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Ask HN: Why Rust is becoming popular? - gilgamesh3 In the recent times, Rust is becoming very popular, and used more and more by people and companies, but why? What is the pros and cons of Rust? Rust does not even have a spec. ====== topspin Having a "spec" is not a prerequisite to popularity. Perhaps you believe it s...
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That zero-G OK Go video taking over Facebook isn't on YouTube - anulman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwW2v_-5ak ====== anulman Notably, the bit.ly link directs you to Facebook. Nice play, FB Video team.
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Oracle, Walmart, and other US investors to take a majority stake in TikTok - mfiguiere https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-oracle-bytedance-deal-investors-us-majority-stake-treasury-trump-2020-9 ====== GretchenKlein91 IDK why everyone is trying to obtain tiktok. it;s going to cost them so much and is going to die o...
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Show HN: UI Concept – Focus Transition - NVI http://n12v.com/focus-transition/ ====== nostromo Often the best ideas are those that make you wonder, "why hasn't anyone done this before?" and in retrospect seem completely obvious and intuitive. Like this! ~~~ edwinyzh Sorry, but I've done similar before, although it's ...
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How does Shine sync with the phone? - harrydoukas Shine (http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/270243) uses a novel non rf way to sync with phone, I think they do it using the phone magnetometer. Shine generates a small variant electromagnetic field captured by phone magnetometer, using modulation they are able to trans...
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The Data That Turned the World Upside Down or How Trump Won - rmason https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win ====== yosito This headline doesn't accurately represent that this article is about than just another rant against "fake news". Hopefully this post gets more attention. Psychom...
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OpenACC – GCC Wiki - hknapp https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/OpenACC ====== hknapp Nice to see that they are supporting GCN. Does anyone have any experience with OpenACC and GCN?
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How to Get Terminal to RaspberryPi via SSL from Anywhere, No Port Fwd - beame-io https://www.hackster.io/zeev-s-glozman/how-to-get-terminal-to-raspberry-via-ssl-from-anywhere-a94624 ====== tracker1 You can use ngrok to forward to SSH directly... though the web ui is interesting, I think being able to use a client cert...
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Data - DOM binding using ES6 Proxies - potch https://gist.github.com/potch/7882068 ====== zaius Nice example. I think proxies are really going to clean up a lot of the Javascript binding libs out there. Any idea what's been holding back the adoption of proxies? It's still only implemented in firefox: [http://kangax...
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How we run hackathons - yurisagalov https://www.aerofs.com/blog/how-we-run-hackathons/ ====== ditonal I don't care about trophies, certificate, gift cards, etc. What sounds most positive to me about your internal hack days is your effort to productionize the efforts. That means you actually realize that all those smar...
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China launches platform to stamp out 'online rumours' - ytNumbers http://news.trust.org/item/20180830063018-6rju6 ====== liftbigweights And the dream and hope of a free and open internet suffers a death by a thousand cuts. It seems like the powerful around the world are competing with each other to see who can censor...
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Show HN: My wife and I built a location infographic generator - elhorror http://cartoscope.io/ ====== nprescott Really interesting much more consumable than most census data infographics I've seen. Can you speak to what some of the "private sources" of data are? On a more technical note, I can't get any reports to re...
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Innovators prefer Android - deviceguru http://deviceguru.com/innovators-prefer-android/ ====== Ramanean Yes that's right because I have android Within 8 months I made 5 apps which would be useful to people in one way or another..
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Emoji on the command line - bemmu https://github.com/mrowa44/emojify ====== julien_c Nice work. I think the git log example is contrived though, because you would probably include the real emoji characters in the actual commit title, right? ~~~ rdancer Emoji is just Unicode, so putting "I :heart: you" instead of "I...
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Leaked Comcast docs prove 300GB cap has nothing to do with network congestion - OberstKrueger https://www.yahoo.com/tech/s/leaked-comcast-docs-prove-300gb-data-cap-nothing-003027574.html ====== deftnerd Metered goods have a long history of having to have the meters certified by state bodies. For instance, grocery sto...
