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Convert excel to sql script - fechin https://github.com/Fechin/pyscripts/tree/master/xls2sql ====== AdrianRossouw csvkit.readthedocs.org also has some incredibly useful tools for this kind of thing.
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Tether – Locks your Mac when you walk away and unlocks it when you return - mlex http://www.hellotether.com/ ====== JoeAltmaier Car lock radio devices had a man-in-the-middle attack vector where a repeater could be set up by the car, and a roamer with another would walk thru the mall until they got close to you by a...
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Sick of working from home? Work at a hotel instead - ryan_j_naughton https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/work-remote-hotel-room-covid-19/index.html ====== Havoc Doing exactly that - moving to a different country so figured I'll do hotels for a while. A surprising number don't have even basic desks in the room unfortun...
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MS-DOS is 30 years old today - ukdm http://www.extremetech.com/computing/91202-ms-dos-is-30-years-old-today ====== pavlov Sweet DOS memories. I could probably still remember how to write CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files that wring out every possible byte of <640K memory so that Ultima VII would run. (This game had ...
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10 Optimizations on Linear Search - EvgeniyZh https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2984631 ====== diziet Other ideas, assuming on modern intel (or similar cache size) architecture -- you can load multiple ints at a time and do a bitwise or on the bits higher your largest number. There's also spagetti sort equivalent [...
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Computer science faces an ethics crisis after Cambridge Analytica built a weapon - auxbuss http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2018/03/22/computer-science-faces-ethics-crisis-the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-proves/IzaXxl2BsYBtwM4nxezgcP/story.html ====== otakucode Why would someone publish an article like this? >I didn’...
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10 steps to better secure your Mac laptop from physical data theft - naish http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/mac-data-theft.html ====== silentbicycle First, the article is actually a PDF. [http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/mac-data- the...](http://www.sophos.com/security/technical-papers/ma...
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Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis - wslh http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/11/uruguay-cannabis-marijuana-production-sale-law ====== pstuart It feels like we're just about at the tipping point with cannabis. Once enough states in the US legalize it, the Feds will have to back down. The next ste...
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Never Give Your Information To 10 Minute Old Startups - RKearney http://blog.ryankearney.com/2012/10/never-give-your-information-to-10-minute-old-startups/ ====== JoeCortopassi Everyone here that is _thinking_ of giving this company the benefit of the doubt _needs_ to go read their (smeagle) responses to RKearney from...
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Ask HN: Anyone looking for a new lab/business partner? - newman8r I have a lab, looking to move it soon but - I want to collab with some smart person(s) who are extreely motivated. I have had a hard time finding people who have the extreme motivation that matches mine. I like coding (scala is my first choice), quant...
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Unsealed docs will detail how Facebook made money off children - daveed https://mashable.com/article/unsealed-docs-facebook-money-children/#bJPU_Uc5nmqd ====== renholder I feel like we _just_ talked about this and that's because we did - only but a day ago[0]. [0] - [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18937640](htt...
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Unsafe Lead Levels in Tap Water Not Limited to Flint - DiabloD3 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/us/regulatory-gaps-leave-unsafe-lead-levels-in-water-nationwide.html ====== staunch Ancient Romans knew that lead water pipes were unhealthy and so they preferred terracotta pipes. It's hard to imagine why the U.S. ever h...
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What does Oracle plan for Netbeans IDE? - Veera http://veerasundar.com/blog/2010/01/what-does-oracle-plan-for-netbeans-ide/ ====== etherael But.. Netbeans is good and JDeveloper is terrible, isn't the clear thing to do to promote Netbeans and let JDeveloper fall by the wayside? ~~~ kls one would think, given the fa...
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Find the phrases Google Instant is Suggesting to users as they type a key phrase - trustfundbaby http://suggestedsearchtool.com ====== SRSimko I agree Google Instant will more than likely be changing the PPC model. It will ultimately come down to the users of search and if people embrace Google's new approach. Howev...
