, just a little condensed ====== dmfdmf > Truth does not exist...
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[UK] Post code data to be free in 2010 - davecardwell http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8402327.stm ====== nailer At FOWA a few months ago, the Ordanance Survey (a taxpayer funded organization that handles postcode and general surveying in the UK) had a stand asking people to pay the typical exhorbitant amount o...
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Equity/ Rev Sharing for Startup... Help - ashleys Hello HN community, I need your advice. I am venturing into my own startup.I dont have a lot of money or the resources to develop the software I need to. I have come across a company that is willing to help me out. Here are the terms, tell me if this makes sense or i...
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Cool It! - moog http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10795585 ====== cawel I just found my first typo ever in an article from The Economist! That's a once in a lifetime :) Notice the missing second 't' in "petabytes"? "Project Kittyhawk, as it is called, would link several thousand Blue Gene computers...
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The Rip-offs and Making Our Original Game - jmduke http://asherv.com/threes/threemails/ ====== eigenbom "It's a mix of feelings, we're still thrilled by all the love for Threes. But it has me wanting to never make a small beautiful thing again." \- Threes dev Greg Wohlwend on Twitter (@aeiowu) I liked 2048 and its ...
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Why did Kickstarter ban GMOs? - protomyth http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/02/why-did-kickstarter-ban-gmos/ ====== sumit_psp Kickstarter is still a relatively new company and as the company matures, I am sure they will come up with better ways of dealing with these things. ------ jrkelly Surprising since it was a very p...
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Show HN: Drive Enroute API Gateway (Docker Container) Using OpenAPI Spec - chintant https://getenroute.io/blog/can-your-api-gateway-tango-to-openapi-swagger-spec/ ====== chintant Drive automation in API delivery in addition to generating client and server using OpenAPI Spec. Automating API Delivery reduces error and ...
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How To Get Top Engineers To Open Your Email Then Join Your Company - iProject http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/23/recruiting-elite-engineers-in-the-new-ultra-competitive-talent-market/ ====== JoeAltmaier Interesting about A/B testing subject headers for recruiting emails - which ones got opened/discarded. Has anybody do...
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How to Pick Your Next Gig: Evaluating Startups - QuanticoIsLove http://www.samvitjain.com/blog/evaluating-startups/ ====== dvt Using Zuckerberg/Jobs/Bezos/Gates as archetypal examples of founders is a terrible idea as they are _extreme_ \-- and I mean EXTREME -- outliers. I also don't get how Jennifer Lawrence fits i...
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Show HN: Share what you own - TimLeland https://iownit.co ====== RaDoubleD Startup website where users add categories of products or services they use in their online presence. iOwnIt condenses links into one page and pulls directly from Amazon by URL with real-time price updating. ------ drt Interesting idea... ~~~...
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Your Timeline: Revisiting the world that you’ve explored - sagivo http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2015/07/your-timeline-revisiting-world-that.html ====== notcub Easily remember all the places I've been, eh? Sounds familiar. Is it like Google Latitude, which I used to easily remember all the places I had been unti...
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Ask HN: What personal finance tools do you use? - xupybd I&#x27;ve been using YNAB(6 months) after having used HLedger(2 years). HLedger was beautiful, I really loved budgeting that way. There were fantastic tutorials on how to do envelop budgeting. The lead developer helped fix bugs instantly. There was a tool that ...
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Ask HN: How do you know if an idea is worth running with? - alexbanks I&#x27;m currently developing a SaaS product in my spare time. It&#x27;s a tool that I want&#x2F;I will use that doesn&#x27;t seem to exist in the market already in any decent fashion. In my own bubble it seems like a great, potentially profitable i...
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In Norway, a Prison Built on Second Chances - user_235711 http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/05/31/410532066/in-norway-a-prison-built-on-second-chances ====== bsenftner The US prison system is actually an industrialized slavery system for US corporations. The prison system here has a "work program" for inmates...
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Don't Make Me Code, a New Podcast about Developer Experience (DX) Design - tedcarstensen http://blog.heavybit.com/blog/dont-make-me-code-1 ====== kafkaesq _Don 't Make Me Code_ There's a lot packed into that saying.
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The Kansas Experiment - lfowles http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/magazine/the-kansas-experiment.html?_r=0 ====== Artistry121 Kansas is a beautiful state but like most of the middle of the country its population spread, lack of "entrepreneurship-role-models" in most communities and talent flight hurt its chances of de...