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Why Adventure Games Suck (1989) - networked https://grumpygamer.com/why_adventure_games_suck ====== the_af Interesting and amusing read. Of course Ron Gilbert is a well-known authority on Adventure Games, but the original Old Man Murray article is even better (and funnier). In case anyone hasn't read it yet: "Who Kill...
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CZI Engineer Tells Zuckerberg to Resign at a Company Town Hall - op03 https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/26/21303664/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-chan-zuckerberg-initiative-philanthropy-tension ====== robmerki The slow but steady march of negative PR towards Zuck seems to have caused huge problems for their hiring efforts....
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Show HN: Best Hired help you finding the top-notch developer - fizerkhan http://www.besthired.com ====== minimaxir You need to proofread your copy dramatically, as it's honestly difficult to comprehend and breaks many grammatical rules. Also, don't use sockpuppet accounts to comment on your Show HN thread. ~~~ fiz...
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Ask HN: Requisite knowledge recommender for a given book, what's involved? - gdubs I had this idea, and thought I'd share it with the community. Given the scale, it seems like it would be ideal for open source:<p>I was reading a book recently and realized that in order to approach it, I needed to do a lot of prior r...
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Watch 4chan destroy a website in real-time - austenallred http://lpushx.com ====== avinassh I think this is the thread which started it all: [http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/48943329/4chan- clone](http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/48943329/4chan-clone) ------ ljk wow that's sad, just discovered the site earlier tod...
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If we stand still, we go backwards - callum85 https://jakearchibald.com/2015/if-we-stand-still-we-go-backwards/ ====== steego Calling for a moratorium sounds very dramatic, but I suspect PPK wanted to use dramatic language to make the point that we're not putting enough thought and exercising enough caution about what...
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Why Facebook’s Political Moves Should Terrify Us All - jdrucker http://soshable.com/why-facebooks-political-moves-should-terrify-us-all/ ====== mycroftiv Ugg, what a silly article. I am a non-user of facebook and a dedicated civil libertarian, and this article is ridiculous speculation. Undoubtedly Facebook wants co...
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Show HN: The ugliest MVP ever because I know squat about coding - gxespino http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bit.ly&#x2F;18Aybks - right click save as to save .mov file or click to open in browser. Quicktime needed. It is interactive. ====== bjourne So you trawl through a users inbox and look for confirmation email from paid service...
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Ask HN: How to get feedback? - mixmastamyk After submitting a pair of Show HN (SHN) stories I was a bit dismayed to see they received zero interest, particularly as I got up at 6am to post one. ;) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4196039<p>I wonder what's wrong? Surely the site must suck (first release should be...
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Strong Password Hashing for ASP.NET - sk5t http://zetetic.net/blog/2012/3/29/strong-password-hashing-for-aspnet.html ====== sk5t With PBKDF2 (Rfc2898DeriveBytes) sitting in the base class library for years now, I'm not sure why Microsoft have neglected to have it implement the normal hash algorithm interfaces... it'...
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Serialized Mystery: The Strange Case of the New Golden Gate - nanomonkey https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/07/serial-the-strange-case-of-the-new-golden-gate-chapter-1/ ====== nanomonkey Links to the whole series can be found at Robin Sloan's personal website: [https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/newspaper- serial/](ht...
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1,800 Minecraft players' email addresses and passwords leak - pallih http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/20/minecraft-players-email-passwords-leak-online ====== Joona Sounds like the list that has been circulating for months. Dinnerbone (developer) commented on it on Twitter, I think.
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Couple hosting Tor exit node raided by cops investigating child abuse - jackgavigan https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/04/07/couple-hosting-tor-exit-node-raided-by-cops-investigating-child-abuse/ ====== joncp SPD. What a bunch of Barney Fifes. ------ 2ifrgtmypss lol tor... why even bother, you'll be lumped in with...
