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BlackBerry Priv review: Android fixes the OS, but the hardware can’t compete - bane http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/11/blackberry-priv-review-android-fixes-the-os-but-the-hardware-cant-compete/ ====== jimrandomh The main differentiating factor is that this phone has a slide-out keyboard in portrait orientation. Th...
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Ask HN: Best Lego Mindstorms alternative for fun programming projects? - crypto-jeronimo What are the best Best LEGO Mindstorms alternatives out there? No upper age limit. ====== MarcScott I wrote these resources you might like. [https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/?interests[]=ro...](https://projects.raspbe...
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Scientists: syntax highlighting doesn't support software developers enough - Jexia https://medium.com/jexia/requirements-mislead-and-undermine-good-design-e065ab5cae80 ====== CarolineW So I got this message: Medium follows DNT but we track to personalize your experience and send data...
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Ugly Software (like Blackboard) Gives Education a Bad Name - ashamedlion http://www.smartlyedu.com/blog/posts/19-ugly-software-gives-education-a-bad-name ====== netcan If something is repeatedly happening (restaurants have bad sites, enterprise software is crap, education software is ugly..), it might be worth diggi...
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Remote Year: Travel with interesting people while working remotely - pdappollonio http://www.remoteyear.com/ ====== WestCoastJustin Looks like the classic MVP page to _test_ if this is a good idea. Seems interesting, but can you imagine the headaches of looking after 100 people, in 18 locations across the globe, in on...
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What does HN think of the show Shark Tank? - lennysan http://beta.abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/ ====== BrandonWatson I like seeing what projects on which people are working, but the investors are ridiculous. There's no amount of diligence presented, they never justify the valuations they pull out of the air, they alw...
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An Exercise in Species Barcoding - rayvega http://norvig.com/ibol.html ====== ced _Aside: Dawkins's Information Challenge_ Yikes, I'm wary of contradicting Norvig, but using Lempel-Ziv (or any traditional compression algo) is a terrible idea. By that measure, a string of random bits would have much higher informati...
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RFC865 (1983) - brudgers ====== wglb Self link? Did you mean [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc865](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc865)?
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Darius Monsef – COLOURlovers – 1 of 2 - dariusmonsef http://www.founderly.com/2011/08/darius-monsef-colourlovers-1-of-2 ====== dariusmonsef Probably odd submission etiquette to submit my own interview... but I did the interview because I wanted to share some of my story with and help other founders... and well, ther...
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The garage rocket revolution - mkr-hn http://bitoflife.mkronline.com/2011/10/10/the-garage-rocket-revolution/ ====== bediger I'm almost with him on this: it looks like the amateur rocket folks are getting performance like von Braun and company were getting in 1939, but they have better electronics. My thought is th...
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Google Maps - Diffable: only download the deltas - Husafan http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/07/09/diffable-only-download-the-deltas/ ====== olegk Notice how that the chart scale doesn't start with zero. In reality they win maybe 10-15% in speed, but they have all the crap overhead to support and manage. ------...
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Zapd: ‘We built it, they came, but Facebook pulled up the drawbridge’ - vertr http://www.geekwire.com/2011/zapd-day-2-we-built-facebook-pulled-drawbridge ====== TheGreatBundini Kelly, Did you consider that the answer is slightly more nefarious than this, and that Facebook might view Zapd as competition for somethin...
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Ask HN: Did anyone else get an invitation for a Chromebook? - mohsen Just received an email. Did anyone else get an invitation?<p>I didn't find it exciting to have applied for a chrome cr-48 and now just received an invitation to buy a chromebook.<p>What are your thoughts?<p>-m ====== brk I got an invite to purchas...
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List of Printers Which Do or Do Not Display Tracking Dots - ertug http://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots ====== marcus I'd rather have one of the printers listed as having yellow tracking dots and yank out the color cartridges. Its easier to disable a security measure you kn...
