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China’s Three Gorges Dam faces severe flooding as Yangtze overflows [video] - throwaway888abc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp74CTV5m9g ====== mytailorisrich The Yangtze is notorious for overflowing and the geography does not help. If you visit towns along its course you are struck by the huge safety margin between ...
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Readability and Naming Things - princeverma http://www.codesimplicity.com/post/readability-and-naming-things/ ====== akkartik My favorite aesthetic on naming things is to try to avoid it. Evidence that this is on the right track: \- Refactoring is often for eliminating temporaries, or for segregating them into thei...
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Companies are using webcams to monitor employees working from home - joeyespo https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-sneek-webcam-picture-5-minutes-monitor-video-2020-3 ====== gabrielsroka Do companies let employees know about this? What if you put a camera cover on? I know there's no expectation of privacy at...
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Cisco's Layoffs Are Just the Tip of the Spear for Tech - eande http://fortune.com/2016/08/18/expect-more-tech-layoffs/ ====== niftich This "analysis" isn't much of one, and makes little sense. I get that the move to the cloud lessens the demand for datacenter hardware by smaller players who run datacenters for themse...
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Ask HN: How do you find a good progra... uhh.. I mean lawyer? - diminium Quite a lot of comments dealing with company formation or IP says "find a good lawyer".<p>If finding a good lawyer is anything like finding a good programmer, how do you find a good lawyer?<p>In this case, your the pointy haired boss who doesn'...
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Show HN: Blanket, an attempt at an anonymous, secure, trusted messaging app - josecastillo https://github.com/josecastillo/blanket ====== waynerad Does it have to use QR Codes? Any more usable way of exchanging keys? NFC? ~~~ josecastillo You could use NFC, sure; QR codes just seemed more accessible since every pho...
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Open Guide to AWS CDK - kevinslin https://github.com/kevinslin/open-cdk ====== kevinslin author here - been working with the framework for the better part of the year and have had repeated discussions about conventions and best practices. this guide is a collection of learnings thus far. feedback and contributions wel...
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A chatterbot using reservoir computing to process and generate natural language. - neur0mancer Reserbot is a small project of a chatterbot using reservoir computing to process and generate natural language.<p>This project is looking for colaboration or discussion.<p>Link: https://github.com/neuromancer/reserbot<p>Al...
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Ex-chair of FCC broadband committee gets five years in prison for fraud - howard941 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/06/ajit-pais-ex-advisor-gets-five-years-in-prison-for-lying-to-investors/ ====== btown Wow, pretty blatant stuff here. Forged signatures! But some of this could have been prevented. For instance...
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Ask HN: German considering hiring a US designer (remote), got some questions - codesuela Hey HN, I am considering hiring a US based freelance designer and have some questions about that:<p>1) I am willing to pay a reasonable but not excessive amount so I think wont be able to find someone from LA or NYC due to the c...
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5 Top reasons why “webmasters” are doing Google’s dirty job - theoswan http://www.ipsojobs.com/blog/2008/02/18/5-top-reasons-why-webmasters-are-doing-googles-dirty-job/ ====== airhadoken So wait, webmasters are working for Google because... Google works for them? ~~~ wmf Maybe this post came from Soviet Russia.
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Does your startup use MSFT technology? - bootload ====== bootload _'... One thing that causes me more alarm, is that I see a lot of startups using MSFT technology these days. See, startups give you early warnings on trends of what people use. Something is going here. Startups are the early warning signs of on-coming ...
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Anna: A KVS for any scale - shalabhc https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/03/27/anna-a-kvs-for-any-scale/ ====== homarp Earlier discussion [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551072) ------ laurentoget I could not find any information about plans to release or distribute it...
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Show HN: A usable, fast Gitlab CLI written in Rust - bradwood https://gitlab.com/bradwood/git-lab-rust ====== bradwood I've been using GitLab for a while, and just started learning Rust, so I thought I'd have a go at putting together a user-centric cli tool for Gitlab as a personal project. It's still under heavy deve...