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Why I don't want stuff - wallflower https://sivers.org/gifts ====== 0xffff2 I can appreciate the sentiment, but I actually like _doing_ things. Don't get me wrong, I probably spend much more time than most in front of my computer, but even so. I'm a photographer -> Two bags full of camera gear, tripod... I'm a hiker...
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Indie short film shot in Japan which looks like a big Hollywood movie - mirceagoia http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1261313080/dust-0 ====== epikur It appears you guys are getting pretty close to your deadline and your goal. I wonder, if you get closer to May 6 and still have a funding gap, if you could could jus...
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Ask HN: Best way to do a coding exercise for a phone screen? - chollida1 I&#x27;m conducting phone screens for candidates. Let&#x27;s assume for now two things:<p>1) We want to do a phone screen before onsite interviews and<p>2) we want to have the candidates do a simple coding exercise as part of the phone screen....
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THE VOID - donbox https://thevoid.com/ ====== donbox Concept video : [https://youtu.be/cML814JD09g](https://youtu.be/cML814JD09g)
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Amazon Is a Monopoly - juokaz https://www.marketplacepulse.com/articles/amazon-is-a-monopoly-an-interview-with-sally-hubbard ====== blairanderson I run a consulting company for Amazon suppliers. We have roughly 2-dozen Amazon suppliers and our first-hand experience is that Amazon is absolutely stifling competition/bus...
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Caffeine is killing your productivity - productionQA http://www.inc.com/laura-montini/why-coffee-is-wreaking-havoc-on-your-productivity.html ====== productionQA I constantly see studies and opinions for both sides of this coin. I was never much of a coffee drinker, but now I am. I still think in moderation when you ...
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Why batteries both thrill and terrify the U.S. utility industry - dotluis http://www.bloomberg.com/news/print/2014-12-05/musk-battery-works-fill-utilities-with-fear-and-promise.html ====== msandford From the article: ...said Ellen Hayes, a PG&E spokeswoman. “Having a solar panel that isn’t connected to the grid is li...
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Carnegie Mellon student shows that 64 pixels is enough for Mario (video) - aresant http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/12/carnegie-mellon-student-shows-that-64-pixels-is-enough-for-mario/ ====== nwinter Whoa, that's my girlfriend! So proud. Weird to see this after not being online for a week while traveling with her. ~...
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TechCrunch on the iPhone - auston http://icrunch.rememberthisguy.com/ ====== timcederman Or use Google Reader with TechCrunch as your only feed.
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Hacker Monthly Issue #10 - March 2011 - kingsidharth http://hackermonthly.com/issue-10.html ====== ianl I look forward to this every month, its always packed full of good information. Especially since students get it for free. When I graduate and have some income I will pay for a subscription. Really good product. ...
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The Qualcomm 'Tax' Rebellion (2017) - drtillberg https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2017-01-24/qualcomm-s-tax-collection-days-are-looking-numbered ====== projektfu In a way it's better than the Microsoft tax which set, for a time, a lower bound on the price of a computer because one had to pay approximately the...
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Internal Facebook Note: Here Is a “Psychological Trick” to Target Teens - dsr12 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/ryanmac/facebooks-teens-tbh-psychological-trick-memo?m ====== analogmemory Discussion from yesterday: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711930](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17711930) ----...
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Offer HN: I'll build it, you design it - b9704 If you're a designer with an idea but haven't been able to team up with a developer I may be able to help you out.<p>I have some time on my hands so I'm offering 24 hours of rails development (spread over a week or so) to help build your mvp. Post your idea here and I'...
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Donkey Kong: Pauline Edition (hack) - winkerVSbecks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeXDNg7scyU ====== gus_massa Main discussion: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5354142>
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When You SHOULD and When You SHOULDN'T Use Real Time Analytics? - Cappuchin https://onthe.io/learn+When+SHOULD+and+SHOULDN%27T+you+use+Real+Time+Analytics%3F ====== somaglor It's always good to use real time analytics, but not to decide solely on them. The picture is usually broader.
