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Linode, Physical hardware issues - bosslee http://bosslee.co/linode-i-was-wrong/ ====== bosslee Hello there, My name is Bryan, I run a small business in Singapore. Have been using Linode Cloud Services since 2013. In the last 4 months, I have gotten 6 emails regarding physical hardware issues from Linode. Each email...
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Show HN: Networking rooms 4 podcasts, webinars & other virtual events. Feedback? - panabee http://www.tekiki.com/cher/40-How-to-Choose-the-Right-Incubator-for-Your-Startup ====== panabee Sorry, submitted the link incorrectly yesterday. Hopefully this will generate some feedback! Thanks in advance!
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Ask HN: Where do conservative, pro-military software engineers hang out online? - throwaway15392 Looking to find more like-minded peers. ====== jmspring Interesting article from about 5 years ago — [https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/390048/](https://amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/390048/) ------ chishaku Plea...
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YUI Theater — “Crockford on JavaScript — Part 5: The End of All Things” - emiraglia http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/08/video-crockonjs-5 ====== spenrose Liked the first 4 better than this one, FWIW. This one he mostly talks about the browser/JS security model. ------ maxwin Thanks for the links. Very nice video...
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Hamano: Most elementary use of C – Silver award - anbux https://www.ioccc.org/2012/hamano/hint.html ====== anbux Hamano is an offuscated C code written by Tsukasa Hamano for IOCCC 2012. It implements C+PDF polyglot and creates a beautiful piece of art.
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A16Z is re-registering as a financial advisor, renouncing its status as a VC - zt https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2019/04/02/andreessen-horowitz-is-blowing-up-the-venture-capital-model-again/ ====== ar7hur a16z ("our" partner was Chris Dixon) led our seed round at Wit.ai. Working with them on a day-to-day basi...
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Staples, Office Depot in Advanced Talks to Merge - fhinson http://www.wsj.com/articles/staples-office-depot-in-advanced-talks-to-merge-1422937999 ====== cpursley Wait, these are separate companies?
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Show HN: Pod Hunt – The best new podcasts daily - iisbum https://podhunt.app ====== IanMikutel Been a supporter of Pod Hunt since the day it launched, decided to have my podcast (The Better Show) become an official Pod Hunt "Supporter", and spent over an hour last night with it's founder, Mubs, on Skype talking produc...
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10 Reasons To Quit Your Job Right Now - zher http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/26/10-reasons-to-quit-your-job-right-now/ ====== keithpeter I think I belong to the 10%. I work as a teacher. I get paid to talk to teenagers, and to get them to think straight and focus their attention. I have been doing this long enough tha...
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The Top 5 Crashes on iOS - andrewmlevy https://www.apteligent.com/developer-resources/top-5-most-frequent-crashes-on-ios/?partner_code=GDC_hn_top5ios ====== makecheck The first example’s remedy seems to be wrong. I am not aware of any reason to test for "nil" in Objective-C, as that remedy suggests. Sending the "doSo...
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Snapchat VP of Product Tom Conrad Will Disappear from Tech - LearnerHerzog https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/24/tom-conrad-leaves-snapchat/ ====== LearnerHerzog > _“I started making software when I was 18 years old, and it’s hard to > believe I’ve been doing this for 30 years. It’s time for me to put my energy > outside ...
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Excessive brain activity linked to a shorter life - jiux https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/10/16/excessive-brain-activity-linked-shorter-life/ ====== phasnox I wonder if this could be related purely to stress. People with more brain activity tend to have more stressful lives, as they also tend to move upwar...
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Ask HN: If C++ is so bad, what should game developers use? - olliesaunders I've been reading some of the C++ hate that's been on HN of late. I've been successfully convinced (not that it was hard) that C++ is a really terrible language. But, if that's the case, then what else are commercial game developers to use? Is ...
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Alfa Data – Analytics Ruins Football - tropianhs http://www.alfadata.xyz ====== tropianhs A Football (Soccer) Analytics Portal made in Flask
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Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console - Tiktaalik https://www.wsj.com/articles/nintendo-to-double-production-of-switch-console-1489728545 ====== baby I love this console, haven't been able to sit down and play for long hours in decades and here I am. I love that it's handheld, I travel a lot and so far I've...