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences - BerislavLopac https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-mathematics-in-the-natural-sciences#email-newsletter ====== nsajko Dupe of [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452008](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20452008) ...
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How the NSA scandal hurts the economy - richtr http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2013/07/15/how-the-nsa-scandal-hurts-the-economy/ ====== bigiain For what it's worth - I've got clients and colleagues asking hard questions about data jurisdiction and data sovereignty in the last 6 weeks. The old "obvious answer...
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This supercomputer is a supersleuth for insurers - hackuser http://www.cbsnews.com/news/this-supercomputer-is-a-supersleuth-for-insurers/ ====== hackuser _You 're just starting work on a major home improvement project when your insurance agent calls. "You need more coverage," he says. But the real question is: How did...
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Burger Burger – Order Burgers via SMS in London - reddavis https://burgerburger.lol ====== autonomy77 £51 for four burgers and fries in London is a tad excessive :)
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Why you should contribute to open source - shalinmangar http://shalinsays.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-you-should-contribute-to-open.html Sharing notes I put together for a talk I gave to some students ====== erikb85 it would be so nice, if open source contribution could bring u a job in a cool software company. but I gu...
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Bold move: BlackBerry Dakota photo, specs leaked - alphadoggs http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011311-blackberry-dakota.html ====== st3fan Underwhelming
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The macho sperm myth - kawera https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-sperm-race-to-the-egg-is-just-another-macho-myth ====== Footkerchief The author seems confused: > Sperm passage up the female tract is more like an extremely challenging > military obstacle course than a standard sprint-style swimming race. Sperm > nu...
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It May Not Feel Like Anything to Be an Alien - dnetesn http://cosmos.nautil.us/feature/72/it-may-not-feel-like-anything-to-be-an-alien ====== probably_wrong Holy browser hijack, Batman! On Firefox for Android, this link opens 10+ times the same link, hijacking the "back" button.
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Facebook's ad algorithm is race & gender stereotyping, new study suggests - sapski https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/ ====== m0zg It would be "stereotyping" if it was sentient and had an ulterior motive. As of 2019 sentient algorithms do not exist, not even at Facebook. So the algor...
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Ask HN: Is ok if I have a few subscribers in the waitlist but a 29% week growth? - IsraCV Hi everyone!<p>Three weeks ago I put online a landing page for my app and start looking for early traction, I&#x27;m testing different traction channels to see which one performs better, organically.<p>Right now I have 58 subsc...
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Stop exporting N95 masks to Canada, Trump administration tells U.S. manufacturer - fudged71 https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2020/04/03/stop-exporting-n95-masks-to-canada-trump-administration-tells-us-manufacturer.html ====== fudged71 3M's response: [https://news.3m.com/press-release/company- english/3m-respons...](...
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Team Combat Identification:Effects of Gender, Spatial Visualization Disagreement - GoRudy https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0018720820902286 ====== gshdg Armored vehicles. Yup, totally unbiased study. Try it with birds or something.
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I'm not sure it's Mou against the world - ismiseted http://larryhynes.net/2014/09/mou-against-the-world.html ====== dewey I got my Mou licence the same way the author of the blog post got his and I'm still very happy with Mou for my casual markdown need. I don't blame him for selling a few things on the side. It's ...
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Cisco: The anti-Nokia - narkee http://www.economist.com/node/18114914?story_id=18114914&fsrc=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economist%2Ffull_print_edition+%28The+Economist%3A+Full+print+edition%29 ====== pvdm Cisco is the next Nokia.
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What's a CPU to do when it has nothing to do? - reddotX https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/767630/594421f913c3d00a/ ====== IcePic I have no idea on how many other OSes do this, but at least OpenBSD will use idle time to pre-clear memory pages that have been returned to the OS, so that when the next process has them mapped...
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Middle East Dictators Buy Spy Tech from Company Linked to IBM and Google - notlukesky https://theintercept.com/2019/07/12/semptian-surveillance-mena-openpower/ ====== jsty > The Chinese firm is a member of an American organization called the > OpenPower Foundation, which was founded by Google and IBM executives with >...
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August Engelhardt - Thevet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Engelhardt ====== drongoking "He developed a philosophy that assumed that the sun was the venerable source of all life, and since the coconut was the fruit that grows nearest the sun, it must be the most perfect food for people." That may sound comical, ...
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LHC results put supersymmetry theory on the spot - sbt http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14680570 ====== Jach Excuse some potential ignorance of the terms here (I'm not a physicist), and possibly misremembering my history, but is this really incredibly surprising? BBC mentions supersymmetry seeming "old ...