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Portugal's anti-euro Left banned from power - andmarios http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11949701/AEP-Eurozone-crosses-Rubicon-as-Portugals-anti-euro-Left-banned-from-power.html ====== rkwasny This is serious: "Democracy must take second place to the higher imperative of euro rules and membership."
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NSA snooping is hurting U.S. tech companies’ bottom line - Libertatea http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/25/nsa-snooping-is-hurting-u-s-tech-companies-bottom-line/?tid=rssfeed ====== junto This doesn't surprise me. I'm hoping that a few non-US companies start to take advantage of this faux-pas and...
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Exploit broker Zerodium ups the ante with $500k to target Signal and WhatsApp - acconrad https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/wanted-weaponized-exploits-that-hack-phones-will-pay-top-dollar/ ====== Abishek_Muthian Not just Signal & WhatsApp, $500,000 - Messaging Apps RCE + LPE (SMS/MMS, iMessage, Te...
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Silicon Valley isn’t just disrupting democracy–it’s replacing it - dougb5 https://qz.com/1092329/mark-zuckerberg-and-elon-musks-quest-to-turn-the-whole-world-into-a-private-utopia-for-silicon-valley/ ====== neo4sure Read it. Don't agree with it. Sounds like the same negative attack that seems to be coordinated toward ...
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Launch HN: Charityvest (YC S20) – Employee charitable funds and gift matching - Leonidas243 Stephen, Jon, and Ashby here, the co-founders of Charityvest (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;charityvest.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;charityvest.org</a>). We created a modern, simple, and affordable way for companies to i...
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Has anyone here tried ad copy in the "Does Anyone Else?" format? - klbarry On Reddit, DAE are commonly voted to the top because people like to associate with their identity, have nostalgia, and speak their mind. Has anyone ever done this with an outside audience? For instance, using a banner ad, targeting fashion pe...
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PGP and You - caleb_thompson http://robots.thoughtbot.com/pgp-and-you/ ====== ColinWright [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539935](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8539935)
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YC Company stealing code from another YC Company - patriley http://i.imgur.com/qQk2n.jpg ====== relaunched If you've been around the internet for more than 3 months, you'll realize that this is nothing more than a compliment to the designer. The net is collaborative. And using a popular, common layout is a way to d...
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Using Vim as a JavaScript IDE - ausjke http://www.dotnetsurfers.com/blog/2016/02/08/using-vim-as-a-javascript-ide/ ====== dozzie Step one: install dozen of plugins, because you can't do sh*% with an editor and command line alone.
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LCD makers in $553 million U.S. price-fixing accord - llambda http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/27/us-lcd-settlement-idUSTRE7BQ0KK20111227 ====== lincolnq Does anyone with knowledge of the industry care to estimate how much money these companies could make using such a scheme? Considering how often these sorts o...
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Great Startup Engineers - mdenny http://blog.derrickko.com/great-startup-engineers ====== AngryParsley So great startup engineers should have focus, compassion, balance, responsibility, and openness. When would you ever _not_ desire these traits in someone? The opposite is scatter-brained, indifferent, unbalanced, i...
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An Interview with OEIS's Neil Sloane - jason_s http://www.wired.com/2015/08/meet-guy-sorts-worlds-numbers-attic/ ====== jordigh We like to include sequences that appear on IQ tests. It’s always been one of my goals to help people do these silly tests. Yessssss! Those damn "IQ" questions: [htt...
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Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys - john4532452 https://daringfireball.net/2020/07/return_and_enter ====== john4532452 slashdot discussion [https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/07/21/1539216/return- and-en...](https://it.slashdot.org/story/20/07/21/1539216/return-and-enter- are-two-different-keys)
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A revised Lisp interpreter in Go - suzuki http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/golang/lisp4-en.html ====== suzuki This is a revised port of Lisp interpreter in Dart [http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp- en.html](http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/dart/lisp-en.html) Lisp interpreter in TypeScript [http://www.oki-osk.jp/esc/typescript/li...