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Ask HN: What’s your go-to investment for protecting cash from inflation? - elamje I am curious what investments, and why, you all invest in to mitigate cash depreciation. Bonds, CD’s, etc. ====== dv_dt Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, often called TIPS? [https://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/products/prod_tips...
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Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun - d4ft http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/business/energy-environment/09solar.html ====== ars Money = resources. If you need extra money to run your solar plant, that means you are consuming more resources than a comparable plant. Which means you are not "green". And oft...
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Show HN: We created an iPhone app that lets you share your plans for tonight - alanpca http://www.doingtonight.com/ ====== martinshen Clean UI. Like the logo. Don't know why you ask for an additional password beyond FB log in. Anyway, some UI fixes I'd suggest: 1\. On open, prompt the user for what they are doing ...
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Jekyll Asset Pipeline: A Powerful CSS/JS Asset Packager for Jekyll - matthodan http://www.matthodan.com/2012/11/22/jekyll-asset-pipeline.html ====== matthodan I had some free time over Thanksgiving break, so I decided to build an asset pipeline for Jekyll. There are a bunch of improvements that I have in mind, but I...
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Ask HN: How to prove that I have been hacked? - siska My IP address has been blocked by some websites in these 4 days. I did not do anything illegal or post any illegal or provoking comments. I also feel that I have been hacked, everybody can see my activities with or without Internet connection.<p>What should I do to...
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The Leanest Startup in Silicon Valley - joshavant http://www.inc.com/magazine/201207/leigh-buchanan/the-leanest-startup-kurt-varner-dailytoaster.html ====== damonpace Repeat after me...You do not have to suffer to build a business. So many stories like this are sensationalized in the media and it convinces so many you...
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Ask HN: How do you build an activity/news feed with Firebase for iOS? - davidcoronado I&#x27;m a total noob when it comes to iOS programming. I&#x27;ve built an iOS app using Swift that captures a user&#x27;s video and I&#x27;m using Firebase as my backend. I&#x27;m trying to figure out how to create a user activity&#...
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Google News redesign: "a lovely example of personalization done poorly" - jbellis http://glinden.blogspot.com/2010/07/big-redesign-at-google-news.html ====== gaiusparx Agreed with the article. I begin to dislike this Google design and look, too busy for me, same with Reader. Is there an alternative to Google News? ...
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A Freebase implementation of the Facebook Graph API - scott_meyer http://blog.freebase.com/2010/04/29/a-freebase-implementation-of-the-facebook-graph-api/ That didn't take long... ====== hamstersoup (disclaimer, I worked on this) Facebook has focused on the social graph, Freebase connects people and more. We liked t...
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Teaching network security with a board game - Robin_Message http://d0x3d.com ====== Robin_Message This was posted a couple of weeks ago, but looks like a fun game and a good way to teach some important concepts.
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Are We GUI Yet? - gtirloni https://areweguiyet.com/ ====== rckoepke I have this dream where I'd be able to write an application once in Rust (be it simple game, CRUD, chat, whatever) , target WASM and have users be able to run it (via browser) on desktop, android, or iOS and not have to write the program 4-6 times for...
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What Is JavaScript Made Of? - feross https://overreacted.io/what-is-javascript-made-of/ ====== felipepater I loved it! Really nice and easy to understand explanations, yet they covered lots of good stuff ------ nicomeemes I really liked this! Looking forward to receiving your emails and giving feedback.
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Ask HN: Questions about iOS Freelancing - AppsAndiOS Hi HN, I have been developing for iOS for a few months and have recently released an app that is fairly simple, but shows well-rounded iOS development skills. I have someone that would like me to develop an app for them, but neither he nor I have any experience wi...
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Was jquery.com compromised? - getdavidhiggins http://blog.jquery.com/2014/09/23/was-jquery-com-compromised/ ====== jlebar IMO this highlights the need for hash-verified script tags: <script src="https://jquery.com/whatever.js" hash="sha256,deadbeef..."> The browser would refuse to load the scr...