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Indian Americans: The New Model Minority - queensnake http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/24/bobby-jindal-indian-americans-opinions-contributors_immigrants_minority.html ====== ajju Here's a suggestion from an Indian American on immigration policy: Don't force skilled immigrants (even those with graduate degrees from US uni...
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Origin: Making 3D Printing Ready for Mass Production - rmason https://medium.com/@m2jr/origin-making-3d-printing-ready-for-mass-production-1f48193ec3af ====== bradknowles Sounds good at first glance. But what’s the actual technology?
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YC W2016 Interview Invites - techbullets Does anyone know around what time are the invites&#x2F;rejects sent out? ====== oucil Seems lots of us are still waiting, reports in both of these threads... [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10467290) [https://news.ycombinato...
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XAML Edit and Continue - mjgoeke https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/04/06/ui-development-made-easier-with-xaml-edit-continue/ ====== mjgoeke I'm really happy to see microsoft implementing this feature. A couple years ago at work I created a tool to do this within a single (Caliburn Micro) WPF app. We c...
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Resources for Hackers - patrickk NOTE: I realise there is a link at the bottom of the page for this, I've submitted this there already; but I'd like to get some feedback on this.<p>Resource lists for Hackers. This would fit nicely next to "submit" above.<p>Over the last few days, I've looked for music/white noise th...
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Why Capitalism Creates Pointless Jobs - monsieurpng http://evonomics.com/why-capitalism-creates-pointless-jobs-david-graeber/ ====== objectivistbrit 'Capitalism' doesn't create jobs. Companies create jobs. Many companies are badly managed, and employ staff they don't need. This is true. (And only has one solution - pe...
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Windows 10, coming July 29, free to Win7 and 8.1 users - aroch https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/windows-10-faq ====== btgeekboy Maybe I'm just thinking old school here, but I don't see a way to download an ISO / USB image and get a product key. If we want to do a fresh install, anyone have any ideas how that'...
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Disruptive innovations and why great firms are so helpless to survive the impact. - vorador http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/Disruptive-cake.htm ====== russell The article discusses Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma, When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail", which shows why large entrenched comp...
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What Analyzing 50 Brand Guides Taught Us About Building a Lasting Company - tgoldberg http://sketchdeck.com/blog/what-analyzing-50-brand-guides-taught-us-about-building-a-lasting-company ====== pj_costello "20% of all companies stuck to Helvetica for their font face" I'm really curious about the lesser known fonts pe...
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The Profound Programmer - da02 http://www.jwz.org/blog/2012/07/the-profound-programmer/ ====== dustin999 Indents with tabs are bad? I always thought this was a good thing, allowing each user to set their tab spacing. ~~~ SeppoErviala Languages where indents have semantic meaning tend to prefer spaces. Python style ...
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Ask HN: YC Series A Deck Template? - ian0 I found the YC Seed Deck Template[1] by Aaron Harris &#x2F; akharris extremely useful to keep our deck in check. (thanks Aaron!) The article mentions there was a series A deck in the works, but I don&#x27;t think it was released. Any plans to do so?<p>[1] https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blo...
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What are the best blogs/sites to generate big buzz? - rami ====== ereldon i'm part of writewith, a yc startup, and i have a side gig writing for venturebeat. the readership skews towards investors and established entrepreneurs. so although it has a smaller readership than TC and some of the others, there's a lot of v...
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Product Team Antipatterns - allanberger http://www.allanberger.com/post/35054897217/anti-patterns-of-lean-ux ====== allanberger Have you made an experience based upon one of the topics mentioned in this article? Do you know some Product Team Anti-Patterns everybody should be aware of? I’d love to hear your opinion. ...
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Tox: A Free as in Freedom Skype replacement - Spittie http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8KdFUiFa ====== verrsa Does this support Android? Would be so sick so chat with IRC friends on the go ~~~ volitek There's an android client in the works: [https://github.com/Astonex/Antox](https://github.com/Astonex/Antox) ------ L...
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Trustycon LiveStream: Starts at 9:30am Pacific Time - zmanian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO8SNiDSw0&feature=share ====== zmanian It only worked for me after turning off Https Everywhere.