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IPhone, MySpace, Facebook Race To Micropayments In 2009 - kleneway http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/02/iphone-myspace-facebook-race-to-micropayments-in-2009/ ====== flashgordon i think for a true micropayment system to work it has to be usable across domains instead of just within a social network... this means the...
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Minimum viable view library, part I - pakastin https://freezer.js.org/minimum-viable-view-library/ ====== pakastin Hi guys! Let me know if you have any questions or comments about the post..
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On writers, 'digital rights management', and the internet - nreece http://stevenpoole.net/blog/free-your-mind/ ====== tptacek I think psychologically, a model that might work better for works like this: a fixed up-front price ($5?), with a no-hassle no-questions-asked one-click refund of all or part of the payment. E...
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How to build a simple neural network in 9 lines of Python code - bryanrasmussen https://medium.com/technology-invention-and-more/how-to-build-a-simple-neural-network-in-9-lines-of-python-code-cc8f23647ca1 ====== matt_wulfeck How to draw an owl in two lines of code; import owl owl.draw() ~~~...
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Ask HN: Hackers that perform/love stand-up comedy? - danielzarick I've been a little curious lately if there are others of you out there that love stand-up comedy like I do? I've been trying to write more and more lately when I get a chance between school and work. Hopefully I'll get the courage to do an open mic in t...
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Google Cloud sucks - rap https://yourbunnywrote.org/2015/04/19/google-cloud/ ====== mark_l_watson It would have been nice if the article had statistics on how often GC hosted applications are offline due to infrastructure problems compared to competitors like Azure, AWS, etc. BTW, if an app fits nicely into the AppEn...
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Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life - chinmoy http://venturebeat.com/2013/05/16/homeless-to-hacker-how-the-maker-movement-changed-one-mans-life/ ====== Blinkky This is a very feel good type article. A couple of things have glaring red flags for me: "His ideas are in various stages of dev...
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Coming soon: Flying car for $279k - deedub http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-03/a-flying-car-for-just-279-000 ====== wxl Yeah, sure. > Dietrich says, “a pilot of one of our vehicles—once issued a use permit—can > just drive up, swipe through the gate, taxi, and take off. You don’t even > have to talk to ...
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Why are you making money? - jayferd http://jayferd.us/posts/2012-02-07-why-are-you-making-money ====== mitchie_luna When I was in grade school, life was so hard for us. There were times that my teacher won’t allow me to take the final test because my tuition fee is not yet paid. My family also experienced a Christma...
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Adblock Plus offers workaround to block Facebook ads again - ailinykh http://venturebeat.com/2016/08/11/adblock-plus-offers-workaround-to-block-facebook-ads-again/ ====== parent5446 Any word on when uBlock will have it? ~~~ detaro According to the article right now, if you use EasyList?
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Game theorists offer a surprising insight into the evolution of fair play - molbioguy http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_5_111/ai_86684497/?tag=mantle_skin;content ====== nhaehnle The game is kind of weird: _Each player of the pair begins with a set amount of money, say $5. Each puts any part or all of...
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Bret Victor: The Humane Representation of Thought [video] - maryrosecook https://vimeo.com/115154289 ====== dang [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784323](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8784323)
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Michael Crichton on talent: "I just work hard" - henning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0bQnqD9dLA ====== kul If you're interested in more analysis of 'talent', read this: [http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_col...](http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_colvin.fortune/index....
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Panasonic's human blinkers help people concentrate in open-plan offices - bryanrasmussen https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/17/panasonics-wearable-blinkers-concentrate-open-plan-offices-technology/ ====== ThrowawayR2 Though appropriate, since it serves much the same function, the choice of the term blinkers seems rather u...
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Why California May Go Nuclear - Reedx https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/09/03/why-california-may-go-nuclear/ ====== ixtli Conservationists need to really make peace with the fact that the only way out of climate change involves building a very, very strong nuclear energy portfolio. This is difficu...