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What are the pros and cons of elective government budget?(voters decide budget) - elamje Aside from the basic federal and state budget, such as costs of running government operations, would it be possible to allow voters to choose where their tax dollars go?<p>If so, what are the pros and cons compared to the current ...
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Contacts of 1m Virgin Media customers left on unsecured database - robin_reala https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/mar/05/contacts-of-1m-virgin-media-customers-left-on-unsecured-database ====== steerablesafe I just recently joined VM and I also got the email. > This data breach has exposed the data of almost a mil...
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Unlocking Growth Potential via the Concierge - krmmalik http://blog.krmmalik.com/unlocking-growth-potential-via-the-concierge ====== liamgooding The concierge approach is always overlooked by tech guys, "We need to build a better wizard, the design of the wizard isn't good, we need to optimize the email onboarding,...
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A 16-year-old hacked Apple and stole 90GB of secure files - lwhsiao https://finance.yahoo.com/news/16-old-hacked-apple-stole-90gb-secure-files-150544139.html ====== encadyma What's the precedent in cases like these? Tech companies obviously have to care about their security, but it just seems a bit ridiculous that the...
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Cadence: Uber's Workflow Orchestration Engine - vruiz https://github.com/uber/cadence ====== jbbarth Cadence looks like an OSS version of Amazon Simple Workflow (SWF) service. The author used to work on SWF at AWS afaik. I'm a heavy SWF user at work for managing complex data pipelines. SWF requires an important conce...
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Ebay and Paypal users face 'huge' tax crackdown - 001sky http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11762074/Ebay-and-Paypal-users-face-huge-tax-crackdown.html ====== ironsides I was just thinking about this the other day when reviewing my amazon receipt. Amzn doesn't have facilities in my state so we do...
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Ask HN: how do you archive/preserve your source code? - vrypan I&#x27;d like your input. When you&#x27;re done with a software project (not open source), how do you preserve&#x2F;archive your code?<p>Would you use something like longaccess.com as a long-term backup solution? (disclaimer: I&#x27;m the founder of long...
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A “Leap Second” will be added to the atomic clock on June 30, 2015 - jason_slack https://gma.yahoo.com/leap-second-why-june-1-second-longer-162054543--abc-news-topstories.html ====== jgeorge The biggest issue last time around is that there was a bug in a number of Linux kernel versions that threw things for a loop -...
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Show HN: A simple, visual way of debugging JavaScript - b44rd https://github.com/b44rd/jsbug/ ====== romanovcode Why do you need jQuery for such a simple plugin?
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3D Done with Mirrors and Prisms (2008) - jacquesm https://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/3d/stereo/3dgallery16.htm ====== Natanael_L And once you've captured your photos using clever prism setups, why not display them using prisms? You only need a standard blackbody radiating light (incandescents) and another clever prism se...
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Moving the Redis community on Reddit - atamyrat http://antirez.com/news/95 ====== wodenokoto I think Reddit is a great center for a lot of community action, but for people who only sign up for redis, I wonder how they feel about all the default subs.
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Wall Street Analysts Turn to Clickbait - JumpCrisscross https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-04/boring-wall-street-analyst-notes-are-out-bold-and-funny-are-in ====== applecrazy I think the title of this HN link is clickbait itself...it's _metaclickbait_
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Ask HN: How much do you spend on WordPress plugins? - gembird ====== JayNeely I do a lot of Wordpress development for clients. I've spent more on themes (between $30 - $80 per theme, usually closer to $40) than I have on plugins, and the themes often include functionality I'm looking for that I might otherwise use ...
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17M full albums to stream, but downloading songs is wrong - eridal https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=full+album ====== eridal ..and from top 10 results YT gave me, only 1 have a click-to-buy monetization; all the others have no ContentId nor anything .. just music with a plain image How we ended in such ...
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Reposting test - eru http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17816 ====== eru I just wanted to see, if you can link to a post on here. (If you haven't read the article - it's worthwhile to.)