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Data Dividend Project - snake117 https://www.datadividendproject.com/ ====== dang Comments moved to [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601333](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23601333). Normally we'd have merged the other way, since this is the canonical source and was posted earlier, but people are complai...
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RPN Ever 4 - wlll http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2760-rpn-ever-4- Get your nerdon. ====== shubber Funniest thing is "RPN sounds like a joke" - like they're discovering it for the first time. Isn't RPN the next chapter after hexadecimal in The Short Course for Computer Geeks? New tech interview question: 1 2 + 3 * 4...
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Engineer builds 'working' Thor's hammer that only he can lift - davidiach http://www.cnet.com/news/engineer-builds-working-thors-hammer-only-he-can-lift/ ====== Jemaclus This is pretty clever. The major improvements I'd want to make are some sort of RFID chip that deactivates the magnet when I'm close enough, instead ...
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Ask HN: You watch as someone codes. How long until you know how good they are? - nsheth17 And what gives it away? ====== nostrademons I think you can tell if they're _bad_ pretty easily, within the first half hour or so. They won't know where to get started, or they'll start reinventing common knowledge from first p...
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Ustwo: An Open Source Example of a React-Powered WordPress Site - AJAlabs https://wptavern.com/ustwo-an-open-source-example-of-a-react-powered-wordpress-site ====== crudbug Any specific tool for making the architecture frames [0] ? [0] [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ustwo/ustwo.com- frontend/m...](https://raw.git...
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CanPlayType() - fugyk http://www.w3schools.com/tags/av_met_canplaytype.asp ====== shredprez Other (undocumented) values this method returns: "perhaps" \- There is, of course, a chance the codec is supported. Or not. "why bother" \- Everyone will die anyway, browser support is meaningless in the grand scheme of thi...
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Programmers vs. Zombies - ajwinn Recently, I've been trying to learn Ruby on Rails via Rails for Zombies (www.railsforzombies.org), and it's gotten me wondering: what's the deal with Zombies? (Yes, I'm going to use a capital Z.)<p>Our monsters have always described our contemporary fears. I think these are the eig...
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Any recommendations on Google Glass? - sGrabber If someone has experienced Google Glass, Pl provide feedback. Wondering if I should buy now or wait<p>How is it? ====== bbovenzi Unless you'd plan to develop with it, wait. ~~~ sGrabber Thanks for the suggestion. I think 1500 price point is too high, it shall come dow...
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Cryptocurrencies are pulling the U.S. back to the 1830s, Fed official says - augustocallejas https://www.marketwatch.com/story/cryptocurrencies-are-pulling-the-us-back-to-the-1830s-fed-official-says-2018-05-14 ====== blackbrokkoli The situation seems entirely hamfisted into the metaphor. It's like saying "Wow, with e...
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‘Israel’s ancient NYC’: 5k-year-old Canaanite megalopolis may rewrite history - HerrMonnezza https://www.timesofisrael.com/embargo-until-1130-5000-year-old-canaanite-megalopolis-rewrites-history-books-say-archaeologists/ ====== idoubtit Megalopolis, really? At the same time, Mesopotamia's cities were much larger. Uruk...
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Dojo 1.2 and Django 1.0 on Google App Engine 1.1.3 - ltaylor http://adamfisk.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/dojo-12-and-django-10-on-google-app-engine-113/ ====== charlesju Cool! But I still that in order for Google App engine to hit critical mass it needs to add support for Ruby on Rails and PHP. ~~~ afisk It would cer...
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Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address - nirajan http://vidinterest.com/video/4594/drawing-from-some-of-the-most-pivotal-points-in-his-life-ste Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged g...
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Ask HN: Is “Show HN” replaced with “Ask HN” and not popular any more? - vakulaego ====== mtmail When submitters forget the 'Show HN' in the submission title it ends up in the 'Ask HN' category. Usually new users, example [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450381](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21450381)
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Ask HN: Cheap and Reliable API for Building a Bank? - davidajackson Hi,<p>I&#x27;m looking for some more information on what people think are the best banking setup APIs. I&#x27;m considering a few different options:<p>1. Stripe - I&#x27;ve used it a bit in the past. Easy to use but I&#x27;m a bit worried about costs,...