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Network visualization: mapping Shakespeare’s tragedies - hunglee2 http://www.martingrandjean.ch/network-visualization-shakespeare/ ====== danso Cool analysis...I think the works of Shakespeare are vastly underused for fun little tests of text mining and visualization, given how accessible (well, in the downloadable/pu...
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New Computer Architectures and their Relationship to Physics (1981) - TriinT http://stochastix.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/new-computer-architectures-and-their-relationship-to-physics-danny-hillis.pdf ====== jacquesm There's an idea for an FPGA project, building a CM or it's closest equivalent. Interesting observat...
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4 12seconds.tv invites available - danw Post a comment with an email address if you would like one ====== menloparkbum menloparkbum@gmail.com ~~~ danw sent ------ marketer hoisie@gmail.com ~~~ danw sent
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Show HN: Gource visualizations rendered without a GPU - jamesbrink https://github.com/jamesbrink/Envisaged ====== jamesbrink This is a project I have been working on after having multiple requests to create Gource videos for various projects. I got tired of murdering my laptop with gource/ffmpeg processes so I set out...
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Twitter buzzing seconds after earthquake in NYC - petervandijck http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/archives/2011/08/23/4892/twitter-buzzing-about-earthquake-in-nyc ====== sirmxanot I was right near the center of it. Was pretty scary. The building I'm in was shaking. Definitely made my day a bit more interesting.
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Show HN: Version Control for Whiteboards - Minbot Triple Point Robotics specialises in the hardware and software design of robots and robotics technology. Their first product, Synchroboard, is a collaboration and version control solution for whiteboards.<p>See their pitch video at Hey ★ Startup.<p>www.heystartup.com...
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'This has never happened before.' Powerball jackpot swells to $700M - hugenerd http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-powerball-jackpot-675-million-20160107-story.html ====== aliston If the odds are 1 in 292.2 million, doesn't this mean that the expected value is actually positive? If you had 292.2 million bucks,...
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Email Integration Done Right - SteliE http://blog.close.io/post/53528630349/email-integration-done-right ====== gnosis This is an advertisement. ~~~ anemitz This is a comment. Any company blog is boiled down to an advertisement at some level. If your interested in learning about how we _technically_ do a lot of th...
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Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Four tests for if you have a good startup idea - atularora http://dondodge.typepad.com/the_next_big_thing/2011/05/four-tests-for-if-you-have-a-good-startup-idea.html ====== ddodge This is basic stuff for anyone here. I'm sure you get asked for startup advice all the time. Here is somet...
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Apple repairs ask for root password - pragone Had an interesting experience at the apple store the other day. Brought my 2009 MBP in because the screen was starting to have some issues. As part of the documentation, the rep asked me to input my username and password to their report form. Not thinking, I did so, a...
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Fizz, the tool we built to help us work remotely - grayfox https://www.compose.io/articles/the-tool-we-built-to-help-us-work-remotely/ ====== jocatalin Nice concept. Indeed for remote working teams (read asynchronous working team) slack is not enough. We experiment now with basecamp+slack for the reasons you mentioned...
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Running a South Pole data center - davidw http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/coolest-jobs-in-tech-literally-running-a-south-pole-data-center/ ====== pbh101 My grandfather visited Antarctica in '58-'59 as part of an initiative called something like "International Year of Science." After his second year at the Un...
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Analyse a Reddit User - tepidandroid https://atomiks.github.io/reddit-user-analyser ====== rahuldottech I'm curious to try it out, but results don't load for me. ~~~ tepidandroid seems to be working fine for me -do you have JS disabled or anything? ~~~ rahuldottech Did some testing, appears to only work in Chrome, a...
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Top diver’s death casts long shadow over deep beauty of the Blue Hole - ALee https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/26/blue-hole-red-sea-diver-death-stephen-keenan-dahab-egypt ====== Godel_unicode The article is about the blue hole in the Red Sea, not the one in Belize.
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Snowman: native code to C/C++ decompiler - ingve https://derevenets.com/ ====== xvilka radare2 [1] project is also working on a decompiler, which uses ESIL [2] intermediate language as a source and lifts it to the RadecoIL, whish is then simplified and transformed to C. The missing parts now are mostly Memory SSA, C A...