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Google App Engine now supports Git Push-To-Deploy - AndrewDucker https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/push-to-deploy ====== masto I guess this is not intended to be your "main" repository? Something about the idea of deploying on push to master seems off to me. I have been thinking about doing this myself, b...
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Report: Apple orders 15 million iPhone 5s - diogenescynic http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/07/report-apple-sends-15-million-iphone-order-to-taiwan-based-manufacturer.ars ====== X0nic Doubt its an iPhone 5. iPhone 4S seems more likely.
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How to name your startup: A 9 month first-hand journey through rebranding - paulitex http://www.learndot.com/findings/how-to-name-your-startup/ ====== pud According to the article, one of the reasons they changed the company name is because it was hard for people to understand the old name when spoken verbally. The...
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Employees working on their own business - mattjung http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?biz.5.728913 ====== lgriffith I practically rewrote every IP "agreement" for nearly every job I had since I started working in industry (ca. 1965). The terms were more or less as follows. 1\. I am in the business of inv...
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Ask HN: Facebook blocked us and there's nothing we can do? - ende42 We - laut.fm, a user generated radio platform running about 1300 radio stations in germany - are being blocked by facebook.<p>It started last Thursday. Suddenly any post or chat message containing the string &quot;laut.fm&quot; would be blocked with t...
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There's No There’s No "I" in a Great System Administration Team - linuxmag http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7455 ====== mattfrye Awesome!!!
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The Great Courses on Amazon Video - dsnuh https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Video/b?benefitId=thegreatcourses&node=2858778011 ====== dsnuh Maybe this is common knowledge, but I recently stumbled across "The Great Courses" on Amazon Video. There is a free 7 day trial, and the content I have viewed so far is pretty top not...
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Rebecca Black Means The (Internet) Fame Game Has Changed - iwh http://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/fun-fun-fun-fun-fun/ ====== ramanujan The AOL-ization of TechCrunch headlines continues apace. More technically, SEO-ified titles like this are a great example of Goodhart's law: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%2...
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PyTorch Should Be Copyleft - keithcu2 http://keithcu.com/wordpress/?p=3847 ====== Tomte You come off as very unsympathetic. License change request are never something maintainers are looking forwared to, but your first mail was at least on point and factual. The following is certainly not a charitable view of what y...
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Simple to use content creation system - Cyndre http://adamdomoney.posterous.com/content-creation-done-right ====== rmah The reason doctors spend so much on transcription is because they speak their notes. Often while walking around. To sell the system described would require radical changes in doctors' behavior and ...
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Microsoft says Russia-linked hackers exploiting Windows flaw - r721 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-microsoft-cyber-russia-idUSKBN12W4ZK ====== r721 Microsoft MMPC's blog post: [https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/11/01/our- comm...](https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2016/11/01/our-commitment- to-ou...
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How I created a fake Google Plus page for Walt Disney - jfruh http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/222289/googles-own-special-brand-stupidity ====== mkat The URL strings are hideous! Marketing departments are going to enjoy that! ------ dantynan and lived to tell the tale (so far, anyway). any moment I expe...
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Best Laptop for kids - AsifMushtaq I looking for a laptop for my 8 years old daughter, which she would be going to use for her school assignments and learn to program as well. Wondering which one would be a good fit for her. ====== jcbeard This is going to sound odd, but I'd go for a used macbook pro. Apple has awesom...
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Waymo 360° Experience: A Fully Self-Driving Journey - KKKKkkkk1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8R148hFxPw ====== Piskvorrr "Sees everything, has experience" \- except the scooter coming out of the right-hand parking lot at 1:48 (at "...learning from every single mile it drives"). SMIDSY, oh well.
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Clocks and Economic Growth - secondary https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/study-clocks-economic-growth-productivity-work-culture/ ====== danharaj If you completely ignore the violent history of the industrial revolution and reduce prosperity to statistics like population growth, it's such a happy story! I for one ...
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Julian Assange Press Conference on CIA Vault - ctack https://www.periscope.tv/WikiLeaks/1ZkKzEqeDMZxv ====== dang Url changed from [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJdU_ahXeY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIJdU_ahXeY), which points to this. Edit: I assume people flagged this because the live stream is over and it...