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How A Solicitor Can Help You At Christmas - Lozzer1000 http://thblegal.com/blog/5-ways-a-solicitor-can-help-you-at-christmas/ ====== gadders I'd flag this if I could.
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Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism? - graeme I’ve clenched my teeth for 9-10 years. It either happened from a bike accident hurting my left jaw, wisdom teeth extraction, or stress from starting a business. All three happened pretty near together. It is not malocclusion, dentist ruled that out.<p>I clench. No l...
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ScrollCast – social network - fraialex http://www.scrollcast.co ====== bradknowles Could be interesting, but is apparently in Russian, which I don't read. Would be nice to see the developers support other languages, presumably including English.
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Show HN: DevDash – Creating highly configurable dashboards in your terminal - thanato0s https://github.com/Phantas0s/devdash ====== angelmass Is there a significant difference between this and [https://wtfutil.com/](https://wtfutil.com/) ?
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IBM unveils plans for Watson supercomputer - evo_9 http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/09/technology/enterprise/ibm-watson/index.html ====== th0ma5 What about the new Watson 3U setup is more than a turn key Apache UIMA install? Seems like in all of this they gloss over how there is no free lunch and you still have to write a...
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Gtkmm now uses C++11 - ingve http://www.murrayc.com/permalink/2015/07/31/gtkmm-now-uses-c11/ ====== superfunc Lambdas really do clean things up nicely in some places. It pains me to have to write function objects at work knowing this. ~~~ andresmanz That must be annoying. Why can't you switch to C++11/14? ~~~ supe...
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Supercomputer uses warm water to cool its servers and heat its building - ph0rque http://www.nrel.gov/news/features/feature_detail.cfm/feature_id=15403 ====== IvyMike I used to work with water-cooled test equipment. One thing that surprised me was that the water _was_ warm. The reason I was given was that had chill...
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Show HN: Mkd – Markdown editor with WebRTC peer-to-peer sharing - alexghr https://github.com/alexghr/mkd ====== dawnbreez Isn't the point of Markdown that it's self-documenting and editable in any text editor? If I were to write an editor for Markdown (or, more likely, a plugin for Vim or Emacs), I would focus on prov...
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Static to Dynamic and Back Again - reubano https://reubano.xyz/blog/static-to-dynamic-and-back-again/ ====== reubano I recently redesigned my website using Metalsmith, a static site generator. This post outlines the pros/cons of transitioning from the original Octopress static site, to a single page app (Chaplinjs), a...
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I want my OpenID - julieb2 http://www.16thletter.com/2008/04/29/i-want-my-openid/ ====== sanswork I installed OpenID on one of my sites to avoid people having to go through any sign up process and still had people complaining about having to sign up to view it. OpenID is a great idea. But I think it will probably r...
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Going beyond vulnerability rewards - WestCoastJustin http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.ca/2013/10/going-beyond-vulnerability-rewards.html ====== casca Interesting idea. Try get people who are considering selling exploits to get a little money from Google instead. Michal Zalewski (lcamtuf) is highly respected in t...
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Google Removes Patrick Moore as Founder of Greenpeace - bhartzer https://mobile.twitter.com/aaranged/status/1108443770071113728 ====== mindcrash Not entirely correct. Moore got disavowed by Greenpeace for "political disagreements", which triggered Wikipedia authors to rewrite the English Wiki page thus made his entry ...
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Linux Cousins Part 1: Reviewing AROS, the Amiga-Like OS - bane http://www.networkworld.com/article/2995585/opensource-subnet/linux-review-aros-os-amiga.html ====== orionblastar AROS is basically so much like an Amiga that one doesn't need to buy an Expensive Amiga One system to have the Amiga GUI. For hackers who are...