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The DOM isn't slow - collypops http://blog.korynunn.com/javascript/the-dom-isnt-slow-you-are/ ====== dewitt The point the author is trying to make is perhaps a reasonable one, but what an inappropriate communication style. I don't know if the author realizes the tone is so off-putting, but I've found that supportive f...
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Is OpenID Too Confusing? - qhoxie http://lifehacker.com/5064261/is-openid-too-confusing ====== jmatt Yes, OpenID is too confusing. This was a huge complaint I had during the stackoverflow beta. Those that are believers in OpenID are zealots. They won't change their opinions no matter how much the general populace h...
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Ask HN: Who is the best hacker of all time? - pooya13 Who do you consider the most talented and well rounded cyber hacker of all time? ====== justforfunhere I think Fabrice Bellard is one of the top computer programmers of our times. [https://bellard.org/](https://bellard.org/) ------ bjourne Linus Torvalds. He appe...
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The Founder Visa - pg http://www.paulgraham.com/foundervisa.html ====== bokonist _How would the government decide who's a startup investor? The same way they decide what counts as a university for student visas. We'll establish our own accreditation procedure._ This part scares me. Accreditation boards are a bug, not...
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Use a Wii Balance Board with Linux - kqr2 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/linux-wii-balanceboard/ ====== icefox This would be a neat way to input a password
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Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy (2008) - razin http://paulgraham.com/badeconomy.html ====== awb For those new to a tough economy, here's my story from 2008: I was laid off from the digital agency I worked at. I had been trying to find a new job for a while but no one was hiring at the income I needed to pay t...
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Show HN: SmartForms – Form back end as a service - GiancarlloRojas Hi guys, my name is Giancarllo and I&#x27;m launching a pretty simple service: form backend that notifies you on Email, Telegram or Slack.<p>http:&#x2F;&#x2F;smartforms.dev<p>It&#x27;s not intended to make tons of money, I made it for my use and I&#x27...
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Wine 5.0 - ashitlerferad https://www.winehq.org/news/2020012101 ====== frereubu Previous discussion (with 110 comments): [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22108890) ------ classified To the attention of Mac users: _Wine won 't work on macOS Catalina 10.15_ Apple is ...
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AT&T Seeks Supreme Court Review on Net Neutrality Rule - tareqak https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/broadband-providers-to-seek-high-court-review-on-net-neutrality ====== tareqak Techmeme summary: _AT &T, CenturyLink, industry associations ask US Supreme Court to overturn Obama-era net neutrality rules...
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Driver was streaming the Voice when Uber self-driving car crashed, say police - YeGoblynQueenne https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/22/driver-was-streaming-the-voice-when-uber-self-driving-car-crashed-say-police ====== joshstrange A lot of people and news articles focus a lot on the fact that Uber disabled...
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Point and Spring Simulation - ichub http://www.ichub.io/p/physics ====== bemmu Calling requestAnimationFrame again after drawing the previous frame gives smoother results, no need for setInterval. You can know how much to update the physics by seeing how much Date.now() has changed since the previous frame. ~~~ ich...
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Windows 8 on a laptop: first look - revorad http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2011/09/15/windows-8-on-a-laptop-first-look/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed ====== dustinupdyke First comment on this story is "'press the Windows key and start typing the name' Who on earth does that? I don’t want to TYPE anything. I ...
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How to Square a 2-digit number beginning with 5 in the blink of eyes - ssahnaz http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2011/12/squaring-2-digit-number-beginning-with.html ====== ssahnaz <http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/> ~~~ wr1472 if this only works with 2-digit numbers beginning with 5, and the first step is to al...
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The simplest autocomplete function in JavaScript - scriptproof http://www.scriptol.com/javascript/autocomplete.php ====== tantalor Impossible to delete a character after matching (Chrome 34).