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WireGuard – fast, modern, secure VPN tunnel - dedalus https://www.wireguard.com/ ====== bestnoizth Thank
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Show HN: Doc42 – Simple documentation tool - afshinmeh http://doc42.io/ ====== dozzie When are you going to document this _documentation tool_? It's the third time I see this on HN and I still can't tell how to use it or what to compare it to (what it is supposed to replace). ~~~ afshinmeh this is my comment on the o...
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Young Americans Have No Interest in the Most In-Demand Jobs, New Data Finds - paulpauper https://www.inc.com/christina-desmarais/young-americans-have-zero-interest-in-the-most-in-demand-jobs-infographic.html ====== Frenchgeek - Retail salespeople - Office clerks - Registered nurses ...
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Do you really value your customers or do you just want their money? - jslogan http://www.jslogan.com/blog/40-blog/134-do-you-really-value-your-customers-or-do-you-just-want-their-money ====== roryokane If I had a business, of course I would only care about my customer's money. I freely admit I wouldn't care about my...
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The New iPad mini - Photo gallery in the Dock+ - dwurtz http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.494043917295457.100711884.485785358121313&type=1&l=deef9fdf5c ====== dwurtz What do you guys think? ~~~ rdl I absolutely want one or two. Pretty expensive, though. (just pledged)
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The Internal Yahoo No-Work-From-Home Memo - dsr12 http://allthingsd.com/20130222/physically-together-heres-the-internal-yahoo-no-work-from-home-memo-which-extends-beyond-remote-workers/ ====== webwanderings It must have taken a lot of $$$ and planning to get the employees back into the office. Companies usually prof...
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Ask HN: GitHub vs Bitbucket - gurgeous At the moment my company is dead in the water due to yet another GitHub outage. They seem to hit weekly now. I'm considering switching to another provider today.<p>How does Bitbucket stack up in terms of reliability? Features are sort of irrelevant compared to recurring downtim...
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Show HN: Slashpackaging.org - kepano https://www.slashpackaging.org/ ====== kepano Creator of Slash Packaging here — it's a tool I am launching today (Earth Day) to help people find brands that care about sustainable packaging and have a /packaging page on their site. This was a really fun project to build. You can s...
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The Nonprofit Model is Broken - thesyndicate http://bhargreaves.com/2010/12/nonprofit-model-broken/ ====== razor_goto It's down.
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When you need a CT scan ask for this - Mitt http://freepress.intel.com/community/news/blog/2012/03/12/computing-power-speeds-safer-ct-scans ====== bh42222 _The answer to the question Baker posed lay in a set of mathematical rules called an algorithm._ I never cease to be amazed just how low the math level is in our...
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Samsung's foldable smartphone reportedly costs $1,770 - taspeotis https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/samsungs-foldable-smartphone-reportedly-costs-1770-launches-in-march/ ====== pmontra From the pictures it looks like a brick. It's thicker than the width of the thumb of the guy holding it. Even unfolded it's very...
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Q-learning plus Bayesian optimization for better learning - mccourt http://blog.sigopt.com/post/154251615358/sigopt-for-ml-using-bayesian-optimization-for ====== mccourt Bayesian optimization, I am familiar with, but Q-learning, not so much. If anyone has good references on or introductions to Q-learning I would appre...
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TSA Says Theyre Not Discriminating Against Black Women but Body Scanners May Be - NN88 https://www.propublica.org/article/tsa-not-discriminating-against-black-women-but-their-body-scanners-might-be ====== ralusek >"...Afros, braids, twists and other hairstyles popular among black women." They literally say so in the ...
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Volumetric heat diffusion skinning - jeff18 http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/11/volumetric-heat-diffusion-skinning/ ====== bilbo0s This algorithm is implemented for free in Blender 2.46+. When you parent a mesh to a skeleton (armature), select "Create From Bone Heat" from the available options. Or, After parenting a ...