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Facebook is Doomed: Forrester Says Ads Tell a Sad Story - selmnoo http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/facebook-doomed-forrester-says-ads-tell-sad-story-142946812.html ====== adventured Facebook isn't doomed, they're going to end up like Yahoo, in my opinion. Granted some consider that worse than death. Thei...
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The biggest leak of TTIP documents yet: more than 100 confidential papers - rendx https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/3d0ftu/this_is_the_biggest_leak_of_ttip_documents_yet/ ====== AndrewGaspar Proposal to make it easier for US professionals to work in the EU and vice- versa: [https://www.documentcloud.org/documen...
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Ask HN: How to manage professional connections? - ashishb How do people manage their professional connections? LinkedIn works to find and make new one but not to stay in touch.<p>I am looking for the ability to<p>1. Tag existing connections 2. See my connections by location (eg. If I am visiting New York,I can reach o...
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Kuma and Envoy: Multi-Cluster and Multi-Cloud Service Meshes - fosk https://kuma.io/blog/2020/multi-cluster-cloud/ ====== otikik Will Kuma support also hybrid VM and Kubernetes zones as part of the same multi-zone deployment? ~~~ fosk Yes, multi zone mode can be used to enable hybrid service meshes via the built-in s...
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BrowserFS: an in-browser filesystem with many back ends - setra https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS ====== rektide I'm a huge fan of the work here & strongly strongly believe in file-system oriented architectures. Being able to use a wide number of existing "server side" libraries in the browser could be a huge win. ...
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Ask HN: Why do companies not provide good feedback for rejected candidates? - vishalzone2002 I am curious it is a policy or is it too time consuming ? ====== DanielStraight When you need to cover your ass, providing feedback for rejection is _always_ a bad idea. If you're dealing with a pushy sales person and you gi...
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Masks Don’t Work – A review of science relevant to Covid-19 social policy - teknico https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340570735_Masks_Don%27t_Work_A_review_of_science_relevant_to_COVID-19_social_policy ====== lukev I don't understand why people feel the need to say stuff like this. It's dangerous and wrong. Ye...
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99-problems in Java 8, Scala, and Haskell - shekhargulati https://github.com/shekhargulati/99-problems ====== egeozcan I find the language percentage information (~ Java 57%, Scala 37%, Haskell 5%)[1] a bit scary (and admittedly hilarious), given that I have only serious experience with Java among the three. [1]: [ht...
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Meter hackers find free parking in San Francisco - abennett http://www.itworld.com/hardware/73131/meter-hackers-find-free-parking-san-francisco ====== Locke1689 _To figure out how the payment system worked, Grand hooked up an oscilloscope to a parking meter and monitored what happened when he used a genuine payment ca...
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It's Harder to Read Code than to Write It - edw519 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2007/12/22/reading-comprehension-will-make-you-a-better-programmer/ ====== cduan Great post, so true. One point I'd add, though: when you're writing code, make it readable by commenting well! Sure it's obvious to you why you used a ter...
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Firefox reached 29% share in Europe - rockstar9 http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/04/firefox-reached-29-share-in-europe/ ====== dualogy Sometimes you have no choice. Under Linux, for once: I'm loving it, but I loathe FireFox which is still the only decent browser I've come across there (but then, I'm only a recent conve...
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Top-secret UFO files could cause “grave damage” to national security if released - weare138 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-secret-ufo-files-could-cause-grave-damage-to-us-national-security-if-released-navy-says/ ====== markus_zhang This is going to be buried deep in the archive. Nothing is going to be revealed to th...
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We Invite Everyone at Etsy to Do an Engineering Rotation - kevingessner https://codeascraft.com/2014/12/22/engineering-rotation/ ====== karmacondon I'm a huge fan of cross disciplinary rotations of all types. A startup company, or any organization, should act as a unified whole. "It's not my problem" is not an option,...