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SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition Sucks - daigoba66 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/07/sql-server-2014-standard-edition-sucks-and-its-all-your-fault ====== jaynate For years Microsoft-sponsored SQL Server consultancies have been telling us to use the database to its fullest extent. Use Stored Procs and non ANSI S...
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Ask HN: Movie Parody Game. Fair-use or Violation? - paliopolis Hello,<p>I am thinking of developing a mobile app&#x2F;game that is inspired from scenes from a couple of hit movies! e.g. a couple of hit scenes from Home Alone and maybe Baby&#x27;s Day Out !<p>There will be no scenes from the actual movie but maybe th...
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The Little-Known Firm Helping the FBI Crack iPhones - adventured http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-31/inside-the-little-known-japan-firm-helping-the-fbi-crack-iphones ====== jo909 Cellebrite is an Israeli company, not Japanese. They are owned by a Japanese parent company, but I'd argue that is not the sam...
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Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript - rams http://blogs.sitepoint.com/2009/11/12/google-closure-how-not-to-write-javascript/ ====== gruseom The article says: Although it is necessary in Java, it is entirely pointless to specify the length of an array ahead of time in JavaScript. [...] ...
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The Cognitive Upside to an Extended Adolescence - ohaikbai https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/metaplasticity/506390/ ====== ideonexus Further reading, youthful mental characteristics appear to keep the brain plastic and adaptable to change. Remain childlike, with the accompanying sense of wonder and en...
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Hacker News: Day 2 - aditya http://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://news.ycombinator.com/ ====== davidw By day 2, it was already obvious that it was going downhill and was going to be just like reddit sooner or later. ~~~ asdlfj2sd33 You're... kidding, but I had to think about it. ------ rudd I like the s...
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Ask HN: Are you tired of Google Reader? - drew_kutchar Currently Google Reader is the main app that most use to read RSS, but it doesn't really handle reading other sources such as articles that you come across online. For those, there's Instapaper and Read it Later to name a few.<p>I was wondering is there room for...
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Google Ultron – A browser light years ahead - dabber http://ultronbrowser.io/ ====== badrabbit This has to do with a series of 4chan posts under "anon works IT" [https://imgur.com/gallery/B9wqU](https://imgur.com/gallery/B9wqU) ------ thosakwe I can understand that this is a joke website, but I think I missed the po...
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Scammers abused Facebook phone number search - evancaine http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-43656746 ====== nathan_long TL;DR - scammers would search for every possible phone number, find out the owners' names & info, and make scam calls to them. FB tried to limit searches per IP, but scammers would switch IPs. See...
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Musk’s SpaceX Plans a Spinoff, IPO for Starlink Business - _Microft https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-06/spacex-likely-to-spin-off-starlink-business-and-pursue-an-ipo ====== Rebelgecko Can someone who knows more about the finance stuff explain why a company (especially one like SpaceX that prides itself ...
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Google Assistant Can Now Translate Languages on Your Phone - jonbaer https://www.wired.com/story/google-assistant-can-now-translate-on-your-phone/ ====== steelframe I recently vacationed in Japan, and I found that using Google Translate on the phone wasn't practical because the other person would have no clue what was...
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Want to kill health insurers? This start-up is teaching hospitals how. - sc68cal http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/05/want-to-kill-health-insurers-this-start-up-is-teaching-hospitals-how/ ====== joshuaellinger "We wanted a Steve Jobs feel so we decided not to bath for months." But more serious...
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Who wants an itunes ftp gateway? - terpua ====== terpua The software would allow for continuous and automatic itunes backup to your ftp server. ~~~ inklesspen No need. Your music is stored on your hard drive. So all you need is a daemon that synchronizes your music directory with your remote server. Hmm, remote sync...
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Bitcoin Cash Litigation “Response to Complaint” Countdown Timer - mbgaxyz https://www.bitcoincashlitigation.com/ ====== k-ian uh. what? what exactly is the crime here? from the presentation: "The lawsuit moves against multiple defendants: Bitcoin.com, Roger Ver, Bitmain Inc. Bitmain Technologies LTD. Bitmain Technolo...