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Fake News Is Unbelievably Cheap to Produce - smacktoward https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608105/fake-news-is-unbelievably-cheap ====== CM30 Gets even cheaper if you: 1\. Remember that most people don't care about how 'well written' an article is, and simply care that it tells them something they wanted to know abo...
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Roadmap – nginx - twapi http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/roadmap ====== stingraycharles Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly should I be looking for that warrants a frontpage of HN for this link ? ~~~ LoonyPandora Official support for WebSockets and SPDY in nginx is big news. WebSocket support especially, as previously i...
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Google donates $6.8M to SF public transit amid bus controversy - Anechoic http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/02/27/google-donates-68m-to-sf-public.html ====== MyNameIsMK I didn't realize elementary school students like to ride MUNI all by themselves. Publicity stunt. ~~~ andymoe Publicity stunt, sure. But...
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The Digital Human – Terry A. Davis and Temple OS - bkq https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000b4r3 ====== sysbin I’m skeptical of my assumption but I think this person died not only from the illness schizophrenia but because of the religion that fueled his illness. I theorize psychiatry isn’t wanting to approach religi...
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Ask HN: I would make website for you for free - udhb I want to work on some real projects like website for your product or company or business. I am a student and I would do it for free...<p>Thanks. ====== lsiunsuex Student at what school / college? What language? Framework? Why for free? To gain experience? To ad...
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Insider's details about the Amazon Phone - Helvodka Here&#x27;s all I know about the Amazon Phone.<p>1- There are 2 versions, a cheap one that&#x27;s being released by the end of the year with a basic software similar to the Kindle Fire software. The other version will be more expensive and feature a 3D UI but won&#...
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Upvote count was the "must read" buoy that helped me navigate HN - alain94040 A high upvote count meant that the comment was a "must read". It was my light that allowed me to navigate HN. And now it's gone :-(<p>Please bring it back.<p>Please. ====== pjscott It would also be possible to bring back the red dot, on hi...
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Is it ok to answer these screening questions for a programming job? - igauravsehrawat https://twitter.com/Root3d/status/916640177891680256 ====== danielvf Looks like pretty standard interview stuff. It’s just trying to get you talking so they can see if you communicate well and if they like you.
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Ask HN: What do you with customers' feature requests for your SaaS app? - hekker I oftentimes get feature requests from my customers. Examples are customizing e-mails the app sents, GUI customizations ( so that they can upload their own company logo for example ), and so on.<p>Sometimes these features are useful for...
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Answers On-Demand: A startup turns to small business - maverik http://sagefront.com ====== bsears your early access form on the front page is messed up, (the form sends to [http://sagefront.co](http://sagefront.co) instead of [http://sagefront.com](http://sagefront.com)) ~~~ maverik Hey, thanks a lot for letting me k...
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PDP-11 Booting - rmason http://trmm.net/PDP-11/Booting ====== WalterBright I had an LSI-11. It was a real sweet machine. DEC completely missed the micro revolution - they could have owned it. So sad. ~~~ imglorp They tried. Remember the DECMate and Rainbow and all those? Our school taught us MACRO-11, pre-standard C,...
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How AI and copyright would work - chriskanan https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/09/how-ai-and-copyright-would-work ====== IanDrake Something I always wondered... if I train an AI using copyrighted material, say Harry Potter, do I really own anything it generates?
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The Engineer and the Artist - catpuppet http://blog.mathgladiator.com/2011/05/engineer-and-artist.html ====== rawsyntax Fwiw, I'm a programmer and not attracted to artists. I think art is fine if you want to do it, but it can be hard to make a living that way. I also don't think going to college for art is a great i...
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Growth hacker? Bite me - dirktheman http://www.dirktheman.com/rant/growth-hacker-bite-me/ ====== patio11 A rose by any other name... Do you believe there are short dev projects which make meaningful, compounding improvements in core areas of concern for the business? If so, holy cow, right? That is really, really, RE...