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How a cable bill of $90.34 will cost me $212,602 - wmk100 https://medium.com/@wmk100/how-a-cable-bill-of-90-34-will-cost-me-212-602-c95650234b9a ====== masonic Too bad that loan can never be refinanced and you must pay that full 30-year payment with no alternatives. /S ~~~ quickthrower2 OK its clickbaitish but its n...
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Dr. LSD to Steve Jobs: How was your trip? - DavidSJ http://apple20.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2009/07/09/dr-lsd-to-steve-jobs-how-was-your-trip/ ====== blhack I remember being a teenager, and hearing a lot of rumors that made it sounds like some big time engineers were pretty serious LSD advocates. From what I was hearing...
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Why did cities freeze in the 1970s? - jseliger https://jakeseliger.com/2015/12/27/why-did-cities-freeze-in-the-1970s/ ====== ddingus Hey, I hit flag on this. Mobile mistake. Plz ignore, or fix. Thanks :( I see unflag option on refresh. Used it, but still.
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Ask HN: What do you think of Taleb's “Antifragile” concept? - jamiegreen Have you made any changes to the way you live or work as a result? ====== tomhoward Yes. When I first heard about it (on EconTalk in early 2012) I was at a crossroads regarding my business and life, and the antifragile concept convinced me that t...
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Campaign to secure Turing's papers for Bletchley Park - epo http://www.justgiving.com/Turing-Papers ====== epo Let me start by saying I don't think this will get the job done (£150 at the time of writing) but we need to rise awareness to ensure they stay in the UK. ------ AlexMuir Ffs. Justgiving take 10% of all mo...
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Ask HN: Where are the good jobs in Canada? - zaptheimpaler I recently moved to Vancouver, Canada after working for 3 years in the SF Bay Area and it has been a little bit of a shock. The companies I&#x27;ve seen here are not doing terribly exciting things and don&#x27;t pay very well.<p>The biggest difference is they ...
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OAuth 3.0: the sane and simple way - llambda http://tav.espians.com/oauth-3.0-the-sane-and-simple-way-to-do-it.html ====== tav Author here. I wrote this draft a few years ago after getting frustrated with OAuth 2.0. And, whilst I am grateful for llambda for posting it to HN, it was never meant to be published in this...
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AMD Announces Ryzen 5 Processors; $169 Four-Cores and $219 Six-Cores - babak_ap http://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-ryzen-5-1600x-1600-1500x-1500,33913.html ====== beautifulfreak "None of the new models come with integrated graphics." The money saved buying an AMD CPU will go toward a video card, so what graphics per...
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Latest startup news - Estella http://startupblink.com/blinks ====== flux03 Help me build this. [http://crumz.biglaunch.net/](http://crumz.biglaunch.net/)
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The Facebooker Who Friended Obama - timr http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/technology/07hughes.html ====== dmix "I hate the bloggers." John McCain
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Atom 1.13 - madspindel http://blog.atom.io/2017/01/10/atom-1-13.html ====== nkkollaw I love Atom, and use it as my main editor, but it's many times slower than Sublime Text. I hope but doubt Electron will ever get near native in terms of performance. ~~~ sb8244 I'm curious if you have tried VSCode? It seems signific...
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The Rise and Fall of Khaki (2016) - elemeno https://www.racked.com/2016/8/25/12417314/khaki ====== acconrad What world is this author living in? I see khaki all of the time. It's the most common material for shorts (jean shorts may be on the rise, but the go-to fabric is still cotton/cotton-khaki) and it's a prep stap...
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Specter social (senate) graph - sanj http://www.slate.com/id/2217204/ ====== chancho This is poignant. On Firefox/32bit/Linux/Flash10 I see only the word "Specter" wandering aimlessly on a barren white background. Poor guy. ------ HoosierFan Politics is poison. Let's leave it off HN please. ~~~ pavel_lishin And ye...