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Apple Leak Accidentally Reveals Radical New iPhone - mises https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2019/01/13/apple-iphone-11-upgrade-update-release-date-price-cost-xr-xs-max/ ====== flukus Tripple camera system, new antenna and improved face id. Radical only on the 80's sense of the word. ------ wodenokoto For tho...
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Show HN: Metalsmith – A pluggable static site generator - ianstormtaylor http://www.metalsmith.io/ ====== sneak I like that static site generators are basically the Cups And Balls of our craft. It's so well understood and constrained of a problem domain that we can now ignore the practical considerations and go all-o...
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LinkedIn, Reddit, GoogleNews and others caught spying on iPhone clipboards - phront https://www.phonearena.com/news/more-iphone-clipboard-snoopers-surface_id125733 ====== rs23296008n1 I've removed them. Is there any justification why these apps shouldn't simply be listed with a spyware warning? I've tried to see the "...
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Employer OR Employee? - theearlybird I noticed there is a lot of issues about fresh grads being unable to find a job. As an employer, what are the best platform or method to find these fresh grads?<p>P.S : I am having some hard time trying to find fresh grads to hire. ====== Phithagoras If you're looking for fresh gra...
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Write off the first hour of work - danw http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/archive/2008/write-off-that-first-hour/ ====== dawie I would rather just go to work and hour later...
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Bigger brains are not always better - mpweiher https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-genius-of-pinheads-when-little-brains-rule/ ====== tacon Humans can also work fine with almost no brain tissue, as has been discovered throughout history. The canonical article is from 1980, "Is Your Brain Really Necessary?"[...
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2 years with Angular - robin_reala http://www.fse.guru/2-years-with-angular ====== jhpriestley I find the rise of Angular kind of baffling. Angular's scope system is exactly analogous to the scope system of a programming language. This is a solved problem! When you make a scope system, make it lexical, and require ex...
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Ask HN: What are your must-have packages for vim? - gjvc ====== entelechy package manager: [https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim](https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim) surround: [https://github.com/tpope/vim- surround](https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround) repeat: [http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_...
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Self-Driving Cars Have a Problem: Safer Human-Driven Ones - Bostonian https://www.wsj.com/articles/self-driving-cars-have-a-problem-safer-human-driven-ones-11560571203?mod=rsswn ====== ChicagoBoy11 As a private pilot it astounds me how the self-driving car industry has seemingly taken every lesson we've learned from a...
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Check if your LinkedIn password was hacked or not - snitzr http://billsnitzer.com/linkedin/ ====== facorreia This is misleading. Not being in the list posted in that forum does not mean your password wasn't hacked. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Ask HN: How do you actually make something? - HiroshiSan After being two-thirds through my Computer Engineering degree, I&#x27;ve yet to figure out how to make anything. Aside from school assignments I wouldn&#x27;t know where to begin on a project I&#x27;ve set for myself.<p>So I ask you, how do you actually take an ...
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2018 European Software Conferences. Any Favorites? Why? - marklittlewood ====== marklittlewood Business of Software Europe - [http://businessofsoftware.eu/](http://businessofsoftware.eu/) Sister conference to Business of Software USA - [http://businessofsoftware.org](http://businessofsoftware.org) ~~~ troydavis It se...
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Paul Ehrlich: 'Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades' - fahd777 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/mar/22/collapse-civilisation-near-certain-decades-population-bomb-paul-ehrlich ====== lucozade Having just read the Population Bomb Revisited (linked in the article), I think I'm a bit shocked....
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Osquery: Easily ask questions about your Linux, Windows and macOS infrastructure - BerislavLopac https://osquery.io/ ====== pixelmonkey Kinda shocked I have never heard of this before today. Seems very handy, especially for people deploying x-platform desktop apps or scripts. It is a SQL abstraction over OS informatio...
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Show HN: My weekend project, A domain name hack and semi-mass domain search - thedevelopment http://domainsuitor.com Hey HN, I was always sick of trying to find available domain names for other side projects, so I came up with this. It'll check availability of .com, .net and .org, as well as any domain name hacks av...