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Show HN: We're 2 engineers and we've built product search better than Google's - dmpn http://goodzer.com ====== leeHS Hey there! So I took it for a spin. I entered "bike brakes" since you use this as an example in your "About" page, but nothing came up within a 50 mile radius. Maybe because I'm in Toronto? But if t...
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Ask HN: How do you deal with potential acquirers? - rexreed How do you respond to someone who says they are interested in acquiring your business (especially a potential competitor) but won&#x27;t make an offer until you share your financals and other confidential data? Do you ask them to make an offer without seeing ...
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It's 2012, and there's still no official SIP to Skype gateway - xxqs Any idea why Skype does not provide any official means to call skype accounts from a SIP connection? Even a paid interface is not available. The only thing that is available is a paid service where you can call phone numbers from Skype to your SIP ...
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Comparative Advantage in economics confirmed by evidence - chewxy http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/confirming-ricardo-0620.html ====== chewxy Paper can be found here: <http://ideas.repec.org/p/nbr/nberwo/17969.html>
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Here's What to Do If Both Your Pilots Die on a 737 - mirap http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a19397/heres-what-to-do-if-both-your-pilots-die-on-a-737/ ====== makecheck Please stop linking to the page-that-talks-about-the-page. They're actually referring to this Quora page: [https://www.quora.com/What- should-I-d...
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One Policy to Control Them All: Shared Modular Policies Agent-Agnostic Control - jonbaer https://wenlong.page/modular-rl/ ====== pathak22 Tweet-print (summary of the paper): [https://twitter.com/pathak2206/status/1281656944718053378](https://twitter.com/pathak2206/status/1281656944718053378)
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The "Unix issue" is 35 years old - phkamp http://www3.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol57-1978/bstj-vol57-issue06.html 35 years ago they wrote: &quot;UNIX is not the end of the road in operating systems innovations, [...]&quot; but it very much was the final word: Today the only OS&#x27;s left are those which converged on...
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What ABOUT Sanders? - yadayadayada What are your educated and intelligent thoughts about Sanders? I really want to believe; but, the odds are stacked against the guy heavily.<p>Thoughts? ====== sharemywin The problem I have with most politicians is that most changes come with pros and cons. And they completely want to...
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Resurrecting the extinct frog with a stomach for a womb - ComputerGuru http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/15/resurrecting-the-extinct-frog-with-a-stomach-for-a-womb/ ====== verelo This is seriously cool and great to see coming out of Australia. I know there have been attempts to clone several other spe...
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Vo Trong Nghia Architects – S-House 2 - ph0rque http://votrongnghia.com/projects/s-house-2/ ====== linhchi I've been in one of VTN's awarded house in Saigon. I've read quite a lot discussion of Vietnamese's architects around his works in general. I agree with some comments that, VTN creative points in his designs (a ...
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ISPs Aim to Use Facebook Fracas to Saddle Silicon Valley with Crappy New Laws - sqdbps https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180409/09020639593/broadband-industry-aims-to-use-facebook-fracas-to-saddle-silicon-valley-with-crappy-new-laws.shtml ====== drawkbox The ISPs are in an all out attack on competitors like Facebook...
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Learning iOS/Swift tempted to switch to React Native as it seems like the future - Egamis I&#x27;ve been learning iOS for a couple of months and I like it so far but more and more I feel tempted to switch to React Native instead as it really seems like the future and the most flexible and also quicker to develop than ...
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Show HN: The Byte – A Byte-Sized Podcast about Containers, Cloud, and Tech - vegasbrianc http://thebyte.io ====== quickthrower2 Looks interesting. I will take a listen tomorrow on my drive to work. ~~~ quickthrower2 I listened to three of these and they were great. Thanks.
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Apple's Swift Programming Language May Be Adopted by Google for Android - Jerry2 http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/07/google-possibly-adopting-swift-for-android/ ====== thevibesman Discussion on the original source of the story: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11451093](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=114510...