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Ask HN: Are .io domains out of style? - shp0ngle Today, I noticed that draw.io - my favorite diagram tool - changed its name to diagrams.net.<p>Is the .io wave of 2016-ish already gone? The only .io domain I use often is github.io, but that isn’t even their main domain.<p>Was .io a fad and did it already pass? ====== ...
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AI Predicts Obesity Prevalence from Space - imartin2k https://singularityhub.com/2018/09/17/this-ai-predicts-obesity-prevalence-all-the-way-from-space/ ====== tlb Paper at [https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...](https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2698635) This paper...
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Double Saw Bye (2009) - concerto http://www.sdmrra.org/Odds-n-Ends/saw_bye.htm ====== woodruffw Problems like these bear a lot of similarity to CS brain teasers, such as exchanging N items without using N + 1 slots. [1] I wonder if that contributes to why model railroad clubs (like the TMRC) and early computer hobbyi...
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Ask HN: Personal Relocation Research Services - Mz When I search for the term, I basically come up with moving companies. So, I am failing to find research services for this space. Am I just searching the wrong phrase?<p>I see questions on the internet fairly often regarding &quot;help me pick a spot to move.&quot; Ar...
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Show HN: Home Made Air Purifier - Zhenya Note: this is not my idea, but I have used it for 2 Cal fire seasons successfully.<p>1) Acquire a box fan<p>2) Acquire a large &quot;FPR 10&quot; rated filter from home depot<p>3) Duct tape filter to the out flow side of the box fan. Make sure the arrows on the filter point in...
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A Man Who’s Spent $70k Playing a Mobile Game - owens99 https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-man-whos-spent-70-000-playing-a-mobile-game-1521107255 ====== danso I didn't read the article (it's a video of a 31-year-old spending $70K), but $70K, even in a year, is not the craziest extreme compared to what whales have re...
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Software For Underserved Markets [2010] - redrory http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/26/software-for-underserved-markets/ ====== MaxGabriel If like me you usually don't watch videos when looking at the web, make this an exception: fast, content dense, funny. ------ rythie Can't help but think this isn't higher up on ...
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Messaging updates for iPhone and a new look for iPad - friggeri http://newsroom.fb.com/News/604/Messaging-updates-for-iPhone-and-a-new-look-for-iPad ====== zan2434 Wow, the stickers feature is a blatant replication of stickers in Path. Not that such replication by FB is unprecedented, but I'm still quite shocked. ~...
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Ubisoft offering free educational tour to ancient Greece and Egypt - utsav91292 https://free.ubisoft.com/ ====== utsav91292 [https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1260981492206964736](https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1260981492206964736)
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Ask HN: Tools for tracking bills, domain/cert expirations etc. for many websites - pipu So I&#x27;m looking for a tool, presumably a webapp, that could track the dates of next bill, domain and certification expiration, and such, for many websites.<p>This can be done in a spreadsheet, of course, but is there somethin...
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Ask HN: Mozilla Persona Post-Mortem - pc2g4d As far as I can tell, the demise of Mozilla Persona has left a vacuum in terms of user-controlled identity solutions. Why did Persona fail? What else is happening in this area? What&#x27;s coming up on the horizon? ====== TazeTSchnitzel Portier (formerly Let's Auth) was se...
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Usability of Code - netgusto https://blog.algolia.com/writing-usable-code/?hn-3 ====== netgusto Hi! This covers topics that came up often during my mentoring sessions with fellow devs. I hope it can be helpful to a broader audience!
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Ask HN: How do you find and read academic papers? - ShaneCurran I&#x27;m curious to find out how those of you who read academic papers (either professionally or recreationally) consume the plethora of available data sources.<p>Do you use Google Scholar and view the PDF&#x2F;PS document using a normal document viewer? ...
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Puget Systems:“Intel Has Every Right” to Make Intel MKL Run Slower on AMD CPUs - rahuldottech https://www.reddit.com/r/Amd/comments/e4zig7/puget_systems_said_that_intel_has_every_right_to/ ====== gnufx The advantage of MKL is typically greatly over-rated anyhow, and I don't see why one should care. BLIS and OpenBLAS h...
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