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Apple and Facebook - Amorymeltzer https://stratechery.com/2020/apple-and-facebook/ ====== Despegar >Apple was quite clever in their approach: instead of killing the IDFA, which could be construed as anti-competitive, particularly given Apple’s expanding app install ad business (which is expanding beyond App Store sear...
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Let them paste passwords (2017) - notRobot https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/let-them-paste-passwords ====== jiggawatts Making password entry difficult is like attempting weight loss by eating bland food. It's not the flavour that makes you fat. Nonetheless, there's this _perception_ that something delicious can't b...
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Homes vs Stocks - jasonlbaptiste http://blogmaverick.com/2008/11/11/homes-vs-stocks/ ====== jleyank Based on my depressingly long experience, I would say that if you can easily switch jobs w/o moving, and you like the area, you should consider a house. Better customization options, the chance to create equity, better ...
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Show HN: Automatic bullet point notes in real time [video] - sudotong We did a livestream on Facebook where our model is running in real time on the interview.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;udotong&#x2F;videos&#x2F;10214047632934326&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;udo...
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We built a new social media experience, but we need help testing it - jarredkenny Hello Hacker News,<p>We are a group of second year computer science students who have spent our summer developing a new and different social media experience.<p>We have just launched our beta phase and would appreciate any feedback you...
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How we’re changing Colombia through open-source communities - robermiranda https://medium.com/colombia-dev/how-we-re-changing-colombia-through-open-source-communities-and-why-we-need-your-help-7825a9fd020e ====== sksksk I recently moved from London to Bogotá to work as a software engineer at a startup. I think it's a...
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Lisp Macros, Delayed Evaluation and the Evolution of Smalltalk - mpweiher https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/03/lisp-macros-delayed-evaluation-and.html ====== lispm That's a common misconception that Lisp macros are mostly used to 'delay' evaluation. What Smalltalk calls 'blocks' are just (anonymous) functions in Lisp....
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Share your code poetry - pedrogrande http://www.codetry.com ====== RYUUSEiiSTAR I think you meant <http://codetry.org/> some of them are pretty cute ------ andyajna That's right RYUUSEiiSTAR! its <http://codetry.org>
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My ImpromptuDo reddit ad by the numbers - djb_hackernews http://impromptudo.tumblr.com/post/3984362470/my-impromptudo-reddit-ad-by-the-numbers ====== crazydil add a list as well...not easy to see everything on the map...maybe like a list you can maximize on one side where you can see a short description of the event...
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How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs. - merrick33 http://blog.mixergy.com/how-i-spent-a-million-bucks-and-ended-up-with-these-two-chairs/ ====== callmeed Keep your costs down, sure ... sort of a basic lesson Cal me crazy, but I'm really skeptical about this author in general ... why is it ...
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Want to Do Business in Silicon Valley? Better Act Nice - atlasunshrugged https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/10/style/oh-behave.html ====== purple_ducks I don't see the issue here. Would we be so hard on him if he was knowledgeable about blood testing and had tweeted about Theranos when they ultimately failed? The less ...
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License to not drive: Google’s autonomous car testing center - davidcgl https://medium.com/backchannel/license-to-not-drive-6dbea84b9c45#.os2lwoe8b ====== timothya > _For some time, Google has been convinced that the semiautonomous systems > that others champion (which include various features like collision > prevent...
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Show HN: Plenary – A privacy focused RSS feed and offline reader app for Android - spians https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spians.plenary ====== spians Hey HN, We've created an RSS feed and offline reader app for android that doesn't show ads/track your activity. The app is a combination of a feature...
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Meteor (YC S11) gets $9M in funding - dko http://gigaom.com/cloud/scoop-meteor-gets-9m-in-funding/ ====== lr Really awesome. What would be really cool to see is a demo and example code of an app that has authentication, and user-level permissions on the data. These "everyone in the world can update a global list" demo...