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Detecting Sarcasm with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks - fagnerbrack ====== bjourne Missing link? [https://medium.com/dair-ai/detecting-sarcasm-with-deep- convo...](https://medium.com/dair-ai/detecting-sarcasm-with-deep- convolutional-neural-networks-4a0657f79e80)
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Rocket Launch Real-Time Telemetry Server - JoshTriplett http://live.psas.pdx.edu/profiles/Default ====== JoshTriplett Also see [https://twitter.com/pdxaerospace](https://twitter.com/pdxaerospace) for live commentary on the launch.
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Study of 4chan's Politically Incorrect Forum and Its Effect on the Web - jtanderson https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452 ====== internaut Are the academics involved in the creation of this document aware that they are, in 4chan parlance, 'raiding'? So far as I am aware this is not illegal, merely annoying or immoral. He...
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Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce - mun411 http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/malcolm_gladwell_on_spaghetti_sauce.html ====== covercash [2004]
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BitBucket now has voting on issues. - planckscnst https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issue/3674/add-ability-to-vote-for-issues-bb-3647 ====== planckscnst Issues for BitBucket itself, sorted by votes. [https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues?status=new&status=o...](https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues?status=new&...
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Microspaces (aka Nested GUIs) - mbuchanan We're just about ready to release several products using our new technology. Essentially it's a new category called 'nested GUIs' (aka Microspaces).. With microspaces you can keep info in multiple GUIs and are able to nest them in each other.<p>I'd really like to get any fe...
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Show HN: A Google chrome extension to add a little bro in your browsing. - swiil https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bro-ifyme/hfpgpmnapkjlmdogaeiimdoplddnokeb?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher&authuser=1 ====== DonateKarma Bro, did you give yourself a 5 star review? Not cool. ------ swiil I whipped thi...
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Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling support - ivanceras https://ivanceras.github.io/svgbob-editor/ ====== mbar84 I recently wrote an editor for this: [https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/](https://mbarkhau.keybase.pub/asciigrid/) ~~~ michael-ax excellent! created something sensible and releva...
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We Analyzed 12 of the Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories - pmp301 https://www.cbinsights.com/research/direct-to-consumer-retail-strategies/ ====== wwwdonohue A while ago it seemed like the incredible margins that you could make off selling something DTC was going to make this the dominant business model of the...
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A gallery of large graphs - davi http://www2.research.att.com/~yifanhu/GALLERY/GRAPHS/index.html ====== Dilpil Cool stuff, but it would be cooler with more context as to what each graph represented. ~~~ davi If you click on a thumbnail, then on the "click here for this matrix" link, you get a bunch of additional in...
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Ask HN: Review the project idea for Android - db42 I am thinking of doing some project on android platform. Right now, these are the thoughts on my mind. People carry smart-phones 24X7 with themselves so, there is a lot of scope for interaction between these devices (through wifi, bluetooth or whatever). For example...
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Airbnb allegedly purged more than 1,000 New York listings to rig survey - jflowers45 http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/10/airbnb-new-york-city-listings-purge-multiple-apartment-listings ====== jakevoytko Honestly, it couldn't be easier to find listings that violate the law. This stuff isn't abstract, you ...
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Ask HN: Where/how can I find a personal Programming Coach? - spking I'm a professional designer, but I want the ability to build my own ideas. I've stopped out of learning Ruby (and Rails) three times now due to frustration, lack of discipline and just not getting beyond parroting the tutorial examples from the boo...
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You Shouldn’t Wake Up at 5AM - CreamPuff https://medium.com/1-one-infinity/you-shouldnt-wake-up-at-5am-12252618eef5 ====== vhodges Sorry, I am not signing up just to read some friggin' blog post.
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A Look at Gab, 'Free Speech' Social Site Where Synagogue Shooting Suspect Posted - kadendogthing https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/661532688/a-look-at-gab-the-free-speech-social-site-where-synagogue-shooting-suspect-poste ====== angersock Looks like both Joyent and Paypal pushed them off their platforms. Paypal has alway...