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Bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move - __david__ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-01/msg00005.html ====== hyperpape I went back and looked at the older discussion, and it doesn't paint Stallman very well as the head of a project. He pins the question of whether to keep using bzr not on whether it is go...
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What's your favorite code editor? - rukshn http://tally.tl/BwG2O ====== smt88 This is way too broad. For what kind of code? ------ simonblack joe with wordstar key-bindings <grin> ------ Joyfield Ultraedit. ------ beyondcompute TextMate 2
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What's so special about being a designer? - sandrobfc It&#x27;s a simple question for which I am trying to get a clear answer to: can everyone be a designer?<p>It&#x27;s a fact that everyone has opinions when it comes to design - clients, partners, mothers, grandmothers, uncles, cousins, etc. However, I don&#x27;t thi...
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A more balanced reading list? - forgotmypasswd As an avid user of reddit and hn, I read a good amount of technical blogs. This stuff is great, but I realize now that its ALL I read. While I enjoy the posts, (and I learn a lot) I feel like I'm becoming disconnected with the average user.<p>Do you know any good blogs ...
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60,000% growth in 7 months using Clojure and AWS - lkrubner http://www.colinsteele.org/post/27929539434/60-000-growth-in-7-months-using-clojure-and-aws ====== lkrubner To me, this was the big surprise, and the big revelation: "This led to Decision Two. Because the data set is small, we can “bake in” the entire cont...
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Ask HN: How to convince my coworkers to ship imperfect code? - artpi We’ve heard mantras many times. Mark Zuckerberg urges to „Move fast and break things” ( although it’s „move fast with stable infrastructure” now. ). Reid Hoffman says, that „If you are not embarrassed with first version of your product, you are too ...
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If it has lots of comments, it’s probably buggy - fogus http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/byron-cook-sla/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ezyang+%28Inside+245s%29&utm_content=Google+Reader ====== tobylane I'm not a heavy commenter, mostly because I'm yet to work in a team, but there are many re...
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About 41% of Kickstarter Projects Fail - zoowar https://mashable.com/2012/06/12/kickstarter-failures/ ====== rsingla I think a lower goal and lower duration leading to higher success makes sense. As the article says, the lower goal average is just more realistic which I say resonates with people who are looking to ba...
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No YC for you? Drinks on StyleSeat - danlevine http://stylese.at/drinks4devs ====== citizenkeys I'll be there, man. Where you from Dan Levine? ~~~ danlevine Lovely! SF Bay, born and bred...
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The 3n+1 problem - denzil_correa http://blog.racket-lang.org/2012/10/the-3n1-problem_4990.html ====== dollarpizza Funny how now matter where they start out, just about everybody who attempts to take on the 3x+1 problem eventually ends up in pretty much the same place: <http://xkcd.com/710/> ~~~ DanielRibeiro And it ...
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What I Learned at SXSWi 2010 - jcsalterego http://blog.dogster.com/2010/03/17/what-we-learned-at-sxsw-2010/ ====== kadavy "The amount of data created by humans in 2009 exceeded that of all data created by humans prior to 2009." Wow, cool. Also nice to see a post on the front page that isn't bashing what is overall ...
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How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer - fern12 https://thewalrus.ca/how-canadas-health-care-system-helped-create-a-killer/ ====== 52-6F-62 The Walrus is normally a magazine with high standards, and very good quality content, but I find the headline a little misleading or at least sensational. Canada's...
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Wiki.js - akandiah https://wiki.js.org/ ====== Keyframe I need one function in a wiki platform that I haven't seen so far. When I write text, in its WYSIWYG editor, I need an ability to paste in an image (a screenshot that I just grabbed, let's say) and for it to automatically upload it and embed it into text. Does th...
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The “Why” of Electrolysis - nachtigall https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2016/04/11/the-why-of-electrolysis/ ====== brudgers Two years ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349973](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8349973) [not very good] Five years ago: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2780952](https://...