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What's your favorite web template company? - 9ec4c12949a4f3 I'm presently looking for some template companies to replace the face of our site, I'm just interested in picking up a $50 one or something in that general range. I want a nice clean face before we put up anything, as the domain is already live. Does anyone...
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Show HN: Aidem Network – Launch your product on 150 websites with one click - juhaszhenderson https://www.aidem.network/?ref=hackernews ====== juhaszhenderson Hey everyone! My Co-founder and I have completed dozens of growth hacking projects like Rumblr (featured by 200+ media outlets in 4 days: [https://goo.gl/Xbp7R...
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A Soccer Con Man Who Couldn't Play the Game - dluan http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soccers-ultimate-con-man-was-a-superstar-who-couldnt-play-the-game ====== lordnacho How many of you have not worked with someone whom you suspected of not being able to program, despite being paid to do so? Here's a description o...
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When Haskell is Faster than C - metajack http://paulspontifications.blogspot.com/2013/01/when-haskell-is-faster-than-c.html ====== haberman These "faster than C" claims are almost always embarrassing (usually involving C code that would easily win if it were as aggressively optimized as the high- level language) but t...
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Is Historical Knowledge Philosophically Interesting? - diodorus https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/philosophy/is-historical-knowledge-philosophically-interesting ====== epberry This is the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. Attempting to write about a historical event disturbs it. Even so, the metaphysic...
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Copyright Directive: how the mob was told to save the dragon and slay the knight - mqus https://medium.com/@EuropeanCommission/the-copyright-directive-how-the-mob-was-told-to-save-the-dragon-and-slay-the-knight-b35876008f16 ====== apsec112 The claim: "Journalists and online publications will have more money to keep on...
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Dyslexie: the chubby-ankled font that makes reading easier for dyslexics - jcater http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2014/nov/12/dyslexie-new-font-that-makes-reading-easier-with-dyslexia ====== Someone1234 > Watching letters float and twist across a page, flipping and jumbling with > gy...
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Anthropocene: A Very Short Introduction - hownottowrite https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0784ZL96K/ref=tmm_kin_title_0 ====== hownottowrite Kindle/Google Play versions are out now. Print book comes in April. Highly recommended by some Geomorphology friends. Oxford Press Description: The proposal that the impact of hu...
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Voice Controlled Lights with a Raspberry Pi - albi_lander https://adrienball.fr/2018/06/17/voice-controlled-lights/ ====== xchip We have seen lots of projects doing this, you should make more clear in what way yours is better/different.
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The Hacker Who Cracked the Code in Iron Man and The Social Network - jgrahamc http://www.wired.com/underwire/2014/01/movie-fake-code/ ====== ChuckMcM Well if nothing else this suggests there is a lifestyle level business in the Entertainment industry doing "code" inserts. The article lays out all of the things that ar...
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The Tragedy of the New Coronavirus Spikes - fortran77 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/06/the-tragedy-of-the-new-coronavirus-spikes ====== zaroth RealClearPolitics links to TFA, and just below links to this story as well, “Where are all the deaths?” [https://spectator.us/where-deaths-coronavirus- wave/](htt...
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My NASA Friend Found a Box of Film from Apollo 15 in His Desk Drawer - mxfh https://petapixel.com/2017/04/25/nasa-friend-found-box-film-apollo-15-desk-drawer/ ====== mxfh No original moon films though: [http://disq.us/p/1i59278](http://disq.us/p/1i59278)
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Just Fix Tests - markazevedo http://engineering.bookrenter.com/actually-upgrading-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-w ====== abc_lisper I had the exact same revelation two weeks ago, and surprisingly that is almost the same phrase I tell myself :). ~~~ markazevedo You know, after 2 failed ...
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The Official Patron Saint of the Internet - vinutheraj http://www.scborromeo.org/saints/isidores.htm ====== patio11 A quick note for non-Catholics: there aren't "official" patron saints of the Internet or anything else. Sainthood is an official designation. Status as a patron saint, on the other hand, is bestowed by...
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Avoid a Common Software Bug by Using Perl 6 - bane http://blogs.perl.org/users/ovid/2015/02/avoid-a-common-software-bug-by-using-perl-6.html ====== raiph A comment on Ovid's blog post says: > Perl 6 does some compile time type checking but it only works in some very > simple cases. I was thinking that all P6 code ...