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Ask HN: Supporting a volunteered software project post-delivery - KiwiCoder I'm thinking about the challenges of a programmer volunteering to help a charity.<p>One of the hard things is the question of support and maintenance after the volunteer delivers the project.<p>Volunteers aren't going to want to be tied to a...
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Free software advocate Richard Stallman spoke at Microsoft Research this week - tosh https://www.zdnet.com/article/free-software-advocate-richard-stallman-spoke-at-microsoft-research-this-week/ ====== rhabarba The picture alone is worth the click!
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How I fixed Node.js - davidvgalbraith http://davidvgalbraith.com/how-i-fixed-node-js/ ====== lightlyused Nicely written.
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Why Can’t PCs Work More Like iPhones? - jlhamilton http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/why-cant-pcs-work-more-like-iphones/ ====== megaduck This idea's going to get market-tested real soon now. There's a _lot_ of companies trying to replace the conventional desktop with something simpler. During 2010 alone we'll ...
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Formula for love: X^2+(y-sqrt(x^2))^2=1 - carusen http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x^2%2B%28y-sqrt%28x^2%29%29^2%3D1 ====== ck2 Since the human heart looks nothing like the "heart shape" we all know and use, I wonder where that originated... Dang, wikipedia knows it all: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_%28sy...
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Data-driven Scala Programming - francescogior https://blog.buildo.io/data-driven-scala-programming-e50f07c4db35 ====== rubenfiszel I don't mean to sound rough but do you really need to analyze compilation logs to arrive to the conclusion that you should use an IDE and that types are helpful ? There is also no real hi...
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Can Google app engine support big web apps like social websites? - kimmy13 ====== smadge The massive image sharing and social media network Snapchat uses Google App Engine.* * [https://www.theinformation.com/Why-Google-s-Cloud-Needs-Snap...](https://www.theinformation.com/Why-Google-s-Cloud-Needs-Snapchat) ------ nos...
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John Sculley Gives Detailed Account Of How Steve Jobs Got Fired From Apple - taylorbuley http://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2013/09/09/john-sculley-just-gave-his-most-detailed-account-ever-of-how-steve-jobs-got-fired-from-apple/?nowelcome=true ====== mathattack _The answer? “I really blame the board,” said Scul...
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10 Most Successful Web 2.0 Startups To Date - tim http://www.rev2.org/2007/04/14/10-most-successful-web-20-startups-to-date/ ====== fauigerzigerk In a way that list is depressing, or maybe it's just boring to a degree that is indistinguishable from depression. ------ danw No skype on that list? ~~~ timg Yes, skype ...
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Thinking Scientifically to Get Rid of Acne: The SkinTheory Method - jealousgelatin https://blog.skintheory.app/skintheorys-birth/ ====== stupstups Yeah my struggle is hormonal acne but some products (e.g. niacinamide) will just cause normal acne then.
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The Dark Side of the Orgasmic Meditation Company - pmcpinto https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-06-18/the-dark-side-of-onetaste-the-orgasmic-meditation-company ====== throwawayqdhd > It’s best known for classes on “orgasmic meditation,” a trademarked > procedure that typically involves a man using a gloved, l...
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Ask HN: Tips to become a great programmer - chimmychonga Hello HN,<p>I&#x27;m coming up on my sophomore year in college as a cs major. I feel as though I understand a good bit more than majority of other people in my classes but I still feel as if I&#x27;m only an &quot;okay&quot; programmer. I understand it takes wr...
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SSLH – Access https and ssh from the same port - wjh_ http://www.rutschle.net/tech/sslh.shtml ====== wjh_ I've found it to be very useful, my college firewall blocks pretty much all ports except 80 and 443. Using this I can both host websites over HTTPS, while being able to SSH into my server. ------ pmontra Useful w...
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Gcc compile error with 2GB of data - p4bl0 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6296837/gcc-compile-error-with-2gb-of-data ====== dexen tl;dr: the error is returned by the linker rather than compiler itself. It is not a bug, just size limitation of the default memory model. Linux x86_64 provides `large model' -- as p...
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