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Show HN: LevelStory – Manage remodel projects from start to finish - bunkat https://levelstory.com ====== bunkat After going through two remodels that lived up to the old adage of 50% over time and 50% over budget, my wife and I decided that there had to be a better way. We created LevelStory to provide more transpare...
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Ask HN: What is your favorite feature of an app/web that got cancelled/modified? - tdhttt ====== maxharris The Workspace Manager in NeXTSTEP. It didn't clutter your desktop with useless icons, and it gave you a single, simple window with the column view and nothing else. That holds up a lot better for today's needs tha...
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TechCrunch.com uniques down by ~60% since its AOL sale - lawlit http://loopplus.tumblr.com/post/7759980680/techcrunch-com-daily-uniques-down-by-60-since-sale-to ====== petercooper By the same measure, then, Hacker News is down about the same: [http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&...](http://tren...
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CIA Didn’t Trust FBI Created Bogus Update to Steal Data and Spy on Fellow Agencies - sjreese http://wccftech.com/cia-didnt-trust-fbi-nsa-installed-fake-updates/ ====== willstrafach Title is completely made up and not reflected in any of the published documents. Liaison services are foreign agencies.
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Philisophy of sexism? - ssivark http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/03/u-colorado-plans-change-culture-philosophy-department-found-be-sexist ====== thenerdfiles Just called their administration ENFP. Oh snap.
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Are Social Games like Farmville, Mafia Wars evil ? - code_devil http://socialapp.posterous.com/are-social-games-evil ====== matwood I wondered the same thing awhile back, although the word 'evil' isn't something I would attribute to a game like Farmville. See my blog post on the issue, "Are Social Obligation Game P...
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More Than 35,000 Sign Petition In Support Of Aaron Swartz - apgwoz http://blog.demandprogress.org/2011/07/more-than-35000-sign-petition-in-support-of-aaron-swartz/ ====== dlikhten I'm sorry its a bit hard to have this knee-jerk reaction without at least having some background into the matter. Did Aaron in fact break i...
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How your tech blog posts are ripped while you sleep - nickb http://www.mikeduncan.com/tech-post-ripoff/ ====== naxxtor This happened to me. I wrote a post about setting up IIS 6 and PHP (oh, my misspent youth). It was split into 3 parts; except I never got around to writing the third part: the copy-paste author mad...
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Ask HN: Anybody selling their side project? - WilhelmJ Hi, I've been looking around on flippa etc to see whether any real web app is for sale. My reason for buying is just to experiment with various things related to running a site, do lot of trial-error and gain some confidence before being able to eventually launc...
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Bill on CA Governor's desk would ban mobile device searches without a warrant - tonywebster http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/smartphone-warrant/ ====== sneak Doesn't much matter, all mobile devices worth using are constantly sending their data up to "the cloud", which, thanks to the USA PATRIOT Act's provisi...
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EFF promising intensified fight against bogus software patents - buzzblog http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/eff-promises-new-fight-against-software-patent-abuse ====== CamperBob FTA: "Every piece of software released to the world without legal protections may leave open a door for someone else to attempt to...
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Ask HN: Open Source projects to join? - chimmychonga Hey guys, I&#x27;m currently studying CS and I am Sophomore. I would consider my self an &quot;ok&quot; programmer, I&#x27;m not by any means amazing but with that being said I&#x27;m not horrible either. Is there any projects open source or other wise that you m...
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Not-GraphQL library that solve the same problems that GraphQL solves - mamouri A few weeks ago I read about an alternative design to API that is not GraphQL but it solves the problems that GraphQL solves.<p>For example, it provided pagination, filtering, etc. out of the box. The author wrote a very long blog post on t...
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Ask HN: What are your predictions for the next 50 years? - hereiskkb In relation to the Technological and Geo-political landscape. ====== virgilp True story: inspired by some dude on the internet, I thought I'd try my hand at "predictions". I made a post with my technology predictions for the next 10 or 15 years (not ...