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Ask HN: Presentation on giving presentations? - ZoFreX I'm pretty sure I saw this on HN but my search-fu is weak today. It was a presentation (on slideshare I think) on how to give presentations. It emphasised bold use of images and colour, and minimal use of text. If anyone has any idea which one I'm talking about,...
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Developing HTTPS Services in Node with Self-Signed Certificates - mattcbaker https://mattcbaker.com/post/developing-https-node-local/ ====== z3t4 Save a ton of work by placing a http proxy infront of your NodeJS apps, and also let the http proxy serve static content. That way you dont have to implement a http-server+S...
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Ask HN: Project Management tool with flexible tracking time - sharmi Hi,<p>I&#x27;m on the look out for a task tracking tool.<p>1. It should be able to work with just the duration of the task with the starttime and endtime of the task being optional. 2. I should be able to indicate which task depends on which. 3. Af...
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This Video Has 477,200 Views - loayxz https://youtu.be/BxV14h0kFs0 ====== ummwhat Inaccurate submission title. Can one of the mods please change it? ~~~ emsign lmao (that's the whole point of the video)
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Ask HN: Does YC ask for option pool and pro-rata rights for their standard deal? - foreign-inc I have received an angel investment offer from an incubator in SV. They are offering 125K at 4m valuation using original YC safe style docs. They have asked for pro-rata rights, 10% option pool and 3% common advisory stock(p...
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The skill-building recession - dangoldin http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2009/11/the_skillbuilding_recession.cfm ====== Wilduck A good follow up question would be: Will the US economy be able to absorb these skilled laborers upon graduation? ------ beza1e1 Well, the recession may be an indirect reason w...
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This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense - gabzuka http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-tirado/why-poor-peoples-bad-decisions-make-perfect-sense_b_4326233.html ====== jareds It was also not explained why this person is going to school. Why are they going to school? I would assume that if they were m...
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Long-tail acquirers for medium exits - revorad http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2012/05/long-tail-acquirers-for-medium-exits.html ====== ramanujan One aspect of gabe's otherwise excellent post that went unmentioned is the cultural issue associated with an acquisition of this sort. For the acquired company to make ...
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Python REST Examples For Parse - bjornick http://blog.parse.com/2012/07/09/python-rest-examples/ ====== seanodonnell very nice, and very nice docs as a whole, is this built on top of an existing documentation framework, or is it a completely in house tool? ------ hanapbuhay Points for using Day[9] and 1337 in the e...
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Ask HN: Is velocity a good metric to measure team performance? - duykhoa12t ====== _niom_ Short answer is no. Problem with the velocity is that we developers are really poor in estimates and the velocity is rarely accurate enough. So what I would like to recommend is that you first check your definition of done and t...
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The Oil Industry’s Covert Campaign to Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules - pingou https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/13/climate/cafe-emissions-rollback-oil-industry.html ====== nimbius Disclosure: im a full-time auto mechanic learning python in my ample spare time. In terms of emissions, you wont come close to what a ...
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Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over - sethbannon http://defundthensa.com/# ====== pvnick This is great! A followup contact, either praise or criticism, is like Pavlovian conditioning for our representatives. I'm happy to say I was able to give positive reinforcement to my congressman. Forgive me if I'm mixing up my theor...
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In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That - dnorris10 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/22/business/22law.html?&pagewanted=all ====== gaius _If somebody’s paying $150,000 for a law school degree_ Colleges don't sell degrees, they sell educations - you have to earn the degree. Or you used to, anyway. Why not skip al...
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Ask YC: Do you guys think a think tank startup would work? - zitterbewegung By think tank I mean a startup which generally does research and possibly sells or markets the ideas. You have a group of people implementing the ideas and the same group also thinks up new ideas to implement. ====== nreece Sure. That's how ...
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Google: Changes Coming To G+ This Week - mindcrime http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218303/Google_Changes_coming_to_Google_this_week ====== joebadmo Changes I'm looking forward to: * Integration with Google Reader. * Group chat (why is Huddle a mobile-only function?). * Photo/screen-sharing (like the youtu...