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Ask HN: We got an invite to TechStars for a day, should we go? - innominates I created a new account for obvious reasons.<p>In light of this:<p>http://blog.aisleten.com/2009/04/06/what-we-did-to-not-get-into-techstars/<p>I think that we have about a 5% chance of getting in even if we go. Would it be better for us to...
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Show HN: Extended Isolation Forest for anomaly detection - mgckind https://github.com/sahandha/eif ====== Macuyiko Very nice. Does this also solve the original drawback of IF of not being able to handle categorical values? You could create dummy vars but this would lead to somewhat biased results using the standard or...
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Ask HN: Which programming language has the best documentation? - zoowar Recently I was playing around with Scala/Lift and found the online documentation horrible. It was mostly auto generated function specifications with very little background information. Which programming language has the best documentation? =====...
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Model S Long Range Plus: Building the First 400-Mile Electric Vehicle - Reedx https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-s-long-range-plus-building-first-400-mile-electric-vehicle ====== steelframe I've been following a multi-month discussion over in the r/electricvehicles subreddit about EPA range. There's a growing consensus ...
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Facebook Tells You What You Like the Minute You Sign Up - timr http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/07/02/02venturebeat-facebook-tells-you-what-you-like-the-minute-61093.html ====== ElbertF Thanks to the Like buttons scattered all over the web Facebook probably knows a lot about you before you even sign up...
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Congressman calls on tech CEOs to explain the spread of mosque shooting video - tareqak https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/19/rep-bennie-thompson-asks-tech-to-explain-mosque-shooting-video-spread.html ====== milsorgen Information must be freely available. What do congress critters not understand? ~~~ xg15 > _Information mu...
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42 days of HN karma - isomorph http://blog.jgc.org/2009/09/forty-two-days-of-hacker-news-karma.html ====== PostOnce Karma observations: if you reply in the early morning, before everyone gets up and reads HN, you'll get more karma than if you reply in the middle of the night when no-one will see it. Same goes for re...
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The world's fastest human-powered vehicle tops 85 mph - yurisagalov http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/18/aerovelo-fastest-human-powered-vehicle/ ====== ohazi I'm a little surprised nobody has mentioned the opaque fairing, visibility, or the camera. At first I thought it might be to keep the weight down, as there are pl...
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Show HN: GIFpitch – your elevator pitch in an animated GIF - sfalbo https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gifpitch-animated-gif-your/id1016716708?mt=8 ====== sfalbo I'd be happy to hear any feedback you might have on this side project. My friend and I spent about a month developing it as a tool for entrepreneurs to help r...
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A brief survey of Fully Homomorphic Encryption, computing on encrypted data - type0 http://blog.quarkslab.com/a-brief-survey-of-fully-homomorphic-encryption-computing-on-encrypted-data.html ====== FabioBertone The explosion in computation complexity is a BIG problem… but the potential is massive. The are scenarios in...
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International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees - slyall https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md ====== 8draco8 I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved bec...
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Instacart Closes Latest Funding Round at $3.4B Valuation - rayuela https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-07/instacart-raises-funding-valuing-grocery-startup-at-3-4-billion ====== apike In Vancouver, our most popular local supermarket chain (Save-on-Foods) has started offering a service where you can order gr...
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“Relational Databases” - mpweiher http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/letters/CACM-RelationalDatabases.html ====== eesmith Early on the letter says "Biological systems follow the rule "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". That was known to be wrong well before 1991, which is when the letter was written.
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Saving 9 GB of RAM with Python's __slots__ - benhoyt http://tech.oyster.com/save-ram-with-python-slots/ ====== _wmd Worth pointing out that on PyPy you effectively get this for free.. [http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/efficiently- implement...](http://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/efficiently-implementing- pyt...
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MySQL.com compromised via (guess what?) SQL injection - sucuri2 http://blog.sucuri.net/2011/03/mysql-com-compromised.html ====== jedsmith Actual information with more details, minus zero-content blog: [http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/309?utm_source=t...](http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Mar/309?u...
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