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Show HN: Compare Your Title to the Pros - amunategui https://www.viralml.com/title-analyzer ====== amunategui Let me know if anybody had a chance to try this out - if you are a writer or blogger, does this analysis make sense? thanks! @amunategui
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Ejecta – A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas and Audio Implementation for iOS - hising http://impactjs.com/ejecta ====== pcwalton One of the coolest things I learned from the original blog post [1] on Ejecta was a trick that the library uses for drawing polygons on the GPU in OpenGL without triangulating them first...
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VERSUS IO Aims To Compare Anything - urgeio http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/versus-io-aims-to-compare-anything-has-its-fanboy-filter-dialled-high/ ====== Xavura Absolutely love the "show original size" feature, very cool. Tested out with my phone and it is for all intents and purposes exact. ------ brandoncapecci...
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How I manage my e-books - input_sh https://input.sh/how-i-manage-my-ebooks/ ====== gumboshoes "Hoarded about 500 of them" I'm happy for you and your books but from this book hoarder's perspective, that is a small number.
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I create fake videos. Here’s why people even believe the obvious ones - Vaslo https://www.fastcompany.com/90404007/i-create-fake-videos-heres-why-people-believe-even-the-obvious-ones ====== ZeroGravitas This stuff is like spam but worse. It's like if someone else could send your money to a Nigerian prince, so you can...
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Reducing a node Docker image from 2.4GB to less than 100MB - jlengrand https://lengrand.fr/reducing-dockers-image-size-while-creating-an-offline-version-of-carbon-now-sh/ ====== dastx Why use an image from a possibly unknown individual when you can simply do: FROM: alpine RUN apk add --no-ca...
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'System safeguards' lacking in Tesla crash on autopilot: NTSB - rgbrenner http://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-autopilot/system-safeguards-lacking-in-tesla-crash-on-autopilot-ntsb-idUSKCN1BN1QP ====== rgbrenner This seems to be the accident : [https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Pages/HW...](https:/...
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Mitochondria may hold keys to anxiety and mental health - jger15 https://www.quantamagazine.org/mitochondria-may-hold-keys-to-anxiety-and-mental-health-20200810/ ====== wombatmobile > The organelles are ancient invaders — the remnants of symbiotic bacteria > that integrated themselves into host cells about 2 billion y...
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How Hackers Protect Themselves From Getting Hacked - giZm0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/hackers-security-tips_n_2333527.html ====== giZm0 These are some pretty obvious advice, but some of the links provided is good
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The Problem with Twitter Maps - lambtron http://www.languagejones.com/blog-1/2014/12/24/the-problem-with-twitter-maps ====== datahipster > Spatial statistics aren't the same as regular statistics I've always been frustrated with the gap between statistics and spatial statistics. For example, some of the methodologies...
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Why Yammer is moving away from Scala - DanielRibeiro https://gist.github.com/1406271 ====== johnbender I've been playing around inside the closure-compiler in my free time recently and the thing that struck me most after years of working in other languages (Ruby, JavaScript, C#) is that Java is a relatively simple lan...
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Hydrogel process developed at Stanford creates transparent brain - theoutlander http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/april/clarity.html ====== robot This is a very impressive (yet simple) methodology in that before this there was no understanding of where certain neurons were projecting in the brain, due to the fat tissu...
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Freakonomics: Do We Need a 37-Cent Coin? - cwan http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/do-we-need-a-37-cent-coin/ ====== kakooljay Interesting post (I love Steven Levitt) but there's a _great_ lesson for developers here: Efficiency is only one consideration. What about _usability?_ Do you really want to wait...
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HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer - sp332 http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05724v1 ====== nickpsecurity Interesting research. We won't know how impressive it is until the kinds of people that break Tor give it a thorough analysis. Otherwise, it might be a scheme that simply _de-anonymizes_ users faster th...
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Hacker Jobs UK is rolling out to Europe & the US - Peroni http://hackerjobs.co/ ====== Peroni We've had enough interest from various companies in the US & Europe to launch regional versions of hackerjobs.co.uk so we've almost completed both iterations and you can use the link above to register your email to get noti...
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