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Ask HN: Any tips to get VC funding for a consulting business? - googlycooly ====== davismwfl So I agree with svennek that VC and consulting businesses are not generally compatible but I disagree with the logic used. Marketplaces being the exception, but in those cases those businesses aren't even categorized as a consu...
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Forget philanthropy. The super-rich should be paying proper taxes - paulpauper https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/02/forget-philanthropy-super-rich-should-be-paying-proper-taxes ====== roenxi At least everyone can agree that government taxing should be higher than government spending^. This article is...
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Carbon: Create and share images of source code - polm23 https://carbon.now.sh/ ====== oefrha I learned about Carbon maybe three years ago. Back then the README example looked like this: [https://user- images.githubusercontent.com/10369094/30791512-...](https://user- images.githubusercontent.com/10369094/30791512-cb001...
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The Oracle NoSQL Database 11g - nosh http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/nosqldb/learnmore/nosql-database-data-sheet-498054.pdf ====== gerardo What the hell? First, they dissed NoSQL, and then make their own implementation?. What is this marketing sorcery?. ~~~ Udo They recognized NoSQL as a threat (after l...
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Arguing Is Pointless - acconrad http://blogs.hbr.org/bregman/2011/02/arguing-is-pointless.html ====== Fargren No, arguing is not pointless. But the point of arguing is rarely to convince someone of anything. The point of arguing is learning the other persons arguments and the flaws in your own. Arguing is platonic dia...
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The Javascript Trap - rlm http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html ====== tsally There's a disturbing lack of understanding in this community about free software, the GPL and other licences, and RMS himself. Of course Stallman is an extremist. Every leader of such a movement by definition must be an extremis...
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The Impending Demise of the University - nostrademons http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/tapscott09/tapscott09_index.html ====== tokenadult I thought this looked familiar: <http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=642478>
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How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture - aeontech https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d ====== slphil > IQ is a pseudoscience This is how people trying to oppose the alt right shoot themselves in the foot. Alt right intellectuals and propagandists ...
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Flea Marketers Rejoice TSA Auctions Large Lots For Cheap - DanielBMarkham http://freedom-or-safety.com/blog/flea-marketers-rejoice-tsa-auctions-large-lots-for-cheap/ ====== DanielBMarkham Wonder what kind of market there would be for a site called something like "TSA Took My Knife" where you could sell people their ...
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The case for cities where you’re a sensor, not a thing to be sensed - raleighm https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2020/jan/17/the-case-for-cities-where-youre-the-sensor-not-the-thing-being-sensed ====== kristianc > It’s not hard to see why: “smart” has become code for “terrible”. A “smart > speaker” is a speaker that ...
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EU plans to plant 3B trees and expand organic farming - onetimemanytime https://www.newscientist.com/article/2244115-eu-plans-to-plant-3-billion-trees-and-massively-expand-organic-farming/ ====== fsflover I wonder why organic farming is so popular. Wikipedia says: 1\. "Researchers at Oxford University analyzed 71 pee...
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Ask HN: traditional PPO or HDHP PPO medical plan? - yeukhon I received a new offer and I am in the process of selecting health benefit. What a boring and sophisticated process.<p>I like the benefit of HSA in HDHP PPO, but the high deductible is kind of a bit bummer.<p>I am single, and I am pretty healthy. I plan to ha...
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Software Development Dogma That Needs to Die - wayofthesamurai http://thinkfaster.co/2015/11/software-development-dogma-that-needs-to-die/ ====== 0xdeadbeefbabe I think hating the tools is timeless.
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Who Doesn't Want Their Own Personal Flying Watercraft? - mielles http://www.futureofgadgets.com/futureblogger/show/1337-who-doesn-t-want-their-own-personal-flying-watercraft- ====== yan As someone who is currently getting his pilot's license, I wouldn't be comfortable sitting in a craft that abstracts flying to maki...