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New Hire Checklist - antiform http://startupcfo.ca/2008/06/new-hire-checklist.html ====== Alex3917 I can't remember if this has come up before, but what is the best resource for learning how to hire people? ~~~ sharpshoot pmarca has some great articles on the topic for startup hiring. We at Snaptalent love his stuf...
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Yes, Determinists, There Is Free Will - dnetesn http://nautil.us/issue/72/quandary/yes-determinists-there-is-free-will ====== c3534l So the argument is basically "there appears to be free will so long as you don't look at the details, so free will is not an illusion, so long as you ignore the details." Even if you acc...
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Unexpectedly Good Things VR Will Probably Cause (2016) - thenomad http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2016/05/three-unexpectedly-good-things.html ====== corysama 4: Many people have reported that slowly conditioning themselves to be resistant to motion sickness inside VR has also helped them become more resist...
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Is There a Google-Free Future for Firefox? - kiyanwang https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycollins/2020/09/03/is-there-a-google-free-future-for-firefox/ ====== eitland The saddest thing I see in these comments are always people hating on some minor thing like Pocket or something and who has decided to go with Chrome ins...
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Ask HN: What happened to Dart? - kentf I remember their being a lot of hype around Dart given that it was Google and Chrome and all that jazz, but I don&#x27;t hear much about it lately.<p>Their website has been refreshed: https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.dartlang.org&#x2F;<p>Looks like there is a conference coming up too. Jus...
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WeWork: The ‘hypothetical’ company at the heart of the property market - hhs https://www.ft.com/content/0e426c90-8c45-11e9-a1c1-51bf8f989972 ====== pseingatl Paywall.
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Tesla is suing oil industry exec for impersonating Elon Musk - traxmaxx https://electrek.co/2016/09/14/tesla-is-suing-oil-industry-exec-for-impersonating-elon-musk-to-get-delivery-numbers/ ====== gerfficiency For impersonating Elon Musk... to get confidential information.
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Users report losing Bitcoin in clever hack of Electrum wallets - bubblehack3r https://www.zdnet.com/article/users-report-losing-bitcoin-in-clever-hack-of-electrum-wallets/ ====== Meekro This is actually super-clever, let me try to explain. Electrum is unique in that it's not a "real" bitcoin wallet. To save time and c...
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Yet Another Librem 5 and PinePhone Comparison - cunidev https://tuxphones.com/yet-another-librem-5-and-pinephone-linux-smartphone-comparison/ ====== aritmo They cost $150 and $700 respectively.
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Show HN: Minimal Vagrant base-box images for various Linuxen - lwhalen I&#x27;ve been frustrated dealing with other Vagrant boxes that come pre-loaded with a bunch of cruft - old versions of Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and other software that just plain ships broken. To address that, I&#x27;ve created some Minimal Vagra...
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OpenELEC 4.0 released - bloody0815 http://openelec.tv/news/22-releases/125-openelec-4-0-released ====== cultureulterior Apparently an XBMC distro.
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Facial Recognition’s Threat to Privacy Is Worse Than Anyone Thought - CapitalistCartr https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/10/memo-doj-facial-recognitions-threat-privacy-worse-anyone-thought ====== Animats A facial recognition database of politicians would be easy to construct. There are plenty of pictures of them. We c...
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Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder? - mezod ====== philippz 2013 there was a big flood in Germany. I was a victim and lost a lot of my stuff. I instantly wrote a simple and fast HTML-app to coordinate all those thousands of volunteering flood-helpers. The city and the university who tried to organize all volunteer...
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Clinical Reasoning - DanBC https://drohanlon.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/clinical-reasoning/ ====== DanBC Submitting this because there are lots of medical threads on HN. This post talks about some of the cognitive biases that affect doctors.
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Apple won’t allow iPhones to downgrade from iOS 13.5.1 to iOS 13.5 - vvpvijay https://androidrookies.com/apple-wont-allow-its-users-to-downgrade-their-iphones-from-ios-13-5-1-to-ios-13-5/ ====== devenblake That's unfortunate for the jailbreaking community (as mentioned in the article, 13.5.1 patches out the kernel exp...
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Quake II RTX: Re-Engineering a Classic with Ray Tracing Effects on Vulkan - nullifidian https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/quake-ii-rtx-ray-tracing-vulkan-vkray-geforce-rtx/ ====== tqkxzugoaupvwqr The new lighting makes such a dramatic difference. Despite the same low polygon count, the levels seem much more li...
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