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Young entrepreneurs turn a Tweet from Richard Branson into $1 Million - ahlemk http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/advisor/young-entrepreneurs-turn-a-tweet-from-richard-branson-into--1-million.html?fb_action_ids=10100137262022753%2C10100137211768463%2C4381961266023%2C10100137295874913%2C10100137272476803&fb_action_types=n...
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Tiled: fee, easy to use and flexible tile map editor - cheiVia0 http://www.mapeditor.org/ ====== candiodari Perhaps "fee" should be "free" in the title ? ~~~ cheiVia0 Yes, too late to edit it though.
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Facebook, Axios and NBC Paid to Whitewash Wikipedia Pages - danso https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wikipedia-paid-editing-pr-facebook-nbc-axios_n_5c63321be4b03de942967225 ====== ilamont _A few people, however, have figured out how to manipulate Wikipedia’s supposedly neutral system to turn a profit._ Neutral system? A ...
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Having Frequent Diarrhea as a Child Shapes Your Adult Mate Choice - lkrubner http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/bering-in-mind/2014/08/12/this-queasy-love-how-having-frequent-diarrhea-as-a-child-shapes-your-adult-mate-choice/ ====== anigbrowl This is one of the worst-written articles I have ever encountered - I fee...
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How WeChat faded into the silence in India - HalfRebel https://factordaily.com/how-wechat-faded-into-the-silence-in-india/ ====== yorwba WeChat seems to have never tried very hard to adapt their app for international users. The English interface is reasonably well-tested (many of my Chinese friends use it to practice...
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Ask HN: Why doesn't google.com implement DNSSEC? - kralos https://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/google.com ====== kralos Does anyone know why Google hasn't implemented DNSSEC on google.com ? ~~~ tptacek Because DNSSEC is silly and doesn't solve any real problems, but does introduce a major operational burden where...
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“Origins of the Apple human interface” lecture – an annotated transcription - NaOH http://morrick.me/archives/8432 ====== syspec I love the bit about being able to view content in a larger window. “This thing called an elevator shaft, with an elevator in it. That thing is still there today, called the scroll bar” Tha...
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The Bug in the Physical Building - kqr http://two-wrongs.com/the-bug-in-the-physical-building ====== brudgers The 1995 story in the _New Yorker_ : [http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty- nine-...](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/05/29/the-fifty-nine-story- crisis) It is misleading to classify ...
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The State of Espresso in 2015 - daledavies http://www.jimseven.com/2015/08/31/the-state-of-espresso-in-2015/ ====== brudgers I realized I am so pavlovian conditioned to expect bullet points regarding an open source javascript framework at the other end of the link, that I had to read the article twice just to make sur...
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Angular's $watch, $digest and $apply explained - bjoe_lewis http://angular-tips.com/blog/2013/08/watch-how-the-apply-runs-a-digest/ ====== funkiee It really is easy to end up with over 1000 watches in a page if you use any sort of list of length 100 or greater with complex data. Directives like bindonce help cut dow...
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If Nvidia wants a proof-of-concept of A64 in a compute cloud, here's one - kristianpaul https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/15/aws_t4g_burtable_arm_instance/ ====== kristianpaul AWS is bursting with pride for its Arm CPU cores – so much it’s put them behind a burstable instance type
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Facebook Overhauls Groups, A Social Solution To Create “A Pristine Graph” - ssclafani http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/06/facebook-groups/ ====== amanuel I'm not buying the idea that a social graph has long term value. Relationships come and go. People die. People delete their Facebook accounts. A social graph is just a...
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Is amazon or flipkart better for purchasing a macbook pro? - stealthmodeclan I am gifting it to a developer friend who expressed desire for a macbook. Need help from developers. ====== andymoe If you’re in the US but not in NY Give [https://www.bhphotovideo.com](https://www.bhphotovideo.com) a look. They are are large...
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IBM and Red Hat to Vote “No” on Java Modules (Jigsaw) - taylodl https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/05/no-jigsaw ====== lvh Jigsaw breaks far too much stuff to be useful in its present form. There are a _lot_ of cross-links between things you might expect to be separate; e.g. java.sql's date objects using java.util.Date. ...
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